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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1912-03-28, Page 7IA) GANG OF AUTO lANDITS 1001101#411#1112.#11, COMID t Kany Daring Crimes in City of Paris. Murdered a, Chaufteur and Threw Body in Ditch. Shot Bank Messenger and Killed. Policeman. Paris, March 25. -The aatomobile ban- dits who in February terrorized many dietricts of France .by carrying out an extreordluary series of crimes, are be - /loved to be still at large and in the neighborhood of Paris. They have per- petrated during the past few days a fresh seriee of daring crimes, which reached its climax this morning in a bold murder on the public highway be- tween. Villeneuve, St. Georges and Paris, .A prig of four bandits, who occupied an automobile, ordered the chauffeur of a private motor car to stop. When. the ehauffeur refused the highwaymen shot hien dead with their reekilverft and wounded the occupant of the private motor ear. After throwing the corpse of the chauf- feur into the ditch by the roadside, the bandits entered. their automobile and drove toward nude. Public opinion is greatly aroused on atecount of these audacious attacks in the viciaity of the capital, and demands are being made that the police run the band to oath: Bandits in the meantime are employ- ing most impudent tactics. The police to -day received a sheet of paper on which -were stamped what purported to be copies of their finger prints, These -were naturaly fictitious and. it was de- eleared in some quarters that the ban - ;lite will soon visit police headquarters and shoot several of the officials. It was thought ehat the automobile bandits had been captured on Febraary 29, when two anarchists were arrested at Pontoise, itt tbe department of the Seine -et -Oise, about 19 miles northwest of Peels, after attempting to assassinate a wealthy lawyer and rob his residence, but them wereevidently not the real automobile highwaymen, or, at most, only a part of toe gang. In February the banditsshot down and robbed a bank messenger by day- light in the streets of Paris and also killeu a peliceman in front of the Saint Lazare terminus by . shooting him through the window of their automo- bile.. A. band of brigands,' bearing all the appearance of being the authors of this moruingdi hold-up arrived in an auto- mobile at Chantilly, the racing eentre, itt half-paet four. Four of the men, arm- ed with revolvers, entered the local branch of a big Parie bank, where they shot the cashier and another employee dead and dangerouely wounded a third. man with two revolver shots in the back. The four ruffiann then seized a port- folio containing $8,000 in notes. A fifth bandit was in the meant:me keepng guard, at the door of the bank, wita a loaded carbine, while a sixth sat ready at the steering gear of the motor car, waiting to start immediately the rob- bery bad been accomplished. The murderers dashed on the motor car and started at full speed in the di- reetion of Paris. REV. R. SKEY Breakdown Threatened and Must Go Abroad. Toronto, March 25. -Rev. Lawrence Skey, ot St, Anne'e Church, has been ordered by his physician to take leave of abeonce. The ukase of the doctor was so imperative that Mr, Skeet is not allowed to say at his post during the week immediately preceding the confirmation of a hundred candidates who have been prepared by him. Thiel ceremony is to take place on April 2nd, Bishop, Reeve officiating. He will also have to be absent from the annual ves- try meeting at Easter. Mr. and Mrs. Skey will accordingly leave on Thure- day front England, returning about the middle of June. They will theu proceed to Muskoka to complete a six mautlue leave of absence. DOUBLE FUNERAL Wife Didn't Want to Live After Her Husband. Pittsbnrg, March 25,--(lobn W. Smith, aged 80, and bis wife, aged 70, are dead at their home in Reynoldsville, Pa., and they will be buried side by side Wed- nesday. Mr. Sin.ith died at 7 o'clock Friday evening, and. his wife peed away at 7 o'cloek yesterday morning, Many times Mrs. Smith had send: "If Join' dies firet I rant to liVe loeg enougn only to know that he is dead," Both bonne ill front pneumonie. When the imeband died the aged wo. man, in another room, knew by the fesees of her children that her husband had gone. She ealled them to her bed. side, "John is dead, ien't he?" When Ala told the truth she said, "Don't bury him until Wednesday." She joined him in death 30 home later. GOT MORE WAGES. Boston, March 20. -More than 120;000 textiie operates in New England are reeeiving t general advance in wages to.day, when the inereeses annooneed reeently by many cotton seed woollen menuftteturers Went Into effect, The advances varied from. to 10 per out., but with the exeeption of the 35,000 per- sons employed in the mile owned be the manufaeturera of Pall Inver, where it 10 per ont, reitie has been granted, the operativewill not know . the opet amount of their inereasee until pat dey. I . #*- 1#############################-####•# # FANNY CROSBY Blind, Hymn Writer Cele- brates Her Birthday. Bridgeport, Conn., farch Crosby, the blind writer of "Rescue the Perishing" and. other hymns, eves 92 to- day. In spite of her great age, Miss Crueby conversed with all the aninlation and spirit of it girl, "I am younger than ever," was 1nre first remark. "Life with me is differ- eut," said Miss Crosby. "1 never frst, never worry, never think elleagreeable thoughts, nor find fault with anyoet: or anythieg. Life glides on like it little boat on it wavelees stream, with beauti- ful flowers on each side. 1 base had Bor. rows, I have lost deer friends and felt depressed, but it is my firnt oelief tient the Lord never affiete His 01Ni-4n-- that ig the work of the evil (ma "if in the whole world you cal lind it happier mortal that 1. am, being hitto me; I want to shake his hand," 4 - V MORMON DANGER Their Grip on Alberta Men- ace to Canada. Dana. ..••••••,.•••••• The Girls Trainedas Teach- ers to Spread Tenets. Toronto, March 25.-"A deadly men- ace to this country if allowed to eitery out their teuete," was Rev, A. T. Reid's, characterization of the Mormon situa- tion in Southern Alberta, in an address on western misiSon work in Erskine Presbyterian Church yesterday morning. Their conception of a daul God-rnale and female -which he could not explain to it mixed audience, Mr. Reid considered one of the most dangerous doctrines extant. Thanks to the work of the Mounted Police he did not think that the colon, which now numbers 20,000, practista porygatuy, but quoted one Mormon with whoni he was acquainted who had. said: "We most certainly be- lieve in polygamy, but not „to practise it against the law. We naust work and get men into Parliament to hold the bal- ance of power and so legislate our be- liefs into the laws of the lad." Dr. Reid thea sketched the devious paths by which the Mormons were atrengthening their position in. Alberta. A very large percentage of their girls are being trained as teachers, who are. bound to spread the tenets of. their creed into the minds of their juvenile non-Mormorn charges, while in certain South Alberta districts every farm which falls in the market is snapped up by Mormons, usually at a price slightly in excesi of the market value, This pres- ent year, he said, one hundred thousand acres of Alberta land had been bought by the Mormon Church. Characterizing the Mormon Church as one of the most ardent missionary churches at the present time, Mr: Reid dealt for a moment with Mormon im- migration, howed how various conti- nental powers ha.d excluded emissaries of the faith from their lands, and re- gretted that similar action which the Rt. Hon, Winston Churchill had contem- plated when home secretary had .not been carried out. There were about 1,800 Mormon missionaries in the Old country, and through their efforts one hundred converts a week were made on the average, "mostly old country girls," the speaker commented, "who know lit- tle Of the doctrines of the creed they embrace and whose passages are almost invariably paid out to Utah." I THE COM. STRIKE Failure of Settlement May Cause Bloodshed. Many Are Said to be Starva ling, to Death. New Yoila March 25.-A cable to tile Herald frOni LontiQn tiay: Peaeo or grim war le the question to be (touted toelay at a joint conferenee at No. 10 Domain; street, between eoal Mine Ownerfi, the Prime Alinteter and re- preeeettailves of the Government, which is to eonsider the acceptange of the bill nOw hi Parliament tteknewiedgmg tie pripciple of the minimum wage, Mr, Asquith is determined to peremp- torily refuse to ineOrporate as the mini- mum seale of wagefive shillings toe men and two shill:um for boys in the bill, its requested by the minere. He re- aliees that tide would be a surrender to F.oeiabsni, Ana WOuld lead to indus- trial ehaoa andedemands from all other unions fur similar legislation. Ile alSo fears R might bring about a revolution, King George is sertmessy eoueerned over the misery growing out or the miners' etrike, and is deeply touched by the undeeeived ha rdehips and ,sufferings imposed upon millions of workers in other tradee. He is willing to aseist the Government in every way to isettle the industrial war, which, if eontinued, will bring nearly all the workers of Englaud faeo to face with starvation. London, like other cities in England, is feeling the plead:, severely. Tne hotels and great business houses are running on short coal supply and the railantly schedules are a farce. Coal is $15 a toil and provieions are soaring ton-ard fam- ine prices. If the strike lasts another week many industries now only crippled. will be paralyzed, and thousands of workens added to the minione already tirtempleyed. ,Realizing the portentiotts gravity of the crisis., Mr, Sequith and his fellow naembere of the Cabinet, it is eald, have determined that if the unione today reject the peace poposals they will em- ploy the most drastic measures, With this end in view, the Ninety -Third High. tandem and ether regiments have been inetrocted to hold themselves in readi- ness to go anywhere at it moment's no. tiee, While the miners are being rebuked by the pubic for their obstinacy, the mine OWnerS in Wake are not escaping condemnation because they refuse to eoncede ftnything. Mr. Lloyd -George has beea working night and day to in. duce his fellow-countrynien to assume a reasonable attitude, but both sides apparently ore adamant. The English mine owners are anxiote?' to settle the war. The Scotchmen have been whipped into line. it is possible that the trouble in England and Scot- land may be adjusted at to-day'e con- ference, and if the Welsh owners con- tinue obdurate they will be left to thin for themselves, without military protection, which they are counting on. The Government is trying hard to settle the strike, but is willing to sur - vended office to its opnonente rattier than interfere with the right of the em- ployer and employed to decide upon seals of wages. 1 f the conference fails, bloodshed pro- bebly will follow, adding to the horrors of the present appalling situation. TERRIBLE SUFFERING. London, March 25. -Even if the na- tional coal strike was settled at a very early aliment and the xnillion miners returned at once to work the condition of the remaining 2,000,0013 men in other industries who have been rendered idle by the lack of supplies of coal necessary to carry on .heir trades, could not be immediately relieved. Their tens nf ARREST CHINESE thousands of dependents are suffering great privations and in South Wales, where the funds of the miners' unions are completely exhausted, the conditione have reached a terrible pitch. Each day brings with it an, augmenta- tion of the suffering and distress. Many of the chapels and all of the schools in Cardiff and its vicinity have organized soup kitchens, where the poor can obe tain a meagre nourishment. Labor yards have also been opened by the: authori- ties and many of Alio men are there earning a small amount daily. Besides this, the officialof the 'municipalities are busily engaged in relieving the wom- en and children. Ttt one district alone in South Wales 400 non -unionist workmen have applied to the parish poor authorities for relief and throughout Wales the army of un- employed continues to increase, owing to the reduction of the staffs of the works in ever.y branch of trade. A similar story eonaes frora Scotland. Large numbers of the miners of East Louthian are in, such straits that they are searching for coal in the disused workings along the beach. Terrible dis. trees also prevail e among the wives and children of noneinionists, who, unlike their fellow-wakers, have no strike pay coming itt. Difficulty has been experienc- ed by the miners' nations in many dis- tricts in restraining numbers of men from returning to the pits. 11'1 Glasgow alone 40,000 men are idle apart from the miners, while all around that city work has eome to a standstill in all the factories. The industrial eentree of England arc in eatly as bad eondition. The laek of wages and the diffitulty of obtaining Coal for domestic purposeare severely felt in every district where, the miners strike has caused the closing of the factories and workslaope. Portunately some of the cotton mils of Lanettslore have been able to reopen as a remit of the pooling of the eoal stoelcs by their owners, while gas and other companies which had stored large qoarttities of coal tiro lending some of it to the eotton mills. The casual laborers in their trades, however, are in it pitiable condition, suf- fering from eoal mid integer, The train SerVieeS on the railroads heve been still further reduced today. The seaside resorts, which had made preparations for tt bigger Easter trade, had .to eaneel all their nrrangerrten±s for speesial trains, levolving them in heavy loss. Prof. it,S. Jevons estimates that the etrike is eostieg the LInited King- dom $50,000,000 at the least eomputatioe for every week it lasts. As the granting .of the minimum daily wages of $1,25 for the men and 50 cents for the boss work. ing in the mince would eost only $250,. WO per year, the professor argeo that it would Pay mine oweere to eoneede tln intend. The delegates of the litifter8 ittli the ownersi bad a tneetieg with Piemier A. (pith and several members of the Cid). met this morning prior to the joint eonferenee, whieh hate been arratoseil for toolnes, SCOTCHMEN 601Xil4 BACK. Oinegoev,,Iftireh --.‘ general break- • ##10 #########b St, Catharines Raid --.Cap- ture of Beer Kegs. St, Catharines, Out., March 25. - While service was progressing in the St. KAISER IM VENICE. Venice, Italy Mardi 25.-Emperot William with Prinee and Prineeee An- gligt AVilliani and Prineeee Vietorie Louise were the guests at litneheon dey of King Vieter Eremannel. The royal guests were stoorded an ever- whebeting reeeption ity it groat eirewd gathered along the benice of the ettn. Paul Methodiet Church list night, Chief Green and five men forced their way in- to Wong's laundry across the street and eaptured twelve Chineee, who were (barged with Sur:day gambling, They were released. on MO bitil. Taimorn- ing the ease was enlarged until to -mor. row, on the requeet of M. J. McCarron, counsel for ,the defense, who asked, for a ehauee to procure an interpreter. License Inspector King captured five Crises of beer at an Armenian boarding house, on the property of the McKin- non Dash & Metal Works Two foreign - ors hava been summoned to appear on the oherge of illegal selting $44 LEITERGRAMS Ottawa, March 24. --On and alter Ap- ril 1 the Government evid inaugurete night lettergrana or deferred IT ossage service on all Government-owneti tele. graph lines in the Doxinion at a mini- mum charge of twenty-five sents for fifty words, the same as the regaler day rate for ten words. Thud' will be a corresponding reduction for longer le's. sages. The ehange has been brought about largely through represente tions from the. Yukon and Come ec-Atiin dis- tricts, which are almost trig:lovely serv. ed. by Government•osvned Hues The Government hits also arreineell with all eottnecting lines two accept messages at these rates to all pars of Canada and the United Steto, Easterners desirieg to communieate with the cretet or the Yukon territory will ne able to eveil themselves of these reduced rates. 4.44" A SAD CASE. St, John, N. 13,, March 25. -Frederick Arnold, aged 20, with a wife and one child, Was killed by an engine in the International Railway yardie here so day. He had been temporarily employ- ed as a locomotive wiper, and went oust thio morning to see if there was work for him. He is supposed to nave fallen under the wheels while boarding an en. gine for a ride into the city. Ire tame here a 'short time ago from the old country, BACK TO WORK. Lawrence, Mass., March 25.---Thrt great textile etrilee, whiell was the direet Pause of two ,deathe and the Wee of Nevieral Million dollare itt busier:tie. ended offiritaly to -day ofter a tileCeS4k. fill ten weeks' fight by thoileands of operatives to maitre ineretteed wages ate improepa working conditione. 'When the mill belle tolled nt dawri, upiverde of 20,0nn textile workerpreeeeded to. wardtheir plaetis of employment. way of the mitten from the striles ov-e. meet scents probable in Scotland, where 1,000 men r-eeuzieed work in the pits at Leeraekehire, thle morning. In other pits -also there wa n.eonelderable reettzuptton of work, MARQUESS DEAD Heartford Succeedeclby the Earlof Yamouth. London, March 24. --The Marquess of Hertford died to -day in his 090 year. A serious operation was performed on him recently, His heir is the Earl of Yarmouth, who was bora on October 20, 1871, whose marriage to Miss Alice Cornelia Thaw, of Pittsburg, was mulled on her peti- tion of 1008. ••••############ The deceased was Hugh de aieY Sey- mour, sixth Marquess of Hertford, Baron Conway, Earl of Hertford, Viecount Beauchamp, and Earl of Yarmouth. The Marquess was a cadet of the Seennoure, Dukes of Somerset, but only of late years had been able to reside at Rag - Icy nail, bhi splendid Warwiekshire seat. lt is one of the most expensive of countryhouses to keep up and the great wealth his famliy once enjoyed has van- ished, a former Marquess having willed practically the whole of his immense for- tune away from his successor in the title to his natural sOn, the late Sir Richard ‘Vallace. Lord Hertford was for it short period Comptroller to the Royal Efousehold, and once represented War- wickshire m the Conservative intesrest. The line descends from Sir Edward Seymour, Speaker of the Long Parlia- ment. The romanee of the Wallace counec- tion lute always appealedtothe public imaginatiou. The ,devotion of a father toebis natural son has never been so pro. nouncedly evidenced as in the case of Lord Hertford's bequest to Sir Riehard Wallace of those treasures that, by the generosity of the latter, eventually more than half passed into the keeping of the British nation, Sir Richard married but had no children, and,- he and Lady Wallace adgpted John Murray Scott, a young man of tact and talent, who was invaluable to him as confidential secre- tary, and whose father; a doctor at Bou., logne, had attended Sir Richard in his medical capacity, LOCAL OPTION Gets a Blaek Eye in Owen Sound Elections. Owen Sound, March 24. -The result of the municipal by-election held here yes- terday to fill five vacancies in the Coun- cil eaused by a judicial decision came as a complete surprise to the majority of citizens, when four out of the five Coun- cillors elected were anti -local option in eentiment. For the Reeveship, T. Waldeif Thom- son reversed the tables of J. Henry Christie'winning by the aarraw margin of seventeen votes. - The Councillors elected were: W. J. Honing, 1,346; J. W. Campbell, 1,332; Henry Lemon, 1,290, and R. B. Miller, 1,245. The latter is the only local op- tionist elected. Among the fallen are Messrs. A. McMillan, J. 11 McDonald and Dr. Howey, local option candidates, and J. A. Armour, anti -local optionist. Dr. Howey led pressedfor the dismissal of Chief of Police John McAuley, but he with four other --Councillors was shortly after declared unseated by Judge Widdifield, only, however, with his con- freres to qualify for the by-election and go down to defeat to -day. The entire proceeding is generally regarded as be- ing merely another step in the fight be- tween the liquor interests and those op- posed. The result of yesterday's polling makes the numerical standing or the Council ten opposed to local option and seven in favor. HETTY GREEN Tires of New York and Back in Hoboken. New York, %larch 2. -'After giving New York what she considered a fair trial, Mrs. Hotty Green has found thb metrop- olis too "Mill," and she has moved back to a flat In Hoboken, N. J. The richest woman in the world, whose self accumulated fortune is generally es- t:meted at $75,000,000, made her home for years in Hoboken, In a flat costing her but $10 a month. She made friendship with it. large number of neighbors, whom she missed greatly after coming to New York to live in a big house near Central Park. She has now let the city house to her son , Colonel Edward Green, and moved to it $40 flat In Hoboken, which she has fitted up simply and inexpensive- ly. Colonel Green said to -day: "Mother never wanted to live In the city. 1 got her to come with me In the up -town house last August, and at first she seemed happy and eontented, But she soon grew lonesome for the old friends in Ho boken. "There is nothing in New York life to Interest my mother. She never Oared for the theatre, nor would she ever Invade society circloo. She prefers the simplic- ity of, her apartmeet, and loves to have the Old neighbors around In the evening te sit and chat in the good old-fashioned kva.y," 111p4#111/#.1•04#1145111•••••10 FLOATING DOCK Fina,nelers to Build One at Vancouver. New York, Mardi London cable says: A number of British and Preach fintteriers hate) decided to promote a seheme for building a floating dock for Vancouver. The capital for the scheme has edready been sub:se:Abed and joint boards have been formed in London and Paris in connection with the project. The growth of tonnage calling at Van. eouver has made the necessity for the new doek increasingly apparent. The new dock which it is intended shall have a lifting power of 15,000 tons, will be built in two eeetione. It will be possible to use each part see. arately for smaller vestels, arid to put them together aint USC them as a whole for larger vessels. The dock will have it total length of GOO feet, a depth of 55 feet and a width of 80 feet, We about AS easy to make real woo ey an real frieridet.---Xew York Press. WRE MIXED OP Catholics aid Protestants Wed Each Other. Weddings Should be Adver- tised Beforehand, Toronto, Marelt 25. --Mixed marriages were numerous in Ontario in 1910, lie. eording to the report of the registrar. general, issued to -lay, Of 3,580 Roman Catholic bridegrooms, 005 married Pro- testants, Of 3,705 Roman Catholic brides, 844 married Protestioits, sep. parently more womeu thau men married outside their ehurele Thirty-one of the men who took Roman Catholic brides did not lay claim to any particular faith and two Roman Catholic bridegrooms were wedded to Jewesses. Marriages itt 1e10 totalled 24,036, and the statistics show that the marrying age is from 20 to 20 for men, During that year 4,471 women married between 15 and 19: 9,892 between 20 and 24; arid 5,104 between 25 and 20 Of all the deaths in the Province, 20.8 per cent, were children. Children who died tattler one year old totalled 0,450. At preeent in Toronto it is estimated 4 babies die per day. The death rate from tuberculosis shows a steady decrease. Txt 1881 the death rate per 100,000 population was 121; in 1801 it was 112; in 1901 it went up to 150, and 1910 it was 102. Clandestine marriages in 1910 exceeded those of 1909 by 37,5, tho total for 1910 being 2,293, This leads Dr. MeCullough to observe as follows: "In our opinion all licenses to marry should be advertised in all local news- papers. This would have the effect of checking clandestine marriages." NERVY THIEF Robbed Telephone Slot Meters in Montreal, Montreal, March 25. -For some months past this city has been the scene of the operations of a nervy thief, whose spec-, laity Is robbing telephone slot meters, and the police have arrested John Hool- ahan in connection with the thefts. The daring tactics of the meter robber and robbers started with a machine at Freeman's Hotel. The clerk was advised by telephone that the meter was out or order and would be repaired, and a mo- ment or two afterwards a man entered the hotel and took the contrivance away. After cutting the connecting wires noth- ing more was heard of it. Next day a pay telephone was snatched up In a con- fectionely store, while the majority of the public cab call boxes have been rifled. In some cases the machines have been returned after the money has been extracted from them, CAR SHORTAGE Railways May Refuse to Send Grain to Duluth. Winnipeg, Man,, March 23. - The Board of Trade at Winnipeg has receiv- ed the following statement from the Duluth Elevator Asesociation on the proposal of the Canadian railways to place an embargo on grain going to Duluth. Duluth, Minn. -Duluth elevator ana grain men regard with sketpticism the statement that the -Canadian railwaye propose to place an embargo upon ship- ments of grain to Duluth on account of a, ehortage of cars, Elevator Men deny emphatically that. Canadian cars are being detained any longer than is absolutely necessary to unload them. In fact cars have been handled and returned within 24 home of their receipt and no accumulation has been permitted, Railroad officials also aver that the emptiee are being deepatched back the very day they are received from the elevators. The managements of the Peavey St Consolidate d elevators express there: selves as positive of their ability to take care of twenty cars a day be- tween now and the opening of naviga- tion. It is now closely estimated that four million bushele is still a,vailable in the elevators at Duluth and Super- ior, and that if necessary a number of boate now in harbor could be brought into use for storage. AEROPLANE GUN Two Guns in One and Fired by Electricity. azsiher's "Island N.Y., March 25 -Some details of the niectanism of the new aeroplane gun which was tested here this week have been given out by its inveritor, Commander Cleland Davis U. S. N., The absence of recoil in. the Davis, of the weapon is due to the fact that "two guns in one" are used, coupled "Siam" fashion, at the breeeh, at the breeeh, with muzzles pointing in oppote Ito direetions, Charged, with an equal atnount of powder and loaded with projectiles of equal weight, fired. sim- ultaneously by electricity, there is nOW no perceptible reeoil. In the test the projeetile Allowed a muzzle velocity of 1,000 feet a second, or about half the speed, of it four inch shell from a navy gull. In the tests made here two light ean. vas "wings" were arranged -close to the gun and deflate springs with recoiling discs plated under the etanchions, AO that vibration conettesion and recoil could rainueely observed. SHOT HIMSELF eissslossss.S.s.s. Columbus Broker Despond- ent Through Reverses. Columbus, Ohio, :Stara 25. -Despond- ent because of recent teMSO3 in bust. ness, Vrank ILtrvey, a well-keown brok- er, ended his life SOMe time hot night by firing a bullet into his brain. Mrs. Harvey,who lead gone 'to visit her eon, who is in .a hospital, found her husband's dead body when she returned home. She. Was -completely prostrated, Harvey WAS at One tittle president of the Columbus Stoek Exehaege and WAS regarded as wealthy, NO GUN MEN PROFIT IN MEAT All ChineseProfessionalKilo lers Were Engaged. Swift & Co. Make 50 P. C. SPHYA.,*40. San Irrancleeo, Mareh 25,-4kcanse they could not obtain gun men to fight their battles, the Gom Yorn Lee Sor and Bing Kong Tongs veiled off their Ifeud last night. in view of the fact that four members of the Ocan Yorn Lee Soy were killed on Thuraday night by Bing Kong aesessine and that no reprisals have been made by the rival long, the peace agreement is regarded as one of the most remarkable iii the history of tong ware itt this country. This peace agreement abefi not affect the other evening tongs and the police department has not relaxed its vigilance in Chinatown. It was beeauee the other militant tongs helm hired all available gun men that the Gom Yarn Lee Sor and Bing Hong men decided to cease hos- tilities, Each had arrayed itself with other fighting tones and they were dis- mayed to find tirat they could obtain no professional Mien to fight for them and defend thein, 444 MARY'S BIRTHDAY Uninvited Guest Angered Because Not Invited Shot and Killed the Host and Then, Escaped, New York, March 25. -Az unliwited guest, who was turned away from Mary Mitkay'is eighteenth birthday party, at Christ Lausen's Mine, ou the east side, lest night, returned later, mien tae party was at its height, and. shot Lar - earl through the heart. The wounded man died instantly, and the tragedy re- sulted in a panic throughout the five - storey tenement building, where the shooting occurred. Larsen was a young married man, whose wife had recently taken the Mit- kay girl to board. Fifteen guests had aesembled in the Larsen flat when the young men, who was angered at having received no invitation, appealed and de - mended to see Mary. Larsen is it strong man, and when the angered youth persisted he pushed the unwel- come guest down the stairway. "You'l hear from me again," the en- raged young man cried back, and half an hour later Larsen opened the door in response to a knock. Before be real- ized his peril a revolver WAS pressed* against his ,coat and a bullet penetrated his heart. The aeoailant escaped. though pursued by other young men and several hyste4ric;a41 TO SAVE FRANK Turtle Mountain May be Blown Up. Calgary, Alta, March 25 -To cousidee the advisability of 'blowing up Turtle Mountain with dynamite in order to avert a eeeond slide there, the -Canadian Pacific Railroad Company will make ar- raneeinente with the Federal Govern- ment some tinie in the future. After the report of a,n expert is obtained some action will Probably be taken to protect the town of Frank and its citizens from an ice slide. There is no immediate dale ger. This is the mountain whose top top- pled over on Frank and killed a score of people in 1902. 4.4-4 WINE AT SEA. Saw Thousand Cases of Champagne Drift By. Bsoton, March 25 --To see a thousapd cases of champagne go drifting by and to be made unable to save any of it, was ' the experience ot. the officers and crew of the steamer Francisco, which is here i to -day from =la England. The cham- pagne was in the iron -strapped eases, and. appeared to be part of the cargo of some stearaer which had recently fowl- - dared. The Francisco was fighting her way along through a heavy gale, and the big seas were breaking over the decks when , the champagne was sighted. Otto of the sailors was walking along the deck when a big wave broke in front of him. From the very crest of the wave he picked off a bottle which had broken loose ;from one of the eases. on Turn Over, Increased. Cost of Living Investigation in N. Y. New York, March 25- That „the an - Inial profit of the big meet_ peeking eont- peniee in New York City is fatly 50 per out, on the e,apital invested in the purchaea, slaughter and marketing of the eattle is ehowo by tables snbmitted to the State Food Investigating Coriunie. eion here by George N. Edward, general manager of Swift & Co.'s local offices. The tables show, for exemple, that 29 eattle were bought, by Swift & Co. in South °mew, on Dee. 1 for $2,221. They were killer; in the Swift statityarde and shipped immetsiately to this eity, ing Dec. 7, and being sold the- same day. Tlie expense of killing and preparing them was $75. But the lildee- and by- products had been eold for $503, redueing the original cost of purchasing and kill - lag to $1,794. The meat was sold on arriving here for $2,044, but f rain tbie had to be deducted the sum of $240 for freight and marketing expenses. The uetreturns on the meat of the 29 cattle was thus $1,814, and the entire profit to the eompany from the eeven day transaction and from the inveettue.nt of the $2,221 was $20. When , theee figures were first sub- mitted, most of those who looked them over were inclined to think that Swift er Co. were taking -a lot of trouble just to make $20, But the ehairtnan of the eommieeion pointed out that the capital involved was tied up by the traneaetion for only a single week, and that as the capital me. kept eontinaelly antiveitt similar processes all the year round the return on the $2,221 was almost exactly 50 per eent. a year: FREAK EGG A Mimic° HenThatAttracts Public Attention. Toronto March 25.--A white leopard hen belonging to Percy 'McKenzie, a Mimic(' lad, is the stellar attraction of Toronto' e western suburb to -day, for she ha e done something that no hen of either high or low degree is on record as having done before, when the pre- sented her owner with an egg contaluing a fully d.eveloped chicken, on resuming work one day last week, after her win- ter's vacation. .& le egg, when discovered in the nest, had it spherical cap over the larger end, and through the shell of tide o. dark point protruded. Examination proved the dark spot to be the beak of it fully developed, but Lifelese chick. The freak egg is believed to be the result of the hen being ogg bound. She had not laid before all winter, but has laid it curi- ously shaped shelled egg every day since. aiee- MISS ANGLIN Offered to Go Into Vaude- ville for Backers' Sake. New York, March 25. -That Miss Margaret Anglin once offered to give up her career' in the legitimate and enter vaudeville to repay to her backers money they lost on "The Eternal a emmine," a play in which she had starred, was revealed yester- day when a deposition. was filled in the Supreme Court, made in San Francisco by Mr. Thomas Williams. Mr. Williams says that Miss Anglin, In the presence of himsele and Mr. Frank Perley, his partner, offered to abandon, be-? career as a star and accept a vaudeville offer at $1,500 a week, so she might repay at the rate of $1,000 a week the $40,000 that Mr. Williams and M. Perley lost on "The Eternal rz‘eininine." He and Mr. Parley refused to al- low the actress to do this, because -they felt that such a etep would be too much of a sacrifice for her to make. Mr. Perley is suing Mr. Williams for an accounting. Mr. Williams admits that he made a little profit from "When Knight. hood Was in Flower," but he lost oev. eral thousand on a play in Wilieh :rJr. William Collier starred and another large sum on. a play with Mr. Frank Daniels. Mr. Williams says that all his records were destroyed in the San Francisco tire In 1906. FEDERAL SQUARE GAS TURNED ON Man and Wife Suffocated by Gas at St. Catharines. St. Catharines despatch: Charles Burrows, it G. T. engineer, of Toronto, and a woman, eaid to be his wife, who ante here recently freme Gale, were found practically asphyxiated by natu. ral gee in, bed in a single room in a St. Paul trot hou.se at 10 o'eleek this meriting, One burner of a small range was turned on full. The door was kick- ed in by the polio on the alarm of other tenante in the block. The woman is believed to be beyond resuscitation, but the matt will likely recover. Neighbors say that 13urrows arrived her& yesterday to take hi $ wife to To. ronto to -day. FALSE ALARMS. Montreal, March ex.fireeriaa named Emile Perron was arrested here thie inorning on a charge of ringing in false Marina, When caught he was dreseed as a woman. A wateh was kept for the culprit After false alarms began to be rung in from the St. Denis distriet at Intervale of ten milottoe last night. .4.samsras..S46.41.410,-***4* DAILY OCEAN SERVICE. rionttont,ltaith daily osterviee teeth way between Xs:iv 'York and 11t. rope is being diseustied th shipping circles am n, possible outcome of the efforts of Albert Bailin, direetor-general of the sliamburis-Amerieen Line, to establish a emumunity of interests between that line end the White Star, i'-nettiel, Xmeh Vermeil Lloyd and ?retie!' linee. Government May Spend $2,500,000 in Toronto. Ottawa, March 25. -)The scheme for the proposed Federal square in Toronto, with a fine new block of public buildings to the west of the City nail, has been ett- dersed by the Ilifinister of Public Works, Hon. P. D. Monk, and plans involving an expenditure of SOnie two and a halt millions to carry out the scheme are new under consideration. A, recommendation for a large appropriation in the supple,- mentary estimateto start things this Year has ben forwarded to the cotiecii for ccnsidere,tion. 4.44 ALLEGED SPIES RELEASED. Portsmouth, England, alefreh 25. -The four men who were arrested on Mardi 20 on the Isle of Wight evhere they were diecovered within the preclude of Saint Helens Port on the west side of the island opposite the Portsmouth na- val harbor, were brought up before the pollee magistrate to -day and were immediately released. It had been al- leged that they were German epics, but the charge was withdrawn. #•###### LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE. New 'Vol*,'Afarelt 25.-Craeksmeneet. off so much dynantite tinder a safe in theoffice of it Staten 'Wand manufeettir. ing company early to -day that the explo- sion wats heard for Mile, and persons th.eught there there Was an eartliqueke, The five Safe blowers fled after an ex- change of ehote with watchmen. Tee ettle WAS blown to pieces, and some of its rontents destroyed. There is no eine to the eraelsemen. "He's the man of the hom." Isn't there es er a woman of the hour?" "Yes; but it takes her an hour and a hair ('len go News. ti.N.1-4.4,,M11**01,,,0,11114F THE ENGINEERS Reply of 1171$ Railroads to Demand for lYlore Pay. 11:y Timee Spechel Wire.1 New York, :quell 25. --The reply of the forty-eight railroads to the de, Inande of the lotennotive inginera for- liwreased wagee wies. iritly for submie. Mon to -day at. it meetiog of the ma- natee of engineers, lie'aded. by Grand chief Warren S. Stone, of.. the Brother - hod, of Losesmotive Engineers, and It onuul t tee of twelve viceepreildents aml genera.' managers of eastern rait- roads, who have drafted the answer, While the nature of the reply has net been disclosed,. it le emit to eoetale generalrefusal of the .demancts of the locomotive cegineere, nod following Re sainniaelon an adjournmeat will be tale - en in order that the engineers may eon shier Memberis of both eiders agree tha1! whatever the reply may be, that fur- ther negotiations are most likely and Will dOttbtle,ils eOntimte math an amiea- ble adjustment of the wage question la: errrived at. MILLIONS STARVE Chinese Perishing for Want of Food and Clothing. 001•••••mmag.••••• Great Cry to the Nations for help for Them, 111####••••#•••• The following appeal on behalf of the starving Chineee people has been recoil/. 'esudaln beinp are starving and will perish t hIrroeurge ought and flood, 3,750,000 hu- hiedar tragic situation. la China, this spring and 'summer if relief does not Fotne. lii Canada, foodstuffs worth mil- lions of dollars are spoiling beeauee the crops were too heavy for the railwayto ship to the east. And this is happening while the Chinese .nation is in the agon- ies of it new political birth. Has tile world ever beheld sueh an appealing need as in China., or so urgent a esti! for "first aid" to the (suffering as that which canes to Canada? The facilities for shipping rain westward to the Pacific and on to China are better than for sending it east to the Athintie. To save this unusable surplue from wanton* wasteand to send it where it is se Ism*" wanted is our first and most compalling national duty. Li how many wee% will it come back to no as individuals and as it nation `."rhe United States, along among the nations, refunder a large part of the Boxer rebellion indemnity on con- dition that the money be spent on the education of Chinese students in "United States colleges and universities, MA al- ready the American nation is reaping a reward in the confidence and good will of the people of China, who now have a thouteand students in the United States who will return as missionaries of inter- national good -will. This generosity is beirrg kept alive by the American people whose ehrtrehes are now a,ppealing ter money and food to send to the relief of the famine vicitnis. The Chinese are it grateful pe.ople, and no movement of such it humane kind will go unrewarded here and hereafter. With such it glut of grain and a more general prosperity than extste in the tnited States, what are the pea)* of Canada going to do? China is the centre of world reformation to -day, and the real yellow peril is not an educated aud progressive China, but a China remain- ing in poverty, ignorance and spiritual darkness. In any case, Canadians en make no mistake he relieving distrese of (such an unparalleled, extent, no matter how political °Yenta may shape. To stop our ears to this cry of woe is to inArste calamity to our own doors, for th.e law of compensation is still in force, nor should we forget that it country's har- vest is a gift of heaven. Therefore, let our government and peo- ple unite immediately to send liberal supplies of wheat, oats, flour and other food; and follow this up later with seien. tific adviee and help in forest restorit. tion, flood prevention and improvement in agricultaral methods, the lack of which has brought the present troubles. Geographically Canada; with the Unit. ed States, stands as the mediator by which the civilizations of Europe and Asia ca.n be harmonized for the peace of the world, and there has been no time great ffice as it does today.when the white -winged steed of oppor- eo- hunity eyaited to invite us to fill the .11101.11.404..slins..ass THE MAINE DEAD Undentified Seamen Buried in Washington. Washington, despatch.: With all the pomp and solemnity that it nation can pay its heteee of war, the last of the dead, of the Maine were laid away to. day beneath the green hills of Virginix in Arlington Cemetery. Side 'by aide, with the bodies of those brought back front Havana Harbor after the war with Spain, they were consigned to We earth of the Ohl Dominion, vvhile a nit. tion paid its last measure of honor to - the "unidentified" of that great eates. trophe that brought on a war, ehanged • the map of the world and extended the empire of the United States, Seldom in the history of thas country bas there been planned n higher tribute te the memory of any man or men then that for the sixty-four dead ot the Maine. Government business in Wash- ington was radically suepended by ex. outive orders. President Tea, most of the member::: of his Cabinet, the highest °Mors of the army, the navy and the marine corps, of f le lois of the .doput. Tants and the representatives' of many fere* powers partleipeted in the cote eiete Over the government buildings hung at lialflttai-t, while Congress toliourned fer the day, The le:aiming of minute 14n1H 'Ana the 'Mini) GI eoldiere etidid the toush of military pomp. ani .4:t Itt'ta nee.s. STILL ICE BOUND, Kinoton, Ont., '.‘fareh 2.5. -Marine men are )onking for a late opening fq Itavie;ation .Thetri is yet no tugn Of the Ilee brAaking up, and tho weather lt f3till quite eohl. Last year openintr iti navigation took plaee on April 13th.