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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1912-05-23, Page 7LADY DUFF.GORDON • DENIES BOAT STORY Sir Cosmo Loses His Temper -Lord Mersey Protects Him. British Titanic Inquiry Somewhat Like a Society Function. Lendon, MAY 20. --The Board of Trade Inquire into the Titanic disas- ter has taken on more of the char - tinter of a society function than that of an investlgetion into the circum- stances of a great catastrophe. The drill hall of the London Scottish Itifles, one Of the crack territorial reghnentsof. the metropolis, is a small armory in Buckingham Cate in the central district of 'Westminster, It was well filled long before the hour fixed by Lord Mersey, the presiding Judge, for the opening of the inquiry to -day and. a string of handsoMe motor ears dropped feshionably gown- ed women at the entrance, whence they were ushered to reserved seats on, the floor a,u4 in the galleries. Those who die not possess special tickets stood on chairs at the back of the hall, craning their necks so as to obtain a view of the chief actors connected witli the incident of the partly filled lifeboat which saved Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff -Gordon and Lady Duff -Cordon's secretary and the occupants of which, according to the evidence ot two of the crew, pro- tested against going to the rescue of those struggling in the water and crying for help. The audience was not to be cheat• ed out of the slightest particle of what has become the scandal of the )11.- day in England, and when Sir Rufus Isaacs, the attorney -general, recom- menced his examination of Sir Cosmo Duff -Gordan, there were cries of : "Speak up" front those unable to hear. The Attorney-Ceneral asked a few more queetions about the failure of the lifeboat to go back and with the object of mating the matter quite clear, asked "Did you promise the crew'`. -.C5 be- fore or after the lifeboat went back to the rescue?" - Sir Cosmo made a reply which Sir Rufus Isaacs was unable to get from him last week: "I never knew the boat went back." The attorney appearing on behalt af the Irish third-class passengers ask- ed -Gordon if he had suggested that the boat go back and receiving a negative reply asked: "You saved your lives and left the others to drown?" Lord Mersey -The position of the - witness is .bad enough. Do you think it. fair to ask such questions? This brought a round of applause from the women in the gallery, which was repeated time alter time with- out a word from the judge. Applause Wait ays sternly repressed in English courts of lam. Deming the examination of •Cordon, a question was asked about the ac- tions, of J. Bruce ismay, managing direetor of the White Star Line, on Irmaanyammumarsumwsuawirm.insm. THE "AD" MEN •14*./.. •••••••••.... filade a Big Noise When They Got to Dalas. Texas, May 20.---A large num- , ber of "ad." men from all parts ot the United States and Canada reachedeDah lam to -day, caeh delegation cpuang with. .etartling variety of noise or decoration, destieed to imerese others with the im- portance of the particular town from wilieh melt hailed. was the official beginning of the mmHg meeting of *be Associated Ad- vertleing Clubs of America,. The special feature to-dey was the automobile par- ade, in. which each elegation was ex- pected to launch some startling innovit. time _that would bring glory to its na- tive ,eity. There *ere ;advocates of "publicity" from abnost every eity iii the Union. Toronto, Ont., i$ after the next convention. Prior to 1 he parade there had been weleoming addressee to tbe delegates by Governer Colquitt(' and Mayor Holden. At a second business session reports of committees were heard and. advertising men told of improvements in their meth - Os of work. The advertisingmon will spend Wed- vies(tay in Fort Worth. Thursday offi- eers will he (-lofted anil eonvention city for meek year ehoeen. "A cirele tour" sof the stake will be begun Friday morn- , THE DEAD LIVE -- Dr, Sam. Meltzer Announces Success of Experiment. New York, :tfity 10.-e)r. Samuel J. Meltzer, of the Itoeltefeller institute ior Medical Research, in the course of recent experiments to discover. a enecoestui method of artifielal respire.- 111°- dion, restored to life two animals Whirh lie had reused to be put to death, and which were dead in the r mown neeeptanee of the term. Welt reeovered entirelyile believes the method to bo equally applicable to man, anti *urges that it be tried in all eases of death, for it is quite possi- ble, Ito asserts, that in caseR of death front aeUte illness the mina' ealise of death might be only of a temporary na- ture, Thi e laboratory worker, whose re- putation IR international, is known to solentista AR an extremely cooservative Man. His positive statements, therefore, awarding the results of hi8 latest dis. settery have created ne stir in eelentille 0 it Ss -eertain that Dr. Nleltr hos lieviseil a method n artifieiai respire. - Oen terjoid mote efficient than the Old- Ot108, and it is enpeeted that it will he tho itteaTIC of 'saving roma-lose Bete% Briefly. the method .eonsiete of the Afiroduetion of n Catheter into tho ,•••••,•••.••• woorniispm. , the night of tne tragedy, Lord Mer- tioy asked with whom Mr. Ismay had dined on tale Sunday evening. Gordon replied -Mr. Ismay and the doctor dined alone, Lord Mersey said lie had asked the question, 118 he had. received a letter from a woman enclosing the mom or art alleged banquet on that evening. tordon was undergoing a grilling cross.examination, which, however, did not have Zile effect of altering his evi- dence...when Lord -Mersey remarked that the wholo incident had only a small bearing on the inquiry, and that lie hop- ed, that it would be uneeeessary to cell Lady Gordon. Ileury la Duke, legal advisor to the G (trams, sa id Lady Gordon desired to p,ive evidenee, it statement whieh was a relief to the audience, which feared it. was goine. to be robbed of the scene wide)) had brought it to the hall. Allen C. Edworda M. P. the attorney for the Dockers' Union, celled attention to the difference) between the evidence of G. Symons, the look -out of the Tha- nk. and that of Gordon, The former had said both women arid men rushed to the boats, while Gordon insisted that his . story, that he had been waitingon the deck for some time before asking per. miesioia to enter a boat, was correct. Attorney Edwards -The possibility of offering help to people in the water was never thought of. Gordon admitted this. Attorney Edwarda-lt was more im- portant to think of offering a present of C5 than to think of going to the res - elle of the drowning. Gordon, N'ho lost his temper, was fin- ally eelieved of this 'unfriendly cross- examination, and. under the nireetion of Attorney Duke went over Ws story of the ineidents, which are now familiar. LADY GORDON 'TESTI FI ES. Lady Duff -Gordon -was then caned to give testimony. She remained on the stand for .only fifteen minutes, and the incident. which in order to witness so many women had crowded the court, was over. Lady Cordon repeated her Imeband's story almost without variation. She denied she bad said anything about go- ing. baek to the scone of the wreck while in the lifeboat. When she was exam- ined in regard to articles which had op- peared in the American newspapers tare said the doseription of the night of the dienster credited to her in those artielee bad not been written by her. Three members of the crew of the lifebont confirmed the aesertion that nothing bad been said about goleg back. One varied the nArtal story by saying the boat did return to the seene. This closed the evidence in regard to the tench diseuesod lifeboat and the ex. amination of the crew of the Titanic wa s resumed. ••••••••irmohrnramoivorxr..... , pharynx., pulling out of the tongue, foreing the back part of the, tongue againee the roof of the mouth by pressure applied far back under the Ain, putting a veight on the elide - men to keep air from being forced in- to the stoinaele connecting the eathete with a bellows and pumping air into the lungs. With very little instruction the layman can learn these methods as readily as the physicia». The nutjority of Dr. aleltzer's eee perimente were carried on 'With Ani- mals in which respiration had been paralyvea by means of a poison named cure re. I GAYNOR THANKED For Raising Fund for the Titanic Sufferers. New York, May 20. -Two visitors from England on en official mission ar- rired here on the steamer New York last night. 'rimy were H. IL Smith and Ce E, Thomas, both magistrates and memberof the town council of South- ampton Eng.; and their "erraud, is to present the thanks and pay the, respeete of the Mayor of Southampton to Mayor Geynor for his part in colleeting a fund for the sufferers from the 'Titanic disas- ter. The homes of the greater part of the Titanic's crew vere itt oothamp- ton. Another paesenger was Lieutenant. General Sir G. at. ladlock, who is to sue - ted the late GeneraVSir Frederick Wel- ter Kitehener as Governor-General of Bermuda. The new governor will Reese here for this post on one of the next steamers sailing. IONA'S CREW Reaches Land After Stormy Night in 130at. Watertown, N.Y., May 2.0. ----The crew of nine mon and a -woman cook of the steam coal barge lona, of Montreal, have reaehed Henderson from Stoney Poiot liight4 where they landed yesterday morning, after 1JCnI buffetted about all night in open boats. Their steamer, onal laden, burned, to the water's edge and sank 25 miles off Stoney Point Satur- day night, and the clew took to the Witte in a raging sea, leaving all their pereoual effects bolded, The captain had to lelegreph for money to take his nicu to Montreal, arid expeets to start toeht y. The boat WAS Valued at $15,000, al1d is fully insored. The entire forepart of the boat was ablaxe when the five was first diseovered at 10.30- /tan, and the Mee iS unknown. A IVIORTAL. OLOW. "What's the matter with your wife? SIW's ail broke up lat.' "She got a terrible jar." ..what has happi.„041.1i, "‘Vity, she wag ocoisting at a rem- 111age t:ale, took off Iter nes hat, and eantebody sold it fer thirty fiVe et410," •Waelgion Iferahl, - . • 'NOM* I I 1 I 1 I 1111 + . . $1. L.,. TITANIC BAND Touching Ceremony of Fuu. eral of Bandsman. May lea -Walltwe Hartley, loader of tho Titanic Band, W118 bUried yesterday. The funeral serviee was hold at t'elne, in a little Bethel rhapel down in the vallcs below the town. lits fa- ther mei mother were there and two skt er A, Unto and Helen, The father, a grey and stern-faced old man, bore up bravely ana resolutely, but the mo- ther ana sisters were broken with griefs Old schoolfellows of Hartley filled the ehapel, aineieiane with whom he magi played were in the gallery, end belped the organ in tievompanying the bylines, The choir girls, many or them comely operative., from the Milk. Were dressed in blitek, and their sweet Voices filled the elotreh with the hymn, "Nearer, :My Clod, to Thee," one or those the bravo musicians played as the ship was going down. l'he funeral proeession, on the way to the eemetery, half a, mile long, ited it, passed through streets full oi sorrowing onlookers, many in their rnfll elothes, freeh from work, and othere dressed in their Sunday clothes. There were (Pate 30,000 of them Ohl eame from miles around. Seven bands were posted at intervals in the procee- eion. At the graveside buglers soUndert "taps" over the body. HIS BRIDE 13 ONE Chicago Man Tells Toronto Police lie is Deserted. Wife Goes to Visit Stores and Fails to Return. Toronto, May 20.-"3farried a week and my bride has left met" cried Wil- liam Becker, a middle-aged man, as he rushed into the deteetive offke at the City Hall, alt is a terrible position to he placed in, particularly ia a strange eity. Please try and find her for me, and I will be the bappieet Man in the world." Assured, by the police they would ren- der him every assistance. Beeker, who is a German and a retired merchant of Chi- cago. buret into tears, and added with a quavering voice: "f was a happy man when I reached Toronto on Saturday, but 1 fear my happiness has been shattered. 1 scarcely thought such a thiug would. happen, but under the circumstances 1 suppose I wiul have to make the hest of it. But I am determined to find her." Becker told Deteetives Armstrong and Miller that he And hie bride were on their way to Europe to live in Germany, where he owned a largo estate. One week After he met his wife they were married. They were on their war to Montreal, having hooked paesage on the Empress of Ireland. When they reaeh- ed here they proreeded to one of the aown leave hotels to have dinner. They intended leavIng on the night train for Montreal. After dinner his wife told him that she wished to send some telegraph nueeeftges to Vhiengo. She. alSO willed to prtrehase some sou- venirs. and if he remained in the eorri. dor ef the hotel he would be back in ttventy neinutes. This 11-'114 agreeable to ileeker. wbo eseorted his wife to thee door ana watehed as site looked in the ehop evindowe. He Wit the pollee that he had given her the steamship tickets on the train, but lie had kept the iniI- wn Tte waited until 'ithin fifteen minutee of train time, and when she failed to put in an appearanee he became n»Xielle, as to her where- abouts. poesibly she had lost her way, Finally he sought the help of the poliee. Accompanied by the deteetives. they proeeedea te the Union station, where they dii,teovered that Mrs. Becker had eallea atel got all the bag- gage Unit had been eitecked. This fact eonvineed Becker that his wife had de- serted him. This was too muclefor hint. TireAking into eobs, he cried, nddreseing his remarks to the °Mem: Have you any hearts? If you are marriea men You will sorely realize nay position. Do help me find her. It was most unkind of her to run away and take alt in3' be- lOneings." Tho detretires visited several hotels, bee were tenable to loe.ate the vOurff bride. . . III SHAW REBUKED Conan Doyle Defends the Men on theTitanic. New York, May 20.-A. London cable SAyS: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in the Daily New this morning, administers a stinging rebuke to George Bernard Shaw tor writing with "loosenees and levity" tertout the loes Of the Titanic. Sir Arthur says that in order to sup- port his perverse thesis that there were no heroistn shown and that women were not allowe(t the first chanee to escape Mr. Shaw pieks out a single boat; the smallest of all, and beeattse there were ten men and two women in this boat, denies that there Was any chivalry, although itt the very next boat sixty- five out of seventy were women. The novelieb then lashes the play- wright for his refloctiott on the be- havior of the captain, who, he says, "thought he may have made a terrible mistake and deliberately gave his life in reparation." He, also resents the attempt of Mr. Shaw to defile the beau. tiful incident of tho band playing "Near. er, My God, to Theo," nn the ground that it Wits the result of ()Mere to avert a panic!, holding that if that is a foet it does not detraet from theband'A won- derful bravery in going to death while inspiring others with eonrage to Meet their fate. DAMSH KING LYING IN STATE. Copenhagen, May 20. ---Over 30,000 people were in 1100 Whell the doors of the ehapel where the body of the late King Frederiek VIII. of Denmark is ly- ing in kale, were, thrown open at ten ote.10ek this morning. The people have been gathering sirwe throe o'elock. The progress of the column, which eita enlates without tessation round the ea - fin, is so slow that many of those wait- ing mono( hope to enter tiw ehapel to- day. • K11119 WEE 1 Was and What 1 wanted her for. I told. him that she was my wife. .UO take to see her. lie milted me who then went intci the dining room to tell her and the lights went out. Ife eame F44tarilritt6ielift4g::7°1tl111'll°te7fT!rasknrio11eP i+, Pttsli1rit414)itAtl;enti() the hotel on Saturday morning. She wae in the dining room, and saw me eross the road and pew pante down so 1 said to her, eAre you, going to eome homewith me anti live right'? Site ettid 'NO; Vitt going to etay amt work here,' bad a gen at home. I then \vent home and got it and None back to see her, She asked Me far some Money. I eald 1 will give you_ fivo dollars if you, will (True home, She told me to go to --. We then walked up to the corner ,She was going to tell a man that I. had. a gee, I pulled. it out, 1 was erazy, and and .shot her, and then I ran. I shot her beennse 1 loved her so and, worried about her, eoupla of men chased me. r stopped end turned around, then I started running again, twit 1: mot a min - Wet' and. I asked him to forgive nie and then 1 ,shot; myse(f," BRANT Foul) sT4‘.1t9'.L.1..1D. The trews of the tragedy startled Brnotfotd, as the Truekle family is well known there, and. when his parents heard of it they Were grief stricken and hur- ried to the tqty, arrivieg just a,4 pre. partitions wero being made to notify them. From 1110 reports they neecived, neither of them expiated to see TrUckle .beffire he died. As Trnekle had begged to see them, they Were grauted permiseion and there Was a pathetic wile when they entered the room, It WaS then that Truckle seemed to realize that his eed was near. Tenn; streamed down his cheeks, and he repeated to his mother and father as they knelt at the liedtide that ho had Lena beettuto she was pot faithful to him'rile., doetors told Mrs. Truckle that there WAS 11 elinnee of her son reeovering, and she left him, hepina to see him again on Sueday. As, the father anti mother walked out of the room Truckle cried good-bye. The home of the father of J. .T. True. kb e ie(1 tg'2 Marlborough street, Brant. ford. Ice was 20 years old, and the youngest son. He is survived by one brother, Ebner. of Brantiord. and three sisters, Mrs, Fred Kirby, of this eitv, and Mrs, Cleo. Lee and Mae. Fred Klein of Brantford. GAVE HIM COOD CHARACTER. Colonel 'Muir, of the Dufrerin Rifles, Brantfoal, was another who came to visit Truckle, Tie was alone with hint for some time on Saturday evening. "Ire wns my orderly for eeven „years," said the Colonel when he left the room. at always found him honest and a hard worker. lie was a good soldier and re- liable. Ile didn't have the same (thence that many others have, but he tried to live right," Mr. end. Mrs. Truckle elnimed the body of their son as seen ns the inquest wee, over to -day, and they will take it to Brantford for interment, Crown At- torney 'Washington go them permis- peon to remove. It from the morgue. ete Brantford Man's Terrible Deed at Hamilton. Wife Was Shot Through the Heart. Husband Then Turned the Weapon on Himself; Hamilton, May IS. Enraged by the attentione hie Wife is alleged to have received from other men, ;Frank Truekle, a young Man of good appearance, \Om came here a Meat time ago from Brantford, shortly before 11 oadoek shot and killed his girlish wife within a stone's throw of the eity and a block from the :King George who:' o the dead .Woman wOrlied. Ten minutes later he turned the revolver on himself. This terrible_ tragedy, which has shock. ed the whole down -town ,seetion of the city, took place ttt exavtly. 10,45, and was witnessed. by a dozen of citizens and farmers, who were powerless to inter- fere. The poliee were called to the seene. liamediately, and took the girl's body to the city morgue, and within a quarter of an hour later the man 'Was in the hospital. liamilten, :\ to, 20. With a prayer of repentanco on hie litre Frank Truckle, the young, ilrana ford Man who murdered his Wife It the corner of Park and Market streets On Saturday morning and who ehot Ili:itself after being rtin down by eitizens in auto- mobiles, died at the city hospital at 1..40 on Sunday morning. Early ou eatturday evening the doctors held. out hopes for bis recovery; in fact, they were almoet confident that he would have been ,suf- fieiently improved on Sunday to permit of an X-ray examination to try and as -certain where the bullet whieh he fired into his right civet, near the shoul- der, was loeated. STRICKEN \Vint REMORSE. In the quiet little room in which the murderer rested there was a scene en- aeted that wae in striking contrast to that gramme one 3m whieh he played a part On Saturday morning. Conseioue of the terrible crime he had committed and the mmishment that the law would exact if he recovered, Truckle tried to make peace with hie Maker. In the .excitement ettended the efforts to bring his parents to the, lied - side to gratify a dying wish no peteem thought ni seuding for a epiritual ad- viser. It was thought Truckle hail a fair chance of recovery, and his ngeel mother and father were permitted to linger at his bedside until a late hour. AG-ONY 01? MIND AND BODY. Shortly after midnight Truckle began to weaken and frequently besame lirioue. Stimulants were edministered to him, and the nurse gave him sips of beef tea to try and revive him, but he grew fainter. Then he began to rare, reeovering coneelousness for only eliort intervals. Death cheated the law in -the end, but, according 'to, the etory told by Constable Richard Elliott, who was with him all evening, it is doubtful it a murderer in a condemned cell ever suffered greater agony of mind and body. LIVED IT OVER IN' DELIRIUM. 'When he in ped into de11r1011STlet4S Truckle seemed to be living OVer Again the morning of the tragedy. Ile woeld gasp his wife' nanle, and then in. implor- ing tones ask her to return, to him. Then he Would ery out that he WaS being fol- lowed, and 110 ronld beg forgiveness for his (sin, as he had done when -vithout a chanee of ,escape on Saturday he ran up to Rev. Samuel Daw and asked, him to pardon hie crime. In his coeseious moments he .suffered untold agony, Paralysis of the arms set in. and he was eeized with feerful pains in the back. Writhing in pain he would cry out, "Lena, I loved you. That's -why I killed you." About 12,30 Truckle lookea up at Con. stable Elliott and one of the holm sur- geons and gasped, "I can't live. l'm going, boys." The doctor and the nurse, know that there was nothing to to but wait for the end, and they left the room. "THY WILL BE DONE." A few minutes before he died Truckle began to recite the Lord's prayer, -v,hile the officer eat in a corner of the room with bowed head. Tritekle \VAS Snug. - Oleg for breath and lte stopped, exhaust. ed, when he Teethed the word, "Thy will be done." The of1ier thought Truckle Iiael pass- ed away, hut the dying mein whispered, "Are you. married?" "1 hope she's it good woman, lf 1 had had _ono 1 wouldn't be. hero," Truckle mentbled, hie voice growing weaker every ilitiete.officer did not reply. Ito nsked Truckle to close his eye. Truckle did so for a few moments, and then opening them with a start he gasped, "I'm going. God forgive me for what 1 dono. God forgive her for what tiler did to me." The officer stood up to replace the iee bags at Truekle's head, but the murderer was dead. - BLAMED WIPE FOR. ALL. Constable Elliott said Truokle had his wife's name on his lips all the time ke WOC delirieue. Before he began to sink he talked freely and reitorated to the constable what he had said in a statemettt made to Coroner Hopkins in the afternoon that he haa shot his wife because she ran around with other men. Ito kept repeating about lier faithless- ness to hint botwithstandieg every ef- fort to keep him ROI. Trueklo know that tile doetors ex- poeted him to recover end judging frOM soy le of the remarke fie mado to Con- stehle Elliott, he thought himself for a time that he might get well. Joha;Miller, 4.1 Hunter street east, with whom Trnekle 'ottarded, was the first versant permitted to see hina.Mr. Miller calhel at the hospital at mon and Was perMitted to go to the rOOM itt which 'Amide was lying, Tho wound- ed man seemed to know him, but at that time he was too weak to speak. TittT'XIX'S fiTATEMENT. "I, Vrank Truckle, believe 1am in .a very bad condition and about to die.. ehot my wife bemuse she ran around with other mon, 1 went to the pitwo leiter., she woo working, (The Xing (40orge 11001) on Thursday even- ing bat, and asked at the _ KILLS GERMS New Vaccine Gives Immun- ity From Consumption, 11.1.••••••••••••••• Chicago, May 10.--A serum, whielt its diseoverer believes gives immunity .from tuberculosis, was announced to -day in Chicago, The diaeoverer is an Ante:clean scientist, Dr. Carl Von Ruck, of Ash- ville, N. C. First reports of the CX.fieri- 11101115 on which he beset hie conten- tions wore given in the Chicago Medieal Stouecile!y, in a paper prepared by Dr. Von i The Von Ruck bee discovered a vaecine which, he says, eill kill the germs of tubereulotis in a latent stage and make the tuideet, immune from further rev- ageof the disease. Experiments made uprin children and eon n ter experiments Made upon animals is said to have dem• onstrated the value of the disrovery. Dr, Von Rusk does not yet claim it will cure eansumption ia its advanced stages. "A1 tool justified in claiming." Says the physielan, "is that I am the first to have made n, successful Advent in this most important and promising field of specific prophylaxis in a dieease that loads the mortality ,statistics of the I111 - Man race." The hint that Dr. Von Ruck leis given the scientific world as to the eomposi- tN,00ria::f his serum, IS in the following "The preparation that, T have made and osed contains all the soluble proteid constituents of the letberele becelllus. with the ,addition of a small amount of -tatty extractives. It would require Mr too omit spare to deeeribe the modeof preparation at this time, but tide will be done in the complete report, which will apnear at tin early date. Further, Dr, Von nuelt 'says his vac- cine is, absolutely free from real or Oren supposed danger, powerful enough to net by one or two applieatione, -uniform in action to a degree that result.; need not be vontrollea by praetiee. and so sim- ple that any physlelan van use, TEASED HIM Old Man Shot 25th Dragoon Member. Brantford, One, May 20.----A shooting case jest outside of the village of Bur- ford \vas investigated yesterday by County Constable Kerr. Private Cat- ton, it member of the 25th Dragoons, 11118 Shat on Saturday by en Oht man nattled Splatt. Catton, it is alleged, teased the old -man to the point of anger and 11)0 latter rushed into the house for his 22 eiflibre rifle. The bullet lodged itt Catton's shoulder. 'Doctors yester. day were unalde to extract the bullet. Speatt 'went Into Burford village and gave himself et), but be is not under ar- rest. Ile will be given 0 preliminery hearing toolight before T. Grey, •J.V. POISONED BABIES Woman on Trial Saki to be Victim of Another. New York, May 20.-C1iarged with poisoning nine babieS by patting oxalie acid in their *milk, Winifrid Ankers, a, muse, vas *ear on trial to -day before Supreme Court Justice Scudder Itt Brooklyn. The nine children died sev- eral months ago in an Infants' hospital itt lirooklyti, Avitere the Ankers woman was employed as a nurse. The defend- ant hos a, baby of her own. Iler con- elairne that alie nurse was made the tietint by one who .did the poisoning, and is heiog "railroaded" to prison. • AogsoN PANAMA STEAME..I.3 BURNED CAN U. S. R'na Sink $ in Lake -Crew Saved by Boat, _KingsLn, Ont., ;Vey IU. -The -Mon- „ trealson nett hieratic): .Loria, coal laden, To Prevent Canadian Rai roads Use of the Canal, took fire shortly before midnight in jeTkteo (tInlitentit?1,t;vet(:h'stevaen4ea,11FilinilierteTtulentlittirty. +finking, The captain and erew of 'twelve men took to it lifeboat, and were driven before a, violent finally landing this morning at 'Henderson Intfbor, N. The 'veesel WAS fifteen miles north el; °moue when fire wee diseavered noar tho I./oder-room, and, after inef- feetual ettempte to subdue it, tho /nen Jett the VOSS01, They woro thoroughly ('2d10 8131041 on reaehilat land. 'Captain Paul Ilymond, of :13(4111, harnoLs, Qi.10,, Was in charge, and. the crew aro all CIMadians, Chief Engineer , Prank Peterson being from Pieton, Ont, The loss is estimated at *20,000, Italy covered by insurance. The captain said that rocketo had been Sent up, but there Were 110 other vessels within reach, and had it riot been for the excellent eondition of 11)0 lifeboat a :Rene -ter would have oe- curved, The lona Was a wooden NT$,. ‘sit h Herm propellere, 150 feet with a 25 -foot beam and a depth. of 12 feet, She wits built in 1002 at Trenton, Vessels of Canadian Rail. ways Nay be Barred. InternationalComplications Nay Arise Over Bill. New York, lqay 20.-A Washiagton ,deepadelt to the Herald. Rays: (lanadiaa railroad, wheel, ow)1. and operate or in any way exenose control over steamohips, will be dealt a were blow if the Adamson Panama Canal bill to be plated by the linnet) tiiie week le not emended before it be:antes a law, in the opinion of Repabliean and Dim- ocrat mempors or. the 11011se, loteretate and floreigit Commerce Connuitto.., wlian drafted the measure and of members the Interatato Commeree C0nt81itii40 who favor 1.1, 110 Canadian stea meld p Ope r - ated by a railroad is pcnnitted by tlte waterway of the United States„inehtdin terms of the Adamson. bill to uee itne;4, the great leave and Panama Canal. , This far-reaching effect of the Mei son bill has only eome to light withi a few days. Lest week in the :Hone it wag charged by opponente of the lei road 101,,rislatiOn 4,arried in the bill tha if the provision against the ownereld by railroads of steamships with waie they do or "may" compete woro enaetie Canadian railroads woula have -au wife i advantage over America, railroads. This Marge wae allowed, to tand nn- eontra(lk'te(l until to.day, when Repre- Sentative J. 11. Knowland, of California, a Republican member of the interstate and Foreign Commerce Commission, who strongly favors the railroad legislation in the bill, called attention to the fact that the bill refers to "any railroad com- pany or common carriers subject tO the act to regulate commerce." The Canadian tranacont inental mOil- roadt+, by reaeon of the fact that they operal e lines in the United States, it re subjeet to this net. explained Mr. Know. land. They are the Canadian Pecifie, the Canadian. Northeni and the Crept' Trunk, and they all operate steamships, on the great lakes ana on the sea. Franklin K. Lane, of the Interstate Commeree Commiesion, said: "1 think Mr. Kpowland is right in hie conetruc- tion of the language of the bill. When operating trains in the United States the Canadian railroads are subject to' the juriediction of the CO11hmiS41011. TI11.4 bill means that it will be unlawful for them to operate ships in Amorkan watere, or, in other words, that when they do business in the Unitea States they must obey the same law in this reepeet under whieh the railroads of the United Stats are compeiled to operate." 1 he great importnnee of title proposed legislation, which it uow rippeare will p,ilee the House by a big majority, to Canada ab; chI ta; the United ettritme may be even at a, glanee. it is Of equal importance to both countriea so far as border waters and the Paiiain0 Canal ere coneerned. By mutual agreement ta &ape of tho United Statee and Canada! use the great lakes and horsier waters indiseriminately. Ity the terms of the lray-Pauneefote treaty with Great tain equal terms;must ho granted tollarlif nations using the Pa Marna Canal. The Adamson bill unsettled all of theee agreements, it is believed, and mny result ill gllt Vo 111 t ornat iona 1 men- plieations. The railroads of the United States are opposing the provisions with might and main. If they are beaten in the Howie they will carry the fight to the Semite. Indeed, they are im'w ex- pecting to makc their big stand in the Senate. When Canada hilly understands the import of the proposed legislation it is believed that the Canadian rail, roads and the Canadian government will get Mighty bnsy, too. The object of tho railroad provision of the canal bill is to bring about, if possible, lower freight rates through real competition between ritilroads and water earners. It is believed that every steamship owned by a railroad in. the u „, nuNt eo ates or Canada "does or may compete for traffic" with "snid railroad- oi. other carrier," and. therefore, comes within the prohibition of the bill. The hquetiee of preventing railroads in the United States from operating steamships and at the same time permit- ting Canadians roads to operate ships in American water is, recognized by the authors and advocates of the Adamson bill. A majority of the Inter -State- arta lareign Commerce Commission, and ap- parently a majority of the Rouge, are determined. however, to stand by the proposed legislation in far as United States shipsare eoncerned, and, there- fore. they are not likely to yield regard- ing Canadian ships in American waters, The support of the railroad section, of the Adamson bill is non-partisan. 11 was reported by a large majority from the eommiseion by the voteof Democrats and Repubileans. Membere of both par- ties will oppose it, The section of the Hay-Panneefote treaty, which some believe will prevent the United States from enacting each legislation affecting Canitdian ships is: "The. canal ;Judi be free and open to the vessels of commeree and of war of all lations observing these rules or tones f claire equality sO that there shall re no discrimination against any eueb lation. or its eilizen% or subjeets, in 'espret to the e0011(111.10114 or chargee of ttrnadifti,tii,ztrogl. s - (t)irtetrreadge. sinill be ;11;1 tiii11(011st equitable." Representative Wm. 0. Adamson, of Georgia, chairmanof the commistion and author of the bill, has prepared an 1)ntendment with+ he will offer on the week, floor this we, giving the litter -State Commerce Commission authority to de- termine the question of fnet 1113 to whether met' steronehip 113 owned, 01-10e. (11(141ted or wholly or in part eontroned by tt railroad with which it may cOmpete. The ennuniesion 011344 gots in fide amend- ment jurisdietion over joint rail and writer ratee through the eanal when suelt traesportation "is ant entit,.ely within the limits of a single state." n- 41 GOOD EOR HIM. 'NM York, May 20.-4)r. David Alba Gorton, of Brooklyn, eighty years ted, 113 the father of twins, it beettme known today, a boy and a girl, welehing six and a half pounds moil. The aged physielan, who is the father also of three children hy his first wife, Was married last July to Miss Bertha Lein, his privnte seeretary. Dr. Gorton is a Negettriait and the author of number of medical beolss. t I WIFE DEAD And .Canadian Missionary' Burring Home to Brazil. New York, :May 20.-ne Rev. hIcitwon, of Maxville, Ont., a Congre- gational missionary in 'Brazil, who ro. tuned to Canada, 011 a SIX months' 11)- 4 1. low otivA arm. took pm. sage back to Brazil this moreing on the steamer 'VasAtri, summoned by the ends den death of his wife. Her death is the first which hae occurred in ten years in the little colony of Canadian -missionaries and traders whieh the. Lev. Mr, MeEwen founded in the inland MOUntain Country of Brazil. The cable- gram announcing her death gave no inkling of the came, and her husband fears that the explanation' will be fouud in some violence or possibly an attack on thio colony by hoetile natires. hire, lafeEtven, who Wa:i 41 natiVe ai. 131•001dilie., N. 'se and 38 yearold, was in eharge of the educational work ot the mission. She was proficient as a linguist, speaking fluently .the dialecto of a number of the -uncivilized tribes of interior Brazil. She aimed to reach the natives through lessons in farming and the 1)11111 1101 arta 'Until her arrival, the natives in that seetion of Br:1bn had never seen a 4..107. SAVED HIM FolOyary, *me am..•••••• Rescue of Man Who Fell Into Niagara River. Niagara, Valls, N. Y., May 10.-- One of the 'meet daring rescues in the tory of Niagara Falls was effected to- day by a twenty -year-old Armenian named Aran Kevorkian, of this city, who waded oat waist deep into the rap- ids a short distanee above the catered and pulled to shore with a, pike pole the uneouseions form of _Henry J. Smith, fifty yeala 01(1, a resident of 18 Beeidi street, lialialo. Revorkian wee .assisted by .Inteid Gordon rota Park Coneteble Thonme Harrington, who .formed a human chain, anehoring the Armenian to the shore and enabling him to resist the eurrent, whieh was ee. pocially strong to -day on account of the high water. Smith was walking along the narrow path skirting the river about 300 feet above the falls, when ho missed hie footing and fell into the turbulene stream. He soon became exhaneted in his efforts to reach shore, and was floating with his head under water when caught by levorkian with his pike pole less than 100 feet above the 'brink. Smith was taken to pollee head- quarters and soon restored to conseions- Imes, apparently none the woree for his hozardous experienve. Eye -witnesses say that the fall Was aeeidentel. FELL ON STEP A Child's Throat Cut by a Broken Bottle. Galt, May I.S.--The little daughter, about ten yeaes of ago, of Mr. and Aire. ;Jamieson, MeNaughton street, met with an arvident last ovoning, in which she nearly blca to death. The little gin had been sent out to the store to get a bol-: tie of milk, on returning home the bot. tie broke when the child was going up a step to the walk into her home ned she HI on the broken glees, a. Fleet, of which cut her throat. She was founa on the sidewalk bleed- ing profusely from the wound, and had it not been for the prompt action of Mr. Skoyies, the storekeeper, who was one of the fir, --a on the scope of the aceident, the child would have bled to death. He sent in n hurry call to Thee \Verdi:1w and Charlton, both of whom have ala tomobiles, and they made quielt re- sponses. People itt the street thought the two (10(40):1 NV010 raeing, but they weren't: it Wes a case of life or death with them, and the automobiles won out, the dee- tors arrivieg and :topping the blood, thee saving the eh11ds life. - THIRTY LASHES For West Zorra Farmer Guilty of Vile Crime. Wood stook, On 1., lay en, -41,1111 Role. Clelthty,8. promilient farmer of \Vett 'Zara, was today senteneed to tell years 'With fifteen hisiteS one month otter cen- (awe, and fifteen lashes one month be- fore expiretion if bis term for 011 1111 - nature mime -against his daughter. R G. MelCay, K. V., eonnsel for tho Memo put up 0, strong plea, aaking for siv, mouths in the eommon jail in view of the prieoner's notorious op.:twinging ar,tl for .the .eakn of his mother, wife and ftnit The prieonertt mother, need Ile and wife, who were in 0010. here Ladle brolou up when Maglatrale hill pro. waived sentenee, G. T. Mr. Smithers Says No Choice Made Yet, Will Appoint One as Soon as Possible. :New York, :May 20.----4lfred W. F11;1111.1etebte01;81ii ot.fettirlritlraltIT'rU43n7tard Rail. Way of Canada, arrived to -day on the alauretertia, and will spend a vonple of daye in New York before leaving for Montreal. Ile was met here by. :1;utigniga ;kilt; la Galloway, assistant to tlie presidcnt, nnd R, 11. Fithit dent of the Central 'Vermont' Reit- "Yai imediately on arrival at the Bei. mont note' Mr. Smatters plenged into 8. diecussion of the affaire of the sea - tem with the officers, who had eomo on for the purpose of consulting with him, Ile apent a Inset' afternoon 414mi:s- ing matters of interest to the Creed Trunk, not only with the -ofiieeee but with other gentlemen who called, ap- parently by appointment. When asked whether he had any announcement to make with regard to the objects of his Idea Mr. Smither"All 1 e ean say is that my zniesion to Canada this time is a sad one, in- deed. With regard to the appoint- ment of a, president for the Grand Triink Railway Company, and the other changer; that may be made, a can only say once more that Aim - lately nothing has been settled -upon. Matters with the company are la good shape, and the officers are ab- solutely loyal, eel that the interests ( t the system are not suffering. "Ai the same time, we wish to act expeditiously 1» this matter, am! jut 85 soon as 1 have vonsulted with a number of eentlemen whom 1 am. to meet here, r.1 will proeeed to Moetrette feel take up the matter of the Wee - tion of a president and other mattere tctiiilrortaitnizd:111.1,1rtflon11kl'yattention at the momeene neetion with the presidency of the 'The use of certain names in core, did not warrant any announcement. 1 P0114011 Was likely to get the apo Trunk Company has iviren out ally may tell you now that I have not alts. cussed with anybody the question of dot - the availability of eny 0110 man 14,0 numb, but mean that even the facte - tlie statement tending to show that ary only that -no officer of the Grano lt'frittasu Lalibsor°11;eltdelYI 1-111111edrltl't tiltmS4tInii111-11." (ire was asked whet,11.1i- 1 eared to comment on a rumor tilat sonteone tried to spread here that the coming of Mr. Smithers meant the removal from the Grand Trunk stiff of ibo so.ealled Hays -Harriman ail - "I do not earo to say anything on that euldect," he replied. "We shell net :le expeditiously as possible in the determination of the businese beim" us, and the announcemente of one ehanges that are to he made will 10 given -out itt the earliest, possible 111011t. 1: will: Say thie, however, thee believe that ,Mr. Ilays Wag ftbeolutely loyal to the Interests of the eirenct Trenk RailwaY System, and, further, that he was illeralutely loyal to Cane. nda n.ti Caretelian....intereste." THENCT" •.. Earl •Grey Says That Can- . .ida:Von't be It Londo.,.:\lay 20.-- Preeiding at the Royal. holenial 'J»stitute dinner to- night, WiliCh was attended by is - count Milner, Earl Stanhope, Admiral Fremantle, 3)r. George IL Parkin, and Sir Hartman dust, Earl Grey paid a, glowing tribute to His Royal Itighnese the Duke of Connaught, who, to- gether with the Duchess, he said, had captured, the hearts of the Canadians immediately upon his arrival. The people of the Dominion were Conscious of having secured as their official chief a man who was not less copspicuous for his lovable qualities than for the. distinction he enjoyed as a, brother ot the late King Edward the Seventh„ and an uncle of the present King. Recalling that Empire Day at Tor- onto when six thousand youths Phouldcred their rifles, proud of their ability to do their part _in defence of elle Empire, Earl Grey said .that the eight made one feel that if there should be any question of an "ad- junct," Canada 'Woulri not be that ad- junct. Alluding to the fact that reat Britain bore the burden of the de- fence of the Empire, the speak•er de- clared that thousands of Canadian% weee galled by the thought. They envied her that privilege and . were eounting the days until they eoulft stand and claim their share. Dr. George R. Parkin &Tiered that the way in which Ambassador Bryce had. boon treatetl by some people in the eountry WAS unjust. If only the lean- ing statesmen of this oountry could. be induced to visit the over -seas dominion.; of the Empire, they 'would find there vast problems of infinitely more im- portance than leme of the questions that now receivedsomuch attention. 4 ;t ' ITALIAN VICTORY; • Turkish Garrison Surround- ed and Surrenders. Rome, May te).-Premier j eliovatud Giolitti, amid theers of the members. announeed in the chamber to -(lay that Gen. Ameglio had stirroundea and de- feated. the garrison of the Turkieh hind. of Rhodes, which had been :omen- dered. CI en. A m tee o's despatchea say that the defeat of the Turks wa% effected by three eolumne of pieltea troops \Olivia starting from three differont points. k‘urpri,led and eurentuded the 'rifts at, Peale's. The enemy WAS unable to witheterel the vigorous attack of the Italians and broke and seattered to tho ravines, leerier; 83 dead and ao Nvound. *N1 ou the field, The despetclies add that, realizing thore \Vali IVA further elutnee for SUceeiss. Ail 1'eSiStallee4 the Turkish commender, eta summons from CleteAineglio, sent an officer to the Italian eommantler to arrange terms for the eapitolatimt the island. whieh took nleee this own. twoording in eonditions dietated by Geo. Ameglio, Tho it1inns, lion. Amoglio sa s, lost fnlir men killed and 20 winnita.