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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1912-12-12, Page 7' IL So PANAMA TRICK IS A FALSE POLICY '»- Secretary of War on Stirnson Country's Atti- tude Regarding Canal Tolls, Britain Fears Another Great Railway Tie -Up Over Small Question. Wheshingten, Dee. hie annual repurt to the Preeldeut, jttet made pub- ltenry L. S.timeon., Seeretary of War, doelared that the law grAnting free passage throeolt the Panama Cartel to +113.1{41e.11 11 l'eselri engaged in oaetwis.e eltipping, ie a false and unneettesary 3fr. Stinotett intintatee that this provision IN -P.1,6 paeeed directly contrary to the evideece furnished Cone -rate hy mix:rte. on the eubjeet of traffic and Wile, and mommendo that it be re- el/tett, "While, in my opinion," :Aye Mr. Stimsont "the Iteited States had a right to appropriate to American veteettls amounts equiralent to the *tuns paid into Its treasury in the form of canal toll, this broad question of national expediency ohould uot be determined exeept upon careful etudy. I» an ef- fort to obtitin interne-10ot', Professor Emory R. Johneon .Wite i:111).1.5:111 by the War Department, and ao regalt he reported to me that the remission of toltie is not Deeded to enable American coaetwieti l'esli(.43 to successfully earn- pete eith fortign siomp,etitorta International Waterwaye Com- lateeion, he sat'e, haa completed its in- ttatigation of the boundary watera be- tween the Ifniteil Stones null Caneda, with the exceptidn, of the final report upon "a dem et the outlet of Lake deletred by tb fl1ne of one of tho Cereadlan engineers., and it le sug- gested that the comm:Iteion be extended 1.0 April 1, 1914. BRITAIN FEARS 13IG smaiKE. New York, Dee. 9.---A cable learn Lon- don this morning to the Tribune says: The 'strike on the ;Northeastern Rail- way weeding,. and in view, of the 3 general uurest among rellway workers, wito are complatnine 'bitterly of victim- isation, there Jere grave leaps that the dispute will extend to the employee.; ether made. The position taken up by tke senupathizere of the railway work - ere is that a man has, a right to get as drunk ae he pleases when off duty, and that the action of t110 NO",:b0.14141.3'11 manager le a eerioue infringement of the civil liberties of railway men. The effect of Um strike bast been quickly felt at Neweastle, and the poig- tion of the Forth freight etation has .become very eerioure. The yard is full of Chrietmate consignments, and there are vat pikis el good e which cannot be reinortel for lack of worker's,. At the Pe.rlc Lane freight station, at Gateshead, the only htetion of em- ployees keinaining are clerks. The Neweaetle and Ctateshead railway serviee is greatly disorganized, and the eeaeide electric service to places, be- tween Neweaelle and the coast NU* been E.t01.1ped, causing, great disappointment and inconvenience. There are 110W 011 strike at Neweastle, Gateshead and ad- jaeent etatione something like 2,500men of all grades., and there aro no indica- tions of an immediate settlement Meanwhile the railway authorities maintained their attitude: They have stated that there can be no reinstate- ment of the locomotive engineer, Knox, buti that he inlay regain hie place by good conduct. They are willing to con - eider overtures by the num, but the lat- ter's representatives and not the- clam - petty must make the first offer. ' The company is advertleing for men of alt grades', and notice lute been given to the mon on strike that es they left without notice they have broken their contracts and must return thoir equip- nente, uniforms, and so forth. rINOIROMMINIII1p,MWOOMIMP01.11,••••••••drailliiard/..ww.,,,*,,,ole. 011.,•••• 1,,,rwrompromramo,...Wrosolsimorerrommr. ASKING DIVINE MD in Settling Revolutionary Troubles In Mexico. Pope Will Offer Personal Peace Prayers, Mexico City, Dec. 9. --In ob .4:owe to a Papal , decree there began 1.144 night at midnight in every Catholic Church throughout the republic, a spired Meat for divine intervention in I‘litteo. St. Peter'e, at Rome, at the matt hour or 6 o'clisek Rome tirne, 016 morning, the Pope himself will join in the payers for the restoratton or peace. That the :evolution in Mexico hes resulted in ceu:iitions so bad t111,11, 13 one - thing more than, hellion agenciee is tie- eeteeary to right thein appears to 043 he - (Heated, not only by the report» of the rebel operationes but by the actioe of the fieeretary of the Interior, Itafa,oI Irernandez. The eeeretary recently summon ed MgrJk1ani and rapped led to him to vac the power of the church to atelet In restoring order. The sec- retary requested that the Pope issue a decree to that end. Aegerding to official reports, the re- bels, in a 6.1.1k,T3 of atteeke during the Met three days around Tenntarialtepee, in the State of Afexitto, lost 328 men killed. The Federal lees is not given and minor SlIOCCIWS, in other regiene are Mao reported. Aecording to Wel reports, however, the cobra ate wnnixLg many etsceeeeses, and there is no doubt that they are gaining gtoued In the north and eegion of the State of Guerrero, while they are lune hold- ing their own itt other regione. The general situation is beet dared by explaining that the Goverithe et is jti control of all the big towe4 in the reptiblic, and many of the &mailer tterite but pradically all the disturbel regions throughout the couetry are in Me pow- er of the iiteurreetos. The Geveyament trbops have been unable to pursue them effeetively on aecount of leek of 111.31.1 liege The eeattered detachments teem- plop.1ittie aed for the most pit. are left in the town., while the aitilriveys ate at the mercy of the rebel. TWO DIE IN FLAMES urned to Cm ers fl n ehort sate? the Dish()) "the in - NOT ONE ARREST -Despite Continued Suffrag- ette 0.x:rages in London. Loudon, Dee. 8. -The Militant Suf- fragettes did not wait long before they justified the prophecy of Nov. 17 that they would soon break out again despite a fair period .or osten- sible quietude. Pillar postal box out- rages have been constant every day in different parts. of London and the provinces ever Mine the big organ- ized attack of last week, and they have been carried out with such, skill and caution, that not a single arrest has been made, although a careful watch hats been kept on the pillar, 'boxes. Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of .the sufragettes, says the militancy will be kept up. She says she finds a distinct change in the attitude of tb.o men In her audiences since the recent acts of vandalism. The men have now realized that the women are in earnest. Now that their pockets are being touched, and it comes home to the men when their business is so interfered with, they will force the Government to end sucb. a state of affairs ofthings, which can only be done by g-iving the .voto to women. AGAINST THE UNION Anglican, Bishop's Warning Is Against Proposal. 31ontreal, Dee, 0.--A. 'warning has 'been iteued by the Anglican Bishop of Quebetnao the clergy of the Citureh of England hi. Canada torainst the ;igning Of a petition to -which the names of the Rev. Dr, Symonds, the Rev. H. P. Plump- tte, the Rev. A. 1'. Shatforil and °there are attached, and which is called "An Appeal on Behalf of Chrietiom Unity." The Bishop trues the diecuesion which- hae been goieg on on the eubject of church union, mid points out alit the eoneluelon of the Authorities of the Church of England heft, been that, while the Chttreh couhj epee with the non- conformist bodio on the cardinal points Of doetrine, the fourth (usually known as the doctrines of apottolie succeseion), cannot he sa.crifieed by the Church of Englantl, as it is one of the basie prin- Hawkesbury Home, Uawkeshury, Dee. 0,--eilexander Le Clair and Ws wife were burned to death here ettrly yeeterday morning in a. fire el unknown whieh destroyed their residence The LeClair homestead is ort the outskirts of the western end of the town, end the fire 11-4,41 1111nrIGked turtil it hed uettrly run its couree completely destroyed the, frame bit:M- ing. The fire Apparatus of the tlieri Was seut to the Settre tts 'ton ate the Panto; were notieed, but tee lett to render slily atoistattee, the charril hol- iest of the oceupante being take), out ef the seams of the building. Lettlair was ittitorer in the lumber mills, and. with his wife, resided szione in the dwelling. He and hie wife were about ae yeave of age. TRAIN KILLS TWO. North Bay, 8. ---The bodies of two men were found on the Nipigort Eiection of the C. P. early thie morn- ing, they having evidently been struck hy a png train *hiring the night. yie Man waa dsad end the other deeng., lioth were foreigners, and have not been identified. had evidently come frosts some lumber or eonstruction camp. COL HUGHES' INVITATIONS. Ottawa„ Der, th--„in irivitatioe. has been retetived Coleriel the Hon. Sam Hughes to vitAt Japan next yeer and witates the manoeuvres of the Japan. cee artny. It le else tincierstord that a vessieber of the meal house of Pressia has "slit tin Invitation to the Canadien hilrester to a itnee the felines' mnie eeni re- f r 3 thods proposed by this appeal on behalf of Christian Unity, so far 'from promot- ing the unity of Chrietendom prayed for by our Lora, And earnestly prayed for by ourselves, would in our judg- ment seriously hinder the sem°, and would moreover, ereate sad diseord and dieueion within our own bran& of the holy Catholic Mirth." ATLANTIC STILL RAGING. New York, Dec. 8.-1eporting turbu- lent weather on the Atlantic Ocean, three Steamship nrirved hero to -day after fighting gales and heavy seas. width ripped off thirty feet of the rail on one of them. the Lorraine. -of the Itrenelt Line, whieli reached her pier 36 hours late. The other belated steam- shipit were the St. Paul, of the -Ameri- can Line, and the Minnetonka of the Atlantic trerteport Line. A woman pas - tenger on the last-named steamship was throwu down by the impttet of a neavy wave, and her arm was spralued, FOOTBALL PLAYERS INJURED New York, ISee. football players are in a Brooklyn hospital to- day *with inturiee of aerietts chareeter, reserved in a ehampiarship genie :yes- terday between the Ilttlioeke end Vett 110119, twe, sernisprofessional teems. The intiired owe are the rept:lire full bads and right end of the 'Vernons, who were defeated 12 to 0. All have 'broken hones end esoietuesion If the brain. "A Chicago police matron ebthre Met big men make the beat hushatele." "In some reef's, perhape: but 1 know 141111r little. women who have eucceetled fairly well nt the lfl-.'.nu)fl.tt4mfl eleszra fli 1 AFTER THE STORM Two Lake Boats Arrive, Others Missing, - Duluth, Uzutm, Dee. It. --The Vest of the -coat fleet that wes on Lake Super - dor during the big torm 4.$f Friday and Saturday method hero at midnight, storm -beaten and glieteniug with ice, \Odell Artois to the decks, (eters and ropes in masses. They aro the steamers Wilpen and Carter, evil went aren't the severe Mow near together. The nix. ter of the Wilpen says the storm etruelt them, One Whitefieh Poiut, late Fri- day, end that for more than 24 hours it was a life and death struggle with seemingly little hope of pulling titrough. They ran out of the storm late Satur. day. " He also reported that there were three other vessels near them, seemingly making progress nailed the storm, uthen darkness closed in on them Sat- urday uight. Eight vesesele are 'yet to arrive, and none of them line yet been pieleid up by the wireless stalion. GslikNEW HAVEN • President Chamberlin Issues a Statement, GREECE WILL KEEP APART To Make Her Own Terms With. Turkey, • NEW PROPOSALS And Counter Proposals to End the War, London, Dee, vow appeare that Greeeo Wendt to melte her owu peace terms with Turkey Newt from Bnigarle, Servia and Menteuegra, though she will partieipate in the peace negotiations to be held here next Sate tirday. Aceording to the Neue Frele Preset", f Vienne, Orme Ins mede five pro. eosais to the Ottoman, which have beet) eonveeed to the Turkian Itlinister at Vieuna, Hilmi Pasha, by 11.1, Streit, the Greek Minister there. Turkey refuses to geant autonemy to Macedonia, "because it would be condueive t lavonic interests only." Turkey transfers to Greece all place occupied by Belgariatie from Kavala to Monastir. Greece obtains Crete witleaut paying ew aven resi ent eadyU3iyindenvnty, To Face Jury. tier line from Avalena to 'Vistrisa. Epirus becomes Greek, with a Iron - Boston, Dee. 0, ---President E. 3. Chamberlin, of the Grand. Trim% says in a letter to a. Boston uewspaper to day that the tentative draft for a traf. Ile agreement erttli the Kew Haven Read was not eatiefaetory to the Grand Trunk and no final agreement is exiled - ed to be reached before Jamtaey. He writes that the preesead. traffie arrangement, while satisfying SO far as it went, was not acceptable to the Grand Trunk and Central Vermont companies, and was therefore declined with the un- derstanding that his road would submit a counter proposition. Mr, Chamberlin say e the. officers of the .two companies are working out it proposition, but the interests are so varied4. and there are so many points' that it will probably not be ready for month at least. WHERE NEGOTIATOR STANDS, New Haven, Dec. a letter from President 0. 8. Mellen, of the New York and the New Haven & Hartford Reilroad Company to Henry A. Wise, United States District Attorney of New York, the Rymer says: "1 understand that a Federal gram/ jury ie investigating the relatiors- be- tween the Grand Rrunk and the New Haven companies. As all nego- tiations between these two eom- patties have been conducted on the pert of the New nevelt Railroad by myself, raid as I am the only person connected with the New Haven -who had any- thing to do with these regotietions, or was present while they were going on, and am, therefore, the only one connect- ed with the New Haven road who hos personal knowledge of the fade, 1 dealre to testify eegartliug this taatter beft. this grand jury. "1 wish it diStinetly understood that I waive all claim that I might have to inuntmity front criminal proseeution on account of my testifying concerniug thia matter before the grand jury." -*** ROBBED ROYAL DEAD ,.....iimrolosarorooropmk Ghouls Desecrated Body of Italian Princess. • New York, Dee, 9.--A London cable to the Tribune. says: The monumental Beetle:a of Superga„ near Turin, was deseerated on. Saturday night by a ganr of thievesi, intent on rifline the body of ine Dowager Duelteee Elizabeth of Genoa, grandmother of the King of Italy, buried in August lea. The crime evidently had bein, carefully plan - nod, the misereante having taken the precautions to eta all telephonie and telegraphic eommunication with Turin and the neighborhood, while the en- trances from the Basilica to the royal erypt were stoutly barred with iron from the beside to prevent any surprise. The gang had obtained the inform-. tion that the Duelteee tlizabeth had been laid to rest in n niche, wearing her 'favorite pearl necklace and a pair of earrings. They set to work to wrench open one after another the three eoffine of walaut, eine and leaO, inelosing the body, tieing acids to melt the metal, On scouring the deeired booty they got clear away, apparently without leaving, any trace of their identity. The eacro lege was dieeovered by the etterietan after be had opened the royal basiliea fer mites, Queen Margherita and the Dike of Genoa were immediately tele- graphed for, and etriet instructionwere tesued from R011Id to track down the perpetrators of the outrage at all costa It is Stated that the ghoule mewled the earrings from the dead woman' e ears, 4 • + The Aegean Islands receive autoeon with otfhesasurots. of Authority on the landin returr from the above Cirecee fere the redemption of all property longing to the Turkish Crown, the St or religious bodies in the ceded pro- vinces. Freedom from military service for Mussulmiles on their pa,yrrfrnit of a de- fence tax of ten to twenty francs, Turkish hind owners not to be liable to expropriation; but to retain the right of dieposing of their property. The lights of Turkish, and foreign httelueesee in Macedoniti, no bei confirm- ed. Turkieh banks to be permitted to ee- tablish branches hi the new provinces. Turkey to be granted the moat favor- ed nation treatment hi commercial mat- teiGliicece brinks to mulertalse it Turkish loan itt connection with the war ex - Greece to supply Tarkey with the requisite number of steamers to trans.: port troops, in return for whieh Tur- key will permit a friendly visit of the Greek fleet to Constantinople after peace has been signed. The privilege ef Ottoman Grfieks to be preserved, and freedom of worships to be officially assured to Mussulman Greeke in Anatolia and also to Cbrist- ians. NEW G. T. R. ISSUE Provided For In Bill In Ottawa House, (Mime, Dee. S. -Two reilWay have been intredueed by Major John A. Currie, AL P. for North Sinteoe, One Metes to the Grand Trunk Railway voinpany, and providefor a fresh Steels itteue, This Is to be perpetual coueolidated debenture stock, bearing luterret at 4 per cent. The Interest to not to exceed. S.t200,000 per annum, so that the principal will be limited to e5.000,000, or neerly U5,900,300. Simi.taneouly another bill le propoted to :laborite- the lesue of $25,000,000 per - panel or terminable debenture sto-ck of the Greed Truett Pacifk, in addition to the common preferred and debenture eteek already ifietted, Mr. Lesperance i introducing a bill to eethorize the Rn.lulzqq i Oatario NATI* gation Company to ittereitee the capital stook of $15,000,000. 4-41,41* pEcoNmRy cuums .• • Members Named of British --U. S. Arbitration. Canadian Chief Justice For Great Britain. Waehingten, Dee, 8. -Great Britain and the United States have agteca up - an the composition of the tribunal fur Is- the arbitretion of a. pecuniary claims as provided in ,the Special arrangement of - be. recently ratified by the two Goverm- ent' mente. The, Brithth Government has pltteed the hetioric St4 111013/ Palace at the disposal of the representatives of the allies fuel the Turks who will gather there next Saturday. At the same thne that the represen- tatives are couferring there will be a conference of the Ambassadore of the powers, widen, it is expected, will wear the air of the rumor of war. It is an- nounced at Vienna that Austria will eome into this confereece proposed by Sir Edward Gray, and the participation of all the powers ia thus assured. Meanwhile, the heavy Austrian artil- lery at Semlin, oppoeite Belgrade, is trained directly at ttervitt's capital. Aut. trian eugineers are building tronehes on the Puesian frontier between Cracow and Lemberg, tied Auetrian troops (w- eepy the railroade itt ali etrategic posi- tioes, eays thie despateh. hirrINY .AaIONCI AUSTRIAN TROOPS. An unverified report from Cracow says that there wee it mutiny among the Austrian ' troopo there when the on:er was given to march to Semlin. One officer is reported to have been killed and several injuted by the troop. Many ehots were fired by the eoldiere, who are bitterly opported to it war with Tliis concentration of men and multi - three along the banks of the river oppo- site the Serb capital, thie constant mart:Wag and counter-tuarehing of Auto trian fighting men, which has been kept ati !luta 101 p03811/1e, eausee great uu- OSSIlleSS of Europe, and the fear of it general outbreak m the near future will not down in seme quarters, in spite of offieial denials, • TURKS BURN SeffeLAGSS. Constantinople. Dee. S. ---Letters of a late date received from etalliptei report terrible exceesee by the Turkish troope in that dietriet. The telegraph lines having been eut beyond Gallipoli, the military authoritice held the Christian villegere responsible for the work, and erdered a detachment of troops to pun- ish the residents. The ttoops burned the homes, held entity of the villagee for ransom, maes &acted those who refused to pay, and carried on wholetaie pillage. Tho vil- ingot of Malgara, Keslien, Karadjali, Aloali, Crabunar and Examili were. prae- tieelly deetroyed. The Turkish reihforeements from Aeia Minor eoetintte to arrive at Gallipoli. ULTMTUM SIIeiTOMMS.. LACKHAND BOMB Londou, Dee. 8. --The Berliu corre- spondent of the Evening NOVA tel' raphe wider reserve, but oe what may IItl trage be regarded as reliable authority, that un Chicago aian Quarte!rs To day. teethe intende to seed tut ultimatum tO tilt 1;1,11 chicagch M., Dee. 9.----1ifty men were thrown from their beds early today, when a bomb teas exploded hi the (11)01'. way of the meat market of Nieholas Ceidoono, in the west Bide Italian quar- ter. The men were in a !edgiest limns, in the upper storeys of the building. Three stores adjoining were damagist ant a Moue:net windows over a, radium of a. half mile were broken. The dam- age was estiinated itt 41,000. Cardoono told the police thit be bid received' threatening letters. One arrest vess made INJURED IN Ilt-As-r. h-huotonT)i,nosekti areideet Le - (lured in a vonstenetion only of 010 (Alumna/I Northern Railway at Parhani oa fiatnrday, and es a result two Ital. ins are in the General Hoepitiel 11(TO leolly hurt. The men were engaged In Matting, and s shot went eft unexpeet- edly, with the ?melt that they roe -Ivo -4 terrible injuries, one man hring an eye. INetore Weirdly; them etete thnt they ei;u mirror, Servia, between Dee. 10 and 12. The bit quirt will b coeched itt. ewer page that Ileteeia must immeiliatert e teees one trey or the other. SER11S WILL VIELle mule . Dec. tiehOpt innem prevail 4 410.1, 011.111g, to the certainty that Sertia eill (deer the helmet of Eitrepe in the matter of teeming a port en the Add- 4ttie, end the conviction that a treaty of peeve between,Turkey aed the Baikal) Settee would ehortly be eoncludol. LATIORITES RIR COUNCIL; Ringston, Ont.. Dee 9.-getimuhere ol the Trades. and Labor 'Conner' have de. dile(1 11) plitee eandidatee in the field for the munieipai 4444110)11.. They haVe 110i yet been Wt.:ate!. DETERMINED ON SUICIDE. Cehatham, Ont., Dee. 0. ---Following an tusetteetereful attempt to esreetait suleide hy felting Perim green, George Ake, a Town Ceturesillor of Dreedete on Knafty fatornoort beet letineelf upon the head with e heasmer, and may die. Ito stee temporsrily demised. Sir Charles Isitzpatriek, Chief Jus. tire of Canada'and the British mem- ber of the Noeth Atlantic Coast Fisher- ies Arbitration tribunal at The Hague in 1910, will repreeeut Great Britain. Chandler P. Anderson, Counsellor of the Department of State, will represeut the United States. These two will select a third member, who will net as um- pire, and will be a Subject of neither Great Britain nor the Uuited: State, The third num has been practieally agreed upon, and his name will be an- notmeed later. Ceeil 3. 13. nurse, of the British For- eign Office, will be chief counsel for Great Britain, Edmund L. eNeweombe, Canadian Deputy Minieter of justice, will be associated with him. Severo Mal- let -Prevost, of New York'will be chief counsel for the United States. He was one of the eouneel in the Venezuela boundary arbitration. Robert Langeing, one of the counsel for the United States in the fisheries Arbitration, and the Al- neka boundary arbitration, will be aseo- cited with him. 4. seliedude of eliding for submission to arbitration has already been agreed up - 011, and the amount Sainted on both side e le Altogether about $4,000,000. lt ifs understood that a supplemental sched- ule of elaims is likely to be agreed upon before the tribunal meets. It is expected that the tribunal will meet next spring, and by agreement of the two Governmentsit firet oeesion will be held in Washington. TO BE EXTRA SHIPS Canadian Ships Do Not Stop British Plans, Lonclon, Dee, doubts were wept away of the poesibiltty of Great Britain ourtailing her own naval progranune,in view of the gift by Canada to the Brit- ish navy of the three powerful battle- ehipe at it cost of $25,000,000. 'Winston Sptneer Chureltill, First Lord of the Adudrality, speaking in the Holm of Cemmetes, said he adhered to the point of view er the Canadian. Govermnent, which ie, he announced: "That the aid given by Canada be in addition to the existing British pro- gramme, aad that any steps Canada might take ehould directly strengthen the naval forces of the empire and the nargin available for its security." Mr. Churehill deprecated the putting of further questions on the eubjeet, pending the approval by the Patti:meet of the Dominion of Canada of the navel proposal put forward by Hon. Robert L. Borden, the Canadian Premier. ORDERS SECRECY Ontario Cabinet Rule to Ottawa Teachers. Ottawa, Onto Dee. 9. ---The latest de- velopment in the bilingual school eni. hroglio here is the reeeipt from the Ontario Education Department of a emu- tnItilica,tion to the teathere, aeking whether they have ever emmuunieated to the tette-tees the eontents of any nottee hent them hy the department, and ordering them, it is alleged, not to (10 CO hi fature. The letter evidently velem to the blank pledge of obedience to School regulations, Bent the teeehem from Toronto 60111e time ago, and which, under orders fromthe triteteee, they refused to sign. To-dity's development in the dispute with the department bas mue-ed a. fur- ther eenettion among the trttstees, I3A1EMAN NOT TO HANG. Ottawa, Dee, is understood that the sentenee of death in the cave of irohn Bateman, now awaiting execution In Atliithy for wife instrder, lute been com- muted to life imprieonment. At a Cabinet eouncil held on Sena. day the cense of Farduto, the Milian cor df»med to death for the murder of LOWS Hotta, mat; coneideredend it'was avoided to allow the law to take its viceless FOrdllto W111 lie 1i41440;1 11rXt h'itilty morning in Afontreal. AIRSHIPS FOR BRITAIN. London, Dee. 8. -The Admiralty has ordered from the French Astra Com- pany a Torree 3ton.rigid rtirshist of about 200,000 cubit". feet. An order has also hem sent to Slermany for a rein.rigld Parseval airship of 350,000 'he German Government has three of the hater ships, and a fourth one is being built. Thette ships will eest about $125,000 each. The law ef gravitation 1 te within/4 to do alta the megnetie attraetion eeist leg letteeen a snowball end a high silk bit. ' 414111141 NEWS OF THE DAY IN BRIEF Widow of Former Grand Trunk President Dead, SERVIAN KING ILL. $250M00 Fire, in Winnipeg. Furniture Factory. For the first time since the C11111080 began to if 1. into New York and gather around Mott street a Chinese gene= hae 'been found guilty of inurder. Mrs. Ellen Dodd, pielted up uncoil- seione on the etreet, 111 Toronto, died at a hospital. Mrse Agnes B. Atthideon, Pollee Court matron, Toronto, died, folloeing an op- eration, The inquiry into workmen's compensa. tion was continued by Sir William Mere - fl, Mop. Hazen, the waterworks ite. pert, upheld the slow sand filtiation Plout in it report to the Toronto City Couuell. Hugh C. Thompson, a well-known lum- berman of Orfltia, died of pneumonia ate ter two days' illuese, Martin Kinney, a farmer, was killed almost instantly while operating a wood. arming machine near Shipka. St. Thomas electors, will vote on mitre. tion OT hotel and shop Homes from ld to 10 and 3 to 2, respectively. The Booth Lino passenger steamer, Easton, released Friday main front Iroquois reef, where she had bung sus- pended Since early an Thursday moil- ing, reaahed Detroit. Lady Tyler, widow of Sir Heiler W. Tyler, ex-preeident of the Grand. Trunk Railway'3 le dead, I, Hen. A, L. Sifton, Premier of Alberta, was amonget the prineipal guests at the Britieb Chtunlier of Crimmeree ban- quet in Paris. ran Uproyen, aged twenty-one, an Austrian, siety feet at -No. 6 shaft, Trethewey snine, Cobalt, and was killed. W. 3, Chteicr, it 0.P,11. yardman, East Toronto, was instantly killed at the foot of York street, when a C.P.R. engine ran him down. He wee decapitat- ed by the wheels on one 'side of the en- gine wldle theother wheels served one of hie legs at the knee. Wellington Brown, a. young English- man living. in Toronto, committed sui- cide by drinking carbolic acid. The Turkish cavalry aud ar- tillery which were engaged in the war with Italy emnarked from Tripoli. Full military honors were accorded the troops, whose destinatiou has not been divulged. Fire in Potter's furniture warehouse, Winnipese completely gutted that build- ing, asur threatened limey wholesale 11011611.3 in the district. The low, will reach a quarter of it million Whits. Colonel Gwynne bit's arrived in Ot- tawa from Saskatchewan and has tak- en complete eharg,e of the cadet move- ment for all Canada,a position to 11'11101 he has just been appointed. There is considerable anxiety over the health of King Peter of .Servia. The King fainted several times recently. The New Ontario Hotel at Sturgeon Falls wan deetroyed by fire. Fifteen boarders !net all their belonginge in the fire. Mr. P. Glover was the winner in Wycliffe oratorical contest. Mr, a,nd Mrs. Milton McCullough, living near Newmarket, were arrest- ed, charged with deserting their five - months' old child. Hon, Duncan Marshall is taking to the Alberta, Government farm a car load of pure-bred milking Shorthorns purchased in Ontario. Hon. 1 f. D. Hazen, Minister of Mar- ine, -introduced a Government bill to compel installing of wireless equip- ment on vessels. Directors of the Canadian Forestry Association presented resolutions ad- opted at the -Victoria convention to the Premier and the Minister of the fitterior. • Phillip, the 12 -year-old son of Fer- dinand Lessard, Ottawa, was killed by being drawn into a stone crusher in operation, about whichhe was play- ing. While driving a large truck, loaded with a two -ton casting, Edward Don- oghue, aged 19, was taken with a. fit and fell from the wagon a.t the top of Ferrer Hill, Windsor. His body fell under the Wagon and the rear wheel crushed his chest. It is said he will recover. Demanding settlement of pending grievances on which they elaim their colliery committees have been ignor- ed by the officials, the 2,500 employ- ees -of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company, on the Honeyberook division, struck. Edith St. Clair, aetress, won her $22,500 suit against Klaw and Erlan- ger when a jury declared her contract for that amount with the theatrieal firm. valid. With the ransacking of the home of Mine, Lillian Nordica, wealtliy resi- dents have been thrown. into 0 panic of apprehension of burglars. The Government dynamite factory at Dinamita, 80 miles north-west of Torreon, felt into the hands of .the Mexican rebels. Kittens playing beneath a gas range turned on the jet and asphyxiated their mistress, Mrs. Mary Sheller, 28 years old, in her home in Philadelphia. OFFICIALS RESIGN As Result of Ottawa Ty- phoid Inquiry. Otfutwr. iee. 8 -As a result 1,r. the recent investigation int.). the (-wind: of the llealth and Waterworks lh partmente, the Beard of tenthly), tete eViit ell the rf 4ignation of City Engineer for fifteen yeare peet a tatteted eteraoyne, and Da W. '1'. Nheriff, the in»rlhol Ofiletir of health. Ara:3 wilted to han4I in his remignation. The eit,1 holleit or, .feVeity. wit.tondtteted the probe, and during its eouree made verbill charge* ageing Afeyor nopeterill with reaatel to reel melte trent:tenors, whielt he did not aul..,tinti:Ite, was order...1 1),4Y t1I I1,3ard In niake ti hill publi,. apology to the 3,18;ot. nr vtor,01 rt.43(q I for. DON'T W.ANT THRONE G000 ?LAN ussia.n rand u e. noun ces Succession, t. Potoriiblirlfs Dee, 8.----Emper Nicholas, and the inembere of the I nerial faintly are areally ueeet by t determination of the Emperort$ on brother, Grand Duke Miehael Alexit drovitch, definitely to renounce b rights to the throne, The merganat marriage contracted in 19 by the Grand Duke with tile di e vorced wife cif a brother offieer was recently bleseed by the birth Qt a son, This event prompted Grand Duke Mieli. aers decision. He wislies to retire to the private life of n, country gentle. man, aseuming the title of Comet, in order to enjoy the domestic bliss far from tee atmaaehere of the court, for withal he nevor had any predilection. The Emperor is Opposed to this step all the more becattee of the recent of his only see, Crown Prince Alexis, which has revived fears for the aucceesion, The sone of the late Grand Delco Vial:amen who would become the next candidate for the throne, unhaPpily snare their father's intense tinpopte larity. All clases of well-luformed Ruselaus, indeed, regard the possibil- ity of their ascending the threne as disastratte for the dynasty. The Dowager Empress Marie is so 111001180(1 at the action. or Grand Deice Michael that elle announoh ces that o will ,not return to Rusela unless he changes his mind, Such it change wouldnv iolve dissolution of the mor- ganatic marriage, GIRLS Follow This Advice and Be Comfortable, Hats, No Corsets, and Wear Trousers, STRIKES.WASTEFUL Futility Shown In Landon Trade Repo. rt. • London, Dei:. Se -The Board of Trade report for the year 1911 le an eloquent and vaitethle comment en the value of strikes, Duriug the year a million mee obtained an increase of 'wages without• etriking, and 14000 by means of strikes, The. Welsh miners lost $3,750,000 itt fl;olitgrt(;11ilellatultitle)ealltftt ttteriri raii; tOdOOLOringui, etrike„ while the (lookers' etrike eoe those mot et least $3,700,000. In the dieputee whielt couunenced.in 1911 some 002,000 work people were involved, wit bit woe the Ingle:pit number in the period between 1893 and 1011. Although the extra amount of work- , lug time lost works out the hiese figure of 7,620,30d day, the induetreie of the, United Kingdom are SO 61011110UB that the etappa,ge iras only equal to the total closing down of ,all induStrie4 0» 011o extra bank holiday. Conciliationor mediation entered• into •settlements which invelyea 384,300 workers, while arbitration figured in adjustments of only 7,400 'striker* Settlements, in the nattne of a compromise were arranged in the me of 84 per cent, of the work people directly affected by • all the dis- putes. Leta than per cent. of the strikes were wholly .attectesful, and nailer MOM th011 9 per coat, were wholly unsueeeseful. • • A REIGN OF TERROR. Charged Against Workers In Conspiracy Case, Indianapolis, Ind., Dee, O. -Assaults committed* during the iroeworlerrb letrike were investigated by the Govern - melte in the eroes-exandeation of Pat- rick* if. Farrell, New York, a defendant, stt the rdynamite conspiracy" trial to- day. Out of SI0,000 coutributed b,y the International Union to eastain the strike in New Yonle Ferrell admit ted he furnished betide for and paid the time of mien men, Sixty assaulte 111 1000, in which bottles of ammonia and revolvers were need. as weapons, and in which one man was thrown in the river by a policeman, who attempted to quell a riot, was killed, were charged by the Government as being part of it "reign of terror" which proceeded a general Ultre of 'dynamite. The strike IWOlies been eatled off. Farrell is cluttered, as an txeeutive board mem- ber of the International Union, with ap- propriating money to MOW es 3. Ne- ainara to maintain a "dyeamite crew.". Asketl about the wreck or it draw- bridge at Pelham, N.Y., in February, 1008, when the draw fell into the bay, Farrell said he had written to hteNa- mere, that the "high wind" had blown the work dowe. "Was the :high wind' it teem used to LIC61,14:11 violence again.L non union work ?" asked James A. Newell, for the Govern- nit'was not. We believed the Pelham job fell npart bee:wee of incompetent workmen," said Farrell. Farrel said htt knew fundof the union vvere expeaded for wincli no ae-, counting was made, but he did not know what the momvy wee spent for. He de- nied all knewledge ef MeNamaratt pur- chase of explosives4..* UNFOUNDED RUMOR Report of Accident to Maur- etania Is Denied. Lotahni. Dee. 9. ---No eon.trreation of the publiehed rumors of an accident to the Mauretania has, been 0111.1t1i1N1 hero or at Q11(441401V11. On the c011trflry, the eeesel reported by wirelees at a aietanee of 260 mil's wesf of Br o with ea a at 11.30 Ittist, night. 41.11(1 iio 111110140o W.88 madc itt tho despateh tif 011 aeeideet Of ony kind, The Mauretania "ell men," 11 1, 10, 55 on aenday moritng from Queens- town, after taking the mains on 'hoard from the train, e Wit united at 7.1e a. 111. • NMI* York, NY. O.. eautaid Line of. fieia144 here said today tbat the ttiatire- tenit tied undergone no mishap of any kind, and no -able aftApaidits bearing On the eiltrifton haa been reeeived. The itheen et of an euelt deepateh they intelpererettie 114 'IWO rillg Out tlrit tli Alp Ills Illot with nothing to inteitupt her iotl utte tle10..4 the Athlete-, MANGLED IN taet.-riNo. "tele th Iley, DA*. latrocque, eoutee titan elmiloyed at the paper mill at istargeon W.1.4 drawn into ul ledt, thee. !equal, ymorning, and ter. r,,,1*, injured 'When dieeivered Itt hed Igen in the holt $10111., 1.1111N *Al Irakk miehr.1 almost ent alt rseognithei. Iti rs pewee ie impreasein 13. 11.11,11re1111.1.,.."•440 New "trorle, Dee. 9.----431ake a 'bonfire of your hats; throw away your vomits, and gear trotteere„ bettead of theme rid- leulotte tight Slartki," 14 the rtke0111311011. dation et Mot. Carrie Chernuen Celt, tite womantt euffrage leader, to the Reuel Suffrage tteeoelatiote in her taped o$ it two years' round -the -world eanipaign iu behalf of votes for women, ltlify trip around the globe eonviucej. me," saye Mr, Catt, that my owu euntrywomen are the meet fettered, sox- toriallte to be 'found anywitere, Compar- ed eith the ChIneee women the Anierh tun woman is ahns h oet as ns baby. It is time for the weetern W01110,11 to kick hertlfq free of the .waddling draperies whit the Parisian Kettle over to us, We ;should deelare our inaepen- &nee in dress as we hare, in enlitiees Rua the sooner we do it the better for health, liaepinee, mei the came" Mrs. Catt advotettes the Chinese dress, or it modification of it, Weimer) it is the 'mo .t sanitary, healthful, ceinfoetable and artistic coetume a woman eau wear, She dcuribes the Ohinese eostume as Int:lading loose, straight-hangleg trous- ers, made of eilk or other material, and over this 'garment it straight, loose oat, whielt grimes below the kneee and buttons over on one side, Tide gar- ment is eellarless, with sleeves that are half tight and end betweea the elbow and the writ." am,./169..........411110,•••}I ?of...T.1* FOUND ME BOXES Trick Packages of Bank Looters Recovered. London, Dec. 0. ---The two Itoxso from width $50,000 in sovereigns were eto tracted while on the way from London to Alexandria and lead substituted, and which were thought to have been lost or stolen while on their way baek to Lorelon for examination. are now known to'be safe. They are one in London on Sunday. Theee boxce are anxiously looked for lierc, at; it is expected that an expert examination will show whether the gold was extracted from them and lead eub- stituted, or whether dummy bOX0S were put in place of the original cases. The seals of the Blank of England and of the Credit 'Lyonnais, of Alexandria, were unbroken when the cases arrived at the latter place. PLAGUED REDMOND British Suffragettes Again on the Rampage. London, Dee. 0.--- Suffragettce, put John Redmond, the leader of the* Irish Nationalist party, to the torment this afternoon at a Homo Rule demofl. stra,tion at Dalston, in the northeast of Lon don . For hall an hour the Irish leader watched the forcible eviction from the hall of Ms disturbers, whose interrup- tions and desperate resistance to the ushers caused a rapid succession of rough and tumble scenes of the most rowdy description, Men, as wen as women, were thrown bodily out of the hall. Among the men were some clergymen who had protested against the rough hand. ling at the women. During the half hour Mr. Redmond was able to utter only a single seri- tepee, which was to the effect that it seemed to him almost tragic that the women's, cause, which, in the minds and hearts of so many, was so great, should be turned into a comic inter- lude. MORE CANADA WINS Two Grand Championships at Chicago Show. ,chicago.Dce. 0.--Cananian -eheep and rattle eaptured two more grand chantpionlhips and one fourth prize to -date The Canadian delegation at the inter. national Show holds the spothertit to- day. This it British Columbia Day, ate], with it value a cablegram from London ennouneing that apples from British Col - melds, have won the gold medal over all eompetitors at the Land show in itic W01101 biggest: oity, Menitotia, ias katehewae, and Alberta have forgotten their boundary and take, upon. themselves melt eredit because a part of the Confederation of Provinces of which they are members have carried off the plum at the King's own expoeit lion. A huge pieee of cardboard bear. ing an exaet reproduction of the cable- gram from London is on display in the Ca nadian Sectiom, Surrounding it are thousands of prize apples, some of which were taken from the same trees that 'goateed the prize wieners at London, Other apples of their kind are being distributed by the (humiliate, and Can - Ada wheat breed, which lets already made its bow to Chicago, ie being made into apple semdedehes. TO REVISL U1 Sk TARIFf. Washington, Dee. 0.-- l) '01(t11. hers of the Committee on Ways and Mears, at a conferenee today, agreed to legitt , hearingsthe firet week in -loneevy on the propesea revielon of the tariff. Atit*** N.. .4 4, MANY KILLED IN -EPLOSION,-, hieego, Dee. O., liffeoll or 1WrIltyP 1;49Pros0i4 are reportsel 101140 hy an explie hien this aft(ilmon in the A. ie traough- lin quarry at Bellewood, ti ttburb about ten milt1 %vitt of thiesito. atontreal, Ya. 0. “rolitt E -).i11131.011(4 from thie port for week tn4.t Dc. 7 were: l'Vheat. 2.q.1.011 but,43,$ 4: fleets ee.090 sieks.