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The Wingham Advance, 1911-03-16, Page 7NEWS OF THE DAY IN BRIEF Long Service Medals For Royal Canadian Horse Artillerymen. Thamesville Postoffice Official Under Arrest, London Man Fatally Hurt by a Street Car. H. M. Johnston, of London Township, was arrested by London polio charged with stealing mail. Charles Bland, it Brantford laborer, aged 08, and unmarried, dropped dead on the street, Heart failure was the cause. A company composed of Chinese has been orgamzed at Amoy to equip and maintain en electrk lighting plant for Amoy. Fire swept the dockyards at Port Royal, Jamaica, causing a heavy loss. The firemen were uneble to stay the flames. Rev. Matthew Kelly, of Watford, has been invited to become pastor of the Congregational church, Brantford, and will probably accept. An Ottawa coroner is investigating the death of Patrick Cassidy, on Os• good townshipfarmer, who was found dead in his sleigh. The eitizen.s of Carripbellford and Warkworth are agitating for the build- ing of an eleetrie railway through Northumberland county. A group of prominent Montreal Meth- odists raised $75,000 towards the $1,500,. 000 fund to be raised by the Methodist Church throughout Canada. Much uneasiness is felt by people liv- ing along the Si. Lawrence over the possibility of great damage being done when the ice breaks up and goes down stream. The wife of Arr. A. C. Brown, C. P. R. agent at Guelph, expired very suddenly. She complained of indigestion, and just as a cup of tea was being handed her, she paseed away. James Petman, formerly bartender at the Grigg House, was struck by a. street car at the corner of English and Dun- dee street, London, and. died in the hos- pital from his injuries. Miss Caesie O'Shea, daughter of the late Joseph O'Shea, of Munroe's Mills, took the holy habit at the Hotel Dieu, Cornwall. She will be known in relig- ion as Sister Si. Patrick. A, branch of the Young Women's Christian Temperance Union has been organized in the city of St. Catharines in the Y. M. 0. A. hall, with twenty-one. active and six honorary members. The Kingston es Pembroke Railway Company has responded to the re• quest of tbo engineers and firemen for an increase in wages. The in- creitee will amount to about ten per cent, • Au order -in -council has been passed appointing Mr. George 0. Patterson, of Deloraine, a judge of the County Count at Winnipeg, in suecession to judge Dr. M. Walker, who recently retired on su- perannuation. While receiving money in the Money Order Department, at Kingston, William H. Godwin, Pine street, dropped to the floor and died. Life Was extinct before a physician, who was passing, could reach hie side. Miss Augusta Ashley, aged 05 years, who resided in a room in her brother's house on Mill street, Belleville, had' Veen missing for some days. She VMS found lying dead, fully dressed, on the floor of her room. A syndicate of Canadian arul United States capitalists at Vancouver has bought one million acres of the Peace 'River district of British Columbia for $5,000,000. The district will be colonized by American farmers. One of the most interesting exhibits at the Cage Bird Show at the Crystal Pelee°, London, was a talking canary. Ills vocabulary included, "Dear boy," "Kiss your misSus, pretty boy," and "Josie, you are a dear beauty." There are many indications that the German Government is considering the abandonment of Koweit as the tenni. nus of the muclediscussed Bagdad Rail- way and will seek another outlet to the Persian Oulf. There was a big slide of earth at tbe north end of the Gahm lock of the Panama Canal. The mass buried a steam shovel, and eseight a gang of workmen, killing two Spaniards and an Italian and injuring several others. Archduchess Stephanie, Countess Lon. yay, the second daughter of King Leo- pold, of Belgium, and widow of Crown Prince Rudolph, of Austria, is seriously ill at Zurich, Switzerland. Her con. aloft is the cause of grave anxiety. Sir William Mackenzie president of the Winnipeg Electric Rallway, has of. fered to sell the railway to the City of Wineipeg at the last valuation of 14,- 612,622. An alternative is also suggest- ed by Sir William to buy out the city power lant. LieuteCol. H. E. Ifurstall has present- ed long service and good conduct medals to these members of the Royal Crinaeian Horse Artillery: Q. M. S. Instructor W. Clifford, A.Q.M. A. T. Worth, Sergt. Per- rier Laflamme, Gunter Hutchings and Gunner Ryder. Rev. A. J. McGillivray Was tendered a farewell social in St. John's Church, Vancouver, the pastorete of which he has just resigned. Over a, thousand dollars in gold was presented to him. Mrs, McGillivray also received a solid silver card case, a diamond ring and a purse of gold. The Toronto street railway receipte for February show that the eity is the gainer by an additional $10,000, the month's percentage amounting to $48,- 030.35, as conipared with $38,020.25 in February lest year. The gross receipts were $335,108.40, an increase of $27,334.- 30 over February last year. The foot and niouth disease has again Appeared in England. This time the out- break is in Surrey. 'rho movement of stook brie been probibited in a wide ere°, nround the seat of the dieeme. At a meeting for the reorganieetion of the Gananoque Board of Triule, the fob lowing offieere were elkted for the cur- rent year: lIonorery presidents, Messrs, Charles elecd.onald and E. L. Atkinson; trident, Fred J. Skinner; vice-presi- dmits, A.. W. Taylor and D. Ford ;runes; eeetetary-treasurer, Charles A, Watt. WANTS DAMAGES. Teretan, farch Morang, the publiaher. has Iseued wilt ereinst ii,d pity of Termite for $25,000 demagel ft.r Mettles which lie elaIrne were sus - fettled Its a reSult of 1al1Ing Into a hydro eleetrie excavation. BIG HURRICANE. Steamer Boston Arrives at Halifax in Damaged Condition. Halifax, :March 12. --Eleven days out front Jam:mist, after battling with a firce hurricane for over four hours, the 'Steamship Boston has put into port with her wheelheuse blown Away, doors smashed and part of her railing washed overboerd, The Boston (Captain Holstead) left Jamacia on Sunday, February 20. She arrived et Turk'e fsleed two dive later, and sailed for Halifax on WednesclaY, February 28. On. entering the Gulf Stream she encountered a heavy north- east gale, which increased in velocity until it culininated in a fieree hurri- cane. The waves swept over the ship fore and Aft end she was compelled to lay to. For eighty-five beers the ship lay there unable to make any progress.. Heavy seas awept over her, sometimes covering her completely. The wheel. house was carried away by a mountain- ous sea, one lifeboat and a jolly -boat were badly damaged, doors were mash. ed, and part of the railing wise cerrled away. So perilous was her plight that the man who steered had to be lashed to the wheel, and the other members of the crew wore lifbelts, • _ ••••••••a••••••••• The King to be Crowned as Emperor of India. Duke of Connaught May Become Vice- roy of India. London, March 12. -King George le now seen daily in Rotten Row canter- ing with equerries. He needs the brac- ing effect of exercise in the nipping air, for he is overwhelmed with the details of various ceremonials of what must be the busiest year of his reign. The precedents of the Lest coronation are followed cloeely except the minor point of boys as the Queen's train -bearers, but a new question has been raised as to the Delhi ceremonial and the inveetiture of the Prince of Wales at Carnavon, since tradition and, recent practice did not cover them. LordCurzon and other Vice- roys have been consulted respecting the function'and the decizion has been reached that it must not be treated as a recrowning of the Ring, already con- secrated at Westminster °Abbey, but as a separate crowning as Emperor of In. dia, A thousand novel details connected with regalia and costumes and Oriental pageantry need to be determined. The Princees investiture ie almost equally as difficult, 'owing to Welsh sensitiveness. The Duke of Connaught, who is the King's closest adviser, has decided not to •accept another military command. He may become Viceroy of India after serv- ing :V ehort term at Ottawa. A GOOD MAN. Left Money to Montreal Charitalbe and Religious Objects: Montreal, Mardi 11. -The public be- quests of the late Chas. Byrd are as follows: $10,000 to the 'Montreal General Hoe- pital, for the endowment fund, subject to the hospital paying interest thereon at 4 per cent. to Mrs. Woods, sister of the deceased. $5',000 to the Protestant Hospital for tho Insane at Verdun for the endowment fund, subject to paying interest et 4 per cent, to Mrs. Wm, efacklaier, Motel of the deceased. $10,000- to the Montreal Protestant House of Industry and Refuge at Longue Point, to be used as the board of man- agement shall decide. $5,000 to the Irish Protestant Bonevo- lent Society, for the endowment fund. $2,500 to the Western General itos- , pital, Montreal. $2,000 to the Alexandra Hoapital, Montreal, for infeetioue diseases. 82,000 to the Montreal Protestant Orphan Asylum. $500 to the Boys' Home, Montreal. $1,000 to St. Patrick's Society, Mont- ero.) $5,006 to Erskine Church, Montreal, for the purposes of the Home Mission Society. $10,000 to Erskine Church for the sup- port of a foreign missionary. $15,000 to Erskine Church, for the support of a foreign missionary, sub. jeet to the condition that Mrs. Byrd is to have the usufruct of said sum dur- ing her lifetime. The balance of the estate goes to wife end relatives. HAREM SKIRT, Des Moines Police Chief Threatened to Arrest Actress on Street, Des Moines, Ia., March 11.-A 'atide. ville actreee was driven off the streets by the police tide morning when she rip - peered in a "harem" skirt. A crowd of several hundred people followed her as she made her way through the sliming listrict, till Captain Frowiek broke ..hrough the crowd with two policemen it hie heels Mid amid, eeliss, if you don't m home we'll hey° to arrest you for He for a moment beeitated and then NoUnd up With "Well, we'll have to ar- rot, you •anyway, though 1 don't know what the charge weuld be," The girl called automobile rind 'hove aWity. 441,' DREAM OF GERONTIUS. Ottetwe, Mareh 13.-IIis Grace Arch- bishop Bruclosi has notified Dr. Ches. Iterries that lie will be present to hear the "Dream of Geroritiue," to be eon- dutted in Montreal by Sir Edward .E1 - gar, the composer, Assisted by the Tor- onto Symphony Orcheetta, on March 270. SHEFFIELD CHOIR.'"Erag',..„,i,„..' Ottaeva, 'March Majesty the Kir* has grnekrusly beemne ra patron of the first witieleal feetivnl of the empire to ba given with the Sheffiekl Cheer, of England, and the therel end ortheitral sOoleties throughout Catwids, under the ditection of Dr. Mather Harriett. SAFE CRACKERS Secure One Thousand Dollays at Burks'.Falls Tannery. •••••••••••••••••• W, Young, Bank Teller, Has Struggle With Two Bank Robbers, Toronto, March M. -Robbers bored a hole la the safe at the Burk's Palle tan- nery on Saturday night and get away safely with one thousand dollars in cash. The money was made up of notes of the Bank of Toronto. The robbers drilled an opening la the, sitles of the safe with hammers and chisels, which were left by them in the office. The safe was so constructed in front as to afford every protection ne. cessery to withstand the tvork of ordin- ary thieves who might use explosives. The hole was made big enough to ad- mit a inan's hand into the cash drawer where the money Was kept in a tin betx. The robbery was discovered Sunday morning when employees visited the place. The local constable sent word to the Department of Provincial Police, and Superintendent J. E, Rogers despatch- ed Provincial Inspector 11. Reburn to investigate. TELLER SAVED CASIL A despatch from Wyoming, Ont., says; As 0. R. Weaver, the teller of the Bank of Toronto, stepped into his room over the bank at an early hour Saturday morning on his return from a parte, he was confronted by a mask- ed man who, with a revolver, called Upon him to throw up his hands. Weaver jiunped at the man, wrench- ing his revolver fronishim, and, after wrestling bout, succeeded in throw- ing him. A companion of the hold-up mon than spraug to the rescue. After vainly endeavoring to secure from Weaver the combination of the bank vault, they proceeded to ;tried' and gag him. They then descended to the bank below. After about a ininute's struggling Weaver succeeded in freeing himself, and, securing his revolver, opened fire through an opening in the floor of his i room, which s directly above the front of the safe. Aft& firing a shot in re - tern the robbers' fled, Weaver fired three shots in all. A small office safe wits found open, but nothing was taken. A London, Ont., despatch says: Yeggmen, who have been •operating in different parts of western Onterio, used nitro-glyeerine in wrecking the safe of the Keenlyside Oil Works In east end some time during the night. They did not get.a cent. The safe was blown to pieces. 4 • • DON'T WANT THEM Seventeen Undesirables Arrive at Hali- fax From United States. Sailing Back and Forth as Neither Eur ope Nor America Will Have Them New York, March 13. -The immigra- tion authorities hero are investigating to -day a report sent them by the Cana- dian officials at Halifax that on board the Uranium Steamship Co's. liner Vol- turno, which arrived last evening, are seventeen undesirable aliens whom Hol- land, Germany and Ruesia will not re- ceive. The Vulturno is from Rotterdam and Halifax. According to the report, the seventeen ,deadhead passengers have been ordered deported from the United States either en surgeons' certificates, as likely to become public charges. They ere most- ly men and Russian subjects. As neither Europe nor Americe. wants them, the aliens are riding back and forth upon the ocean, the line not knowing what to do with them. The Uranium Steamship Co„ it is said by the immigration authorities, has a puzzle on JO hands, and finds it cheaper to maintain the banished unfortunatee upon ite steamer than take them ashore, even if such an alternative were possible. FRACTURED SKULL Aged Orillia Resident Fell Downstairs in the Mulcahey Block, Orillia, March, 12.- William Dunn, one of tho best known residents of Orillia, was instantly killed on Friday evening by falling downstairs in the Muleahey block. He was a carpenter and stair -builder,. and had beet em- ployed for some time at Victoria Har- bor, He went to town in the morning to make some purchases, and as he in- tended returning to Vietoria, Harbor on the 9 p.m. train his friende conclude that he stopped on his way to the sta- tion to make a call in the Mulea,hey block and missed his footing on. the stair. His skull was_ fractured, and ho died without regaining consciousness. Mr. Dunn was 72 years of ago. He has one son living in Orillla and hie wife and the rest of his Wally are at Gra.ven- hurst. Coroner McLean decided that aft Inquest was not necessary. The funeral will be at Orillia. QUEEN MARY FUND. Ottawa, One, Mareh 13. --The Liurcn- (lan brawl' of the Intughters of the Empire will ?leer a box for tontribu. Onus to the Queen Mary eoronation fund in the Carnegie Library here from tbe 15th to the 25th at the month, Members of the league will be present to take down the names of centributors one it is expeeted that Ottawa will rem - tribute a large amount to the fund, • TEN PER CENT, INCREASE. ‘‘'innipeg, efareh 12.--T1e agree - nem, het ;seen the ('anailian retells Railway and it t rftinniPli on We leiu line., was eonehelel on 'Mandl ever's the settlement of the dote ou . .• • weten the merenee of VI pet was t -t take effuel. Was ratified yester- day, tine sats the date at *efioeli 1. The igreetnent ce,veri rates of pay, rule!: and souditiensrf eerviee on the stsetern his, nue Was signed by repteerftetiefe of the emnienny and Melt. DR, SHAW DEAD, Head of the Wesleyan Theological College and a Noted Educationist. ,....4...•••••••••••• Montreal, March 12.---Itev. W. I. Shen', D.D., LI,,,O., prineipal of the Wesleyan Theological College, who had been in failing health for some time past, suf- fering from eancer, died at his realdenee Oa Mayoralty street, 'on Saturday, in his eeventietli year. Born in Kingston, Ontario, April 6, 1841, he was educate -I at Queerds Cellege, Kingston, and at Victoria University, Cobourg„ He studied. for the legal profession with the late Judge Burrowes, of Kluge. tore and subsequently with Messrs. hiowat and itlaelennan, of Toronto. Ile commenced his studies for the ministry in 1804 and was ordained in 1808. In 1877 he was' appointed Professor of Greek, and in March, 1894, was called to seeceed the late Rev, Dr, Douglas as principal of the college. He was appointed a member of the Council of Public Testruction of the Proviece of Quebee in 1888, and of the Protestant Board of School Commiesion- ers for Montreal in 1800, He is survived by Ids widow and three sons and three daughters, The funeral takes place on Tueedey after- noon. FATAL LANDSLIDE 1.5.111••••11.11.•••••11I, Four Men Killed aud One Hurt in Colorado Avalanche. Rescue Party Succeeded in Saving One Man From Death. Denver, Col., March 13.. -Four were killed and one injured by a men soutv- slide that destroyed the boarding house at Gold King Mine, near Gladstone, in southwestern•Colorado, yesterday. Wires to that part of th•a State are working badly, and details are ineagre. The dead are: Mrs. F. G. Drue, Msr. Carrie Lewis, Sameel Hoar, and Maria Fahne. Residents ef Gladstone saw the elide formed a rescue party and hurried through the (deep snow to the scene. When they arrived all were dead except F. 0. Drue, manager of the boarding house. His position was such that he was not released until eight hours later. His feet and hands were frozen. Work- ing beneath'the masses of snow and ice, wbieh threetened to come down at ony minute, the rescuers late yeeterday etic- ceeded. in recovering the four bodies, which were taken to Silverton. SUICIDEAT KENDAL H. H. Jennings, a Well Known Busi- ness Man, Cuts His Throat: Bowinenville, March 12. -Information i3 just to hand regarding a tragedy at Kendal, in the northeastern corner of Clarke Township. Mr. Harry Hugh Jen- nings, a well known Imeinese man of the .villeac. conimitted suicide by cut- ting his throat with a razor at the home of Mr. Blake Alexander, with whom he had been residing, He had been in poor health for some months, and, having shown indications of dementia, arrange- ments were being made to remove him to a sanitarium. He wits seneible enough to know what was in etore for him, so Monday moraing he dressed, ate breakfast and laid down on a, couch in the dining room, when suddenly he sprang up, mounted a chair, and taking Mr. Alexander's meek from a high shelf, rushed past Mrs, Alex- ander, who was alone in the house with Jennings, and running down a. steep em- bankment towards a swamp, he slashed his throat with the razor, then turned and ran up the hill again towards the house. Mrs. Alexander gave the alarm, and many men, soon gathered. Addressing them, he said: "Boys, this is hard, but I couldn't help it," and died in a few mieutee from loss of blood. He was 52 years of age, and had carried on a general tore business in Kendal for many years, and was an intelligent and highly respected citizen. *v. . BUSY IN WELLAND. Several Factories Adding to Their Buildings -New S. A. Barracks. Welland, March 12. -The Page -Hersey Iron Tube & Lead Company are erecting an office at a cost of $8,000. Contracts will be kt Shortly for additions to their present 'plant, which will total ill the neighborhood of' $200,000 and add 250 employees to their pay -roll. The Canada, Steel Foundry plant here, which Wee formerly the Ontario Iron & Steel Ceimpany, will be extended by an expenditure of about 8100,600, with the erectiorl of extra buildings, ti' contracts to be lel shortly. A New York promoter is arranging to ereet ee$00,00 hotel here, and Is now en. delivering to secure a site. He wishes to purchase the Commercial Honse, corner of Sett% Main end Division streets. The Salvation Army have purchased land ane will put up it $10,00 °berretta et the corms. of Crests and. Regent streets:. Quality Beds are arranging to Wild a brick eddition to their factory, 60x80 feet. *OP NEW POWER COMPANY. Toronto, March 13.-A neW power company for the Cobalt dietriet, with s. rapittil of soya million five hundred thousand dollars, has renewed incorpor- ation from the Provincial Seeretary. It is to be known as the Northern Ontario Light & Power Company, and while the intereats back of the enterprise are not definitely known, it is understood that the company is take over the light and power sy.steMS of clobalt and Itaileybury and may turn its attention to the hy- draulic system now supplying power to the minee, - • 41+ THE FIRST DESERTER. Moutreal, 'March 11. --Chief Campeau has been advised by wire that Ernest &Atoll ()rise, it volunteer on board the 1`s-Tiebe, of the Canadian navy, hes desert- ed ship Mese efereh 3rd. Last night Deteetivee McLaughlin and Richard or - rested Gris0 in a betel, and he ens !sent I' to the eelle penning criers from the revel Authorities. LIKES COSTUME Girl Who Wore Harem Skirt in Toron- to Hands Deft to Her Critics. "Five Years From Now People Will Laugh at Those Who Laughed at Me, 0.,11••••••ION Toronto News; Miss Mona Raymond, the girl from the, Gayety Theatre who wore the first harem skirt on the streets of Toronto, wrote the following: have read with a greet deal of intereet the deseriptione In the News and the other papers about my apprar- mice on Yonge street Weilneeday aftcr- noon in a harera sirt. Some of the comment was very nice, some of it funny and some unkind and mating. However, I bave a few things to say to all those who read those articles, and who have talked over the subject of my adventure. I appeared on Yonge street dreesed as I was, because I ain determined to wear the harem skirt wherever J can, and shall walk down the street in Buf- falo with It next week. I received not one penny for my To- ronto appearance, nor was it intended for an advertising device, 1 appeared on the street bemuse I wanted to in. troduce sane clothing for women. People may say that it required nerve. Not half as much an to appear In an Athlete° City bathing suit; not half as much aa to wear a fashionably cut ball dress. Net half as much as to walk down Youge etreet as thousands. of women do with enameled faces and rouged lips. Not half as much as to don some of the outlandish headgear that can be seen anywhere in Toronto. any day I have seen women in regulation skirts get themselves up so that it Zulu would not actepr them as members of his tribe. •, And yet w•lien I, in a neat turban, a sealskin coat, and muff, dare to form my skirt into a deeent walking costume a lot of folks get up on their hind legs and scream with dismay. As it mat- ter of plain truth I was as modestly dressed -in the true Reese of modesty - as any woman in this city: However, don't let us get too serious about it. Do you remember that the inan who carried the first embrella on a public street was almoet beaten to deatht His umbrella was smashed to splinters. Do you, remember that they wanted to hang the men who invented the "cot. ton gin" tLe machine that revolutionized the cotton industry? Do you remember how the life of the inventor of the Modern steam engine was threatened for daring to conceive such au iron monster? Every reformer, dear editor, gets it "in the neck." I defend the harem ekiri on the fol- lowing grounds? It is practical. It gives more foot room. It will mean more graceful and more energetic walking. It will give a woman a physical chance to prove her equality with rnen. It is the ouly clean and sanitary style. It is just as "modeet" as any other at- tire. d lastly, let me add that if harem skirts once become the fashion every woman who raises her hands in horror would be turning handsprings for the dressmaker to get one just like mine. Don't be' afraid of innovations; they won't hurt you. Remember just a few years ago when the church deacons used to execrate the idea of having an organ in a church. Kindly remember a few of these things when you say that the harem skirt will never become the vogue. WAS ROBBED. Toronto Man Charges Mari and Woman With a Hold -Up, Toronto, March 13. -Kenneth Lane bert and Lawrence Warren were arrest- ed on a eharre vsgrancy this morn- ing. On being seareue.d the police found on Lambert some women's clothing, it wallet containing $21.21, a pair of auto. mobile goggles and a new pair of opera. glasses. On Warren was found a pair of automobile goggtee. Later ou a telephone maseage woe re. crived at the police station by a man who gave tbe name of Secord, and who said he had been held up by two men, one dreesed as it woman, on 1310or street, He was in his automobile, and the two men approached him and asked him to eome and help with their automobile, weieh was just around tbe corner. He got out to do so, whoi he was held up and robbed. MEANS BUSINESS. Russia Informs China That She Will Stand No Nonsense. St. Petersburg, March 13. ---The For- eign Office to -day instructed M. Korostevaz, the Russian minister at Peking, to' make verbal representa- tions to the Chinese government that would leave no doubt as to Rtissia'e firm attitude. This is the sequel to the announce- ment of Saturday that the Foreign Office was not satisfied with Mina's second reply to tho Rai:Sian demand concerning Russian consider and nommen:al privileges in Ili and Mon., golia as proyided'in tho Rueso.Chin. est) treaty of 1910. CHARGED WITH BIGAMY. W. H. King Arrested in London, Has Wife in Toronto, London, Ont., Mareh 12. - W. If. King, who eante heto some inonths ago from Toronto and WAS arrested on it (harms of bigamy, pleaded guilty end was remanded rt tveter. The information was :swore mit by Mabel Niehol, Briscoe street, with wheel King hag been living for some thee. The nesn's other wife, who coMee from Aylmer, is tale to be in To - mitts. King admits the wife in To - tenth, but saya lie is hot married to the Briscoe street woman, while the says a matrinee took place Thanks. gliing Day. King is twenty-eight years .old end manager of a large poor room. • -* Illobbs--"Ifove do you know flaw Min - Fent are Ving1is10" Joax.--"They drop their h'e," 1 AN HONEST MAN ..1.VIV.V,if .11 Pays His Old Debts by Mail, But • Keeps Identity Concealed,. St. Maryee Ont., March 12, --Mr. If. A. Wilson, collector of custome received a double surprise. Going to the post effice .after the Stratfre isail tail come In, he found a letter addressed to him in a : strange hand. Inside there was an ex- press money order for $3 and it bylef note, which read eemewhat as follows: "Please find herein $3 in payment of a debt which you have probably forget - ten." There wee na name, Mr. Wilson could net remember anyone who had owed Liin that met sum. But he put the money in his poekre 1:everthe1ess. Meeting Mr. James Peattie, .Nfr. Wilson proceeded to tell hire of his -find. When he had fin. ished, Mr, Beattie pulled a letter from Itis pocket. It read thus: "Pleaee find herein $5 in Payment of it debt winch yea have probably forgot. ten." Tee letters had come' by the mine mall, had been written in Buffalo and posted in Stratford. Neither of the ro. cipients know from whom they eamo, SWEPT TO DEATH Tried to Move a Big Ice Jam on the Credit River. Two Meadowvale Men Carried Away by the Ice and Die of Exposure. Toronto, March 13. -Swept away in an ice jam, which formed at the Men- dowvale dam on the Credit River, 24 miles west of Toronto on the Canadian Pacific Railway, Henry ,A. Brown and • Kenneth South lost their lives. The body of Mr. Brown was found. The search for the body of South Will be prosecuted again to -day. All day Saturday and Sun- day Malt, Aykrod of Toronto and a search party using pike poles and ice tongs Worked without success. The body of Mr. Brown was found 300 feet from the dam, lying in a lit- tle brand]. of the river. Coroner Lasvson of Brampton made an exam. 'nation of the body and concluded that death was not due to drowning ,as there was no water in the lungs. Dr. Lawson said he believed Brown had been stunned when carried away with the ice and had 'died of his injuries or from exposure. The Coroner deemed an inquest unnecessary. Tho heavy rides of Friday morning caused heavy* ice jams and in the af- ternoon the residents of Meadowvale believed their dam would be carried away. Brown and South decided to remove the brackets and it was while at the work that they were swept away by the ice. About 6 o'clock a horse, which they had taken with them, re- turned to Brown's, stable. Neither of the men were with tho rig, so it search was instituted, but no tree° of them swvhaesrefeelsned. either a.! the dam or any - The dam at Meadowvale is one of ctihee. eplargest on the Credit River, it being about fifteen feet high. The water below it is now twenty feet * SHOT FIREMEN. A Reign of Terror on the Queen and Crescent Railway Route. Somerset, Ky., March 12. -The strike of 'the firemen on the Queen and Crete cent route of the Southern Railway reached a crisis here to•night. Engineers and firemen are efusing to go out for fear of being shot oy she pickets of the strikers along the route between here and Glen Mary, Tenn., as it total of mix men have been killed in the peat three nights, two Met night and one this af. ternoon, besides three who were badly wo‘uvubditeed 'train No. 78, a freight., stormed lit Glen Mary this afternoon for water, James Carl, it detective, who was hi the cab guarding the life of it negro fireman, was sleet and wm ouid. He was rushed to the local hospital, hat is not expected to live. Two negroee, Tom Johnson and Ara Cook, who were firing southbound paesenger No. 9 and a freight train, were killed at Glen elary last night while No. 9 was stopping there to take on the body of ie dead negro who had been killed earlier in the evening.hye pi lens are being carried on all trains for emergency cases and orders were issued to -night by the reilwey cam. pally not to run negro firemeu north of Chattanooga, as it ie .nlinost certain trouble would occur if they were Gent l. trainsout firemen are firing the out of Chattanooga, on the north- ern division to.night, with the engineers who fire willing to make their rune, DIED OF WOUND. Branford, Cont., March 18.-aarta, COTO Wood, who it ia• alleged, shot and killed her •husband, Christopher (4. Wood, her 11 -year-old son, Vardernond, and who then fired it bullet into her own breast, near the heart, laat week, died at the Wood hobo thiss morning from the ef- forts of the wound. :MOBBED HAREM SKIRT. London, farch 13.-A big erowd fol. lowed two baudsorne young women wearing harem skirts in Hyde Park ees- terday in the ehnrch parade. The. mob fieally beearne so demonstrative that the women escaped in a tevicab. The general impression, OS ahown by the newspapers. le that the harem ;skirt Is it eornfortable Walking skirt. W:.e;)-4-.."3.-:÷3"LA'"--ZSIT. Tor)nt.:'1111(113.i-'1:tn1, f E, It, C. t'laiks11:1s:vo::sitfrarn the Great. Northern Inellwee CoMpany itt llettls4 f'ohlrimia 1111'011,1ov. i2756/100. compamy to,,t some valuAitt titn'orr ltiit aunimer hi a fire eatis5(1 %nue, !iptiks from a lneemotive of the Great Nettle ten. The railway hie "it roritroJ tti tarry tee timber frein the limite th.% min ef tho Clarlonn film at Sinir. MEDICAL COUNCIL One Medical Journ:.I Declares Its Usefulness is Gone. Best Students Fail to Pass and Weak Ones Co through, Termite, eteree 13. --Ontario Medical Couneil bas to face a partienlarly heavy Mow from tins youngest of the medical journels of Canada, the official organ of the Canadian Medical Aesociation, whose publication was determinee on at the lest annual meeting. "Ws usefulness tie at present coesti. tilted is gone," is it conelusion reached the editor, who proceeds to re-os•ganize It ia a thorough manner. Incidentally, directly at variauce to the position taken by the other ttvo medical jour. nate, the bill of Toronto 'University, winch would enable it to confer a lb cense to practice independent of the council is wholly upheld. The editor says in part ne follows: "Whatever good it accomplished, end unquestionably it filled a place in med- ical bitstory, its ueefulnes,s, as at pres. ent constituted, is gone, and it must endergo it complete morgenization. "The'emincil has olWayti eiktitned that its examinations are a really practical test of a student's knowledge, and yet such Universities as MeGill, Toronto, Queen's, insist that many of their best students fail, while notoriously weak ones Tiass. It could pot be .otherwise under the System Of examination fol- lowed.' "The cleavage between the eniversity and the council has at last become vicar. by defined, and after years of patient suffering the Univeraity of Toronto, a Provincial institution, fugs turned; and if rumor be coreect, will endeavor te regain It's right to licenee, and inci7 dentally have the same right couferred on the other milversitles, if they keep up to the proper staedard," DUKE'S COMING Capt. Bulkeley, Equerry to H. ft. H., Arrives at Ottawa -Society Stirred, Ottawa, March 12. -Capt, T. Rivers Bulkeley, M, V, 0„ Scots Guards, Equerry to his Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, arrived ill Ot- tawa on Saturday for thee purpose of making the preliminary arrange- ments for the coming of ehe Dominioh's first Royal Governor-General, Captain Bulkeley, it is understood, is • to be Comptroller of the Household during the Duke's tenure of office. He will .re- main in the capital for it few days and Is a guest at the Government House. Although the Duke will not arrive in the city until fall, there are already indications that the social life and The Influx of society people, particularly during the session, will be very brisk. There is reason to state that already many of the best suites at the Chateau Laurier have been engaged, American social leaders being very prominently to the fore in that connection, • • SEAL FISHERY, Nineteen Steamers Leave Newfound- land for the Arctic Fishing. St. Johnn, Nfld., March 13.-Undeunte ed be• the "unlucky thirteenth," nineteen stertmere, composing this year's New- foundland sealing fleet, steamed out of this port ehortfy after daylight this morning and headed toward the great North, there to combat with the drifting Arctic ice flocs in the animal quest for seals. The sturdy craft carried approxi- mately 4,000 men. The sealers will watch for any trace of the Glonceeter, Masa, fishing schem- er, Ela M. Goodwin, which with ton men aboard ha e be -en missing since January, and is thought to be imprisoned in -the ice fields north of the Gulf of St. Law- rence. The schooner was bound from Bay of Islands for Glouceeter. Seven of the steamers are equipped with waldus apparatus. It is expected that this Ada - son's catch will be it gOOd one. TEDDY III. 1•••••••••••• Ex -President Roosevelt Expects to be "Grandpa" Before Many Moons, San Francisco, March 13.--001. Theo. dere Rooetvelt soon is to have hew title, "Granepa Roceevelt. It will be conferred simultaneottaly with the visit 'ef the stork to the home of Theodore Rooeevelt, jun., an event which is ex- pected early in April. Behind this brief announcement hes the real secret of the trip of Col. 11004C. Velt armor the country to the south and of the journey of Airs, Roosevelt Red like Ethel Roosevelt by Way of Chicago -all of them with the same destination, the home of Theodore, jun. They are !loping that it will be "Teddy" ILL SUING HIS LANDLADY. London Tenant Holds Her Respon• Bible for Diphtherla-Infected House. London, Ont., March 12. - Pour members of his family having been etriektei With diphtheria, and one., it child, dying, Frank Selunvek, of 144 Wilson avenue, has takeit aetioefor $2,000 damages agales Barbara, Hatt - num, from reborn he rented the house in which heediven. Schmuck blanks the landlady for his troubles on the ground that the house Was oecupted by persons who had suffered from diphtheria Ifo. fore lie moved in and beeatise it had not been properly disinfected prior to his ovenparrey. WATER GOOD. Ottawa, Maith 13. ---The; Health De pi. rimed to dav rinu ,iiroet1 ths reeo It of0 test ef "Magi" Caletiqein, Wat,N, as eold in Ottawa, Fite semples were ex- enniore, arid showee n. trienof eolea RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY. Ottawa. :s1,14.h *Stetholist Miustcrinl Astawiation of Ottawa thia morning pv.tied it resole.i•en of aympti- thy in the desth a Rev. W. t. -Shaw, al 'V1;014,718 reenloghel reelege efeeorsel HAD IT CUT OUT Paid a Visit To His Stomach After a Year Without It. Philadelphia, Pa., Mareh Sykes, of Cardeton, Alberta, Osoada, paid a frieedly call oe his stoats -eh yesterday at the nerneritetn Stomeell Hoepital here. anid Mr. Sykes, "f hadn't seen it for it year, True, it gaveme late of trouble while 1 had it, and. 1 121We got along well enough since, but then, eon. know, 1 once had a personal ieterest in my stomach and 1 wanted to eea it in it glass bottle. If I hal kept it 1 wauld have been dead long ago." if your :stomach doren't agree with you, bate; it cut out. That's the way Mr. Sekes did. The doctors: a year ago gave him ote month to live, and toid Min he had one ehance in a hundred of surviving an operation. He took that chance, Last summer he raised several thouwand bushels of wheat on ble five" huivired-acre farm in Southern .Alberte, and will go back thee !spring. to ?Wee more wheat and once again enjoy life.. Among ether thinge that Mr. Sykes enjoys are three squaee meals a day. He says he eats anything that anyone else would eat, led never felt better itt bis life, but htedoesn't disclose the secret. Neither will the phyelelars, .4.41 BLUM'S SON Says His Father's Domestic Life Was • a Very Happy One. Was Influenced by Lord Redstock, an English Evangelist. •••••••••••1041.1... New York, March 13. -"What do you want to know about mer asked Count Leo Tolstoi, son of the Late Count Tol- stoi, "I am on/y the son of it great man." Celia Tolstoi came here to -day On the Mauretania, and is visiting America, to study social conditions. .At the eoncere given on s.hip board last night, at white: Sir Edward Tennant presided, Count Tolstoi spoke for ten minutes, talking .of the lost days of hie father. Count Tolstoi, tepudiated the 'stories which have galnee circulation that the elder Tolstoi left his Mime to die be- cause of domestic diesension. "His life was it very happy one," said the young man. "We loved his home and his family. But in the later days of bis; life Lord Rectetnek, the English evange- den Obtained great influence over him. Lord Redetoeleepersuaded my father that the. life licreived in his comfortable home was not in accord with the theor- ies lie professed.' Acting on this, my fa- ther left hls home. The end of that weary pilgrimage is known to all the world. There waa no less affection ou his part towards, his family. Ills ac - was taken to demonstrate the the- ory of life he had always urged." GUELPH DEAD Declares Lambton Farmer and °tuft Doubts .His Sanity. Toronto despeteh: George E. An. nett°, formerly a farmer of • Larebton county, but for the past year nu inmate of the Homewood Sanatorium at Guelple has es.-preesed the opinion that all the people in Geelph are dead. For this and other reasons Chaneeeor Boyd bas decid- ed that he must be considered a lunatio and'has directed it referee to Chittbam to appoint a cammission to ad.minister his estate. Mr, Annette is 55 years of age and is the owner of a 30 -acre farm, with stock andimplemente. Affidavits filed etate that in iuter- views .Annette had expressed the follow- ing beliefs: "I was never born, and have been dead for years and years:" "1 have been drowned two or thsee times." "There are millions of people about me, but everybody 19 dead." SENT THREATS. Denison and Inspector Duncan Receive Threatening Letters. . Torbuto, March 13. -For several weeks past anonymous letters in a la. borous, disguised handwriting, have been reaching Police Magistrate Denison and Inspector Duncan threatening all sorts of penalties to those officials if their activity directed against Farmers Bank offenders is persisted in. Duncan Is threatened with the loss of his job and appropriate punishment Is promised to the "Colonel." The letters now' number about two dozen. 4 • AN AVALANCHE. Seventeen Persons Were Killed by It -Buildings Carried Away. efason City, Neve efareb 13. -Late despatchea from Mono County, Calif., confirm the deatha by an avalanche during the reCent, storm of seventeen persons. Additional news received 144 night gives details of the destrution of the Golden Gate Wee, in Upper nu. telope Valley. The OnOw itimos away all the buildings at the mine, Edward Donovan and tWo others Were severely injered. MRS. HANNAH DEAD, Montreal, Mareh I8. -The death et Mrs. Geo, Itann.alt, wife Of the_pat- senger managor. of the Allan Line, occurred last tight a% her hole here. a --a• s4.440 - OR b I NATION REFUSED. toLdnn, Ont., :11arell 12.-4fr NV'. L. stervoi. a, fOrmCr'SIMICilt Utiveteity ,and peter at Airinghs.al, Wit 5 tome) dove be. the C011tleil fee. or. 3inv19n. Ifis 1ekina1 viene were yot at, lett no heresy ni elite:eat.