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The Herald, 1908-09-04, Page 2SAILED WITH MUTINEERS. Sixty Chinese Soldiers Taken Away by Admiral on His Ship. Thousand Men Revolted and Killed Their Commander. Hong Kong, Aug. 31: AdIhiral Li, of the Chinese navy, with his flagship and several gunboats, sailed from Wu Chow to -day for Canton, te.king with hini as prisoners sixty of the mutinous soldiers from Kong Haw, where a thousand men revolted on Aug. 12, killing their com- mander and several others, routing a force of loyal soldiers from a near by town, looting the village of Kanawha and finally withdrawing to the moun- tains of Talking, where they joined forces with the wild tribes of the hills. .Admiral Li's prisoners were betrayed ante the hands of the Government forces for 25 taele (about $17) a head by vil- lagers at Konghaw. The rebellious sol- diers spoke a strange dialect, and their detention and subsequent betrayal to the authorities was an easy meeker. .At Wu Chow the gates of the city, which have stood. open for weeks past, have now been closed, owing to the dis- turbed condition of the country following The muting at Konghaw. TURK FOR CANADA. FUGITIVE HEAD OF TURKEY'S POLICE TO BUY ESTATE. Ruined Many Hundreds—Bidding of Superiors Members of 1.1ost Hon- ored Families Disappeared. the bathing point. The elder huh was an expert swimmer, but young :111eDon- ald could not swim. While the former was on the opposite side of the river the latter slipped, and fell off a proieeting log into deep water. Orrin Hall, who was dressing, gave the alarm, and his brother swam across and went to the aid of the drowning lad. The latter at onoe caught hold of his would-be- rescuer round the neck, and both sank. The alarm was given, and the bodies were recovered by Mr. Robert Irving, that of. Hall being recovered in less than ten minutes, while that of his companion was found half an hour later. Vigorous efforts were made at resusci- tation, but without avail. GIRL DROWNED. Miss Commerford, of Thorold, Meets Watery Grave. London, Aug. 31.—Zia Bey, the fallen head of the Turkish. secret police, has arrived in London. He proposes to buy a small estate in Canada. After the tproelamation of the constitution he laid for two days. Then the Sultan wrote him to fly from the country without an hour's delay. He made his way to Smyrna, but was attacked en route in the dark. He shot his assailant dead on the spot. Ile reached Smyrna, and sailed thence for Marseilles and London. He is a clean-shaven man, and when seen was wearing a straw hat. He said: "Turkey has seen the last of me for- ever. During my term I was the means of ruining Ministers, officers and civil- , , tans. At the, bidding of my superiors ].70 Turks, members of some of the most ,r . honored families, disappeared," with a motion of his hand, giving a sinister meaning to the word "disappeared" 4 He added that Izzet Pasha, who is also in London, is reputed to have saved i £1,500,000 of hie fortune, the greater part of which was invested in the United face,ce gh Grepk financiers in Paris. Zia leoy says`he wishes the new regime well; he regrets that his record forbids hope of forgiveness. Thousands of;persons suffered through him. "Under my direction more than 400 well paid secret agents were constantly working. It did not matter who was to be removed: Orders from the Yi1d.z Kiosk were implie'ely obeyed. False re- ports, from which there was no appeal, were submitted to the Sultan. The Porte, as an administrative machine, ceased to exist 25 years ago. All power was centred at the Yildiz Kiosk. I do not blame the Sultan or the chamber - king entirely. Their powers rested on a sort of•workiug agreement, which en- abled a manipulation of the resources of the empire solely as private revenue. The Sultan has at least £4,000,000 in- vested in Germany, Austria and France, which he received from a heavy percent- age of bribes paid by the contractors in war stores, and in clothing for the any and navy. The end came quicker than most of us expected, owing to the strides made by the army in the last six months" - VP St. Catharines despatch: Word was received in Thorold yesterday that Miss Alice Commerford, a highly esteemed young lady of the town, had passed away at Sault Ste. Marie, where her brother, Martin. resides. It was not un- til the latter arrived last evening with his sister's remains, however, that it was ascertained that she had been drowned. She had gone to spend last Friday even- ing with some friend' on a houseboat in the St. Mary's River. Late in the evening she was missed, no trace of her could be found when a search was made. Presentiv one of the party saw liar body floating in the river. It is thought that when she left the company, Miss Commerford went to the side of the boat, when being seized with a fainting spell, such as site frequently had, she lost her balance and fell into the river and was drowned. The funeral took place this morning from the ehureh of Our Indy of the Holy Rosary. 4 WOMAN, PANIC STRICKEN, Threw Child From Window and Jump- ed After It. New York, Aug. 31.—Panic stricken sIxs. Mary Abruzzo, of Brooklyn, when is gas stove exploded and set fire to the clothing of her three-year-old son Jo - mph and a baby carriage in which was I cher infant son Charles. Mrs. Abruzzo threw the baby from the third storey rwindow and then' leaped after it. The boy Joseph, left in the burning apart- ' anent, was burned to death, and Mrs. :Abruzzo and her baby were mortally injured by the fall. Firemen quickly extinguished blaze. 5,m PULLED RESCUER UNDER. Drowned Two Owen Sound Boys While Bathing. Owen Sound despatch: A sad double ,drowning accident took place this after- noon, by which. two ivell-known favi- ilies were bereaved. The accident oc- curred at what is known as MoDon- ald's, a well-known bathing point on the Sydenham River, near the south end of the town. The victims were Donald I ihDonalds tae eleven -year-old son' of the late Alexander McDonald, of Sydenham, and Roy Staniav Hall, the thirteenyear-old son of Mr. X. T. Hall, of Murdoch street. The lads, e ceonm- paarled by Orrin Hall, a younger brother of the last-natned victim,' went up to the ETRURIA DAMAGED. Collided With Lighter—Man Missing —Sailing Delayed. Liverpool, Aug. 31.—While the steamer Etruria was proceeding to the landing stage here to -day to embark her passen- gers she collided with a lighter, the wreckage of which became entangled in her propellers. Three of the lighter's Drew were thrown into the water, and one is still missing. He is supposed to have been drowned. The Etruria will not be able to sail this afternoon as scheduled. The Umbria will sail next Friday in her place. MECHANIC ARRESTED Toronto Man Charged With Stealing Materials For Clarionets. HARVESTERS , T TUTS. 200 WERE LINABLE TO OBTAIN WORK IN SASKATCHEWAN. Toronto despatch: Theodore Wraikel- hoffer, 14 Widmer Street, was arrest- ed by Detective Twigg last night, on a charge of theft from Whaley, Royce & Co. The accused, who is a clarionet and flute maker, was employed by the com- plainants. Professing to be able to do better work at home, he took the parts of the instruments Froin the store aid put them together. It was found that more materials were taken away from the store than were returned in the man - manufactured articles. The police in- vestigated the ease, and found that Wraikelhoffer was attempting to sell flutes and clarionets, and he was then taken into custody-. No Money to Return East—C. P. R. Claims They Are Not Entitled to Return Tickets Till They Put in 30 Days' Work. Regina, Sark,, Aug. 31.— Two hun- dred Ontario harvesters are out of work here, and sonic of them are in a destitute condition. They held an in- dignation meeting to -day, protesting against the C. 1'. it's. refusal to ship them back home. The railway cone pany say the men are not entitled to return tickets until they put in thirty days' work. The men allege they were brought in on misrepresentations by the C. p. R. circulating broadcast circulars to the East of enormous de- mand for hale eet hands in the \Seat; that 650 men were required. in Saskat- chewan, and the railway company ship- ped over two thousand into the pro. vince, and that two more trainloads are to come. A dozen men who arrived back in the city ye,terehiy told a pitiable tale of hardships endured in their search for work. Adjutant Cummins, of the Salvation Army, gave them shelter, food and a. hall for the night. They looked the picture of misery as they lay stretched on the floor, in. their wet, mud -bedraggled clothes. They came - here with the first contingent of harvesters. After a vain endeavor to seeure work they started by the "Soo" line, and walked through the country to Moose Jaw, without suc- cess. THREE KILLED AT EAGLE RIVER. Chief Accountant and Two Sectionmen of C. P. R. Run Down, Winnipeg, Aug. 31.—Alexander Mil- ton, chief acoountant in the paymas- ter's office of the C, P. R., with head- quarters here, and two seetionmen were run over and killed last night by Tr nsoontinental train No. 97 at Eagle River. Milton was assigned the task of going over the line to Fort William every month, distributing the pay Cheques to the employees along the route. He was on one of these regular trips when he met his death. Several of the men were at work on the track and on the siding. He had handed a number of oheques out, and was in the act of handing out more, when No. 07 came along at fair speed, and Milton and the two men whom he was about to pay stepped from the main line track to the side track, the train coming down the latter right-of-way, and crushing thean under the wheels, killing them instantly. ALL IN THE UNIFORM. MAY CANCEL CONTRACT. ABITIBI SECTION OF NATIONAL TRANSCONT1NENTAL. Commisioners Notify Grand Trunk Pacific That Work Must be Great- ly Expedited, and the Latter Will Take Steps to Take Work From Sub -contractor. Lockman Asks Earl Grey if Some One Else Were He; Brockville despatch: While the steam- er Speedy, conveying the Governor-Gen- enal on his tour of the canals, was go- ing . through the Cornwall Canal last Tuesday his Excellency stepped off the boat and walked up and down the bank for a few minutes. He wore an ordinary tweed suit. A member of, his staff, who was in military uniform, was standing ou the upper deck. One of the lock hands, who wasanxious to see the Gov- ernor-General, stepped up to Earl (trey, and politely asked hirn if that was his Excellency, pointing to the officer. It was rather an embarrassing ques- tion, but the lock man received a pleas- ant answer in the negative. He was a much surprised man when he learned a few minutes later that he had been talk. Ing to his Excellency. bilities and add greatly to the work of the assignee. The failure of the A. 0. Brown Co, had much less effect on the market than was anticipate& There eves how- ever a feeling of uneasiness among the traders to -day who fear that the real circumstances back of the Brown sus - .pension and the transactions of Satur- day are yet te be ascertained, No further suspensions of members of the stock exchange are expected to fol low that of A. 0. Brown & Co., accord- ing to a statement made from the office of the secretary of the exchange "to -day, This announcement inspired a feeling of relief among the brokers, many of whom had been fearful of further unfavorable developments. ONE YEAR FOR ATMs Young Sco4chman In London Who Has Two Wives. A London despatch: Magistrate Love yesterday morning made it pretty plain to George Henderson, a young Seotohmamn from Edinburgh, that he does not ap- prove of a man marrying a woman in Scotland and then coining out to this country and marrying another.Henderson admitted that he was guilty of this crime and was sentenced to one year in the Central Prison for bigamy. "You have acted in a most coward- ly manner," the court said to Hen- derson, in passing sentence upon him. "Your letters to your wife show that right along you had led. her to believe that you loved her, and your little children. You spoke of having them join yor• here as soon as you were in a position to look arcer them. You told this woman this, and then went deliberately and wrecked another young woman's life by marrying her. It was a cowardly act on your part." Henderson carne here from Edinburgh in the fall of 1906, after spending a short time in Hamilton, en route. For some time he sent money to his. wife regularly. Then he wrote and told her he was leaving London, as he could not make it go, and she need not expect to hear from him again. Shortly afterwards he mar- ried a well known West London lady and lived with her until his arrest in July. Ottawa, Aug. 31,—The Grand Trunk Pacific has taken steps to cancel the contract with the .Reynolds Construe - tion Corept y for the building of 100 miles of the Abitibi section of the Na- ticinal Transcontinental. The contract for construction was awarded to the Grand Trunk Pacific, which sub -let to the Reynolds Company, an American concern. They have done a good deal of preliminary work, but have failed to make adequate progress with the roadway, The rational 'Transcontinental Com- mission have been kept informed by their engineers as to the progress of the work, and recently served notice on the Grand Trunk i'acific that there would have to be thirty-five hundred men put on the work in September or the contract would be taken off their hands and the commission would do the work itself, while the two -hundred - thousand -dollar guarantee of the Grand Trunk Pacific would be confiscated. This notice was in turn served by the G. T. P. on the sub -contractor, who does not seem able to go further with the work. The G. T. P. will now have to secure another sub -contractor or undertake the work itself. The National Transcontinental Commission are deter- mined that the work on this section shall not rag, and are prepared to, take it over and assure its completion under their direct supereiaion if it ben,.nea necessary. A.A THE BROWN FAILURE a.a GOOD CROPS. Dr. Saunders Wires From Alberta Good News. Ottawa, Aug. 31.— Wm. Saunders, the director of Experimental Farms, wires the Department of Agriculture from Lacombe, Alta., as follows: "Winter wheat in this district all out. Crops good. Most of spring wheat still standing, but ripening fast. Treads plump and well filled. Weather favorable. Does not appear to have injured wheat much. Barley all cut. A large acreage of oats also cut. Grain appears on experimental farm very heavy. Winter wheat and early varieties of spring wheat cut. Affair Much Complicated and an Uneasy Feeling. New York, Aug. 31.—Work of clear- ing up the tangled affairs of the stook exchange firm of A. 0. Brown & Co., whose suspensiion was announced yes- terday after one of the most extraor- dinary bursts of speculation ever known on the N. Y. exchange, began to -day It was expected also that the appoint- ment of a"special investigating commit• tee of five members of the Board of Governors of the exchange to inquire into the remarkable transactions on the floor of the exchange Saturdaiy, would be announced to -day. The governors of the stook exchange plan to make this investigation thorough. So involved are the accounts of the suspended firm that it is believed sev- eral days' work will be required before the assignee can estimate its liabilities and assets. These accounts wets great. ly complicated by the buying for the account of the suspended firm of stock which they had sold to other brokers and were unable to deliver. The losses which. the firm suffered under this pro- cess whieh is Ise accordance with rules of the echange, will swell its total lia- ' BABY IN WOODS. No Clue to Identity of the Child or Parents. S REEF MEL FF OURNE Public School Demonstration and.. Garden Party at Sydney. Australian Baseball Teams Won Two. Games from the Sailors, Sydney, Aug. 31.—The American bat- tleship fleet is to leave here to -morrow for Melbourne, and to -day saw the last, of the entertainments that have kept. the people of Sydney busy and happy for the past week. The public sehool demonstration took up the morning and in the afternoon Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, the Governor of New South Wales gave a brilliant garden party to alarge nue.ber of guests, including Ad- miral Sperry and the senior officers of the fleet. At the stadium this afternoon Bauer defeated Frederick for the featherweight championship of the fleet. There were two baseball matches thin afternoon in which the Australian nines were victorious. A home team defeated the team made up from the fleet by 8 to 7 and the University of Sydney de. feated a nine from the battleship Louis- iana 3 to 2. A rifle match resulted in a victory for the American tenor over the New South Wales team. The Hon. T. Bent, Premier of Victoria, has sent a telegram to Admiral Sperry assuring him of the whole hearted wel- come that will be given the American visitors at Melbourne. The fleet is e- peeted there August 29. o • Guelph despatch: A regular "Babes in the Woods" story was brought to light this afternoon by the discovery of a week-old baby boy in a swamp on the city limits near the river at Pipe's mill. A hackman was driving past when he heard the ery of the infant in the bushes, and he spoke to Mr. Fred Smith, who was passing by, of what he had heard, Investigation brought to light a baby boy in. good health hidden amongst the bushes. The baby was brought to the Humane Society's shelter, and the police are investigating. The infant was scantily clad, and there was nothing to give the slighteet clue to its identity or that of its parents. CREW MUTINIES COOK KILLED. The Result of a Runaway at Cornwall. Say Vessel Was Leaking and kid fuse to Go to Sea Again. Brest, Aug. 31.—The crew of the Ger- man collier Tomcorpi, from Emden for Algiers, mutinied on Sunday night while the collier was in the channel and raked out the fires, anchoring for the night off Conauet. Yesterday morning they forced the pilot to put into Brest. The crew assert that the steamer was leak- ing and in an unseaworthy condition, and refuse to sail until «necessary' repairs have been made. Cornwall despatch: Miss MacNamara,. cook at the General Hospital, died this afternoon as the result of a runaway accident last night. Miss MacNamara,, along with Miss Skelton, a nurse, was crossing a street, when a horse, fright- ened by a band on a passing street ear,. ran away and knocked down both ladies. Miss Skelton was badly bruised, but not seriously hurt. Either the horse's foot or the wheel struck Miss MacNamara's head, breaking the base of the skull. She retained consciousness for nearly an hour, but gradually sank and passed away. She was about 28 years of age, and a daughter of Mr. Richard' Mae - Namara, of Apple Hill, and a. sister of J. E. MacNamara, of Martintown. A GREAT FIND. JEWELS, SILKS AND FURS RECOV- ERED BY DETECTIVES. Over Fifteen Thousand Dollars' Worth of Booty Discovered in House of Women Arrested for Complicity in Recent Robberies. STRUCK BY CONSTABLE. Man Who Assaulted the Officer Ac- quitted at Montreal. Montreal, Aug. 31.— Joseph. Bithel, charged with having assaulted a con- stable on duty, was acquitted this morn- ing by Recorder Weir. The constable had struck Bithel with his club because he would not keep .back from the lines of rope at a fire. Recorder Weir stated that the con- stable had no right to make use of his stielc exceptn1 cases where his person was imperilled, He, therefore, dismissed the charge. It is thought that the deoi- Sion will be appealed. New York, Aug. 31.—In a room in West Thirty-seventh street, where de- tectives to -day arrested Mrs. Minnie Curtis, charged with complicity in sev- eral important jewelry robberies in this city, were found more tnan $15,000 worth of jewelry, fine silks, furs and various other articles of wearing ap- parel. The arrest was said to have been made on information given the pollee last night by Harry TiiiI, who asserted that he was a brother of former Con- gressman George Hill, of Paterson, N. 3., and who was arrested yesterday in Paterson on a charge of robbery. Although Mrs. Curtis declared that she was a widow, the police insisted that she is the wife of Albert Curtis,, who is now serving a sentence in Au- burn Prison. Hill, Curtis and his wife, the police charge, worked together in a, number of robberies. When Tidll was arrested yesterday in Paterson' the po- lice allege that they secured a statement. from him implicating Mrs. Curtis, 11111 was released on $2,5t'O bond. He said a great mistake has be -,n made, and the members of his Ismail; at once came to his aid ,o^ LOVES HIS M LJSTACDE. Loses a Chance to be Married Again and'Gets Arrested. Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 31—Because he loved his moustache more than he loved. his fiancee John Sphilling, of Sharps- burg, has sacrificed all chalices of imme- diate return to marital blies. Since the death of his wife all appli- cants for the position of Mrs. John. Sphilling have decreeu that the mous- tache must go, because of the attention he lavished upon the facial adornment. John always balked until he found a blonde from Chicago. To her he ppromise ede the moustache would come off. But. he faltered when once away from' the magic presence and, f orgeting the face and remembering the moustache, wan- dered into a saloon. Then it was all off with John. The blonde's presence - parted and John became enraged and. chased his children with e revolver for which he must answer in court.