The Wingham Advance, 1912-10-24, Page 7TURKISH WARSHIPS
SHELL BULGARIAN TOWN
a a a-,
Varna, on the Black Sea, Attacked -Violation
of International Law4
Porte Appeals to Britain ---Claims Protection
From One of Great Powers.
London, Oet. 21.- The Turkish war-
ships ficatt one hundred rottn1;5 at Var-
na, but without effeet, saye a Sofia de-
epatch to the Time,. Too Bulgarian
torpedo boats then iseued from the har-
bor and engaged the Turkish squadron,
one ship of which withdrew, it is be-
lieved that She Wan struck by a torpedo,
but not seriously damaged. Eventually
the Tarks proceeded. to lialtehik, 25
miles to the north, where they indulged
in another harmless bombardment. They
then returned to Varna, but kept at
a reepectful distance, apparently fearing
mines.
At nightfall the Bulgarian torpedo
boats came out again. but no engage-
ment was reported during. the night,
and the Turkish squadron was still at
arna on Sunday, but did not open fire,
Another despatch to the Times says
that a 13ulgarian column from Koes-
tendil captured Djumibala, Mahomia
and Banksko, in the Razlog district,
without resietance. Several villages
were burned by she retreating Turks.
Saloniki deepatch, dated Oct. 18,
says that a battle between Turks and
Servians was in progress north of Pyle -
Una.
VIOLATED INTERN.ATIONAL LAW.
Sofia, Oct, 21. ----Owing to the proxim-
ity of the Turkish fleet, the Govern-
ment has ordered that the light of the
Varna lighthouse be extinguished.
The newspapers declare that the
Turkish bombardment of Varna, was
eontrary to international law aml The
llague convention, 'because the Black
,1/4-efea is neutral water. They declare also
that the Bulgariun Government expects
the powers to interfere.
The semi-official 'Mir asserts that the
pewera are negotiating with a view to
establishing the neutrality of the 131ack
,Sest.
l'here is an unconfirmed report that
the Turke have evacuated the outer
lines of fortifieations around Adrianople.
A SERVIAN 'VICTORY.
Belgrade, Servia. Oct. 2 Servian
column eaptured the Turkish entrench-
ments at the village of Poduesto, near
Mitrovitsa, on the road to Prishtina,
during the night. The Servians were
commanded by General Jaukovitch.
The Turks, with their Arnaut auxil-
iaries retired toward the south, leaving
their colors., several eases o f ammunition,
eighty oxen and a large qtmntity of for-
age.
Turkish prisoners taken by the Ser.
\ lane declare that there were no regular
Turkish troops engaged, ,the Ottoman
force at Podnjevo consisting of two pro-
visional regiments of reserves and eix
eompanies of Arnaut tribesmen, besides
three batteries of. artillery.
No details are niven as to the casual-
ties,
T17R.KEY APPEALS' TO BETT.-XIN.
London, r/et. r2. L. -Turkish fears of
European intrinue aro disclosed in
despatches from the correspondent of
The London Times and The Daily
Chronicle a t Constant inople, pub-
lished this morni»g. The Daily
(:hroniele eorrespondent telegraphs
that information has just come to the
"'oats which foreshadows grave even-
tualities wine; to dissensions in the
.Europen a concert a nd he possibility
ot the armed intervension of a. certalti
power. in a sentence, Turkey, at war
with four nations. now fears military
action from a fifth. ln view of this situa-
tion Etamil Pasha, "'resident of the
Council, whom I Saw to -day, desired to
make a special appeal to Britain on varl-
ets, pointe.
• First of all he expreases the hope
hat the British people would utterly
disreenrd King Ferdinand's incite-
ment!' to make a holy war of the
struggle, pitting the Cross against the
Crestent. The language of the King
of Bulgaria, he considers degrading,
and an. attempt to eloud the real
issue by the inttoduetion of a reli-
gions feetor. "'this war," said Kia -
mil Pasha, is likely to be bitter enough
without letting hoe° religious pas-
sions. The Ottoman Government
condemns in the strongest possible
manner the pernicious attempt of it
Po.ealled Christia». monarch to on-
ehain fanaticism with all the attend-
ant evils." Turkey is :fully aware that
King Ferdinand's. appeal to the wirst
of all human passions is chiefly in-
tended for the gallery. "I convine.
ed." added Kiamil Pasha, "that the
bossted Muria city of Europe is dead,
and has been replaced by a skeleton,
the dry bones of whieh shake only in
the wind when the selfishness and mew -
lee of certain powers compel an appeal
to the old spirit of humanity.
"King Ferdinand's hand is but
that of a puppet selected to strike at
Torkey's heart. I hope Britain will
be true to her splendid past and
etand by us unflinchinely in the op-
proaching. hour of national peril. .if
Ise needs must tient out this unneces-
sary futile war with the federated
States, surely Britain is powerful
ond influential enough to see that the
ring is not rushed, to see that Tnrkey
be not assailed from another quar-
ter trhile fighting for her life with
her first foes. As an old man with
one foot in the ("rave, 1 express with
ell seriousness 1.170 leer that the Bal-
kan war will be ti.e prelude to a
gigantie struggle involving Enrope.
Within hag always been the sincere
friend of international peace and of
the integrity of Turkey. She has no
lilaikan axe. to nrind. Therefore. we
k.‘111 111 her, nOW that WO are threaten-
ed by a DPW ene111V., 11 ntanl S pro-
inased. friendship for Tnrkey may And- Iniuriea that sent to a hospital one
of the engineers. The first reports
be put to a .severe test. Turkey hag
were that he -was killed,
nothing to gain by the present war, nei.
ther litto Bulgaria, if the powers are sin.
Pere their n premed intention to CONTENTED IN JAIL.
otaintein a status quo,
contest, „W,indsor, Ont., Oet. 20. ---Apparently
"Although provoked .to
Tutial um always be wittily,: to beark. WithOut friendS in the world, Mrs. Mary
kn to ceuneels pew. -with due safe. 1.11-11,11'.. „55: lioes been re -sting contentedly
eautiwieh Itn* the past few days.
seseardo for her national dinnity Ittla
The woman was found sleeping in tt
strawpile Itear the Canadian .1"aeifie
ek1WANT,E ON A.DIZIAN.)PL11 ttaeks here and WaS loelzed up after
toreloti, 21. --The Belgiro ;tre telling the Oft10PIS she \vas homeless
is silting on eteadily in their edvanee and friendlese. An attempt is beiog
ipoit Adrianople. where Vie Turks have 'melte to find out above
sots vane.. .from,
:Ineesed nee nnenlon of their army. En- 1)111- eo far without eneoese,
couraged by- their victory on Friday
night at aluedaplut Pasha, the door to
Adrianople oa the northern frontier, one
division of the army of Bulgaria 18 lattih.
ing along both books of the Meritztt, The
right wing is moving avroes the heights
commanding the valley of Arda, and the
advaneing guard is capturing and blow-
ing' up bridges on the roads to Adrian-
ople. *It is reported that the bombard-
ment ni the forts at Adrianople has
already begun. These forts are old
works, which have aecently been re-
modelled and armed with 12-tentimetre
and 15-00ntimetre
A eeemul divieion of the Bulgars
said to be shelling Kirk-Killissela where
already there has been severe fighting:,
and the capture of that town, 32 mile§
from _Wrianople, is said to be imminent.
Another commander of the Balkan
forces is said to have committed atticide.
This time it was a colonel who ended
his life because he. got out of touch.
\vitt" his eommand. This is the fourth
case of self-destruction on the part of
the commandere of the troops of the
lit tle k7't
In a battle between the Greeks and
Turke at Elaesonit iu Thessaly on Sat-
urday the Greeks eaptared that town
after al npirited engagement. The r.rtirke
were attacked on their flank, and at
the same time the Greeks made a spir-
ited. frontal attack:Infantry and cavalry
stormed the Turkish entrenchments.
There was bayouet play, and then the
Turks, finding they haal been outflanked,
retreated. The Turks halted at Serfidje,
to the north on the. same road, and
there fortified awaiting a further attack.
They left eeven rune behind them, and
the victorious Greeks; captured eighty
prisoners. The Greek advance guard
has captured a village twenty ,miles from
the Turkish frontier.
Eleven Greek warships have been seen
off the Turkish Island of Lemnos, and
a bombardment there is expected. Crete
has sent twenty-five hundred of her
fighting. men to serve in the Greek
a rmy.
The Alontenegrins have captured
Playa and Cuesinje in the advance
upon ,Scrutari.
GERMAN OFFICERS WARNED.
Berlin, Oct. 4. -The German Red
Cross Society to -day sent a surgeon
and 23 nurses to Turkey to assist in
caring for the wounded.
German officers employed in the
Turkish service have been forbidden
to paeticipate in the war unless they
res'gn their commissions in the Ger-
man army.
Athens, Oct, 11. -The Foreign Minis-
ter, at the sitting of the Chamber of
Deputies yesterday afternoon, announc-
ed, that Greece had. deelared war against
Torkey. lie added that up to the last
moment Turkey had. made all kinds of
efforts and held out ell eorts of prom-
ises to have Greece break awey from the
Balkan co.nlederation.
Premier *Venizelos read to the deputies
a, message from King George, in which
His- Majesty stated that the sufferinge
el their oppressed brethren had forced
the Balkan States to a recourse to arms.
.1'1;e Premier also read a telegram from
Crown Prince. Constantine, reporting
that the Greek army had entered Turk-
ish territory,
'When the Premier had eoneluded the
'Alinister of War roql and announeN1 the
departure of the Greek fleet. he said
it was the one great wish of the Greek
sailors to See the Turkieh. fleet leave its
moorings.
Amid cheers the President of the
Chamber asked the permisaion of the
deputies to sbnd greetings to the Legis-
lative Chambers of the allies, now that
"cannon are roaring in the name of civ-
ilization and Christianity is at war
against barbariem."
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ROOSEVELT ON MOVE
Doing Well, and Left for
His Home.
Chicago, Oct. 21. -Preparations for
Col. Theodore Roosevelt's departure
from Mercy Hospital to the train at
Union station which. takes him to Oy-
ster Bay were completed early to-
day, and he was placed in an. am.-
bulance at 7.15 o'clock for the short
trip through the city. His train left
the station at 8.08 o'clock.
The Colonel's last night at the hos-
pital was rather a restless one. Ho
slept only .about four hours in the
aggregate from th.e thne he first fell
asleep at 11.15 p. m. He awoke fre-
quently and seemed nervous.. It was
said by the night nurse tnat this was
chiefly due to the excitement of his
coining departure, and.not to any un-
toward symptoms that had developed
in the nourse of the night.
At 7.10 a. m. the following official
bulletin was issued by the attending
physicians, after the early morning
consultatio» and examination had
been completed:
"Pulse, temperature and respira-
tion norneal. Wound still discharges
a little serum. There is less inflam-
mation. Point bullet location is sen-
sitive ter pressure and bullet can now
be distinctly located. General condi-
tion good. Rested well."
Col. Roosevelt's train, which had
been seheduled to leave Chicago at
8,15 a. me did not pull out until 8.30.
There had been a collision. of two un-
attached engines on the Burlington
tracks at Fourteenth street, adjoin-
ing rails over which the Roosevelt
train W41.13 to pass.
The accident, which was due to a
mistake a signal man, resulted in
WORLD'S WHEAT
Production This Year Much
Greater Than Last,
Ottawa, Ont., Oet. 2L -The followiug
table gives the 1012 wheat production of
all the countries whieh have nO far made
their official reporte. to the Interna-
tional Agrieultural *Institute, including
the linformation iu a eablegram received
at the Dominion Department of Agricul-
ture to.day:
Pruseia, 92,722,000
Belgium ... 15,278,000
Bulgaria., . „. . „ 03,750,000
Deumark • .„.. „ 3,915,000
Spain ... 112,410,000
Frame . „ . 335,039,000
England and Wales
Hungary , •
Italy , ......
55,341,000
180,290,000
105.914,000
Luxemburg.. „ 054,000
Roumania , 89,410,000
lttesian empire 749,941,000
Switzerland.... 3,112,000
Canada„ , , „ .„ 205,685,000
United States „ . 720,000,000
„ 266,930,000
Japan 24,453,000
28,94S,000
Egypt
.
Tunis „. .. .. 4,226,000
Norway, •
Netherlands,.
Algeria, .
291,006
4,008,000
27,173,000
....... „. 3,255,902,000
The 1912 production of wheat in the
countries which have so far reported to
the institute is 170.2 per cent. of that
of the same countrice, in 1911.
STATE SHIRDS MEN
Agreement With Gunmen
Produced in Court.
New York„ Oct. 1.D. -The defence,
so it was understood, still had more
than twenty witnesses to call when
the trial of Police Lieutenant Becker
was resuneed. to -day. The list was
net mad.° nowever, although it
was known that one ef the. witnesses
would be William Shapiro, chauffeur
and part owner of the gray murder
car in which the assassins of Herman
Rosenthal fled after shoo•ting him
down. '
At the request of John F. McIntyre,
hecker's lawyew District Attorney
Whitman produced, when court con-
vened to -day, stipulations signed by
the State, with Jack Rose, "Bridgie"
Webber. • Harry Vallon and Sam
Schepps. They were • eed in evi-
dence. .....
The stipulations ee evided that if
the four men mentiOin would testi-
fy before the grand jury in the Rosen-
thal case, they should not be prose-
cuted for the crime, "for gambling„
extortion or for any crime disclosed
in the testimony" they should give,
Provided that they had "not fired a
shot into the body of Rosenthal." The
stipulation provided further that they
should "tell the truth."
Mr. 'Whitman also handed Mr. Mc-
Intyre the original draft of Rose's
confession, written in jail. It was
read and placed in evidence.
AS STALKING HORSE
Used British Shell Bids to
Cut U. S. Prices.
New York, Oct. 19.-A •Waehington
despatch says: Beekman Winthrop, act-
ing Secretary of the Navy, settled the
controversy over the award of shell con-
tracts for the current year to -day. The
eteel 'foundry, -of Sheffield, Eng-
land, was allated a contract; for 500
twelve -inch projectiles, at its bid of $187
each, deliveries to be made in New York
Citsy. The American bidders, with the
exception of the Midvale' Company,
were allotted the balance of the 5,500
shells eequired, or 5,000. .The Midvale
Company's bid was not eonsidered, be-.
cause the company WaS in arrears in
deliveries of shells' now under contract.
It is known that the Navy Depart-
ment made out of the Hadfield Com-
Prtner's bid to force American shell mak--
ere to cut their prime The award of the
Department marks a new policy in the
purchaee of navy projectiles. The Amer'.
can manufacturers are warned that
they must either accept the Hadfield
process, and 'furnish shells at a lower
price, :or must devise a process of their
own to cheapen the coet.
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DON'T WANT HOSPITAL.
Windsor, Oct. 20. --Once again has
opposition developed to the. location of
the site for the proposed tuberculosis
hospital which the local chapter of the
Daughters of the Empire has been anx-
belle tO 'erect for some time. Goefield
South was the last place picked out as
a desirable epot, but the Board of
Health of that township has expreesed
strong objections to having the institu-
tion .1.here.
The Daughters thought the village of
Union on the lake front would be the
ideal spot, but the villagers, say it can-
not go there. This it.; about the third
"lunger" hospital hate been
NEW SYNOD'S OFFICERS.
Montreal, Oct, 20. --The formation of
the new Provincial Synod of Ontario
accomplished, the delegates to the Pro-
vincial Synod of Canada coming from
the dioetee of Ontario left the hall,
headed by the Arehbiehop of Ottawa,„
end proceeded to their own hall. Dean
Bidwell was elected. the prolocutor of
the Ontario Synod; Rev. J. W. j. An-
drew, elerical seeretary; Thomas.; nforti-
mer, Toronto, lay secretary, and F. H.
Lisborne, Ottawa, treaeurer.
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BIG GUNS FOR GERMAN SHIPS.
nerlin, Oet, 20.---tarom authoritative
offielat (warier a correenondent learns
;that the elerman navy has (lecitied to
unstai laeinch weapons its latesa;
snner-dreadnoughts.
The guns, whieh will be of fifty calibre
length, von throw a proJeetne weighing
ifk-, pounds and win be far and away the
most powerful weapons ever placed on a
arsh its
)1AI S FAIR WORDS TOSETTLED1SPUTE NHis oF THE
Mexican Revolution Leader
Will Refuse Presidency.
Many Federals Are Desert.
ing to His Banner.
Ilexieo City, Ovt. 21. --General Felix
Diaz, heao. ot the revolutionary forces,
ins a telegram. to a newspaper here says
that his future plans depend ou the atti.
twit) 0( the army,. lie declares that he
Li Da plitlVd by personal ambition, for
with the contending. factiens reeoneiled
as, the result of the new movement, he
shall vall elections, in widen be pledges
his honor not to permit his name to be
offered. -lie .ields that he will not ac-
cept candidaey for any public office,
but will uphold the person elected fair-
ly, and who does llot; owe his elevation
to a moment of madness, as ht the pre-
seet ease of Madero.
General Diaz says that he has appro-
priated only funds intended for the pay-
inent of troops and public employees.
FEDERALS DEe'ilerftT TO DIAZ.
:Mexico City. Oet. 21, ---The War De-
partment confirms the report that Gen.
loraya, chief of the OOth Battalion, has
joined the revolutioniats under General
Felix lAse. at Vera Cruz, with six lam-
dren men. lie captured the town of Om-
ni, latereekt, which he now oeenpies, af-
ter having garrisoned Sierra Blanca. The
Government forees jiave not yet attack-
ed 'Vera Cruz. They are being mobilized
at Tajeria, by General. Boltrain, who is
awaiting reinforcement4 from the north.
The *Minister of Clubernacion stated
to -night that 3002 prisoners in the
hietorie fortress of San ;Juan *Clue at
The
Vera Cruz mutinied to -day.
'Mexican gunboats, which tire still
loyal to the Government, according to
the Secretary bombarded the fortress,
killing the 300 prisoners. 11; is believed
here that the rebels have the gunboats,
despite the Government statement to
the contrary.
Three bundred and fifty engineers of
the geodetic survey offered their ser-
vices to the Government to go to Vera
Cruz to fight the rebels. Their offer was
accepted, but when the men arrived. at
Vera Cruz they joined the rebels.
NEGRO CONFESSED MURDER.
New Yorn, eict. 20. --George Bishop, a
young negro, confeesed, the pollee say,
that With a hummer he beat to death
etre. Margaret Bell and nearly hilted
her mid, 'Mary :Hogan. The two women
WOre attaeloa le their home In Broods -it
rind Mrs. Bell died at the noapital. 1319,11 -
OP. a 0eordhig to the -mum Mont to their
home to demand 0 reference for It ts Wife.
Who formerly tvorked for Mrs. 'Hell and
ottani-41 the tun women when the refer--
07We reft1Sed.
TOWNS DECLABE FOR DIAZ.
Vera Cruz, Oet. 2L --The maritime
towns of Alvarado and Tuxpan have
declared in favor of the revolutionists
under General Diaz. The garrison of
400 Men the latter port have joined
the revolutionists and. the civic authori-
ties have also gone over.
The Federate are preparing for a
siege of the eity and say they will
sinnis beein the attack. The German
and Russian •Ministere; have left; for
the Government lines on a speetal train
furnished by General Diaz. German and
Spanish steamere elle here to take off
the subjects of those countries.
Two officers of the forces under Gen.
Boltram have offered to leave the Fed-
erals and join the revolutionists with
their men.
The rebel. generals, .Ageilar and Debt-
lavo, are marehing from the north, witIn
the objeet of attacking the besieging
Federate in the rear.
The Conaule will meet to -morrow to
decide what shall be done in ease the
Federals bombard the eity.
SETTLE HOME RULE QUESTION.
London, Oct. 20.-A number of pro-
minent Irishmen of varions
opinions, headed by the Earl of Dtm-
raven, have initiated a moveinent to lift
the question of Irish Government above
the sphere or party polities, and propose
to hold a eonference of representatives
of all views and interests. They have
ir;StlPti eine-Oar expressing, the view
that the present home rule bill cannot
effeet permaneut settlement of the
question, and pointing.out their reasons
for this view, including some points (
which. they think will impede the pro-
gress of Ireland.
The aim is apparently to secure a
compromise which will be acceptuble to
partie:s.
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ENSURES SAFETY OF AMERICANS
Waehington, Oct. 20. -Viewing the
Diaz. insurrection on the gulf coast of
Mexico as by far the most serioue move-
ment against the Madero Governtnent
that haa yet appeared, the 'United States
Government to -day took precautione to
ineure the safety of Amerieane in South-
ern "Mexieo. The Mexican Government
was informed through the American
Embaesy at :Mexico City that the United
Statess will ineast upon communications
between the capital. and the port of
Tampico, on the east coast being kept
open regardless of the eircumetancee.
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MARCONI MAY LOSE OTHER EyE.
Spezzia, Italy, Oct, 20.- Guiglelmo
Marconi, the wireless inventor, whose
right eye was removed last Thursday,
has developed alarming symptoms. He
passed a sleepless night, his temperature
is high, and he is suffering the greatest
pain. Prof. Ilayardi, the ntrin specialist
who assisted at the operation of remov-
ing the right eye, was KU1nMonea 111
haete and at now attending Marconi.
'Notwithstanding a reassuring bulletin,
issued to -night, ia reared that com-
plications are threatening the other eye.
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AIR FATALITIES.
Berlin, Oct. 20.- -A balloon exploded
while sailing through a thunderetorm
over Groseenhain to -day. The two 0:14,11 -
Huts, Lieut. Stichler and Engineer
Grethrick, were killed.
Bordeaux, Ott. 20.-A French aviator,
Amedee Leconte was killed to -day while
giving an exhibition of coney flying at
Muesidam A heavy gust of wind over-
turned mo»oplasne, and the aviator
fell :from a height of 510 feet.
Gingen. Wurtemburg, Oet.
Aviator :Lieut. iliessbarth was flying
with a passenger here yesterd the ma-
chine fell. The two men were killed.
Ile* I
KILLED BY TAXICAB.
Windsor, Oct. 20.---Rtm (Iowa by a
swiftly moving taxicab, Peter Gor-
doe, 45, employed as a millwright in
Walkerville, was instantly killed in
Detroit on Friday night at 11 o'clock.
Mrs. Mary TA Merritt, his fiancee,
who was with him at the time, was
thrown to the ground, but escaped
with only a few scratehes.
MINISTER MAY RETIRE.
Portage la, Prairie, Men., Oct. 20. --
It rumored here that Iron. Hugh
Armstrong, Provinelal Treiteurer, writ
retire from publie lire at the end of the
parliamentary term. Itt ',hits eoninenion
it is oleo staid that G Mayer
of the eily, wili eonteet the ti ling oli
behalf of the tonoervitiveo at the nest
eteetion,
Ambassador Bryce Busy in
Panama Canal Matter.
Waehington, Oct. 20. -Ambassador
Brew, 11'110 han just returned, to Witeh-
ingt on a t ter an abeenee
months, at the State Department
st'veraii A $3,000,000 Fire in U.
Pacific Arsen a 1,
yesterday in vonnection with the von. ,
trOVersy between the United States and t
Great Britaiu regarding Panama. Canal
tolls, ills call at the alepaetment yes-
terday praetically inauguteated, a aeries
of diplomatic disenaitione which will con -
thole between the two Gbvernmente an.
til the matter is settled.
Offielais here who are fully eognizant
of all that has passed between the I'm
nett States and Great Britaiu on the sub -
Pet, are confident that the Panama
Canal. eontroversy no longer a, danger-
ous isii110 between the two nations,
Vt-hile no hint is obtainable as to the
manner in which settlement is to be
brought about, every eonfidence is ex-
pressed that an amieable adjustment will
be, reitehed.
it is understood that there will not be
any formal communication from the
Brills& Government other than what has
already been receis ed. Diecuseions, be-
tween Ambassador Bryce and the State
Department will form the basis of the
negotiations to be carried on. It is not
believed here that these is any danger
of Great Britain pressing the matter to
arbitration, despite the fact that she hae
already hinted that such will be, her
eourse in ease of a continued disagree-
ment On the question of the Pantlilla
t0114.
lt is believel the ultimate solution of
the problem will be an indirect one.
There are other important matters pend-
ing between the T.Tnited States and Great
Britain, and it has been suggested that
all taken together will afford a better
basis fur negotiation than would be the,
case in an endeavor to settle the canal
qnestion by itself.
DAY IN BRIF
aira.aa'ara haaaaaaalapa.
0-4.41r
HALF ROTTEN
That is Estimate Placed on
Potato Crop.
(Hamilton, Ont., Despatch.)
if growers and. grocers are to be be-
lieved potatoels will rank as one of the
luxuries of life again this eomiug win-
ter. The farm3rs are asking as hindi as
a dollar and a quarter a bag at the pre-
sent thne, and the prospaete are that
they will be higher in the course of a
'few days, The reason for it is the wet
weather, they say. Both Nvholesalers
and. retailers tell the Same story. About
four weeks ago a certain grocer put in
a fairly large etock of potatoes, and by
the time that be had them half sold
they had gone bad -so bad that even the
bags had rotted, he declares. 'Market
Clerk Hill hae been busy during the
past week watching for bad potatoes
being sold on the market, but he has not
r1111 across any yet that are not fit to
sell, Potatoes are in very bad shape
around Binbrook, and all that dietrict.
Many of the farmers are not bothering
to remove them front the ground. The
indientions point to big shortage during
the (mining winter, as. it is expeeten that
more than half 'of the crop will be un-
fit 'to sell..
11.4
DROWNED IN WELL
Galt Infant Fell in Uncover
ed Cistern.
Galt, Oct. 20. -Peter, the two aml a
half year old son of Thomas Burrows,
corner St. Andrews and Dumfriea
streets, was arowned in an, old well in
the ytted of George Barnes, 104 Beverley
street, late today. Mr. and. Mrs. Bur-
rows and .family were speeding the after-
noon al the Barneea Previous to having
their tett, the IllirrOWS child aud the
Pampa ehild went out int() the yard,
The Burrows child fell through an open-
ing in the platform of the well, which
is very deep. A plank had, been taken
off the platform as the Water was bad.
The other child ran to the house and
calling the adults showed them where
the Burrows child had. fallen. Life
was extinct when the body was recov-:
ere& Coroner Radford Was summon-
ed. An investigation will be held into
taillteestd.rowning and there may be an in -
1 1 I -
DISMISSED FIREMAN ARRESTED.
London, Ont., Oct. 20. -William
Barry, who until Saturday evening
was a member of the London Fire De-
partment, and -who was dismissed by
Chief Aitken when he was reported
to have made use of liquor while duty,
was louged in the police cells an
hour later, but not before the ap-
paratus had been called upon to re-
spond to four false alarms. The be-
haviour of Barry and another fire-
man did not meet with the approval
of the chief, and it is alleged that the
men proceeded. to enliven matters.
I
CAUGHT MAN WHO ROBBED HIM.
Plymouth, England, Oct. 20 -The police
here, pending enquiries of Scotland Yard
and the authorities of Toronto, cianada,
are holding a man namod Simmonds, who
was a seeona Class passenger on the
steam:ship Oceanie. on the complaint .of
a steerage passenger. an Italian named
w 110 declares that he aecidental-
ly recognimet Simmonds when the ship
was five days at sea as one O'Reilly,
who. With a confederate named :iittrvey,
robbed him or $3,000. '17he robbery took
olace In Toronto, and the Italian lost. Ids
money through an old confidence trick.
RUNAWAY HORSE INJURED MAN.
Owen Sound, Oet. 20. ---As the. eeetilt
of a runaway aceident last evening
David McClean lies at 10,4 110010 here in
an uneonseious eondition. A runaway
home was crowded to the sidewalk by
an. automobile, and ran into Air. Me-
Clea•n, throwing him violently 1 0 the
pavement. A fraetured hip was though t
to lie the worst ee.sult, but conetu-eion of
the brain and internal iniuriee werelater
discovered, and he is now in eritieal
condition.
Constantinople...al:he tranefor of ex -
Sultan Abdul Ilamid. from the plaee
where he had been eonfined in Saloeiki
to Conetantinople wat sanetioned by the
Sultan tonloy, after the Council of
ieters had deeided on the etep.
Ludington, Nliehe The water of Ham-
lin Lake, a popular summer reeort, nine
miles north of thie city, ie feat running
out into take Afield:so% A conerete
dem whieh held the water gave WaV yOS-
tON.lay, 0041 the lake soon will be a
mere (4 (
DEADLY TYPHOON
King or Italy
New Ti
Will
tie.
ake
Toronto 143shibitioa direetors decided
to abandon the "Midwa3en
Toronto eels selected as thc conven-
tion place by the Disciplei Of (ihri,t,
Bishop Ilebee J. Hamilton was eonse-
crated at Montreal as Bishop 01 dapam
Harry Warnogitztoy and Archibald 'Ir-
win tried to end. their lives in Toronto.
Thousands attended. the (1 eneral
Booth memerial services in eiassey
TorontO.
The earner etone of the new Roman
Catholie Church to coit 00,000 was laid
in St. Catharines.
,Alfred ,T, Thomas, a young settler near
Dane, lYtH drOft'll01 while crosaing Round
Nike in a Nome.
:airs. Mary Steele, of St. Catharines,
died et the age of 81, leaving 04 deseerd-
GETS BLUE FOXES
ORIN OF LIFE
Brought From Arctic to
N.B. Breeding Farm. Sir Oliver Lodge Deals
With The Subject.
Sea Me, Get. 10. -A t Invited to a fast
plesseitger train, whieh left here to -day
jos the eaet, me. an expreos ear tarrying
nee wee rove seem the Aleutian I h.
Linda, eu route to St. John, sN, B., to
(-toe!: it breeding farm.
By the time the aoiniale arrive at
their now hume their owner will have
f -pent a large sum in transporting them
Many thou:411nd mike by laud and sea,
hat he k vonvineed that in their new
paeture, svhielt has a climate quite as
ilsorons as; that of the Aleutian Islande,
of finest quality.
highest grade,
11 ho, ill the Lendon
will
A bl
get
will
skins
skin
bring
Ile
t he
of the
$800
said,
Market,
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CHASED NEGRO PUG
Chicago Women Incensed
at Jack Johnson's Talk.
Champion Slips Through
Bank to Escape Crowd.
Chicago, ()et. il().-Ineenved *beyond meas-
ure by the flaunting or Pugilist Jack
johnson of .the white girl, Lucille Camer-
on, of Minneapolis., his reflections on
womankind, and his insults to the mother
Edward Snider, a prominent resident or the glri, prominent Chicago women's
of Odessa, droped dead while at the farm
or a neighbor, Robert Aylesworth,
Mr. Peter Sayers, of Guelph, formerly
of Eeeueeine and Nassagawesst, died
fouldenly, hie 07th year.
The large mill belonging to the Baker
Lumber Company, Lindsay, waa totally
destroyed by fire late Saturday night.
Mr. Walter Manuel, eighty -eh: years
of age, fell from. a ladder while picking
apples at Whitby and was instantly kill-
ed.
13oomer, a tinsmith, St. Thom-
as, fell from the roof of a hut to the
ground while working and badly injured
his spine.
it is announced that KintaN'ictor Em-
manuel. of Italy proposee to assume the
title of Emperor of Rome at an early
de te.
The Dominion Government tut,* Batch-
aWan sank yesteraa y svhile being launch -
the Poison iron Works yards, Tor -
A freight train pitehed into a waiting
one 50 mile4 weet of leloose ;low, on the
C. P. Z. and 11. T. N icholson, :fireman,
lost his life.
The typhoon which swept over several
of the Philippine islands on October 10
resulten le the death of more than a
thousand persons.
2, farm hand named Burkholder was
fatally injured while threshing .near
Hepworth, his arm being caught in the
machinery and torn ottL
Ifarley, the 12 -year-old son. of Arthur
Laidlaw, of Asbner, elimhed a ladder
and fell a distance of ten feet in the
school shed, fracturing both his arms.
Sir 'William Ramsay, the distinguished
English ehemiet, teeeived the honorary
degree of Doetor of Lawe from joims
llopkin4 University.
The Government has awarded a con-
tract to build a breakwater at Vic Loria ,
II. C., to the firm of john dockson,
iteO. The cost \VIII be $1,800,000.
Struela by an automobile driven by
Edward Hahn, 0 clerk in a eity depart-
ment, Harold, -five-year-old son of Wm.
ilolder, Niagara, Falls, N. V., was almost
instantly killed.
<lames Taylor, an aged farmer, ef
Grovesend. went out to his barn and did
not return at the usual time. One of
his family, on searching for him, found.
him lying dead.
The Benicia arsenal, the United States
Government's prinucipal ,.torellousc for
anny supplies on the Pacific coast, ls'itS
destroyed by fire. The 10F,4 0Stimat-
ed at Meer *:1,000,000.
AndreW NeWlands, 0110 of the chief
shareholders in the Galt Rolld Co., whose
faetory was gutted in a reeent fire, an-
nounees that the company has decided.
to rebuild at once.
On Wolfe Island, near Kingston, Due -
ford Ifenderson, the 12 -year-old son of
Arthur Henderson, was run over by the
separator of a threshing. outfit end had
both his legs broken Above the knees.
A tug has been chartered to search
the entire St, Mary's pasaege for three
Sault Ste. -elarie men. Inetuk Oster, Dr.
Alfred Lemon and Joaeph Cobbs. esuppos-
ed to be lost daring the recent storms.
john Itemenuk. Polack, died at Sud-
bury Hospital from injuries received in a
collision at Pogma, on the C. P. R., (30
miles WeSt Of Sliallry, 'When a wort:
train crashed into tlat cora standing in
front of the engine.
Clarence Winterton, aged 33, son of
Joseph Winterton, et -.Montrose, near
Welland, Willie out shooting, by drawing
a gun towarda himself discharged it, lace
orating his left arm so that it bad to be
amputated. It is expected that he trill
live.
William Orem, C. P. R. conductor,
living at Havelock. lost his lire near
Sharbot Leke early yeaterday, Ife was
standing on the reser platform of the co-
b000e of freight. which WaS stalled.
when another freight crashed into it,
aud Orem was crushed to death.
.Although sufficiently reeovered from
his reeent illness to ,be able to leave
Lyniturst lfospital twO Wook•S ago, Dr.
Beattie Nesbitt is in welt a broken con -
ninon physically that it in iy imposai-
bit:, for him to appear :111 allAWPr tO the
charge of fraud laid ageinet lihn at the
next aeaizes.
BACK TO PRISON AGAIN.
North Bay, Oct. 20. ---Two ex -eon -
yids named John Bergin. and H.
Blanchard were sentenced to five
years in Kingston Penitentiary by
Magistrate Brodie at Sudbury for
highway robbery, the victim. being
an elderly Swede, who was decoyed
to e, lonely place in the C. P. R.
yards at Stidbury, where he was beat-
en and robbed of $81. Both prisonere
had finished prison terms within the
week,
HOW SUFFRAOISTS SPLIT.
London, Oet `4'.0.-Tt. is rumored that
Mr. rind Mrs. Pethiek Lawrenee seeeded
from the Women's Social and Polltieal
Union because they disMoved of a plan
Of atra. Emmeline Pankhurst sand ller
daughter, christabel, to deetroy the leo.
1ot napere et the London. munielpal Moe.
tiono In Noaenther with eoroaive aeid.
The Istwreneee refase to confirm or deny
the report,
organizations, social and economic, have
Pledged support tu Mrs. Cameron -Fal -
collet in taking. decisive measure:3 hi pros-
ecute the prize-fighter,
The mother of the girl, wilt), ner et.
forts to rescue her daughter, nas set the
machinery of four different courts In
motion, received (luring the morning more
than a score of letters from cading
Chicago women offering assistance, and
Ude atternotin the presidents of 'half a
dozen clubs communicated with her.
"1 am glad that Chicago women realize
the position 1 am in," said Mrs, Falcon -
et, "and I appreciate their noble offers
of assistance. 1 am in 1110 fight for my
daughter and justice. 1 will see this case
through to the finish."
While this storm ot protest was gather-
ing the negro na.rrowly escaped violence
at the hands of niore than 1,000 persons
in front of a bank at Menroe and Dear -
,..born Streets when he anneared following
Hopkins in tho criminal court on a charge
of abducting the Cameron girl.
unnso a had gone into the bank aail it
was while he was in -Life building What
the crowd gathered around his high-pow-
er automobile, in which sat .a, bodyguard,
which has been constantly with the negro
since the rumor last night that he ha.d
been shot early in the day because of
his love affair with the white girl,
When :Johnson appeared in the street
cries er. him!" vounimi with epithets,
were heard until Johnson withdrew Into
the bank, called a taxicab, and went
away from the Dearborn street side of
the building. Most of the crew(' was
on the Monroe street side, and Ininfireds
stayed for hears waiting for his return.
Bail for Johnson was inereased frum
$S00 to $1,500 by ;Judge Hopkins.
',twine Cameron, tne girl in the ease,
has been 'Mod up. Charges of insanity
al.e made by Mrs. P. P. Falconet, the
girl's mother.
HOMESTEADERS' LONG WMT.
Edmonton, Alta., Oct. 19. -Although
townships 89 and 90, which include the
town site of Fort MoMurra, will not be
opened to homesteaders until Nov. 9, al- The provincial health authorities are
ber is increasing. Land Agent Norquay going to press the Ontario ease against
of some of the hardship of their long the pollution of international watera be-
dehvyiselcci:utlsials: rtil:neri-Nceatzli.er fore the Great ilatkes International Prere
positions on the sidewalk in elialk, and
then "guard" spots from more
sheltered points.
..1...aataa•-a, lao-••
Life Is Only A Controller,
Not A Force.
London, Oct. 21. -Sir Oliver Lodge,
the noted scientist, and president of
the rniversity of Birmingham, in hie
Becquerel lecture to -day dealt with the
reeent dieeuseion on the origin of life
whiell was started by Professor Stilly.-
fer's presidential address to the Britieli
Asaoelation for the Advancement of
Seiner. Speaking of the construction
of living matter ont of artificially cont.
bined roolerials, Sir Olived Bald:
"It 111:13' 1)0 impossible, but the at-
tempt is a legitimate one. No one can
poeitivel,v say it will never be SUMS-
ful."
The leeturer, however, pointed. out
one of the difficalties in the way of the
fulfilment of the dream that life may
come tram a, laboratory -created sub.
stanee. Life, he said, demands energy
for its peculiar maniiestatiora. En-
ergy i4 like gunpowder; life is like the
trigger puller that makes the gun-
powder work. It seems only to be an
orfair or atoms, but there is possibly
urtuth ntore in it ellen i4 imagined.
Life k probably soniething altogether
control, not tt force, but something
that directs fore° and incidentally con-
trols matter. Profess() fLodge thus de-
fined the functions of life:
"Whet life liaa to do is to control
the spontaneous disintegration of pro-
toplasmic cells, to regulate the activity
or the gamslia of the brain, and to sus-
pend the disintegration of organic ma-
terial until some appointed time and
then direct it elong determined chan-
eel, That is all a sportsman does with
the energy of gampowder. He withholds
the explosion until the appointed time,
and then liberates it in a definite direc-
tion. To say that he propels projec-
tile, thereby conflicting with the conser-
vation of energy, is absord. This pre -
cess of timing and aiming is typical of
the eontrol of life throughout.
"The manner and method whereby
life obtains this control we do not as
Yet know, but those who say that life
cannot ankle material proeessesa, unless
life itself is a form of energy (which is
faloe--a man is not a form of energy)
and thoee who hold that life cannot
act at n11 unless energy is at its dis-
posal (which is ceatainly true) forget
the spontaneous activity of eomples:
organrand moleculee and forget the
disintegration manifested by radione-
tivity. Energy is not a, ,guiding Or
controlling entity at all, it is a thing to
be guided. Energy by itself iS as blind
and blundering as it house afire or a
driverless motor ear."
4-6-4
TO PRESS THE FIGHT
Ontario Will Try to Prevent
Water Pollution.
ready there hi a line ot over one hundred
out,7:Ide the local land office, and the num-
SAILOR DROWNED IN COLLISION.
Detroit, Mich., Oct. 21.-A wheels -
man lost his life and ten other mem-
bers of the crew of the salad steamer
Pine Lake narrowly escaped death
to -day, when. their vessel went to the
bottom in less than a minute after a
collision with the steamer Fleetweod,
off Peiche Island, in the Detroit
River. The man who lost hls life
was Aleck Kalvey, whose home was
near London, Ontario. It. is thought
he was trapped in the wreckage of
the pilot -house.
PERKINS GIVES LIE DIRECT.
wasbington, Oct. 21. --George W. Per-
kins to -day announeed as an "unmiti-
gated falsehood" the charge that he
had *underwritten the Roosevelt pre-
convention Champaign tI118 year in the
slim of $3,000,000. ire testified that his
total contribUtiOnS Were $1 22,500.
--eases
BOYS KILLED BY TRAIN,
Linable:, Mich., Oet. 20.- Lee Millard,
the 12 -year-old son of Frank S. Millard,
chief clerk of the State Railway Coin-
miesion, aud Charles N. Pinekney, ten
years old, son of Fred. Pinehney, of this
city, were killed by a (1, T. R. train near
here to -night.
The lads stepped ant of the way of
a westbound train direetly in front of
an eastbound passenger train.
The Millard. boy was a nephew of for-
mer Governor Fred. .111, Warner,
apor......owe
ROBBER MISSED BIG HAUL.
Skagway, Alaska, Oct. 20,-11 was dis.
covered yesterday that nearly $250,000
in gold in the Wells, Fargo & Company
express orrice was overlooked by a rob-
ber who sandbagged Agent Herbert
Taylor Fridat night. The robber took
peckage eontaining $1a?,00, When Tay-
lor went into a rear room for a bucket
of eoal the robber, W110 bad been Con-
cealed in elosel, 'struck hint over the
head. Talylor unconscioue until
found yeet
oilliagawarraarmama
DIED AT AGE OF IR
Chicago, Oct, 21.---Soseph
a carpenter, 110 years old, died at
his home here to -day, He was born
in Germany in 1802, and came to this
country When he we's 40 years old.
At the age of 80 Years Marshi teased
the use of all intoxicating liquors, and
when he was 105 years old he stop-
ped the use of tobacco.
U. S. SECRETARY KNOX HOME.
Washington, Oct. 21. -Secretary of
State Knox, who represented the
United States in japan at the fun-
era,1 services of the late 14:imperor
11.11itsullito, returtied tonlaY to 'Wash-
ington.
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FOLLOWED HOUNDS IN PLANE.
ltendon, England, Oet. 20.- paek of
hountle paseed the aerodrome here esv.
terday nhile a number or avisttore were
proetkilig. ANiator Pials1s, whe 1,1,
never seen an English los hunt. got
into his unteltine and ":011 mel the iota
at rose eomitry.
Water Aseociation and the Association
. .
for the Prevention of tne Pollistien
Rivers and Streams, which meet in
Cleveland on the 23rd and 2.Ith of Oeto-
ben The eonvention will in all proba-
bility take tip the questions IV II jell Uri'
noW being dealt with by the Interna-
tional Joint Commission, and. consider-
able information will be forthcoming
which will serve as a guide to the com-
mission when. it Meott3 in Waehington
next month to hear further evldenee.
The provincial authorities have 'been
for some time gathering evidence to snb-
mit to the joint eortunission particular-
ly with a view to proving .that contain.
ination from the large cities on the
boundary rivers and the great lakes
does not erase into Ontario watem It
is likely that much of the information
secured indhis telly will be given by the
Ontario representatives at the convene
tioll.'lheneOxitttairr7oekOfficials to attend will in -
elude Dr. J. W. 8, 'McCullough, ehief
officer of health, and Dr. Amyon pro-
vincial analyst. The Dominion will prole.
ably he repreeented by Dr. Charles W.
Ifodgetts, while Dr. J. 0. 0. sHaatings
will attend for the city of Toronto. -
10.4.400.54....maNa•
SHE GOT 9 MONTHS
Suffragette Sentenced for
Attempted Incendiafism.
Oxford, Eng., Oct, ale -Helen Crarmas
a xrdlitant eufrragetto, was to -day sett-
tenced to nine months' hard labor at
the Assizes, on the charge of ettemptsing
to set fire to the, residence of Lewie V.
Harcourt, Secretary of State for the
Colonies.
'Next Cra.ggs, Who is 0 daughter of
Sir John Crag" was discovered with
another woman in the grounds of Nune.
ham Park, and Was eallght by a watch-
man. When searched. she. wee found to
carryine' a quantity of inflammable
material and spirits.
CHARGED WITH ASSAULT.
St. Thotnes despatch: Samuel Dunn,
Port, Stanley, was arreeted and bronght
to the eounty p,til bete to -day on the
eharge of committing an aggravated
itesault on Miss :Margaret Palmer, of
that village, a week ago, nlies Palmer
le FlIfferitig 1r0111 a severe blow on the
head and a badly &adored jaw, an,f
it is elaimed by the atteuding phyeistialwa
that her memory hie° the asOfiellt 1,4 EtN4
enmplele blank on mamma preseuess
on the brain caused by the allege4
blows of an axe in the hands of ars
aeeueed.
PALL WAS ACCIDENTX.,
Lond,on, Ont., deepatcht Daniel Stew.
art, a Seotehman, who woe severely in-
jured in a fall front the Thamen street
viaduct, of the Grand Trtunk reeently,
ond who lute sinee been in an uneott-
eniensi state at Vietoria hospital, to -day
reeovered Altana:Wily to give his version.
of the oehttrrenee. He *dated that hlia
fan 3.% AA eetirely aeeidental. end filet
George has, broettee.imeewo
v.ho N't as with him at the time. Wao trit
to blame. Williontoon, hag einee
been held the Wael aeeordingly
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