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The Wingham Advance, 1913-03-20, Page 91 • I ' **".r )prq.. a seer ellerees - I I, • 1, NEWS OF THE CON6RESS CALLED :NINO THE GERM DAy IN ]1:F IS-61:7;t1r.A prSau 1771 on s Infantile Par-aiy-s-i Organism Identified at Last, Waeltingtoo, Mara 17. -President Provincial "Freasurer of Al., • - b011 lt.titteti the formal proelamation tonvening Congrese in extra, eession a berta is Dead AURORA STAYS "WET" Tripoli Rebels` Attack on' 4 • Italian Troops. Lunt Strattema has given $3,500 to the Port ,krthur Y. M, C. .A. William J. Kteteey, a well-known reel - dent of St. Thomas, died suddenly at hie Lents Mauriee Bolded de .31ouval, painter and illustrat tie died in Parte, Ile burn in 1850. Guelph's tax rate Tor 1 913 mill he 2 1 mine on the dollar, an inerease of one suill over last year, The campaign for e, $50,000 V. C. A, building for St, Thomas its to be inau- gurated at an early date. George II. Pedlar, president .6f the Pedlar People, Limited, the fated, metal manufacturers, died buddvuly Oehawa, The Michigan Central Railway shtion at lona, together with the freight house oval contents, was eompletely deetroyed by fire. Hon. Maleolm MacKeozie, Provineial Treaeures. for Alberta, paes(al. away nt the General Hospital at Edmonton of peritonitio. Former fnepector of Deteetivee Duncan suing two nuenbere of the Board of Police Commissioners of Toronto . for i•e25.0 00 da m a ges. lt is reported that the Tarkieh troops have found over four hundred !rozen vorpses of Bulgariau.eoldiers on the fields of Thraec. A French aviator, IL Alereler, Willi kill- ed at Amberieue whileeteetiog an nevo- id:me, lie attempted too sharp a turn aittl the machine capsized. The body of an 11111:1101ill 31M11, SU-0- 1101edly a tramp, was pieked. up by the crew of a, west -bound freight about three, sillies west of the depot at Bothwell, it has been definitely &dad to hold an Old Home Week and Sumnter Carni- val in Clatelph this coming summer, and the dates; fixed were July 28 to Auguet 2. Two mea teem killed and about $15,000 damage done wheu the Hotel Sutherland lit Wilson, a village eighteen miles north- east of Niagara Falls, N. Y., was totally destroyed _by fire. The Deutsch Tageszeitung says; it un- derstands that the German GOVer11111C111; will build six. wireless stations on the temst of the North Sea and four ,stations on the toast of the Baltic Sea,. Hundreds of windows; were- broken in Toronto when a 6evere -hail storm broke over that sectien of the eity bounded. by Gerrard and Leslie streets and Danforth "and Greenwood avenuee. During a thunder storm on Saturday afternoon a bolt of lightaing strati!: the Belleville City Hall to•wer, demolishing one of the large dials of clock and otherwise injurteg the tower. A - The old whaler Karlek, which has been purchased by Vithjaintur Stefaelsou, eliecoverer of the blonde Eskimos, for eecond. voyag.e to the Aretie, eleared from San Frameeeo for Vancouver, B. 0. Overwhelmed by a blizeard en the open prairie, A. F. Perry, his wife and three daughtere and a son, Who were trekking from the Mack Hille, South Dakota, were found frozen. to death'. Ilarry Mutton. who 'resides in East Northemtberland, near the village of Dun- donald, met with a severe toes in the total deetruction by fire of his barn and adjoining buildings, with their coptents. •.17ripoli rebele made all attack near the Tenieian frontier upon two native p1a.- toons commanded by an Italian lieuten- nut. The lieutenant and one native sol- dier evere -killed. Tett rebels were_ I4illed and many wounded.' Amore. is to be included in the list of "wet" villages, aecording to Judge :Mot -grade deeieion. Hie honor lute de- cided that the loeal option by-law in -Aurora was not legally carried, as eix votes were improperly east. Earl W. Redmond, wee -eager for 1110 DOM 101011 Exp•rese Company, pleaded. guilty to the theft of $1,070.08 from the vompany, when arraigned in Kingston puliee court, before- Magietrate 'Farrell, and, \vas remanded a week for sentence. A wind fitOrM of eyelonic .velocity, eompanied by lightuings thunder and mitt, ewept over Oswego and leaving death and. damage, in its wake. .An ice Immo; et the :.`.;ew York Central Railroad shops eollapeed, and Earl Davie, earpenters of Lacimia, N. Y.. Was killed, it 4 NEW SUFFRAGETTE BODY. London. Mareh 16. -"We have banded •ourselves together with the aim of con- eentratine attention on the spiritual and vital iesues involved in the woman's movement." This b; the opening statement itt a 'manifesto issued by a 11CW suffrage organization eetitled "The Spiritual League for Woman's Char- aeter, Rights and Liberties," of which the post prominent members are Lady .Abereonway. Mrs. Despard, Sister of General Sir John French. and Mrs. Flora Annie Steel, the novelist. The oymbol orthe league is an orange scarf on e black dress. Bemis of spiri- tual militants clad in blaek and orange attended the services at St. Paul's and other churches to -day. The league has sent a letter to elergy- men, urging them to abandon their atti. -ludo of silenee and neutrality. , sesea ACTRESS WAS NOT POISONED •80ut hamp t on, Eng., 3Iti reit 17. --A p 08 t• Worteut examination of the body of the aemeg woman Isho was found dead on turday on board the White iStar steamship Oeeanie indieates that lnir (1011111 WaS 400 to an attack of epilepsy. Ifor name was at fimt given ns Miss An- na Wilson, of NMI* YOrks but it is un- derstood that Miss Wilson was unable to sail and handed her tieket to an Anted - van actress believed to be Franees tes- of *NMI/ York. ..4101•448••••• AIRSHIP USES MACHINE GUNS. Friedrich:dm fen, Germany, :travel). 10. --Yor the first time five hundred rounds of ball eArtridge hatt been fired auccesa. fully front a machine gun on the upper fled; of the Zeppelin airship. The air. hip 1,14ed in the eNperinient yesterrlay las the LZ 'lite gun Isas handled with 01140 4ott, altlioneli the wind %tan hl.)a ,w1 ow 1.1ft.. 111: VI Mills', v1 11 11 011". noon on April 7. Originally Mr. Wilson had fixed upon .april 1 as the date. Representative Un- derwood, the Democratic majority leader, Laving informed him that the tariff bills, to whieh it was agreed. Congreee ehould give immediate attention, would lie ready on that date. Mr. Underwood found, however, that the Ways and .Ifeans Committee would need another week to draft the tariff sehedule, and to -day's proehunation le in deferenee to the seedier; of Leader I'mlerwood and Muse leaderse roe President's pronounvement to-thly was brief and. followed fdrm elosely. lt Stated. merely that "whereas, public in- tereefe require" Congress would be eon- ,' vetted in extra, session by order of the executive. The absetwe of any epeeifie leason for the calling of the extra fleti. 6i011 is explained by the fact that :Mr. Wilson's statement immediately after bis election declared that he would eall ..,n extra session to revise the tariff. 4-6.0 COMPENSATION Commissioner Meredith Presents His Draft Bill. Follows Lines of His In- terim Report. Toronto, Ont., ::%Ittreh 17.- Sir Wm. Meredith, at the session of the commis - b1011. of workmen's compensation held to -day at the Parliament Buildings, plac- ed before the different representatives a draft bill of a wido and comprehensive nature. The ecales of eompeneatioh were left out of the bill, to be filled in, as well ag Oe waiting period, but the- leg- islation is the logical continuttnee. of hie interim report. The evidence has all pointed in toe careetion of a scheme whe•reby the Government was to ap- point a -Board of Commissioners for ad- ministration of the legislation. That au accident fund would be provided by an assessment upon the yearly wage roll of the employer, and compensation would be paid automatically to the loeur- ed. and to the dependants by the Board, was the main feature. The question of fault upon the part of the workman would be entirely, or almost, and all ac- cident would be, compensated for in the draft bill, whieli Of eour-se is a tenative one. The scheme is outlined clearly, and the nature of it ean be easily seen by quoting the main elause..As pointed out, i i it is a compreheneive me re which was read before the represe ives. "Where in any employment personal injury by accident arising out of the course of employment is caused to a stesekinan, his employer ehall be liable to p•rovide or to pay eompeneation in the Ina -liner, and to the extent hereinafter mentioned, except the injury does not dieable the workman for a period of at least (number of days to• be filled in later) from earning full wages at the work at whit+ he was employed, and where the remittent is attribistable sole- -ly to the serious and wilful mieconduct of the Workman,. mikes the injury re - suite in death or serious disablement.' 'Where compensation for disability is payable, it &tall be computed and. be payable from the date of the disabil- ity." "Where the place or elder plaec of an employer is situated in Ontario and an accident happens while the Workman is employed elsewhere than in Ontario, will el t AvOlild entitle hint Or llis depelld- aniS to compensation under •thie Act if it had happeeed-in Ontario, the work- man and ltis dependants shall be enti- tled to compensation under this Aet, ;1 the ueual place of employment of the werkman is in Ontario and. his employ. mita out of Ontario has lasted lesa then eix months." "There are hereby eommisiouere for the administration of this Aet, to be called. the Worknien'e Cempensation Board, which shall consiet of three mem. bers to•be apointed by the Lieut. -Gover- nor -in -Council, and shalt be a. body time porate." THE COMMISSTONER'S WORDS. "With regard to the general principles of this bill; said Sir William Meredith. "every workman should be entitled to compeueation for injuries arising out of his employment either by (ligeag0 or ac- cident. I propoeed to divide the enee ployers into two elaeses, one of whieh will be scheduled, and these classes will be .erouped and classified along the lines whielt hes been followed." Sir William pointed out that he in- cluded some industrial diseases, and lu commenting on the matter, steted: "It seems to be a monstrone• proposition, that, for instance. if a man eontraeta anthrax in a tannery. he should.not bd compensated the same as a man who met with an accident "1 have in the main adopted the Euse list' net, with certain ehangel to fit the present seheme." BOSTON STRIRERS WIN. 'Boston 'March 10. --The Strike of 6,- 000 shirt' waist, waist anti dress milk- ers, who make up one liff the three prin. vivid divisions of the garment workers in thia eity, was settled last night by and agreement on evhieh the strikers re- eeive most of their demands. The:agreement gives 011 general We0ii: workers, now reeeiving less than $10 a week, a, 10 per eent. inerease; those re- ceiving more than $10 a week ore to reeeive a 5 per cent, affiance, and all Wee workers are to ket 10 per cent. raiee. Other terme are included for cutters and preeeers, The regular working week is to con- sist of 50 hours‘, but will be one hour lets during the summer. tuicsoe AT NIAGARA PALLS. Ningara Palls, N. Y., March bat found 11011:1* tilt! /11/1);lt back of the Cala (J, House ,yesterday morning was to -day identified as belonging to Mra. Sestal. 17 years old, wife of Josiph l-t;nt4k(1, 1/anent:ler. The identifieation was made by Stet ney naekoski the young woman's lathe?. Ile told the lic:lervatien offielals that his daughter and her husband had quar- reled on Friday tit er domcatie, affairs, end that his daughter had threatened to 111(1. iter life. She left the !mug() in the vetnng and has tiot retufned. She had been inetried ye:tr Anti half. Good Work of Rockefeller Institute is Shown. Baltimore, Md.., March 10. -Before audience which peeked the amphitheatre - of .1011114 Hopkins hospital and over- flowed into the corridor on Friday night, 1)r. )1.11non. Flexner, director of the Rock- efeller inatitute of Scientific Uesea.reli, in New York City, onuounced that the hitherto uudieeovered orgaulem which muses infautile paralysis has been found, identified anti eultivated. The- announeement was greeted by the physleinne, surgeons and medival etudents with prolouged applause. Dr. Thomas Seullen, president of the society under whoee auspice.; the ad- dress Wag delivered, presided at the meeting. illustrating his statement with mice -photographs, Dr. Flexuer told the audienee that the organism whieh the eattsp,pf infantile paralysis was one or the timeliest. evhieh had ever been identified, ske shown upon the acreen, in an enlarged view of a seetion of spluel eord. itefeeted with it, the germ laitte7ared in a clutinlike form in a wavy Dr. Flexuer, referring to a, treatise by Dr. Rosneau, of Washaigton, eetting forth the discovery that infection with infantile paralysie was caused by the stable fly, fiaid that in his own researeh he had not been able to establielt the fact that infection is caused by the fly, though he had uo doubt that Dr, Roe- neau 1;a4 done se, Trt the course of Ilk experiments, be said, he had. employed for observation other insects, which were allowed. to bite monkeys infected with the° his- eaee, and had found that the insects thus bonnie infeeted. with the germ and retained it for a period of eight days, but he had not succeeded in in- feeting monkeys with the disease by fhefteetletaies, them bitten by insects so in - The importance of this discovery by Dr. Flexner, as related to the possible reduction from infantile paralysis, lies in the probability that, now that the virus has been identified and with the other. knowle-dge acquired through hie experiments, the treatment of the dis- ease may proceed along more definite lines, and the discovery of a serum for the yore of it may be looked upon practieable and poeeibly easy to be accomplished. Dr. Flexner etated that hi 4 the cul- tivation of it, the .usa of a medium freed from oxygen had been found neeessitey, and that because it could. grow only in the absence Of oxygen it would never be found. in blood or in any cavity containipg oxygen. In the cultivation of its tissue infecte•d with the' virus it was placed in a receptacle from which the air waS drawn by means ef a vacuum pump, and, under the re- gStadtteadt.tt condition the virus was ProPa- With this yirus, „Dr. _Flexing.... said. infantile' paral,ysis had been indueed in tomkeye serhich were infeeted 'erith its Views taken from sections 01 the epioa' cord of monkeys so infected were (shown, together with views of seetioas. from the spinal cord of a bottom pa- tient suffering from. the disease, and tieddc.lititY of -the organism so demon- • GEO. Foi DEAD Well Know'n Violinist Got Sudden Call. Toronto, Marell 17. -George Fox, t he well-known concert violinist, whose limn "MIS ill \V al ker t on, died sudden! y last ei,ght in a College street drug store. He bad been Visiting friends, and on his .way home went le: telealione. He had finished when lte. sat down in a chair and died. Ile wae ainetrently in gocd health latriftliftrItittrhe recently as Friday last had played at the Irish night of St. Patrick's Chapter, R. A. M. Foe, who was only 38, was well known all over Canada as a concert vii- linist, and had played in many eittes. ile studied musk; Hamilton anS. spent 'matey years of his life here. . • s•-1 - HAWTHORNE WILL APPEAL. New York, •31areh. 3 0.- Julian Haw- thorne, who, with Dr. William. J. Mor- ton and_ Albert Freeman, was convicted in the Federal District Court Friday of using the mails to defraud investors in Canadian mining stocks, spent Saturday forenoon in the Tombs with his cottnsel, preparing an appeal. Hawthorne Was 'sentenced to Vervo a year and a day, (lather from Nov. 25 last, in the Federal Penitr'entiary at Atlanta, but was grant- ed a ten days' stay pendine 'appeal. Hawthorne said that his nigra in the Tombs bed strengthened his determina- tion to take the cave to the higher court. •.••••••••••....4.444.444 SUSPICIOUS REGINA DEATH. Regina, Sask., Mara' 7. --Saturday evening at 0.30 the dead, body of Dol- htret (Want of Montreal, was found. in bed At the Empire rooming house,Droad street. Because of statements which have been made to the police an investigation ie being made. It is suggested he did not emne to it natural end, but that be was "doped"' by ta. man now in enetetly on a tharge of vagrancy, The suspect is Thent, Cleary, who has a pollee record, and has heen arrested, following a state- ment made bye, it colored WOntalt W110 iS employed at the Empire hoarding house. SEALERS nu:RALE. • Halifax, March 10. -Word waft l'l.ttCht* ed Ifillif4X. 011 Saturday that the •etettin sealer Lloydsert, Opt. 13arbero while endeavoring to force through the ien at Port Att Basques, struelc a sunk. en roelt, whirl; -so serionety damaged the steamer that the voyage had to be aban- doned. The steamer Labrador. Capt. Daniel Martin !Ilse. of the Gulf fleet, sprang leak while in the heavy len and had to he bettehed at St. Mary's Bay. This pewee teur pfeamera in the Gulf sealing fleet. Ihe ct”atners Deathly and ltellaventure, while paging from tit.. John's on Thursday collided, and hoth steamera were considerably -damaged. W4 Pairs are being made they Val) (SOU. OMR "0343 voyage. ,., -LaasieeimoliakeelsoteieN WANT TOO MUCti The European Ambassadors Think Allies Exorbitant. London, :Nitarch 10. -The Ambassadors of the powers met yesterday and tits- eussed for two hours the conditione down, by the Balkan allies in regard to mediation by the pOWCrli for the pule pose of settling the war between the and Turkey. The conditions are regarded by the Ambaesadors as ex- travagant, although they do not close the door on mediation. The powers will next mako certain recommendations to the allies more nearly approximating the likely basi5 which will result in the .establishment of peaee. - The comments of the German news- papers on the Belts -an -Turkish situation prove interesting. The (!ologne Gazette thinks that the financial demands of the allios probably will cause fewer dif- ficultiee than theit 'political demands, whieh the paper eitY$ are inadmissible. The esossiehe Zeitung etiguiatizes the allies' reply to the puwers' mediation proposal as a piece of resumption de- manding. the prompt and uuited ttetion of Europe to put these impudent wag - ;serene in their places, Aceordipg to Constantinople reports, conditions m the Gallipoli Peninsula are quiet. An engagement in the-Tchataldja district is reported, the Turkish war- shipe bombardine the Bulgarian posi- tions at Silivri, liut with what result is not known.. Leto advices Hay that the Montenes grin siege guns commenced a fierce bout- bardment of Scutari, a portion of whielt is in flames. The Greeks continue to gather in stray bodies of Turks. Near Arnitsa, tlte Greek cavalry captured two battalions comprising 1,570 311011 111111 30 officers. The Turkish cruieer Ilamidieh arrived at Alexandria yesterdtty, and an enthus- htetic crowd gathered on the quays to welcome her. The cruiser does not ap- pear to have suetitined elle. damage during the course of her Adriatic raid. She wilj leave to -day for all 1111k110W11. 4-4 1 AERIAL CONCERTS New Discovery of Powers of Wireless Science. Washington, March. 17. -Aerial con- certs, it has accidentally been diecover- ed, are possible through the agency of the wirelese, according to advicee re- ceived by the Xavy Department from the torpedo station at Newport, R. I. The wireless operator. there reported 'that while "tuning" his instruments in anticipation of ealls from ships at sea he was astonished to hear a buret; of music. He "listened inp until the last ;Amine of a once popular "ragtime" so»g died away. Investigation disclosed that the strains were carried from a wireleee telephone in the vieinity, thus establish- ing the fact, hitherto unknown, that a radio set NM be made to net as the re- ceiving end of such a telephone. SUFFRAGETTE PLOT Arrangements Made to Seize Lloyd -George. Londou, March 10. ---The Referee, a Sunday journal devoted to sport and the drama, saya that the detail* of an elaborate :suffragette plot to carry off David Lloyd -George, Chancellor of the Exehequer, ;are only just beginning to leak out. **The whole thing," says the paper, well yeganized, but was given away by the •overzeal of one of the ap- pointed abductors. The retreat of the honorable gentleman had been carefully arranged in an unfrequented park in the suburbs. A subterranean fillite of apartments had been prepared for the eaptive and be would have had every attention. "When the Government learned of the daring nature of the phi* the number of detect ivee enarding Mr. Lloyd - George wa.s largtTly increased." -..••••••• ••••••••••:.0111•4". EXCITEMENT WAS FATAL. New York, March 10. -Three deaths at sea occurred on the liner Bettie, which arrived to -day from Liverpool. To the excitement of a close game of shuf- fleboard played on deck last Friday was attributed the death of Mrs. Minnie Me - :Nee, of Vancouver, 33. C.. She was found shortly afterwards in her cabin. suffer- ing from an attack of apoplexy. said died the same day. The body was brought to port for burial in Canada. Her death cut short a romance, a43 Mrs. McNea was epgaged to George F. 'Williams, a prosperous Cstuadian, whom she expect- ed to marry shortly after landing. The other (tenths were those of in- fants, one the daughter of second -cabin passengers, and the other of steerage travellers. - FATALITY AT LUNA FALL. Niagara. Falls, N. V., Mareli While viewing the American Rapids from the head of Goat Island this atter- noon at 5.30 o'clock, 3Iiss Josephine Ki- vitsch, 25 years old, of 53 Titus street, Buffalo, slipped on the lee and fell into the water. Her body Wag sWept over the Luna. Fall. • Her death was witnessed by Mrs. Woyeleck MaciejevSki and her daughter, Mary, of 1385 Broadwaee that city. The three women came here this aftereoott to view the falls, and had event the greater part of the afternoon in Prospect Park ond on Goat lelatel. They were matheir wav to the mainland when it was suggested that they take a trip to Luna Wand. - . .4.41110.....-wweaaa 'WILL PLOW BLENHEIM PARK. London, March 17. ---The Daily Mail this morning, publiehee the first of a ser. ice of artieles on the land question by the Duke of Marlborough, written in the form of an open letter to his cousin, note Winston Churchill, who invited the Duke's view of the Government's land policy. The Duke is 000 of the largeet latelownere in Meat Britain, Dear- iy 204090 11011'S. Tht! artieles are a vigorous eritieiten Of the lladieal attia tilde and represent the peint eiew of t ypien la rete ()weer. 'Me t4in- ecrit:4, wherewith the Duke appreaehed the oue,tion ie gauged by the fact 901 be ammuneet, 'bre intentien of placing Blenheim Park under the plow to "pro- duce food for the national. food 'supply," pe at -0 efivee 140• eutteace. • riipipowiwoupornumppiptirwrwiniminimirwww-wwww,,,rismimpurRiorrmilwilip7Trirrtilliw/IPP MfX1C0 IAN RUN' A STRANGE DEATH, Was American Dancer Pols- And Madero's Reported oned on Liner? Wealth Has Vanished. Battle On Neuvo Laredo To -day, St, Louise Marcia 17. -The Mexieap. Government is bankrupt, and all the reported wealth of Madero bas van- ished, according to official information Count Raol De Bergne, of 'Versailles, France, says he has received. Count De Borgne, who departed last night for Mexico City, said bo was on his way to the Mexican capital to confer with provisional President Huerta and General Felix DIU in regard to a $200,000,000 loan the 1Vlexican Govern. meat has been negotiating SVIth. France. He said as a representative or Franco he expected to supply Mex - leo with machine gun, cannon, rifles and atmttunition, The Count declared the Mexican tlovernment would be given money, guns and =Munition. as soon a,s security which it has Offer ed is proved to be. all right. BATTLE IN NEVVO LAREDO. Laredo, Texas, March 17.-A battle unexpectedly began in Neuvo Ldreao, the Mexican town opposite here, at daybreak ot-day. Carrancistas, re- ported to number 600, during the night had forced their way into the city and occupied a lard factOry. At dawn a, salvo of- rifle firing awoke Amerleans in Laredo. The first sight that greet- ed them was a rush of refugees across the bridge between here and Neuvo Laredo. - The Carrancistas,, under the cover of darOness, advanced cautiously un- til they 'were within the city limits. They rushed into a lard factory, barri- caded 'windows, then constructed er- rective-looking entrenchments for skirmish lines with the aid of ontly- ing lentos and sheds. At 6.30 their rifles awoke the twin cities with a sudddo. fusilade, This was followed by an hour's silence. Then the firing was renewed ton -a few minutes, only to be succeeded by another snenee. About 8 o'clock the rebels fell back. from the lard factory under a hot Fed- eral rifle fire and retreated slowly, Pushed hard by Government troops. SALAZAR NEARING JTJAREZ, El Paso, Tex., March 17. -The van, guard of Inez Salazar's army• is with- in one mile of Juarez to -day. The rebel force is estimated at 500 men. Juarez is defended by 350 Federal regulars. The advance guard of horsemen ap- peared on the Rio Grande, opposite the El Paso smelter, late lastnight. They reported 'that the major portion or Salazar's command and Emilio -Vae- quez Gomez are at the Flores Ranch, thsep miles southwest or Juarez. Col. Juan N. Vasquez,- in command at Juarez, has made no move against the rebel advance. The Juarez garrison has twO cannon and a number' oe rapid-fire pieces. _err; AUSTRALIA'S QUEER CAPITAL. London. March 7. -Australians are considerably agitated. according to the Daily Chronicle's correspondent in 'Mel- bourne, by the report that "Canberra," the name recently seelected for the new ideal eapital city of the eommonwealth, really means, **Laughing Jaeleaes." Arch- ibald Meston, a noted Queensland au- thority un aboriginal names, makes the annesing aesertion, after havieg studied the derivation of the word. Those whit regard the author's; verdiet as eorrect are blaming the Government for not taking the preliminary precaution of baying aseertained. the meang of "Can- berra"' before contiug to a decision. The laughing jackass of Auetralia really not a jackass at all, but n large bird, which is highly appreciated by farmers; because it kille snakesi The name "Laughing Jackttee" is given it Vo- calise of its raucous. cry, which it emite essually at sunup and sundown. The cry SO resembles the langhter of a human bei»g in- uncontrolled glee that :t ie al- owe:le-impossible for those who hear .tt constantly to retain their gravity. 4-4. THE WINNIPEG C. P. R. SHOOTING Winiiipeg. March 1 5. -Win. Darby, the Canadian Pacific special constable, :sr - reigned Saturday morning and formally charged. with the manslaughter of A.r- noldS Macdonald, a switchman, Thureday night, was remanded for one week. Bail WaS fixed at $10,000, which was teudered yesterday afternoon. • No charge has been preferred againet Allen Youug, the other switchman eon- neeted with Thorsditede shooting, and none Wilf be laid, pending the recovery or otherwise of William aohneoe. the as. eistant yard foreman, who- was shot by Young. 'Young also will probably be let out on bail. Johnson's condition remains about the seme. o_ • LUMBERJACK A 'VARSITY MAN. Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., 'Marelt - since his inearceratton toe. 0.19.triet jail here on a charge of omeacriog ward Morin in a dispute in a Blind River bar -room, it has developed that Me- Greeor is a Varsity man. Ire Wag sent to -the Seo felleadag the inquest at Blind River,. and when asked by Chief of Police Ridp N'ineeot Ilere 'AS to his ideetity replied: s'ely mune is Meflregor. and T am a gradil, ate of the Idelversity of Edinburgh," Little is known of him at Blind Riv4, he had but remold y 00100 'ff01.1. e010111bia. Ire WaS workieg as a luti berinek in tile M1110 011111P :LS 11101/ 1 at the time of the murder. CARTIER CENTENARY. .3 f on t rea 1, :March 1 6. ----A it a o ne 1 eon- vention. a great military review and mil- itary hall, an 4teruplane rave front Mon- treal to St. Antoine ott the ilielielicu, the birthplace of cortier, and a Mara- thon race open to the u odd are lmt IOW of the events on the prograleme foe eelebration week. aS arranged by the Cartier i'ellienttry Nletnorial Committee. 'rile celebration will be held in Septem- ber, 1914, and the dates are Sunday, the Oth Nitta, to Saturday, the nth in- stant inelusive. .1.1•12.. • . 1 DROWNED "IN WELLAND CANAL. St, Catharines, Mardi 1 0.- On Sothis. dav afternoon the of 0 man was found floating in the ohl I'Velland Penal near the amide. Wheel 1Vorks at 314.1.- 111ton, He wee about 30 or 3a yeare of age, well dreeeiel and weighed about 1 75 pourefe. one woe nble to identify him. led from oweere 'ennui in the peels. tits ie thought to be the bodes of C. W. Kratz, of hirsute.' Plettanre Ilathinp Plaee. oxfonl, Enaland. No money was tumid itt hia peel:els. 1 1 .10W 110 lo lie 1- 111,,stm at present. London, March 16. ---Frances Leslie, an American danger,. who wee a: paseenger on the steamship -Wealth., under the 11141110 Of '411114 Wilson, died, on board ship and the body wad brought -to South. *.auapton.. A cablegram has been received by United States Consul Albert Swaim at Southampton front Mrs, henry Schmitz, of New York, mother of the youne wo- nutu in which the mother strougry thntAea that a man aboard the Oceanie poisoned lter daughter. The name of • the 11111 1) Wag ba whether auy uni- tii•e was Mitred at cannot he- ed. 'The eable deepatdit lute been turned over to the authoritiee ate Southampton, and their answer .F.k that absoliftely nothing will be divulged. The inquest will be begun at Southampton toonor. row at noon, The death 00eurred about 10.30 o'cloels Saturday -morning between Cherbourg and Southamplon. The body was found lying, on the latehroont floor, and when Surgeon 11. S. French Was Vaned be found life extinct. it eau be stated, however. that be- fore the ship landed at S'outhampton there was a general me-Th.10n aboard. the vessel that the death of the- young woman was due to poisou, and that the authorities entertain this same theory at the present time. While that is the Catie. ;-e passengers do not ineline to the ider theory, but believe, if poisoe was taken it was talsen as it remedy :for ft trouble from whielt the young woman IL)fifeeerteefid.ly said during the voyage she Li - FOR BETTER BODIES Physical Education Con- gress Meets in Paris. Paris, March 17. -The International Congress of Physical Education, op- ened to -day by Presh7.:ut Poincare in the Amphitheatre of the Sorbonne, brought together delegates from most of elle' European countries. In the course of the sessions ath- letes from Sweden, Italy, Germany, Denmark and Belgium are to give de- monstrations on the platform of the theories and methods of. various pro- fessors of physical training. The congress has been divided into .sections which will study the physio- logical effects of natural and arti- ficial movements, training for witr„ boxing, athletic sports, games, amuse- ments and the influence of sports on women, particularly mothers, and therefore on the human race. Mme. Girard Mangin, who is taking a very active part in the women's section, declares that girls are not given a fair chance to develop them- selves in stre-agth, health and grace. I 11 POLITICAL SCHEME Is Plan to Cut Blenheim Park Into Farms. f.:aren Duke or Marlborough's announced intention of placing 1,000 acres or meadow land, forming part of his estate at Blen- heim, under the plow, has attracted great attention here. The Duke, who owns 19,685 acres, has chosen this m.ethod or waging a campaign against what he believes to be the present Liberal Government's intention 'of in- troducing legislation in the direction of the nationalization or the land in the British Isles. The Duke of Marlborough argues that a private landlord can admin- ister his land more cheaply and ef- ficiently than the state could do, and he will endeavor to demonstrate his theories. He declares' that he could employ a greater number of laborere, pay theem better wages and produce a. greater amount toward supplying food to" the nation by intensive cut tur6 than would be possible under state administration. - 3 -- - QUEEN'S IS DEMOCRATIC. Kingston, Ont., March 17 -Queen's Alma IVIater has settled the vexed 'so- cial function problem , at the univer- sity. The functions threatened to be- come so expensive that only the silver epooned students could attend them. A protest was raised at this condition affaire, and the Alma Mater has now decided that no social function at Queen's is to be held that costs •eacb student lnore than two dollars. VEgEL AIGCREW LOST Stettin, Germany, March 17 -The crew of 28 officers and men of the German steamer Peruvia, of this port perished when that vessel went down on an unknown date on te coast of Norway, Hording to a report given. out by the owners to -day The Por- uvia, a vessel of 2,609 tons.. pet regis- ter, hal been missing for smile time, ssrd weeckage found on the Norwegian coast indrcated that she was likely test nitre. - -- • • -4 ; FATAL SKI ACCIDENT. ..lront real, 'March 1 7.- -As the outeome or a skiing accident on the mountain, a few days ago, in width he broke his thigh bone, Robert Pickin, a young Scotch engineer, died in the Royal Vie. *oda. lithipital turday Vickia 1v418 olle Of a party of young men and women, who 'were celebrating his engagement to he married, HULL SATISFIES WRIT. ottimk, Marelt 10. •••11e. Cite of Hull will oot toe'. ite city hall, against Whieh 11 writ of seiZirre 'Was Pridny to eat'efy e judgment of the Superior Court for $513 in faVor of Arthur Nte. loeal lawyer, Tile writ was, given Sheriff Wrieht for exeeution this 1110mill:a but when he arrived on 411:. seote the eity offieials paid the :none, in to eolirt. MATRICULATION EXAMS. Termite, Mart h 1 7. -The Deptrlittcut lien has 1...mei the tituretablee for the ;unmet eelentinatiove in June, Stlelente enrolled in the middle ;red mi. lea ....Neil, tt ill begin en ditios 12. and en! Inlet their weld, en the en(14. leuer sehool ;Ana 3todel and High edited eptrailee examinatione will beseentieltul- ed on .Tune 1 5, All well. will etetee !win! ! Ow let . • . 44110414.141.44104 441.41141111.....1411141r: _ j_lif BIG HAU. BY ,OERIVIANY WORRIED N.)f. ROBBERS Oser Rapid Recovery of Russian Army. $300,000 Worth of Dia. monds and Jewelry. TUNNEL TO VAULT Through Network of Pawn- shop Alarm Wires. New York, :AWOL 10.- --a:atett " _Mende aild diamitond jbwelry Nallied at $250,006, perhaps; $300,000, were stolen ou Saturday night from. the vault of Martin*. Sill10116 & 801161 pawnbrolier.4, 94 lfetiter -elrect. The thierts turmslled under' a teller will], popped up through the floor and got iiito the vault by making a hole through two feet of briek. dotnet thie they evaded a network of Imeglar eh= wires, and made no rootlet that was heard. outside. They eitnee, tina weut through a hole in the ground eo ;small tiitirocludg istv.utild have to minim. to n10 contents of the vault were worth about $800,000. Negotiable bonds werth $130,000 they east ;wide, and $100,000 in. negotiable notes they seattered on the floor of the vault or jammed in pigeon- holes. Neither did the:y. take many thousands ter dollars' worth of gold. watchee. Diamonde weril their game. The bundle of loot that they carried away nutet have etaggseeel them. No- body tem them go. Beettuee of ieeent emit eide rebberies there i5 a special de- tective squad seattered through that ter- ritory. The store is protested also by a patrol ;system. Yet the perpetratore of this huge robbery worked their will and went away, and there isn't a clue except tools and gloves that they left. iu tlw Store. The janitor of the building, deevending to -night to get Ainie found a little hole 'through the eoal bin wall by which the burglars had entered the piewnbrok- er's4 eellar. Ile 'flew to tell the pollee, and thusahe burglar"). wes• discovered. THOUGHT IMPREGNABLE. The vault in which the pledged. articles were kept is so strong and so well pro- tected by electric wires that Simons •Ine lieved it impregnable.• .11 is nine feet •high, twelve feet long and aboUt ten feet wide. It hat; a double' steel door with a combination lock. The burglars didn't bother with the door or the lock. They didn't have to. All around the vault ie a caeing of •briek, two feet thick, laid in cement plaster. Beneath it ie solid masonry clear down to Ow cellar. The top of the vault,undnneath t lie briek '61)01. is a solid steel ebeath made of regular railroad railse laid slide by 61(.10. lengthwise of the vault. Everywhere out- side the vault are wires of et.he leirglar alarm e-yeitem. The walls of the store ere -wired. The floor is wired. The cellar is a network of hidden wires, fire inches apart, and tampering with any of them would have brought a nod: uf patrolmen to the store.. The burglars dodged every wire. When. the' burglars reached the pawn- broker's shop -they found it •stepladder eonveniently near. On it they mounted the vault and 01100 on top started dig- ging. Firet they tried to slig their way itito the }emit near the (ware of the top ;surface. They did get through the brick and littniped into. the eteel mile. So aleuidouing that point of athlete they shifted to a point at the top of the side whither the rails did not extend. They made a big hole in the brick 0.4 they penetrated the side wall end laid bare the wall of the vault itself. • RICHES OF A MINE. Tilig 11116 only wood, hardly more than a quarter of an Melt thick, Just a 310111- inal WOodell sheathing, which nobody ever thought aey burgtars would. ever eve. They eippea the wood, diepped into the vault and tltere before them were the riches of a King Solomon's mine on the caet side of New York. To the left and right of them were row upon row of drawers., ettelt coutaining a fortune. 80 confident had the pawnbrokers been in, the strength of their votive and their pfotective system that the draWers Were not locked. There were i?.00 drawers in all, besidee strong boxes, end eighteen eonipartments filled with pledged eilver. There were paekagee 'narked like *hie 0•Necklace, S14,000"; "Slianumd jewelry, $8,000"; "pearl 110.0k1100, $3.500." 0 11(1 60 011, ill 011 open compartment, Nelda needed nO key. ilttirlomns prized by immigrants of the Peet side, met othere front prouder parts of the city. were there. Some of the jewelry was very old, chtesable. as antiquee. The bnrestars got it To the right WON! -14 drawers brim- ming over with diamond jewelry. These were eleanedeeeit. Another roW of dessi tumid jewelry eempartmente were also looted. Some drawere temtained valnabh. jewelry of gold without diamoede. They were opened aed their contents etrewn on the floor, but not carried 0.Way. Obviously the burglars wanted diamonde. tind diamonds they got. ThQ, took also. $3,600 in eash and $2,400 in chequee, and then made their get -away as they had entered. ONE POOR CLUE All N. Y. Detectives Have in Diamond Robbery. Berlin, March 16. --It is said in high army envies that Germany has been disagreeably surprb,ed at the rapidity with whieh the Ilw-slan army has re- vovered front the Japanese war. It had been generally assumed that Rusela could. not place another army in the field in another two -years, but her mo- bilization of a million aud a half of men on the Austrian, German and ttulgarian frontiers showed that the German general staff was not posted as well as it is traditionally eupposed to he. The firrit aerial manoeuvres, of Ger- many'e military air fleet between Colegne and •Metz toward the Freneh frontier t‘ ill take plate within a week. - A :waitron of six airship:4, four of which will be veppelins and perhaps a score of iteroplanee, 1/0 diretthel from laud 111tybiombeyautsvioref;isrls from a flagAip end 1 - Mil BAD F Lo 0 Ds Grand River Causes Trouble at Dunnville. Saugeen on Rampage Badly Damages Durham. Dunnville, March I 6. ---The woret flood in the history of Dunnville for tit least 50 years started here on Saturday af- ternoon sual. eontinued all day to -day. The ice jammed. behind the long bridge and embankment over the Urand.River this point, backing up the water with very little warning. Soon it Made a serious break in the embankment along the west end of Dunnville, and a stream of water poured over Main, Lock and Broad streets, filling cellars and doing other damage that will reach many thousand dollars. At midnight dynamite was used to; open the embankment in the other side of the river, but this did not seem to have the desired. effect. Service in the Baptiet, Presbyterian and s Anglican Churehes could not be held, and in Rev- ere' cases families had to move out of their homes. 13y Sunday evening the flood began to subeide a little. Henry D. Fuller went into the regu- lator of the company wide]) supplies gas t o St. Ca tha r eS, Cargill"; a 1 ted lantern, and an explosion followed, bunting him ecriously about the face and head. ••••••.••••••••••••••••-•••••••• SAUtlEEN IHTS DURHAM. Durham, March 16. -The Saueeen 15 on a rampage oWing to the mihrweath- er of the past few days. The dam of the :McGowan Milling Company hae been swept away, causing a loss of per- hapti $4.000, the rueh of ice lodging againet tee C.P.R, bridge; endangering also that structure. Gangs of meu,not without danger and diffieulty, got the ire between the piers, when new dis- aster oceurred, surtaxes:nig anssthing pre. vions in the way of flood mischief in Durham. This Wag it jam of iee that had formed just, above the John Me - Gowan dam, raieing aed backing up the water to the level of it depresSion in the south bank, through width it is now floWing and flooding a portion of the lower town, 110 sac+ danger being ever apprehended. 11011! river bed eroeses Lambton street where the roadway inesees under the sd.U.R. bridge iteroes the roeine, and 01011 ar0 now working to eave 'a by lowering bags of gravel to protect the abutment, which is al- ready undermined by the water. ••••• •••••• •••. SHIVERING AT BRANTFORD. Brantford, March 16. ---Hundreds of people suffered front cold here to -day as 0 result of the high water of the Grand River Wal,hing away the big gas limit], which is the chief supply to tide city. The Lreak oecurred in exactly the same place as it did during the freehet Net year. The pipe projects aeroee Cockeltutt bridge, 11.1111 111 116 along the top of the ground some dietance from the bridge. People to -day had to re, sort to all kinds of makeshift nwebures to keep nem]. The water in the riVvr Went (limo appreciably to -day. but fie:tulles itt Hohnedale had to eloee down on Satur- day, and the water works eyetein was imperiled. .A close weevil is being kept WI tin' dykes, which are reported in good shape. SeVeral inches; of mud washed over ethe track was responsible for the de- -sieleiloirent of a Brantford ,&• Hamilton Radial ear above Aneaster early this , morning. The passengers were trans. ferred to another ear, being forced to walk Itekle-deep in mud. for some dis- tame. e MAITLAND 111\liat OVERFLOWS. New .Yo•rk, March 17.--1.11ty det 04. - fives; were at work to -day trying to run down the eraekstmet wit() robbed 31artin Simons Son's pawnshop on the East side, mime time eveeterday, of over Val,- ' 000 worth of jewelry- one of the meet 110 ring and eueeessful robberies eommit: led in this city within the memory ot the preeent generation tif pelieemee, ,„ vornee as 0 climax to a eeriee 1.tt febiew lig robberies w h kb, for more than nine monihm. bis engaged the at- tention of 0 spechtl "safe ;squad" of de - 1 teetiv es organized by Deputy Porten Commiesioner l)ougherty. Sinee -Ian. 1st. more than 20 males have been vrecloel and robbed in the lower Eget Side see- • thin, where yesterday's; big 11;1111 WAS W41 Ma.114% 1)(11114' that the tehhete ere tint ...Ann, 41,4 thoee rimmed - (el with 11 of the pr(vvion.4 in ono ilystatie.. they bit 'I' ;I OM` effeet. When 1 1 ernwi Sh , peen...111p 041 ltolVel'y 1%;1-4 ttC I Klee) etaeksmeit Ins( '1'11111%•thly nigs11 1, the role.ete left behind them a , . )4.111- flf V111 I On ;Ant ..t FI kit 1.411,y 114111 11 nisi I ilWt`l Print robin:is la the sitn:at's shop left behind two iif gloves Tli;e4 \ague (foe. lioA ever. the 014 r)a:1 the sletix.. 414: II 1 ft 11.1)4., llarriston, Morel) 6, -The waters of the Maitland River are still overflow- ing, and workmen have been buey breaking .lip the iee en ,endeavor to save the Yonge street bridge, The large bridge which spina; the river ott Art'ear street, oue of the leading thoroughfare* of the towu, and the main rottil from the bueinees centre to both railway sta- tions, bas been eo badly strained by the ice its to be considered unsafe, and has been doeed to all veltiele traffic. it expeeted Hutt the waters will sub- eide suffieient to allow the fn.etories that were forced to close down to re- sUllle open:Mous Tionday. ADMIRAL EATON'S DEATH. IIiagham, Mare's! 17.--Tip.!iipaut Reiuseddiniral doesph G. Eaton, (7. SS in the Ceurt here teelay. t" NJ, VV. 01! Httilimo; ef an hvititht filet Attorney Bilker le in eltarge of the intestigation. The inquiry was ‘.e..re,., 4131.1 whe+.'ier .Admiral Eaton died of noi6oning. or from natural etill!ies 11111' not be kuown until Judge Pratt files; his report. judge eaill that his •finding,4 woUld aot rody probably for a week. FATAI TONG FIGHTS. Marelt 17. -Three Chin. 1) ere killed and fem. wounded 115 1 or the 1.4.qtruptiou last night of the Time war that hes raged 00 the eoast intermitteutly for e Aes. 011e of the men slain wee reeitlent of eein Vratedeeteeited Ole other 1 wo were in Portland Oregon, where one man el-) 11 114 01111(14A. Three men were ‘vounded in Seattle. The only arre.it was s'in Vriitieigm.• The Tongs invehed le the 'Hop and .the tow Letykl.z.,. • 0- N. •