The Wingham Advance, 1906-04-19, Page 70111Sa -v,
PUNY ON VESUVIUS
Upon this our friend left us, and with-
drew from the danger with the utmost
precipitation. Soon afterward the cloud
• began to doom), ani cover the sea. It
bad already surroonded and concealed
the Island of Capri and the promontory
of Miscount,.
My mother now besought, urged, even
commande4 me to make my escape, at
any late, which, as I was young, I might
easily do; as for herself, she said, ber
age and corpulency rendered all attempts
Prince Arthur arrived at Ottawa on
Of that sort impossible; bowevor sloe Saturda
would willingly meet death if she could
have the satisfaction of (seeing that she 'Ilie Welland Canal was opened for
was pot the occasion of mho:. But 1 eh- traria to -day.
widely refused to leave her, and, tak• 1 A New York firm le reported to be tie-
ing her by the hand, compelled her to films of imolai% Knox College, Tor -
go with me, She complied with great re- onto.
luctance, and uot without many re 'l A new Roman Catholk eburch is to be
proacbee to herself for retarding 111,Y , built at the coriu.r of Bloor and Mark -
flight. ' lininstreets Toronto.
The ashes now began to fall upon tts, 1 „„ „ , .
baek; eppoint a mining, es
age (mono uovern»tene purposen to
though in 110 great quantity. 1 looked commiioner, who will
( settle all mining .disputes.
A Dense, Dark Iliet
His Famous Account the Volcano's
First Great Eruption.
he Rain of Ashes—Poisonous Vapor Which
Killed the Elder Pliny—Delieription of the
Panic-Strieken People's Flight.
The most graphic oceount in existence
of the first roc:acted. eruption of Vent -
011. Aug. 21, A. 1). 71), is containel
in two lettere written by the younger
Pliny to his friena the historian Tacitus,
says the New York Till10.3,
ViliUR Midas Coccilins Seem:kis was
only 18 years old when the terrible amp.
Con, which destroyed the cities of Polio
pelt and Herculaneum, occurred, but
that his poevers of observation were well
trained at that age Ls evident frau the
two letters. The younger Pliuy was
sedopted by Ids uncle, CAWS Plinths Se-
tundue, known as the elder Pliny, au-
thor of the celebrated Natural Ilietory,
who perished as a result of the eruption
of Vesuvius.
Pliny's letters to Tavitus follow;
LETTER I.
Your request that I would. send you
au account of my uncle's death, in or-
der to transmit a more exact relation of
it to posterity, deserves my acknowledge
ments, for if this accident shall be cele-
brated by your in the gluey of it, 1 am
well assured, will be rendered forever
illuetrious. And notwithstanding he
writhed by a misfortune width, as it
involved at the same time a most !into
tiful country in ruins, and deetroyed Et)
many populous cities, seem* to oronuse
him an everlasting remembrance; net•
witlestamling he has himself composed
many and lasting works; yet I am per-
suaded the mentioning ef him in your
immortal =libels will geezetly contrilsate
to render his name .immortal. Happy 1
esteem those to bo to W110111 by provision
of the gods ;leis been grented the ability
either to do such actiona as are worthy
of being related or to relate them in a
manner worthy of being read; but pecu-
liarly happy are they who are possessed
with both these uncommon talents, in. the
number of which my unele, it9 his own
writings and your history will eviilently
'wove, may justly be ranked.
11 is with extreme willingness, there-
feresthat I execute your commands, end
ehould indeed have demende the ;task
if you had. not enjoined it. He woe at
that time with the fleet under ids mine
mend. at Misenum. On the 24th or
August, about 1 in. the Afternoon, my
mother desired -him to •observe a •ilond
.which appeared of a very U11114111L FiZO
and shape. Tie had just taken a turn m
the ems ami, after bathing .himself in
cold water and making a light lune -hem,
gone back to his books; he immedietely
arose and went out upon a rising ground
front whence he might get n better sight
of this very uncommon appearance. A
cloud, from which mountain woe oncer-
thin at this distance (but it was found
afterward to come fun Mount
117t4 ascending, the appearance of
which I cannot give you a more ;exact
description of than by likening it to that
of a pine tree, for it shot up to a great
height In the form of a very tall trunk,
which spread itself out at the top intO a,
sorb of branebes, 'occasioned, 1 imagine,
either by a sudden gust of air that im-
pelled it, the force of which decreased
as it advanced upward, or the cloud it-
self being pressed back again by it;
own weight, expanded, in the -manner I
have mentioned; it Appeared eometimes
bright Ana sometimea dark and spotetel,
aecording as it was either more or tese
impregnated with earth and cinders.
was only the burning of the villages,
which the country people had abandoned
to the flames! After this he retired to
rest, and it is almost certain he was so
little disturbed as to fall into a sound
, sleep, for his breathing, which on ac.
;count of bis corpulence, was rather heavy
i anti sonorous, was heard by the attend-
• outs outside. The court wbielt led to
.his apartment being now almost filled
, with stones and ashes, if he had contin-
ued there any time longer it would have
; been impossible for him to have made
bis way out. So be was awakened and
got up, ami went to Pomponianus and
, the rest of his company, who were feel-
; leg too anxious to think of going to bed,
I•lhey eonsulted together whether it
) would lie most prudent to trust to the
; houses, which now rocked from side to
'elk with frequent and violent cottons-
: simis as though shaken from their very
'foundations, or fly to the open fields,
1 where the
Calcined Stones
land cinders, though light indeed, yet fell
in large showers and threatened destruc-
' Lion.
In this choice of dangers they resolved
for the fields, a resolution which, while
;the rest of the company were hurried
:into it by their fears, my uncle embrac-
'. ed upon cool and deliberate eonsidera-
, tion, They went out then, having pil-
lows tied upon their heads with napkins,
1 and this was their whole defense against
the storm of stones that fell round them.
It, was now day everywhere else, but
there a deeper darkness prevailed than
1 in the thickest night, which, however,
I was in sonie degree alleviated by torches
land other lights of various kinds. They
thought proper to go further down upon
the shore to see if they might safely put
to sett, but found the waves still run-
ning extremely high and boisterous.
There my uncle, laying himself down
upon a sail cloth which was spread for
him, called twice for some cold water
which he drank, when immediately the
flames, preeeded by a strong whiff of
phur, diepeesed the rest 'of the party and
obliged him to rise. He raised himeelf
up with the assistance of two of his ;ser-
vants, and instantly
Fell Down Dead
suffocated, as 1 conjecture, by some
geese and noxious vapor, having alweye
bad a weak throat, which was often in-
flamed. As soon as it was light again,
which was not till the third day after
this melancholy accident, his body was
found enth e, and without any marks
of violence upon it, in the dress in which
he fell, and looking more like a man hi
a •eleep than dead.
During all this One my mother and
T, who were at Misenum—but this bee
no connection with your history, and
you do not desire any particulars be-
sides those of my uncle's death, so I wit:
end here, only adding that I have faith-
fully related to you what I was either
wituess of meself or received the newe:
of immediately after the accident hap-
pened, and. before there was thne to vary
the truth. You will pick out the (nu. -
retie° whatever ie, most important, for
a letter is one thing, ft history another;
it as one thins writing to st friend, an-
other writingt'to the public. Farewell.
This photosnenon seemed to a man of
such learning weil reeeareh as my uncle
extraordinary and worth further looking
into. He ;metered
LETTER II.
The hitter which, in compliance with
your request, I wrote to you concerning
the death -of my undo has raised, it
seems, your curiosity to know what ter
rore and. dangers attended me while I
continued. at Misenum, for there, 1 think.
my accomit broke off.
"Though my shock's soul recoils, my
tongue shall tell."
My uncle having left us, I spent such
time as was left on my studies (it was
A Light Vessel on their account indeed that 1 bad stop.
to be got ready, and gave me leave, if 1 lied behind) till it was time for my bath.
liked, to acon:pany him. I said I bad AS-er which I went to supper, and then
rather go 011 with my work, and it so fell into a short ani uneasy sleep.
happened he had himself given me some- . There luta been notcied for many days
thing to write out. As he was combo; before a trembling of the earth, which
out of the house he received. a note Iron did not alarm us much, as it is (mite
Itectina, the wife of Brtesue, who was in an ordinary occurrence in Campania, but
the utmost alarm at the imminent dan- it was so particularly violent that night
ger which threatened her, for her villa that it not only shook but actuelly over-
leieg at tee foot ,e1 meeat ee,emeite , turned as it would. seem, everything
there was no way of melte but by sea; I about us. My mother rushed into my
; chember, where she found me rising, in
she 'earnestly ;entreated hine therefore,
to come to her assistance. Ile fleardine- meter to awaken her. We sat down in
ly changed. his first intention, and what ; the:"Prit en? nfa the ell7,see, witilebhu.ri:
' eupael a rum sp As
b3: t le ttr te (
be had. begun from a philosophic -al he
now carried out in a noble and. genet:- li:Itigts jar. the. sea. s was e t nit nne
years of age 1 know not whether
ous spirit. He •ordered the galleys to
I should. Call my behavior in this den•
put to sea, and went himaelf on board moue juncture
with an intention of assisting not only
Rectina„ but the several towns white Courage or Folly;
lay thickly strewn along the beautiful but 1 took up Livy, and amused myself
coast. with tau.ning over that author, and even
Hastening then to the Plow from . making extracts from him, as if 1 lute
whence others fled with the utmost ter- - been perfectly at my leisure. Just then
ror, he steered his course direct to the a, friend of my uncle, who had late])
point of danger, and with so much come to him from Spain, joined Us, 1111(1.
calmness and presence of mind as to be observing 010 silting be my mother wits
able to make and dictate his observe- a book in my hand, reproved her for her
tions upon the motion and all the photo- calmness and me at the same time for
mena of that dreadful scene, He was my careless seeurity; nevertheleee I went
now so close to the mountain that the on with my author. Though it was nom
cinders, which grew thicker and hotter morning, the light was still exceedingly
the nearer lie approached,. fell into the faint and doubtful; the buildings ail
ships, together with pumice stones and around. us tottered and though we stood
black pieces of burning rock. they were upon open ground, yet as the place was
in danger, too, not only of being aground, narrow anti confined there was no re•
by the sudden retrofit of the sea, but maining without imminent danger; we
also from the vest fragments which therefore resolved to quit the town.
rolled down from the mountain and ob- A panic-stricken crowd followed US.
StrUCt0a all the shores. and, as to a mind distracted. with terra
Here he stopped th consider Wbether every suggestion seems more prudent
CANADIAN
NEWS
seemed to be followingeus, spreading it- A conventionp of coal (mien will be
self over the country -like a cloud, "Let :
• held at London this week to fix prices
and settle ether trade matters.
us turn out of the high road," I said,
"while we can still see, for fear that I Mary •Neapoe ent end.
t •
should wo fall in the road, we should he , Moab were Injured in jumping flout a
pressed to death in the dark, by the I burning street ear at Toronto.
crowds that aro following ite." We had 1 The Fenelon Falls Furniture Company
scarcely sat down when iught came upon has assigned to N. L. Martin, of Toron-
us, not such as we Lave when the sky to, with liabilities of $100,000.
is cloudy, or when there is no moon, joseph Roselli, an Itahan cigar smug -
but that of a room when it is shut up
and all the light put out. glee, was fine(' by Mr. IT. R. lerankland,
Toronto, collector of Minna revenue;
You might bear the shrieks of women,
the- screens of children, shoute of Frank Bilton, well-known Toronto
Young man, died. very suddenly in St.
Alicbael's Hospital on Saturday night.
111011 1 R01110 calling for their eluldren,
others for their parents, others for their
husbauds, and seeking to recognize each
other by the voices that replied; oue
lementing his own fate, another that of
hes family; some wishing to die, from the
very fear of (lying; some lifting their
hands to the gods, but the greater part
convinced that there were now no gods
at all, and that the final endless night
of which we have heard had come some
who augmented the real terrors by othe•.s
imaginary or wilfully hwented. I remem-
ber some who declared that one part or
Misenum had fallen, that another was
on fire; it was false, but they found pea -
plc to believe them. It now grew rather
lighter, which wo iniagined to be rather
the forerunner of an
Approaching Burst.
of flames (as in truth it was) than the
return of day; however, the fire fell at
a distance from us; then again we were
immersed in thick darkness and. a heavy
shower of ashes rained upon us, which
we were obliged ever now and then to
stand up and shake off, otherwise we
should have been crushed and buried in
the heap.
I might boast that during all this scene
of horror not a sigh or expression of
fear escaped me, had not my support
been grounded in that miserable though
mighty consolation that all mankind were
involved in the same calamity, and that
I was perishing with the world itself.
At last this dreadful darkness was dis-
sipated by degrees, like a cloud or smoke;
the real day returned, and even the sun
shone out, though with a lurid light, as
when an eclipse is coming on. Every
object that presented itself to our eyes
(which were extremely weakened) seem-
ed changed, being covered deep with
ashes as if with snow. We returned to
Misenum, where we relreshed ourselves
as well as we could, and passed an anxi-
ous night between hope and fear, though
indeed, with a much larger share of the
latter, for the, earthquake still continued,
while many frenzied persons ran up and
down, heightening their own and their
friends' calamitice by terrible predic-
tions. However, my mother and 1, not-
withstanding the clanger we had passed.,
and that lehich still threatened us, bad
no thoughts of leasing the place till we
could receive some news of my uncle!
And now you will read this narrative
without any view of inserting 11 111 your
history, of which it is not in the tenet
worthy, and, indeed, you must. put it
down to your own interest if it should
•oppear not worth even the trouble of a
letter. Farewell.
• he should turn back again to which, titan its own, pressed. on us in dense
.....
the pilot advisiag him, "attine," said array to (hive us fotwitrd as 110 came
he, "favors the heave; steer to where out. Being at it convenient distance
Pomponianus is." Pomponianus was then from the riouses, WV StOOlt stilt in. the
at Stabiae (Castelawara), separated by midst of it most dangerous and dreadful
a bay which the sea, after several insens- scene. The chariots, which we had or-
ible windings, (Ivrea to be drawn out, were so agitated
Forms With the Shore. backwartt and, forward, though upon tho
most level ground, that we coule not
Ho bad already sent his baggitte on keep them steady, even by supporting Fire early yesterday mornine iota e
board, for, though he WAS not at that teem with large stones, 'the sea seem- Nam dOtriet also look wen.
=tend, April 13.—Prospects were nee. deetroyed the residence owned' by Cot.
time in actual danger, yet being within ed to roll Niel: upon itself, ima to be er totter saki a 'wen -known marleulfuriet. A. A, Wiley, eommitmlant of A Battery,
!tight of it, and indeed extremely near, if driven from its banks by the convulsive resarding weent, driver and teeditonditiol Quebee, rola oeottood by Sberiff Georg,'
ternined to put to. sea as soon as the least the shore tens consiaerably enterer- wintered NV 0 11. if
Is This a Poser?
N. Y. Sun.—Herc is a question for
those who like to occupy their minds
with ethical speculation:
Pompeii is one of the priceless poss-
essions of mankind. The destruction of
every town around Vesuvius, apart from
any loss of human life, would. be re-
garded throughout the civilized world
as a disaster Incomparably less serious
than the obliteration of Pompeii as it
exists to -day.
Suppose a stream of lava which would
otherwtee overwbelm the remains of
Pompeii and bury them forever, could
be averted by the involuntary sacrifice
of it single life—let us say that of an
obscure. inortally diseased, disreputable,
worthless person inhabiting Torre dell'
Annunziata; aud suppose the question
as to whether the lava should swallow
up Pompeii or this single individual
was to be decided by secret ballot of all
the educated Christians on earth.
Would. the majority of the educated
Christians of the world, each voting
honestly his preference and knawing
that the character of his vote would
never be disclosed, decree the destruc-
tion of what is left of Pompeii or the
extinction of this one worthless life in
Torre dell' Annunziata?
The Toronto Board of Controlagreed
to recommend the construction of a $00,-
000 high school in Riverdale.
The net earnings of the 1.‘emiskalung
& Northern Ontario Rai/way for January
and February totalled $19,408, the gross
earnings being $50,520.
The New Brunswick Barristers' Soci-
ety will recommend tbe admission of
Miss French, who will be the first lady
barrister of the Province.
Grace Henshaw, of West Nissouri, is
suing W. 13. McFarland, of the slime
place, for breach of promise, at the As-
size Court in London next week.
The body of John Hynds, an employee
of the Kingston gas works, who disap-
peared on the night of December 31st
last, has been found in the river at King-
ston.
For fishing in Toronto Day with it
net, Melford Byron, a young man, was
3.esterday fined $20 and costs
Dominion trade returns for the last
nine menthe Show an increase of nearly
$50,000,000 over the same period. last
year.
Navigation is open at Fort William
and Sault Ste. Marie, and a large fleet
of boats cleared from Midland for Lake
Superior.
Aloysius Burgess Smith, the two-year-
old son of Thomas Smith, contractor, of
Ottawa, is dead as it result of eating
canned tomatoes.
The second aunual meeting of the
Friends' Association opened on S.aturday
in Toronto, with Mr. W. G. Brown, the
President, in the chair.
The Department of Lands and Mines
has extended to May 18 the time for re-
ceiving tenders for the pulpwood conces-
sions in the Rainy River and Nipissing
districts.
Charles Martin, a young rancher, .11ed
at Medineine Hat, from the effects. of in-
juries sustained in a runaway. His 'leek
was broken, but he lived 48 hours attn.-
• wards.
• Rev. John McNeil, of Winnipeg, 'has
necepted the call to the pastorate of
Weimer Road Baptist Church, Toronto.
His message to that effect was read to
the congregation yesterday morning, und
referred to 'Romans xv., 30-32.
The Government has decided to join
the United States in an international
commission to consider and report upon
measures for the protection of fisheries
in the inland waters en the nternational
boundary.
Stanley Crawford, 11 years old, of St.
-Tulin, N. 11., was severely assaulted a few
days ago by Frail. Lisbey, a 12 -year-old
schoolmate, and died last evening, after
having had several hemorrhages, with in-
tense suffering.
WHEAT AND FRUIT.
Prospects for Another Good Harvest in
Ontario.
Guelph, April the fall wheat-grew-
ing townships of this county, ruslinch,
Guelph and Eralii0Sa, the plant has never
weathered a more successful winter than
t five years. In the northern
The lifeless body of Angus :McDonald,
formerly manager of the King Edward
Hotel, Cobalt, was .founa at 7 o'clock yes-
terday morning by Section Foreman
Hughes between the rails on the T. &
0. Railway track.
About twenty hardware merchant*.
from different parts of Ontario met at
Toronto yesterday and formed an or -
(Ionization to he knewn as the Retell
Hardware and Stove Dealers' Associa-
tion of Onatrio.
Coroner Sutton's jury in the death
of the infant found under a pile of wood
in the shed of the Presbyterian Church
at, Port Credit reached. a verdict. The
jury hold that the babe came to its
death owing to neglect anti exposure.
The Liberals have carried. the previa -
dal be -election at Lethbridge, Alta. Sim-
mons being S7 in the lead over Sherman
(Labor), and 155 over Kiffer (Conserva-
tive), with only three small polls to hear
from, which will not alter the result.
The western Secretaryship of the
Lord's Day Alliance has been offered to
Rev. Mr. Rochester, of Kenora, Man. He
will accept as then as lie can be relieved
from his pastoral duties. He will have
jurisdiction from Winnipeg to the coast.
A deficit was reported in the Nude of
the Ontario Sunday School Association
at the semi-annual meeting of the gener-
al Executive Committee held in Toronto.
Tit receipts were $3,489.37, and the dis-
bursements $3.707.73, the difference be-
ing covered by a bank overdraft.
Joseph Yott, Merlin hotelman, was
,.44.t."Inf.,,nme.RITarl.w. .
ott January 12th, three days after the TEN HAI /Rs Dipriiiirm
warrant had been, issued for his arrest.
Contracts for the Winnipeg -Superior 'ILI UMW
Junction and Quebec -Ism Tuque sections 14 t)
sf the National Transcontinental Broil.
way have been awarded to the loweet thicAG0 AND N Ew yoRK,
tenderers, Mr. J. B. MacArthur, of Win-
nipeg, and Messrs, Hogan & .11facdonald,
respectively. Mr. MacArthur's bid is in . .
the neighborhood of $13,250,000, while
that of Messrs, Hogan & Macdonald. ap.
proximates $5,750,000.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
The embarkation of German troops
from Pekin began on Thursday morning.
John NVarren, wanted in Toronto, on a
charm of burglary gave himself up to
the Suffalo police.
Speed of 75 Miles an Hour on Proposed Eleetrie
Air Line Between These Cities.
A Short Line and Everything Will be Sacrificed
for Speed and Distance.
Chicago, Atiril 10. --Ten hours be- was organized. to build tha road, the
All grades of refined sugar were re -
shorter than iiny steam road now eon -
New York to -day. operated. by electricity and making an
Limn Chicago and New York, on trains line will be 742 miles long, or 200: milee
:Weed tea cents handred pounds at
meting the two cities. Part of the line
The nutrriage of King Alfonso and overage speed of 75 miles an hour is alreadY has been surveyed. '1.'he first sec -
Princess Ena of Battenberg has been de- the plan of ----------------------- Chicago tion of the road to be built according te
finitely fixed for Juno lst.
It is reported that six.persons were
killed and. several injured. in the tornado
whi/ch swept over Briggs, Texas, on
Thursday afternoon.
John F. Wallace, of New York, luta
been selected third arbitrator in the
wage dispute between Gm Grand Trunk
and ita eegincers.
The Standard Oil Co. to -day an-
nounced an additional advance in the
priee of refined oil and gasoline of 5,S,
a cent per gallon.
So far as known Easter passed quiet-
ly throughout the Russian empire. No
despatches ehronicling anti-Semitie disor-
ders were received during the night.
.According to reports received at Col-
umbus, th, from Illinois, Indiana, some,
mines in these States are filling with wa-
ter because pump men and engineers
have quit work.
The steamer St. Paul, which arrived
in New York on Sunday from South-
ampton and. Cherbourg, brought the por-
trait of Benjamin Frankltn, which was
restored to America by Earl Grey, Gov-
ernor-General of Canada.
The Ann Arbor and Detroit, Toledo &
Ironton Railroads have decided to bow
to the will of the people regarding the
two-eent-a-mile railroad rate and will ob-
serve it in interstate as well as state
business.
The annual convention of the Imper-
ial Connell, Ancient Arabic Order of
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. will be heti
tide year in Los Angeles, 'Cal., May 7
to 10.
"If your boats were of steel,"
said a marine underwriter to
the owner of it fleet of wooden steamers
in Chicago yesterday, "we should. like to
talk business to you. But we cau do no-
thing with wooden boats."
The 1,200 millers of the Great Lakes
Coal Company at Kayior, Pa., who were
called out on a strike yesterday because
the company refused to sign the wages
scale, returned to work to -day, tbe scale
having been signed.
Croat Bvitain has begun to vigorously
Press negotiations for an Auglo-Ituesian
entente, with the purpose of completing
the triple alliance of Great Britain.
Franco and Russia against Germany,
;01iiiieelyi.lias long been the aim of British
Iter. 13. A, Badgett, for mail), years
prominent in :Nfethodist ministry of the
State of Georgia, was taken into cus-
tody at llillsboro, on Wednesday, suf -
ferins apparently from a mental deranee-
mene. and on Thursday his dead bay
was found hanging from a bar of the
cell window, a blanket having been used
al a rope.
The Londen Express reports that Dr.
Legran Nerten Denelow, an Americau
consulting, physician, who is now 'stay-
ing in London, has dieeoveeed mire for
locomotor e Lexie, with which lie has
accomplished a number of wonderful re-
coveries from this hitherto incurable dis-
OftSe.
About Ull'00 hundred horses and mules
were burned to death in a fire of an un-
known origin that completely destroyed
the auction stables of Moses Fox, on
North street, Baltimore, early to -day.
The damage is estimated at about $05,-
000.
tito townships thero is scarcely any fall wheat / sentenced to four months in the county
or
sown, as the ground is too clamp. Clciver jail at Chatham yesterday for selling li-
b laved with wheat; it also looks
splendid.
Welland, April 13.—Wheat in this section
la very fair. GraSSO3 of all kinds are
good, with few exceptions.
Et. Catharines, April U.—Judging front
what the fruit.growers around hero say,
there will probably be a bumper crop in
Niagara district this year. Bverything has
*Intered execedingly well, the growers de-
clare, and there Is every prospect for a large
crop of peachea, cherries, plums and pears
There aro not a very great number of apple
trees left in um Niagara. district owing to
the ravagea of tho San Jaso scale, but what
trees remain show excellent indications. Tho
-t • berry plants Nviiitered well. Other crops
quer without a license. Merlin is a local
option town, and there have been practi-
cally four charges .against him for in-
fringement. Yott pleaded guilty.
' A death that leaves it family bereaved
in one ehort week of both parents occur-
red yesterday, when Mrs. Wm. Muldrew,
aged 75 years, passed away ftt the resi-
dence of her daughter, Mrs. Win. Mick-
ley, of Toronto. just six days after the
death of bcr husband, Wm. Muldrew. who
died last Huntley at the age of 80 years.
road. Lino Bail- the promoters will be out of Chicago, and
and New York Electric Air
work on this, ona of the incorporators
said last night, will begin soen.
The scheme appears to be far in the In choosinsg the route no attention 15
future, however, It is asserted that paid to whether tho lino runs through
"Some of the right of way has been se- large cities or not as now surveyed the
cured," but the projectors decline to road will be eight miles south of South
say how much. They hope to have the •Bend, Indiana and at that point, it is pro.
posed to build a station and run it spur ,
road in operation in five years. Into the city. The same plan will be fol.
As tbe name implies, the proposed road lowed where the road passes near any
will sacrifice everything for speed and ether city. These spur lines will be con -
distance. Aecording to the statement of fleeted with the street railway systems
.fonathan P. Price, President of the CO- in each town and it is proposed to run
operative construetion company, whicli freight trains at night.
GUELPH MAN SLASHED KM[[.
Buffalo Dishwasher Cuts Him With a Carving
Knife in a Quarrel.
Detroit, Sept. 10. --Owing to hie lack
'if knowledge. of the manner in which
bluffs are called in some circles, Alvin V.
afatthews, 18 years old, who says that
he only kft Guelph, Ont., two weeks dg0
to come here to work, slept last night
lit a cell at the Franklin street station,
,vhere lie was taken after the surgeons
it the Riverside Accident Hoepital had,
,iewed up a ettperfitile chest waund two
Oldies long in 1114 loft breast.
In another cell elept Paul R. Baney,
le is accused of cutting Matthews and
was arrested by Patrolman /Byes just
nitside of the hotel at 1.19 Mein street,
rheit Mattliewe woeks as a waiter and
loamy as a diehwasber.
A man weut to the kitchen •of hotee
in lower Main street last night and of-
fered to work for enough food to keep
him alive. He got a meal, but was not
asked. to do any work. Ile went away
with thanke.
Matthews remarked to the dishwather,
Paul R. Baney, that the diehwa•eher had
not eelled the proprietor's attention to
the man's offer to de a little work.
"You're a liar!" said Baney.
Matthews bad Me coat off in it jiffy,
just Ili a bluff, ho saye. Raney grabbed
it carving knife. In. the clinch, Matthews
1Nift.S, slashed across the chest. The own-
ers, of the place, Oharlee Manse' and
George Brigand, disarmed Baney and
separated the pair. Then Matthews
them Baney out of the door into the
new, of Patrolman Tommy Hayee, who
locked him up .on the charge of assault
in the first degree.
N. Y. MAN MURDEROUSLY ASSAULTED
Police
Had to Protect the Man Accused of Com
miffing the Deed.
New York, April 1 0.—Thomas Mither,
well-known contractor, forty-eight
years of age, and whose home is at
Cambreling and Pelham avenues, was
xaylaid and murderously assaulted, on
!'elham avenue, a short distance from
his home, early to -day. He was knocked
lown and received. a dozen cuts from a
razor. He was removed to a hospital,
where, it was said, he bad a chance of
recovery. The assault WAS witnessed by
several persons, who later caused the ar-
:est of Robert II. Scott, aged 35 years,
uul colored. who is said to have been
Oirmerly in Maher's employ.
The first break in the ranks of the op -
craters in the Massillon, Ohio. district
came last night when five operators sign-
eti 1903 scale. The three largest op-
erators in the district are still holding
out against the demands of the miners.
The five operators who signed employ
about 400 miners.
John Walsh, roadmaster on the Rut-
land Railroad, at Malone Junction, arose
early this morning and took a spoonfid
of carbolic acid, which, in tbe dark, he
mistook for cough medicine, and die4
in ten minutes. Ile was 45 years old and
is survived by it widow and four chil-
dren.
Rev. J. Edmund Smear., pastor of St.
Aon's Roman Catholic Church, died at
Waterbury, Conn., of a complication of
diseases.. He was born in Notre Dame
de Stanbridge, Canada, 46 years ago aud
• was graduated from the Montreal Sem-
inary.
The miners and operators of the Mer-
cer and Butler County fields of the Pitts-
burg district reached an agreement on
the wage scale last night which will be
effective for two years. The miners
were granted. an advance, but it is a com-
promise 011 the 1903 scale demanded.
About 1,500 miners who have been on a
strike, will return to work immediately.
Details of the tornado which Thursday
wrecked the luunlet of Briggs, 40 miles
north of Austin, Texas, aro learned
today aria while no deaths bave resulted
as at first reported, a score or more are
so badly injurea it is feared that many
will die. Among the buildings destroy-
ed was the new publie seheol
Many residences were swept from their
foundations.
The question of the marital status of
Maxime Gorky, the Russian author mul
socialist, who arrived at New York last
week, has not been officially brought to
the attention of the Deparonent of
Commerce ard Labor, nor is it known
in Washingten what steps, if any, are
being taken by the Immigration Commis-
sioner at New York to ascertain tite
truth of the itaaertion that Gorky has
not been 'divorced and that his real svife,
.together with their children, is still in
ssussa.
CANADIAN SCIENTIST'S DEATII,
I t ' e lie IV" de* lotion of at* earth; it is certain at . •• ; •
owe( tame -beet t coml. y. Ica itis
t t 1 TT. Hope, of Delleville. The coeteuts
. Pref. MacCalluin, of the University of imnped from the tower up 211.1.
eels compelled. to nacond. The rope held peraonallY respousible for out -
the added wanting that they would be
Scott was arrested only after the N..
lice reserves had been called out to pro-
tect him from a crowd which, attracted
by Maher's cries, had followed the negro
to his home, several blocks from the
scene of the assault. Scott had barri-
caded the doors of his home and prepar-
ed to make a stout resistance, when two
policemen arrived. Forcing their way to
the front of the house, the officers drew
their revolvers and stood off the rapidly
increasing and ugly tempered crowd un-
til the arrival of the reserves. The rein-
forced police secured Scott and after
some difficulty got him through the
crowd and to the station house.
THEY LYNCHED TWO INNOCENT MEN.
A Revulsion of Feeling Has Now Set In at Spring-
field, Mo.
Sprhigfield, .April mob of prison, whieh had been wrecked earlier
3,000 men to -night took Horace Duncan in the night.
In addition to sending soldiers to
Ind Jim Copeland, negroes, from the
law, Governor Folk took quick action to
God- law,
against further violation of the
litoteseUall prosecute the leaders of last night's mob.
iounty jail,ertlyiangoiel(lutileimeiolutito
The Governor authorized it, reward of
ss of Lib
$300 each for the arrest and conviction
'milt a, fire under them and roasted them
of members of the mob. This is the
to death. The men were charged with
limit allowed by law. In addition he in-
assaultiug Mabel Edwards, but it is said
General, to go to Springfield at once to
structed Rusk Lake, Assistant Attorney-
-hey were probably innocent.
aid in the ferreting out And prosecuting
Last night while Mies Edawrds and a
of the leaders in last night's work.
—
young man mulled Cooper were out rid. -
se • gfield, Mo., April Ie.—Quiet prc-
,ng in it boggy they WM. stopped by
1,.illianhere to -day amt. the indications
wo negroes who beat (•ooper into un -
mere that the race trouble was over. The
emulousness aud drugged elise Edwards
presence of troops has had the effect of
li‘i.migieg people to a full realization of
into the woods by the roadside and as-
saulted her. Duncan and Copeland wen'
the mtuat1on. The last of the State
arrested on suspicion, but there WilS 110 •
widence against them.
she jail to -night, and on learning that
the negrocs were not there, hastened to
sonfined.
the county jail, where the prisoners were
mob stormed the residence of the county
-Sheriff, breakillg (101111 doors, smashing
:ower part of the house and rendering
xindows and destroying furniture in ine
One thousand mon gathered around
Instead of attacking, the jail first the
imis fr7 mestio, had declared
01121 patrol the streets.
arrived early to -day,
With
last eyeing there came a. revulsion
of sentiment. Before midnight a decided
reaction had set in, and people began to
condemn. the mob that. lynched the three
negroes and burned their bodies. To -day
this feeling gained strength, especially
when it became thoroughly appreciated
that Mabel Edmondson, the white do -
With thc first appearance of tho sol -
and six companies
militia ordered here by Governed Folk
the Sheriff's wife unconse
fright and. violence. Overcoming resist -
Duncan .mul Copeland,
ance of the Sheriff and a posse .of depu-
This alsa was heightened by the arrival
tiN.iso.ositoifveliyhe Unmet,
Lies, the mob secured the key iu the 3aii
Folk,
end gained entrance thereto. Tho mob
hod no difficulty in finding the cells of ,
torney-general, sent by Governor
gyms lynched, were not her assailants.
Duncan and. Copeland. When tho com-
to aid the county officials in ferreting
from Jefferson City of an assistant at-
mittea who entered the jail came Toiiiirt:
elamor for summitry execution, shout -
with the two negroes the mob began to .
mob, the names of mauy of whom are
out and proaeouting the members of tho
ing, "Bang them," "Burn them."
known.
negsoes were taken to the public square :
-4 '...•
and halved to a statue of the Goddess
41 Liberty and a fire kindled under them,
with which they were waked, 3,060 per- i
eons watching their [teeny.
murder of 0. 'M. Donark hiet janitors.. No Effect.
but protesting innoeence, waa taken
from tho jail early this morning by the St. Petersburg,. April 15. —The Easter
mob that; lynelted Mimes Duncan and fisqivtil, the anniversary of the Jewish
.Tim Copeland, two other negtoea, before inat.saeres at Kishineff and other places,
midnight. Allen was haueed in the pub- hoPPily was not atained this ,year by
lie square to the same rower that had anti-jewish excesses, so Inc its was te-
as a scaffold for tile two negroes Posted upto midnight. The measures
killed earlier in the. night. taken by the central Government and
Allen was ealm and collected as he the erders sent to the provincial mi.
• ...it Ise us thorities tato every precaution, with
NO MASSACRE OF JEWS.
Will Allen, a negro. charged with the The Measure Taken by Authorities Ilad
1 in Breit This ael.ears tn e tie meta
\tend, which was blowing dead inshore. ed, end. eeveral •sea animate were left up Criniaby, Arai tee coming ot
should go down. It was favoraldc, *how- on it. On the ot ot It
over, for carrying my uncle to Pompon- dreadful ritual. broken with rill
-)11` •••:'rsason nuwe srontisina than that of WC.
„ aistt•ist Das Martell in earnest. Never w
The Post Offiee 'Departme•nt 1M11 R a
consternation; he embraced him tender- shaped eren er ssasara, withal make the beat ,„„._
-1" 5 • notioe attains( that the General Post -
o ton. has lately eallel Mien- tominat diacaso for silents _tree yams, .r. sous ... en was it on up ie
s;i1.1.: After struggling vainly sompanion.a in prison. Dunean an,
" 1). 'I 1 All t 1. tl t • •i• -.A '
encouraging awl urging him to keep Masses of Flame: male-, for the aroecrty-owners of this rich %/limes
!tint Bruce MiseCallum. assistant .pro- nemin and compelled to 3mnp. Thi- CANOEISTS UPSET.
wbom be found in the greatest sag Modica, revealed belthul it variousiy ' „..„ fee an excellent
tip his spirits, and, the more effectually these last were like. sheet lightning, but gordeniug rectIon.
Web lee n tion ta sei oral cages -of parcels mailed
"f P11:".101°gY lit the Stale rower- time his captors were more sueveseful in
•
• • • I a nine eork throughout tho Niagara fruit
iff Hope, his wife anA two daaighters California, Deeply Mourned. about his rack broke as huts weight Ie. breaks, apparently were effeetwe.
the house were tool's es lose( • .
barely escaped in. their eight clothes.. The San Francisco Chronicle of Apt•il on it, end lie dropped into the pyre eon- though the danger will not be over until
1 1 dosPotell from tabling the charred bodies of MR former tha Easter iitsisa.„re rum].
pening Of a new eanning fac- in Carta& addressed to the Muted. bang- '.• •
to soothe his fears by seemingly lincon- lintels larger. tory at neamsville, a short distance below
tioni.e.ebeielo. en beins opened at 1 iver- sits?, passed away shortly after midnight their work. Agricultural Student Rescued From
corned himself, ordered •it, bath to be got Upon this our Spanish friend, whom I bere, the nardenera exeeet much better f. Oda morning bis lodging place on "T swear that am not 'guilty of kill- Drowning at Guelph.
ready, Ana then, after having bathed, mentioned. above, addressed himself to times esid a freer street:mon of money. porn Tor customs exammaiton, oave been • .
Channing Way ing Rouork" were his last worda, Guelph, April 15.—On Friday two Eng.
sat down to slipper with great 'accent. my mother and me with great energy Professor 'SfiteCtilltim was unmarried. The lynciiing took plaee under stit- lialt students at the Ontario Agrictiltural
found to cootain nutteltea.
nests or at least (what is jilat herole), and urgeney: "ff your brotfier." he Paid. TWO MEN "CUED. Clivist'nplior I:Tolland, the Ideal 'oca• it is survived by his parents and two toe representing "justice" that sm.- College went up the river in a canoe.
with every eppeftratice of it. if your mule be safe, lie set•tainly wish- • Keitora, Apr. .0 . oolit stts.o .a.nyaly ding bookkeeper, reached Toronto sisters.; who live in London, Canada, ansa mounted the eleetrie light tower on ti e They outiq opposite tile 1)1l)( mills. Mr.
n Is t
Afestirwldie brona fiarnea shone out irt is you may be se too; but if he perish- oeenrred last night at Siewart's came at yesterday from England in the enstmly by it Mother, who 14 511 110001:qv profespublic stow. Walter fartunately Am outside,
!leveret places froni afount Vesuvius, od it, was Ilia desire. no dolibt, that 'Riddell, east of Ifewls. Two inell were of 1),•teetive 'omelde. 1Tolland is Mumma at doling napkins rniseraity, sus As soon IN Allol Wag a;•ati aeveral men asil hearing the eries for help ran to the
\Odell the darkneee of the night, contribmight both aurrive him; why. 111 (1,14 • charging holes \Olen a premature mplo- with the theft of $13,808, which, it al- father, Dr. G. alavcallum, is the aludi. luaus' hack to the jail for Bat cane, a risor. One seillig man was on the hauls
'Med to render still brighter awl clearer. do you delay your esrapo a moment 'f" sion neenriaal. sending them both to leatil, ho obtained by padding the pay tell Superintemlent of the tendon Asy- mcgpo neengea also of the murder ef exhausted. while the other wAs
But my uncle, ill order to seethe the ap- Wo could never think of our own safelY, - eternity. Their names are UnknOW11 400tR and using Sig110d cheeks- left with 1)r. MacOalluta was born in 1870 aeonark, but ha. six of the to the Upturned canoe. Mr. Bailey sWftM
preliensions of hi friend, assured hirti it we said, while we wereuncertain 01 uncertof bis. here. him by the manager
. Ile left the city at Dunnville, Ont. pDa
risoners in jau d escaped from the. Out Ana safely landett the young nittio