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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1912-05-09, Page 7• 1GC`t:Vttrilrg'-'"41,11r=xxsong,irleila4g1k746104117/41141e 4v-01Pa 101.11110014;r1r*CrW4P1=1""0"04"40"1"*".11 or • - • 4," • yr,^at • -.was flhl FALL OF FACTORY WALL Particulars of the Collapse of Toronto Building. Two Killed and Twelve In- jured in the Accident, Surmises as to the Cause of Wall Falling. Toronto, May 6. -Two persons were crushed to death and twelve others Injured by the collapse on Saturday morning of the south well (120 feet in length) of the five -storey factory of William Neilson, LimIten, ice cream a.nd chocolate manufacturers, 277-307 Gladstone avenue. The disaster oc- curred at haft -past ten o'clock, when the factory was in full blast. One hundred and sixty employee were in the building at the time, and only the fact that the nualority of them were occupied in the north part of the factory prevented toe casualty list from, being much more serious. The three upper storey.- were unoccupied, being an aedition to the original two- storey structure, and just nearing completion, Fifteen workmen, brick- layers and carpenters, were employed on the roof; there were 105 operators on the second floor, 45 operators on the first floor, and about ten in the basement. There was no warning -just a dull boom as the big mass of brick, and mortar careeneu eatehward. Several workmen were fortunate enough to step but of the danger zone in the nick of time, but those in the path or tb.e wreckage were carried down to the basement and, completely buried in the piles of debris that fell on their heads. DEAD. • MRS. EVA ANDERSON, 1206a Dun ferin street, operator in the box de- partment on the first floor. LUEGE SCE.NNA, 740 Brock ave. nue, Italian laborer. INJURED (at the Western Hospital). WILLIAM LAMMY, 12 Gordon St., carpenter, left leg fractured in two places below knee and right leg broken at the ankle. CHARLES FERGUSON, 5 Kimber- ley avenue, carpenter, both eyes burned by lime dust. MISS MABEL BOWMAN, 771 Glad- stone aveuue, half of scalp torn off and face lacerated. MISS EMILY WATSON, 106 Rus- sett avenue, lacerated scalp and elltS 011 the left eye and nose. MRS. ANNIF THOMPSON, 607 Dua feria street, stntermg frozn severe shock and Injury to right eye. MISS LETTIE CAREY, 39 De Grassi street, head, face and right eye lacerated, and right arm badly brunoecl. MIS io SUSAN BURNS, 115 Summer- hill avenue, head and tace lacerated and ankle sprained. MISS E. WOOLSLEY, 602 Dufferin street, bruised about the head and back, and suffering from shock. MIKE TERSY, 15 Arthur street, Italian laborer, scalp and face abra- sions, body bruises on the right side. TAKEN HOME. ALMA RYAN, 51 Bellevue avenue, suffering from shock and weak heart. IRENE LAWSON, 110 Bellevue ave- nue, bruised about hips and suffering from shock. VIOLET MUIR, 120 Augusta ave- nue, knee wrenched and suffering from shock. MIF.e.S '2. ALLEN, Beaconsfield St., Buffering from shock and bruises. P. 0. Collins, who was standing at the corner of Dundas street and Glad- stone .avenue, had. heard the noise and saw the wall fall. Immediately he pull- ed the alarm and then rushed. to the factory. ,Alarms were 6ent in also from other places, and in a very few minutes there were over fifty firemen on the seene. They came from upper. Dundas street, lower Dundas street, Parkdale, Ossington avenue, Perth avenue, How- land avenue, College street, Portland street and Toronto Junction stations. Their numbers were swollen by as many citizens in the vicinity, anci ear- penters, brieklayers and a gang of tele- phone men..All of them, with no thought ter clothing or themselves, started dig. ging, away with their hands at the awful mese of entangled wreckage that coy.- ered the vietims, Nobody knew how many had been swept down with the wreckage, and the reeeuere worked fran. tieally. Every tnan toiled like a Trojan. The place where the people were buried was covered \V t 11 heavy beamand twisted steel pipes and piles of debris. It was not long before the rescuers heard a women moaning. and finally they found Mrs. Aenie Thompson. She was pinned down by moulde and kettles. She appeared to be very eeriously injured. Then Mrs, Anderson was found horied completely. She Was quite dead. In a similar eondition they fonnd tin' body of Luege Swim neer his wheelbarrow, he having been earried down from the hoist. Farther down they came nerese Chterlee Fereeteon. He was blindeel by &net, hut wee quite uninjured. Mike Tersy, an Ttanian laborer, was found 'Finned against the foundation wall. A heavy piece of boarn bad fallen over his head, and it MIA likely this proteetion flint eaved his life. An emergeney rail had been sent in to the Weetern Hospitel and many ann Imbrues were Soon on the scene. When alto employees in other parte of the factory heard the tsrrible nOiRe they Weenie panie-etrieken and fled wildly to the north eide of the buildine,. The operators on the seeond floor rueh- ed through a large door whieh *Nide from the bit faetory into the adioiting twoettory etrueture. On the seemed floor the girls stampeded at a little door which paeses trent the north side of the 'Wining into the driviee Shod. The dont was iodized, but in their fury they ewept; it elean of ife hinges as though it were paper and fled erney with fright into the etreets. Tn t110 Of fiPe there were Aboet elerics. They, too, beard the nwful thunder. end reehtel over the desks and railing so frrtOt101111Y Chet they became wedged in the main Tn entranee, broken Enelish foul with eirtme eveue onetime. htike Tersv, the Ttalien Ishorer, told a renorter at the Western forinitel yeeterda Vhew hie oempatriott TAIIPPe Seetute. beet Itie life. Tereey was werkierr beeitle o. mortar bed on the fourth 'floor. Senna lia.1 Just bronght barrOW lold of 1ni4,1N4 and bed wheeled it off the hoist otul telteu on Lflettroty wheelhavrow. The hoist was lowered a few feet when the wall fell and Seenua wee earried to hie death iencatif the in.o,4 4 if 6116. and mortar. Melte teeth( not tenonalier how he him - sen had gone to the beeement. Mr. Charlee W. Wood, head of the firm of )Vood ee Sone, who lield the con- traet ter the taaeoury work on, the expreesed himself yesterday as hone), utteily at a loss te ennihin the aviation, ann Stated that, althollgh ln had eNalnilled the ruins eitrefully, he bad been unable to form the remotest theory as to what CallSed tile wail to eollapse. He was on his way to the building at the time, and assisted in the resoue work, so that he had time to examine the ruins, finding nothing from which he could form a theory as to the muse of the dieaster. The building WaS constructed on the mill eonstruction Plane which is the customary method used in factory buildings. The wall was fourteen bathes thick, and white lime and esoul lanes. was m:•ed as filling, the outer surfaee being a finer duality of red bride. Ordinary mortar was used throughout. It Was a question, he said, whether the pile of hardwood lumber on the two upper floors had anything te do with ft, but thought thie impos- sible, as any ordinary wall would be capable of withstanding tea Ones the weight of the lumber. Ile set at rest the, rumor that the joists were not an- rhored, but merely set in their brack- ets., by stating that all were firmly spiked to the flooring, although the by- law does not require this precaution. Ile visited the injured at the Western Hospital yesterday afternoon and saw to it that they were well attended, A theory of the eanSe of the, Neilson factory disaster that has beenadvanced is that the building was erected so rap- idly that the action of the sun upon the green a11s eaueed it to buckle. Immediately niter the ratastrophe the city architect's department took charge of the building, and it yas- placed under police surveillance and to prevent the crowd getting into the danger zone or perhaps destroying some of the evi- dence. TAFTIOOSEVELT Presidential Fight to Cap- ture State ofMaryland. The Democratic Candidates Also in the Fight. Baltimore, May 6, --The Maryland primary election to -day wifl determine whether President Taft or Theodore Roosevelt will capture the States' six- teen votes at the Republican National Convention, but owing to a peculiarity of the Maryland law there is a possibil- ity that the complexion of the delega- tion to the Democratic convention will not be detennined until the state eon - volition. Under the new law. the can - Mate that wins a maeority of the 120 delegates chosea to -day for the State convention will get all the National dele- gates also. Since there are but two can- didates for the Republican presidential preference the division of the State dee- gates chosen to -day maycloud the Dem- ocratic situation because there are three naidat es in the field, Speaker Champ Clark, Governor Judson Harmon and Governor Woodrow Wilson. If one of the three Democratic candidates receive a majority of the State delegates the contest for national delegates may be fought out at the State convention. The polls opened to -day at 6 o'clock in Baltimore City and 8 o'clock in the country, and will close at 5 o'clock here and 6 o'clock outside the city. The rain yesterday and to -day encouraged those who antieipated a big vote for their candidates in the rural district. The ground in many places is wet for planting, and the fanners, it is believ- ed, will be less reluctant to leave their fields for the polls. Both parties expect cIese contests, and the results may be in doubt until many hours after the polls close. foe iraIt NON-UNION MEN To Try to Break Freight Handlers'Strike at Chicago Chicago, May 6. --Officials of the twenty-four railroads affected by the strike of 0.000 local freight handlers planned to resume the movement of freight to -day with the assistance of 1,000 non-union men. Assistant Chief of Police Seheuttler has taken personal charge of the arrangements for main- taining order and has detailed a large force of patrolmen to guard railroad property. President Flannery, of the Freight Handlers' Union, declared that the strike would spread to other cities un- less the railroads granted the demands of the men in e;hicago. The freight hand- lers ask a nine hour working day, an increftee of pay, and a Saturday after- noon holiday. MAY PARDON HIM Old Convict Gave Alarm and Was Assaulted. ngqtot, May 5.--ete old eonviet who worked in the ieolatton from winch. the Mecum brothers and three ()there made thele eseape at the penitentiary last hionday, is likely to be pardoned. When the desperadoes were donning the uniforms of the guar& they had knocked out this pri- soner made an attempt to ring the alarm bell, but he was detected before he could reach it and was beaten into Inspeetor Stewart hes been joined by Mr. J. T. Racket*, of the Justice Department, who will take evi- denee in connection with the eecapes. It is said that the inspector will .change the order whereby in reeent years guards in the Waite and ieolation de- partments have not been allowed to earry revolvers. THE MARRIAGE CASE, . Ottawa, May 6. --The delayed judg- ment of the Privy Couneil on the an- alogous eompaniee ineorpoeatiou ease may result to -morrow in the marriage law reference to the Supreme Court be- ing postponed until the end of the spring term, Supreme Court session be- gins to -morrow morning, 11 the decisiob is for the proeilieee it will throw the \Agile questien of a. marriage law open Age in. UCH OF THE SUffinfITES WOW •411110,0111.1,...0.1•01. Nine Thousand of Them in Line in New York. Wore White Gowns and Thiry -Nine Cent Hats, Procession Made Deep iiu pression on Onlookers. New York, May 5.---Near1y three miles of New Yorkers, doubled in ranee ten deep, got a. new idea of votes for Women yesterday afternoon, when between t,000 and 9,000 suffragists marched from W ;lel) ngt on Square north on Fifth ave- nue to Carnegie Hall, Many of the 150,000 or more persons, who were in the lines had come hero to have fun over the sight of a band of short-thaired Millen and feminine freaks tramping up the street shouting "Equal rights." But, somehow, it did not turn out that way, and the gibes and the jeers, except from the half-baked youens, were very much forced when they• could be heart at all. Not evea the youths in question could find much sport in laughing at 4,000 or 5,000 women who make their own living, who are the, doctors, lawyers, nureesot their sex, who are school teachers, bookkeepere, investigators, millinere, dressmakers, or workers in the factories that turn out everything from shirt- waists to grand pianos. They could not even get up much animation over the 1,000 or more men who were in the line of march. nese men were not long- haired, they did hot wear shawls, and some of them looked as if they mere pretty well able to take mat of them- selvee, if anybody got too gay with them. Therefore, all Fifth avenue, from about Eighth street clean up to Filtee-seventh street and across to Carnegie Hall, re- mained to apnlaned, in very many in- stanees to depart thinking about this idea the women talk about so much. In that respect the parade to -day was very much of a sucee,ss, and all the leaders, fecen the dignified executive board of the Women's PoIitieal Union to the rehire "bosses' in the infant "political division," were vastly delighted. The elders, of course, could remember last year with its 3,000, and the year before with its handful of determined march - ere. They were figuring on a vegelar day next year. The poliee declared after it wee all over that they had never had a better disciplined line of marchers to handle except trained soldiene. The pollee, themselves, rather fell down in handling the crowd in a number of spots, but they meant that there was Tio friction or mixing up in getting ready to start, in managing the divisions and in getting rid 01 the marchers up around Fifty- seventh street after it was all ()oven Every woman knew the division to which she belonged; she knew where it was to form, and ehe got there without making any fuss about it. 11 she did not have a white gown or a 39 -cent hat elle came in what she had, and before she got through with it she had some kind of a 6ash or banner, Yellow, of course, predominated, but the purples and greens added variety until an old policemen remarked aloud that he had not seen anything so lovely in color since Li Hung Chang and his delega- tion rode up Broadway and Fifth avenue accompanied by cavalrymen about F. ix - teen years ago. This veteran also bad received some new ideas to -day, and added as a eomment: "If they are any- thing like one woman I know they'll get a vote, too, if they want it." Washington Square was the starting point for the march, and by 3 o'clock, two hours before it was 'time to start, it had been captured. by women from the Judson Memorial to the Washington arch. There wasn't a hitch or a slip in the parade. It was just about on the stroke of 5 o'clock when Mies Beickrhaz, the grand marshal of the day, swung herself on her fine bay horse, fixed her feet firmly in the stirrups, and nodded to the mounted police who were to clear the way. Very promptly Mise Knob - lamb and. her horsewomen trotted up in line, a. double military band let out a blare, and the division made ready to feed theraselves out of all the intersect- ing streets. Miss Beiderhaz, who had her eyes fixed on distant Murray HM road like the feminine of Centaur, and just behind her came Miss Brannon, the. main standard-bearer, on foot, supporting her heavy burden without a struggle. Then mine the executive board of the Wo- men's Political Union. Three deneure white -gowned aides came ;hest bellind them, and then the body of the parade appeared. Just about that time there began to appear solne banners, all of which contained some rather eriep end incisive remarks. A determined -looking delegation of women speakers, cuh one carrying a soap box and a butteile af pamphlets, came along about that time. They had a few mottoes thernsehresebut they were there for other businese. At Asset every corner one of the women would drop out of the parade, deposit her soap box, climb on it and start after the crowd. There were about 50 ef these young women in this delegation, and when they went at the crowd with their arguments there wasn't so muth fun mode. Some of the women are experieneed in public speaking. They had met prow& before, and they Were ready of speeelt. They said what they wanted to say, and limn tied on to a new earner. DEFENDS ISMAY Carpathia,'s Captain Puts in Good Word for Him. ......••••••••••• London, May 6. --Captain ',Rostron, of the eteamship terptethia, interviewed at Gibraltar by the correepoodent of 'rhe Daily tai), staid: "The allegation that I was tieing the wirelese to my own advantage after the wreck of the Titan - ie is a wicked lie Captain Roetron waemly defended J, Bruen Lenny, &elating that ho behaved irreproaehably on board the Carpathii. ile voneluded by saying that he remem- bered seeing dietinetly two ma6thead lights at 3 o'eloek ;Monday morning, which Appeared to be nearer the Titanie than the Carpathia was, tied at day- break be saw two other 6111116 about eight tnilee away to the north, while the Ceepathia WM plotting up survivore. WARNS U. S. Germany May Want Foot -4 hold on Colombia. *mow. mom.• Leaden, May 0.----1?red, Jane, the naval author, noting whet he cane the "little navy fever from which America is just now suffering," writes to -day m the Eveniag Standard: "The strionenese of this Is enhanced by the fact that Germany hail recently secured a mild foothold ia C'Nombia. We are, perhaps, a. little too prone, to imagine that the German navy can have anything but ourselves in view and to forget what the upsetting of the Inon• roe Doetrine might mean to Germany." e••••••••••••• Mr. Jane evidently refers to the re- port that was eurrent at the beginning of March that eegotiations 'between the German Government and Colotalea, hal resulted in an agreement which contem- plated the transfer to Germany of eer- tain parts on the Atlantic const at Colombia within striking district of the Panama, Canal. The report wins after- wards formally denied by Senor Rober- to Macdougall, Colombian Charde d'A.f- fah ea at WaP4billgtOli. THE BABIES. Dr, MacMurchy Tells of the High Death Rate. Toronto, May 13.---Toronth has a high infant mortality rate, and it is increas- ing, according to Dr. Helen AlamMurehy, whose report to the Provincial Secre- tary on infant mortality has just been issued by the Provincial Government. A, high ;want mortality is a sign of the need of education and of raising our standard of civilization, especially in sanitary matters, deelared Dr. Mac- Murcher. Statisticneed by Dr. Maelelarchy do not come down past 1.009. She cm - pares the infant mortality rate of that year, which was 131.7 per 1,000, with time of 1008, when it was 125 per 1,000. In Toronto the rate for 1908 was 193,4 and in 1909 it was 220; in Hamilton in 1908 it was 191.5, and in 1909 at wa3 173.5; in Otttawa, in 1908, it was 256. and in 1909 it was 233.9; in Ottawa, in 1908 it was 250 and in 1909 it was 233.9; in London in 190S it was 256, and in 1900 it was 181.3. le* ABOUT WIRELESS Better Regulation of Sys- tem to be Discussed. Ottawa despatch: Better regulations of wn•eiess wort< will be discussed by the nations or the world next June and Cana la will participate in the conference, Canada will be repre- sentea in the coming discussion by Mr. G. J. Desbarats, Deputy Minister of the Navy, ard by C. P. Edwards, superintendent of wireless. They will be able to report that wireless has made substantial progress in Canada and Teta the control is satis- factory as every wireless station, whether put up by the Marconi Com- pany or by an amateur, has to ob- tain a .government license and the amateurs are strictly confined to the use of a wave length. which cannot interfere with naval or zommercial wireless. Amateurs in both Van- couver and Montreal bave had their attention called to the fact that there is a law for wireless which has li- cense, fine and imprisonment as features. It is hoped that the United States will accept the recommendations of this congress and thereby put an end to the confusion which a host of amateur enthusiasts on the Atlantic coast have brought about through lack of proper control. HIGH PRICES Cold Weather Put Hens Be- hind in the Work. New York, May 6. ---The next twelve months will see some new records in high prices for meats, eggs and butter, is the belief of I. L. Preston, editor of the Produce News. The cold season has put the hens far behind in their work, the expert declares, and the supply of butter in sight is not likely to balance with the public demand. The price for potatoes would go to $8 a barrel, he adds, if it were not for lrieh and Belgian importations. The cabbage crop it; short, and cabbages, like artichokes are becoming luxuries. Poultry is the mie product, he declares, that Ilse, not risen in price by leaps and bounds. reeee SAW THE RING Panama -Pacific Exposition Commission Presented. London, May 6. --The members of the Panama -Pacific Exposition Commission, of which John. Hays Hammond is pre,sie dent, were presented to Xing George at Buckingham palace to -day by United States Ambassador Reid. The Xing en- quired as to the plans of the expoeition, whieh ie to be held. in San Francieeo in 1915, in celebration of the coin*. tion of the Panama Canal, and scanned with interest the drawings and piens of the buildings presented to him by the commiseion, His Majeety expressed the' opinion that the California spirit, which rebuilt the city of San Francisco after the great fire and earthquake of April, 1006, was sure to make the exposition a sties. eae,e SHOT HIS SON. Chicago, May 6. --John Snell shot and probably fatally wounded his son, Arthur, 27 years of age, last night, when the latter asked to see Itis wife, who is a step -daughter of the elder Snell. The shooting oceme red at the father'e home after the son had been refused admittance. According to the father, hie soa abused him, whereupon he made an attempt to drive hi» from the premises. in the fighte that fellow - ed the father fared two shots, both --eease "v-• a which took effect. The elder Snell "OM arrested. . One man who mould never meet's\ if he kept hie plane to himself is the whit eet, LONG SESSION OF COMMONS British Parliament May Sit Until End of Year. Unionists Hope the Govern- ment Will be Forced Out But Probabilities Are As- quith Will Stay in Office. , . London, May 6. --The House of Com- mons is now in the midst of a ae-iiliaa that promises to exceed in length and in. terest even the three preceding ones, which were in many ways record -break- ers for the British Parliament. Accord- ing to present plans and calculations, this session will last until the end of the year, with only two or three weeks' break at Whitsuntide. The usual Plan bas been to adjoura early in August and, if very urgent. business had to be put off, to hold an autumn session. This year, however, the Cabinet, hopes to ad: journ the House about May 23, and meet ngain about June 17, and then sit right through until, the Home Rule and Welsh disestablishment bills have been dispoeed of. The committee stage of the Home Rule bill, it is expected, will be reached about June 24. In 1893 Mr. Gladstone's bill occupied 48 parliamentary dayfor this stage, Under the etrieter elosure rules now in force the Government ex- pects to get through in from forty to forty-five days, which will carry the ses- sion into the middle of September. The report and third reading stages will oc- cupy another month, so that it will be well into October before the bill reaches the House of Lords, The Welsh discs. tablishment bill will reach the Upper House soon afterwards. Both will be refueled. a hearing and will, therefore, under the Parliament, have to be introduced again in the ses- sions of 1913 and 1914 to overcome the power still remaining to the Lords to postpone the final passage of a bill. The Government has no intention of going out of office voluntarily until the meas - urea have received the royal assent and beeome the law of the land. The Unionists are firm in the belief that before three years have passed something will happen to force the Cab- inet out, Since the last general election the Government has lost five seats in hy-eleetione, counting ten votes on aivi- siren. Tillie however, was largely due to the liapopularity of the industrial insur- anec bill, whieh Liberals are making des- perate efforts to popularize. One of the oldest parliamentary hands points out in it Unionist paper that the Opposi- tion must not place too much reliance on this lose. He shows that the Gov- ernment might lose five seats in each of the three ensuing years, counting thirty on division, and still have the major- ity of over SO, which is more than many Oovernmeuts have had in eritieal times. He might have added that Mr. Asquith has not much to fear from secessions. The Nationalists must continue to support the Government if they wish their bill to become law; the Welsh members and those English Liberals who are opposed to the Established Church have the same reason to remain loyal to the Liberal Government, and the Labor members are Home Rulers and disestala netters, and besides with the funds of their organizations crippled as a result of the recent strikes, are not anxious for a, general election. The only danger with 'which the Government is likele, to be threatened so far as can at present be foreseen, la that of a big industrial upheaval, which would nee.essitate the calling out of troops, an event which would compel the Laborites and many Radicals to go against the Cabinet, Then as has happened before the Unioniete might find it necessary to vote with the Government, +4.4. FEAR MASSACRE 350 Russian Soldiers at the Mercy of 10,000 Workmen. St. Petersburg, May G. -The Itus- Man Government is making energetic efforts to get some news from the Lena gold fields, fearing that the en- tire detachment of troops stationed there has been massacred by the workmen in revenge, for the killing of 180 and wounding of 300 strikers there two weeks ago. The gold fielde are about 1,200 miles from Irkutsk and. it will be impossible to send reinforcements there for an- other month, owing to the condition of the roads. There are only 350 regular soldiers there and more than 10,000 workmeo who have mule threats of vengeance for the treatment of their comrades. Many of these men are poli- tical eonvicts who have 'been in the gold fields since the rising of seven years ago. The 'Subject is agitating the Douma and all parties who are coming up in the national elections this summer are taking the side of the workmen. GOT FIVE YEARS The German Wood Alcohol Poisoning Trial. THE MINIA ARRIVES, HASSEVENTEEN BODIES e ••••• • Met Heavy Weather and Picked Up Bodies Miles Apart. Halifax, N. S., May 6. -Tito eable eteamer Minia that accompanied the MacKay -Bennett in the work of searching for the Titaaic's dead, re- turned to port this morning with flags at half mast, Interest itt the landing of the bodies at the dock was not nearly as great as that wbich char- acterized the landiug of the bodies from the MacKay -Bennett last week, because of the absence of so many relatives and friends. The orders as to admission to the navy yard was just as strict as they wore last week and the same method of procedure was followed, The Kittle, met much heavy weather during her trip and covered a large area, the bodies being found widely separated, the last tevo picked up being 45 miles apart. The Minla wired every passenger steamer daily ingoiring for bodies. Among the bodies brought ashore was that of Charles M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk Ry. Officials of the railway took charge of the body inn mediately and it was taken to Mon- treal on a special train. THE RECTOR'S STORY. Halifax, N. S., May 6. -The cable ship Minia, which arrived early this morning from searching the water in the vicinity of the Titanic wreck for Bodies, had on board seventeen bodies. The Rev. H. W. Cunningham, rector of St. George's Church, who accom- panied the Minim on her quest in the Atlantic, gives an interesting account of her trip, and a fact which is worthy of very special note in connection with the seventeen bodies recovered, is this: So far as could be judged by the ship' doctor, there was about one among the seventeen who died of drowning. In the case of the other sixteen it was caused by exposure and did not (melte for some four hours after the sinking of the ship. News of this kind mut givo tho3o who manned the Ilfeboat6 flud passing steamers 501110 unenviable reflections. The Millie., says Mr. Cunningham, had MO. weather. There Were but two fine clays, and ouly two meals without the "fiddlee" on the tables. "I myself," said he, "saw only two lenberge, one of them shaped like a great tent, with two sprawling branch- es protruding from its base. The of- ficers told MO that they, however, sightod a number of bergs in the dis- tance. "We reached the scene of the wreck at nine o'clock on Thursday night. About ten minutes to nine I asked Captain Decarteret about how long it would be before we got there. He told me, and I went below and put on my surplyice and the whole ship's crew assembled, speaking only in whispers, I can give you no idea of the feeling about the ship as we real- ized that we were at last on the scene of that stupendous catastrophe which the whole world is mourning. "I conducted a solemn memorial service, composing a special prayer theretor and we then dispersed to our several duties. "The bodies we recovered were found runes apart from each other, and such suceess as we attained was due to expert navigation and good luck." All the bodies were taken from the Millie, on arrival and were removed to the morgue. GERMAN INQUIRY. Berlin, May 6, ---The Maritime Con- ference called on Emperor William's initiative he consequence of the Ti- tanic disaster was ope.ned to -day at the Department or the Interior, under the presidency or the Secretary of State. • A large gathering of depart- ment officials, representatives of the trans-Atlantic shipping companies, snipbuilders, marine associations, is present and questions relating to life- saving equipment, oeean routes, wire- less telegraph, bulkheads and speed are to be considered. The conference is expected to last a considerable time. GUELPH FIREMEN THE HALE EN The Chief May Lose Job Over rrouble. iNew English Law is Worry- ing the Shopkeepers. Guelph despatch.: Thee nature of the Fire and Light Committee's investiga- tion into the fire hall matters was frankly disclosed by Ald. Mahoney the chairman of that committee, when ealled to the witnes stand. In reply to ques- tippet of Mr. Nicol Jeffrey, counsel for Chief Finch, he declared that he had. made up his mind to disMiSS the chief before the investigation. "Then 1 can presume that in your re- port to the City Council on. this investi- _ gation you will recommend his (the Chief's) dismissal?" said the Chief' counsel. "Yes, sir," answered Aid. Mahoney, in a most emphatic manner. Alderma u Mahoney further etated that Lieut. Warner had reported to him that Chief Finch had made dispar- aging remarks regarding .Aldermen How. ard, Kelly, Tenfold and the witness him. self. "But these didn't worry me," said Ald. Mahoney, who, in answering ques- tions, stated that he did not think them worth an investigation or opportunity for deuial from the Chief, Yet, later, four out of five members of the com- mittee agreed to ask for Chief Finch's resignation without a hearing oran in- quiry Thorp, who is presiding over the investigation, was called to the stand and stated that without an in- quiry into conditions he had advised the Chief to resign, his reason for so doing being that he had heard street rumors, The evidence for the firemen was concluded this evening, and Chief Fineh's defence will be heard on Fea- r urday night. It is reported that some by bnsa evidenee will be produced Berlin, May 0. --The trial begun on March 20 of the men accused of being responeible for the wood alcohol poison. inge whieh oecurred tzt Christ )11110, ano ong the inmates of the Municipal Night Shelter fat the lionielres, ended to -day. A dreggist named Seharmaeh, who se- curedand prepared the deadly epirite, wag sentenced to- five year' imprison - mettle Two other men, named Scaotrow and Meyen, were, given two months in j The itolietment eai1ti4t the 1101160(1. Which Epeeified eighteenin 0 ,r!aseri of &fall 11114 five of total pernlyete frien she elfeene 01 le mei Olt;Oherl 110k0111110. allefosl the violation of the pare food law by the prieparatien and eelling of haemful toilietitutee end thee causing eerione lindily harm. The figure 80, gtv- ett ne the nllrilber of deaths, wai4 talon merely for etinvenience. hlany meve Ineat:he in the pica, it is Dam, ICILOWil. Were dile to wood al.iohol poiftoning, and the Qale ni the deleterione Minor i6 ItnIAVIIto have been going on for years. WATER WAGON Chicago Saloonists Forced Out of Business. Chicago, May 6. --Chicagoans are, climbing on the "water wagon" in , such large numbers that saloonists • have begun to notice their daily re- ceipts dropping off. Mere than 500 saloonkeepers, it is declared, will net renew the licenses expiring to -mor- row, the chief reason being that men of all classes are drinking less. Over one bar itt the downtown dis- trict that did not reopen to -day, hangs this sign: Good bye, steln, arid farewell, flagon; Chicago's lost her thirst; So I'll drive the water wagon Starting May the first. Other reasons given for quitting business are the enforcement of laws relating to gambling resorts and dance halls. There are about 7,000 aloons in Menge. A BIG BLOW Thirteen Houses Destroyed at Hutchinson, Kansas. Hutchins:in, Ran., May 0.--A severe wind Storm occurred last nient throagh the teauttry between Great, Betel atel. Dodge City. Reporte •from the, atone- ettieken distriet brought to Ilittehineon by a Sente Pe train tell oi eXteWive <lamage to leaned. The alter JUG Pae:fie depot and tltirt tent hotteese were tt€Arod. ea, severe] houses were denenneed et thleflo, where three inehee of i•ain fell Definite Period for Meals is Objected To. London, May 6, --The Dritish shop- keeper on Nay 1 began a new experi- ence in paternal government. The Shote Act of 1012 became operative on that day, and henceforth eVery emplostr in- cluded in its schedules will be compellea under penaltiee to grant his employeee evecitly half -holiday and a definite period :tor their meals. Thousands of shop handsalready have a half -holiday through a voluntany, mutual agreement with their employers. The new act extends this privilege by statute to thoueamis mare who have hitherto been unaffected. Under the provisions of the act most shops must henceforth be closed abso- lutely at 1.30 p. m. one day in the week, but exceptions in this respect are allow- ed in certain trades, suet' as saloons, restaurants, butchers and other dealers in perishable goods, as -well as tobacco - /diets, drug stored and newspaper eon - dors. , The trades, must, nevertheless, arrange for every employee to have the benefit of the net individually. There has been praCtically nc. opposi- tion to the general principles of the act, but two days of its working has suffic- ed to show that the details must be re- vieed. The aet is inelastic. it inflicts inconveniences atilt even bardship in some cases. The barbers are up aerainet a similar difficulty at meal times. A curium situation has been created in small shops where various classes at god e are raised. For instance, a drug ritore may keep open always. to sell medicine, lett on the day fixed for a half holiday in its tnwn it must not sell seented soap or other articles of this kind. So, too, a news dealer may sell newspapers and magazines, but n.ot sta- tionery on the half -holiday. The big department stores are not af- feaea in this matter, as they already by custom close all branches of their husinese) for a half day. within an helm dr. Santa, Pe won:, estr maimed by nexieart laborer!: wiz.; 1Inein from the traen near Kinelcy, awl several of them were leully injuren, no far act tent he learned here no one wag hilted. GET REPRIEVE Oregon Governor Objects to Hanging Two Brothers. Corvallis, Oregon, May 0. -George aed Charles Humphreys, convicted of the murder of Mrs. Eliza Griffith, near Phil- omath, under eentence to be hanged on Jute 14, have been tale.en to the poll- tentiary nt Salem. Governor West has said he would not permit an execution for murder during his term. Ho zaaid he would not commute the sentence of the Humphreys, but would grant a re- prieve until after the November elee- tion, whet" the voters will pass upon, the question of abolishing *capital punielp ment. rn.ffl-,--,-,-?4 BANK MERGER Talk of 13anic of Montreal Going Into One Ottawa, May another big bank merger in prospect Thio 11411.'44in is exciting interest in 4110314Am and other circles, owint„,E the announcement l,s the Bank of :Nion- Ilea' of a. Uleetillg 'TOW,. 18111, to vou'lider adding niue U11111011 dollius to its capitatl, thus waiting the totii Went3, .ljy ixii11it Li011arr>, While J10 definite information is ob- tainable it is rumored. that Canada'A leading hu.nk intend', to secure eon. trotui other institutions, and on a rather extensive Seale. 'The Bank, of Commeroe tiume tune ugo bought the Eaetern Township.) Bituk, and forged ahead to second place in Canadian fin- ancial institutions, while the Royal Bank's position is third since its ac- quisition. of the fradere Bank. There is a well defined tendency for the stronger banks to absorb the smaller ones, and in taking Steps to lecrease Lis capital, the belief is that the Bank: of Montreal has sueh an object in view. Just what banks Lynt be afieeted, how- ever, is iwt certain. Under the bank net, all such purchasee r mergers have to be sanctioned by the Aiinister of Finance, who requires full information on the subject . RUSHING WATERS Drive Hundreds of People From Their Homes. iViississippi Floods Do Thou- sands of Dollars' Damage. N ew Roans, La., May 6-- The yellow waterof the Mississippi River to -day are sweeping through a 1,000 -foot breach in the levee at Torras inon everonereas- ing torrent. ft is difficult, to estimate the Lilian:Sal loss which inuet come to the whole of ova parish at least -Pointe Caupee---and parts of Revere.' others, but it is certain that it will run up Egli into the hundreds of thousands of dol- lars. The sugar cane, eotton, rice and corn craps, which were well advanced, will be a total loss by the flood. In ad- dition to the crops, the lose of iive stock will be very heavy. Torras was practically ent off from wire communieation laet night, the water having buried the eross-aim uu whieh the telegraph Wires are. :strung,. eiteciai trains were Mr between Nev% Road e to a Nile., neer Torras last night to bring out refugees. Hundreds of 2-)e,o• pie, forced from their homes by the water, were picked up at several sta- tions along the line and brought to New Roads. Many refused to leave their homes, preferring to take their chances with the water. In every direction farmers could be seeu from the train herding, their live stock and driving them to the levees. No leas of life hats been reported from any point in the newly flooded area, but luaus- steries of thrilling escapee are continually eoming itt, and it is known that scores of pereous still are in danger. KILL THE FLIES The Advice of Toronto Med- ical Health Officer. Toronto, May 6. ---"Pay your child ren all you can afford for every fly they kill in May," is the advice of Dr. Hastings, City Medical Health Officer, to the citizens of Toronto. So ardent an advocate of war on the fly is the Medical Health Officer that he says: "'Public-spirited citizens and organizations for infant and child welfare could not 'do better than of- fer premiums for the largest number of flies killed or caught by any child in the months of May and June." Dr. Hast,ogs says it has been dem- onstrated that one fly that has come through the winter safely will become the progenitor of 5,500,000,000 flies in five months' time. He states that the increase in typhoid fever in the late summer and early autumn months is attributable to the housefly to a large extent. In order to prevent flies frem carrying infection, so far as the department of health can pre- vent, an order bas been issued that all garbage must be drained, wrapped in paper, and placed in properly cov- ered metal receptacles. as. RAIDED BROKERS' OFFICE.- Tovontr, May 6. ---The pollee this morning raiden the prornisss of Samuel 'Herbert th, Co., 43 Soott etreet. and ar- reztQa Tlerliet.f. (nettle:4%4 with ()buntline, twelve 11112014)n dollare from .1. T. !awl- liker under faldi pnAtenete. ileriert 0). art' etetteibly a fnen of hrogetse i vert;,4,,p; wit 0 owlee t e Iriten.ettete net thehr Weer:del lustre. ; ments Were fortliii 1.1 b:.1 1111111n1:f."4. 11(111- 1.rt wae flier:vitt' with Petreereln. who -0 preinisee ea Seolt et reel011) irol' 1 IL elleet two DROPPED BOMBS Italian Airships Destroyed Turkish Camp. Rome, May 6. ----The firs -ft successful use of the dirigible as a weaemn of offensive warfare took place at Aziziall in. Tripoli to -day, when, according to a terse offi- cial report received by the -War 'Ministry, two of the new dirigibles sailed over the camp and dropped thirty bombs, precti- cally destroying the enemy's position. The deepatehes speak of the 111f1,1 'oeu- vres oleo as resulting in heavy less of life. The Italian dirigibles; had previoesly been used fer reconnoitring, and n few bombe had been dropped, This was the first instante in the history of the world when airships have been used at length as war Intoskinee, and kept at the tale until 'an entire camp was wiped out. No partieulars of the lo:;44 Of life had been reeeived other than the 'Weenie reply of the Italian eommamier fleet it "woe very heavy." The Turks tried to utiliee their field Owes to deetroy the dirigiblel with ehrapnel,lnit they eould not fire at suf. fielent elevation, awl the eepleeittas felt far steel, • • 4404 W 1).01 YOU Nn' a nail eemplainizte flint he hood! n friend in the Rh; a pretty Pare bet that he timeedt ' titee.eve JUDGE MALEIMPROVING 'die.eito, \Inv te. lees) cds raore• ien Ihitiors Itetleet Beee• -eel laMeten 1%'!..t .1 inethe eendition .11t0'.10 Nlebee, ceeirmen t hit flu:TA titwva1:.,,11 p .1111PA '111 1'113 ly ;;I•rt toe tde teets peralosie o' the letwel heti reeuitid to 1'('t1,1i4 ST,10111.1::1 et !se- vens ‘%‘) nee. feel lopetn1 of 113A ro.