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The Wingham Advance, 1912-03-21, Page 70.4.041~0,10VwooW*Cr** VIVOLa TEN WERE SAVED itam& more s4iisfuetoty than in 1910. The main diffieulty is in arousing soffieient .. interest to get it beekeeeper to do some. . thing for his beee every week. lie will feed, his horees or hogs, because they 4NO TEN 1.031 ;i:ii;:t,iiilile:Niii:N:)11(78(11,"rolutlife1(1,,,F1::.'iiiill . . .. . , thinic.-6 it is "ip,,a botileo to be cow - i plied to hive swarme at illeOnVenient 1 1I3(s - ‘,)2' let hie wife hive them—thao to be syetemmatie aboot the work. Then there are those who reeeive the experi- ment and try it otit fairly well, hot ish up by leeeplug the honey from twin, lots separate eo as to compare reeults., There are ale° those who fail to report (in the experiment the eveond year. The edueational 'value of What We seud (Mt ie tot entirely lost on any of Om pe3. mete, but they ent only fail to get the beet out of it, but they fail to eo-operate and give ()there the benefit of their ex- perience with the information handed them. Iliere is no doubt 'that .the fact of It$ being a poor season prevented a great many from finishing the experi. ment, - Of the preens who undertook the ex- periment thirty-five sent reports, from nineteen differeet Counties of Ontario, 1,1:lieee reported e total of. 991 colonies in the goring of 1911, anti 1,325 colonies iu the fall, being a 'eying Average of 28.3 apa a fall average/ of 38. Their total hooey crop was 05,000 pounds, an av- erage of 05M pounds per eolony spring count, Fifty pounds being white honey ana 15,0 Pounds being dark honey from fall flowers. The groups of hives used for the ex- perinient averaged eight hives each. Tap group being divided into lot A, eonsieting of four hives managed aceording to di- rections, and lot B—efour hives 'allowed to swarm naturally. As the experiment- ers were nearly all new this year the per cent. of natural swarm & from lot A was still -high, being 24 per cent„ but evenethis was far less than lot B, which was 70 per cent., a difference of 40 per ceot, of swarms in favor of the method described in the experiment. . The average honey yield was 11 lbs, per colony more froth lot A than from lot B, That is. if the eoloniee owned by the experimenters had all been managed according to directions, their honey crop would have been increased more than 10,- 000 lbs., Nvhieh means that they lost in the aggregate over $1,000 by earelese methods of management, to say nothing of the loss of runaway swarnesewaich is considerable. SWARM PREVENTION AND COMB HONEY. Eight Persons tried. this experiment, a od while -sufficientinformation was not ecnt in to present any figures, the opin- ions of experimentere are of intereet. "It has taught me that it pays to con- tr91 swarming to get a good crop of honey."—Grenville county, "The benefits I derive1 are more honey and less work."--Ruesell. "More honey and satisfaction. Your adviee and my experience has done good."—Dundas county. "1 have derived a great deal of benefit from your inetructions.. I am able to handle my bees with more'satisfaetion," --Elgin, "I have learned to prodnee fancy comb honey and interested °there in beekeeping,"—Middlesex, Now, although the number of reports received is small compared with the number of persons who applied for, and received instructions for the experiment, results cannot always be counted by figures, and the s fact remains that care - fay Prepared histructions on one of the most _euecessful methods of pre von Ling Raturat swarming was sent to neeely 500 beekeepers, and that these beekeep- ers had had their interest awakenedley filling. out an application blank asking for these instructions. Many were un- able to conduct the . experhnent because the bees were too much weakened by the late spring, and the season was cut too short by the drouth for the swarm- ings to develop under any conditions. Others were too busy with affairs which yield a smaller •-.profit than the beee Would give for the same attention. The greatest hindrance to the honey haluetry in Ontario -is not foul '3rood, serious as that may be; it is not the cold winters and late springs, and it is not the difficulty of controlling the see:trill- ing impulse. The greatest hindrance t9 the development of honey production in Ontario isthe indifferent farmer who does not realize that while good horses, fat steers and all tile other live stook on the place will eat their heads off if he does not watch out, honey bees will gather what costs nothing, is g.oing to waste, and. will Pay 50 to 100 per cent. dividende annually on time and capital invested. When good extracted honey sells rapidly, at a good price, and the average crop ranges from )50 to 100 lbs. per colony, and 200 leivee of bees require less work than a 50 -acre general farm, how is it that the proper care of bees is "too much bother"? wawa. U.S. Fishing Schooner Dash- ed Against the Rocks. Mae Caught kin 131g Storm Off Nova Scotia. Terrible Tale Told by the Men Saved. Shelboorne, N, S., Man+ 17, --One of the worst stories of the seaeon Or this (meet in years was told by the ten me vivore of the Amerlean fishing sehooner Patrieian, when tit an early hour yes- terday they knocked at the door of Captain MacAlpine'e house, Jordan Bay, Shelburne, and told him that of the (*yew of twenty who had set sail from Shelbburne Friday morning ten were dead. The schooner had crashed on Dull Rock, two miles off, at 10 o'clock and Captain William Harding and nine of his erew had perished in the boiling sea, The Patrician had arrived ou Shel- burne on Thursday.: On Friday morning at five o'clock she sailed from that port to continue fishing. All day Was thus epent. Towards evening it was evident that the storm of wind and rain become very bed. They were twenty-three miles off the coast, but neverthelese Captain Harding determined to run back to Shel- burne for ehelter, • He was only running to his fate. The southwesterly storm had become fierce when they approach- ed the eoast, and.there was a heavy fog. In the darkness and thick weather Cap- tain. Harding made a mistake in. his bearingsa taking the Lockport buoy for the Shelburne buoy and he was in ter- rible danger. When Ile discovered the error it was too late and the schooner 'crashed on the black ledges half a lune- tte& &GM Dula Rock and some two miles from jordian Bay. The destruc- tion of the schooner was almost instan- eous. After the crash she opened up andawent to pieces. The impact on the melte with the wind blowing a bale had been terrific. So suddenly did the vessel break up that Captain Harding had. no time to reach a dory and nine of hie crew were equally unable to grasp this, chance to save their lives. )ley were swept 'into the water and sank with their vessel to death. • Ten others, more fortunate, got into three or four of the dories, scene of them without ears, and with their eyes turned to the shore the fishermen drifted or steered thitherwards as best they might. One of the boats upset and the inert were threwn int d the water, but they grasped the dory, and regaining cone mud of it, moved along over the. tre- mendous Sea towards the shore, which. the ten men reached shortly before midnight. The survivors were taken in and care- fully looked after and will be forwarded via Yatmouth to Gloucester. A search Was made yesterday in gaso- line boats for -traces of the missing men, but nothing whatever was discovered. AU that could be sten were some frag- ments of the wrecked sehoonee and not, mu -ch of this wee left by the tempestu- OUS sea. The list of the drownetl is as The drowned: Captain William Hard- ing, Charlesville, Politico; John Good- win, Bear Point; Albert Goodwin, brother, Bear point; Holman Hopkins, Woods Haebor; Jas Nickerson, 'Wood Harbr; Clerence Terry, Shag Harbor; Michael Jennings, South Boston; listen Gill, Boston; Jos. Robiseau; Sur- ettee island; George Sharpe,Bonavista Ray. The schooner had 70,000 pounds Of fish. and she was, owned by Parker, Of Mote °eater. BEEKEEPING Co-pperative Experiments at Agricultural College • Teach Beekectpers to Organ. ize and Get More Honey. During the season of 1011 the follow - hie co-operative experiments were sent out: 1, The prevention of natural swarming in the production of extracted honey. fa The prevention of natural swarming in the production of comb honey. 3. Reece of bees—Genegal. 4. Races of bees—With reference to their power to resist European Foul Brood. The instructions for experiment num, ber one were the mile as last year. lior experiment number two, a$ the manage- ment fer eorab honey production is flo different from that followed.in the pro. ductiee of extraeted honey, special ha structione had to be prepared. Thee experiments in races of bees con - misted in sending out queen bees for test- ing some of the different strains aciVer- tipd in the bee journals. These were of- fered to the experimenters who showed sufficient interest in the work last year to report Q11 their experiment, or give a good reason frir not doing so, and this only on eondition that a promise be given to, if possible, continue the ex. petinient through the season of 1912. ...application blanks were eneloaed with the offer. Most of them filed their ap- plication and received one queen bee tach. /t will take another year to get a report on these, In reference to European Foul brood it Wins well established that certain Wert of bees are better able to resist this dis. ease than others. Some few straiae of Italians have been found by experts to be in ,this elaee are recommended for nee by inepeetore of apiaries. Others are good houey prodtteers, but have not been toted in this reepeet, In order to test the matter Mere fully, arrangements were made with a number of le -keepers in the P.. Y. D. diqtriots of Ontario to teat the towns from a few breeders whese boo! liri‘e been epeeially twin. mended. A few satisfactory reports were received from ibera this year, and It full report is expeeted in IOU. SWARM PItt\TENTIONT AND EX- TII '.(1,E1) I tO NEV. Although there wee an almost entire ehange !txpeilenenters, the remulte are GUT OFF HIS LEGS Then Burned Alive the Gov- ernor of Kirmansha,h. Teheran, :Mani' 2. --(Saler ed Dowleh cut off the legs of the Governor of Kir- manshith and then burned him alive. Other unspeakable atrocities were committed in the town. He has captured Zenjan and he laughs at the Anglo -Russian 15ronnsril that he should follow the example of the exiled Shah, his brother, and retire on a pen. eion deelaring that the departure of his brother leaves an avenue to the throne open to him, England has! landed, 150 Indian troops at Lingah to save the town from tribal loam's, who resent the stopping of the gun running traffic. 10-.4 CRY FOR HELP war U. S. Citizen ek in Tampico Appeal for Protection, Mexico City, Ma,rell 2. --U. $4, Atnhae- eador Wilson /stet night received att ap- peal for protection for Americans in Tampico, who are in danger of violenee at the hands of a mob which has al- ready attaekea the offices If the Tam- pico Navigation Compeny. Cirenlare inciting the people to an anti -foreign demonstration were distributed yester- dayin the afternoon a mob of rioters gethered end, aecording the ambas- sador's report, hea praetically taken con- trel of the town, WiookawWwwWwwwilwao.no FARMER' WIVES, (reingeten Steeetard.) leo haps at itie bottom or Hy.) whole tlimg is the feet that the teemen on the teem ate evet-woilted, Iowa nothiniglUte the sett/t1 ativenteges that their elty friteds have and have very few ant110e.' 111C11 1,11. The lire of the woman an net f fir i ie fav harder than thet of the nintr. It "o-, little *Wonder that She d0eS.4 not en. ti11111110 het' iiu t 'uiT)0 a farmer. TWO WOMEN LOSE [IVES IN FIRE Fatal Ilesqlts of Incendiary Fire at the Falls. A Daring Rescue Made by Volunteer Firemen. $20,000 Damage Done by the Blpze, Niagera Valle, Ont., Mardi 17, --Fire, believed to be of incendiary origin, ear- ly this morning completely destroyed the 1nterior of the brick bloek at Nos, 28 and 30 Erie avenue, badly damaged the Hewson Bloek adjoining, at Nos. 24 and 20, paused the death of two wo- men, and a third ie in a precarioue eon- dition at the General Hospital, and caused property loss of between $15,- 000 and $20,000, THE DEAD, Mrs, Charlotte Pattisou, 77 years old, suffocated in bed. Miss Metta Pattison, her daughter, 36 year sold, an invalid, died five minutes after being rescued. The third woman is Mies Ella Patti. son, a daughter and sister respee. tively, of the victims. The fire was discovered shortly after 3 o'clock by W. J, Dawson, pro- prietor of the Palms, an ice cream parlor, a block away Irani Jim scene of the fire, who was on his way home. Dawson saw a woman .rumh aeross Elie avenue sereanaing "Eire, fire," and turning, saw the rear of J. J, Conner's shoe store, at No, 28 a lease of flames. He sent in an alarin from Box 13, and. then ran to the fire -hall and assisted in bringing the apparatus through the slueh-filled streets to the scene of the flames. When the fire- men arrived they saw the white form of a woman leaning out of one of the windows on the top floor of the burn- ing building. It was .Ella Pattison. 'Ile firemen ealled to the- woman to lean, forward and hold her head below the smoke, that they would rescue her as soon as they could get the ladder pladed. The +Street at this point is a network of overhead wires. Immigra- tion Inepeetor Fred Carter, who was one of the first to reach the scene, mounted a pole right outside of the window and cut the 1Y4yeS so that the ladder could be placed, and, as it was hoisted, swung from the pole to it and elimbed to the window, By this time the woman was unconseiotes, and, taking the form in his arms, Carter descended the ladder col- lapsing from the smoke as he reached the.ground. The woman was hastened to the hospital, while Carter was car- ried to the Hotel Trennick, half a block away. zes ee was coming down the ladder Carter told the men on the ground that there was another woman in the room, and Robert Barr, an exempt fireman, and proprietor of a hotel, rushed up the ladder. He found a woman on the floor under another window, and carried her out, himeelf sinking to the pavement while assist- ing in carrying the WOMan to the Hotel Trennick, This was the invalid, and she died shortly after being car - vied into the 'hotel, Barr was taken to his home, In the meantime the fire spread rapidly, and it was impossible to even get near the windows, the, flames belching forth and shooting many feet into the street. Assistance in the form of long ladders was asked from the American side, and the „Niagara avenue company, Captain George Woods responded. Two ladders were piacedAo the top of the adjoining build- ings and the firemen fought the flames from there Two hours after the fire broke out the roof of the building at Nos. 28 and 30 fell in, carrying the third and sec- ond floors with it to the store below: Standieg on the roof of the building at No. 32, Capt. Wood saw a form on a set of springs in the...front room_ of the building, and he descended the ladder and, mounted the one down which the two women had been carried. As he climbed through the window on to the piece of floor remaining, shouts of warn- ing were given by the crowd. below. Woode continued to the, corner of the room and picked. the charred body of Mrs. Pattison from the bed -springs and carried it to the street. It was fright- fully burned. . The flames spread to the building to the north, known as the • Ifewson. bloek, and the first and second storeys in the rear were badly dam- aged, while the top floor was entirely gutted. Besides the Pattisons, the Logan building was occupied by Mrs. Whalen, matron at the Grand Trunk etation, and Mr. and Mrs. Fisher and the shoe store. It was Mrs. Whalen that aroused the Fishers and rushed across the street screaming "Fire," In the Hewson block lived Mr. and Mrs, John flare, Mr, and 'Mrs, 'White and three children, All were made hoineleso, and lost practically ever' - thing, The firet floor of this building its socoerue, pied by A. C, Thornburn as a drug. tCoroner James McGarry is 131 eharge of the eaae, and has empaneled ft jury, and will conduct a rigid investigation, for this is the third fire tif a mysteriotte origin within a week. .11.1rs. Pattioon is survived by two tsis- ters, Mile Wilson Brown, of Fenwick, Ont., and Miss Laura Weed; and a sis- ter -m -1(m, Mrs. John Laws; and a. nieee, Miss Anna 'Awe, the )(let three of St. Catharines. woolowwWw`wor.111111, .40 THE SUNK OCEANA May Save Over Three M°1. lion Bullion on Board. ew Mardi eable from London 'Sap: The Peninsular and Uri- tettel Line steamship Oeeana, whieh 11114 subk Saturday in tee ientelieh Chen. nth reinAirts to -day in the same poiitiou and thete is every hope that i; will lee prer4,101e 1i teeovey tne e3,750„nie1 tti the InIiIIOIi whieh rehe An hope that eome of tee ,, eenteeu pelenns thrown into the water be. !! VaLktoll noat have been 3es0110.1 by a 11;1 86411g 911111 1184 been gIven up, It ie., noW taken for grantel thae ail' e ere! drewned, wWWWW8 SENATOR DEAD . Hon. Wm. Ross of Halifax Passes Away, OttaWa, Mareh 17.—Senator William Ross, of Halifax, one of the oldest meiu. bers of the Senate, and first 'Minister of Militia in the .Maeltenzio Governineut, died after only a few hours' illness from heart failure at 0 o'clock this morning at his rooms on Nopean street. The late Senator, who wonla have celebrated his 88th birthday Olt Wed- nesday next., took dinner last night in the Parliamentary restaurant end re- tired in hie mond health, MI took ill shortly after midnight aud sank ra- late Senator had, heel a long ami distinguished public career of over half eentury, Ile was a member of the Nova. Scotia, Parliament before Confed- eration, and in the Federal elections of 18337, 1872 and 1874 had the tuneme dis- tiection of being returned each time by acclamation. WH hen on. Alexander Mackenzie took office in 1874 the de- ceased beettme Minister of Militia, and introdueed the act establishing the Roy- al Military College at Kingston. He was called to the Senate in 190ti. - G. T. R. WAGE CUT Company Explains Few Men Are Affected. Cut Only Those Who Are Getting Too Much. Toronto, March 18.—The Grand Trunk Railway has iseued the following state- ment regarding the wages of conductors, baggagemen and. brakemen On its vari- ous divisions, in view of its recent de- cision to make a reduction on some of the runs. As there appears to be misappre- hension as to the extent and effect of the action of the Grand Trunk Railway in recently revising a portions of its new schedules of pay.for trainmen a state- ment of the position of that company and the reasons given for such action will be of interest to its patrons as well as to the empleyees: "In 1910 a general increase was made in the rates of pay. for men eraployed in train and yard service .amounting to an increase of, eighteen per cent. for trainmen and twenty-eight per cent. for yardmen, involving an additional annual outlay by the Grand Trunk Railway Company of $463,000. "On January 1, 1912, the rules and rates of pay prevailing upon the Cana- dian Pacific Railway were by agreement put into effect up -on the Grand Trunk system, and this new schedule gave a further increalse amounting to fourteen aod one-half per cent. for trainmen and eight and ninety.three-hundredths per cent. for yardsmeo above the rates granted in 1910, the total increase made effective janitary 1, 1912, involving a further addition to the pay roll annual- ly of $3833,000, for the exclusive benefit of train and yard men, but in opplying these new rules to the quite different conditions of seevice and runs on the Grand Trunk some inequitable and in- consistent results were obtained, some of the individual runs receiving merease$ of fifty-three per cent. seventy-four per cent. and eighty-eight per cent., re- epectively, and as examples the follow- ing specific eases are gieen: "Upon a light traffic: branch line the monthly pay of one conductor on a mix- ed train was increased from $100 to $188,70, as compared with $151.50 upon the main line trains of the same divis- ion. "Upon another branch line, five and one-half miles in length, the rate of pay of one conductor was increased from $100 to $174.24, as compared with $159.19 upon the heavy traffic main line of the same division. The pay of this branch line conductor had been raised $10 per month the ;year previous. "Still another case was the local rim. on the Kingston branch, two miles in length, where the rate WaS advanced in 1910 from $60 to $80, and then under the new increase to $130.68. "Another inequitable .condition was produced on such local passenger runs a8 the one between Belleville and To- ronto, where the rite paid the local eon - doctor was advanced above the rates paid through eonductors running from Montreal to Toronto on the Internation. al Limited, although the conditions of service on the loeal train permitted the eonduetor to be at home every night and every Sunday. "The indiscriminating general applica- tion of the new rules and rates of pay having resulted in these abnormal in- creases to such unimportant light ser- vice runs, constituted an injustice to other employees and to the company as well, and a readjustment was felt to be necessary. "The management aeserts it has no desire to break faith with the men, nor does it consider that it has dente so, and believes that the men generally will see the jttstice of the chauges, particularly as but 151 men are affected lit this re- vieion out of a total of 3,582 employees, all of whoee rates were so materially increased by the new sehedule, owarrowaettpaew4boa wwww*.ami N. Y. C. SMASH • Colston Between Freight and Passenger Trains. Olen, N. March 'IL. ----Crashing into a freight tram as It wag taking a cross- over, two miles east of the Rome sta- tion, early thi$ morning, the New YO:k passenger train 111143,111 as the Westein Express, was partielly wreeked. No one was killed, but three of the »eeseeaees are saii to have been serious]," hurt. The locomotive on the passenger train was up -ended by the force of the hweet and two of the freight care were bo e led over. The erow of tho lOCCIIi Wm is Aad to have eseaped with a heV3:e, sheldag up. All four triteks are hieekell. ma* HARD ON PHEASANTS,. SI. Cetharinee, Ont., March 18. --The tineetutl see erity of the preseet winter hag boon disastrons to the English phresants, whieh have been plentiful in this distriet for the past few years. After Sunday's thaw Innelrede of the birds! re to be Peen 1» the fields of Graetham, Wilele they eateeimbed to frost! and Integer. a»d were afterwarde buried by seow. Inspeetor Miiy ilk advising the depart. roont to allow only a limited number of nheiteents tti eaels person during the hunting aeason. r owolWrka{ WW,wooloroomo, w"Ta • MAY DYNAMITE DYNNITE THE eillEN CLAN After Men Who Shot Vir- . glum Law Officers. Detectives and Citizens Watching for Them. Outlaws May be Hiding in Devil's Den. Hillsville, Va., Mareh 18. ---Search for the members of the Allen Z;lito, who, the Commonwealth of Virginia, is determined at all costa to bring to justiee for the murder here laet week of five of its eiti, zens, including the officers of Caron County Circuit Court, began in earnest to -day. Eight picked men remained on the mottntain side all night guarding the approaches to Devil's Den, the inac- cessible natural stronghold iu which tee fugitive outlaeva are believed, to be hid- ing, prepared to inak.e a last stand. Early to -day the detachment was joined by the entire posse of 75 deteetives and citizen volunteers, who had rested over night in Hillsville after an exhausting day yesterday. Every effort is being made to rua down Sidaut, Edwards, a nephew of the older Allens, who, with it wounded foot, is supposed to be 'alone in the moun- tains trying to join hie relatives. When he is taken the officers believe they can learn froiu him witb certainty the whereabout of the rest of the gang. If it is true that the outlaws are entrench- ed in Devil's Den, well supplied with am- munition and provisions, it would 111001 certain death to any one who attempted openly to reach the place. Plans prob- ably will be laid for a systematic siege. It has been suggestecl that dynamite be used to clean out the citadel, Since the seareh began, members of the p03$0 have interviewed many mem- bers of the Allen family. Mrs. Floyd Allen, at her home near here, was great- ly worried over the situation and very nervous. She will say little about the affair, Mrs, Edwards, mother of Sicilia, told the officers that last Tuesday night the Aliens came for Sidna and be was away for two days. Ammunition for the slaughter in the. Circuit Court, which apparently was de- liberately planned several days in ad- vance, was secured from a Pulaski store early in the week. *404. USED. BOMB Attempt on Life of New York Judge. New York, Marc), 16.—An attempt to kill Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, of the Criminal branch of the Court of General Cessions, with a bombcame within a hair's -breath of being successful to -night. It was only a defect—said to be a small accumulation of dirt -In the mechanism of the infernal machine: which the justice had unsuspectingly opened, that saved him from probable death or certain in- jury. The bomb later exploded while being exarnined by Inspe-ctor Owen Egan, of the. Bureau of Combustibles, wounding Egan about the face and arms and al- most blinding him • The intended victim of the explosion is one of the most conspicuous members of the New York judiciary at present, hav- ing lately received a great deal of pub- lleity in connection with the 13randt case. It was Judge Rosalsky, who sentenced Brandt to a thirty-year term for burg- lary at Mortimer L. Scheff's home In 11)07, and who later reversed his action. The attack upon the jurist is the first came of ,such violence attempted against a judge here within memory, and it set the whole police department speedily at work upon the mystery. The bomb came in the regular mall, do - livered by a postman to Judge Bosalsky's apartments at about 4,30 o'clocli: this af- ternoon. It was accepted by Clare Fish, the colored maid, and placed on the table In Judge Rosalsky's library to await his corning. There Was nothing suspicious about the package. Its dimensi.ons were about 6 X 4 X 4 inches, and it was neatly done up in brawn 'aping paper, bear - lug the picture of a well-known depart- ment store. The address was typewrit- ten. TRYING- TO TRACE ti'llf3 CULPRIT. New York, March 18.—Overy available 4dotect1ve at pieta's) headquarters is searching the city to -day for the Man who attempted to slay Judge Otto A. Bosalsky en Saturday night, with an in- fernal machine sent him through the Mails. Similarity of. typewriting Used upon the package and of the inanufac- thro of tho deadly missile with that which caused the death•on February 3rd last of Ifelen Taylor, at her home 011 77th street, has led to the opinion that the sarne man sent bOth bondS. The police believe the sender to be in- sane. Typewritten experts asserted tO-daY that they had learned the manufacture of the typewriting machine used to ad- dress the package to Judge RosaleltY, and that there are startling points of sitnilar. ItY between the &Otte or this maehirie and the one used to address the bomb to the Taylor woman. Deputy Commissioner .Dougherty declared that the puttee have been unabio, se far, to find a clue to the sender's identity., :fudge Resaisky re. fuses to diseusa the ease, but it IS re. parted that he has turned over to the p�. lice a number of threatening letters whieh he has received recently. rwooluvowwwwWw.04,111.41 favoOf. Op.t',,i,,w a woo. •war, a'4,rossta.,11 ow, rwarowQ—awaaawa7,..-saw,,,,,,---,w KILLED TEN ARABS Go tERNmENT Italian Aeroplane Drops Bombs in Their Camp. Benghazi, Tripoli, March 18.- 130xubs dropped front an aeroplane belonging to th'e Italian expendition- ary fore caused the deaths of ten Arabs 1 ae Turkish eamP son e dia; tattoo from this eity to -day. The aeroplane driven by an army airman and carrying an officer as a pas- senger, left the artny oarlIP earYi the forenoon and flew to a pa.lce in. the desert where strong Turkish and Arab encampment was found in a well -sheltered position. Before the aeroplane was noticed by the enemy, the lta1ian officer had made favorable obeervations. -Then some of the Arabs opened fire to which the Italian aeronauts replied by dropping several bombs with deadly accuracy, which exploded in the middle of a group of Arabs. Ten men fell dead and several others wore seen to be wounded as they hurriedly scattered, The aeroplane then returned to the Italian camp. -1 GOT LIME GOLD U. S. Mining Engineers Re. turn From IVIongolia. Killed 47 Robbers and 18 Were Beheaded. New Yorlc, March 1.8. The last member of a party of American min- ing engineers who went to Mongolia two years ago has just returned to New York, their enterprise having been abandoned after almost a inn - lion dollars was sunk in it by Russian and French capitalists, The engineers were employed to investigate reports that certain parte of Mongolia was rich in gold. e. The site of the operations was in the high- est region of the country, where the confluence of two rivers with the systems ot affluents was supposed to be rich in deposits of gold duet and nuggets washed down f1.011/ the mountains during the millions of years. The engineers, .37 in number, took with them machinery of the latest type, including dredges built in this city and some built in Pittsburg. On their way inland they were attacked by Chinese bandits and In a pitched battle the party's rifles killed 47 of the robbers. Eighteen others were taken prisoners and turned over to the nearest Mandarin who promptly beheaded them, James Dietrich, a Pittsburg engineer, has an interest- ing collection of photographs taken at this point, showing, in succession each one of the eighteen prisoners, as the sword was about to fall. Only small quantities of gold were found by the expedition and the cost of mining this was about $5 an ounce, more than the market value of the refined gold. TO STOP LOVEGIFIS • ow* Germany to Use the Money Given to the Breweries To Meet Increased Expenses of Army and Navy. Berlin, Marc!' '0( —The North German Gazette says this mornine that the revenues with whieh the itogeascs in the army and navy budgets eill be se- cured by the abolition of the eo-called "lave gifts" to dietilleries. These sub- sidiee amount to $10,010,000 and over annually, sOfficient to MIke unntotmry at ]cat for the preseit, further taxa- tion.' There is excellent reason for helloing that the North German Goectte is cor- rect in' its statement. The "love gifts" originally were late -idol to proteet . gra cultural distilleries, which ehiefty used their own grown mate dals, against tic Competition of the great tionimercial fineries. A special 1114,:cAillnat produc- tion. is assigned to every distillery d all exceSS istaxed an extra 20 marks per hectoliter, and the result is the a.n- nual payment of the huge SUM Stated to private distilleries. It ia alleged, how- ever, that the "love gifts" have worked out chiefly to the benefit of the big es- tate owners, Their abolition limy be ex- pected to evoke bitter opposition on the part of the Conservatives, but it will be hailed gladly, 11 19 said, by all the Liberals, including the Socialists, aad probably displease the right and eentre less than an itheritance tax would have done, U. S1 MARINES aiwormawnwi.Www Land at Swatow to Preserve Order. • 000,4110awwf Forty Natives Killed by the TRIED TO KiLL HERSELF'. Tribe—Men in Fight. Toronto, March 18,—Mrs. Davis, who lives at 57 Trinity quer°, tried to commie suicide on .laturdey night, by taking some biehloride of mer - my tablets, but WaS diseovered by her husband and her life saved. bite WAR hurried to St. Mielutel'e floseitel, end. I will be all right again in a eounle of day. The woman i%; 24 years of age, and the only reaseon she gave for the t Was that she was tired of lime:. Site had locked herself in her bedroom awl her lateband, had to break in 111 deor to reecne her. ESCAPED PRISONERS SEEN. Lincoin, ob., Mareli 18. --The three eonviet murderers who eeeaped from the Nehraeka penitentiary on.TIntreflay, jug/. before daylights eneesee were &eel' near South Bend, Nele, on a I3:Ma-0e1- T11.0";v' had stein the hand-eer at Pt 1') Rome* whieh is near LineoIneaml broken into IO hardware store itt Murdoelt, etealing erten% antin'tnitinn and. clothing. Swittow, China, 11Iterc1i 18.—A detach- ment of enariries from the V. S. Mon- terey wae landed here to -day in wrist- quenee of the continuous disturbances al over the city, and threatenieg atti. tilde of eonte of the nativee. The =- vines lave taken charge of the customs house. Iteavy fighting between the Itekke tribesmen and the troops from Canton Went on for hours to -day in the streets of the Vity. Forty natives are known to have been killed in the fighting, but it ie believed flea the eesualtiee exeeed that number. A sl t front 0110 of the vombetante who were chime wildly, kill - ea II billdaeket on board aJapanese warship in the harbor, while seweral other lsellet3 struek the hull of the T. 8. Monitor Monkery, but did no dam - 11 ports font Wai Chow, it short dis, afi tont here, -say that the trope age,0 there are metinous, NO V TO ACT Asquith to Introduce Mi 111111111 Wage Bill. Will Rush It Through by Saturday Next. Is Settlement at liand?— Cost to Unions. London, alarch 18,-- Premier A.equith announced in the }louse of Commons to- day that the Government would intro- , duce a mluimuut wages bill for miners toenorrew. Ile will ask the House to lnrsd rendtit a; second. time on Wednesday and complete the m reehung stages 011 The Premier Raid the bill would pro- -tide for the payment uf e, minimum wage to persone employed underground and would include the arrangements in- eide.ntal to that measure, in the Opin- ion of the Goverment, the passage of the bill by Thursday WaS imperative in order that the House of Lordmight consider it on Friday and the Royal assent be given to the act on Satur- day: LOOKS LIKE SETTI,EMENT. London, Mareh 18.—Many of the Brit - Leh minere now on strike will return to the pits in the count' of thie week., aelttoLtinirg to tile opinion eapreesed in 801110 quarters, where it l8 believed that by Monday oext open nuns will 1.1 ill Ilia swing in the collieriee itt nony parte of the eountry. The men's leaders, howevee, have ire formed the Government thet there will be no yeeumptioo of wora ;loththe minimum wages bill ihr utulergrouna workers has passed through Parliament. In spite oi the deelaratiotte ei the melee leaders, there are indications that the miners are tiring of Oleo. holiday, and are, anxious to Start earning regu- lar wages' again. ThiS ie Particularly true of -those districts 'where the longation of the strike has inaJc neces- sary a reduction itt the amount of the strike pay drawn from the miners' unions by the men. Beside e this there is emelt pressure being brought to bear on the miners by other trade unionists, who have been forced 'out of work by the shortage of ec'at The loss to the trades union funds last week,including those of the miners' urdone,; amounted to $1,500,000. Nine union alone, exclusive of thi miner', on Saturday paid their mentleire $e5(1,00. The trades uaion funde are largely in- vested in bonde, the pra es of whieh have been affeetea by the stedio, .arel this eauses :them a further loss, There' has been a further curtailment of the :railway passenger services this morning, 'while still more faetoritte baVe joined those already elosed. A hundred steam trawlers are laid up at the fish- ing port of Geimeby owing to the short- age of coal, There is mile talk to -day of a general strike throughout the country during the month of May, but this may he One to the fact tOat a series of trades anion movements will commence then, Tlie,se may lead to widespread stoppages in some industries, OCEAN RATE" INCREASED. New York. March 18.—Trans-Atlantie freight_ rates are to be heavily increas- ed as. a result of the British and German coal strikes. According to Berlin des- pateheS to -day, a conference of Hamburg and Bremen shipping interests yesterday decided_ to increase the carrying charges ten per cent. to distant ports, and fia teen Per cent. for coasting service. This advance ai to cover the increased cost of peorniele. ,saed will continue in force until fuel is again obtainable at normal U. S. MEN MAY STRIKE. New York, March 18.—The belief that a suspension of work in the enthracite coal mines on April 1, because of the deadlock between the operators and the mine workers over working eonditions will not be continued long, and that a settlement will be reached, was express- ed by coal operators here to -day. It was pointed out amt. a similar situation existed when the agreement of the mine- worker* expired before. There was a refusal of the mine workers' demands, followed by a suspension and later nego. tions were opened and the old agreement renewed. Vice -President Lewis, of Lite 'Dela- ware, letekawanna & Western.Railroad, said that eelatione between the opera- tors and mine workers were no strained and nothing had taken place that would prevent' further conferences on any neW proposition made by the miners. Mr. Lewis said he would net uoder- take to predict whether or not there wouldbe a, strike this time, but that he felt that the rank and file of the mine workers were not anxiotte for st Strike for they were making good wages and their relations with their employers were friendly. Vice-Preeldent Frank A. Ilayes, of the United Mine Workers, said the men in the anthracite region would .stop work on tho midnight of Mareh 31, unless op- erators abandoned their present position. Regarding the soft coal aitnation, Mr, Hayes remarked that anything that might he said would be mere 'guesswork at this time. - FAMOUS PICTURES Coming to Dickens' Exhi- - bition in New York. New York, March .---Eighty ef England's most famous paintings will reach Neve York next week on the Cam- pania to take their piece in the com- ing exhibition of old masters, to be giv- Ow here in aid of the Dickens centen- ary fund, beginning April 2, Never before hits suck a valuable col- lection of paintings eroeeed the Allan - tie. The pictures are insured, it is Said, on a valuation of over $2 000,000. The collection Wa8 gathered through a rout- mittee of prominent Englishmen, ehair- maned by Lord Ch:ef duetice Myer- stoee. The Duke of Teek, the Duke of ;1Iarls borough and Lord Denbigh are amone those who are sendlie4 pletures. Per- barS the roost notable camas is the Romney portrait of Lady Hamilton, speetel Pohl.° of the eehibition will he Otte period rooms, representine the tieorgien, Williarn and Mary, 111111 hippendaie periods and 3321 oak room from the Tutu eehibition. These, also, cue aboard the Campania, a zowWawiroa CITY FLOODED Three Feet of Watcr in Streets of Augusta. ta—• WWWW Augusta, ela.. March 18.—Floods that have been sweeping down the valley for the last two days and nights have covered many of Aug- usta's streets with three feet and more of water. Regular boat ser- vice has been installed on some of the flood filled st,reetra near the river, At 9 o'clock the guage showed 3.0 feet in the channel and was rising slowly. A 3.6400t mark is predict- ed before the crest passes the cit3r. Ordinarily there is not more than. one hundred a,nd fifty yards of water at the wharf. To -day it stretches a mile from tile Georgia to the Cetrolina shore, Many families have been forced to abandon their homes. Many stores are marooned and can be reached only in boats. Several Augusta ear lines have been suspended tempor- arily. " THE SEARCH FOR LOST CHILDREN Pathetic Case of Madame Sourdillon of Paris. Anecdote of Jules Lefebvre the French Painter. Paris, March 2 - -Undismayed by a failure extending over twelve years, the French detective police have again start. ed a world-wide searea for the three children of Madame Sourdillon, who dis- appeared in 1899 and who are believed to be now living in the United States. The case is Fo appealing and, pathetic in its nature that thc police have asked the newspapers of America to assist in finding emit° trace of the missing chil- dren, the oldest of whom, if living is flow a young woman of eighteen years. , Madame Sourdilion bas spent her life and her fortune in an endeavor to find her children. She is the daughter of Charles de in Salle'a surgeon of the French navy, who for distinguished and gallant services Was presented with a sword by the city of Brest. Mademol. selle de In. Salle married nineteen years ago Caesar Louis Sourdillon who Was then a Parisian journalist, IJI 1899 sibe obtained a divorce on the ground of eruelay and aba»donment. The decree provided flint the husband be permitted to see their three children one day a week. On April 13, 1899, Madame Sour- dillon's maid took the children—Louise, aged 0; Berthe, 4, and Charles 2—to the house of a common friend, only to re- turn to say that they had been taken for a walk. Since that day Madame Sourdillon has never seen her children. At once the grief-stricken mother be- gan a search to whichwas devoted all of the keenest, detectives instincts of France, England and other European countries. Finally the children were traced to England and then to the Unit- ed States. Every' French consul or diplomatic representative in America was at mice notified. The trail led to San Francisco, then to San Diego and Los Angeles. At Denver all trace was lost and for years nothing has been heard. Formerly a woman of -considerable wealth, Madame Sourdillon has expend- ed' her entire fortune in her search and is now earning her living by conducting a pension, She still believes that she will find some trace of her children, and the French authorities join with her in her expectation that the publication of the facts throughout the United States may crown her years' efforts with sue - 0088.. DEATH OF PAINTER. The death of Jules Lefebvre, the cele- brated French portrait painter, has been followed by many anecdotes of his interesting career. Despite his success, Lefebvre remained what he was from the start—a man of simple and charm- ing manner. On one point alone was he firm and intractable. lie detested utterly any forni or attempt, at bargain - 1»g. One day, so the anecdote goes, an .American of wealth ealled to see hint. "I would like," the American said. to the artist, "a full-length portrait of my- self. How much, if you please, will it, be " "Twenty thousand francs," (about $4,000), replied Lefebvre. "Very well. But if 1 ask you to make two portraits instead of one—that is, one of my wife and one of myself, I suppose your price will be different." "Certainly," responded the artist. "And how much will it be?" Lefebvre reflected a moment, thou said, simply: "It will be forty thoueand francs." The Ameriean paid. MONUMENT TO CHAMPLAIN. The approaching dedicatiem of a monu- inept to Champlain on the borders of the lake which bears his name and to whieh France will send. a special delegne tion with a beautiful bust of Rodin, has created considerable interest in the dis- trict of France, where Champlain was born. The explorer was born at Brouage, about eight miles south of Rochefort, in the Department of Charente -Inferieure. On the monument which was erected in his honor in 1878 at Brottage one reads that Samuel Chtimpla,in was born "ten wards 1570." It was from Brouage that the future founder of Quebec went to Havre and thence sailed to tho new world. To-day,his natal town, formerly an important city, is no more than a modest, almost deserted village, Hituated in the centre of a marshy territory from which the sea long rig° retired. At the deep (lit' e)! which WAS formerly the edge of the port, a Cistoms eollectOr will to- day show the huge rings where vessels formerly tied up. On the ramparts now VoVered with vegetation, may still he seen the 111'1118 of Mazarin, who wee "Captain of Beonage." Aleo may be seen in this melaneholy village a church whit+ encloos among other iombe that of the Marquis of Carnavalet, 1133 itheimit prieon, end, fin- ally. the ruin; of the walls and door of the houee in witieh Champlain Wag bona rules \kWh. Wel'e nt•ently Int Veltatiud by 831 EnM1isi.nntil. An intere-aing eelehration whieh oe- ('UF in Jule, is that Of the bi eentenarv of the Abbe ae VI:pee, inventor of the deaf and dunlb Ilphabet. An influential eommittee has been fennel to organiee the feteS Web are to be held in Parh froM July 2i1 to Augnst 4, in the C.ourgo Of Whieh thtAle 101 be an intonationet deo f foal dumb emlgreee.