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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1912-11-14, Page 7. tf-Mer,r,en,11.1,,,14.10[1, AUSTROMRVIAN CRISIS IS ACUTE St. Petersburg and Vienna Fear Trouble Over Albania -Rumors of Mobilization. • -•-•-•••-•• Cholera and Typhoid Among Turks -Porte s Strong Hand Stops Constantinople Disorders. London, Nov. 1L -The Berlin cone- spoudent of the Daily Mail learns that the three& of the Austro-Servian crisis are now in the hands of the German Secretary for Foreign Aftaire, lien Von liiderlen-Waechter, who is working oh a formula designed to appease both tria, and. Servia. The Daily Mall'e Sofia, eorrespondent says that preliminary conversations have beei begun with Austria, in the name of the Balkan iceigue. The latter has made every poseib1e. conceesion, but maintains that a Servian outlet to the Adriatie is abeolutely eseential. Press and oublic opinion in St. Peters- burg, accoroing to a despateh, to the Deily Mail from the RUeSiall Capital, con- sider a conflict between Ruseie and AlU3- trio, imminent, if Austria continues to threaten Servia. The Daily Maine correspondent with the Turks, describing the demoralization as shown in the disordered retreats, re. ark that there were very few regulave among thoee who took to flight, nearly all of whom were parchment -skinned peasants of the reserve. He adds: "One can only euppose that the ma- jority of the regulars had remained be- hind And were killed. As for the ghast- ly lack of efficient transport for the wounded it would need a Zola to de- eeribe the horrors endured by the men hit in battle. I asked a doctor how it was that the wounded men I saw were only injured in the limbs. He replied: 'Because those hit in the body die.'" will wait until the war is em -cd before opening formal negotiatioos with Ser - Count Von Berehthold, the Austrian Foreign Minister, bad a conference with the Emperor at Budapest Saturday. Af- terwards he summoned a special confer- ence at the palace, at which General Auf- fenberg, the Austro-Hungarian Minister of War, General &hernia, Chief of the General Staff, and the Hungarian prem- ier, M. Lukacs, were preeent. The Emperor later received in audience the German ambassador, It is also an- nounced that Archduke Franz Ferdinand will shortly visit the German Emperor at One of his ehootieg boxes, and much importance ie attached to this meeting. C'ONDITIONS oeT TCHA.TALJA. London, Nov. 11.-A sorry picture of the eonditions at Tehatalja ie given by one of the Daily Telegraphts earrespore dente. He arrived at Conetantinople Thursday after riding several days from Tehorlu with the retreating Turkish army. He sent the following despateh from Conetanzat "Never for a single mile had there been a break in the endicee chain of re- treeting soldiere and. refuereee. We had not even a 'single regiment, ft single bat- tery, a single company of organized soh diem We had only tscen men without arms, without food, without morale, and who' e officers seemed to have. com- pletely dlea pp eared. "I do not think that the Turks had even taken the trouble to blow up the railway line behind them. When we neared. Tehatalja our spirits rose, as we heard on all .sides that it wae an im- pregnable position. Surely here the re- treat, would cease; we would find an army prepared to make a last stand for Islam. "We realized that our hopes were vain when, three miles from Tehataija, we found a village in flames, and the sol- diera looting it for food. Tchatalja was deserted. There Was no signs of an army, no Mgoe of a camp, no signs of a fortified position and no supplies of food. "At Hadeinkeul there were one or two forts armed with obsolete guns; there were 4,000 troops, a majority of whieh were wA,ndering about the village in a eentiestarved condition, although only twenty miiee from Constantinople, "We met a lieutenant -general riding aimileeely about, followed by an escort of, four orderlies and preceded by two nides. Ire told oe that he had aft army )11( of 150,000 men, and that 200,000 more were coming from Conetantinople. Then he rode off. apparently in search of somethingelookine for the phantom Army which existed only in hie imagination." SERBS JOIN* MONTENEGRENS. London, Nov. 11, -The vanguard of the third Servian army has joined hands With the Montenegrins in the valley of -the Drin River, as a Belgrade de - patch to the 4 Daily Telegraph. Both armiee are advencing along the seacoast Durazzo. FIRST CORRESPONDENT'S REPORT. Adrianople, Nov. 0, 3.45 pen. --(By in- direct route via Odeesa, Russia.) --The tombardment of this eity by the Bul- garians began again yesterday, and con- tinued to -day, from the south and west. In the afterivoon it etopped, and Shukri Paella, the military eamman.dent, had placard:is posted all over the city. an- nouncing the victory of the genteel), evbich had eepulsed the Intlgatian at- tacking force around Marae, and had driven the besiegers a considerable dis- tance into the surrounding _country. Conettnatinople if Na7.1111 Bey eannot hold the Huai, bas thrust ont aetrong head for order. Orders came yesterday for the epeedly disarmament of the populaee. Trusted trope are going- about among the people taking firearlthi, knives and daggers. These are being etored at the War Of fire. • The l‘finieter of the Interior has iesued a frank Koch:motion in an at- tempt to calm the (dorm so many fear will break out in the city if the army a; again thrown haek. He says there ie yet hope for the Turks at Tehataldja. He %Mlle the populace te stick to their deity liminess, awl promiees guiek pint- lehment for offeuders. The correspondent of the Daily Mail at Conetantiople heare that the Bnigare are impelling toward Gollipolie, where the watere Of the Dardanelles meet the Sea of ;Marmara. If tide is true, the Bulgarians evidently intend to attempt the capture of the forts along the straite, The Greek fleet will in the event of the euccess of the Bulgars be able to steam through the Dardanelles up to the very shadowe of the mosque a the capital.- - RIVER DAMMED WITH CORPSES. London, Nov. 11.-A despatch re- ceived here from the headquartore of the Bulgarian army, dated on Saturday, says: "The fighting along the Tchorlu River ivas almost appalling. The river' ie Still dammed at many places with corpses and war material, and is running red with blood. In the forest to the north there was ferocious fighting at close quarter's. Men threw their Weapois away and sprang at one another's throats with their bare hands. "There were frightful scenes also at the capture of Istrandja and on the un- eneceseful advance to the northwest from Kapakli-Bunar. Attacked by a superior feta() on three sides, the Turk e rushed in headlong flight back to Kapakli- Butter, but before they reached that place they were decimated by the Bul- garian artillery and infantry. This is the firet despatth sent by any eorrespondent with the beeieged Turk - i(13 garrbon of r i an te e. CIIOLV,RA AND TYPHOID. Conetantinople, Nov. 11. --The ed. break of eholera is aanimirig serione pro- portione. Twenty-three casee had oc- eared among the troops along the Vila- feldja flues up to Wednesday. Tbere are many more 611S1eeted Cat'irti Meng the wounded, A trainload of wounded hos -tuet reitehed here, with eight of t.110 601- (iiPrA having (lied on the way, pyinn- cbly cholera. The dIfierlbe P. gin ting a. firmer hold on fteeount of the massing of troops, the lack of proper food, and the complete, eaeeeee of sanitary arrangemente. The danger to femti smiamople io great, en aeconnt of the influx of rein:roe. AI - ready eel/oral suepeeted (wee among the latter have been repelled, 'no author - art prepareig a 4p('iai quatentille oripital. with 400 leele, at githeie :telegrams from Salonica raid 1.!'etaili are to the effeet that viroleet ttpliold hos developed amoug the prieoners war, and there hem been it great mini- ber 4.4 thia.the. London, Nov. 11. -The Trte1d.411 Oov- .011111)00f realizing What would happen in .......'"•••••••••••• 30 DIE IN WRECK Railway Smash in Louisiana Was Disastrous, Freight Hit Crowded Sun- day Excursion Train. New Orleans, La., Nov. IL -Thirty persons were killed and more than fifty were injured in a, wreck on the. Yazoo Misaissippi Valley Railroad, early to -day, when a freight train erashed in- to an excursion paseenger train, bound from New Oleane to 'Woodville, Mies. The week occurred near Mentz, La., about 29 miles north of New Orleans. A train carrying many of the injured and a number of the dead arrived in New Orleans this morning at 8.15, The more seriously injured were placed in the Charity Hoepital. The ill-fated excursion train left New Orleans at 11 o'clock last night, carry- t ing several hundred people who had spent Sunday in New Orleans. It slow- ed down on approaching a sharp curve near Montz soon after midnight, anti the freight train crashed into the rear coaches. Many of the victims were so badly mangled. as to make identificae tion impossible. MISSION HARDSHIPS Anglican Minister in North in Distress. Sydney, N.S., Nov. 10. --Rev. Percy Broughton, Anglican Missionary to the Eequimaux in Baffin Land, arrived yesterday on the steamer Boethic. Mr. Broughton's return was made necessary by the terrible hardships be endured af- ter straying away from the guides while returning to the mission etation at Lake Harbor in March baj. He lay for three months in terrible agony. He lost lief toes of hie right foot, his cook perform- ing the operation. On the eleventh of August the mission ship arrived and took him off. From her he was trans- ferrecl to the Dominion Government ship Minto. Here Dr. Goodwin, Of Halifax, treat- ed hhu, two operations on his feet being necessary. After six weeks on the Minto be was transferred to the Boethie, which landed him, here, 84 days after leavieg Lake Harbor. From here Mr. Broughton goes to Torok°, and thence to London, England. He is still very lame and shows in bis faee the terrible hardhips he endured. Ire will return north, he sap, in two years, as men able te speak the language are herd to got. The osual stay ofmiettion- aides in Baffin Land is two years at a time, 'air. Broughton \vent north in July, 1911, CANADIAN TUG LOST. Solkirk. .Nrg11.3 Nov. S. ---The Dominion Government steamer Ltuly of the take ari;ved laet night with a taipply of -white fishspeoll for the Selkirk hatchery, She hen on board Inspeetor Howell, of the Vieherice i)epartment, end the erew of the Government tug Menai*, which ran 011 a reek in Lane Winpipeg last Thinee day :Menton)), and f3atlk in 13 feet Of water, ten miles fleet) the Little See - ha telt e niit River. STRATFORD MAN Ku...LeD. Vert Worth, Tone, Nov. 10. -Thome E. Caulfield, formerly 0.member of novo. motvie Firemen Lodge No. n8, of Strat- ford, Ont., and no‘v a member of the toeemotive Thigineers, was killed ;voter - day. Caulfield wa a fireemo running (nit of Stratford in 1884.3. It is believed he love eisters living in Toronto. Ite 011/110 originally Irmo Ittorningten town- ' shin) Ontario, WOODROW WILSON, of NEW JERSEY, Newly elected President of the United States. LINER ABANDONED Royal George Turned Over to the Underwriters. Possibility of Her Being Floated Even Yet. Toronto, Nov. 11.. ---The Canadian northern Rahway liner Royal George has been abandoned to the underwriters. The vessel is still in the same position on the reeks one mile east of Point St. Lawrence, and. the ownere, preparing for the worst, have notified the• insurance companies that the veesel is now on their hands. The message was cabled to London yesterday by Vice -President D. B. Hanna, who has charge of the (-team- ship department. Mr. Hanna stated that it was not owing to the belief that the Royal George was badly damaged that the etep was taken, but that the company were assuming the worst, and that in such a case they had. but taken the proper steps to protect both the underwriters and themselves. Mr. Hanna said that the Royal George was insured. for $1,275,000, but this amount would not cover the cost of replecine the liner. He placed the cost of it at between $1,700,000 and $2,000,000. Besides this. loss, he said, the compariy would lose a groat deal more from 1o6s of traffic and other thine, which could not be figured in dollars. The Canadian Northern, Mr. Hanna explained, how- ever, were not abandoning the voseel completely,. but would continue to make every effort to release it, and if it 'n.s coneidered that it wes not too beelTy damaged to be repaired, would exert every facility to have it repaired imme- diately. In that cause it would be taken out of the underwriters' hands and.ruele ed to a dry dock. Another serious loee in connection with the wreck, said the vice-preeident, wae the damage done to the freight. Ac- cording to tbe despetchee received by the railway, the freight stored in 'No. 2 hold, 'which is the largest one, has been badly damaged. At present the compeny are busily engaged in lightering this hold. Mr, Hannacould give no estimate of the damage, as he had not received any invoices es yet. He believed thet it would be ,great, however. The eorgo in the other holde are not thought to be damaged„ as several haeie been lightered already, and no great damage has been diseovered. Mr, Hanna. denies therumor that the veseel was abandoned owinet'to the fact that the bottom was so badly damaged that if it were taken from the rocks it would sink. He said that the company had divere down daily, and that to the present they could not give any definite information regarding the exact extent of the damage. He also declared that there was no truth in the•story that the liner was i-unuing off the (10:1 1.80, and too near the vicinity of Aachen' Nand, and was injurert to such an extent that it was neteesail to beach it belowPoint St. Lawrence. CYR'S MOTHER-IN-LAW DEAD. Montreal, Nov. 10. ---Mrs. Odile Res- roche6, a woman 72 years of age, drop- ped dead at the bedeide of her eonen-law, Louis Cyr, the "strong man," who as dying at his home here. Mrs. Deeroches came here a few days ago to help nurse her son-in-law, but worry tend undue excitement proved too much for her. r t UNKNOWN DEAD IN TORONTO. Toronto, Nov. 11. -Just as he was be- ing carried into St. Michael's Hospital from the wilco ambulance yesterday af- ternoon, Thomas IMO, a. man about ,10 years of age, died. Dereased had been taken from the Salvation Army Metro- pole on Wilton avenue, where he had been suddenly taken 111. Nothing Is known of him, except the slight informa- tion he gave when being admitted to the aietronme Saturday night, WILSON'S TOTAL Will Have 442 Votes in Electoral College. New York despatch: Baeed on returns at midnight, Wooarow Wilson has car- ried Illinois and California by eafe mar- gins. Thus he will have 442 -votes in the Electoral College, Roosevelt will have 77, while Presid.ent Taft will get but 12. It now looks ae if Illinois will poll Up a plurality of 15,000 for Governor Wilson, -while the rural districte of California will put him at least 3,000 ahead of his nearest opponent, Col. Roosevelt, in that State. The popular votes of the three lead- ing candidates figure something like 6,000,000 or more for Wilson, 4,000,000 or perhaps less for Mr. Roosevelt, and 3,400,000 for President Taft. These to- tals must vary to a certain degree with revised returns from the present doubt- ful States, but then in general they are not far &ern being correct. ' The lose of California and 111inoi to the Bull Mooe,a candidate is somewhat offset by his belated success in Minne- sota. where the farmer vote upset last night'e predictions, and turned the tide there tor the third party candidate. The contest between Governor Wilson and Col. llooeevelt was a neck -and - neck race in Kansae, West Virginia, Il- linois and California, but it was too much for the Progressive when it came to counting the votes fromn the rural districts. Wyomiug has been hanging in the balance, but estimates based on general returns would give the State to Wilson ay from- between 300 and. 500. The Taft people have been claiming he eleetoral vote. = LAKE CAPTAIN DEAD Blood Poisoning Followed Accident on Boat. Goderich, Nov. 10. -Captain Minh- ae,l Ironsides of Sarnia, a well-known Canadian mariner, iormerly sailing the Ionic, of the Northern Navigation Company's fleet, but thie season in eommand of a, steamer sailing out of Montreal passed away in the Marine Hospital here yesterday after a very short illness. Deceased. had just fin- ished. the passenger season, and laid up 'hie vessel at Montreal, and was acting as second mate on the steamer Wexford. When mooring at the Soo, on his last trip, his leg became caught in one of the wineh cables. Whibe confined to his bed nothing serious was anticipated until on arrival here Friday, about one week after the ac- cident, be was taken to the hospital, where it was found blood poisoning had. resulted, and 'finally attacked the heart, CONCLUDING DANK MERGER. Montreal, Nov. 10. -Indications to- night favored a succeeeful conclusion of the negotiations entered into be- tween the Banque Internationale and the Home Bank of Canada for an amalgamation of the two institutions, It IS expected that a, definite an- rionneement will be forthcoming Mon- day as to tile ,sueeess or 11 011-1311C0eGe Of the 110gOtiatiOnS. I 14 • T. & N. O. CONSTRUCTION. Cobalt, Nov. 10.-William:‘,1cCa1fertY, one ot the contractors on the Elk Lake branch of the T. & N. 0. Railway, is responsible for the statement that the ]:tying of the steel for the branch should reach Elk Lake by December 15th, The contractors have been delayed by the building of the John riaptiste bridge, The steel is now 1811 for sixteen miles, and the remainder of the fii*c miles to the Montreal River should be laid In two weeks, , ROYAL GEORGE ON THE BOOKS Mils boat, like its twin. the lloyal Edward. has been running for three seasons on the St. Laurrenee.Bristol rout" for the Canadian Northern Steatnship Company. Tito steamer is 545 feet long, 60 feet beam and bas a registered tonnage of 12,000. She is driven by triple turbine engines anil can attain 20 knots an hour. Originally the two known As fhb CtittiO ItUd It01011011$1, ran in the Mediterranean. They are expellent A1104010 oE iniodern cornfort ett4 luxury. . . ' wootolmer404140.4440.00fer ' !/.41 r 4.444.010P EUROPE'S MAP TO )E RECAST Mr. Asquith's Pronoulce. ment on Balkan's Rights. ARMY, NAVY, READY Winston Churchill Makes Reassuring Statement. Loudon, Nov, 10.- Seldom, even at m'speee hes been delivered 'by Oil House banquet, have more Minieters of the Crown than on Sat- urday evening, when the new Lord Mayor, David Burnett, was installed. Expectation was at fever height con- cerning the pronouncement of Pre- mier Herbert IL Asquith regarding the Balkan aituntion. "We are living in anxious times, and are spectators of great and moving events," lie said. "The Balkan armies enteree Europe, ea:ow:I:effective possession of Mace- donia and Thraee. Satellite, the, gate- way tarough which Christianity first ie cceupied by the and we may any moment hear of the fall of Vonstantinople itself. It is a, satisfaction to 7,,,t1 able'to assure you that so far as this country is con - corned its relatimue with other pow - ere, without a. single ,exception, were never more friendly and cordial. The great powers are working together with a elosenees of touch and a frank- ness and freedom of communication and discuseion which are remarkable, and whieh may seem almost unintel- ligible to those who believe that be- muse for certain purposes the powers have been and are ,ranged in different groups, they must therefore, in do. time of European crisis, be arrayed in op- posite campe. Nothing is further from the fact. The powers have been blamed in some quarters because they did not succeed in averting, the war. They sought, and sought honeetly and earn- eetly by diplomatie preesure and with- out resort to forte, tn eeeure conditions of order and go.! go; ornment in the European provinas of the Ottoman Em- pire. "But forces were at work Loyond the control of any diplomatic mani- pulation. The Balkan States having matured their plans, perfected their equipment, and co-ordinated their re- ciprocal action, decided that fOrC41 WAS the only effectual remedy, and that they, and they alone, were pre- pared to use it. They took the mat- ter in their own hands. Things can never be again as they were; and it is the blleilleeS of statesmen everywhere to recognize and accept the aecompliehed fact, When Pitt, mortally etrieken by the news of Austerlitz, eame borne to die, he told those about him to roll up the map of Europe which hung on the wall. But even the campaign of Auster- litz did not produce changes so, sudden and so startling and overwhelmingly complete as those which during the last month have been wrought by the Balkan confederacy. The map of Eastern Europe has been recast, and in the proceee it may be that ideas, preconceptions and policies which were born in what is now a, bygone era, will have to be modified, reconstructed, or even go altogether lilyithe board. Upon one thiug..I believe te general opinion of Europe to be un- animous, namely, that the victors are not to be roobed of the trults whih COSt them so dear, NO DIRECT INTEREST. "So far as I know there is no dis- position. anywhere to belittle the magni- tude of the struggle or to diepute the decisivenes& of the result. • We in this country have no direct interest in the exact form. which consequent political and territorial redistribution may ulti- mately take. There are other powers whose special relatione, geographieal, economic, ethnical and historical, .with the scene of the conflict and it destine- tioft are Buell that they cannot be ex- pected not to claim a hearing and, a voice when the time comes for a per- manent settlement. I purposely refrain at this stage from even indicating in the most general way the pointe, some of them full of difficulty, which met in- evitable emerge for solution. For the moment„and so long as a 'State of bel- ligerency continuee, the Government, as far as their influence goes, deprecate the raising and pressing of %elated °ilea- tione which if handle% separately and at one. seem likely to lead to irreconcilable divergencies, but which may assume a different and perhaps more practicable aspect, if they are reserved to be dealt with from the wider point of View of a general settlement. "War is terrible, though it me,y from time to time be a necessary form of arbitrament when a deadlock arrives in human affairs, and none of its worst horrors has been absent from the cam- paign which is now being waged. It is at this moment the first and greatest of European interests to circumscribe ite scope. For that obieet the greet powers have labored as with one will. So far they have labored. successfully, and it our hope And belief that they will cone tinue to labor to the end. At tiuch times as thee the burden of responsibility which falls upon the shoulderof the Government, onerous as it always is, is exceptionally heavy; and it in a Source of sineere gratification to the Govern- ment to know however much we may be divided Among oureelves in the arena of domestie controversy, we have in these larger matters the sympathy end sup - poet of the whole community, and eon speak in the councile of Europe in the nome and with the authority of 11 united people." Winston Churchill, 111.4 toed of the Admirolty, who reeponded in behalf of the naval f elves. 68111: "The year hue witneeeed important naval developments. The fleet has been reorganized upon 0. complete end symmetritial plan; an en- tire new squadron of very powerful ships bee been pleeed in full ememieolon; oat haVt, recreited the largeet number of soilors and 4t0ker6 of any year in mod- ern times. Nearly three finless 118 many men have boon reeruited in eaeh month, :1 1.1:7a ai. 5taverage, of the preeeet year, as 11 PH eauee in the year whieh pre - NEW BATTLE SOU.ADRON. "Before the end of the (session T shalt tubmit to Parliament propoeals for int. piquing the pay of offieeve and men .of the Itoyal 11.01% This, it raay be hoped, ,1‘.iillitaii fittistimulate 011 1' already heavy 1t "We bad not proposea, mo. year, to ereate battleship squadron. until MI6, but by various adMinistrative arrangements it will be peasible 'to bring that squadron into existence next year. When 1 say 'bring it into exist. •enee' 1 mean bring it into existence fay manned on mobilization, with active ser. viee rating. This will increase the men, giu 9f security to which I have 011 sev- eral MI1910215 referred In the House of Commons, "No harm has been done during the year by plain speaking on naval come- tione. On the contrary, the effect has been extremely good. The Germans are ft nation with rolmet minds and a high souse of honor and fair play. They look at affairs in a praetierd military spirit; they like to have facts put squarely be - tore them, and they do not went them wrapped up Reit they should be eltock- ed by them; and the relations between the two countries have steadily inereas- ed during the year. They have steadily improved side by side, with every eerie demo of Our determination to maintain our naval eupremacy. The best way to make these arrangements thoroughly healthy nad comfortable is to go right on and put a,n end to thie naval rivalry by proving that we cannot be over - "But, after all, what has made thie year memorable in the history of the navy has been the spontaneoes and sim- ultaneous movement on the part of the great dominione of the Crown towards effective participation in Imperial naval defence," ARMY IN Goon CONDITION, Colonel J. B. Seely, the Secretary of State for War, replying in behalf of the military forces, said that the outstand- ing feature of the year, he supposed, had been the creation of a Royal flying eorpe. The numbers of the regular army had been fully maintained, and its effi- ciency was probably greater than at any time in history. Besides the regular army and national reserves, there re- mained that great citizen army, the eee- ond line in this country, and in the do- minions overseas; and this he would say, that they were growing in numbers greater than ever before. He did not mean to say that all was perfect. Far from it. Much remained to be done and great efforts must be made if the forces of the Crown were to continue adequate to the immense re- eponsibility pressed upon Great Britain. He :flee looked forward to the day when every man would follow up the same thstate of civic patriotism for which Eng - lona was renowned, by saying: "I will extend eiVie patriotism to the duty of defending my country and of my own free will I have done ray part." TOM MANN'S STAND Labor Leader Would Rebel If War Came. London, Nov. 10.- Tom Mann, the Labor leader, who served time in jail for speeeh he made some thee ago advising soldiers not to obey orders when it came down to shooting etrikers, made a sensational speech at a Syndicalist meeting in London to- night, He moved a resolution denouncing international wars as calamitous to workingmen, and said the only war which would merit their attention was a class war. The resolution af- firmed that if Great Britain entered into any war the workmen would resort to a general strike to prevent supplies from going forward to the army and navy. This resolution was carried by acclama- tion amid tremendous applause. Mann, in introducing the resolu- tion, said he Was prepared to net as a, rebel in the event of war, and was prepared to incite others to rebel- lion and mutiny. +4-4 BOY'S HARD LUCK Trying to Save, He Killed His Brother. North Bay, Noy. 10. -Arthur, the three-year-old eon of Joseph Leclair, was shot through the head with a. bul- let from a revolver Saturday morning, and died to -day. His mother had oc- casion to leave her children alone in the house, and had barely left when the ehildren went into the room of an uncle who lived with the family, and, finding the keys of his trunk, opened it and abstracted a .38 calibre revolver. There were three children in the room altthe twelve. time, the oldest being a boy of The children all readied for the re- volver, and the older boy, realizing the danger of the weapon, tried to take it Away from the younger chil- dren, when bile finger closed Olt the self -cocking trigger and an exploeion followed, the bullet plowing through the head of the three-year-old child. 4.44 ANOTHER HUNTING FATALITY. Lituleay, Nov. 10. -Thomas Hunter, an employee of the Beal Leather Com- pany, was fatally injured by the aeon deotal diseharge of a shot gun while duck hunting this morning. nuttier was in a boat with a ituti named Clealand hear Green's Point, and in an effort to propel the boat one of the guns was discharged. He was etruek 1» tho thigh by the ehot, and although Clealand tempted to stop the rush of blood by bandages he died a short time later. Hunter 'came 1rol.00.nSictotland two yeare ago. Ho was 35 years old and leaves a widow and five childiren. EMPEROR'S BREAKFAST STOLEN Budapest, Nov. 10. -Emperor Freitag joseph of Austria, who is here, had his breakfast etolee yesterday. His Majes- ty is a very early riser, awl is always ready for hie simple cold breakfast at half -past lour in the inoreing, On Sat- urday the attendants found that the larder has been ('leaned out. There were marks of soot about the icebox, and this started a suepleion that; n. elihruiey sweep W110 Waa employed alma the mance might know eemething about It le it faj at t y's lir ea k fae t. Pet tives wit o got on the trek found the sweep at home enjoying- the King' a meal. What will happen to the seveep will appear ta-a - 1(1141v. WILL LECTURE FARMERS. Gutipli. :goy. Creelinan, presi- dent of the Ontario Agricultural Col- lege, has gam to Atlanta, Georgia, here 110 NVi1b 0. a (1 rtcs's the A 111 r loan Fawn' Tnetitute Workers and the Am- erican Association of Agrieultural Col- leges and Experimental Fame, During the absence of Dr. Creelman the Keel- dential elleir will he oemipleil by Prof. nay. illOR MEN SE: PREMI Bei Ymi Deputations From Unions and Letter Carriers. ASK EIWIT41OUR DAY Many Other Requests for Improved Conditions, Ottawa, Nov. We -Premier Borden re- ceived et, deputation representing the Tradee and Lttbor Congress of ,Canada, tend the Letter (Ifirriters: Assoalataert on SAturday, when imoortanteresolu- tions asking for the betterment of cer- tain conditions affecting working men and trade urio)1e -were presented to him. lion. T. W. Crothers, Minister of Labor, was preseut. r President Watters, of the congress, introduced the deputation in a short. speech, in whch he especially drew at- tention to the conditions of the steel worker a in Nova Seaia, and aeked thdt a Royal Commission be appoluted. He said that not only were hours of labor much too long and the wages too low, but that officers and organizers of un- ions were subject to monstrous treat- ment At the hends of private police in the employ of the steel interests. Premier Borden. was much interested when President Walters proceeded to read what he claimed was an original letter written by the need of a steel company to the company's secret pol- ice, saying that every movement, pub- lic and private, of the officiate of the United Steel Workers must be at 011C0 reported to the company, and giving the naost drastic instructions. The Pre- mier said thet he understood that the United Steel Workers never took up anything which they did not, succeed in accomplishing. Ffe premised his con- sideration. James Simpson, of Toronto, brought before the Premier a resolution calling foe a Federal bill granting cheap, simple and effeetive facilities for the formation of co-operative societies. He mentioned the steps taken by Germany in this dir- ection, and hoped that the Government would soon take the matter up and pass a bill. In submitting a resolution advocat- ing the conservation of public water power and coal, Mr. Simpson remarked that (they believed that such conser- vation was useless unless cat -keit out for the benefit of the States and the people, and not for the capitalist. Frederick Bancroft was entrusted with the task of advocating the eight. hour working day. He reminded the Premier that an eight-hour bill Was to come into operation on the let of Jan - nary, 1913, which would cover work done on all Gavernment contratts, and he asked the Premier for a definite statement on the subject. Mr. Borden, while promising his careful considera- tion of the matter, said he could not then make a definite statement. The Prime Minister, however, showed much interest in the question, and asked that the Minister of Labor let him have a oopy of the U.SA. bill. It also fell to the lot of Mr, Bancroft to request the repeal of the Lemieux Act. The delegate said that while the congress still believed in the principles of investigation and conciliation, in the view of certain delays in the working of the Act, and certain decisions In re- gard to it, they asked for its early rep. eph Gibbons presented to Mr. Bor- den a resolution requesting that the deposit of $200 for candidates to the Federal Parliament might be removed. Mr. William Lodge presented a reso- lution asking that legislation might be introduced to protect union labels. Delegate Hoop presented the cage of postmen for higher wages and shorter hours, and after being with the Prime Minister for nearly two tht interview came to an end. *4.4 THE NEW WELLAMD Plans for the Canal Show Big Enterprise. Ottawa, Nov. 10. -Plans now nearing completion for the building of the new Welland Canal provide, it is believed, for what will be the largest canal in Canada, the look walls being practically the same height as those of the Panama. The new canal will probably enter Lake Ontario at MeCollas Cove, three miles from the present outlet at Port Dalhousie, and will exterd from there to Thorold, a distance (A eight reilee. This is what is known as the Ten -Mile Creek route. The whole meal will be twenty- five miles long. From Thorold to Port Colborne the om canal Will be used. It is expected that tho Work will take five yeare for eompletion, and the cost has been roughly estimated at fifty mil- lions. 'The constructioit of the canal, which it is hoped will begin next G11111 - men will call for the use of a very large includiog a dozen large dredgce and half a hundred steam shovels. With tide equipmeot it will be poesible to carry on the work at general points simultaheously. Drillers and engineers are still at work along the route. 4 - BAD FIRE AT BLIND RIVER. North Bay, Nov. 10. -Blind River, on the Sault branch of the 0. P. Re was visited by a disastrous fire Satur- day. The flame e originated in Kennedy's general store, and spread quickly to adjaeent buildinge. Five stores, the post-Offiee and a pool room were de- stroyed, 'besides the Grand View Hotel. The lose ie estimated at about fifty thousand dollars, with little insurance. PRINCE TO WINTER HERE. London, Nov, 9. -The Daily Nowa and Leader, the Miehsteriel organ, soys the New Year honor e list promises to be e lengthy one, and will eontain a large number of military offieers, 'both in Great Britain and in the dominione. It will be beaded by Minim Arthur of Cm - naught, whose promotion to a Ib» al Dukedotoe ilaCi 110011 strangely delayed. Prinee Arthur has &Oiled to inter Canatin, ad expeete to sail thither early in neeeether. eee-- .-eiteeeseneteete. A man May be a blot or a, bleeeing, hot i blank lie eatinOt PROVINCES' DEMAND .061.011",011.1tV.MMR.I. Want Powers of Incorporas tion Left Alone. Ottawa, Nov. 10. -Hon, W. 3. Hanna, Provineial Secretary of Ontario, spent yeeterday Ottawa eonferring with Pre- mier Borden and. members. of the Gov- ernment Olt several mattere affecting Ontario and party interests, A.niong them was the question of provinelai power fover iI1ecn'pckotiou o COM- parliefi doing an extraprovincial bueinesn, which is before the Supreme Court at preeent, The Governments of Britieh Columbia, lektehoba and Ontario have heen eepe- chilly active in urging their Conserv- five allies here to take no action that might jeopardize the provincial incomes from company corporations. Attorney - General Bowser of Britieh Columbia on Friday la6t took up the matter with Premier Borden, and Hon. W. J.Hanna, Provincial Secretary of Ontario, Blip*. routed his efforts yesterday, The ques- tion is now under eoneideretion by 11. special committee of the Federal Cabinet and a decision is expected thie week, CABINET DEFEATED British Premier's Motion Defeated in Committee. Not Considered Want of Confidence Matter. London, Nov. IL -The Cabinet was defeated to -day by a vote of 228 againet 206 in the conunittee on the Home Rule Bill. A motion by Premier Asquith for eon - sideration of the bill was adjourned. There had been considerable opposition by members on the Ministerial side of the House of Commons to the financial provisions of the Home Rule Bill. Some 70 Liberal members have given voice to their objection to the Irish Parliament being given eontrol of the customs, as they argue such control would enable the Irish Parliament to introduce protec- tion, ` The followers of William O'Brien this morning announced their intention of withdrawing from the House during the proceedings of the committee on the finance clauses of the bill. The government is eonsidering its po- sition in view of the adverse vote in committee. The Cabinet does not neces- sarily have to resign, and le unlikely to do eo in the face of the international crisis. THE MINT° IN PORT Government Steamer Reach- es Halifax. Halifax, N.S., Nov. 11. -The Gov- ernment steamer Minto arrived in Halifax to -day, after a four -months' trip to Hudson Bay for the purpose of continuing the survey of the ap- proaches to Port Nelson. The Minto carried on her work at Port Negon until Sept. 28, when, a shortage of coal threatening, she was forced to return to Badwell. The Canadian Government steamer Arctic, which came under Captain Anderson's orders Oct. 1, was wait- ing for the Minto, with news that the Beothic was enroute for Port Nelson with a cargo of coal. This meant a short delay, and in the time at his disposal Captain Anderson made a survey of the Button Isles, finding there a very good anchorage. The Minto coaled and. steamed through the straits as far as Man- sell Island, encountering field ice. The Minto and Arctic left for Hali- fax together, the Minto 'arriving here to -day. 41.44t GUNMEN WILL TALK Rosenthal Murder Suspects to Go on Stand. New York, Nov. 1L -With five jar - ors in the box, the trial of the four gunmen, charged with shooting down Herman Rosenthal, was resumed be- fore Juetice Goff this morning, and in- dications were that the jury wotdd be complete before adjournment. All of the defendants -"Gyp the Blood," "Lefty Louie," "Whitey" Lewis, and " Dago Frank"- reiterated to -day their inten- tion of taking the stand. "Tell the boys," they said, "that we're all going ou. We aren't getting ready to make a :idea, for we have nothilig to plead to, anti, we're not expecting anything except ac- quittal," Eleven talesinen had been examined at noon, but none accepted as a itueer. S. S. ROSEDALE Owners Do Not Think Boat is in Trouble. Sault ,Ste. Marie, Ont., Nov. 11.--Car- vying a crew of eighteen and 8,000 tone of package freight, the steamer Rose- dale, owned by the Inland Linee, and boend up the Ialtee, is aehore on Light- house Point, weir 'Detente and little lupe le entertained of saving her, as a heavy 41011 is running. The wreeker Rehanee has gone to her aecietance, and the tug Schenk has been ahlo ordered. out. The Rosedale is reported to be leaking badly, but the erew 16 Mill etandieg by her, RAILWAY WORK SUSPENDED, Montreal, Nov. 10e -it Was ennommed here this evenitig that word had been suspended for the present on the Pro - e Menke% exteneion of the Central Ver. moot Railway. 11) 0W11 ae the Southern Neo Englami. The stopping is due tit the walled emmition of the money market. The company expeete to have hal the ina4 completed from Palmer to Peothienee by the end of the %ear, 01.01thirty per vent, of the grad- 11A%1111f; 110011 done. The delay .ge. peebel to he only temporary.