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The Herald, 1907-11-15, Page 2EASY MONEY FOR MRS. CHADWI e' I BORROWED NEARLY $800,000 PITTSBURG MEN. Fake Securities $5,00o,000—Opening of Famous Affidavit Lets in Light on Dealings of the Dead Adventuress, $7,000 had already been procured.. In Ottawa the special work had been the CK.opening of the White Ribbon Mission• Hoene The counties which had report- ed financial and numerical increase were Essex, Grenville, Ontario, Bruce, FROM Lincoln, Welland and Stormont. The total number of unions throughout the Province nous 175, member of regular members 5,603, honorary,nnembers 717, amount of money raised for general pur- poses, $13,734.16, an increase of $634.16 over last year. After a consecration service by Miss M. Jameson, of Rochester, N.Y., the con- vention was formally opened by Mrs.. S. G. E. McKee, of Barrie, the Provincial President. The morning r?ession was taken up with the considering and adopting of various reports. In the afternoon the President's address was delivered. by Mrs. McKee. The church was filled to overflowing at the public meeting in the evening. The feature of the evening was an elo- quent address by Miss Itearney, ,veto spoke at considerable length, to the de- light of the large audience. Pittsburg, Nov. 11. --The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has allowed the public a peep at the famous Chadwick deposition introduced in litigation sur- rounding the settlement of the estate of the late W. C. Jutta. The document shows that Mrs. Chad- wick got from Hoffstatt and Friend, who are respectively President and Vice -President of the Premed Steel Oar Company, almost $800,000 in locus, for which she. put up $5,000,000 in bogus securities. Among other things contained in Mrs. Chadwick's deposition is a copy of this memorandum: To J. W. Friend—Asa consideration ofthe loan of $73,200 made by you to me on March 25, 1904, and the loan of $37,000 this 29th day of March, 1904, made by you to nee, I hereby covenant, promise and agree irrevocably to place in your possession no later than A.pril 12, 1904, all of the securities now in the possession of Ira Reynolds, agree - gating $5,000,000, held in trust for ire, dated March 5, 1903, and that you shall have full power and authority to dispose of the said securities for the purpose and in the manner following: To pay off in full the _-„ceburg parties evidenced by the foll,ra•iug notes to your order: Note of $353,000, dated April 10, 1903. Note of $300,000, dated February 8, 1904. Note of $10,000, dated March 18, 1904. Note of $23,000 dated March 18, 1904. Note of $73,200, dated March 25, 1904. Note of $37,000, dated March 29, 1904. Total, $7 08,300.in Ferrisburg. To hold the balance of said secure 1 Hermit claims that while he was ties until 1 shall create a trust, under HIS CANADIAN He IFS, EL PED• 3. P. CHASES 1i500 MILES. Caught the Elopers in Michigan Romance Which Had Its Genesis in Comes to an End in COUPLE Alberta Arbor. Ann Ann Arbor, Nov. 11.— Alter 1,500 -mile chase, during which he was at all times just a few 101es behind hind his win* and the man with whom she has eloped, Charles \Vixman Hermit,. a justice of the peace in Raymond, Al- berte, Northwest Canada, had the flee- ing pair arested here. The mon who is held with the woman is John. Cooper, a land agent. Although Hermit arrived here sevetm.l hours behind the couple, he was enabled to make the capture .because his wife tarried too long over a visit to relatives U. S. ORKMEN BRING TIIEiR SAVINGS OVER TO WINDSOR BANKS. Small Army of Depositors From Across Line Place Savings in Windsor Branches --Impressed With Stability of Canadian Institutions. Windsor, Nov, 1L --A curious result of the panleky eondrtione an the financial markets of the United States is seen here. During the past week a small army of depostiors from Detroit have brought their money over and placed it in the Canadian banks.Many of them axe Can- adiasis, who hove full knowledge of the stability of Canadian monetary instittn- thins, but many, too, are Americans, born and bred, who have a faith that things "across the line” are not to be rocked and tossed about by the machinations of trusts and unscrupulous financiers: Most of the depositors are working people, who bring in: their bard-eerned savings that mean the accumuletiion Of months and rears. "I lost all my savings in a bank failure five years ago," said one horny -fisted workman ie. one of the Windsor oaks torday, "and since then I have kept my savings aver here. And many of my friends do the same." The managers of the various banks state that they have never seen such a rush of American depositors as during the last two weeks. They say that they have almost as many Detroit depositors as Windsor people on their savings lists, and that the list is increasing largely a which I will tie up during my life $4,000,000 of said securities, and on the execution of papers creating such a trust, you, the said J. W. Friend, will tura over to the trustee named in such trust papers the amount of issourities provided in such trust, and the bal- ance of the securities you will deliver to me personally. As inducement to said loo,' $37,000 I further covenant and agree that the said securities shall remain as they now aro in the custody of the said Ira Reynolds, and shall not be disturbed until . April 12, 1904, unless sooner turned over to J. W. Friend, aid said securities are in Cleveland in the .active poasesion of said Reynoldsnand are of a par value of $5,000,000. This paper shall be considered the execution of a. power coupled with an interest and irrevocable. Witness my hand and seal, March 29, 1904. CASSIE CHADWICK. in Oregon, on a business trip, Cooper became infatuated with Mrs. Hermit, and enticed her to elope with him. Her- mit, notified by his friends of her deser- tion, started out on the trail of the pair. He followed theca through a score of cit- ies in the diddle West, but Cooper and his companion always managed to keep a few miles ahead. The couple were arraigned in police court, and both gave bail for their ap- pearance in court next week. . Cr UNHAPPY WIVES. Three More Canadian Marriages Annulled in Detroit;., Detroit, Nov. Il. -Three more Can adieu wives told their troubles in the divorce court to -day and all three were returned by Judge Mandell to the staff of single blessedness: was removed land Thibert found to be alive, and greater still when the +looters pronounced no bones broken, and the ie-' )used man's ohancea of reeovxy goad unless the lungs or heart havesuffered too great a strain, Tl'ibert's body was nearly eat in two where the rope was round him, and the drag of ruching „stater on the helmet squeezed and bruised his neck, arms and shoulders, He had given up all hope df newcue, believing he would die from Idea pressure upon him or the rope would break and send him down to be torn to shreds on the turbine wheel. He was taken home to Chippewa ,and to- night is doing as well as can be expect- ed. Memo. From Victim. Another paper was produced and marked exhibit B. It was as follows: Pittsburg, June 4, 1904. Mrs. Chadwick: Herewith memo. of r'our entire in- debtedness to me, being promissory notes, payable mi demand with inter- est from the .0 -is of paper: April 10, 1.. .i, $353,000. February e 1904, $300,000. March 18. 1904, $10,000. March 15, 1904, $25,000. March 26, 1904, 73,200. March 29, 1904, $37,000. Total, $798,200. Very truly yours, J. W. FRIEND. Mrs. Chadwick said she had been asked several times to take the Jutte bonds and dispose of them, Friend telling her "the poor old man (Juttel was crazy and not able tc take care of his own affairs." The remainder of Mrs. Chadwick's affidavit refers to alleged efforts on the part of Friend and lioffstatt's re^ presentatives to induce her while in the Ohio penitentiary to refuse to give testimony in the Jutte case. W.C. T.U. CONVENTION One day itt Deeember, 1904, George C. Dew returned to his home in Forest, Canada, and found that his wife Minnie had decamped, taking with her every- thing but the household furniture. George came to Detroit, and, as Minnie evinced no desire to return to him, started divorce proceedings. He told his story to Judge :Sandell and will get a decree in 30 days. Re Brooke that Pauline Wirth told Jud„ on March 21, 1907, when she eras ' It 17 years of age, Albert Eeiger persuaded her to go to Windsor with hien and be married. She insists that she didn't know what it was, all about until it was all over. The judge will annul the marriage, as the girl's 'testimony was corroborated. Non-snppnrt was charged by Esther Mimes, who said that John. Milmes left her four years ago and has contributed nothing to her support since that time. They were married in Leamington, Ont., in March, 160.4. THOUSAND A DAY, NATIONAL RAILWAY. NEW ONTARIO SECTION WILL BE LEFT TO THE LAST, CROWD SAW 'HIM. FIRES A SHOT FROM WINDOW TO ATTRACT CROWD. Then He Shoots Himself—Men and Wo - mets Panic -Stricken at the Spectacle, But Bullet Fails, and Man la a Prisoner. Will Use the Temiskamimg Railway to Take Supplies Into Vie Country— Progress in Quebec and Other Sec- tions of the Line Satisfactory. Ottawa, Nov. 11.—About fifty miles of rails have now been laid on the Na- tional Transcontinental on the Quebec section, and grading is .well advanced for r, long distance on the various divi- sions now under contract. It is thought that by next fall about four hundred mile' of road will be graded, and the track will be laid on a large portion of ie. Tenders for the greater portion of the remaining thousand miles between Win- nipeg and Moncton will be called for nest spring. The contractors for the sections now under construction are re- potted to be making satisfactory pro- gress, and Hon. Mr. Parent is hopeful of completing the whole line by the end of 1911, as originally intended. The portion of the line in New On- tario adjacent to the route of the Temis- kaining & Northern Ontario Railway will probably be the last to be construct- ed, as tenders will not be called for un- til the Provincial line is extended to the proposed junction point, thereby lessen- ing the cost of transporting supplies, etc., for the Transcontinental line. RATE OF IMMIGRATION TO CANADA SINCE LAST APRIL. Returns for -Nine Months Show a Splen- did Increase in the Work of Settling the Country—Arrivals From United States Not So Numerous Now. Ottawa, Nov. 11,—For the first time months of the present year ending Sep- tember 31st the total immigration to Canada has been 236,008, an increase of 54,736 as . compared with the correspond- ing nine months of 1906. The increase above is nearly double the total immi- gration for 1900, and for the nine months the immigration is nearly nine timea the total immigration of that gear. For the tirst six months of the present f isx al yea beginning with April, the total inemi�gatioit hes been. 193,600, of whieh the, number: coming from the United. States was 35,092, and the num- ber via ocean ports was 158,598. The total increase as compared with the cor- responding months of last year is 45,930, or 31 percent. The percentage of in- crease via ocean ports is 44. Immi- gration from the United States shows a decrease of 2,891, or 8 per cent. For September the immigration from. the United States was nearly 4,000. The number of arrivals via ocean ports for the month was 15,204. Since the tat of April last immigrants have been arriving in Canada at a rate averaging a little over a thousand per day. WHITE RIBBONERS MEETING AT CORNWALL THIS WEEK. Influence Will Be Felt in Four Score of Local Option Campaigns -President's Address—Reports Presented— Over- flowing Public Meeting. Cornwall despatch: Even if the mem- bers of the Women's Christian Temper- ance Union have no votes, it is quite ap- parent from the tone of the Provincial convention being held here that they in- tend making their influence felt in the four more campaigns now in progress in Ontario. To -clay the great' feature was o•s ONE KITCHEN FOR TOWN. New York, Nov, 11.—Before attempting to end iais life by sheeting, Joseph Gau- dette, Sg years old, a neeehanic, threw up the shade of a window in his room in a boarding house, at No. 131 Court street, Brooklyn, loot night, and drew the attention of hundreds of persons in the street by firing a shot. Residents of Montclair Have Plan to Solve Domestic Problem. Montclair, Nov. 11.--A co-operative kit- chen is one of the possibilities in Mont- clair during the coming winter. There is a great scarcity of maid servants in this town, and consequently cooking has been done under difficulties. A young woman from Boston. who managed e somewhat similar institution in the Hub, has been here endeavoring to interest housekeepers in the plan. Last season a number of 1oea1 resi- dents went so far with the project that meetings were held, but at that time no person wanted to shoulder the manage- ment of the kitchen, and it was dropped, Servants here are said to be receiving the highest wages ever paid for domestic belp. the report of the Correepoeding Secre- tary, Mrs. Flora York Miller, of London, who stated that legislation in. reform meseures was claiming the attention of the women. The W. C. T. U. had taken quite a part in the elections of last jenuary, but if the members could not be the voting power they intended being the praying power. Maas. Miller further pointed out that thirteen new and reorganized Unions have been re- ported, among these being St. David's, Weiland, Whitby, Burford, ltidgetown, M,arkdale, Avommmre and the Beaches, behind ellen she came to America y they were dragging from red - Toronto. The Toronto •district work h t o id have represented the depths of the .cold, mulling water, directing her to any person or plltee, she there were 227 clunk to Y31;1 fear .or rod- was laid out in the erection of a $50,- ward million dnttawe ns it was the eon- tiilren the helmet was sent to Quebec this afternoon. haired= 000 Building, of which the lot end over tehts or trio trunk were valued at 42,000•p their' ley Great was FACED DEATH. DITCHES TRAIN. Lackawanna Passenger Train Saved Erie Coal Cars Pile Up. Paterson, Nov. 11.—The presence of mind of a trainman at the intersection of the. Lackawanna Railroad tracks with those of the Greenwood Lake division of the Erie at Mountain View yesterday averted the wreck of a passenger train. To avoid eueh a disaster the towerman wee eompelled to ditch a coal train, caping damage estimated at $15,000. • The Grreenwobd Lake train wee behind schedule. As the'coal train of ten ears approached the creasing on the Lacko- seanns traeke the passenger train on the Greenwood Lake road came in sight. The towerinan saw that a collision was inev- itable, but he made up his mind quiekly. He closed the black. signal against the coal train, which was a fast one. The locomotive driver, realizing that some- thing was wrong, applied the emergency Brakes with such force that his train of coal ears buckled and toppled from the tracks, while the engine held the rails until it reached the derailing switch. The engine then tore the ties toward the crossing. Tlie passenger train swept past in the nick of, ,t�ime, as the locomotive on the coal trfen did not stop until the cow- catcher extended a few feet over the Greenwood Lake tracks. The Lacka- wanna roadbed was badly torn up and traffic on both roads was delayed for several hours. _ FOUR YOUNG MEN DROWNED. Boat Found on Shore, With Body of One of the Victims. Dalhousie, N. B., despatch: A gloom was cast over the town this morn- ing by the news of a terrible drowning accident last night, four young men los- ing their• lives. Andrew Carr and Jack Neilson, of Dalhousie, and Willie Wafer Then, with the bright light in the room showingaihis form placed inthhevodvee dowr , the young 1 •therevoo saw his temple and fired. The ep 3� the arm of the young man fall to his side and the next moment he reeled, and, failing' ON er backward, disappearing from view. Panic stricken, the women who had witnessed the deed fled. T1t amen ithe crowd ran toward the house and pushed into the hall. But before any one from the street could reach the room occupied by Gaudette, others in the house who had been startled by the shot rushed to his apartment. They found the young man lying on Ms back with the revolver still gripped in his hand. When the ambulance of the Long Island College Hospital arrived, Drglanc- ed off Gaudette's skull bulletrennen found the had that a the wound was slight. When the ambulance surgeon eras ex- amining the wound. Gaudette regained his senses and started to tear up two letters which he pulled from a pocket. Before Policeman Elwood, of the Adams street station, could stop him, the young man heel torn the letters into many pieces. Later the police patched the pieces of the letters together and were, able to• read them. Ono, addressed "To Mar- garet," informed the woman to whom it was addressed that the writer did not dare to face her again. He said he still loved her and asked her to forgive hem. In the other letter, which was ad- dressed "To Dan," the author again spoke of his love for Margaret. He ask- ed Dan to notify Andrew Bruce, of West street, Middletown, N. Y., of what road happened. Dr. Brennen decided that the bullet wound was not serious enough to war- rant him in taking Gaudette to the hos- pital, so the young man was taken to the Adams street station, where he was locked upon e. charge of attempting sui- cide. Beyond. saying he had been in Brooklyn only a few weeks, he refused to make - any statement.' as G. THIBERT HUNG IN MOUTH OF PENSTOCK AT NIAGARA. Small Rope That Sustained Him Was Fouled, and Rushing Waters Threat- ened to Carry Him Down at Any Minute -rescued, But Badly Hurt. A Niagara Falls despatch: For a long half-hour' to -day Godfrey Thibert hung by a thin rope. in the mouth of otic of the great penstocks of the Electrical De- velopment Company's power house whale thousands of ,tons of water tyre et his swaying body to earry him to destruc- tion, and despairing mates worked like maniacs to save him. The men won CUSTOMS MAN'S FIND. New Yorker Discovered Trunk Full of Stage Jewels on Pier. New York, Nov n..--Whentruntoon the, of- ficer discovered an odd-looking Frenel, line pier yesterday, just after the arrival of the Gaslogne, and began to turn up the contents be thought for a moment he had stumbled upon a treasure chest. Strings of .pearls by tho score, necklaces of diamonds whose sive would put to shame the jewels displayed at a gala performance of opera, brooches of every eoncelvable shape sad setting, bracelets—the inspector felt faint. Then. he turned to the declaration in his hands and found ho had been losing his breath over a lot •of "stage jewellery." What was contained in the trunk was a large some portion a s had ethers of hi , Oscar �'Hammons er- stein's company bedeck themselves with in grand opera performances, Mme. Cleofonte Campantnt, wife of the operative director et the Manhattan, bee been in the cuecodtad of .the jewels, and somehow they Were left rocenti 11 real the ewe s would in the end, ad1 Thibert is alive but ray 111 to -night. Shortly after 10 o'clock this morning Thibert donned a diver's outfit and went" down into the forebay to do some work. The current running through the head gate of penstock No. 3 caught him and jerked. him into the mouth of the pipe. The rope prevented him from going down, but when the men above triedto pull him out it was found that the rope was fouled by an eye bar, and the diver could not be raised. It was impossible to shut down the head gate and stop the rush of water, for Thibert was hanging right under. the gate, and it would have cut hien in two. The men on the line stood at their poets, straining every nerve to lift their imperilled mate, yet fearing each minute that the life line would part from the strain or be worts though where 1t was foul of the ironwork, and Thibert be snatched down one hundred and fifty feet into the turbine wheel. The pump tenders worked like machines, sending an uninterrupted supply of life-sustain- ing air down through the hose to Thi - bort. Every possible scheme was brought into, play to release the fouled rope, but it was half an hour before a practicable way was 'found. Wheii the rope was at last free aid the men pulled it in they did not know whether it was a living man or a corpse w er b ` BY THE GRACE OF GOD, Not by Grace of Powers Does Persia Exist. New York, Nov. 11,—The Herald ba received the folloeving cable despatch from Teheran: The Minister of Foreign Affairs has informed the Russians Minis- ter and the British Charge d'Affaires by letter, dated Ndvember 2, that the con vontion between Russia and Eugland can only concern the signatories. The Gov- ernment of the Shah of Persia, the letter declares, is by the grace of God independ- ent. The Shah, says the Minister, en- joys all the rights of sovereignty, and no convention between tw,' or more nations can in any way interfere with Persia's independence. Persia, it is declared, endeavors always to increase friendly relations with all na- tions, observing freedom of commerce. In regard to the loan Persia will adhere to all clauses contained in the agree- ment. The tension between the clericals and the reformists is daily increasing. . * SEIZED COWS FROM BAILIFF. Gananoque Drover Allowed t0 Go After an Apology. and James Dickie, of Florence Point, Que., started for Florence Point )asst night in an eigli-foot boat. The wind was blowing a gale from the northwest, sousing a heavy sea. The boat was found on the Quebec shore, with Nelson's life- less body in it, this morning, being the first intelligence of the tragedy-. Neilson was to have left for the West to -morrow. r•* YOUNG WOMAN DEPORTED. ABrockville, Ont., despatch: Themes Dempster, as 'wealthy Gananoque drover, who forcibly took possession of two cows in a herd which Deputy Sheriff Trail was eeising under a writ of execu- tion in the Township of Lansdowne, ap- peared to -day before P. M. Deacon,. pleaded guilty and apologized for his act. He was lot go on suspended eerie fence, after paying the costs incurred. Dempster claimed that he owned the cattle, ,having previonisly purchased. them from the men whose goods and chattels were under seizure. 4.0' An Idiot Sent Front Worcester, Mass,, to Montreal. Montreal Nov. 11.--A curious ease of apparent deportation from the United States attracted considerable attention at the Windsor Station to -day. A young woman of French-Canadian parentage, apparently about seventeen years of age, arrived by the Rutland train this morn- ing from Worcester, Mass., hound. for Qvcbec. It: became apparent after a time that the young woman was a kind of harmless lunatic, who did not know her way about and had the dimmest realiza- tion of her surroundings. The girl said she did not know her own name or the name of her parents, bat she knew her father and mother were dead, and that she had lived with thein for along time in Worcester, Mass.' She bad been sent by somebody she did not know ter Quebec, where, she said, her roost lived. She was told,she would meet her aunt at Quebec, but she did not know that relatives ntame, nor hacl she any letters MUNICH HAS A SENSATION. Brewers Try to Advance the Price of • Beer. London, Nov 11. -In Munich, the great beer - drinking Bavarian capital, something like a set salon has . beeen caused by the recent, announcement that the Brewers' Association had decided to raise the price of their world- famous product by 50 cental -per barrel or twenty-two gallons. The population open- teneousay organized, by common accord, 'a kind of passive resistance, by cutting dowiY. their ottpentttture an beer,, boycotting the allied houses and patronizing conspicuously the I3ofhrauhaus, the only eetablisbment that had stood aloof from the Brewers' syn- dicate, The trade unions of Munich, which h dec prise a membership of 47,000, lared open war on, the brewers by binding them- selves to tmake no a bdifference fordek at least, Ththat period ; p11s will ,000 T 10 gene raaopinion is that the br©weratwitl The Beacom: spin be unable to enforce thehigher trice in tho Paco of this determined attitude of the• beer drinking community. mss,,,.---...••- Fair-haired people are raphiry dim- inishing in nuinber in this country. Outs of 440 women counted in a London street.