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BRITAIN GLAD;
GERMANY SULLEN
Two Views ofAnglo.German
Friendship Plan.
Sir 'award Grey Pleased
With Haldane Mission.
German War Party Still
Dissatisfied With Britain,
London, Feb. Mee -No better indica-
tion eau be given of tho importance
attaelied in financial eireles to the
amolioreition of Anglo-Germea
tione thaii the feet, that even the
lirospect of sach a nettioual. calamity
U3 it coal strike failed to oftset the
improveznent whieh followed the state-
mentby Premier Asquith mut °lumen
tor Betiamann-flollweg in the House Of
Commons and the Iteieluttag, reepective.
Sir Edward Grey, sneaking at Mau•
eheeter, was equally emphatic- as to
what had already been accomplished,
ancl most hopeful ne to what might be
expected to result from Lord Haldane's
visit to Berlin.
The reserve, which the Britieh Pre-
mier and the German Ohanceilor heel
been obliged to observe in their state.
moots, the Foreign Seeretary said, lie
:deo must observe, but he added:
"This is a case where the reticence
and restraint which are necessary, at
any rate at the present time, do oat int-
• ply any lack of cordiality,
"Something, I trust, was am -laved
MIMI MU/dna and will remain perman-
ently, and has made the sky brighter
and diepelled some of the !Mete of suspi.
eon and distrust which had arieen
through unfoundtcl rumors and re-
ports.'
Sir Edward Grey went on to say
that Great 131.itain, and Germany were
both great industrial natione, and "in
the interest of both peoples there
must be peace; and I have no fear
that there .will be any permanent ei3-
trangements between the public opinions
of the two countries, provided the truth
gets a fair ehanee.
"It is not difficult to tell the truth;
the difficulty ie to get the truth be.
Belied. It is easy to get something
which is not the truth believed. Any-
body can do that. It is common to all
human nature to prefer to believe that
which is exciting rather than what is
soothing."
Your eorres,pondent has good rea-
son to believe that in both London
and Berlin the actual work has al-
ready begun in drawing up more for-
mal statements of the British and
German views upon the present and
aspirations ae to the future pottcy
than Lord Haldane and the friends he
SRN in Britain were able to make in
• what Mr. Aequith ha e called their ia-
frrned and non -committal conversa-
tionS.
When these preliminaries are con-
eludedm bresis for n full-dress diploma.
tie negotiation will have been found. Ex-
netly on what line that will praceed is
the eeeret of the Government s eoncerne
d.
DISTRUST IN GERMANY.
Berlin, Feb. 18. --The new negotia-4
tions for an Anglo -German entente
have so far evoked no enthusiasm in
the Fatherland. The animosity toward
Britain as a result of the Moroccan
crieist is still too deep-seated to permit
hat-thrtertne and bonfires over the pros.
penis of reconciliation.
The Germans say that there have
been -many "words" of friendship and
good-will,sitch as Lord Haldane uttered
tu 13er1in and Mr. Asquith repeated in
the House of C01111110115 last Wednesday.
What the. Fatherland wants now, it is
declared, are "decd' on the part of
"perfidious Albion."
The only resolute opponents of an
Anglo -German entente are the fanatics
who favor the limitless expansion of the
German army and navy. These ele
ments, who include even so able a states-
man as Admiral Von Tirpitz, the Sec-
retary of the Navy, are obsessed with
the idea, that the only object of Britieh
diplomacy is to "couvert Germany into
an insurance company for guaranteeing -
the perpetnal supremacy of Great Bri-
tain on the sea." They insist that peace
of these terms would be a humiliation
aaand therefore imposeible for the Father -
fiend. They recall the Napoleonic decree
of 1807, which compelled Prussia. to
limit her army to 54,000 men, and say
there is no power on earth which can
compel modern Germany to limit the
number of her Dreadnoughts.
Official Germany is divided into strong
oppoeing camps on the question of
friendship for Britain. The Kaiser and
the Chancellor are frankly Anglophile.
They, it is believed, would favor an um
derstanding„ even with naval ettarantees
satisfactory to Britain. . On the other
side of the fence are Foreign Secretary
Von Kiderlen-Waechter, Admiral Von
Tirpitz and Admiral Von Mueller, The
last-named accompanied Prince Henry of
Prussia to the United. States in 11102.
It is said by many .welninformed per
Sons that he is the real power ,behind
the Throne at the preeent hour, aad the
man who is mainly responsible for pre-
venting the Anglo -German entente.
Xing George's action ill conferring
the Order of the Carter on Sir Edward
Grey ereate" a profound impression in
Germany. It was interpreted as an un-
mistakable sign that the Foreign See-
retary's eserman pollee, has approval in
• eSalted quarter., and that no hope of
improved relations eau seriously be cher..
islied as long as he remains at the helm
in Downing street.
Among the things Lord Hablane heard
iti Berlin in hie eonferences with poli.
tical personages Was that Sir Edward
Grey is regarded as a sinister figure in
the Anglo -German sittuilion, and that his
removal is openly demanded in "resaon-
eible German quarters" ns at essential
"to a change in the politieal position."
Lord Haldane doubtlese took -oecasion to
asseure his &Ain hosts that Britain
not France!, and that what Germany ae-
tompliehed in t110; OitSt+ of M. Deleasse
in 1905 she eau hardly hope to repeat in
theettee of Sir Edward Grey.
Mr. Winston Churehill'e deeeriptien of
the Germany navy as a "luxury" en-
counters angry reeeption here. it is
particularly dietasieful in Government
ipiattere, whieh -also fear that
churehill'e declaration of Great Britain's
purpose not to lea outetripped In the
naval rise may seriously interfere with
the fortheoming .paseage of the German
nivel bill. Otherne beeitite the SeeiaI
Demoerate are certein to nrgue in the
Reiehetag that it is now plainer than
eves that the Yatiteriand'e, topiratione
for mat power are chimerical,
IDie Wet, the Coneervative Pan-C4er-
man organ, declares that if the reeult
in any sort of a "surrender" to Britain
ou the naval queetien the German Ger-
ernment will create a storm of national
indignation coznpered with whieli the
. country'anger ovee the gomeean af-
fair was mere ehild'e play.
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JEALOUS RAGE
House Dynamited and Kan's
Throat Cut.
Bowline: Green, Ky., Feb, 19. -After
attempting Co {Low up the home of
Florence Tinsley with dynamite, it
is alleged, Marion Croektstt nttaeked
Geo. William'
s a (seller, and cut Wile
liams' throat from ear to ear, Jeals
ouey is euppoeed to have been the
motive. Aecording to evitneeites at the
coroner's ha-ea:set, Crockett oalled at
the Tinsley home yeaterday and finch
ing Williams there, placed a stiels oX
dynamite, under the corner of the
hotdee and partially wreaked it. Then
ass Williams 'rushed out Crockett
seized hien aad alashed his throat,
Croekett was arrested and is being
held for trial,
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BRUIN PREMIER
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Report That He May Be,
come Lord Chancellor,
Support for Sir Edward
Grey as Successor,
London, Feb. 18. -While the fact that
no Okla' denial ham neon given of the
persistent report of the imPending re-
tirement of Premier Atemith and the
succession to the Premiership of Mr.
Lloyd -George or Si: :Edward Grey is of
itsefl fully significant, the well-known
Parliamentary correspondent of The
Standard, John Foster Fraser, claims to
have definite knowledge. on the subjeet.
"I am able to state," he writes, "that
Mr. Asquith will Shortly resign the
Preinierihip, and that, contrary to po-
pular expectation, Sir Edward Grey and
not Mr, Lloyd -George, will be 'appoint-
ed Prime Minister. Lord Loreburn will
retire from the Lord Chancellorship,
whieh office will be taken by the pre-
sent Premier.
"When," entinues Fraser, "this de-
eision became known in official circles
a while ago, the rank and file of the ex-
treme Radicals, supporters of the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, started a ULM-
paign. against the Foreign Minister, who
is not in sympathy. with Mr. Lloyd.-
George'e socialistic reforms, a,nd is not
by anv meann an enthusiastic home
ruler. It was not because they were an-
gry with Sir Edward Grey for having,
as they supposed, almost led Britain to
war with Germany. nor he -cause he pre-
vented war with BUSSift in connection
with Persian affairs that they baited
him, but beeitteee they wanted to drive
him out of office, The only effect of
their onslaught was to consolidate hiee
friends. 13v his side stood Mr. Asquith.
Lord Haldane. Lord Morley, Lord
Crewe and -other responsible -Liberals
to whom so ina,ny of the rank and file
of the Radical party owe nmeh. •
."Mr. Asquith intended to retire about
the time that Mr. Balfour did. but he
waited till the return of the King from
India. It is now an open secret that
the great honor of the Order of the Gar-
ter, usually reserved for Princes and
for Dukes; was conferred open the For-
eign Minister on Mr. Asquith's advice.
This signal distinction was intended as
a rebuff to the extremists, who repud-
iated Sir Edward Grey's foreign poliey,
and it has been rightly interpreted to
mean that Mr. Asquith genuinely lip -
proved Sir Edward'diplomacy when
our recent relationehip with Germany
was trained
l
tha
tes muset norttiolee, simagined," con-
ch"that the Lloyd-
Georgeites, who preponderate in the
Commons, will calmly acquiesce in Met-
ing the Chancellor from the Premiership.
On the 'contrary, they vouch that they
will smash the Liberal party, a prospect
which Mr. Asquith painfully realizes." '
SUNDAY MEETING
Home Rulers Meet in Tra-
falgar Square.
London, Feb. 18. -Home rulers were in
the highest spirits yesterday afternoon, -
it Trafalgar Square, where from 15,000
to 20,000 people assembled in support of
the Government's proposed measure of
self-government for Ireland. Liberals
tnd Nationalists combined in the dem-
onstration, members of the House of
Commons occupying seven of the plat.
forms.
Resolutions urging the neeessity of
giving as generous a measure of home
rule to Ireland as is consistent with the
maintenance of Imperial supremaey, and
suggesting that the bill be so framed
is to ebe ea,pable of early•application to
England, Scotland and Wales,. were
adopted with the grcatest enthusmsei.
Mr. William G. C. Gladstone, Liberal
member for Kilimirtock Burghs, a
grandson of the late 111r. William E.
Gladstone the Liberal "grand old man"
who harridueed the first home rule bib
in 1886, was among the speakere. He
said that the democracy of this country
had made the cause of home rule its
own.
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TWO STUDENTS DROWNED.
Ithaea, N. Y,, Feb. 19. -Perry A. Coin
verse, of Buffalo, and Charlee W. Get-
man, of Rielifield Springs, Corneli`etu-
cleats, both juniors in the college of mvil
engineering, were drowned while ;skating
on. Cayuga Lake to -day. They went Stu-
der the ieo at King's Ferry, and their
- bodies insve been tome -mei.
A. third student, Rodney 0. Newman,
of tide city, fell into the water, but sue -
ea hiateelf by grabbing the ice anderawls
Ing out, He Taunted to the city ob. the
Atiburn train, and is testily mama by
the aeeident, t e reported that he went
in niter hie eomprmiceta but Nand not
reaeli them before they went down.
The et it (leek Flat tnei from !then%
et '2.30 ri'rhwk this ft.iftnitnon to kate
nerroee the hie. They leaned a peutt
et mile trom Xing% Ferry, xtrid, about two
hundred yariiii from the Qom, where
it is ortliti tile:eib111141 3, crevice, whieli
they tried to leap. They nneeed the dise
fames and jumped into the ley water.
0-----------4-easesese-in, „wombat? t
"Full a thought yon
turned over a new leaf." "Well, the
darned thing blew bnek."--Waehineton
Itereld,
N1S OF THE
DAY N BRIEF
Escaped Convict; Confesses
in Salvation Army Barrack
Suicides by Jumping Off the
Eiffel Tower.
Montreal s Jews to Raise
$500,000 for Sanitarium.
The Alberta Legislature has been
prorogued.
Mayor Armstrong, of Edmonton., has
been re-elected,
The Methodist Social Union will use
portable churches. in Toronto.
Toronto clergymen expressett opposing
opinions on church uniou.
ltEr. David Weed, Toronto's first pawn
broker, died, aged 73 years.
The Toronto Theologieal College plans
to .unite in giving a ceurse in mission
training.
Fred. Partilisso was sentenced. at
Elk Lake to ten yearin penitentiary
for mon,
Count Alois Lexa von Aechrenthal,
Austro-Hungarian Minister of Foreign
Affairs, is dead.
Mr. A, If. Clarice, M. r, for South
Eseex, has joined a legal firm at Cal-
gary and will remove there.
The 'Toronto striking eloakmakers
held five meetings and were addressed
by the international president.
Rev, J. lifacehall formally resigned the
pastorate of Point St, Charles Baptist
Church. lie came to Montreal from
Berlin, Out.
A counter -petition has been filed by
Mr. McArthur, M.P.P. for North Mid
dlesex, against Mr. John Grieve, the
Liberal candidate,
Out of an estate of $558,449.80 left
,by the late John Herbert Mason of the
Canada Permanent Mortgage Corpora.
tion, Toronto, $30,000 goes to charity.
The Jews of Montreal will conduct a
whirlwind campaign to raise a half rail-
lioxf dollars to endow a Hebrew sanitar-
ium for tubereuloais at Ste .A.gathe Des
Monts.
Rev. Robtert Barbour, pastor of
Stouffville Presbyterian Church and
moderator of Toronto Presbytery, has
received a unanimous call to Erskine
Church, Meaford.
Mr, S. IL Gordon, a c,p.p.. fireman,
while working in the yarde at West
Toronto during Friday night, jumped
from the engine, one fat landing in
a hole in the icy track., breaking his
leg at the ankle.
The Government will be petitioned. to
establish a field batterly in Niagara
Falls. A new armory which will be opened
shortly,is sufficiently large to accom-
modate artilllery as well as three local
companies of the 44th infantry.
Mrs. Louise Ce'reenvalley, a native of.
Quebec. aged 52, who claims to have
been the first white woman to cross
tlut Canadian Rockies, having come by
the. Deminey pack trail in -1883, died
in Vancouver. She lived in Winnipeg
from 1880 to 1883.
Mathildri, Paulin, a niece of Frederick
Passy, the publicist, and winner of the
first Nobel Peace Prize, committed sui-
cide yesterday by jumping off the Eiffel
Tower. She had become ill from over-
work while nursing her uncle during his
reeent illness, and in a fit of melan-
cholia, took her own life,
The establishment in Toronto of an
interdenominational post graduate
course for the special training of for-
eign miesionariee probably will be the
result of it conference between repre-
sentatives of the five local . Protestant
theological ,colleges and the five Pro-
testant mission boards which was held
on Saturday.'
A service in a Kingston &Ovation
Army barracks here touched the con-
science of James Hammond, aged 35.
and he confeseed to Captain Turner that
he was an escaped prisoner from Au-
burn, New York, where he had been sen-
tenced to twenty years for burglary
at Syracuse. He asked to be sent back
to serve out his term. He knelt at the
penitent bench and cried.
sea•es
WIL OF RECLUSE
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Former U. S. Senator and
$1,000,000 Property.
Samuel E. Hallett and the
House of Mystery.
New York, Feb. 19. ---The examina-
tion. of tomer State Senator Frank
J. Gardner to -day on charges of .at-
tempting to defraud the heirs of
Samuel E. Healett, an 'aged recluse,
out of an estate valued at more than
$1,000A0. was expeoted -to develop
new diseloeures in the "House of
Mystery" ogee.
Haslett's life is last ebbing away in
his Brooldyn home, where for years
he lived a hermit.
'Senator Gardner and George Deeker,
a nurse, who were arrested Saturday
night 'ors ohargea made by John 11.
Lord, a lawyor, and Dr. H. 11. Min-
ton, 'who were teepeetively co -unreel
and physician to Ileslette that Gard-
ner and Decker conspiaed to 'defraud
Haeltett beim /through a wi;11, are
out on bail to -day. Decker its aaid
to leave confeeeed to the police that
lie brought Gardnee intee the case and
that his underetanding of the will,
which Gardner drew, that Gardner
wag the executor and residuary
legatee and that he hiin-eelf would
be taken care of by Gardner. The
11111%0 ettid that the will was signed
after Mr. Gardner had, made several
midnight visits to the "Houtee of
Myatery,"
Deeker told the polite that ntifl-
lett Ac4ii4 incompetent to sign it will.
A. atibeequent examination Of Mr.
lInelett, by Magietrate Xemeneer sit the
"Melee of 1‘lyettery" showed that the
hermit did /lot know what he waa
(signing and that he chriel no idea that
he plated hie ai4eitattere to a will,
VOT*NDEIt OF THE MIMI; RATS.
yee-., Angeles, Cele Feb, 18.- -George
Fuller Oddest, foundee of the Wlute
Iona a theatriert1 organizetion, died
here yeeterday. Ile had been ill for two
yearse 1Te !vitro et widow and four ohiId
DEFY POLICE
Required, Military to Dis-
perse Women Pickets.
Lawrence Meese Feb. 10e --,A band o;
Palish women operatives, who are per-
ticipating in the great textile strike!, as-
sembled near St, Anthony's Syrien
Church early to -day and defied the po-
lice, and militia 4luthorities to disperee
them. The women numbered about a.
dozen and were engaged in picketing In
the vicinity of the Innis. They did not
scatter until it equad of about thirty
police offieere, a smell detadtment of
infantry and a troop of infantry were
sent to the scene. Three of the wornou
were arrested, eharged with disorderly
conduct.
Thousands of operatives returned to
the mills this morning, when the gates
were opened. ln the crtee of some of the
mills considerable inereaties in the num-
ber resuming work was claimed, but
there seemed to be little change at the
plante of the Allen Woollen Co.
ARRESTS AT SOO
Alleged Gang of Black Hand-
ers in the Toils.
ConfessiOn of Woman Led
to Seven Arrests.
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Sault Ste. Marc, Feb. 18. -As a cul-
mination of a month of hard work 'Unit-
ed States Federal and loeal officers
have rounded up it Black Hand gang,
which, led by a woman, has been prac-
tising in this vicinity uninterruptedly
for the last six months, ,
Carmine Coutanio, proprietor of a
small notion stand, is held as the real
plotter of the gang, Mrs. Eagene Ping-
atore, wite on a local tailor and. the wo-
man in the case, has confessed even to
the smallest details of the operations
of /the band. Others held are Eugene
Pingatore, Marcus Rafelli, and three
other men, -whose identity is not re-
vealed.
About four months ago Nicholas Cap-
puccilli, a eigarma.ker, received a Black
Hand letter demanding that he leave
$1,500 in a lonely spot not far from the
central part of the city. In ease he did
not, death for the family and self and
the destruction of his home was threat-
ened. Carefully watched by officers,
Cappuecilli did as requested, but, the
plotters failed to appear. A guard has
followed him almost constantly since
that tune.
A short time after this letter was
received a similar one Came to Antonio
Raffaele, one of the proprietors of the
Osborne House. The letter demanded
$250 under the penalty of death, but
no attention was paid to the demand
or thfeat.
When Mrs. Pingatore arrived at the
jail at the American Soo yesterday to
talk with another dtalian woman held
as a prisoner she was made to write he r
name and address on a slip of paper
and the writing wits found to be iden-
Inca) with that of the two extortion let-
ters, and she was held it prisoner. Later
she confessed that she had written the
letter in question and others some
months before to residents of this city.
She further ciaimed that Contanio, it
boarder at Pingatore's home, forced
her to write the letters, while he held
a revolver rtt her head.
Arrests followed the confeseion at a
rapid rate, but three members of the
gang succeeded in making their escape
to the interion of Canada.
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FATAL EXPLOSION
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A.E. Harling, of Amherst -
burg, Hit Over Heart,
Pontiac, Mich„ Feb. 1S. ---Struck just
over the heart with. it jagged piece of
steel which penetrated his body When
it gas tank he was experimenting with
in the plant of the Pontiac Light Com-
pany at Pontiac, Mich„ exploded, Al-
fred E. Harling, 29 years old, formerly of
Amherstburg, was iastantly hill ed,
Charles Nesbitt, of Pontiac, for whom
the tank was being tested, was badly
injured. He was found. after the ex-
plosion pinned to the wall by it part of
the steel cylinder and unconscious. Mr.
Harling, who was a gas expert in the
employ of Hodenpyl, Hardy Company,
of Detroit,. had been mimed to Per-
fect a blast furnace that would melt
platinum, and which was to have been
used in the Nesbitt business for melt-
ing down old gold, silver and other
metals. It was necessary to obtain a
heat of 2,300 degrees, and to accom-
plish this Mr. Hinging brought an oxy-
gen tank into use. The tank evidently
had a weak spot, and, exploded while
the two men were working over it.
Harling leaves a widow and three chil-
dren. He had. resided, in Detroit for
several years.
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BOY SCOUTS
Thirty-nine FromAntipodes
in City ,ol Washing‘on.
Washington, Feb. 19. -Thirty-nine,
Anstralian boy sconte are here, to etpend
four daysight-seeing at the ea,pital.
The boys, who rano in age from 10 to
19 years, were acieeted to make the trip
to this eountry on account of their pro-
fieiency in rseholarship, vitiate tend ath- -
leties. A feature of tho squad ie ita
band of 25 pima.- ,The young vieitors
will be entertained by members of the
loeel chamber of commeree until Thurs.
day, when they lettve for Philadelphia.
SUDDEN DEATH IN PUSLINCH.
Guelph, Pob, 1.-Stulden wan the death
yesterday of William Johnston, it Pus-
lineh towntthin fanner. ITe had gone to
ViSit an ota friend, Ntr. Davidson, and
Preoteded a. short distance) down the
roaa nu his return, Whit() he fell to the
grot.utl. Mom's, ii:idd and thtrtnnersley
went to hia aid anti'carried hint home.
A fleeter WAS immediately otlied, hut
the!part.. ot lift, had fled.
CHAROEg WILL IIE PRESSED.
Willand, MI). V. -Mr. Ilettlter, Reeve
of Fittanford, ami :Sii. demote ihniteitTa
1 ConacillOr, who aro eltarged witiribely
and eerreatioe in telattou to the %one tit
eetiesiiii, leave resigned, but It to atlitlii
CM eiltirg08 will not be withdrawn, and
tiil. ease wilt (dine before gunge WIA)Is
tit PErbrtleny 2r2ild.
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egiesiee ierieetrieee
WAIT FOR REPLY
OF YUAN Sill KAI
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Observance of New Year
Passed Off Peaceably.
Want Nanking to be Chin a's
New Capital.
Manchuria Leaders Want a
Constitutional Monarchy.
Nanking, China, Feb. 10. -Dr. Sun Yat
Son and the members of the Republican
Government, as well 'its' the National
.Assembly, are still waiting for the of-
ficial reply of Yuan Shi Kai to their
request that lie come to Nanking. If
the former Premier should refuse to
come south the situation' will be serious-
ly complicated.
The observance of the Chine New
Year on, Sunatty passed off without any
disturbances, Tine is the last occasion
on which the New Year will be cele -
Wetted, according to the old Chinese cal-
endar, because in the future the calen-
dar will be changed and brought into
acoerd with the western system.
NANKING ItOR CAPITAL.
Shanghai, Feb, 19, --The abdication of
the Emperor has not affected the Yang
Tse Valley cities, except that a, distinct
revival of trade is noticeable.'
There is a growing agitation that the
new esepital should be Nanking. Tele-
grams from Canton to -day say that pro-
vince is determined not to consent to
the liberal terms granted to the Man-
chus unless Nanking is made the capi-
tal and the cabinet composed of approv-
ed army men led by trusted generals.
Tang She° Yi, who goes to Pekin with
the Republican delegation to confer
ti•ith Yuan Shill Kai, says he will urge
Yuan to go to Nanking in deference to
popular wishes.
IN MANCHURIA,
Tien Tsin, Feb, 19. --The eituationitt
Manchuria is daily becoming more des-
perate. Kang Yua Wei who led the
reform movement in 184, has thrown
his influence in with that of Chao Ehr
Mule, the viceroy, and together they
will make a determined fight to resist
the mew order of things.
Chao Ehr Hsun still refuses to meet
the demands that he give up his office
and with the aid of Kang Yua Wei pur-
poses to rebel. It is also said that the
object of the coalition of the two lead-
ers is to establish a conatitutional mon-
archy in Manchuria.
Prinee Su, it is reported, is giving the
two leaders fine.neiai assistance. The
Hungulzes have resigned en masse and
are openly defying the orders and auth-
ority of Yuan Shi Kai and will use all
their power and endeavors to oust him.
THE NEW PRESIDENT,
Pekin, Feb. 19. -Yuan Shi Kai has
prepared notification to the powers of
his election as president of the Chinese
republic, and at the same time request -
inn' their recognition of the republic. It
is, request-
ing
anticipated that the recog-
tion by the powers will be withheld
until a Cabinet has been appointed.
The adoption of the western calendar
has been adopted, the manifesto replan-
ing the imperial edict of the 'former re-
gime.
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APPEAL TO OBE
441••••••••••••••••••
But He Refuses to Take the
Field at Present.
Accepts . the Provisional
Presidency of Mexico.
El Paso, Texas, Feb. 19.-1Jrgent mee-
sarres from Palmas to Emilio Vasquez
Gomez at San Antonio, Texas, urging
him to come at once and take the field,
have brought a declination from 'Gomez.
This has cast a gloom over his followers
in Nerthern Chihuahua.
Three bridges on the Mexican North-
western Railway near Barreal, DO miles
south of Juarez'were destroyed by the
Vasquistas yesterdity.
The bridges had been repaired only
two days ago and there is apprehension
in Juarez to -day that the Vasquistas
are pre -paring to advance on that city
from the Casas Grandes country.
GOMEZ'S MANIFESTO,
San Antorio, Feb. 18. ---Emilio Vasquez
Gomez to -night issuetl it manifesto a0-
cepting the provisional Presidency of
Mexico. He subseribes to the plan of
Tacubaya, which he says was written
while he was an exile in a foreign land.
He reiterates that he haa taken no part
in present affairs of Mexico except to
write to the_press and it few friends. Ile
asserts that the Madero Government
should be overthrown, because it has
not carried out the plan of San Luis
Potosi, upon which the last revolution
was based.
Gomez imp he will remain in San An-
tonio and take no part in the warfare
in Mexico. He urges his followers to
respeot all the right of the foreigners.
YOUNG MAN SHOT
Lockport, Feb. 10. -Frank Spinner, a
well-known yonng man, lies uncoiled.
owl in the City Hoepital withr a. bullet,
in his braite and Charles Derteaetein,
also well known, is nuclei' arreet, as the
remit of it shootieg• affair about 12.30
tide morning in the bcteement Of But.
lerie billiard parlors and bowling alleye
at Church street and Itiefinemul swam°.
Witnesses elaim thot Spinner and his
brother William went into the pirate
looking for Bertenetein, and made a
rush to do him up. BerteesteIn pulled
it .32 -calibre gun of the bulldog type,
And, it is allege& blazed away at the
two men. Frank Spinner dropped-. Seer-
erral men playing verde in the room ex -
(+Redly ruelied 'out. lIartenstein got
aviay. Spinner was picked up bleeding
from a woutul over the left eye. lie
wee imeonecione. At the City Itoepititi
Dre. Creeby and Palmer fouled that the
bullet had leinged in the braiii itml
neettid prelial)ly cause death.
Partenetein was earested at Clittou
end Golding etreete At 5 o`olorle.
sea*
1-IODOE'D APPOINTMENT.
1%1entroa1, Vol). aeorte Ijitdc
hos been ttnnointeil superintendent of tho
oastk'rn division of the Canadian Pc.cifie
Th1114V/tY, in succession to :gr. °P, (4n -
toll', vtllo has hem, selected br tho
filoverntrtent t investigato the
°obstruction of the National Pranse.in-
ibiethi
DttilwaYs
1
HEART HARDENED
114.drirro.,.r
1 Condemned Man Would Not
Listen to Ministers.
Mobile, Ales, Fob. LaWrerlet.'•
Odom, convicted
three pereons, was hanged hero teeday.
He refueed the ministerial appeale of
it clergyman who labored with him
al 1 41thts and thosei el his on, n
Catholic priest. Ho mounted the re
/owe etoioally and laughingly -Pe ea
to soh his wile. OCIOM was oonvieted
csi kifling Olualeti Golfing, JrehoPill.
Stokes and David German, the latter
n.feixteen-year-old by. They had
been AvitneS.S,vs afrainst llint in police
court on a oh:ergo of cruelty to aelog.
The killing. took place March 18., 1910,
at Citronelle, Ala. He shot the boy
at the feet of hie mother as che waj
lieading for his life. Odoaa was tried
twice and deelared guilty eaoh time.
tis wae wealthy.
r I A
1?
AY AVE:RiffRE
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Labor Leader a,ncl Miners
Confer on the Situation.
Troops May be Drafted Into
Glamorgansnire.
London, Feb, 19,-WJe1e all the .pre-
parations that have been made in the
cool fieldof the United Kingdom are
for war rather than for peaee, there is
just .a gleam of hope that the threat,
med strike of nearly a million men
at the end of thie month will be averted.
The fact has just been diselotted that
William E. Harvey, the Labor member
of Parliament for Northeast Derby., who
in secretary of the Miners' Federation,
aocompa•nied ley five representativs of
the Eiugiish minere, is holding meetings
privately with five mine owners in the
hope of preparing a basis fOr peace.
Besides this the conciliation board of
the tEonialiy.
English fejelerated aree is also meet-
ing Should proegirees be made in the e.ffort
to reaeli setfiement in. England, South
Wales and Scotland will remain the
chief obstacles to an agreement.
The authorities look upon Wale
the great danger spot, an.d having re-
gard to the disturbaaces edhich occurred
there last year, the chief constable of
Glamorgaushire has suggested to the
magistrates that an applicetion huid
be made for the drafting of a body of
1,500 in-fantry and 1,100 cavalry into the
Rifeeted areas,
SHE SUICIDED
Getting Acid by Ruse Wo-
man Ends Life
Brockville, Feb. 18, --Mrs. Edward Lee,
of Alevandria Bay, N. Y., a patient
since th.e first of the year at the St.
Vincent de Paulhospital, where she was
under treatment for nervous melancho-
lia, mminitted suicide under peculier
c urns tames.
The woman, accoanpanied by her hus-
band, was aceorded the privilege a 61,
walk about town. The couple went to
the home of it friend named Mts. Me -
Caw, on Churchstreet. Mrs, Lee made
the pretence of suffering from a tooth-
ache and called for carbolic acid. Mrs.
McCaw unsuspiciously handed the wo-
man it bottle containing it couple of
ounces of the deadly drug, which ehe
swallowed. Mess. Lee died shortly after
being removed. to the hospital. She
was 31 years of age, and had been in
poor health for several. months.
Dr. Jaekson, °puled an inquest ,and
after hearing the evidence of Mr.. Lee,
an adjournment was made until n.ext
Friday. The body was taken to Alex-
andria Bay for interment.
Lee, who vies it. patient at the eame
hospital with his wife, has just rocov-
ered from pneumonia, after a month's
treatment.
G.T. Re AliD C. P R.,
Improved Connection to be
Made at Brockville.
Ottawa, Feb. 19. -Tho Railway Com-
miesion to -day settled the longistandina
public grievance over the C. P. Red,I. T.
II, passenger connectibit at Broekville.
The Grand Trunk is ordered to change
the tint° of its No. 6 Toronto eastbound
train at Brockville from 2.20 to 2.10
p.m., and the C. P. R. must change its
Hine of departmie from Brockville to
2.30 p.m. If necessary, through the
Grand Trunk being late' the C. I'. R. on
notification by wire notlater than 2.15,
-must hold its train. until 2.40 if there
are any passengers ,cleSiring to make the
colineetion.
t
JAMES DAVY MY
Niagara Falls, N. Y.'„ Feb. 18. -James
Davy, owner of the Thorold, Ont., paper
and pulp mills, died at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. E. 0. Babcock, No. 750
Main street, this looming, at the age of
79 years. Ile Ives born in Kingston,
Ont., and came here with hie parent
when it year and 14 half old. He is sur-
vived by one brother, Abraham Davy,
and one sister, Mrs. IL D, Adams, of
this city, and a daughter, Mrs. Bab-
eock. The funeral will be held Wednes-
day afternoon.
DANGEROUS WIRES,
St. Thomas, Ont„ Feb. 19,---Il1ectricirth
Roberts, of the Hydro-Eleetrie service,
on Saturday discovered the melee of fro -
vent interruptions to the serviee. Tele-
phone lines eross over the power lines
end in one place the power wires were
almost burned through and if not die-
eovered the ends would soon have fal-
len on the thickly crowded street, with
inevitable toes of life resulting there-
from.
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A(ntals DtAt).
0;liteigee PJ. 1.9...--Jounio High, known
in s»ivate life mm; Mrs, Jeanie High
Smith, who yeette cep wite a, popular tic
trele, died here. y...oterelay at the home
of her non. T. Smith. Sae 114"414
itlisltiifieql on the, Meese with Edwin
Ileoth, joselph Jefferson, )"rank Aiken
And other theateical etara -She wee bete
in Philadelphia in 1843. She left the
footlighte after her marriage to ChArket
H. Smith, it Mk/p.m) businees man.
..•JRisill Him • DIAMOND ROBBERY
Montreal Jeweller. itislault•
.4)4 anctRobbed.
Dictagrapii Con ea,led on
President Ryan's Desk.
Knew What Wont on Since
amara's Arrest.
.fra.0
ledienapolis, Ind., leeb, ea- Every,
thing that hes been goieg on in the
office of Frank M. Ryan, preeident of
the National .Asesoelatieu of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workem, the or
-
rest of John J. McNamara, is known to.
the Oovernment offiriala all the sene,
fereucee betweee tile (ARCM'S, 011 (Id*
erfi Wasted to members of the engenizee
tion and the eontente of all letters kne-
tated by Ityi/X1 and Hoekin to eie.14V
ra,phers.' This fact was admitted yeite...•
day, when it beearne known that 'a dieta.
VW, lied been -concealed near Ryan'
desle onon after the IdeNamara arrest,
eine that the Deputy Distriet et.ttereey
had routed a room .juse below in the
eame building to which the wires from
the dietagraph lecI, Hero alt tliet messed
in the office) above wag faithfully re-
corded by stenographers in the em-
plov of the Disteue .Attorney.
*hen President layen was inform-
ed at noon yesterday that a. dietagraph
had been placed in hie office and. had
been there for four months, he refue-
ed. to credit the statement, saying that
it was impossible. When asked for
permission to make a search for it, he
smiled and. gave his consent. A Mo-
ment later, when the instrument was
found, and the couneeting wires were
disclosed, Ryan Wat3 so agitated that
lie could not talk coherently. The in.
etrument was fastened to the wall
just under the end of Ryan's deek and
ono might have worked at the desk
for a :Vaal* and never suspected its
presence. The wires leading from it
to the room below wscd through the
floor and were also concealed. Under the,
office of the iron workers is the office
of C. 5, Murphy, of the City Directory
Company.
Ryan wan visibly astonished. when
he saw the little diek pulled loose
from under his desk, ami es the lean
who had found it started. out, Ryan,
who had said nothing while the wires
were being broken, asked: "Hey,
what are you going to do- with that?"
"Get it photographed," was the anise -
wen
"Well, bring it bank. Pd. like to
keep it," he said.
The disk is not large, mad eau easi-
ly be eoncealed behind any eonvenient
corner or projeetion in a room and by,
reason '.of it conversations can be tak-
en down by stenographers in other parte
of the- same buildiug. The wires were
broken to-day,however, and, no more
diktf,tcrraphs are expected to be found
aroild..the iron workers' evertors.
ANOTHER TELL-TALE STORY.
Los ;Angeles, Cal., Feb. 10. -That itt
least two of the telephone devices such
as that said to have hem -used by the
government to obtain evidence in the
dynamite. conspiracy eaus in Indianapo-
lis were 11.9.-e .. to like purpose in Los
.Angelee, wzts seated by District Attor-
ney John D. Frederielce, who returned to-
day after a six weeks' absence!.
"We. ban one of the 'tatters' in Ortie
MeMenigare eell" Fredericka said, "and
it worked finely."
He refused to tell whore the other one
was ueed, and when asked if it was in
the office of the McNamara, defence, he
gave an evasive reply.
"We have aceomplisheel muele with the
little tell-tale maehinee," he said.
HEBERT CASE
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Judgment Not Given -Lady
and Crowd Disappointed..,
•••••.••11,..• • 01•1..
Mrs. Hobert Wants Her
Legal Status Settled:
Montreal, Feb. 19.--A crowd of eager
and curious lawyers, minieters and re-
porters were in the praetice court house
this morning expeetbag the delivery of
the finding of Judge Charbonnettu on
the Hebert case, Them vale a mysteri-
ous husk when his lordship ascended the
bench.
Grim dieappoimneut wus tho reward
of the crown, beceuse the judge went
right on with the regular oats, and
never mentioned the Hebert PASO fLt all.
Enquiribit from the clerk of the court
only elicited the information that the
jiidgment would not be given to -day,
and might be held over tiii next week.
Unofficially, however'it was stated that
it cannot be delayed longer than to-
morrow or the next de,y, as the judge
has finiathed it, and is anxious to hand
it out as soon as possible.
Mr. 00115i116, lawyer for Mrs. Hebert,
complained tine morning that none of
the papers got the pleading's right in
the eaze when it came before Judge
Charbonneau. He said that his lordiship
boa been asked to deelare that the judg-
ment of Judge Laurendeau, ratifying the
tullification of the Hebert marriage by
Archbishop Bruellesi, was wroag, and
that it mere withdrawal from the eclat/
by Hebert did tot set aside Judge Lau.
Nadeau% finding As Alleged.
Mrs. Hebert wants it definitely stated
that her marriage W11.0 legal aceordieg
to the laws of the Provinee of Quebec.
TORTURED WIFE.
Wilkesbarre, Feb. 19. ---Stanley Veke-
nuts is under arreat here elearged with
driving imiis ieto the epine or iU wife
in au attempt to kill her Fio that he
Might 111A1TY another. Mrs. Vekannts
L e. hovering between life and death at
the City Marital.
It is alleged Vekamae first tried to
drive his wife from him by it eouree of
111 treatraent and abuse, but when this
felled he resented 10 n. 1114-1.11041 to
tOt-
ture Almost pest belief in ite brutality,
Vekftilitti3 War3 ktm;4cp
igqi ha husband tied her eceurely, eiee
awoke too ilat' to five heittelt anti a
moment later taloa, velle had been driv-
en bite her epine with a tatehet. She
fainted entl the imebeind left her, letliev
hag hie pnlyt.3.1 L`.:1 i.N%1 neeomplialied.
The coephs'e lhtl.e eon blind hi e 111.00
filer finfronikT triib my tM noti-
fitel heighbore, Vim 1 id lier removta to
it limpitrii. Vekant.1:4 Vol, but wite einp-
tared.
IM()LAMI1 4.1elipateh: A. deepen -4e lay.
ligin robleerye with viololeo, tooleee
here tine morning, when a .1*%T.Qtro Settine
etrect Soweler, named Cohen, woe robinnl
of diamondworth 1.3$0, and etieh' to Cie
extent ot ;KO hy two nervy thieves.
Oaten was unlocking his safe, whtu ho
was told to put up ins handle T1,1r0100
round be Welted Into the muzzies of two
tevelvers, He Made a foal) for olio awl.
one of the burgiare hit bini over Use
head, knocking bine unconscious. They
then grabbed alt the wee diamond
around and rifled the safe.
Cohen soon recoovered and staggered
to tho door or rtzs store. whore he called
?or assistance, his aurrzneats being an-
4verea by a policeman. The officer saw
a mart running away, anti after it etern
chase captured lilra.
The man under arrest gave biz name
as Vegent, but at the police station de-
nied all Imowledge of tin) hold LIP.
CANSO SUED
Sales Girl Asks $50,000 for
Breach of Promise.
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Singer Declares, the Case is
One of Blackmail,
Milan, Feb. 18. -The beeetch of
promise mit of the sales girl, Ganalli,
against Enrico Caruso, the. operattte
tenor, was called in the court here
yesterda,y.
Counsel for the young_ woman gave
the details of the alleged eourtehip of
the girl by the singer, and told how
the promise of marrlage 'MIS made.
He also produced the love letters whielt
passed between .0ardio and the girl.
Counsel also declared that Certuto had
sent for the girl.to come and meet leira,
and be presented to his friends as the
future Mrs. Caruso. He told of the
presents wilech •the singer had made to
the girl, and the money isehieh he had
advanced to her for the purpotee of buy-
ing dresses and paying her travelling
expellees. • In sending this money to
the girl Caruso told her he was anxious
that ahe ehould wear the tint clothe;
so as to worthily represent_ the future
wife of the world's greatest tenor,
After all this, said counsel for the
girl, the singer refused to marry her.
He demanded that Oaruso be unlisted
in moral and material damages. 'The
latter he estimated at $50,000, but said
the Plniatiff was willing to accept tile
sum whien might be fi.xed by the
Nurt,
The defence was practically that the
ease wee one of biaderota Counsel for
Caruso denied -that there had been any
promise of marriage. Ile osdad the court
to condemn the plaintiff to pay the
coats of the proeeedings. He also asked
for damages, the amount of which
would be felt to the discretion of the
court. Counsel said in ease such dam-
ages were awarded Cameo woulcl give
the money to some charity selected by
the court,and would add 81,00.0 out of
his own pocket.
The case was adjourned until this
week.
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TRAIN WRECKED
11•••••••••••••••••...4,
Two Workmen Killed ill
Smash Near Fort Wayne.
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Philadelphia, Feb. 19.-Tb.e Penn.syir
vania ltnilrcad Limited Express, west-
bound, was wreck:a 26 miles west of
Fort Wayne, Ind., at 0.55 a.m. to -day,
acoording to it message received here by
the Pennsylvania .Railroad officials, Two
workmen wore killed and five injured.
Tho company's advicesay that the
limited ran into it work train, derailing
the first two ears of the limited. No
one on the limited is reported injured.
The two derailed care were cut out
of the train, a new engine was supplied
and the train proceeded_ after some de-
lay.
The train wrecked to -day is it coun-
tetpart of the Pennsylvania limited
wrecked at Warrior's Ridge, PaaTIturs.
day while eastbound.
k
ALONG LEAP
JurnffeT"'"Fivin Brooklyn
Bridge With Parachute.
••••...../.4.11.1 •
New York, Feb. 19. -Fred K. Law,
a. young New Yorker, who jumped
with it parachute from the It -Praised
arm of the Statue of Liberty not long
ago, performed it cimilar fe,att late
yesterday in a leap from the Brooks
lyn bridge into the East, river. The
parachute did not open fully, and
Law hit the icy water with a
smash, but eame up quiekle
and was hauled -a.hoard tu.g. Law
a.voielod, the polite) by going out in
the structure in t taxitab need spring-
ing over the railing before any cemo
Wield interfere,
SNOWS110iERS RUNGRY.
Montreal, Feb. 19. -Three hundred
sn.owahoers who went from here to ate
tend the _Mardi Gras celebration at
Quebec City have had an unpleasant 0.4
porienee. They left Quebec on Satur-
day night and were delayed by it pitelo
hi oxi. the Canadian Northern thirt,r
miles out. They were meablo to get
into Montreal till Ude afternoon, Food
had to be eent to them ftom nearby %if-
lagee.
MRS. SUITER INJURED.
1Dinhaas, February 19. ---Mrs. F. fl. tie -
ter slipped oti eh fey sidewalk yeeter-
,
<illiot.
ayand was painfully injured. She
confined to bed at her home.
. The A. Y. P. A. of $t. sTineees Churah,
evill pay a visit to the A. Y. P. A, of
et MarchChriCathedral, Hareiltext, to-
riCKLE LADY PUNISligD.
-Jr.dgp, liallinftu. 4)0
tho stltorior Uoutt, gra4e4 Ittlinnd
anulges tiTrinst Laura ri'vf:ittniey
;,.f.eatist t' it latter broke her promiso
me rr hitn. ItclIand pecdtoed itt our
ti1.111.1itt6d ottd itemittsd ptec44-urtt of AU
hO beeeeneneed on MI64 T'sflaiiitY'
,tal;od $te-9 damegoqq, 'part 6t. itcieend
outlay reed part for initito nese:Woe It.,
waq awarded