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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1912-08-29, Page 7• \ BRA-MWELL BOOTH TO SHE WAS WISE POSTOFFICE FIRE SALBride Plays Trick on Wed- . VATION ARMY, cling Guests. IN OLD LONDON New Leader Issues Manifesto --Will Fol- low Dead Leader's Example. Late General Now Lying in State --Touch- ing Tribute From Queen Alexandra. - ' BRAMWELL BOOTH, THE NEW LEADER. Loudon cable: In a message to the hall. 'Arany of whom walked. milee tb Salvatio aists throughout the to pay their last respects to the eGen- world, published in. the Daily Chron- eralto ahoulder to shOulder with them were Rae ,to -day, General Bramwell Booth, faebionably dressed women, who desired the new Commander -in -Chief of the to pay their homage to the great dead Salvation Army, indicates the direc- Christian leader mid uplifter. , The usual siges of mourning \yore not tion of the Army's coming activities. visible. Flying over the great hall at lie speaks confidently ot its future. the top of it tall flagpole was the Sal- aml s..ends to the millions, whose I lemon aa envy with "Blood and Fire" spiritual direction he has assumed, a upon it. Draped above the doorway were battle ery to li epire the future Af. a Union Jack and a German fin, sup- ported on each side by the Stars and tee a tender and beautiful tribute Stripes of the "United States andtie: te his father, the new General says: Rising Sun of Japan. Except for Salva - "The Army's reorganization and tion -Army flags, there was not a ban - achievements are the outcome of ner in the hall. , God's spirit. That spirit cannot die. The plaiu, hardwood casket was coy - It still vivifies us. Yet, though the ered with a pall made of the Salvation spirit does not change, the forms and Army coat of arms, which supported, methods in which it is clothed must instead of a sword, the dead General's change. New methods must be on- favorite Bible, hymu book and famous ployed, and new channels of activity campaign cap, opened, to keep pace with human ad- The eoffin re4ted nn a marble base, vancement. underneath a huge canopy of gold and . "It was the late General's great white muslin. draped with red and blue, joythat he had created a •body into _4tanding at the our corners of the which he had breathed a living soul. bier, cadets lield the flags of Great Bri- The outward body might alter, but tain. the United. States, Japan and Ger- the spirit is enshrined in the spirit many. All around were bodyeetards of of charity and compassion and self Salvation. .Army offieers, wearing red sacrifice, and cannot be crushed. and white hands on their sleeves. "It is my ambition to preserve and At the foot of the cesket etood the fostet that spirit. Despite the mater- last portrait fo the dead General, while ialism of the age, there is a new and at it hear was a painting of the late growing yearning for a more ideal Mrs. Booth. The body of the dead mis- and spiritual life, which is acting as sioner was dressed in the familiar froek a recruiting agency for the Salva -he um orm coat always wore. It was Asked whether the Army still open to show the reel ,jersey bearing the tion Army." . w °tele "Blood a nd The," the cost • eP would be (et/vented on military lines, „, '- els of the Salvation Army.emblavoned the General replied that no doubt it e"---- - • ' : •..'' would. been iiss. military discipline on the breast, flie. eilvery han. and gives a tremenuous cohesion of sim- beard an the waxen face contrasted plicity and power to the organization, with the brilliance of the uniform and of -a similar kind to that displayed gave the figure a lifelike RPPearallee' by the Roman Catholic Church. The crowd,unlike the uoual tnorbid Referring to the world-wide in. mob which gathers for the lyidg-in-state fluence of the Army the General be- of a dead ruler or other prominent in wh.ole a large part of the soilage, displayed great rever,ence. FOR POLYGAMY inent per - work is still among ehe lowest strata ,elaseeaaNDRA SENDS CONDOLENCES. or society. and he has great hopes of winning a way among the working Queen Mother Alexandra to -day tele- German Plan for Increas. dassEe. graphed to Bramwell Booth as follows: The General also sees immense "I beg you and all your family to ac- ing Birth. Rate. fields for activity in the service of cent my deepest arid most heartfelt syna foreign and colonial Governments, pathy and irreparalde loss you and the especialy among the criminals and nation have suffered in the death of I3erlin, Aug. 25, --The German the tribes of India. your great, good and never -to -be for newspapers are making the most sar- He thinks there is great room for gotten father, 11 is a loss which will be an extension of work among all the felt thronghout the whole civilized world suffering people in America, and he hut,. thank ,God, his work will live for- bel:eves that an immediate step ever.'- • (Sigme).• •Alexandra, should be taken to open a campaign Metetages of condolenece love also in C hina, for which, however, money le:en received from Eine, Chrietian, Den - ie needed, as the prejudice there mark; (*floral Lois Botha, Premier of aga.net foreigners would make the tlii Union of South Africa; Lord Ming- ordieary method Of sending officers ton. Governor of New Zealend; Lord about tue country ineffectual. He Itheebery and m say other prominent adds. "We must rely on taking con- persons throughout the worlds verts immediately, and treating them To connection with thefuneral there in a central organization.". is under consideration a suggestion Hutt Speaking generally, Bramwell the coffin be conveyed to Abney Park Booth confesses that he would re- cemetery on a gun carriage as symbol- joice in the deeline of the Army if istic of the mili•tant cha'racter of the the spirit left it, In this regard he says: "I ehould, in brief, be for not keep- ing.. dead things above the ground," "The General has great sympathy in the .demand of the poor for better , wages and thhigher conditions of .. America. will be stopped in memory' of can bring up a race that will not be life. Awing his own pet schemes is Gen, William. Booth, whose funeral takea touched by the poison of civilization. e one to he e,1 the Door widows with lilace at a correepondieg hour in Lon. _ Tllose spots are to become -"regen- small children ot the country in don- eration cradles," and serve' as "power homes before coming to the work- . For four hours, While the impressive _ it•leosnestivers" for the regeneration of na- house. Referring to the world-wide serviees are being held and. the cortege ai........---e•-eek- expressions of sympathY, he says lie passing through the streets of Lon- PREDICTS CHURCH UNION. does not believe that his father, in don, every member of the Salvation moments of highest inspiration, , Army in this ('ountry will drop his. task London, Aug. 25. --- The Free Could have hoped for anything so and engage in prayer. Orders to that Churehes of England to -day eelebrat- beantiftil and spontaneous. effect were sent out to -day from the ed the 250th anniVereary of the pass - "I ant deeply moved and inspired army headquarters here. ago Of the Art of Uniformity, which thereby," General tiooth says, "and Arrangements were also completed for • ininit'aittLelY drove two thousand Of to my Soldiers I will' Say, in con- it memorial service to be held shimfl the clergy from the Church of Eng- Ch101011, let US 11011.0r Christ and live taneously itt every city and important la1)1(1and defilhily testitliaelufd non - to saVe." town et the United Stn. teg at a pan. on C011fOrreity ill tiliS Country. Ilibblug, Minn., Aug. 25.. ---Minnie Jaeki- kuva's thrift led to her marriage to ,i(e-eph •Sesenielt last night being brolan up by a fight whieh the pollee had to st op. At Attetriatt weddings here it is eas- terners for the bride to put a elate on the floor. The mea toss coins at this until it is breken, and the bride gets the money, Afinun ie put dowa plate and the eoine reined on it, but it did not break. When $150 had been thrown N'omebody exam m - 'ei the plate and fomid it was made of iron and painted. to resemble thine. Then the trouble began. There were no arrests, ••••• •••••-••• •••• ROBBED THE BANK Desperwe Affair at Cedar Cottage, B. C. ••• One Robber Shot But Car- ried Off by Comrades. V11 -he 1WOUVer, .Aug. 25.-TBank of Hamilton's breech at Cedar Cottage, five miles from the city was the scene of a boldly -planned but badly -executed robbery last night at 9 o'clock, just as the bank was closing. Six. desperadoes, ormed and masked, four of whom are believed to be Italians, 'lade the at- tempt. Not more than $100 WaS tile nalQUIlt of their plunder, this sum being secured from the tellers aesk. -Manager T. R. Rhodes had found an opportunity to ring .a fire alarm signal and fears for their own safety prevented the bandits from pro- ceeding further with their work. As they backed out from the bank building, showering bullets among the crowd on the street, Pollee Constable Winters ap- peared and ehot ono of the robbers, but his eompanions earried him to a waiting automobile and escaped. Most of the bullets passed high in the air, but a stilly one eraehed through the glass window of a neighboring grocery .store and etruck F. T. Foley, a clerk, in the leg, 4 • BRITISH FLOODS Continued Rains Cause En ormous Havoc. London, Aug. 20. ---This Augast has been the wettest month known in. Eng- land for many years. Rain fell every day for three weeks, and nearly con- stantly during the past week. Damage to the crops, particularly hay, was heavy throughout the United King- dom. Ten thousand troops, under canvas me Salisbury Plain, are nearly 'flooded out. The tents are soaked, the floors are un- der mud, and the surrounding fields are a great swamp. The railroads in North "Wales are partly under ,water. Passengers are be- ing conveyed, between Dolgelly and Bar- mouth, a distance of seven miles, by motor boat. The river .Nenn, in North- amptonshire, it twelve feet above nor- ms!, and a big flood is threatened at Onndle, a town on the river -front. in some parts of the Provinces men are mowing through nearly a foot of water in attempts to save the crops. ln Leteesterehire„ North Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, many hundreds of houses are under water. Fields for miles in the Doigelly district reeemble lakes. Leigh, in Lancashire, suffered great damage by yesterday's downpour, a number of housee being flooded. The rain also- was so heavy at Cardiff that the dockers were unable to work. castle fun of the Mittgar Society, which has been holding a congress at Jena. After a very long powow they came to the conclusion that the only remedy for the falling birth rate and general decadence of nations was plural wives. The members of the society justified their position by the ancient laws and usages as well as by the Bible. The Mittgars do not ad- vocate general polygamy, but are in favor of it when restricted to men and women who are picked for their mental and physicalstrength. The society considers the great cities the poison centres of modern evangeliet's work. civilization where htimanity is de- CM'NTRY.WM 1DE EMORTAL, voured and destroyed, and proposes to New York despatch; At the stroke of establish colonien where the right noon on Thursday next the wheels of men will have several right kind of f 1 itt'•4 a1 t• L' . • Wlves far from the cities, where they no...•••1,111.4 11 11 . 4.1411191111M,011 TAFT SIGNS BILL Britain Will Carry Protest to the Hague. oma Washington, Aug. 25. -President Taft laet night signed the Panama Canal Bill. Cable and Telegraph Com.'xi . s means that the question of free munication Cut Off 1 Interior of New Building Badly Damaged. Wires Fused by Heat Un- der the Fioors. • London, Aug. 2..----A fire that for it time looked. as if it would take off Lon- tiou telegraphivally from the rest of the amid for eta eral days °es:tared at 7 o'clock Saturday evening in the gen- eral postuffice. The fire was coueed by the hieing of mires in a large test box on the fourth floor. • The firemen hate great difficulty in reethinte the fire, which Wilti very fierce, owing to tlte dense smoke. Although the fire was ottt at S o'clock. one hour after it started, the delay to Loudon's telegraphic traffic wee com- plete. The cable companiee, organized. special treble for Liverpool, the ouly place wthere they would be able to handle the aceumulat ion of traffic, By 10 o'elock, however, the engineers by dint of heroic efforts, had got the hit° something like working order. The damage to the building was apparently slight, but the destruction of instruments probably involves a loss of 00,000. A thousand entplopes, a nmjority of them being Women, -got out of the structure promptly and without NriBleie. maim fire brigade of the east end of London, eovering a raditte of several miles, was -on the 6cene promptly with a big salvage corps, and by 8 o'elock the engines had ceased to pump water into the building. The lighting apparatus was out of eourmission, how- ever, and a 6trange seene was presented as the salvage men groped about the -huge cTheicture with lanterns and with (similes flickering dimly. Thousands of wires underneath the floors had fused, and the firemen -were forced to tear up part of the floors to (set at the flamee, the work being ex.- ce edi ugly dangerous. Temporary repairs were started im- mediately after the fire had. died out to restore emergency communication with America and the continent, but the damage to the instruments and wires was so great that some devs elapse before work on a normal: settle can be resumed. The braneh offices about the town have thousands °Ones - sages for places in this eountr,y and on the eontinent, and others are still accu- mulating. The ouly communication 11 ith the outer world for three hours was by telephone to Paris. Telephone.lines were in great demand last night by the news- papers. Ten minutes after the fire started Sir Alexander King, the head of the postoffice, ordered all the employees out of the building. They loft by the stair- ways in good order, taking their bate, voate and umbrellas, and remained in the crowds about the building. The thick smoke made the firemen's work diffieult. The floor on which the outbreak occurred was laid in six-foot, Eeetions, and it was necessary to tear these up separately to get at the wires. The firemen first tried to smother the flames with sand, but found that method ineffectual. After 9 o'cloek all the employees mustered at the central hall for tem- porary duties and for salvage work during the rest of the night. It was explained to them that all the instru- ments, had been carefuliy covered up. The general postoffiee is the ventre fur the telegraph service of the entire kingdom. All the main cables for pro- vincial towns and the wires connecting with foreign eablo coneentrate there, 'hence the complete paralysis of the system. Besides the Paris telephone, in- t ermi ttent telephonic communication with the cable offiees at Liverpoal and Bristol was obtainable, but these were greatly overworked. The Englie.h telephonic service is re - 'makable! primitive compared to that if most civilized countries, and it 1lOW is the eubject of violent newspaper agita- tion. In the presence of last night's emergency it 'went entirely to pieces. Fewer operators AVM Olt duty Saturday than usual, and no arrangements were made for dealing with -exceptional con- ditione. The ereatest sufferers are the provin. cial papers, whieh depend upon their epo- de] wires for their London and eolith'. ent-al servive. They found the telephone wires impossible for long mees.ago. The .pestoffice officials say that it will be a week before Normal eervice is possible. LYING iN STATE. Sunday, September 1. One programme Rev. le. B. 'Meyer. minister of Pd.leit. bee been drawn up for ell of the 870 et's Park Chapel, and formerly president The body. of the late General William posts in the Tiiited States, find the veal- of the National Federation of Free 1100th lay in state to -day, and the oe- oils eommanders have 1)00a relpieeted to thitrelies, and "deo of the National Bap- casion produced elicit a display of sin- invite eity and :state offieilitee lllilliEiel'd 64 1711101/• lei a sermon ott tbie subject, core respect from all claeses as has pro- of all denominations and Clitietians gen- prielieted that the noretiouforintsts bably never been seen. All ti na__ons and erally to take ptivt in the vourtryeeide wonld some day. eombine in one strong, all creeds were represented among the memorial, free elmrelt whielt would embraee Bap - Many thousands of people who exact , rimmr.....................lareMaimmumis tit4t.S. CongregattonabstS: MC.ti!Othlt14, immediately capsizing. 'nth bodies Ralph liumplinee, of teteinn. e iel 1 his m 111 tit an their iaSt tribute to the great evatige- LAND REFORM BILL. Qttalor:4„ the Salvation „army anti other have not yet been reeovertd. agent, passed up the hill in his motor Major Ne1104 to be lie1utenanteobetel, Vets t tolls to Amerivan eottetwiee shipa will be protested by Great Britaiit and the case, will be earned to The Hague. It mewls also that the Southern Pacific Railway' will have to abandott its plan to estab- lish a $22,000,000 line of boats front New York to the Orient, and, Out the :New York, New Haven & Hartford and other roadwill be obliged to divest them - eaves of their kiteallltillip 11.01ding31 The President gives it as his opinion that the bill does not violate the treaty with Great Britain, and. that it is one of the most beneficial measures that has pass- ed this or any other Congrese, The Constanthiople, ,Aug. 26,-- The Otto President handed out a long memoran- dum exonining his action on thebill. man Government has reevived the pre - Ile considerthe objeetions to the bill liminary report, formulated by the com- et some length, and discuseee the Brit- mission whieh inquired. into the natee- lett krotest and reliews the rules speci• acre of more than 110 Bulgetriane on lied m article LEL of the Hay-Panneefote Ann. 4 at leotechana, pear l'skup, ehow- Treaty. says referring to the &Melt re . . •-•041 'FUREY MOVING TO STOP 101S REV. DR. CORNISH BEcKERys DEFENCE Well.KnownMethoclistCler. gyman Passes Away. Clailfis He is Victim of Gamblers' Plot. Toronto', Aug. 26.-- The Rev. tleorge Officials. towini, a long illnetee, was one of the a To Call Landlords of Ws, 11. -Cornish, LL.D., who died at hie '°' To deuce, 2S- Beatrice street, yesterday, fol. Methodism the- world over. Ile is best ordelly Houses.. IHOlit laminar figures. throughout _all known for the great work of which he is author, the Eneyelopeedia of Me. thodisna a compreheueive two-voluma edition, on which lie spent 10 years' work.. Ile has been, ever since the union of the two branches of the Methodist Church in 0 tnada, etatistician of the General -Conferenee, and for eight years he wee journal. occretary as well. - Throughout Ontario and Quebec Ike 1.• 11 1, 1 dietricte, and was for four or 'five .years secretary of the old Guelph ....1:::::(41)(1.1:11.:::::(11..if fit:C1111(.1,1:(1j'ittlil; a dtar 31‘3.' el II 11: itt S 0 el ti;)teP,all (01 whieh he was a loyal and energetic . lie had been chairman of Become now aeldiul the bars oil charieee Couneel for Police Lieut. Chillies proteet: mg that the mil and military ()Meade -eolnifinsaeliTtstte(e),"AteeiL.leuivi%eb`d.PLI:tielsit s:‘1,1earlei of instigating the murder of the gam- -The British proteet is a proposal to of the town failed ht their duties, and not too taxing to keep him from 10e, day preparing for the defenee of the au - bier. Herman lcosenthal. was wee to. read into the treaty a surrender by that the Turkieli troop; participated in arduous work itt (quince -thin with the ellSed. lientenallt. 1114'kel'S InWYvr4, it lS the United States of its rights to reeue the/ attaeks on -the Bulgarians. Eneyelopaedia and the General Con- • lemons'. ('1)('('t to show- that he was the late its own commerce in Rs own Ay -ferenee. Ile wile an effivient pastoll ‘ietim of a gamblers' plot. headed by and by its own methods, a right wide!' The tlovernment, as it result of the re- and a thoughtful preaeher in the Bald Jack Roee and the 111011 WII0 nave neither Great Britain herself nor any t port, bee ordered that a state of siege elMrehes at Stratford, Mitehell, Nor. supported his confession to tin' Distriet other nation that may use the eanal has be proclaimed at Nutschaea, and that wieh, Ctrintsby. Port Elgin. Niagara.- Attorney. Ilwe and these men, counsel surrendered or proposes to surrender. t The surrender of this right is not elaimed he gttilty person.c be court, martialled 1)o ti II ed Linen, hilat ( s sbarge, and several to seek revenge on Beeker for his aetivi- i . tlrise:t Lake. Burlington, Wingliam, %yin assert. all nave suffivient reasons iCA :I gaill4 illeln. to be itt terms. it is only to be inferred wilitout dietinelloo. The Constantinople the use of the canal without diserimin- the sufferers, ON day by the Distriet Attorney's (Miff, for Subpotontes will probaldy be issued to - from the fact that the United. States had authorities- also have despatched $5,000 4 3 1 conditionally granted to all the nation e to Koteehana, to be distributed among ation by the -Cnited States between the The Porte lets regatested Montenegro , pi EVV CHARGES .1 lie appearanee of landlords of proper - Turks Massacre Inhabl- tants of Sienitza, Bulgarians Want Troops to be Mobilized. .New York. Aug. 26. ----With the ap- pointment of Wm. J. Flynn, chief of tee heed seeret service., as chief investi:!ator of the altlermarde luvestigating commit- tee. came the news to -day thit a eorps of the ablest detectives in thc eintutry will aid Chief Flynn in ferreting out et 1- dellre Of SOMA' ef theee scene eervice men leave proved ability in tracking coonterfeiters it 101 other criminals. The hive -fleeting emmoittee extras to meet to -morrow I!)1 the purpo.--e of further orgautzation. ty used ;le disorder] ybouscs and gain - grantees, but tl•S tile treaty leaVeti to discontinue her military preparations Ming dens before lee special eyelid jury nations desiring to use the canal with on the Albanian frontier, and the tlov- • DetroitCouncilmen Arraign- investigatitor pave graft that ha; full right to deal with their own vessels ernment is in receipt of advicas to the cropped. out hi the Roeenthal murder as they see fit; the United States would effect that King :Nicholas has assured only be discriminating against itself if it the rtwesentatives of the poi' ere at Cet- SARNIA BOATS START. Sarnia, Aug, 25. -When the steam- er Beard approached the dock here yesterday morning there was a good- sized crowd to welcome the little craft. She is no longer a ferryboat, but a freight and passenger steamer. After the passengers were taken aboard, and before leaving the dock, the Captain stepped ashore and se- cured a clearance paper, after pay- ing the necessary fee. This regula- tion will be observed on every trip by eery Captain. The straight five - cent fare was charged, and, after 9.20 o'clock to -night, ten cents will be charged for each trip5 the British contentioe. Monten ',rips would be allowed to cross eo Detroit, Aug, 20.- With the arraign- ease, 'Neither wealth nor position. will ed for Conspiracy. ment iu police court to -day of seventeen spare the owners from being subpoenaed. • were to recognize the souudaess of tinje, the Montenegrin eapital. that no ••••••••••04. in favor of the coastwise trade. and the ample set by their sisters in the Euro- aldermen and former Connell Conunit- KILLED BY DRAY "The bill herein questioned does not the border in the future. positively do more than to discriminate 'Turkish women are followill'r the ex - e British protest 6 eemi to recognize a dis- peen citio of selling. flowers in the tee Clerk Edward It. Sehreiter. self -eon - Unction between such ex.emption and the streets, to obtain funds for the relief of fes -ed receiver of bribe money, Prosecut- exemption of American vessels engaged the sut ferers of the recent deetruetive ing Attorney Sheppard hopes to be able in foreign trade." earthettake, which shook imth stt'i".!. is' of to probe into past doings of the city The President stated. that he approved the Sea ui' Marmora. Hardly a person, emoted. and determine, if possible, the polka' of exempting the coastwise. rich or poor, *eau be seen in the streets whether so-called couneilmanie grafting has heen a eonstant praetiee during the trade from all tolls. without a flower in his coat. In regard to the objections to a pro- _i Navima Pasha, the Mhtiettr of War, past decade. - vision tn the bill which prevents; the in an interview Sunday. Filia there was All of the men to be arraigned to - violating the anti-trust law front using e little hope of finding a basis tor the day, with the exception of Schreiter. owner of any steamship who is guilty of the canal, he says: - onelusion of peace with Italy. but he were previously arrested on charges of "It is quite evident that this section cijoonnshil)erit.teeitlietrtIllia: wt.lites sAeltotletzegrin. ques- either accepting or promisiug to accept bribes for umnicipal favors. The latest applies only to those veesels eugaeed - ., , arraienment alleges- that eiebteen mett in the trade in which there is a statute. )1.A.StSACRE AT SIENITZA. conspired to defraud city. A long And. it is a. mere injunctive process ilelgrade, Servia, Aug. 20.--Telegrame confo4sion which Schreiter recently made against the continuance of such monopo- reeeived here front Sienitza, On the hetie trade." southern frontier of Servie, says that 4 I Turks attacked the town on Saturday • and mass -at -red many of the inhabitants. The news of the massat•re caused great excitement in the eapital, and the lieNi'S- rtiperA issued special editions. contain- iiiig)rteet.litorial demands that the Servian Government proteet vigorously to the .At a mass meeting held on Suuday to protest against the maseaere. epeakere violently denomieed. the Turkish GOV- prument. Subeequently 5,000 persons numbed to the police and to the offi- cers' club, where they ehouted their de- mands that war be declared against Tulralt7cyi; ad viees received from Sienitza say that the Mussuhnan inhabitants of the town opened the arms stores and after seizing weapons, attacked he (1:11.1(1.setelia to It.,A1,.a sl.; lc; jai te11.11.1. front of the courts of juetice. The Ser- viaii popnlace fled into Montenegro and servia. The refugees tell terrible talee of Turkish cruelty. 1111,GAMANS WANT WAIL ,BOLD BURGLARS Make Daring Attempt on Toronto Store. Toronto, Aug. 26. ----Three men made a bold attempt to burglarize Scheuer's jewelry store on Yonge street last night, and when they were disturbed in their work emptied their revolvers into the rear of Gingham's drug store in an effort to make the clerks open the door and offer them a hasty re- treat to Yong° street. First to notice the burglars was the night watchman in the Star building, who saw them at work while making his rounds. Ile hurried to a tele- phone and notified the police at the Court street station, and it happened that at the time tile eight o'clock squad was just going on. duty. Every man, with Detectives Leavitt and Nes- bitt, was rushed to the scene, but were just a few moments too late, as the men had managed to jump a fence in the lane and taken their departure in the direction of Ade- laide street. The actions of the men when they found themselves discovered showed that they had come prepared . for fight. Seeing the clerks in the drug .store, they demanded that the door be opened, and followed their demand with a fusillade, but the clerks could not be scared and the burglars es- caped in the darkness. One of the bullets struck a large mirror, and one of the pieces struck William Smith, one of the clerks, inflicting a rather deep wound. Quite a crowd gathered when they heard the shots, and many were will- ing to help the police, and had not the burglars got a good start they would likely have been captured. An examination of the lane showed that the men had tried to pry off an iron bar from one of Seheuer's windows, but had not succeeded. One of them managed to get his hand through a pane of broken glass and got two watches. It was then that they were disturbed, and Mr. Scheuer misses nothing else. There have been a num- ber of places entered recently, and it Is believed to be the work of a well - organized and large gang. NEW GUARANTEE COMPANY. Ottawa, Aug. Dominion Guaranty Appraleemeitt Company, Lim- ited, of Ottawa, haps been granted hit - toe; of incorporation. Senator Belcourt and it number of Ottawa, capitalists are. ...aid to be behind the company, which looks to a IleW field of businees, so far as Canada is concerned. It is proposed to investigate and report upon business venteree of vari- kindes, industries, real estate, etc., and to guarantee such reports. The eompany will guarantee, for example, that a eontraet will be earried out as bet ween another vendor and pur- DROWNED IN DETROIT RIVER. Windsor, Aug. 25.L -The Detroit River claimed three more victims when a canoe, in which were a party of four young men, all residents of Detroit. overturned In. the Canadian channel shortly before midnight on Saturday. The drowned are George Robinson, 19; Edward Jolly, 19; and Louie Loose, 18. A stiff wind was blowing up the river at the dine, and, according to Loudon. 20.---A_coneress, eom- posed of six hundred delegaies front all parts of Bulgaria, met ttC Sofia to -day. according to a neWS agency deepatelt re- eeived here. and passed reeolutione urg- ing the Government to meb1lize the mili- tary forces. The delegates also demand- ed that urgent representation should be made to the great powers for the autonomy of Maetr'‘donia and the vilayet of Adrianople. failing which war should be decalred on Turkey. STRATFORD'S WOE Cannot Get Power Agree- ment for Street Railway. Stratford, Aug. 20. --The proposed street railway stystent has had a few more obstueles placed in its way. The latest is caused by tbe action of Sir Wil- liam Meet:envie in disallowing. the ten- tative proposal made by the engineers of the C. N. R. to the Stratford Light and Heat Cotumiesimt for 100 horse pow- er, to be paid for, whether used or not. at $30 per horse power, and additional power at *32 per horse power. on a 20 - minute peak. It is believed that the llydro-Electrie Power Commission will consent to no sueh agreement either, thus bringing the negotiations to a mo- mentary standstill. A special meeting of the City Connell is carte 1. for this evening. when (come of the phasee of the problem may be cleared up. BRITISH RAINS CEASE. lanulon, Ang. 21. ---The rain whieh has been falling in London almost eoutinuously since the ist of August, stopped Saturday evening after 37 -hours of a praetieally continuoue down- pour. Nearly inch of rain fell on Saturday. For hundreds of toputre miles in the West of England and the Midlands the temperature hae not readied seventy degrees Fahrenheit in ehaser, the eompany, if neeeseary, fill- twenty-eight euccessive daya, filling the obligations of the vendor. Wales is the heavieet sufferer. Lands will be guaranteed a eertain There has been a downpour for sixteen 'future Vairle et Whiell the company, if days. end the valleys of the Dee. clyde ealled upon, will take them over. The and Conway are flooded. Railways are company Will probably have offices in submerged and bridges have been des- 14lugland and report upon Canadian troyed. investments for British investors. TO COMMAND DRAGOONS. KILLED BY AUTO, Ottawa, Aug. 25. Tt is understood Galt. Aug. 2. •Frederiek nged that the vommand of the Royal Can. Mile(' itelpeier. adieu Drogimile. si;j11, vite.ated to the prosecutor. in whieh he is said to have implicated many aldermen and for- mer city oftieials, is claimed. to be the baeis for the latest moye against the acensed. members of the common council. After the arraignment proceeding's are diepoeed of. it is expected that the mill- inery examinetion of Alderman Louis Toesy. charged with receiving brite mon- ey, will be commeneed. Detective Bren- 114:1 11. who declares he, while posing as a Wabash Railroad official, bribed Tossy, will probably be the principal witness for the prosecution. • I DIED OF LOCKJAW Dundas Man Who Was In- jured Two Weeks Ago. DundaseAug. 20. ----About two weeks ago Walter Boult, sen., ail employee of the Clutpmen Engine Worlis, was aseiet- ing DIOVinir 801ne Ile was ia charge of tee truck. A sudden jar threw the tongue around, striking hint and making quite 11. ft10-111 011 the back of Itis head. Under medical care he wits doing well, mail 1.1'huredaY, when feemp- 10111.i Of blood poisoning; set in. On Fri- day lockjaw was discernable. On Sat- urday morning he was removed to tha Hantiltou C'ity Hospital, 'Where death oc- curred yesterday morning. BANK MERGER RATIFIED. Ottawa, Aug. 25. ---The Government has approved the purchase of the stock, assets, etc., of the Traders Bank by the Royal Bank. At a meet- ing of the Treasury Board the matter was discussed, and the application sanctioned. A subsequent meeting of Council ratified the action of the Treasury Board. What is sometimes called the amal- gamation, though itt reality it is an absolute purchase of one bank by the other, thus is completed. The Bank Act, as revised in 1901, expressly recognized the policy of permitting one bank to sell its assets aud business to another. The tenor of the Act is to the effect that con- sent will be given by the Governor -in - Council unless there are substantial reasons against it. In this particular case, the share- holders of the two Institutions, at their respective meetings, unanimous- ly approved the agreement negotiated by the directors. No objection has been filed against the transaction by any shareholder. the story told by HearY Steinberg, Sa'turday a fterimon when he wets run by the appointment ot ( 0 one .... the surviving member of the party, over by an antoinnbile and Lis meek S. 'Williams cis .1dititant-General in De. the frail craft. heearne unmanageable broken. '1110 man was working near his ember next, will fall to Adm. C. M.. and fell into the trough of the waves, resider.N' wit!, ,)- wh''''11"rrow, wben NelleA„ tile lleNt ill SelliOritY. . v. . • ' I 41011 Of BVen before (lawny d('sPite pelting \\*Olington. Z.. Aug. 25, The Dint ' 41 livutv truck. .1t the top of the hill he that being the rank of the Weer coin - religious orgit Illett thine. X. cold rale, thousands u ere e aitinf, 3n get &hate coneluded ;tie -441,111y, the b U. S. CONGRESS ENDED. I CAUGHT LOOTING BOATS. 'wit control of Ow car, and as the ltrakts mantling the regiment, , fr011t of Congrees Pall, Clapteu, in the only amendment proposed to *the far- DX' Aug. .. _ 25.- ,A11* Windsor, Ont., Aug. 21.- Three tern:led to mork it skidded Istekwarde ..••••-r.. ...........4.44................./. ,, ,,, "h. ettl'1/41.e.r"Ibliiiillgiothni:taoilAr seesion of Con- ,°„1,1ths, giving their names its Ross SUN YAT SEN IN PEKIN. LOCK EMPLOYEE KILLED, northeast of London, where the body tektehing laud reforms being one had been ecthveYed from the late Gen- demning' the further sale m t..-eowt gross has passed Into history. At tho "MI. TWO., (4reen and Warren An- Pekin, Aug. 25. •Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Aug. 25. ' eras private residence. Before the gen- land. This was defeated by 52 to 141 last session of Congress. with the drove, were captured. early Saturday ex -Provisional President of China, who caught between a, shed and a stone eral public was admitted, however, a Sir ,Toseph Ward deelined the Op- Republicans in control of both morning while engag,,d in looting the left Shanghai Aug. 19 with the avowed train, which gave a sudden- arid uu- large number of aperemial friend% pub. position leaderehip, brunettes, ocpenditures footed up to drill boat4 nurneaue and Earthquake, intention of oldies tiring to conciliate e,eneeted lurch. and unable to extrl- lie offieiabi and logh offieeis of the Sal The bill pio" Mims for an eliedie e1,1124,000,omi, The lionee leadere '15 111011 Ore tied 11 1) itt A11111(4'4401% ille eival politieal factions, arrived here eats. himself, William tlrace, nu "Pm- vation Army eatie to pay 1 hell' laa II NUT CW111111'1 11.1 4 been ',0% i'rel,k eliti• 10,1Vt1 not yet given out their figures, (leek. Nearly all ow 11111%4 fittings 0114 11101'llira, Ile was gieen a 11111g,I11. ployee On the new lock, was e0<11811011 iispects. Then from ten o'elock onlicakil el ed over the alp-enee of safeguards leit they ebb» tne appropriations' 11.0 1,e,.n Num./4 from the amehinery fieeut reeeptiou, risalling that ef the re- to death yesterday In sight of his ful- a een.5tant stream of humanity, un in the eleitt of d4:M.44o bettit•en the ehargeable to them will be just a ' when the night watchman on duty turn to the eapital of Preeident Yuan low -workmen. (Irate v•ttH PreParlug cheeked throughout the day. filed NUN o ileu-es, little over It. billion. disemered the youths, 8hi Kai. to dump the ears, 5 4 - 1 Toronto Child Run Over in the Street. Toronto, Aug. 26. -On Seturday af- ternoon at 4.35 Edna Lillian Speight, the eightecu-mouthe-old daughter of ,Jr. and Mrs. IIenry W. Speight, of 381 Symington avenue, was; ru11 over by a dray, driven by Everson, of 715 Dundas street, reeeiving injuries Trout which she died itnhour later at the Western lloapital. She AV11.8 playing 011 the sidewalk ill front of her home, with some other children, -when she suddenly :ran ot.1 itt front of the dray. The driver did not see her, and the first indication he had that an accident bad taken Place was when he felt the front wheel pass over the child. He immediately jumped off and went to the little one's 11s4-1:ita110e. Some of the neighbors who had wit- nessed the aceitlent 'phoned Dr. Suel- grove, and he was soon ou the Seelle, 1711011 examination lie foupd that t11<1 skull had been fraetured. Ile had her rushed to the 'Western Hospital, but all his efforts were in vain, the ehild passing away an hour later. for bail were refused. pending the finding of the coroner's jury. • T. R WILL TESTIFY Demands Chance to Speak Before Committee. Oyster Bay., Aug. 25.-"I have wired to Senator Clapp, asking that 1 be permitted to appear before the committee on Monday," was Col. Roosevelt's answer last night to the rumors that the Senate committee looking into the 1904 Republican cam- paign contributions had decided to summon the ex -President. "I do not want Mr. Archbold's tes- timony to go one day longer than is necessary without official contradic- t \Vhen ho- was told that Mr. Arch - mold bad just sailed for Europe he indicated that he was irritated as well as surprised by the news. It was an inconceivable thing, he said, for the committee to let the Standard Oil man go before the investigation had been carried further. WON'T ENDURE IT LIGHTLY. New York, Aug. 25.-"I am not a liar. I am not accustomed to being so accused, and will not endure it lightly."o JohnD. Archbold, of the Standard iin c Oil Company, made this brief state- ment before sailing for Europe yes- terday, in reply to Col. Theodore Roosevelt's charges that be told un- truths while on the stand at Washing- ton. ATE 10ADSTORS. ENGLISH TARS FOR CANADIAN NAVY. Ottawa, Aug. 25.• -It is understood that a eontingent of lEnglish bluejackets are coming to ('anode in a week or two to join the 0Anadian eruiser Rainbow, now lying praetieally idle on the Pacific. eoast. The service term of the present crew, whieh is largely English, will soon be up end most of the mee are going bail: to England. With the Moly away the prospeet was being lavedof a navy without a er0W. Admiral leingsmill mei Deputy Min- ieter of naval a ffairti Desbarates, who are now on their way 'from England, saved the eiteation by arra»ging for the serviee of 8 lleW erew of Englieh tars. The-stx are expeeted to arrive in a few weeks. STEAMER AGROUND. Kingston, Aug. 'N. lletw("41 7 ‘11:1211'St8 end there was a steady doe npour for an home aecompanied by hail, which did Wieeking tn. Wi1P1 en11111 111eill le Send 111111'11 dittnege to gaidene. The Donnelly it: Wrecking steamer Sagiiiaw to 'Nlorris- burg, the stPallitT Blitll11111e ha\ int: goer aground there. 51 e was luadell 'shit coal for :Mentreal, DIED IN PRISON. Atlanta. Ga., Aug. !.:6. ---Col. (I. t', . Wilson, 07 years ol age, former prtyident et the 'United States Wire.. .,eont, arrived ye•-terday from tae r aPt• 1 - less Co., died in night at the United atter an ahmmee of eiglit months. lle Statepenitentiary here, whore he 1t;,tell.,41 :Awn() miles and iipipe:.ted •,!.:i,. was oerving a three-year sentence: -.1100 ,,,.ent.„. Ile "‘ 61 OW .1111/VPinf "It Was far Wing the 111111h4 ht 0.11 attV11111t, tO 'Pt l!it1s:4 sl tfiligo4 in ranrda, •erer.. 1) - defraud. orgaiii/ation na.- greatly advan,:-:1. St. ( atharines, Aug. 26.- Proprietor stevens. of the St. Catharines House and tee Intl 1e3der:4, .101111 Sullivan end W. Delaney. who enjoyed a "mush- room" baniptet Fridey uight, are emi- ously ill. A doetor 1-4 devoting hi- en- tire time to the three men. atevene died at 10 o'elock this morn- ing. The condition of the other two I, precarious. ' • SCALDED TO DEATH. Pltasaiit 1 I ill, to., Aug. 26. -Pinioned in Id eel) by a ber lierose his right foot. but otherwise unhurt, Engineer 'William campbell mtpt scalded to death here. when a freight train on the Chiettgo. Bock Island z Pacific. went into the davit at the crossing of the Rock Island & Missouri Pacific tracks. NEW SEA LAW. t.midoll..‘ug. 20. Failure to go to the relief of vee-ele itt distrees is a inisile- 'meaner punieliable by two year-4' Ma prieceiment, aceording :t acit:ee to %hips' eaptainis to-dny by the Beard of Triple. FATAL S.ORM CLEVELANO. tlevelaiel, oldie Aug. 20. • Three per- t•I Ils 'net the! r lh es during a 1erti fie teal met wale , term that swopt rivm. the et) t 0 -illy. TreeS Were 1111M 11 lIONVIt illUI mik,•11 10'01101 t y euf fel CANADA'S SCOUTS STRONGEST. London, Aug. 125.--itailen