The Wingham Advance, 1912-12-05, Page 7.„.
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WHITE PLAGUE
BEATEN AT LAST?
Berlin Physician's Remedy
Looks Like Success.
SERUM INJECTION
Cures Tuberculosis of Knee
andLungs.
Bertha Dec, - A. correepondeut
tills week investigated the newly -an -
winced discovery of an actual cure
for tuberculosis. •and if the nistory of
the cases and the teetimony of persons
who say they were cured may be trust.
eel, it seems, at least to the eyes of a
laYleau who had much experience itt
the et nstimption camps of Arizona and
California, that Dr. Freiderich Franz
Friedman, a Berlin phynician, after a.
decade of experimenting, nes finally
solved theproblem watere Dr. Koch
failed and has yeses to the world a
deetroyer of the white acourge which
ouch men as Professor Schleich, of
the Virchow Hospital, declare will
in,ark one of the greatest ePeeha in
the history of medicine.
The correspondent visited and in-
terrogated numerous patients who had
been treated for tuberculosis, includ-
ing puhnonary throat trouble and glan-
dular and knee bone tuberculosis.
These patients all asserted that they
had been cured after one to three in-
jections of the serum. Several of
these cases of bone tuberculosis were
ef long standing, whicb showed scars
where once had been running sores,
whica healed up in a few weeks. In
two of these cases amputation had
failed to cure,
In the course of the investigation
the correspondent visited a poor work-
ing family, whose child had not walk-
ed in four months, owing to tubercul-
osie of the knee, and also of the lungs.
The child received an injection of the
Eerum seven weeks ago, and is now
able to run and dance. Another case
was that of a young man wnom am-
putation ef a limb had failed to cure.
The doctors declared that amputation
of the leg at the hip was necessary,
but the young man was cured in. less
than three months by the Use of ser-
um, according to statements made by
himself and his mother.
The correspondent also talked with
the father of two children, both of
wnom ha n been suffering from bone
tuberculosie. One was cured by Dr.
Friedman in six weeks. The other
has been under treatment by one of
Berlin's most famous specialists for
Eleven months, The specialist has now
asked Dr. Friedman to teke the case.
While some ef these cases seem, to
es layman, to be little short of miracu-
lous, Dr. Friedman does not claim that
the discovery will cure hopeless cases
or the third stages of the disease, and
etrongly warns people against build-
ing up ,hopes for any such result.
• Numerous physicians and tubercul-
osis specialists are now on the way to
Berlin from Australia, the United Stet -
des, South America, and other countries
to study. and investigate the new dis-
covery . Australia is Bald to be 'send-
ing a Government commissioner. Eng-
lish physicians are already here.
Dr. Friedman is so deluged with let-
ters and pathetic pleas for treatment
and by telegraphic and elide requests
from phvalcians for the Lernm, and of-
fers to buy the rights, that for the
moment his work has almost stoPpel.
Dr. Friedman will not distribute the
serum until he is properly protected
in the different countries, but will per-
sonally test cans here. He will open
an institute le Berlin next week. Up
to the present he has ireated abou.
1,100 eases.
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U. S. ESTIMATES
Another Billion Dollar Con-
gress is Forecasted.
Washington, Dec. 2. -It will cost
$823,415,455,14 to conduct the affairs
of the Government for the fiseal year
ending June 30, 1914, according to
the estimates of the various Depart-
ment heads, submitted to -day to the
Speaker of the House by the Secret-
ary of the Treasury. This amount,
whieh does not include any provision
for the Postal service, which is ez.
pected will be self-supporting, is an
increase of $72,078,248 over the ap-
propriations for the present year, by
the last session, of Congress..
Of this increase $28,312,220 •appears
in the estimates ot the secretary of
tue navy and $20,597,297 represents
the iacrease asked by t he navy de-
partment in the apropriations for
building and equipping new vessels.
The eetimates forecast another bil-
lion, dollar session of Congress, for
in addition to the $823,415,455, which
is the total estimated for, the Post-
master -General estimates that $281,-
791,508 will be necesary to conduct
lileDepartment for the year. This
anemia will be supplied out of the
total estemoted apprOpriations for
the year up to $1,105,206,963.
PRESS GALLERY OFFICERS.
Ottawa, Dee, Parliamentary
Preee Gallery e1eetN1 officers for, the
rear AM f0110'W8: President, E. W.
Grange, Toronto Globe; viee-preeident, J.
A. Fortier, Montreal La Patric; seere-
tary, Arthur Ford, Winnipeg Telegram;
Exeeutive Committee, T. W. King, To-
ronto World; A. B. Hannay, Montreal
Ifereld; Rene Chanyeesse, Montreal Le
Omuta; II. W. Amlerson, Toronto
Globe; Clarke Askwith, Ottawa Free
Prese.
KYOSHK MARRIED.
Sarnia, Dee. l.- Stephen leyoehk, the
young Indian who hat been eonvicted
-of murdering One Irian and Aeltlitted
of al/Lying another who, eeeerding to
the evidenee !submitted at the two Wide
be has already faeed, wale dearly killed
he the gafl1e. time and by the Same per -
eon no the firete WA% merle(' toeley to
Flolsele Williame, hes hulien sweetheart,
who figured peominently tie a witness
the
PETEM30110' PIRE.
reteboro, Dee, •2.e -Fire gutted the
elnating •store •of M. C. eiameron
George 100'4 lett eight. The blaze wrie
revented from spreading to the eateaa
ee storm end apertmente, but these
were damaged by water aed icrtoko. Mier,
Jewess lentherland, en, n,alIrl, WA* ?OA -
tweed Pram e thira Storey epertment by
tire Armen.
THE LATEST SPORT
Chicagoans Fit Ship f9r
Whale.Hunting.
Booth Bay, 10., Dec. 2. -Tho hunt-
ing of whalea aci a fiport, rather than
for profit, will be the object of an
Arctic crulea to be undertaken early
next year by johre,Borden, of Chicago,
end a number of guests. .A. 65 -foot
schooner, to carry the party, is now
being built here. The expedition will
be fitted out with great thoroughness,
and the memberexpect to bag sev-
eral bears and walrusses, in. addition
to a whale or two. If successful, the
party will visit the coast of japan on
a similar quest in 1914.
NATIONAL FEELING
Canadian Local Sentiment"
Natural Says Balfour.
We Must Have Our Own
Future.
London, Dec. 1. -Speaking on Imperial
nationality at the St. Audrewel Day
celebration held here yesterday in the
Holborn Restaurant, Arthur ,I. Balfour
referred to the great part his fellow-
eelintrymen bad played la reconciling
the principle of nationality with that
of ardent patriotiem in various iiarts
of the world. It was only by emulat-
ing that example of the Seot, he said,
that the future of the Empire could be
secured. .
"Tho people of Canada and the other
overseas deminiorts," said M. Balfour, •
who presided at the gathering, "muot Armistice Will Be Signed By Warring Forces
have and win have their own feeling of
Big Chief of the Balkans Bosses the
War From His Touring Car
oheeesesea; Sel:'neie-nti.
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Latest and best photograph of King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, from the
scene of war. He is shown following the line of march of his victorious
army toward Tchatalja, where the Turks are making their last stand.
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BALKAN WARFARE
IS LIKELY ENDED
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nationality. Every Canadian ought to •
want to feel thee Canada has got her To-morrow..Probably Permanent.
own principles and development and fu-
ture. Do not let us discourage that lo-
cal patriotism. ,Let them cultivate th.eir
own feeling of nationality: Canada for
the Canadians, Australia for the Aus-
tralians, but the whole for the empire.
"It was a misconception of this prin-
ciple that led to the great disruption
between the mother country and the
American colonies a century and a half
ago, and perhaps, after all, it required
that lesson to teach us what we now
know."
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NORTH POLE BY AERO
Plane is Best Way, Says
An Explorer.
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Boston, Dec. 1. -"The safest and eas-
iest way to reach the North Pole, and
an entirely festeible way, is by aero-
plane," said Captain. Robert A. Bartlett,
of the Peary North Pole party, to the
members of the Aero Club of New Eng-
land at its annual dinner last week.
Capt. Bartlett said an .aeroplane
could be taken by land to Cape Morrie
K. Jessup, which is but 381 miles from
the pole. With the latest machines this
would mean, but a four hours' flight to
the pole, lie said. "The ideal trip," said
the epeaker, "would be to go from 011ie
Jessup directly Over the pole, and land
at Cepa Cheliuskin, in Siberia, the lat-
ter point, however, being 720 miles be-
yond the pole."
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TAKE OVER EGYPT
British Protectorate,Expect-
pd in January, is Favored.
Geneva, Bwitzeriana, Dec. 2.-A
British protectorate over Egypt is
likely to be announced shortly, accord-
ing to the Egyptian representative of
the Swiss Poptilar Bank, one of the
largest financial institutions in Senit-
zerland. He telegraphs from Cairo:
"It is considered ln official circles
here that a British protectorate over
Egypt has been definitely decided on,
and it is understood that it will be pro-
claimed in January."
He adds: "This step of the British
GovernMent will affect business fav-
orably."
HICKEY'S TRIAL DEC. 16.
Inaffalo,. N.Y., Dec. 2.-J. Frank
Hickey, confessed boy murderer, per-
sonally entered a plea of "not guilty"
to the indictment charging him with
the murder of Joseph Josephs, the
keveneyear-old Lackawanna boy, Oct.
32, 1911, when. arraigned before Jus-
tice Brown in special term of Supreme
Court this morning. His trial was set
tor Dec. 16.
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MISSING LONDONERS DROWNED.
London, Ont., Dee. 1. -The body of
William C. Swannell, the young Eng -
Hellman who left hie employment at
LaWSOn •and 2'ones Thursday morning
stating •that because of illness he
would return to the home of T. E.
Amee, IOU Mabel street, with whom
he lived, was taken front a pool oat
of thecity Saturday eveneng. The man's
overcoat and bat were found on the
bank of the pond Friday !tamer!, Ana
thereafter grappling irons were used in
an effort to 10eate his eorpoe.
ONTARIO JUDGES WERE SIXTH.
Chieago, Dee. 1. -The studente jut*.
ing contests yesterday At tht Interna-
tional Live Stock Exposition at the Un-
ion Steele Yards wars won by Towa State
College, with 3,885 pointe, leateas
Ag-
rieniture) College wee oeoond with 3,085;
University of Mistouri, third, with 3.600;
Ohio fourth with 3,660; University of
Nebraska fifth, 2,415, and the Ontario
Agrieultural College sixth, with 3,300
points.
A COMMAND PERFORMANCE'.
London, Dee. 1fly commend of irig
George there will he et performanteof
J. M. Ilterrieas "Itoserlirel" at Sandring-
ham 'eloneley night in honor of Queen,
Alexandra's Verthday. Thie ies the 1)41
1101°7 running et the Duke cf York!e
Theatre.
OCEAN STEAMER ABANDONED
ITAlifax, Dee. 1. ---The Meatier Bleee
Meander, from New York for the Medi -
was abaricloned in a !sinking
Pomlition 200 milers off Halifax OA
day afternoon, when her (Tim were telt-
ea off by the Stemmer Weal, from !few -
poet Xfon'il for 1e4verpool.
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Terms Not Definitely Known But Austro.
Servian Dispute Not Yet Settled.
London, Dec. 2. -The work of chart-
ing a new map of what hitherto has been
European Turkey will begin immediately
after the signitare of tbe armistice by
the plenipotentiaries of Turkey and the
Balkan allies, at the village of Baghtehe,
on the lines of Tehatalja, to -morrow. 12
the allies are able to agree among them-
selvee as to the portions of the spoils
they are to receive, there seems no
probability of a reumptien of hostilities.
The comparatively favorable terms
winch front all accounts have been of-
fered by the allies to Turkey are AO
different from the oeiginal proposals
that they eseem to suggest the elea that
the Governments of the 13alkau league
reelizo that, with winter gripping. the
country, riurkey had gained an ally
which will prove more, 'fatal to the
armies fronting Adrianople'Seutari and
Tehatalja than have been the Ottoman
°Annan.
No adjustment of the Auetro-Serviau
dispute is yet viaible. Vienna continues
to show pesshnism, and the newepapers
there maintain their threatening atti-
tude, but in. spite of tais official rela-
tions between St. Petersburg and. Vienna
seem to have become eomewhat more
cordial, and it is thought in diplomatic
quartere that Servia will eveutually se -
CUTS a email mercantile port on the
Adriatic Sea, connected with Senna by
railroad.
In the meantime, however, Sewn), has
trodden on the toes of Italy by guns-
teriha• a. regiment of the troops, who
recently occupied the port of Durazzo'in
the Italian 'school buildings there. An
energetic request to have the troops
removed has been made by the Italian
consul, on instruetions from Rome.
BULGARIAN LOSSES.
Berlin, Dec. 2. -The Bulgarians alone
have lost 10,000 killed and 60,000 wound. -
ed since the beginning of the war, ac-
cording • to a. despatch from Budapest
to the Tageblatt. The newspaper's cor-
reepondent is on. his way back from the
front ,and while passing through Sofia
•deelares he SaW the official reporte of
the Bulgarian War Office,
WILL AUSTRIA MOBILIZE?
Paris, Dec, 2. -It is persistently ru-
mored in well-informed quarters in
Vienna, says a despatell to Excelsior,
•that Austria will mohilize next week.
Tine decision is said to be due to in-
formation contained in the report from
Consul Edl, who recently was sent to
find the missing Austrian Consul at
Priseend, M. Prochaska, on the attitude
of Servia with regard to Albania and
it port on the Adriatic.
long conference, that sometimes lasted
until late at eight, impressed upon one
-another the fact that it will be to the
loss, of both sides if the powers step in
as mediators now. They know that it
movement hae been started for the es-
tabliehment of a diplomatic clearing
houee, composed of the Ambassadors of
the powers, which will exchange views
on the Balkan situation ,and they know
that no treaty an bo eignecl 'without
sonic consultation with the powers, but
the general feeling among those who are
makingan end to a historic War in
little Baghtehe is that the longer they
put off the day of going to the powers
the better for their own interhste,
1L4.SSsnORED IN A MOSQUE.
Salonica, Dec. 1.- A semi-official
statement says tee Turks in. retreat-
ing through Florina burned Clissoura
and many other villages. They mea-
sured 180 Greeks who had taken
refuge in. the mosque at Alavrovo.
In pursuance of the determinatiou
to stamp out looting here a Greek
soldier has been court-martialed and
sentenced to twenty year' imprison-
ment for stealing a civilian's revolver.
DISARMED EVERYBODY.
Athens, Dee, 1. -The military gov-
ernor of Salonica ,effectually to pre-
populatioe, without distinction of race
pre-
serve
iieligoirodne, hadisarmed the whole
religion.
CONFERENCE NOT CONGRESS,
Paris, Dec. 1.- According to infor-
mation received in official circles' in
Paris to -night Sir Edward Grey's sug-
gestion for a conference of the Am-
baesadors to consider the Balkan set-
tlement is meeting with opposition
film the members of the Triple Alli-
ance, who desire that the conference
shall be held in a neutral city, such as
Berrie, The Hague, or Brussels, and
not in the capital of one of the pow-
ers interested.
If this objection is maintained, it is
considered that it will lbe difficult to
eanie to •an agreement, for it is pointed
out that "a meeting of the Ambassa-
dors" implies, the choice of a capital
where the Ambassadors already ac-
credited mild represent their Gov-
ernments, whereas the choice. of a
neutral eity would involve the sending
of speeial envoys. This would really
be a cohgress, and there would then
be no reason why •delegates • from the
belligerent States As well AS from Rou-
mania should, not be admitted thereto.
Tire', TERMS,
London, Dee, 2. -The proterol for an
arnristice was !signed by the plenipoten-
tiaries of Bulgaria and Turkey at the
neutrel Town of Baghtehe, near the Tehe
ataida lines, on Saturday, and will be
signed by the representatives of the oth-
er alike to -morrow. The ormistice is to
10St AS long ne the preliminary peace ne-
gotiations continue. The protocol hag the
approvalnof the Ottoratte Government.
'Iliough, se far, the exaet terms di the
preliminary peace agreement have been
kept 'secret, it is pretty generally known
whet they are. Turkey keeps Adrianople,
bet lasers Saloniee. She may able keep
1/etleagateli, on the Adriatie, Aml conae-
(latently the control of the Adrianople-
Dedeagetch railroad. The allies, aocord.
ing to a Serie despatch, will demand
that Tur'key pay a war hulemuity. The
armistice stipulates that the reerrisons
Adrianople and Seutari Sinai rereive
daily ration's sufficient for elide day dur-
ing the cessation of hostilities. The news
that Adrianople garrison WAS ineluded
in the agreement Male ASn eurpIise, and
the eonceseion by the, Ilulgaie i taken
meert that they generally deeire to
arrange a lasting pettee as quiekly
poesible.
Though .A.drieuople i (nose preseed by
her beisiegere, whose trenches are within
a few hundred yard!l of her enter fortifi-
eetiotre and though the Thilgars are con-
lideint (hat they eould have worn the
gitrrittort into eurrenaer, even if they
failed to Tout the !stubborn defenders
by etorm, the feet that the Bulgarians
were reedy to make str Morel 11, eOnteeS.
SiOrl takeri by dipleentetti ass n ign that
the sale* tied the Terkeare i'reM 'upon
one thing, time OM ihrit they rrietet
Pace Mel It little, rather then hove Any
AriIs1 enterrferenea. 'rho plenipotentier-
fee At nves'lltehe litive all, during their
WAS ONLY A FAKE
Indian Contribution to Navy
. a Grotesque Lie.
London, Dee. 2.-Notlen.g i known at
Delhi of the reported offer of re eon-
tribution et ships to the Britieli navy
by the native Indian pr ices, according
to a deepateh from tl:t Times' eerre-
epondent in the eepitel. He says it is
eertain that no concerted action on the
part of the prinees has taken place,
"The offer of three Dreaatmughtearua
nine eruisere verges on the frroteeque,"
eaye the eorreeporident. "The elnefe
already oontribute to imperial defenee
by maintaining special troops or trans-
port et a heavy annual charge.
"If, later, a naval contribution be of-
fered, this nmet be on it moderate mice
and it ie unfair to prejudiee a posseible
offer by anneuneing impoveible •g IWO
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FOUR DEFENDANTS FREE.
Indiatiapoile, Ind., Dee. 2. -Four of
the, forty-five defendants in the "dyna-
mite conspiracy" trial were diseharged
by the Government to -day on the
ground that the charges against them
had not boon !sustained. They were:
William K. Benton, Moulton 11. Davis,
John R. Carroll, Surgeon P. Meadows.
$200,000 FiftE: IN HOBOKEN.
ilSk*ow York, Dee. 1.---1ire eceterday
that threetened for A time the entire
faetory me. -tion of Hoboken, NeT., burn-
ed mit the big retire) elst, fnetory of
John. Cowhide, end &crowd severel
P171411e1 1niUil1ng. eausirig a 1111,* r‘ti,
meted at W(N).
DID HICKEY
Kill OTHERS?
Buffalo Murderer Believed
to Have Slain Many.
THREE KNOWN SO FAR
But Is Now Blamed For
Many Others.
Buffalo, N. Y., Deo, 1.--Sespielou
that ,J, Frank Diekey„ under arrest
her for the murder of' seven-yeer-old
joeeph Josephs, at Laekawanne, is ee•
spoesible for the disappearence or
death of children in other eitiee is
Shown daily in enquiries received at
police headquerters. Ue maiutaina
that the deetbs of the Josephs child,
the Kruch child in New York, and of
Edward Morey, at Lowell, Moss., are
ell that ean be charged up to him.
Thomas A. l‘leQuaide, Superintendent
of the Department of Safety et Pitts-
burg, to -day reported to the Buffeio
police the case of Lawrence Preen 14
years old, who was aesaulted at Alleg-
heny in December, MD, and of Ed-
ward P. Adams. ethic years .old, of Ka-
nepa, who li.i beeu miseing since De•
ember 90, 1909.
The Freel boy was. given whiskey
and assaulted and left to die in a vac-
ant house. There was the im.print of
a man's teeth ort the child. The indi-
cations are that one of the front teeth
heel been broken. The despatch does
not 'ay whether the child survived.
ilickey has two false front teeth. He
WaS not naked yesterday whether he
knew anything of tlio Fred ease.
The Adams boy disappeared. He is
supposed to have been kidnapped. No
trace was ever obtained of him.
Hickey repeated the statement teat
Ito gave to the newspapers on Saturday,
remarking that there were times when
he could not control the desire to kill,
Chief Gilson said .±o -night that he had
arranged.. for George Joseph to see
Hickey at the arraignmeet in court at
10 o'clock Monday,
A DELAWARE VICTIM. -
Wilmington, Del., Dec. 1. -It develop-
ed to -day that J. Fmk Hickey, tee
self-confeefed slayer of Joseph Josephs
and others, may be the murderer of
Eddie Gardner, a small lad found stran-
gled 1. a freight ea rbere a couple of
years ago. The case has always been
a mystery in local criminal annels. The
manner in which the Josephe boy was
killed is similar to the way in which
the Gardner lad met his death. Wickey
admitted he was employed in agricul-
tural implement plants years ago, end
there were a niimber of such industries
in Wilmington.
PEACE CENTENARY
Promises to Outrival the
Quebec Tercentenary.
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Provinces Ask Appointment
of Federal Commission,
Toronto, Dec. 2. -The celebration of
one hundred years of peace between Can-
ada and the United States, which is to
be observed next year in both countries,
promises to outrival the Champlain ter-
centenary at Quebec in 1008. The depu-
teflon representing the Ontario Govern-
ment, consisting of Hon. James S. Duff,
Hon. J. 0. Reaume, Mr. W. H. Mc-
Naught, and. Mr. George Good.-
erham, M.P.P., welch interviewed the
Quebec Government returned. to the city
yesterday, and state that the Provinte
of Quebec will heartily eo-operate with
Ontario in promoting the scheme.
It was decided that a deputation rep-
resenting the two Govermhents should
preeeed to Ottawa itext Saturday and
interview the Dominion Government
with the view to having the celebration
nation-wide on the one hand and inter-
national on the other.
Following the line of the Quebec. ter-
eentenary, the Federal Government will
be naked to appoint a Commission to
take charge of the entire matter and
invite the eo-operation of the Imperial
Government as well. It is understood
that similar organization will be eetab-
Belied in the United State, fled the two
bodies will work in harmony.
A naval demonstration at Quehee par-
ticipated,in by the fleets of Britain and
the United States, is euggeeted as the
outstanding feature on the St. Lawrence,
with another demonstration on Lake
Champlain or Lake George, Military re-
views and fraternal festivitieh between
cities on the great lakes are also mtg.
gesteta
In addition to theee, it 18 proposed
that Canadahmark the (wagon by en
eelsibitiou of the progress that the coma,
try haft made during the one hundred
seer.% of peace.,
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HYDE FOUND GUILTY
Former N. Y. Chamberlain
Accepted a Bribe.
New • York, Dee. 2.-Pormer City
Chamberlain Charles Hyde wee found
guilty of eeeepting a bribe, by a jury,
at 11.40 to -night.
The charge against ITeele, who is a
eanaaiaAy having been born in Neve
Sectia, was that he 119e41 MS position to
obtain teams from bank e to the Carne-
gie Trust Company, in whieh he WAS in-
terested, in eonsideration of the plating
of depositof city funds in these bank's.
• The Carnegie Company soon afterwards
'failed and paid but •a few cede on the
dollar to depositors.
It WAS proven that city deposits
been pieced in the Mereantile National
Itesterve and other banks as rewards for
tonne to Varnegie Truest interests.
• Tho verdict ening AS at surprise, AS it
• W5 e generally expeeted thAt thir OST1113M
would he atquitted.
Theeeorivietion earries with it a maxi -
Minn penalty of ten yearn Imprisonment
and $5,000 fine. Sentetuv will be hullo/esti
next Weelneeday morning by justice%
Goff,
TYPHOON'S TOLL
Over 300 Lives Lost in
Philippine Storm.
1...4ozt.un, Dee. 2.--Owiug to the pros-
tration ef the telegraph wiree, no °eta
mate is yet posesible of the number of
foeelitiee or of i t
an) property loeeeeeaueed
by the typhoon which creresed the
Wan& of Samar, Leyte and North
Panay On Thuredley. Sueh InformetiOn
AS Jute been received indleatee that 260
peremes were killed in Samar and Leyte
awl. 60 in the other territory traversed
by the etorm. Despite the enormous
damege in Tacloban, capital of Leyte,
the fatalitiee there were lees than it
dozen.
The Government Is forwarding relief
supplice to the etrieken dietriete. No
word has been reeeived from Mindanao
exeept a wireless aeopateh frozn the
troneport Warren, whieh eaid. the storm
WAS unuenally severe,
NO CONFERENCE
German Minister Says Time
Is Not Ripe
-
For Sir E. Grey s Proposed
Balkan Meeting,
Vienna, Dec. 2. -The Berlin vorres-
pondent is Budapest newspaper
sends his paper a report of an inter-
view lie had with Herr von Enderlin-
Waechter, the German Foreign Secre-
tary, ia regard to Sir Edward Grey's
-
proposal for an international confer-
eaee as to the position of the powers
in the Ballsane after the present war.
The German Foreign' Minister said:
"According to my views things have
pot developed eufficiently to render a
conference desirable. The situation
must be clearer ind the pbints more
defined a.nd the desiree must be more
preciee and reasonable; in short, the
situation is not ripe, . When the pow -
ere have agreed on it. common pro-
gramme for a conferenee, it will be
possible to decide whether a confer-
ence is necessary. If it is deeided in
the affirmative it will be merely a con-
ference of registratiore Until then
the diplomatic negotiations must be
continued.
"The programme of the 13alkan al-
lies never mentioned that they Neigh-
ed territorial aggrandizement. It only
spoke of freeing their oppressed broth-
ers. Their later nation against Al-
bania contradicts the announced aims
of the war whielt were stated befoeo ite
commencement. There is no rea-
son in my opinion to regard the situa-
tion as so very favdrable to -day, just
as there was no reaeon for the pessi-
mism of a few days ago.
"The reports that Crerrnany has at-
tempted to prevent Austria from tak-
ing aetion are untrue. I empower you
to contradict them eategorically. The
harmony, underetanding, and co-oper-
ation of our Goverment and the Aus-
trian mouarelly is perfeet.
4 • •
DIED IN SQUALOR
Wealthy Brooklyn Woman.
Was Suffocated.
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New York, Dee. 2.-Canw1ipg and
•dragging her miserably crippled legs
across her squalid room over the barber
shop at No. 24 Hoyt street, Brooklyn,
yesterday afternoon, Mise Octavia Fred -
crick well beyond seventy years, and
reputed to .ee worth more than a mil-
lion dollars, poked a little turkey in the
oven of the tumble-down stove and then
at back in a chair made from a beer
bottle box to baste it occasionally. She
fell :Weep, hot coals dropped through
the opening in the firebox of the old
stove and set fire to the gennyeack
about the hearth.
MISS Frederieh was dead, from suffoca-
tion when Patrolman John Shanghnessy,
of the Adams street station saw the
flickering flames through the dust -
smeared window in the street and sent
in a fire (damn
The distorted body was hardly in the
morgue when Antony Orieitento, who
rented the barber shop from Miss Fred-
erieh, appeared and said he had been her
business agent for several years. He pro-
duced what porported to he a will sign-
ed by the aged woman on Soptmeer
26, in wbich she left all of her Nit -kith
to Oreiekento. The police considered
this of sufficient interest to question
the barber closely, and therefore he was
taken in ebarge by them to give all the
information he might possess..
BOOK SHARPERS
Made Specialty of Rich
Widows as Victims.
New York, Dee. 2. - Government
agents discovered yesterday still more
victims of the 6yriclieate of the text-
book dertlers„ of whom J. 3. Farmer,
William Cooper, and tea of their as-
sociates were Indicted by the Federal
fr:nue.1,
1jury for tieing the mails to de-
rIEvidence Was uneerthea whieh show-
ed. that women were the speeird objects
of the enterprise of these finaneiens. For
leo:a:pie, in order to obtain the names
constant watch WAS kept on the Surro-
gateaddresses of wealthy widows a
gaee MIAs of all the Stat ee in the Un-
it
Among the women who lost most
heavily, but who kept her miefoituric
a eeeret Wail now, WAS Mrs, Sophia
Curti, whose father was president of
the Sixth Avenue Railroad before its
eorreolidation he the Metropolitan SyS-
tern. Mrs.0 trtie lives in Great Bar-
rington, Maes. It is fetid she ga,ve
the book sharps it total of $300,000.
Mist; Elizteheth Moore, of Greens-
boro, Pa., ire mid to have paid $150,000
for an Assortment of books, vhkh She
WAS told elle rental resell for $250,000
to a wealthy Weettern inirte owner. She
was epproetheel hv e, 'member of the
syndirete, who learned she had re-
eeived $800,000 for the mle ofSOVW 1)t0perty.
The booke were shiptreil to Mime
Moore in inetalmeras and Pinked in a
gee deposit *milt itt Pittsburg. At
hest he eokl her books for a eomperee
thaely trifling tem.
GETTES AGAIN
DAMAGE MAILS
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London Post Box Contents
Suffer Second Visit.
•
AFTER CHANCELLOR
The Militants Attack Lloyd
-
George at Aberdeen.
Loudon, Dec, 2. -The eity pillar
postal boxes were well guarded dur-
• ing the day ani night, but the out-
rages of las: ..meht were renewed to-
night at the letter boxes of the city
post offices. There wag consider-
able damage done at the General Post
Office and at Ceenon Street, Grace
Church, Queen *Victoria •streets. At
one oi the ireeneent clearances at the
new General Poe.e ffice a clerk foun.d
that a quantity of paraffin, lvieh had
beeu pcatred !eta an opening, had'
saturated many letters. No match was
found, and it is zurmised that the
eerperraior of the outrage had been
felgliteaed off 1 efore the work had
peen completed
So far et,: tee be ascertained it ap-
pears that some 1,50= postai packets
were damaged le 'London Thursday
ieelit by the iittioduction of acids,
peen anti ink into the paler post box-
es. Of this nuraber the mail clerks
were able to decipher the addresses
on about 1,000. The other 500 pack-
ets are in such a condition that the
addresses are practically undecipher-
able. The time was well chosen for
the vandalism, as Thursday is settle-
ment day on the Stock Exchange. One
estimate places the value of cheques
inthe niail boxes around the stock
exchange at $10,000,000.
rarrhs.opoliceare keeping a sharp
look -out for a repetition of the out-
ge.
• Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst in an in-
terview said: "Apparently people are
showing exasperation. against the
Government . by attacking a Govern-
ment department." The leader of the
militant Suffragettes refused to say
any more on the subject.
Some excitement Was caused at
Aberdeen this evening when what at
first was believed to be an infernal
machine intenaed for David Lloyd-
• George, Chancellor of the Exchequer,
was found M the hands of a Suffraget-
te who was discovered hiding in the
hall where Mr. Lloyd -George was to
deliver an address. It turned out to
be, however, a box containing crack-
ers. The woman who had it and two
of her companions were arrested.
They were hiding behind the organ
in the music hall, and were discover-
ed before the doors were opened to
admit the public. After the meeting
another militant Suffragette hurled
a stone at one of the automobile.s oc-
cupied by Mr. Lloyd -George's party
with the intention, it is believed, of
injuring the Chancellor. She picked
out the wrong car and the missle
went . through the window of °zee not
occupied by Mr. Lloyd -George. This
woman was also arrested.
An. eight months 'siege of the house
of a prominent member of the Wore -
en's Freedom League, Mrs. Harvey, at
Bromley, who refused to pay her tax-
es, culminated to -day in the house
• being plastered with defiant posters
and the doors being chained and pad-
locked. The bailiff, tax collector, and.
the police unitedly filed the chain on
the garden gate, forced the locks, en-
tered the house and distrained the
furniture, Mrs. Harvey happened to
be absent.
GERMANY HAS
WARNED RUSSIA
Will Draw Sword to Sup-
port Her Allies.
Berlin, Dec. 2. -Imperial Chancellor
Betlunamaltollweg to -day uttered a,
plain warning to .Russia that in case of
• hostilities ehould arise out of the Aus-
tro-Servian difficulties Germany WOnld
drew her sword to assist her allies,
The Imperial Chuincelior made this
declaration in the eoueso of a speech
in the Reichstag, in which he dietussed
the Balkan situation. it was a repeti-
tion of the etatement made at the time
of the .controversy oyer the question of
Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908, which
then caused an immense seneation in
the European capitals, Although at that
period it filet threatened to sweep
away the Pacific Ruszian Cabinet, the
•current of feeling aroused among the
Slays ultimateel brought peace.
Dr. Von Betlutann-Hollweg after
summarizing, the efforts of U.:A great
Nome, in the first place to delay the
outbreak in the Balkans, and later on,
when war was found to be inevitable,
to '<maize hostilities, pressed on the
question of the intereste of the great
powers directly affected by the fina1 eet-
tlement. He said:
"When our allies, Austria-Hungary
and Italy, in maintaining their inter-
ests, are attarked---althoegh this. is not
the present proapeet-by it. third party,
and thereby threatened in their eXiS-
tenee, then we, faithful to out con-
trite.% will tahe their part firmly and
de °:1117n1Y.
( we shall fight side by side
with our allies for the maintenance of
our position in Europe, and in defense
of ties security and future of our own
fetherland.
"1 am cemented that we have the
whole nation behind Ut itt each a pol-
"DEAD MAN'S flAND."
Odd Coincidence in Chicago
Poker Shooting.
Chiengo, Dese 2. -David Nye, 1242
North Campbeli avenue, died yesterday
at St. Elizabethe hospital from a welted
reeeived in a, poker genre with JOAO&
WPiS'i, o, ealoo»keeper, et 2023 West
Division street, anti Meyer Sehoenterg,
of 2342 Potomac avenue. Weiss is said
to have shot both his companions with
a pair of bullets,
Ae 'Nye wee take to the herepital
and the others to jail, te liegering pollee
-
man Merited at the eards whieh Blye
lied held when he was %hot.
"Look at 'em," 1t ea
The esirde weer lever eteke end eights
-- the "dead Inan"a hand" of poker.
MAY BE KIDNAPPIN6
N.Y. Miiiionairets 15-Yoar
Oki Heiress Disappears,
• New York, Dee. 2. The peace of
New York and neighboring lattice are
• searching to -day for 16 -year-old Marital,
Ege, niseo of Jacob Doll, millionaire
piano manufacturer, Her uncle believee
that she has been kidnablsed, veld de -
elates that he will speud an unitnited
111110Unt of money to find the girl.
The police say that Mies Eage had
complained to Mr. Poll on Rivera' oe-
eiteione recently that sho had been fol.
lowed on the street by a strange man
of middle age. She disappeared on Twie
dayeweile walking near her home.
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WROIE ROMANCES
Did Novelist's Son, About
Cobalt Mines.
At Least, So Charges U. S.
Federal Attorneys.
New. York, Dec. 2a---?14iterature" on
tabling the greesest mierepresentations
of worthless Canadian milling properties
was prepared by the (skilled pen of Jul-
ian Hawthorne, soil of Nathardol Haw-
thorne, himself a winter of romaeces,
and ecattered broadcast through the Un-
ited States, so it was charged before
Judge Hougle of the Federal District
Court.
Among other things the dnitrict ettor.
ney alleges:
That two, silver veins described to the
public as being three and one-half milee
long, were 300 feet long and had no cornmercial value.
That a silver vein described at being
1,000 feet long Was 50 feet long and then
became barren reek.
That "a great vein running half a mile
across the property" was an outcropping
of rock in swamp land, while elsewhere
thilenveeiliiwavs4tiwue.oinches wide and of no
<,onctai
.That stripping moss from the rocks
wpraospeaillthe • `mining" work done On sonic
ty.
• That the defendante told the public
they were going to manufacture pig
iron and make $3,000,000 a year for in-
vestors and that not a pound of such
iron was made.
That an "expert" was quoted in some
of the literature of the. defendants as to
the wonderful value of the property, this
expert having been branded as it crook
by one of the defendants.
That from an iron mine gated to be
ready to Teliip 1,000 tons a day 100 tons
a day were shipped for a brief period
and then the ore ran out.
That 35;000,0.00 tons of iron ore in a
single bed, with millions upon millions of
tons of other iron Ore, were stated to ex-
ist upon tbe property which has since
proved almost worthless.
That...the defendants told the public
that they had silver ore extending over
two square mile.s and had 103 veins,
while they really only had a little silver
in one email area.
BEATTIE NESBITT
May Go Free on a Legal
'Technicality.
Extradition Papers Conflict
With Criminal Code.
Toronto despatch: It was authorita-
tively stated in Toronto last night that
the Crown had failed to successfully
prove an indictment under the criminal
code of Canada to meet the charge set
outin the papers by which Dr. W. Beat-
tie Nesbitt was extradited from Chicago.
it is true that the Crown did prefer
•five indictments before the Grand Jury
charging that Dr. Beattie Nesbitt wilful-
ly made false returns of the bank's po-
sition to the Dominion Government.
This is said not to be an extraditable
offence, and in order to make it BO be-
fore the Extradition aommissien et Chi-
cago, it is claimed by the defencethe
word "fraudulently" was ineerted by the
police officer in cennection with tie
(Urge. Making false returns to the
Government, a .charge under the bank
act, is not an extraditable offence, and
in order to have Dr. Beattie Nesbitt
made a subject for extradition it was
necessary to eet out that he was
wanted on a fraud charge.
Dr. Nesbitt's counsel observed that
be believed he could have suceessfully
attacked the indictment and satisfied
Sir William Mulock or any other judge
on the Beach thet there is no such
charge in the criminal code of "fratuta-
lently" makiny false returns to the Gov-
ernmeht of the bank's financial poeition.
afr. Dewart, when asked why so
much had been made by the Crown
of the missing letter, said the original
eommunication woald be demanded at
the trial. "But understand," mad Mr.
Dewavt, "this case is not yet to trial."
Mr. Dewart said the Crown could
not. lefty that they. had been taken by
eurprise. It is over aix months, he said,
sinee the extradition proeeedings in Oh! -
"At that time I pointed out to 'the
Commissioner that the Crowrt wee pro-
eeeding in .pressing a amigo
of fraudulently metang felse returns.
The Commissioner ruled otherwiee „so
Just 'kept quiet and let them go on to
the position the Crown offieers found
themselves in to -ley."
MERGER DENIED
Furnses Interests Contradict
Boat Amalgamation Story
11•00.1.16.•iiii0,10.1,141,14.
London, Dee. - Fitiencial
Thnes steys It is euthorizea by the +aired.
tors of Furness, Withy ia Company to
State: that there is no foteuletion la the
report which has been eireeleted with
eeference to shipping emelgemetions
whieh the POnviyany is inteeeetect Mo
euth negetietierat, it is said, are In pre.
grest or contemplated.
The same paper underatanda that an
ISAt1e Is about to be made in London of
$2,000,000 fire per Gent, tronaolidated
etreee of the till of elotikeicsota et
plate, below par.
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