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The Herald, 1907-01-11, Page 2iF [NTS tired frame Ezrldren, 1.1' ere bat's, is inuti4: 11 uric hall stage, Four ',, s :and 11,; daughter, ',aal d'f Clancarty and tile, Husband and. Child Missing an Perished in the urn :Pub to Have 3.t a ildinffii`, ' Fireman Feil From the Roof and Wa,s So Severely Injured That He May Die:: New York, Jan. 7. ----One of the worst fires the fire fighters of the city have i been called on to contend with in some time started in the tenement district on West 53rd street, between 9th and 10th avenues, shortly after 1 a. m. to -day. The fire began in a livery stable at No. 429, spread to another stable next door and had reached four adjacent tenements across the street before it was brought ; under control.- Lack of water pressure 'was responsible for the extensive spread of the flames, according to the fire chiefs. When the pressure was strengthened the 'firemen quickly controlled the blaze. the loess early to -day was estimated at $200,000. Several persons are reported missing, and the police believe that they have perished. Two of these are the husband and four-year-old child of Mrs. Kate Garland, who lived at 428 West 53rd street, across from where the fire start- ed.. Mrs. Garland thinks that her hus- band and child were burned to death, as they were still in tlre;Garlana apart • mega', when last seen. Fireman Alfred Kinsella, ,while fight- ing the fire from the roof on No. 427, fell from the firth storey to the length storey when the roof of the building eel- lispsed. Ife was rescued at great; risk by some of his companions, but was,,eo severely injured that he may die, The tenements burned or badly damagedwel'e inhabited by nearly five Hundred peri, !cons. most of whom had retired' wheel the fire broke out. Close to the scene of the fire there es—.4 negro settlement, and there were .,many negroes in the big crowd that gathered to watch the progress of the flames g, quarrel was started between a white meth and a colored roan, and es the races tie* sides a general fight was soon under .wdy. During the fight. Francis Shaunda?+a negro. 28 years old, wits shot in,;<the head and probably fatally wounded It took a score of policemen with drawn clubs to stop the fight and disperse the ruob. GRITTIEST OF U N TRAINERS. Attacked by Beast Bostock Man Shows Great Presence of Mind. Toledo, O., Jan. 7.—With the rare pre- sence of mind often displayed by profes- sional animal trainers in a crisis Henry Ray, of the I-lostock animal circus, yes- terday held off two lions while the third was mauling him to a pulp in the cage in which he was giving an exhibition. Ray was perforating an act with the lions known as the Lion Ifunt. One of the brutes became unmanageable and attacked the trainer. The beast leaped on Ray from behind and bore him to the ground. Ray, despite the fact that the animal was chewing his shoulder. called continually to the other .]urns wthile try- ing to bring the maddened beast under Lis influence. In the meantime several attendants opened the door to the ani- mals' living cage in the rear of the cage hi which the performance was go- ing on. With great presence of mind Ray then fired his pistol •taiee, the usual signal for the animals to. retire. The two lions not attacking the trainer at once made for the opening, followed almost mediately by the attacking animal, whose attention was attracted by the click of the catches. The trainer was badly injured. He was removed to a.hospital. It isfeared that his injuries will prove fatal. The audience realized what Wag going on, but eieryoaie reined his +seat, thus pro/00E17;P' t general attack -bye the ate^ GREAT SALE Of DAIRY CATTLE. MATT RICHARDSON RETIRING FROM THE WELL-KNOWN FIRM. Sixty-two Head Sold for $9,xo5 in Two Hours—Mr. J. W. Richardson Will Continue L_vcrside Farm. Mr. Matt. eicharteson, founder of the celebrated fins of M. Richardson & Son, proprietore of the Rivers;de stock farm, near Caledonia, and breeder;; of Holstein - Friesian tittle. is retiring from active business. and in future Mr. J. W. Rich- ardson, his son and partner, will carry on the business. Last `l'hui .day they had a sale to reduce the stock. and it proved the greatest in the history of Canada in that breed. of cattle. Fully 500 fanciers were present, coming from as far east as Prince Edward Island and as far west as Winnipeg. During the clay 62 head of the famous dairy breed were sold, Some of them were calves of but a few months, and from that age they ranged sip to time -tried ranchers. The 62 brought $9,105, an average of $147 for all ages, and were all disposed of in two hours. • The arrangements for the sale were in every way the most excellent that could be devised. The morning trains from east and west all stopped at the farm, which is situated just on the Buffalo & Goderich line, about two miles from Caledonia. The trains from Toronto and •Hamilton were met with rigs at the depot. A£' the farm a large tent was erected, 40x00 feet, and this was seated all around, with a ring in the centre into which the animals were led for ex- hibition and sale, one at a time. Lunch eras served at the house, both before and after the sale. Proceedings begun punctually at noon, and were opened by Prof. Day, of the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, with an interesting addres's regarding the superior merits of the Holstein -Friesians as a dairy breed, and their possibilities for the future, referring at some length to the unequalled advantages offered to dairymen and breeders by this big sale. ,Capt, Robson, the well-known London auct. oneer, wielded the hammer, assisted by Auctioneers Merrell and Wigg, of Cal- edonia and Cayuga. The average price. for 20 cows, two years and over, was $102; for nine heifers over one year, $141; for eight heifers under one year, $90, and for 16 bulls, five of them under three months, $077. Prof. Day, of the 0. A. C., and B. Beby, of Buffalo, paid the highest price of the day, the former giving $400 for Johanna Rue 4th Lad, and the latter the same amount for Inka Mercedes De Koe. D. 0. Flatt, of Millgrove, paid $175. for Daisy Pieterje Johanna; E. L. Beckett, 1 of this city, $105 for Pussie Johanna Rue and $165 for Toitilla Tented De Koe; J. W. Gathercole, this city, $100 for Daisy Pieterje De Kos and $15 for Sir Aggie Wayne Lad, Mr. J. W. Richardson Inas retained some of the finest of the stock, and will give his especial attention to breeding and raising of these fine cattle. NOT FOR CHARITY. LADY COUTTS' PROPERTY WILL GO TO HER HUSBAND. New York, Jan. 7.—A.,despatch from London says the Daily Mail quotes an intimate friend of the late Lady Bur- dette-Coutts as saying it is unlikely that her will contains large bequests to char- ity. and that the bulk of her fortune will go to her husband, William Lehman As - mead Bartlett -Burdett -Coutts, who is a son of the Ellis Bartlett, of Plymouth, Mass. *se. COUNTESS CLANCARTY DEAD. Was Belle Bilton, London 1YIusic Hall Singer, London, Jan. 7.—Countess Clancarty, better known, perhaps, as Belle Bilton, an ex -music hall singer, is dead, at the age of 38 years. -Her marriage in 1890 ett a registry office to Lord Dunlo, who sue- ceeded his father, the Earl of Clancarty, in 1891, caused a. sensation in society. The marriage proved to be a happy one. Belle Bilton began dancing and singing. as a little girl at the Woolwich Barracks, where her father was a sergeant of artil- lery. Her mother had taken part in the little amateur theatrical affairs at the army post and brought her two dough - terse Belle and Flo, up in a singing and dancing atmosphere. When the two girls were still in their teens they wene to London and "did the balls." They attracted no attention whatever and were eeesidered not nntch as dancers and a whole lot Less as singers, until Vis.. count Dunlo, the eldest son of the Earl of Clanearty, became attentive to Belle. Even then, London wasn't much con- corned over the ginger, but when she married Viscount`Tr iinlo in 3,989 a nine- ber of curious fitshioeable folk were at- tracted to the:auntie sie halls where aIle •ap- peered, and • c began to be talked about, 'She achieved more notoriety: bT rea- son of an action for divorce .that Was brought by her husband, All this served to gget Belle talked about, and Londoii;.fellall over' itself in crowding stuffy music halls to see her dance and sing in an absurd burlesque called "Venus" that would have needed' the protection of a net in some parts of the country. 'c'1'^„ the Earl of Clanearty died in 1891 Belle Bilton became a peeress and AN IIIST0: Li.;: lI SLA D', 11121" IN ?;NA17xlj A Torottto c::,kr phr The tTaritla of Sia' '\ Tilliam 4'<tat dlaud, 1'. 0., C. B., R., C. AI. G; at 11; .,� tate yesterday removed one of ion, i?, most widely known citizens: The ,,i ;tine about 5 o'clock in the niartayt is la only member of the family tlxt e -•.vale being his daughter, Mrs. H. "ht Sir 'William How- land was int e. is t of health till four weeks ago, he contraeted a cold, which dev ell +„ lulu? a sever' form of pneurnoni $j, ,1 ;,titch prover; too much for his uf1.treiar in his advanced years. '",,,',;?i7",•, The rein -elite, ;teill be removed to St. Jamas' Gas rt E. ig,: tconorrow*, where a funeral Eteris ,vi'kll be held at 2.45 o'clock. Tho i 7.,triraent will take place in the famxlye ,,lee In St. James' Ceme- tery. A paws erarice iv.ill be held at the resideneee :street east, at 1.45 p. Bad Sir 44' ,.am Iloivland lived till May 28, 1007, la ;tould•have been ninety - Six t=ears of•cge. ' John Ilowkund,hthe father. of the fain- tly in Anrerlt.?•',:;etnte. ;from Warring, England, to ]02( in the famous vessel Mayflower. :The aim whohas just pass- ed away was bore; in, the town of Paul- ings, in Nely e-nric State. His father, Jonathan, turas x f ^mer, \hose general thrift and llt tis c ability later in life enabled hitc.ietiii,initer into mercantile pur- suits. SitereillpFers.. ago the mother, whose mr Pia ieraine :was Pearce, died in Toronti' "1101: future Sir William :Howland''•„'tlr thicated in Rinderhook Academy; and ccltoit in the prince of young nut d . bd lie. came to Canada, set- tling at Ce{. sville In 1840s to ,- erchasecl the I.aambton :M1lills properts;,:}and shortly afteiwords the wholesale grocery business was es- tablished in Taranto. In 1841 Mr. How- land beeanre a naturalized British sub- ject. • Cab LOYALTY TO BRITAIN Moslem Lear' es to be Formed' in India to i;' ore This Object. Dakka, ,T 7.—The All -India Ma- hornetan E ational Conference; which met here t ay, was attended. by 3,000 delegates f all parts of India:. It was resolved to. tablish an A11 -India Mos- lem Leagu o promote, among other things, loy among the Moslems to the Briti. raiment, while adva,ne .ig the port s of Mussulmans. The presid condemned the pres- ent, r tendencies in. Ind re and ” ostility oN f tk e •c tions ' ` Gttt>er'rnirerit,'fele thong _ with the aims of the co „ efit the public. The Mosleti cl • clared, was the cause of theBri The Naw: f Dakka said the leave had peen ed `upon the ;lialronae• tans lay th necessity for preventing mischief by e extremists in the con - (tress. 'Ron AlROMANTIC WEDDING. ;;` This Young Lochinvar Caine From Revel- stoke, B. C. Woodstace, N. B., despatch: A roman - tie wedding took place this aft'ernon at the home of the bride, when Miss Lena Burtt, daughter of Mr. Wilmot Burtt, of Jacksonville, was married to Mr. Norval Brittain, and the couple left this evening for their future home in Revelstoke, B. C. Before the departure of Mr. Brittain for the west some years ago he was engaged to marry Miss Burtt. Their correspondence continued until 're- cently. In the meantime Miss Burtt 'be- came engaged to a prominent young business man of Woodstock, and the wedding was arranged for to -morrow. An announcement card was sent to Mr. Brit- tain in Revelstoke. He promptly 'sent along some .present*s to the bride -elect, but just as promptly followed, arriving here a few days ago. He arranged: an- other date, one day prior to the proposed wedding with the Woodstock grail; and carried his lady love off to the western home. TO VISIT CANADA. General Booth Starts in' February on Last Tour of. the World. London, Jan. ' 7.—General Booth,, head of the Salvation Army, • will start in the middle of February on„ his tour of the world, whi was an- nounced some time ago. .He says ib • is the last trip of the kied that he: will make. Re will go first to Neto York, where he will stay a week, end `confer with the leaders of tile Army. He will go ` to Canada for a u; oath. He will embark tet Seattle on 'April 2 for Japan:, wit re he will also re- main for a mont4 , The remainder of his itinerary hat tot yet been mapped out. He expects o; reach 'home at the end of June, whe he will have en- tered his eightieth year. The Suielda Bureau .established by General ;`loath, as announced, has al- ready received several applications for admittance. *sip. RAISULI Ar LARGE. Tarte-ier, Jan. R'7.—There is. ntrait o trin T mu.mvwru.,,ualM.y, VERY LIVELY 6 ST SCARES NEGRO0, Cincinnati Man Wakes to Find Himself in the Morgue of a Hospital. citmati, Gbh), Jan. 7.—A grue- „'aperienee 'to finish off the days ay4' , ;6::was the lot of Henry Field, a ydung ii ynn:n who lives with his mother in the Dudley flats on Elm' street. Mon- day morning, bright and early, Henry awloke in the dead mom or =ague of. the City Hospital, How be got there was a mystery he did not wait for his bewildered brain to solve. With a yell he aroused a dozing colored por- ter, who almost faded away as his eyes fell upon the form of 1�leld. Jus head swathed in white bandages and a loose white sheet dangling from his shoul- ders. The darkey yelled and pulled a rope, throwing open a door, and permitting Field to flee from the place of the dead. Field was so eager to get away that he could not be headed by his pursuers. The colored porter was too frightened over the ghostlike apparition to tell what had become of the patient. An investigation disclosed that Field was taken to the hospital late last• night, unconscious from a blow on the - head, received in an altercation. The. porter was ordered to wheel him to it ward, after the receiving physician halt given the preliminary treatment. On the way to the word Field's motionless: .form was fide -tracked into the dead room, Where he was revived some few hours later by the eool air. MUM U.EM AND BO ¥ PUT IN C: UEflN. Farmer, Taking Gruesome Casket to Neighbors. Murdered on the Way Home. Chardon, 0., Jan. 7.—Death came to Arthur Carrier, 35 years old, of Heart's Grove, a village near this town, as he drove through the darkness last night, bearing homeward a coffin in which was to be interred the body of a neighbor. His 'body was found in the coffin. Violence is suspected, and officers of the law are seeking a clue to aid them in solving the mystery of the death and capturing the assassins of the cof- fin -bearer. The body, already cold, was found lying in the coffin on the wagon early- ticis morning. Searching parties had had been scouring the country for hours, as his non-appearance had not been aerounted for. Men had been wait- • ing the arrival of Carrier that arrange- ments for the funeral of Charles Mahon - el, who died three days ago, of pneu- monia, night be completed. They be- came anxious when Carrier did not re- turn from the ten -mile drive to Windsor within the time they thought sufficient for the journey. As they debated the question of delaying the completion of the funeral arrangements until morn- ing they heard the rumbling of wagon w-heeis. A few minutes later Carrier's team turned into his driveway and pull- ed the wagon to the open barn doors. But Carrier was not in the seat. Think- ing it -. possible he was asleep in the wa gon, they searched. Carrier was found'. dead in the coffin. D' KILLEFOR ROYAL LIBELS. Writers Assassinated for Books That Offended Monarchs. The emperor of Germany has been much worried recently. An ill-advised young man, Prince Alexander of Hohen- lohe-Schillingfurst, has published the memories of his father, the late imperial chancellor, which made publie facts about the private life of German rul- ers and statesmen and home and foreign 'politics. And as n. result of the Kaiser's indig- nation Prince Alexander has tendered to • the imperial.. Statthalter of Alsace -Lor - t xeeignatipu of the post of pre- ss n o the district of upper Alsace. Irl offending Emperor William, It 'ever; by the publication of a book t princely culprit does not stand alon Not many months back the Kaiser w highly indignant because of the pub cation in German of a book entitl "The Confessions of a Princess," said be from the pen of ex -Crown Prince Louise of Saxony, who left her hu band, now King Frederick Augustus Saxony, to elope with Andre Giron, th tutor of her children. "The Confessions of a Princess" de with the wretched and scandalous dail life of various royal houses on the co tinent. When the news of the volume) publication reached the Emperor Wi liam's ears he ordered all copies to h seized and destroyed and forbade edi tors of newspapers, under pain of i prisonment. to review or mention it. In times gone by monarchs gave shor shrift to the authors of books that o fended them. The Bourbons, for instant did not scruple about paying assistant to "remove" those writers, such as th gifted Paul Courier, whose works dis pleased them. Nor did the great Napoleon hesitat at all in shooting or hanging the un happy author who crossed his path. On one occasion he executed the publisher —one named Palm of Nurnbzerg— of a book attacking hint because that indi- vidual refused to disclose the name of its author. A terrible fate befell a 10 -year-old au- thoress of a poem, which was read by no other person than its writer, a lady of the Empress Elizabeth of Russia's court, and the empress herself. This was Vera Peekin, who wrote about 200 lines of • Verse satirizing the empress' vices. • In youthful pride and i.mpredenoe• the girl showed the manuscript to one of the court ladies. To curry favor with the empress this woman showed it to Eliza- beth, who thereupon ordered Vera Pas - to be cruelly knouted and banished "for life to Siberia Ito he e. os li- ed to ss s - of 0 alt y n- 1- e m- f 0, s • 0 0 eisco School 13oard and Japan, it eon- tains an element of international frig tion which the most level-headed states- manship may, owing to the obstinacy of the parties, find it difficult to smooth over. THE SADDEST FACT ABOUT NEW YORK. William Allen White, the famous Kan- sas editor and novelist. writes of New York City and Emporia (his home town) in the January number of The American Magazine. Following is Mr. White's account of the saddest thing he• sees in New York: "Country -dwelling American men and most of the women are instinctively democratic. And being democratic the cities sadden us country people. For the city—and New York is typical of urban America—fosters too much; of the sham relation between ' men that one finds where class lines are set. The eternal presence of a serving elaess, whose manners may some day petrify^ into servility, the continual discovery that the man who brings the food, or sweeps the street, or drives the cab, con- siders wholesome conversation with him from his patrons as a sign of low breed- ing, the presence of the man who fawns~ for a quarter, all these make the coun- tryman in New York desire to rush, hone and organize a Sitting Bull Lodge - of odge•• of Ancient and Amiable Anarchists! "It is not the extravagances of the • rich, but the limber knees of too many of the poor, that disgust the country- man ountry man in New York. The saddest thing- in hin- in that great city, to one who comes from the frank, wholesome, clean, hap. py faces of the country, is not the paint, ed lady's face, with its glassy eyes, not the oi*erfed, puffy -necked figures of the, lazy, respectable hotel -dwelling women, who get no more exercise than stuffed,. geese, not the besotted faces of the men about .the barrel houses—though a mer- ciful God knows they are sad enough; but sadder than they are the loathspme, wooden faces of the men who stand` decked out like human manikins in pur- ples and greens and what -not of modish-•, silliness and, for a price, surrender,.' themselves to be made part of the land seape. For years Miekle, the painter, was the lowest form of humanity Wee n. had in Emporia. He was the tow. drunkard, and once they fined him for • beating his wife; drink .made, • him as loafer and a brute. But some way one - felt down in Miekle there was the sour, of a man; some way one knew, that he would not do certain things for money; some way one always understood that Miekle could still look into depths of`°. personal degradation below him, and tell': whoever tempted him there to go toe hell! But, on the other hand, spine way=• the flunkey is just a flunkey, and he seems to have given up the right to re- sent personal insult when he assumes., the miserable part. And for a man to . commercialize Itis American birthright -. seems a heart -breaking tragedy." A poem has even brought about the death of its writer and in England, too. James I. was the offended monarch, John "Williams the poet. Williams for safety inclosed the verses in an iron box g and sent them to the kin, who always fearing assassination, jumped to Mlle conclusion that the box was none other than an infernal machine. When the news of the real nature of the box's contents.leeked out, however; James grew so agry at the jeers that were leveled et fi lam from all parts• of the king enelhti£ the unfortunate John '4 Williams 44 hangede drawn and quar- tered, it 1`i 'ICIIN'•TL GRAT COLONY. Scotsman Criticizes Newfoundland's the report that aisuli has been captor- Action. ed. One of his caids Or chiefs) was made a prisoner on the charge ef; send- ing• inflammatory appeals. to yturious tribes, inciting theta to holy, war. This arrest led to the rl iitor'.`tlte,t the bandit chief ittin self gals n; rise IlKnds of the governme=tt,folees„ `ai + .,•. London, Jan. 7.—The Scotsman, re- viewing the colonial administration of 1006, says of the•dispute regarding the fisheries that Newroundland is one of the most troublesome and ungrateful colonies. It .is at small matter; but, like the quarrel between the San Fran - ,4 e Q WEE MURDER. BELIEVED TO HAVE KILLED HIS ; WIPE IN ROCHESTER. Columbus, Ohio, San. 7.—When Geo... W. Deacon, wito enlisted in Cleveland a few days ago, was being examined at the Columbus barracks yesterday, he grew agitated while the imprint of his fingers was being taken. Asking to be excused to get a drink of kater, he dis- appeared. Within a short time a re- quest was received that lie be held for • the authorities. at Detroit, where he is said to have murdered his wife. Deaemnr- could- not be located. •