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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1913-04-03, Page 7the. I PIERPONT MORGAN LIES DEAD IN ROME. Worlds Greatest Financier Passes From Long Life of Great Activity. Controlled Vast. Sums of Money By Amaiga- mation of Companies. Roule, Alareh 31.--J. Plerpont'Alorgan, • a slight stroke or apopleey, but tide was the financier, died at five minutes poet ti"k'tt' Professor Bastianelli healed a bulletin twelve o'clock noon to.day. upon his arrival at Caira„ saying that". When his death WaS seen to 1)0 ap. Mr. Morgan% condition wee good, and proaehing rapidly, Professor Bastianelli ieverat days the improve. patient seemed to and Dr, G. A. Dixon forced Mr.. end Mrs. Professor Bashanelli remained with Herbert L. Satterlee, his eon -in-law and Mr. Morgan till he sailed be* to Rome, Aa daughter, and Miss Helen NamM ilton (r- on lorgan landed at lareh 10. Mr. *on on Mar& 13, and went direct gt1,11) Who) held been in constant attend. - ttome, where he received no visitors. ance, toleave the room. The sun of Rome, the diet and the Mr, Morgan, toward the eud, showed doctors seemed to have etarted him back to health, when he attended the Easter that he was suffering internally will y ee, . servieee at the Aineriean Proteetaut a movement of his right hand. Other- Episcopal Church at nom. He appeered wise, he ddsplayed no sign of vitality, to walk with difficulty, however, and left the church before the eserTIC4,18 ended. except by continuant heavy breathing. He grew trapidly worse, and for several Frequent bulletins were issued durine days lay in a prantieally emneteee state. the morning stating that his conditionms ttAREliat. was gradually becoming worse, and by John Pierpent Morgan started his 11 o'cloek the physicians lia,d given up biusinees career half a eentury ago on ll hove, tbe board. of directors of a, large mari- atime inserance company. He secured Mr. Morgan was unable • te assimilate the poeition through the influence of his the artificial nourishment administered wealthy father. For a year young Mot.- during the morning, and his physical -MLR attended the directors' meetipgs, Weakness was extreMe. Heart tonics but never opened his mouth, except to were injected, but these had no effect, vote. The president of the emnpany and for several hours before his death . told the older Morgan that nothing could be was in a state of coma, unable to be done with ,his eon, who seemed to respond to any question, or to recog- take little interest in buelneee. John Pierpont, however, all the time WM lay - (me any of those at his bedside. Ole of his relatives, Mrs. Fitzsimme lug his plane for his firet railroad eon. wife of Rev. William Fitzsimou, arrived sold:Won, whieh, when accomplished, established his standing lit Wail street from Cannes, and was shown into the death chamber; but her presence remain- PS the only men whe ever got the better of JGould. ed unknown to the dying man. Thay rd nt Beside the four trained nurses in at- e pesiea the insurance cora- pany had mistakeu taciturnity fcg- in- tendance Miss Helen Hamilton was of uolence. The 60.briquet of "Sphinx of Ili: assistance to the three physicians. ..ha, le 11 Street' later was the appellation Professor Geuseppe Bastianelli, Dr. M. Allen and.Dr, George A. Dixon. From his arrival in Rome, Mr, and Airs. L. Satterlee had feared a mistake had been made in bringing Mr. Morgan to Rome, instead of taking him direct to London, where he would hew been in his own house, instead of in a noisy ho- tel, and they thought. too, that the ell - mate of Rome was too mild and ener- vating for him in his condition of ill - health. Cable despatches from America, Great Britain and other parts of the world poured in all day, making anxious en- quiries and expreesing the affection in Which Mr. Morgan was held everywhere. The financier's secretary foprel it quite impossible to reply to all the in- quiries, and Mr. and Mrs. Satterlee ex- pressed the desire to inform the en- quirers how touched they were at the applied to the Man who at filen was believed to have been without ,business acumen, but later becanie the head of the finance, of the American continent. Morgan's control over men and money Was the dominant keynote of his life. Others, perheps, were,' weaithier than Morgae, .but he eommended his wealth and that ef others. At the height of his power he is said to have controlled $0,000,000,000. In addition to finance, arteliterature, philanthropy_ and. epoet all (IMO under his influence. His prestige was not eon - fined to his own country--kinge and em- perors and even the Pope were wont to eall bim into censultation. Mr. Morgan came from an old Puritan New Etigland family, \silica dates back thie country to 1036. Ile was born in wealth. His father, Junius Spences Morgan, left him $10,000,000, and also young. Morgan inherited important bank - manifestations of sympathy they bad re-• ing co-nneetione. J. S. Morgan had eceue ceived. mulated his fortune in the dry goode huchiess with Levi P. Morton, and biter, as en asseeiate, with George Peabody, tuerchaut, banker and philanthropist. J. Pierpout Morgan was born. April 17, 1837, in a 'modest red hriek cottage in Hartford, Conn, AS a youngater hie tendency to write poetry gave him the I nickname of "Pip." When he was 14 Morgan wie sent to Button to the Eng. lish high school. , lie 'showed 4tpartienlar bent for mathematics, but had no gifte it dicative of lima:Alai ineetal power. CA-Chtlt OP RIS ILLNESS. Rome, Afareh 3L—Dr. M. Allen Starr, of New htork. called into consultation in eoneetion with d. Pierpont Morgan's 111 - nos, attributed the financier's break - detail to emotion caueed by the investi- gations carried out by the Pnjo com- mittee at Washington into the opera- - tions of the "money trust." NO CII ANGE IN FrIthl. New York, March 31.---2Ur. Morgan's death will make no change in the firm, ceoz d ing to an anouncement made at the *offices of J. P. Morgan & Company to -day. H. P. Davidson, who made the announcement, said that the - businese would be conaueted as heretofotth TO BRING- BODY 110A.IE, Reny, Alarch 31..—The body of the late •Pierpont Morgan is to be embahned end sent to the United State on board ship from Naplee. A funeral service, will bc held before its departure. • BEFORE 1115 DEATH. Rome, March :30.—Professor Bastian. ell and. .Dr. Dixon, who are in attend - exec on Mr. J. P. Morgue istued an alarming bulletin as to the eemdition of the noted finatutier this evening. The bulletin stated that Mr. Morgan's eon- dition war3 inost eriticel. After vieiting Mr. Morgan this evening and hold a conferenee, the three physt. tians, Bastianelli, Starr and Di eon, iseued the following iiigned. statement at S o'clock: "A week ago Mr. Moegan was per- suaded to go to bed and remah there in order to eonserve his strength. Uutil Wednesday afternoon he did very well uuder this regime. He rested and slept a int ou t drags, and toak a, ea tis feetory amount of nourishment. Oa thredneidny afternoon he began to -refuse food, and Siittle then it has been inlet -enable to »our. WI him. He has log weight nnd strength rapidly. His nor•VOlif) SyStonl is eloowing this added strain serinusly. Ile has net developea ttny organic tumble, bet is eo exeeedingly weak that hs preeent eonditiononnet Iv considered meet eritivel." THE NEWS IN NEW YORK. (By Times Special Wire.) New York, March 31.—j. Pieepont Morgan is dead.. Ile died at 12.05' p.m:, Rome time, to -day. This an was made by the (neve of J. P. Morgan & Company to -day, Henry P. Davison, a member of the home of Morgan, made the announce- ment. He said merely that he had re - mired - a eaVe that the finaneier had passed away shortly after noon, Mr. Davison had Planned to go abroad some time this week, but it is thought prob- able this trip will be postponed. Coincident with Mr. Morgatte deeth It became known that he had suetained a serious attaek before his • departure for Europe, but had rallied so rapidly that it wail not eonsiderea n forerunner. to fatal illness, and was known only to his most intimate friend. For many years Mr. Morgan's epent a eonsiderable pprtion of his time abroad, but on this trip for the first thne be Beveted all -connection with business af. heirs. and permitted hie. partnere to shoulder al responsibility for their con- duct. It was the first instance of his taking sueh a complete rest since he en- tered the banking besinees in this city Lefore the Civil War. Prominent hankern in this city said this morning that they did not prediet - any decided unfavorable effeet on the Stock Market by reason of Mr. Morgan's death. The reason of this, they explain- ed. was th4t the recurrent runiors.ot his eerions illneee, bad prepared the mar- ket for any poveibility, and caused those engaged in market operationt to prepare for just such a situation. HIS LATEST ILLNESS. New York, Mardi 3L—Mr. Morgan maded from New York, an ailing man, for Egypt, on Jan. 7, within three weeks after he ha dtestified before the Pujo Committee, investigating the money trust. For weeks there had been re- ports that he was far from well, but these were soniewhat allayed by the en- nouneement that no physivian would be taken with him He was tweompanied by his daughter Mrs. Herbert Satter - lee, and the Count and. Countess Jean LaGreze, the hitter a daughter of his partner. Charles fiteele. Mr. Morgan reaehed Monte Carlo on Jan. 22 and Naples the next day. With his party he motored to the mine of Pompeii. The next day he sailed .for Alexandria He reaehea Cairo or Feb. 7, and shortly afterward started on a trip up the . ,Alarmiet report e eoneerning the finan- cier's health were sent to the world from Cairn. Theee dealt ehiefiv with the deelarittion that Air. Sflora wAH sure feting easatly from indignetiont that the trnnfi- nn.itie trip had failed tn poem- TVP4411 hnprovement in his health, t ts. eh...'eiane and nineties laid 'been ene---ooned. The stock markets of the .1 to those tomors. rend Mr. tiotgohe the, in New York, iseued teeeeeete- Letement eoneerning his fe4teett lie 'th. Art. a toll.- •" trip en the Nile. 7.4r. tithene .04ett) t anparentiv 1-eefitet 11` 10' :11 l'PailtV a fail. fierlotE4 •v14ldMMUIR:4M 41 1."41' Wee nna et tfi TV1•411,4 • 1.410 ' WAN' r,:111f1 tale world from 1.".* st. • :n. ".V1 th in four di we eti i?11 1114tblne11i. the hp .4 • mfry ;n eeel ravel ileyero lib4 bed. .4de. " • - • .;me "neneirartt 'r1,:'r t.,54 to el ae, left 11'18 '.1/44'W for-ettiro, and joined Mr. Me Tt wee • st M. Morgan had sustained .PRo.E.,. Elms DtAnt 'Still FEWER RAO Dean of Education Faculty at Queen's Kinoston. March 30. ---One of the forembst RdaeationIsts of Canada died at hie home in Bago Street on felatur- S. Ellis elea,n of the Faculty of Eau- 400 May Cover Deaths From Floods, * day afternoon in the person of Williami owns Near River M ()tith eation, 'Queen's University. Lind it Week Now Suffer. ago Itridity Dean Ellis was stricken with pneumonia. His death has 'ceased great Sorrow 111 Kingeton. and at Queen', for lie was a resident here for the kaet 20 years, earning from Cobenig in 1803. . • to take the Fos son o pannapa the Collegiate Inatitute. Ile filled the post Until 1010, when, he Ives appoint- ed by the trustees of Queen's to elec. eeed Dean C. It, Dwell in tile Depart- ment of Educatiou, positiou for which he Was peculiarly fitted, Dean Ellie Was a native of the County of Perth, where he was bon 57 years ago. In 1870 he graduated ite master of arts at Vitoria College, and later taught in Public and. Model Sehools die was also mester in the Woodstock, Cohourg and Peterboro Collegiates, and from 1890 till 1803' was principal of the Cobourg Insti- tute, In Kingston he was president of the Canadian Club, and a promi- nent raemb er of the historical Society. Ilis widow, two sons and one daugh- ter, the latter Mrs, Linszy Malcolm, of this eity, eurvive. In religion he was an Anglican. The funeral is to take place on Tueeday afternoon to St. James' Church. •-•-• GETTES INTERRUPT Create Scene in British Wireless Inquiry, London, March 31.--Suffraglets created a scene today at the reeumption of the proceedings of the parlhaine,sitary com- mittee inquiring into the wireleee con- tracts of tue Britieh Government, when David Lloyd-Geore,•. e, Cilauceller of the Exenequer, took tne *tend toanderebo it:Wier examination.. "the Oh ane eilor used the word "prineiple," and. a male suffragist immediately arose and shouted an angry protest. He exclaimed: . "1 objet to that man ueiag the word .principle'; he le a traitor. Jfe has be- trayed the women." The interrupter WaS promptly ejected, but another soon interposed. Mr. Lloyd -George had remarked that he was not a speculator, and .had never bought to-eell again, -when a suffragist cried: "You field the women, all right!" Evi- dently there were many sympathizers in thee udiene,e, for shouts of "Hear, hear !" resounded through the roem. Both the interrupter and her eympas Odgers were thrown out. L. P. P. WAGE AGREEMLNT SHE TRIED SUICIDE' But Novel Means Defeated Her Purpose. New York, March 31. --Meade in the Ohio Rivee from its mouth to Marietta, Ohio, te the great volume of water poured into it during the pase week by tnbutaries, have ettased thousands ef people to Imre the lowlands and taeek refuge on higher ground,. Early to.dely tee water 11) Still rising, and at every eity tong the river heavy damage to property Is reported. Railroad traftm has leen impeded, and many pnlee et, track washed oat, In Illinois Governor Duane has ordered 1,500 State troops to proceed. by tveial trains to Caere. and Shawnecrown, for the purpose of patrolling; the levees. lima drena of laborers idea have been sent to pile stacht Ot hand on the levees. Reports early to -day from Hendereon, Owensboro, Louisville, Newtort and.Cov- ington, Ky., Evansville, Ind., Olneinnati, Portsmouth, Marietta, Ohio, Huntington and Parkereburg, W. V.a, show that stoke of goods in buildings near the river have suffered liemeily,'and. that the damage 'will run into the millions. There has been no lose of life at any of theet points. London, Ont., March 30. --Mrs. Emily Phillips, aged 66, who claims to come front. Port Arthur, attempted_ ettieide 111 the Centieil Hotel at Leman Satarday evening, and is now at Victoria Hospa tal here he a. rather serious condition. She came to Liman Saturday mornine, from the west and stated that she would proceed eastward after resting for a day. In the evening she was discovered in her room and stated that she hao, taken first carbolic acid and later laudanum. Bottles that had contained both poisons were found in the room, as well as a vial of chloroform. All three had been tinrchaeed at a Lucan drug store during the day. She had also obtained a box macaroni at a grocery arid took the acid through one of the tubes. The macaroni absorbed. the aeid and proba- bly saved her life. -- She ,stated that she had been travel- ing about the country in search of her husband, and that his ill-treatment of ber caused her to commit the act. .In purchasing the drugs she registered as Mrs. Williams, of Winnipeg, and her ex. act identity is still a matter of question. Mrs. Philips recovered to a certain extent this morning and wale remanded by Police Magistrate C. W. Hawkshaw, of Luean, to jail for a week. Her condi- tion Wile very serious on her arrival in London, and she was transferred shortly afterwards to Victoria Hospital. i'4 • 1. W. OF W. LEADER ARRESTED. Paterson, 2.4.j., March 30.— William D. Haywood, the Industrial Workers of the World organizer, was arrested A telephone message from Cairo, 111., early to -day shows Viet the levees were still holding, and time the town wae in lose dangert'thari was believed last night. The water was etill several feet below the tope of the dykes: CLEARING UP IN DA.YTON. Dayton, O., March 30.—The military authorities began this morniag the cleaning up of Dayton and organizing it against ,he poseibility of epidemic. Acting under Seerettery (ef War garrison and Major -Gen. Leonard Wood, Major Thomas L. Rhoadee divided the city into ten sanitary zones and placed a compe- tent inan in charge of the work' in each zone. MAY NOT EXCEED e00 DEAD. Cincinnati, March 30.—Relief work ie the mid -State Oldo cities is so well iu hand that the situation is no longer. acute. Everybody is being fed and sheltered, tend clearing up is going well. 'Portsmouth is entirely tut Off from all communication by rail or telegraph. Maysville, Ky., is in a preearions eitaa,- tion. It is on the bend of the river, and if the levee breaks thewhole town will be inundated. The lsevee at Law-. reneehurte Ind., near here, broke last night. 'Attest reports indicate mush exag- geration of flood losses. of life and that -the total loss of life throug'hout the State will not exceed 400, probably very trtueli les, but the property loee is prob- ably not exaggerated at any point. FEWER DEAD AT COLUMBUS. Coltunbus, O., March 30.—As in other 01110 cities, conditions here as a result of the Scioto River floodS have been greatly exaggerated. The dead bet will run from 75 to 00 in all probability. The water hes receded to a point where near- ly all inhabitants of de imuidated bee - tions whose homes were not eompletely deetroyed my return to them. It is now estimated that the flood pro- perty damage will run about $1,000,M0 here. But for the ineisteuce of -people aho remnined in their houses iu the face of repeated warnings the fatality list would have beeu comparatively small. 1 AMSASSADOR PAGE Editor of "World's Work" . Goes to Britain. `I •••••••....111116•11.11.1•;•... thee atuadwisgetathaotf ED t:4 Le. --e.aeee tented vete teliture • sb power for 1012-13, t . Germany is eecond to lttieele, hitt the - UW - • a' proportion of population to expenditure ARE AppA., LE is less; than that of England and Frew°. - . . - atattsties of expenditures in the thirty Two Women Attempt Whot. i _.,.. • ••, .••,,.. , •,,.••• ,•._•,.. .vears. from 1881 to MO •show that • Montreal Building Blaze Hit Many Firms, Montreal, Mareli 30. --Three alarms were turned. in tiaturday night for a blaze in the downtown section of the eity, that did damage estimated at $130,000 and burned out half a dozen firms. The building destroyed le that adjoiuing the Bank of Toronto, at Mc- Gill and St. James streets, and ex. - tending through from St. James to -Notre Dame etreete, The fire is thought to have origi- nated in the basement, oecnpled by R. Prefontaine, hair-dreseer, but by the thue it was discovered, it lied run up the elevator theft aud was shooting through the windows at the roof, Owing to ,the network of wires in St. James street and Notre Dame street the firemen had hard 'work ia fightiug the blaze. It Was with dif 11. eulty that they could raise their lad" ders, especially Notre Dame street:, where they had to cut through, some of the big eablee before they eould get the laddere up. During the progress of the blaze a half dozen firemen received slight in- juries from falling glass, while one was overcome by emoke. The estimated losses are: Semi -ready Wardrobe, $20,000; Seott Brothers, man- ufacturers, $10,000; Royal Stores, man- ufacturing branch $10,000; D'Arey D. Bogue, $2,000; Iteiehberg and, Company, importers, $300; M. K. Nolan, real tate, $1,000; J. R. Prefontaite, hair -dres- ser, $1,000. rPhe different firma, with the exception of Heielfberg and Com- pany, are covered by insurance. Washington, t larch 31.—Walter H. Page, of Cxardcn City, L. T., editor of the World's Work; and a member of Dou- bleday, Page & Company, publisheree has accepted President \Vilson's offer to be Ambassador to Great Britain, . Becanee Thome Nelson Page, the au- thor, also is slated for a..diplomatie past, confusi,on of the two mimes led to the publication of a report in England that he had a,ecepted the post. At the "White House to -day, the appointment of \Val. ter H. Page was confirmed,. and his name will he one. of the first to go to the Senate with other important appoint- ments on April 8. Mr, Page was born et Cery, N. C. Re is 58 years of age, and a fellow of Johns Hopkins thuyersitly. Practically all of his life he has been interested in literary work. CANADA'S RECORD YEAR. Ottawa, Ont., March 31.—Though of course Official' figures are not , yet here to -day when he was marching available, the Canadian -financial through the streets at the head of year, which ends to -night, will eclipse about two thousand silk "mill strikers. all records of the country's prosperity. The paegile was en route for the Hale- It is estimated that final figures will don Woods near here, where it was show trading aggregating about $1,- propoeed to hold an opentair meeting 000,000,000, of which imports for do - alter the police 'bad refused to per- inestic consumption will total about mit them to'ineet out of doors within- $650,000,000, and exports of domestic the city limits. Adolph Lessig, who produee $350,000,000. The trade in. is secretary of the strikers' Committee, crease is it. the neighborhood df 26 giVen Ste opportunity to be heard by GOvernment expenditure will total . 89 ' • Pineedt'so alonrounisNtitnoee property ce*IntoPel a jury when•their eases come up same about $154,000,000, Ti is uederstood Killed in 16 -Hour Fight payment on also was arrested, Both men will be Per cent. . W111 allow substantial expansion ot the von Gwinaer said that it was regrett- $2.500. Herr SCHEME TE-MPORARY. , heritances, corporations and companiee is "unlawful assembly," reveatie in every department. . Laredo, Tex., March 31.—E4,Ylity.nine of limited liabilities, the letter of which London, March 30.—The Sydney, N.S. BOARD FOR C. N. R. DISPUTE. were killed and many wounded in a des. was unjustifiably placed under the tax- -ego -a. ston Churchillet annOrtneelnellt ..f)oneern/ of Labor on &turtle y sanctioned the ap. ation of reserve capital, zie proposed, ing an Ttnperial squadron, says ." The pointmeet of a, Board of Enquiry to in- Saturday at LanipaSOS, 80 miles south of ness policy. nothing short of poindiZing 801111d 1)114- . We Daily Herald, referring tO Alr. Win- Ottawa, March 30.—The Department pe.rate sixteen.hour battle Frida,y and 'rive need of a well.considered seheme of diet). Northern and its conductors, - here, between a handfill Of Federal:I and lierr von Gwinner said be welcomea -, tieheine is obviously only telnpOrttry. veetigate differences between the Cana. _ ' v• i .,the trebling of the "war chest" from naval units for Australia, Neve Zealend, brakesmen and bleggagemen on the west. rebel overnor o o . 800 f G 1 C &hula. ()Bowers of enust ano Ceramists,: $30,000,000 to 00,000,000. "The proepee. T1 r lids snrrounded Lampasos r - je i ity of the nation has so grown, and the • as* NO SYMPATHY 1 10 ILL MAI • three times as much aki this country. ican Leaderiti Life, Prance event 1,4300,00,004 more than i;ermany, and England appropriated England and Frame together apent twiee as znueli as Gennany, although the eoneened 1)01)11141mi of these two coma- triea is nut. twice as great as that of Germany. The Triple Entente in these thirty years spent more than $18,00%." toli0m0),.(0)0000., inAidectohreZrgipite.Alliauce $11,500,o armaments will he $5,00 per capita and 191:1,13, the tielen expenditures for that of Frantic $7.50, At Demands of the Military Authorities, WILL HIT HER T ADE Movable Capital Expected to Leave Country, Berlin, March 30. ---The official an- nouncement of the details of the forth- coming increase in the army and. tlie war tax that will be impoeed in connee- tion with the increase has bben received by tilae press and public with mixed re- signation and eritieism, lit - pie enthuislasm anywhere. There a feeling that the iperease ellen mede, but there is chagrin over the neceesity for it. There as a tear that the tax will drive the movable capital .out of Germany to avoid the taxation, as well as having a stagnating effect on, buei- "Wee generally. It develops that the proposed. law provides that foreigners earning a live- lib.00d Germauy must pay the war tax Week in eonnection with this and the otlier provisions of the law the Tageblat demands that, as the Jews are among the heaviest of people mak- ing sacrifices for the Fatherland, in jus- tiee the Reichstag should remove the present obstacles in the path of Jews who • would become army officers. The Socialist newspaper, Vorwaerts, terms the war tax and the increase in the army as an orgy of miltaeisnewhich Soc Mists oppose with all their power. Russian Police Ride Down TRIPLING TUE 'Se AR CHEST, The most surprising fact in the army Legation Crowds. increase ie the addition of 00,000,000 to the "war chest" in the Julius Tower it Spandau. The "war chest" hitherto Servian Army Demobiliza- has been $30.000,000. Half of the 200 per cent. addition will be half gold and • • tion Has Begun. . half silver, to be setured lit/ withdriatnwa- not favoring militancy, were determin. residents of the Wtrict, who although ing gold from subscription papa substituting paper tor the small silver. ed to uphold the right of free speech. St, Petersburg, •March 31—"Don't It is claimed that there long has been a INJURING THEIR FRIENDS.' think this is Vienna!1' cried a, crowd shortage of paper for business pur. . poses.. Some of the newspopers express . London, March. 30, ----The Suffra- of people gathered in front of the tear that the withdrawal of gold, when gettes, in attempting to forward their Servian legation to -day, to listen to it ie already scarce, will tendtofurther ocrouspeiebdy sheotutsinegs, tiii;aeyeto angeawinans.dtr-a an address by the Servian minister. the gold stringency. The protest was raised in this Way - There is also amazement over the fact friend instead of foe. The house, at against the action. or Russian police, that instead of $5,0,00,000, the large. Walton which they damaged with who ruthleeeiy rode them down, slash- amount of $10,750,000, according to the bombs, while it was being built for official .Military Gazette, has been ask- the occupancy of David Lloyd -George, ,ing right and left with their sabres., ed for the development of military avia- Chancellor of the Exchequer, is really The Russian Government apparent- tion,in addition to which the North (lea owned by Sir George Riddell, pro - would be • assumed by the popular Gazette to -night says that the nay- prietor of one of the two papers which suiptpoisrtnvor lseafronreedvotmhaetn.t he house at ly had foreseen the dimensions which luau demonstrations over the victories of $12.,5t10,000 for naval air craft. al budget will contain an extra request gained by the armies of the Balkan it is stated in Parliamentary circles Hampstead which they attempted to allies in Turkey, and had issued rig- that if the international situation am- burn last week is owned by th,6 daugh- • orous orders to suppress ant' out-----------eatening the increase hi the ter of H. W. Nevinson, an ardent work - proceed through the Reichstag quiekly sou and her mother also are 'among A most dramatic scene occurred under the pressure of danger to the the most active supporters of the outside the Servian legation, when the Fatherland. - However, should the in- caese and give much of their time to 'Servian Minister atterapted to make ternational sithation clear strong oppo- it. his speech, but was forced to with- sition will develop. +4.4 police charged. the capital show that there is much re -E. draw into the building when the Reports tient to the newspapers of CONNAUGHTS HOM Milli ANTS SPOKE Gov. Zepeda Develops into a Murderer. • Mexico City, Mardi, 41, --Two womest attempted to assaseinate Sieu. Tea DIaz yesterday at the Hacienda del Gen Diaz haa been meting at the hacieada. for two week. had de. onieeadrehd.imself of visitor*. When We twe faehionably dressed W01110U- servants informed him yesterday that slated on seeing bans the General Oa instantly one of the*Wornen drew a pistol and shot at him. The bullet And London Crowds.Heard went wild. The woman's coMpanio* Them Quietly. pistol when she was seized bY the Generals' servants. M•Pa•••••4•Nne.10....1 Both women were disarmed and Arson Squad Hits Friend confined temporally in the llsOleadit. Instead of Foe. was in the act of drawing iwothei London, March Suftrat, gettes resumed their meetings in. Hyde Park and Hampstead Heath this after- noon, aud while they were sub3ected to continuous interruptions, tne crowds were good-tempered, and tliere was no repetition ot tie scenes of violence which occurred a fortnight ego. in Hyde Park a Strong force of polios were present to protect the wo. men, who also. had an escort of stal- wart dockers. All the speakers were greeted with the monotonous chant "Sit down," "Enough from you," and wheu one of the women announced that one of the delegates to eue iuternational confer- ence to be held at Budapest in June would be a woman member of the Chinese Parliament there were con- tinuous ehouta of "Ching Ching," which broke up the meeting. At Hampstead Heath, besides the police, the women had an escort of Later they were brought tO the capi- tal aud imprisened. It developed that they were relatiVes Qt embittered Macleristas, sa.id tha,t they are members of the Aquiles Cerden and Aletriete Zee families. A sensation Was created to -day when it became known that the at. rest tend imprisonment of Gov. Zepedi of the Federal district, was the rer suit. of a spree in which Gov. Zepedi shot to death. Gabriel Hernandez, who was a Maderista leader. Gov. Cepeda became very drunk. entered Sylvain's restaurant, a lash- ionable cafe, and picked a quarrel with a Frenchman. Zepeda, fired Bev. eral shots at the Frenchman, who fled. The drunken Governor then tele- phoned to Police Headquarters and ordered 300 mounted policemen to be sent immediately to Sylvaln's. Fifty arrived within a few minutes, Zepeda formed an escort to accom- pany him to the 'penitentiary. He led the column in his auto. Arriving a the institution Zepeda demanded that the chief warden deliver to hint four Governors of Stites who had been: imprisoned on charges of treasiOn.• The warden refused. Zepeda ordered the policemen. to arrest the warden. This was • done. Then he ordered a' • list of the prisoners in the peniten- tiary to be brought to him. He de- manded the delivery of Gabriel Her- nandez, who had been imprisoned as a Maderista, leader. When. Hernandez was brought te- fore Zepeda the Governor abused him and then forced the gendarmes to 'shoot him. Carbines were fired at such close range that Hernandezte clothes were powd ar burned SEND TRAFFIC EAST. bursts of feeling which exceeded the army and the war taxes will probably er for evoman suffrage. Miss Nevin - limits of official sympathy. A Russian general who was in the sentruent in many places nou crowd remonstrated with the police- the em " t* property only obeying superior orders. pile over exemp Ing proper.y un - Many of the demonstrators were der tika500 from the war tax instead of men, who explained that they were Injured. Anti -Austrian feeling was property uuder $5,000, as was expected. 'ME AERIAL FLEET. . Hungarian Embassy. Great crowd of A bill providing for the apptopriation very keen among the demonstrators, them marched in that direction, shout: ot $7e0,e00 as the first outlay in the ing "Down with Austria!" but the Admiral's aerial fleet was introduced who attempted to reach the Austro - police, who were in great strength, into the Imperial Parliament to -day. lt were drawn up across the street and calls tor ten naval dirigible balloons of freely. drove back the mob, using their whips compose the active fleet and two to be the largest size,, of which eight are to General Dimitrieff, a Bulgarian, was • held in reserve. Fifty-four double re - carried shoulder high, and the Bul- volving balloon halls, into , which the garian minister to Russia made a gibles will be able to enter regard. - short speech, arousing wild enthusi- „ , „ less of the weather are to be erected este by declaring that the Bulgarian and another two to be kept, as a re% success was a victory for the whole . serve. A total of fifty aeroplanes, of of the Slav race. wnice et ,are to ferell the active fleet RO-UMANIA. WANTS MORE. and 14 the reserve, are also to be built. and these are to be manned by a special Bucharest, March 31—Ex-Premier P. be spread. ever the year 1014 to 1018 Corps of 1,462 dicers and men. The appropriations for this fleet to P. Carg, who is now the leader of comprise $8,750,000, for dirigibles, and said to -day that in view of the cap- $2.250,000 for aeroplanes, while $1,500, - the Conservative party in the Bal. ture of Adrianople by the Bulgarians 000 is asked for in connection with the garian Parliament, is stated to have ' the claims of Roumania for the recti- pay and maintenance of,the crews. fication of her frontier would now The life of the new airships . is esti- Certainly include a line drawn from mated at only four years each. to the west of Silistria, to Baltehik, • the land forces 1‘10E1 bWGeAnRnilia;.on a Peace Turtukai, on the Danube, 28 .miles After the passive of the Army Bill 23 miles to the north of the Port of f ooting will comprise 33,800 officers, Varna,- on the Black Sea, thus taking 110,000 non-cornmiesioned. ofticers, 661, - in a considerable slice of Bulgarian 176 privates, and 15,000 one-year volun- lhei mania would resort to arms to teers. The balance of the total of 870, - territory. It necessary, said the statesman, . eetorce her demands. 000 will include medical, veterinary and SERVJA DEMOBILIZING. pay officers, artificers, the hoepital Belgrade, Servia, Marc h31—The de- _corps ami other non-combatants. mobilization of the Servian army be. , the construction of new fortresses. _ The sum of $52,500,000 is assigned for Herr Arthur von Gwinner, the head gaarise tbo-edianyg rTahrseidtihyirti dischargedclassreservistsfroniof the Deutsche Beak, and als.o a di- rector of the imperial Bank, in nee hi - active service and will follow shortly. teiView on the extraordinary war. taxes A . MEXICAN BATTLE sw,,,,iii.oyi was good, Asocohdemeheosfaitdaxbautitmilt o‘‘i,lastIti(e) in Germany, aid: that they were neees- . , be .,0-etted that the exemption was time in the near future. The charge at Lampasos, able that the burden was platted on in - that Hon. W. T. White's Budget speech ana Canada, with eo.operation for de. era 1Mes. The board will constst of J. bt.tween 'the Cane:Han Pacifie Railway the Paeifie, more insistent than ever.3' eroee, repteeenting the company, and day night, accordine to Captain Rivas, emulthene hese so e HOW( , • granted a 10 per cent ineteame on the propoaed Vaneouver navel conferenee tnember. reaned.by the Federal& The Fedora's and its engineers, whereby the latter are This journal expressee the hope that the Judge Thiggart, of Winnipeg, as third t julitei Tower of Spendau foy the lime) east of CerEer, Ont., IL eenit will be liela at an early date. fat% espera e v s ht 1 t 1 a said, and lost Purpose of which it is •intelidod,' he per day augmentation of their wages nine men killed and several woniided, mid. Gold • would Pot be withdrawp bile the rebels loet tit leaet eighty kill- from eireulation at one time, the head Montreal. March 31. ---The agreetams fent% of coinmon Imp?riel intereets in Viirvey representing the men; °tired ha a delelly fire, which wall elin readily lay .the additional sum uto cm lines lyeiween Fort William and eler- POR BISHOP MILLS' COAbsitiTOR. ed. of the Deutsche Dank pointed out, and LORD WOLSELEY'S INTERMENT', Lot don Atarch 30. --The bod of Ti tta kin forets are reported to hence lie did not believe that the war will be no ehange in the working condi- are spoken of tie likely candidates for Field Marshal viscount woisch,y, who bare erought destruction by the use of taxes would affeet the gold merket. ITe tier, wile eigned 'ht Satizeda,e. There Kingston, 'March 110. —Three names le e g thins of the Men. Tho vov agreement, the position of Coadjutor Bishop. died some days ago at Menteneo rrallee, tlynaritiite. Tatanpasos twice has been held placed the value of the aggregate prop. They ale!: Dean King,ston; eseorted to the War Office. It will be erty of the empire at $75.noo.noomno, whit+ will go into effeA AllOrtlYt is for arrived in London yeeterday, and was by each ewe. days' notice on either side. Wirilleor, procm'ator of the thedral near the body of Admiral Lord would ;wing in $375.000,0n0. an indefinte 1)0114 terminating at 30 the Rev, Dr, Powell, of the UnivereltY eetembed en Motday in St. Paul's Ca- ' rend the tote' Animal hinnies- at $10, SEALERS HAVE GOOD SEASON. 000,000.000, a luilf per cent, of which Rev. B. C. Oxyley, of St. Simon'e "a the Neleon with the hiehest militatv honore. St. John's, Newfoundland, March 20,— poseible," added Herr von Gwin BURGLAR UNCAUGHT. Cielloral Synod of Canada, "Tt is Orillia. "%welt 30. --Nothing has vet C'hurele Torento. The Duke of Connaught is to represent With a catch of 30,000 seals, the eettmer the Royer Amity. , Stepluino retnruea to -day, the first of net, "that Annie property will eeeape tee- , !I.ieen heard of' Waldron, the Italian, svho etion. Perhaps sonic. eollateral lies al - Pherson, of T.origford Mille. Chief Reid Belleville, 'March 30. --On Fruley London (nit Mareli 30. — Tre of that the Naseopie had 27,000 Akins, the . . . - , has isened an offer of $600 for his Arnett, riight the village of Mellor, Hastiuge co.rnpriee 1.1 1.1 11 nriorablo lift ;inn. ;1:1.1.oy There is eonsiderable consment on the al. Muni", Wag Vhdted by a lire, in what unknown ' ori 1;i totally deetroyeld the rlorizel '22,000, the Sagona 23,000, the will do then duty to t le Fat velem . hexed apathy displayed by the Priwineiel Milne e dry goods store was burned and n i v J 4.1 )van a Tiotelgat rottersville to -night. L'ae .013e A VS, thlilied at $12,000. The Eagle 9.2,000, the Belleventine 10,000, the llonaventine 8,000, mu es' ( * VOTES A 'PEW VitallES, Mr. Mellicreon'ts eondition is somewhat damns:ad, ati wee also Tuit'i & Thomp. Advives frOni the four shipe settling in ehief finitneial edviser of the ailnietry, cut off on Many Ist. considered to be altogether out of dan- remises were badly damaged. The Iota We are all inclinN1 to speed; well of the prospds for a good seasou are ex- Faiglish tewepapers that other eountries u .. 111 b f reed t follow Germany's • Governor-General aiid Party Reach Liverpool. Liverpool, March 30. --The Duke of Connaught, Governor-General of Can- ada, the Duchess of Connaught .and - their daughter Patricia, arrived last niabt .on board the Empress of Britain. Prince Arthur went aboard the. ship and greeted his parents. The Duchess is not looking well, and was rarely seen during the voyage from Canada, although she said she had a good passage. The swinging, bed used by Queen Mary on the steam- ship Medina during the voyage with King Cleorge to the Durbar at Delhi was brought aboard the Empress of Britain. for the use of the Duchess of Connaught before the Empress of Bit. tani left Canada. - The Duke and Princess Patricia looked fine. The Duke landed here and inspected a party of Boy Scouts, later returning to the ship. WANT MORE SHIPS ........a.oa4164.41111.4...g.,......00. .4*** the sealing fleet operators in Newfound- ready fled to Switzerliiml and Belgium. if) t' Ntr, Allan ale- • MADOC VISITED BY me. POTTERSVI Le HOTEL aurthis4 land waters to report. .She brought news lint the Germen people are rich. .ind ex - Police in POTIMetion with the matter. Cantor's hardware store .adioining was lieense of this hotel was to have been 7,000. °there of the fleet had poor luck. Privy Coutuelor Sehwartz ,whe the Unproved to -day, though he it not Yet vion'$ furniture More. Mites -above the etehielexi.Gti.ilf of R. Lawrence inditate that- repodiatee the cluirgee in the Finch and ger. about. $9,000., eoviared by insurano. tae dead, but nat of the dead ones, e o Germans Agitate For a Flying Squadron. Berlin, March 30. ----As a result of the developments in Mexico and Turkey, big Hamburg and Bremen and other export eitiee are urging on the Government the idea that German. interests demand stronger and more etfective naval rep- reeeutation and protection abroad. At a meeting in Hamburg, whieh was pre - hided over by Mayor Schroeder, a reso- lution was adopted dietiving that "in Niew of the extraordmaty large trade and commereini interests of Germany in Mexieo t'entral ADA South America, it is absolutely necessary that more German warships be ateigned to the Ain tie an sta ti on, The reeolution pointed out that Ger- many had to veil on the "(hilted States to protect german iuterests during the recent re'.olution 'Mexico, and further demanded the ereation of a flying tquadron of one armored cruiser and two smeller vessels, which would ai. wa:04 ht reAdinoss hi (hernial' *waters for lestant deepatch to any point wher- ever Germein interests might be mutual. gored. The resolution also asked that one ermeei s tout 11. t' 1 on the atlautie end another on the Pa - eine teaks of the I•pited Stetes. METEOR PASSED OVER VESSEL. Poston, March 30.--A meteor which passed over the vessel and exploded ohly a short di;tance away, alarmed passengers on the Leyland liner Bo- hemian, which arrived yesterday from Liverpool after towing the disabled British steamer (1a.yo Romano to nail - fax. The meteor came out of the sky on the steamer's eort side and crossed her lama gr'epi t • .. p with a deafenhes report and blinding glare when app irently about 40 feet from the surface of the ocean,. Pas - sena( lb Sa y had dlfflculty in hearing for about ten minutes afterwards. Tho lookout in the crow's nest on the foremast. was frightetiao, as it ee emed to him that the meteor passed very near. 'When the eXPloeion oecurred the flash lighted parts of o • s A ti he hailstorm was in progress, ••••• North Ontario Business May Skip Us. Cobaltdeepatch: Speaking at a meet- ing of the Associated Boards of Trade of . Northern Ontario at Englehart, J. H. -Black, of Haileybury, said that he - thought the northern portions 4)f the province elong the Transeontinental a,Ril- way would be compelled to find. their market Montreal -wards and Quebec- warde, riither than in Southern Ontario. , As to the movemezvt of grain over a Hudeon Bay railway, the opening of the Panama Canal would, eee a movement of traffic westward rather than eastward, and therefore he could not visualize giant elevators on the shores of the greai inland sea. At the same time he thought the sentiment of the people of Ontario would compel an extension of the T. & N. 0. Railway to James' Bay, but be did not think they had enough information at their command to say whether it would lay or not. Otto Therning, of Coehrane, thought if the T. & N. 0. Railway was not ex- tended before the North & Montseal Itailway -was eerapleted to the hay, sal traffic would drain aivay from Toronto to all:entreat and Quebec. If the T. & N. O. were built to James' Ray it would supply eal Ontario and even Manitoba. with fresh filth as one reeult. There' was an animated diseue.sion en • the taxation of Government-owned town sites along the T. & N. 0. Railway, but nothing definite was decided. 0 HEAVY DAMAGE ,- Storm Hit Montreal For Half a Million. Montreal despatch; Montreal, which was cut off frota the outside World for twenty-four hours by a sleet storm, to beginning to get in touch With the world again, and also to count the cost of the storm. It is estiraated that the damage caused on the Island. off Montreal will exceed half it rniilion dollara. Oneas Was killed, and several horses feU vic- tims of live wires whieh dxopped ail direetions. Telephone, telegraph and light poles, as Well as trees, fell like ninepins under the weight of sleet and ice which encrusted everything. The Bell Telephone Oompany had 137 out of its 150 long-distance lines aat of order, while both C. P. R. and ( N. W. Telegraph Companies Were out of business. Over 1,200 telephoned in the eity were out of order all day yeeterday and last night. The eSsr service was de. moralized, and nearly two-thirds of *a eity was in darkneee last night. Tress in parks, orchards and gardens suffered most, the heavy ice breaking them flown by hundreds. To -day thoueands of men .are pairing wires, tatting away fallen trees, and in other ways removing th. traces of the storm. It was on,e of the most severe storms clter witnessed here, SLICK BURGLAR CAUGHt. A Windebr destratelet Leo Smith, 16 wfts caught squirming through an eight - inch cellar window hi the rear of Oronlen elothinc, store, Sandwich streeteast, a* midnight last night 1)7 Constable ritt and is held on a eharge of burg- larizing two other Mores whieli were entereti recently. Smith, though effeminate in appeav anee, fought desperately when 'handcuffs were Affixed. Two revolvers, orte of which was loaded, were taken from him. Smith was arraigned in polite ourttO cloy aria ploadea not Runty. Itio Wit wui !le Ap 141* lather it in ltexieo and his mother la dead.