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The Wingham Advance, 1911-04-20, Page 7NEWS Of THE DAY IN BRIEF Ave of Leamington Physician In- jured at Detroit, Howard Park Methodists Open Sun- day Scheel Free of Debt, First Drowning Accident This Season at QuebeoCity • Exteneide work bas been planned by the Toronto Parks Co»unisaiouer for Ole The ItreneIt Clue:titer of Deputies heve Passed the entire budget and adjourned until May 2$, aamea Ouelek, et) yeare of age, was found dead iu bed at his near:ling house, 03 Niagara etreet, Torouten The ice la the bay adjoining the eolith ehore, Keep:rube, Mieh,, went out and it le expected the harbor ,will soon be cleae ot ice. Until further notice vessel attesters aro advieed to use the ceaterly beef of llallara's Reef Channel in navigating the Detroit River. Set:tenor Hitchcock, of Nebraska, was .strkken -with vertigo and fell unconsen °Us to the sidewalk as ne was entering the I'eueion Office. 1,Cs.The Ontario Government may seed Ur, W, Sotlirnan and Mr. W. Bert Road- house to shaly- the use of electricity m fanning in the old eountry. After being uneonseious for three days dealt clabned Mrs. W.11, Race, aged 08, wife of Principal W. 13. Rece, of the Nigh &loon Stant Ste. Merle. Canon G. L. Starr; nesestant reetov of St. fleorge's Cathedral, Kiugsteu, has re- ceived a formal off° rto the rectorship of Grace Chureh, Toronto, Lieutenant B. Yreseon, of the Frenea navy, who, while making an aeroplane flight. at Ohevrouse Saturday, fell with lee machine, and died later. Eugenie Germeine Gaureau, the elje- yee.r.old daughter of Cesaire Gaureau, 41 St. Paul street, Montreal, met death by falling into a tub of boiling water. Lieutetnii. Thomes Bog has resigned the p&sition of Deputy Registrar for tee county of Prime Edward. Colonel Bog was appointed Deputy Registrar in 187e. • William McFall, the engineer of the gia train which fell into a washout on the Gatineeu aivision of the Oneraillan Peel - fie Reelway, died of Lis injuries at the Ottawa hospital. • While stepping off a Woodward eve. nue car, Detroit, Mrs. Wilson, wife of a Leamington, Ont.; physician, missed her • footing and fell to thseatplialt pavement, receiving painful injuries. Fire win& broke out in the niggeries itt elt. Vincent de Paul, Montreal, was discovered in time to enable i he 400 pigs to be rescued, but the damage to the buildings is estimated at $10,000. " Jack Depries, an aviator, who was giv- ing exhibitions -at °Minerva Park, Van• emiver, fell while trying to make a land- ing, and. suffered concussion of the brain, but he will most likely recover. . W. G. Dunn a. Brockville commercial • traveller, is suffering from serious eon• eussion of the brain. While repairing au eave trough he eel] from kidder, the beck of hie head, striking a stone wail. While at wink loading ears at the Sun. nyside crossing an Austtlan by the name of Luca Ceske, was killed. Ile was crossing betweea two flat ears and did not notice that they were beings:hunted. The Independent Labor party, at Tor- onto &aided at a meeting et the Labor Temple to defer for th.ree months the eten. queetion of requesting all labor unions in the oity to become .affillated with the Party. • W. C. Campbell, one of the Toronto veterene of '00, died at his son's resi- dence, 24 leaf' street, in his 74t1t year. The deceased came. to Canada with his father from Edheburgb, Seotland, in the early fiftiee. Having been successful in tke. cam- paign to raise $25,000 in three daersathe eoegregation of the Howard Park Meth- otlist Chureh bad the „satisfaction ot opening the new Sunday school building absolutely free of debt. W. T. Devise aged sixty, for twenty- seven years Deputy Registrar of Deeds for Leeds, passed away at his home et Brockville- Before earning to Brockville ' be filled. a aInilar position in East Nor- thumberlinid for ten years. Dioceses in Toronto civie Bakeries are probable its a result of the work on the estiauttes by the Mayor and Board of Control. It is likely that -the heads of the various nepartmente, except the Medical Health Officer and the °Opera- tion Counsel, will be recommended for a ridge. The first drotvning accideht of the sea - ben itt Quebee oeurrea when Robert De- grade, a native of Carletoe, Bale des Ohaleurs found a watery grave in the Louise fkielne The tinforteinitte tyoung man. wive was only 23 years of tyre, was an oiler On board theedtovernmentasteatn- er Prineess. 4* 6 ICE IS MOVING. erli.d.***1.• Shove Below St, Helen's Island Causes a Sudden Rise in the Water. 416**40100•.* MoztrcideQne., April 10. -An ice shove In the river in the narrow el•orge belete St, Helen's Island caused the water to tie° three tot Unveil it ilia le o'cloek -4- to.do, o irmitvenieree has. been oceasiotted by the rise of the water in this City other than the flooding of several eel - las e.f uelitese bottles oft St. Paul :street. In eurrouneling districts no trouble eeeme to have been experienced se far with floods, except at St. Lambert. Peo- ple there are snaking all proparatione this niotning to withetand it hertv,y flood. At neon to -day the ita around St. Lam- bert *bowed iramediete signs rif break. ing up, although the water lied not reached lee highest level. FELL INT° BOILING WATER. lientreel, April 14.-Eitgenie 'Germane 4131a:e5te the 2•yearde4 letneller re' tea e•Jiia G'1,11.1411. 41 et. Sti#4,4, met drtith nesterd le en falling into a tub et tenting water. A leo nee heetily NOIrd, bat tonal WA Olt e• 1/41, pfo, etelal ihit thek taleTh. 4' 41:4,' nf death. STAGNI. pre-x•Allecr .••••• Papal• Delegate's Plea for Harmony in Canadian Church, Montreal, A.ptii lht' te(th- bureh in Gat enuntry 1,3 in saeh state as to call'for the 1141111r:di:in of many other .countrle6 in the world, but . that, even in in: fleurieleate (-vitiation, it boo been asealled by the eaenty of all • good, eniatmeah eii -110 reads of illeanion. divielon ana diatere have knee am: he very heart." Siwa le thenunsage given fertli by lILs Exeelleney the Papal' :Delegate, the Meet Rev. Mon:seigneur Stagru, on the 'Occasion today of ale fimt resit to Mout. real. "All flea" he email:tate la an ad- drese, "ought te absorieel Lula weehea away in the - eberny of (lest, and should. disappear In the leo attest:. the Catholic: endapt-at:die ehareit ha's for all her eltitartue .etrelibieltop Brucheti toaehea upan the seine eoint in hie aderete, welatiro Lo the delegate. "If all concern:41,e paid he. "were to put aside all prejudecele-if all wolod re. member the maternal solieithde tlo church for all her veil:hen-1f all wawa bear in mina the litert it gum anteee those living under the Brinell nage- these differences would soon vanish.'1 EDWARD JARDINE, Found guilty- of the murder of Lizzie Anderson at Goderieh and sen- tenced to be bangett on Julie 10. THE riORONATION -- Accomodation Found in Abbey -For Greater Number Than Previously.. •••1••.•••••••••••• All the Details of the Great Ceremony .Have Now Been settIed. •••••••••••:•••-• Landon, April 10. -The Multitudin- ous ,details ettnuected with the Coron- ation of Xing George and Queen lelary ett*Weetaninster Abbey on june 22 have been practically settled. The Earl Marshal, the Dulte of Norefolk, and hie .aelvisees have been fortunate in having the precedents of so recent a year oe 1902, when King Edward VII. wa,s rowned, to guide them, hut even at enat the work has been moat inteleate and laborions. The actual arownings of bath the King and the Queen will be. perform- ed by the Arehbieliop of Canterbury, thus following ancient custom, only departed from in 1902, when -the Aech- biehop of York crowned Queen Alex- andra, beettuee of the great age of the then Arehbratiop Of Canterbury. The Archbishop of York will this time preach the Coronation sermon. The great officere of State and ladiee who are to, assisnare already studying their parts, and workmen are busy arrang- ing the interior of the Abbey. The ceremony will at least equal In bril- Iionee a,ny previously held there. Aeoammottalions will have to be found for a greater ratInber than. were pteeett at the Coronation of King reheard, as King George has ex. pressed a desire that the dominione and colonies shall be adequately represented, a.nd, from every teetion of tam Empirerepresentatives be present. The personal frieads Of the Queen Will have seats in. the arched embras- 'axes immediately over the chaneel, Irani 'white), a splendid view will be obtainable. Other ,seationa will be eat ,apare for the foreigit and delonial topresettativea, Peers and Poetesses, the sons and elenghtera of Peeve and the members of Parliament and their latliee. The enevice at the Coronation of King Edward /nuked in many part titulars it return to former usage; and in the form o/ George V. no change?, have beet made unless they coal be fairly regarded as improve- ments, ••••• • • MORMON RIOTS. •*,•••••.,••••••• Police Pelted With Mtai and Stones and Many People llurt. IVANSTONES WIFE SHED HIS LIFE fler Tragic Story of Her Husband's Doings. Moved the Court. 0.,••••••••....•11 Prisoner liad Many Times Attempted to Oommit Suicide. "Oh, Freddie, You're. Dead!" She Cried as She Kissed Child's Lips. 11.1",..,•••••••••• 00de-1101 despatch; George Vonstoucle wife eared him from the seaffold, IIe will epena the rest of hie lifein the peuiteutiary --sueli is the senteuee of the tome. Quite as tragie as her earrative of the finding of her son and her cry, hOht iereddie you're dead:" as she Wised hie Bee time -were cold in death, were parts of the story of her married life with' the prisoner. She told: how be had beat., en her "two or three years after their marriage"; how he Ma charged her with uufaithfulnese and harped, upon it for menthe; how he hadthreatenea to take • his life by throwing himself into the lake, And how 110 did take laudanum. and had it aalTOW escape; bow he bo - an wild looking after having the grippe in 1909 that she had him eoefined in the Uoderich jail and how ha. several times threatened her life, geeing thee' ewould die together." Asked if Vitestorie had ever beaten his other ehildrem• the witneee reluctant- ly admitted that he had whipped a two year:: old letby "until he wee nearly gone" beeause he would not Fret: A, ellair bavk. She told how pleasant he was for certain periods then how' .audienly and inexplicably his mood would ehange and be would . terrorize the household - the another and five .ehildren, theeldest of whielt is but thirteen. . 011 the very night Df the tragedy, she eaid, her eusbaud, on ana onethall • hours before he began the fiendish tole ture of his littleboy, we was pleying an the, floor with three of the young, stele who luurpolled bint mit of his chair. "Look, mamnune Freddie, the dead hey, called As he mounted triunaneently ou his father's beck, "Pee get paps. down," and the father roared with laughter et the little fellow. Any ane who eat in the eourt roem while the wife told her story cook) not deny that it liad its-effeet. It fitted in so well with the declaration of the family phyakian, Dr. Hunter, that Van - stone showed eymptomspf Huntiugdon's eholera six yeters ago and with the ad- missions of the Crown's medicAl experts as to the indication of the presenee af the dleease, •••••••••••,--- London, April 10. ---The Moritiona af Heywood kept their proMise end left that town on Saturday. A .movement againet, the peopegAnda, similar to that in Ileywend molted ia small 'riot tollight.in Birkenhead, A float Of towngpeople went to the Mormon hall awl demanded that the missionaries quit the town. The Mot - Mons tattiest, eure the erowe began to steam the lull. The pollee were sum - wawa hurriedly, but they were pelted with some MOM'S, alta until. In the fight that followeil many peteelle were hurt. The polive finally triumphed and eialle eeveral Artesia HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT. London, April 17.-Itarry Gordon Self- ridge,n. London ntereliant, foimerly t:f Chieego, his mother, wife and (lidded daughter, were all sariqusly injnred an automobile Ketielent near'nembleefile. 'Wee( morelend rountv. vetteresv. Newa of the rabibtp melted here to :ley. All ere expotteil to recover. KILLED HUSBAND. An Italia Woman's Terrible Revenge • at Sault Ste, Marie, Sault See. Marie, Ont., April 10. - Peter Napolitina, an. Italian. living near James street, Little Italy, known here as Peter Naplettik, was kille,d thia eveninr . by his wife. Margery., who admits 'the murder and is now 3a jail, The man was employ. ed on. the -night shift at -the steel plant, and. Was asleep in bed when his wile attacked him with an axe. The first blow' struck hint in the fore- head and newly severed, the crown of his head. Four' blows ,followeel, the lase one all but severing the head "from the body. The woman then pareeeetied to the street and told passerby what she had done. The murder is- an echo of the case last fall when Napolitina. returned home unexpectedly and found hie wife in it compromising position with a Mall named Nash. Napolitima stab. bed his wife several times and she was for mould -is in the hospital. It seems she had awaited an opportun- ity to got even. The body was taken to Simpson's morgue, and an inquest will be held toateerow, The dead man -was forty yenta of age. Four children, the eldest seven years of age, haVe been placed in charge of the Ohildren's Aid Society. The woman oxpreeees no regret and does not seem to realize her position‘ • • • ALL -IAD WEAPONS. Effort to Clean Up Italian Qoarter Beings Four Arrests. Montrenl..April 10.--An-effort to abol- leh the eat lying ot offeaeive weapon; by Itallaus wee put into effect yesterday aft ' ernoon when Chief of Police Cam- peau, andehlef of Detectives McCaskill, made a raid on Italians in the vicinity of it. James street. As a result of their visits of enquiry four Maws are now being held in ells. tady, and will have to weever on Mon. day -morning to the ebarge of having concealed weapons oit Melt. persona Pls. tole, knivee ana other dangeroue west. pons were found, in their pewee:ion. This raid le only the preliminary eeater, 50 tei speak, oa the Jawlete portion of the Italian community. 4 ESC -APED IN SCANT ATTIRE Tandem; Ont.., April 10. -here tomplete- ly destroyed W. C. Wood's aontaationery store at an early hour this Waning.. Mr. and Mrs. Wood end. Mile Eliza Wood, wInt were eleeping absive the store had a, narrow eseepe for their 11174S, they luta. ing to escape in their night robeover the roof. W. Smitide Mere next door was alto slightly damaga The reality liee above the store end tho AL') lila to eseape in omit elotniug. leneena nem on the rontanta is $413'00, and the bending, etehleit is owned by d. 4. Stewart, ef Torouto, was practieal- ly destroyed. KILLED U.S. OPFICER. Marela, Ap,11 17. Leant, Waiter Ile iliehay, :id i.e., s voila lenned Stetter Cavaley, .ati wad in the Augur ben itate, ill th , ThIsirl.M.--Ilt Of MilLI:tao, V:a,.. liiilla.'3( a t, '.1 A y ley a et oto -lure- In, n t 0 ea eth 1,, 4112,,d with Vallai 014 p0A. I:In naviek, thir-410,1 ..,1 0,w VI) 1 - j: a l'Ittimlian, 4••••••••••. CUT LIP OPEN. Ietenin el, .emil W. --There wee s ?rev 111.;t1ZielV:11:!;; iet:e1:47114nettinin‘VvitglirtirbeetPlireVI them, who ;erre hie reirne ex R*rj Fine. fen, received a six* trim * itnt 4•1443 aid hill oppeellip.ppen, LOOKS I3AD, .00,"••••4•411.0 General Strike May Tie Up Mot* I Building Trades, Montreal, April 16.-Prospeets aro not very bright for a. Satisfactory elide ing of the negotiations now under, way between the building trades and • the Malicious' Exchange, according to the delegtdes of the Trades and Labor Gonuoil. With the corning of May Day it is thought by the leaders of the Social- 's:tin Labor party 'that intildinff opera - Lions in Montreal rutty be completely paralyzed. Tho earpentera, joiner's, painteo, deeocrittore, plumbere, stearitiltters and electrical workers, all want more wages and improved conditions. At it meeting of labor -men yesterday it was said that the master carpenters and joiners were willing to neeedoan increase in wages, but would not agree to ttU the demands, In the ease of the plambere and stearafietera, painters and decoratons, and electri- col worke,rs, the employers have de - tided toOf /mite "Open ahops," and the demands a the men will not be considered. The question rd forming it federa- tion .of all the trades in the building line mill be oonsidered at the next Meeting of the Montreal Building Trades Council. 4.4,, LIZZIE ANDERSON, For *lane cruel .murder"EdWalt Jar- dine will be hanged. ANGIO -SAXON PACT Sir Joseph Ward Sees Great Advan- tage of Proposed Alliance. •••••••.•••••••••.• Premier of New Zealand Pleased With Probability of Treaty. New York,, April 16. --"The rele.tione between Great Britaie ena the United States of ..eneerica constnute the real key to the situation in preserving the peace ef the, worien said Sir dwell Ward, Pioneer of New Zealand, In an. interview 0101 1te. granted tarday to the Nen:York representative of the Cell. tral News, of London. Asked for his opinion on the question of Mettle immigrationeSir Joseph eaid.; "In the, British overectiedominiona Adja- cent to the 'pacific, it is recognize(' that one of the most Important questions we have. to keep before its is that of pre- serving oarlereitory for the British race and delag everythuig ia our power to prevent -Asiatic immigration to any great extent. I think I may be -permit. tat to say that this problem ie one whieh aleo Clearly concerns the United Statee of America, and inney judgment eorne well thought out plan of Anglo- eaxon co -operations is neceeeary to pre. serve all the countries I, have alluded to from an invasion of Asiatice. "I .ean hardly say how gratified I am to bear there are such good. prospecte of the -propored new nrbitratioo treaty between Great Brttain ane the Veiled States beingcarried througb It wet be an important step in the direction of the eo•operittion I have spoken of and to the Anglo-Saxou nee as a whole* ,••••••••••....4•4•41.•••••••,..fte EASTER PARADE, Toronto Teachers Having the lime OT Their Lives in New York City. •••••• ISTOW York, April 16.-1reaketh wee- tleer-enow, 'cold, bleak wind, lowering -Clouds and Mtn' sunsbine-gave it som- brs tone to teeday'S Easter parade on 'Fifth avenue, where S00 Termite teach - era Vara interested spectators, Over- coats andfurs woe dwelt in evidenee. The edit:whin of former Easter Sundays was lacking, partly on aecoent of the beieterons aeether • autt partly en ac- count of the char:gee in title epriog's styles, bat the visitore from ACI*034 the boner .deelare they erijoyea it immenee. ly, elthe coloring WAS All in hats end, eoreage benquete. Dmiall that were got hideen b furs and coati .were for the Meet pen Week or neutral in eolor. An orenteionel Pink, white or blue 04- tente flashed out ana made the wearer eonepienouse The Ortega Waq larger than In previous years, hat it Was it differeut eroree. Irettltioe with ell that the word impliee wee not teem -agape. Tt eoneiete mestly of veetora The Celle:11am Teethed to view the peeeteesion .and then beneine a pelt of it, drawu Into tire human tide that fiowett Ilp 11111 down the avenue two home eft -t' the elitirelree let ante The itultresA of I he Tonal. 4 1 ,neetie ereald 'net ee tuistakeu itt 'die neeeteiee, They te see whet eada be aten nneetaex it foowd whew. comemund petal 'arra thenterevee. Of ermree '.vere nol al it: l'he It If a goal eaneine of the Wets pay 'thee here tam. in:mating Amiet (. 1 .11 wive thee rturn to Tenaute of wnit in y OM( a thu!, fre3ki.-13 OA- w?, not seeinz nos e itt e 01t•Ii."14, het -473 fait 10't k' ter tar Vet aloenee ef the 1.1fler mane" seid ono of the gliis to night. MATTHEWS NOT GUILTY OF MUER Jury Decides That He Did Not Kill Miss, Brimacombe. 1,••••,,,••••••••• Judge Gives Good Advice in Dismiss in the Accused Mar. on•M• End of the Trial at Cobourg W s Reached on Saturoa.y flight. Cobourg, April 10.-Ilenry 1. Alet. thews, jun., was aequitted last night of the charge of tour:toting Miss desephine or debar= Brituaeombe by a jury in the Sluing eteeizes before Mr. dttiLlee Clete. At 1 o'eloek la the afternoon all the evidence Was declared lu, and at 2.1e, at - ter the adjonrninent for luncheon, the ingureents of counsel began. Mr. ties - tiers Clete concluded his seldreee to the jury at 0.20 'o'clock and the jury remain- ect out till about 11.03 o'clock. _ The court assembled shortly berme II o'clock, and the court room and the halls leading to It were crowded, The prisoner was eaeorted to the dock front the eells, and the crowd aweited the entrance of the jury in profound 51 - tem, The jurymen ehnoet noiselessly filed into their places, and they all look. ea haggare. One ex two were visibly af- fected by emotlen. The prisoner preserved a qiiiet Ue meaner and appeared anmoved in countenance: Only the deeper about his face revealed the ordeal of suspenee which he hail undergone, lie glanced at hie counsel, the Crown At- torney, and the representativels of the press, and then looked straight at the fermium of the jury. "Gentleman of the jury, have you agreed on a verdict?" asked the clerk of the count. "We have," answered the foreman, "And it is?" "Not guilty" was the an' sever. The thronga in the rear of the foul t room behind the prisoner's tioek, and at the entrances breke into cheers. that were caeca in the street, and told the waiting crowds outside of the happy out- come of the trial tor the accused. COMMENT OF MB., .TOSTICle Mr. Justke Mute then said to the jnry: "Gentlemen, you have had an exceed. ;ugly diffieult ease, and I have no doubt that you have done your beet In arriving at your verdiet." Facing the dock, be said: "Prisoner'stand up. The jury has taken what 1 or:skier ia it merciful view of your ease. They have decid- ed neon this evkienee that you are not guilty. You are still a young man, and I bare no doubt that you would not be where you are if you had fol. lowed your better Instincts, aud 'es- peeially avoided intoxieahts. Will you permit me to say to you, with the beet intentions ill the world, that 1 trust you will emphasize this verdict by the nature of your future life, of your future conduct. Yott are 110W discharg. The great skill antl ability shown by -..s.rezate. E. Gus Porter, K. 0,, AI, P„ F. M. Field, K. 0., and Mr. W L Payne. in conducting the defence drew forth ape - eine notice from Mr Justice Chita and les Lordship also expressed pleaenee that Mr. Peter White, K. C., and Mr. W. F. Kerr'Crown Attorney, had, on the pot Of the Crown, exercised great care izt the searing of witnesses and in the presentment of facts. MR. PORTER'S ADDRESS. Mr. Porter addressed the jury for an hour and twenty-five minutes, and. he nuule an eloquent. plea for aequittal. The prisoner regarded the jury steadily and confiaentily. In part, Mr. Porter said: "I am suro. you will appreciate the feet tbat one undertaking to defend it per - non accused of an offence such as the prisoner at the bar Is accused: of under- takes the most serious responsibilities. I hope I have discharged arty duty fairly. The prisoner at the bar has lived his whole lifetime as your neighbor. He is known far and wide. This man up to the present charge was entirely tree of suspicion of wrong -dieing of any kind. Not even the bienth of suspielon has been breathed against him prior to this time. The good life it mart leaels ought to be considered. well and weighed fully before the eonchtsion melt an yott„ are asked to reach is made, that he has sunk from the hign position that he has oc- eupied to be the• lowest and most de- graded of mankhul.. I ask you to keep that feet fully before four minds and ask yourselves, from the record of tho prisoner, is it htunan possibility that a man 'with his record all these yenta bus lee himself to the oammiseion of Buell it crime." • Mr. Porter elaimed ilea the Crown had fallen down in its attempts to prove that the prisoner had choked the girl to death, or to such and extent tla to enable him to assnult her and 'cause her death. The Crown had. asked them to imagine or conjure up some belief that the prisoner tan be guilty of the atolls. alio% The Crown was depending en - tinily on eircunistential evidence. The facts addueel must be coneistent with the guilt of the prisoner, and ineousis- tent with any other reasonable ermine - ion. These teireumstanees must be 'Otto to eetablislt guilt. A witness eau lie in his Attempt to establish the eiretemstanc. es. The declares that the prisoner itt eatitieil ter every reasonable doubt. If there is Odin that doubt is for the Crown to dispel. Mr. Porter then reviewed the evidence of the witnesses and questioned the ver. taity efseveral, GIVEN* A FAIR TRIAL. Mr. White said "I owe the same fluty to the public end the prisoner to see that the prisoner gets a fair Wel as the Judge on the Dena. Whatever moy be your verdict it is not for you' to (enabler what the eonsequeneee shafl he. ,Turiee In thie eountry are not of sentinietital uature, and this eonutry ileinande melt alto are not Ppirialass in itt tourte. If joke fon' sentimentAl, for • weak reaeone allow guilty men to te. pope muileement what le to become of the eountty? oust akvn.vs13111:1111 A lend v.eptia taiminals get a fair and impartial hearing. mil lett juriee tweet net Thrall fret» their duly whatever it 31141' he. 'nil misoner rer.elvtel it Fair teal. I trust torieratulate the teem - eel leg ilAt defence. The lest weld that ealitt int este for tee ptitoner Witt 446id be hitt!. In ilee trial evening urged on behtilf of the prisoner Was not giten due conaderation. Was llile girl mar. I 1 THE ATTA put Al kred i SUrtlY 00 WA. ..f t.11# 1,S43.1110 ' uteri listetting to tide even:ate hats a it a • , eonable iteuirt Id that"• Mr. Whire then sheweil that the 'ii ..s uiu - oner. Me addreee lagted one hour aud AGLIA PRIETA ,..,,,tall ptl nan teto der, oni eel -lowed the evideuee agiiinet the prot- twenty minutes. Man ,IOSTIGE Onlelle'S CHARGE. .......... a Jtastiee •Clute spokefor an hoor and, tea initiates, giving it careful 11°. view of the faces. 'gine ,iatee," ite ellen "haoecupiee it long tinte, but 1. no 3111t Wale :au loner than um:t- eary to coneider all the lutakettle' nateotable effete had been made. to • procure the facte an whieh tee jute es asked to find, a verdict in this tee portent neater. 41 a come or a. jing tails tu the ilia:lunge of the ditty that belovneto either, and thie lieeolues comma throughout the euentry, the beginning of anarchy hen, owe. Lifts and property have been comparatively sae because of the atitilluistratlee or juetiee. 1 have seen .that you Iwo given gloat peke tothe observiug ofthe et - dent, You meat satisfy the peblie by yoer verdict, but it is of greater im- portance to Betide! youraelves." Ilis Lintel:1p then outlinea the manner ia which, it would be .of ad- s -ante& to the joymee to approach the ease. The witnesses might be truthful in parts or untruthful. They should proceed etep by 'stepand with the utmost honesty, not, jumping to any eonelusion: They should start with the IP:09'111i ilthyati atilt% the dire 11-1. e anti epi °oseetInolloor tient); and the evidence of the doctors showed that she SYSS not suffering from disease which would cense her death.. At a cer- tain Itonr of the eveniug she was well. In the morning. She wee found. dead in suett a rendition that those familiar With her did tot recognize iter but by her clothing, The case of .efre Hicks was curioue. 111 COrlahl$1011 Las Loraebip said that the jurymen were not responsible- for tiTe position of the prisoner in the Ile and they only were respon. silee for disehaeging theiv duty ac- cording to their lights. ARREST CAPTAIN Tragedy of th0 Pacific Coast Will be Probed by the Courts. ••••••,•••••••••••, Witnesses at Inquiry Say He Did Hot Try to Save Iroquois' Passengers. ,•••••••••••••-•-.4 Victoria, B.C., April 10. -Capt, A. A, Seam, master of the steamer -Iroquois, which foundered a week age, when el lives were lost, was arrested last night on the instructione of Attorney -General Bowser and woe releaeed on N0,000 hall. The ertee will be heard in tile pollee (mutt 'text Thursday, when Sears will be eherged with menslaughter. At the Government enquiry conducted by Capt. Eddie last night several witnesses de. dared that Sears made no attempt what. ever to rescue the passengers in the owlnfaotnietrrao,ving sidney Harry floss, passenger, said Purser e was apprenheasive of the danger wharf. "She's going.' I know she's going; 1 thought Capt. Sears had more sense," Monroe is alleg- ed to have said. 'Monroe, who was drowned, Was part owner. besides being putter. Though ninth in each other's* company, elenroe and Sears had riot exchanged a word for years. H. Tr, Mose teld how the. women pa,e-, sengers on the slap were closed like rata in a trap in the cabin of the boat when she keeled over, and how he heard their shrieks as they, were thrown iliout the cabin when the heavy Ilet to starboard occurred. 'Mose -took to the water to avoid the suction of the sinking ship and later reached, the deck -house after it had floated deer of the hull. lie at- tributes the 'sere& to the loneitig 41 the vessel and saki to -clay to Captain Eddie that had the <leek load of hay been thrown over the ship would have righted, 'rite haynoted as 4 sail and' the wind beat straight dewy on it. Moss said he believed the captain could have done more toward saving life with the boat he took from the wreek than he did. The first boat tat:ached should Item have been put into the water, be- cause the sten Wall :stove in and nothing could prevent it from fortudering. et • 1, POPULAR PAPER. Rev. Manley Benson rells What Makes Newpapers Sell. St. Catharines, Ont., April 17.-"I have no particular complaint to make against the newspapers. but it grieves me to :say that the atiwapapets which print all the murder and ronbery stories and, tell of errors of people and so on, are the papers which have the largest Circulation. It is not. the paper's fault, the people generally appear to want that class of reading and the papers must tupply it or else lose their eircula. tion. Yet such reading is not fit to gem into our hOtneS mitt be given to our chil- dren," mid Rev. Dr. Manley Bensou in the eottrse of aft Easter sermon at Wel- land avenue Methodist Church last night. 4* - WAS HELD UP. Fought With Footpad in View of Scores of People. 14AV York, April 17.---Graltam Murtha, &Mar iY1 buildttig material, tollected $18,000 in cash oit Saturday and rie the bank e were riosed he took it to his home itt Williameberg. While waiting for it Williatueburg bridge ear to -day to bring the money to Manbettan, Murtha Wee boldly held up by a nun whow be saw followiugt him on Saturday, and who de- manded his money. While scores of per - Pone on the Midge plaza leaked on, Mur- tha fought with the highwayman nutil it policemen sod:dual the footpad with A eine and took hini to the etation home,. •o••• JOHN CURRELLY DEAD. Toronto. April 17. -Mr. John Carr:thy. of do Avenue real, paeral away Loa night at S.I3 pare tom bead beater.. after A loue. ant varlet Mese. lir, deurtely was lean Leer Fed !nape in leltle Ito uont to lexeter uheri gulte eoung fuel inn net ioto 113.111(404. 131V hilt la idea ill Termite sinee the year 1191. There 14 a w"..dow and 41•241 60/4. PrA1444‘nr rurrelly, direeter r$f the Royal Ontario .aftesenro, sterrivlog him, Mc.xican rehrell Imps Naged by the tasurreco n13:11.1:0. SI.ote, Front leleral Culp :Ploughed Up Strcet$: of Denies, Ariz, Washington Wants AssuranesAgains Such Happecinst ...,•••••*•••••,..• • integlae, Ar:e.. April 17. --The leng- anpeeted ;week ey. the efeakan Federal troops itt Ague Prieta beetled in deadly erteneet at O. P.:1 to -day, Tee firing was fast a ad fusions 011 bath &him The rat. tie .1 unosiotry WAS continuous. The hail of inalete Nem the federal maeltine guwfell far within the confines of the city of Datig,itts. It was rviderit from the outset that the battle. was to, he de:reeve. liath sides :Kepley:el despeiate courage. Tee eed. feale beget lay magenta, -themselves to the .southeast of the towa and meted slowly withinrine range of the rebel paelstion. instirreetos„ fatang in three dime- tienea lay kw in the tree-311es or net on the open ground. fettirAls* fire went over thene and lat.° bath Agua Ptiete atel Douglas. 11 waa evident from the beavy firing that the casualties on boll siden were destined to he ycyy heavy. WEER elf:PULSED. I./engem, eerie., 'April 17, ---At 0.30 a.m. :t was evident the retitle had reaulaett the federal attaelt. . The steel and leaden missiles from the 'federal guns parried for over tbe- international line and plowed their way. let° •the buiklinee faclog along Second meg Third steeetZ and deg up the ground here and there over the whole :southern Het of the 'elate The Federaqs, in:,ortoring in. Itut od- e:laced from the'eamp whiel: thry estal. [kited yesterday at SnIpluir ;Springs, .vater hole. five miles south of Agua Ptit tit. They =relied slowly ti a point eouttieast of Agua. Prieto, .with an eve dent inte.ntion of. gaining the healer in order to attack- the rebelpegition along the Califoluian line bat before they were 'able to gain Dile _coveted position they. encountered the rebel eavaley, withal lind galloped out tointercept them, and there wax a tattle from the repenting Wks as the two atiMallaillg, newel -eatne into firing range. The eev. airy -dropped bank :newly, and the Fed- eral; next carte within range of the deep entrenehments thrown up by tht. rebela during Snueley ani last night, which where filled with insurrecto sharp- shooti Mod, et the residents of Doeghts re- mained within doors or eaught other plavet of safety. It kit the Sot galling fire from 'the rebel entrenchments the fed:antis were: - seen to waver momentarily, bat the movement was quiekly checked. For fully fifteen mutates the two arm- iee held. their respective positions while the deadly fire continued. Thirty min - 'dee after the battle opened the rebels were seen to abandon their outlying pa sitione and fall back to the breastworks towerd.Aeaut Prieto,. The federal ad- vance was elm, and in open order, with almost eontinttous firing. - The, rebels, with great stubbornness, eonteeted ev- ery ineh of the way, While the rebel riflemeit were feeling back - to the scoond row of 'entrench- ments they fought boldly in the open. Tey were seen to stop and take delib- erate aim at the .advancing national line and fire round alto round. The back- ward movement of the rebels toward Ague, Prieta,, however, was steady. Many had fallen on both .sIdes. Suddenly and for some unexpected reason, the federal machine guns were silenced. The rifle fire, however, kept up without intermission. It was apparent that the -rebel sharpshooters were On, ceutrating fire -on the mathine gun oper- atore and were slowly pieking them off. Time and again the guts appeared to be unnutimed. At 7.45 o'clock,' en hour and a quarter after the battle opened, tho machine goes were again inaction, and were raking the rebel positioa on two sides. The red cross volunteers eressed the border and went -upon the field at this hour. Every sargeot: itt Douglite and many froni,Bisbee were being. 'brought to the line to ettend the wounded. It was cer- tain that the list of idliedcola, wounded would be very ileavea - WANT TO KledOW. Washington, April 17. -In view of the acute' situation along the bonder, the Slate Department to -day asked the Ncleas• lean Government for definite assurances. Advanee of a formal reply to the repre sent:diens. of the Mated th9..atee, that the Douglas incident would nit ha re- peated. The Department nig° requested Information tits to whet preventive num, sures had been token. INQUIRY DEMANDED. Washington, April 17.-Se:itching he iniry into the situation in Moneo is demanded in 0 res6111tien introduced to iny by Senator Stone, of' Miseouri, rno resolution oils ott tee Semite °mutat tee on leereign Relations to undettake the inveetigatieti beeline of the danger Anieriatir end foreign live and pre. pette, ••••• FIRE AY PORT DOVER. .1•10..•••461.1. 'Ansley's lee. House Oestrbyed, With Much Fishing Gear, Pat Dover, April 10.---Init1ng ttbeolvy weaterly pale yesterday stitetnoon the .me hottoe of 11. W. Aitsley .caught fire, it:pi:4),(41y Isom sparko of A 111111111111g ."figina. The lops is about she thousand lollars. In endeavoring to salvage the rohlog gear Coptain David tow Was temmed in by the flintes, inul in through got ids face badly -.satliA. The five evo-erel the Liver Etna Ion up dry trats ott thsn WiI. end tee el:miner reeition'e r.i" Judge Wel:s. Welland, att.1 Tivort.t Wiokr. of Ta. .olito, were tetealwint nete't (Iffieulte. CHICAGO MURDER. relieve. A.rreil 15.--Stroucl Meyer, './tloonkeet,I., was f,ttally wetted, ed to.elay and hie Portor lkitee-4 tlattle wes Jetted, was kitten -outright ite 411FOA roibbert. who had attempted en mute the prOprintor'S tier. WANTS DIVORCE, Ethel Crocker Tired ofJ, R Strattoe's Stable Man or Chauffeur. t•Vomet., .New V•otk. Apwli he -Alia Ethel Cro- ker-cllreen, the ounpst dioghter of the former Tato:rally ellierteln, 1tmtirI Czo, 1,•er, hs*. karted a Ault in ilutiPon ("aunty. X. or tit.' annulment of her mitriogis rent Jolla 4., Breen, the bet ie groom, whom she inaraed .ot April r havin,c 9orned sin Eng:54t nobleman auti an Itursan prince, it is Old that it number of it ntfm".nees l:sok phtee in th'i's city b•Phse th4 ae.tiett was ,,tartrd, eed as late SO 104 TuRMity Deem came here. Om Otnaria, witne Ir• is employed, and nee eng teal eaunei?cl to defend the snit,, e:estrel* for Mrs. Broca 1 paight reveal- ed ibe fact 'that alp is now living in rads ultit hrr sister, the Ihteheliti San .iartic,o, who was Flnrenee (.:roksr. She eeveral tveeks Apeording to the lutramitional Newt Service informant Breen, who tile hem .n cheoge eiit nteing nr !tames; fer Stratton, M. P.; at letterborough,, Ont., has vigited New York twig' netein teree eaten. the fleet vleit taking place the day prier to that el whielt Xetuted Crn- k'o sai.led for his hem. in Ireland. • FATAL FALL, Man and W011itin KtIId hy Elevator Dropping in New York, New York, April 17,-Ulellard Den. Ininin and Helen Levy, employees in a fashionable upetown areittineett heurete died in. the Harlem Heapital here early to -day front injuries received engirt al.:ea the elevater 01 the apartment (hopped from the ;:eventh floor to the bottom of its Roth cables holding the car were found 'on examination to have snap - „ped apart. The two were the only paseehgera at the time. The reason for the accident was not established by the melee. f GAVE $100 000• ••••••••••••••••••• • Moved to Give That Sum for Missions by Eloquence of a Priest. ••••...•••••••••.• New York, April 17. -The eloqueuee of the Rev. Walter Howard Freer, of Loden, known as Father Freer, who has addressed thousands of persons in mission services, in Brooklyn nuriag the last few days, moved one who head hint to donate .$100,000 as an endow- ment fund for perpetuating the missions, recording to an annonneement made yes- terday from the pulpit of Ste Paul's Episcopal Church. The giver -wished his identity kept secret. The donation was made to the order of the Resurrection, wbieh Father Freer represents. DEATH CHAIR. Killed His Niece Beeatise She Was Going to the Bad. .1••••••••••••••• Ossining, N Y.., April 17. -Robert Francis 'Wood, who killed his niece in New York City over a year ago, was put to death in the electric chair 1u Sing Sing prison eerly today. Wood was de - Oared dead after one shock had bee.a administered, Ite walked quietly to the electric chair and met death withou a word escaping him. Wood was coneletee of shooting. and killing his niece, Antais. Roach, after he had remonstrated. with her bemuse he believed she was "going to the bad," *** TO SEE THE KING. Canadians Pay e00 Guineas for Two Windows on-Oortmation Parade Route. London, April 16.-Tb4 chief London hotels report that very few rooms are vaanit for corotuttiou week, most of them hating been reeervel for old cue- tomer& The inerense in hotel prices range from 20 to 100 per cent. In sotne eases old or regular customers are fav- ored, getting ordinary rates here and there; elsewhere there is a small in- crease. The casual visitor, rather than the old patron, is held up for special rates. Seats on open stands for witnessing the proeessioh are selling at from one to 15 guineas,- and from one to five seems to be a good priee for an open stand etat. The price of witinow fiesta ranget from 31/e to 15 guineas. Canadians have teken two windows and a bakony In Piccadilly at 500guin. eas, Men high bookings are a single window and balcony in St../enies street at 200 and it bow window in Piecadilly at 5O. persons are til1 atking 100 to 160 guineas for A, single" room, but it is generally believed that theta prieee must destencl. 4** - SHOT BY HIS FATHER. Truro, April I0. -Arthur Jackson, the young eolored Inati who Was Shot by bis • 70-yearold father, 'Alike Jackson, tithing a tnix-up in their home last Saturday, died on Saturday- evening. At different titnee the niagistrate tried to ale- tabi it statentent frotit the young nun, but Jackson thought he would reeover, eta 'refused to make one. BUFFALO LAWYER DEAD. Doak, x. Y., April lid -Charles eV. Goodyear, prominent as a lawyer, kit. ber end etial operator ant builder of railroad lines, atea here yesterday, fol. kevieg an illnese of 'several mopths. lIe Was (15 years old. DETROIT DOCTOR OEAD. t)..trolt. llich., Apra 1Dr. trartus Nurnor, far man,' yeats -a preaCuent ' ttenths1 of the Arnattea a 'Medical Assn - "lotion, 'and one o; tit" most widely %noun physician,: ot Veit 'e'er, ilied yp.. ztra;ty i. t b.‘" 'vomit if a pal:anent "trek:. ire wait u+.1 vplo, o!.1, It)INNEO 'UNDER AUTO. til!. -„„:0, „%znil 1O. ilo.e., taill, 1i'a11i,1 tooter a heavy tontiaA l'Ar NV VtA t 1 TI • 111.1111MA, V.4-1,1' d:oton Q is a• Molt !ont..tialo.„« only too Ie.! . t wit..r, ;.11 itleho4.. Pat. a sah.sa-!, 1.s. t Ist.oslo, oa I. • Sattuday uif. Va.. gh.! ol.17...s wno',U •$ . 4. 01:16.1.ittn, Otr:ki. t•f 1.‘ iii inne fi Itteh, rf Olen ney-1. 111.. :Ina Evr,1 lin-t- hale. Ilt Larrileiril. III.