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The Wingham Advance, 1907-03-14, Page 7COMMITTED FOR TRIAL LEFT ESTATE OF $75,000. Late Da Oronliyateltha DIVided It Be - 1 tween Son and Daughter. Torouto ,Aferch 11.—The will of the mRaiIIoit4UDER l.E 1t:g4D5.0?gentiteepttlumen: of101, S esters, was read to the family and ins tenet() friende at "The Pines!" .neer Doe - tante, after the interment in the vault at De onto, The will menet; the thuou Chortle Truet Company as executor and certain Healed instructions are handed, over to the cpmpany. Theestate, including realty, vermin- , alty and life ineurance, amounts to ' about $75,000, The principal benefieiaries are: ,Dr. Aelaud Oronhytitekha'the son, and Mrs, la:my Johnston, the daughter. In ((rattan contiugenciee other parties will be benefited. On the death of his son deceased has directed that his interest in Foresters' Island should go to the order. The late D. Oronliyateltha had given the Orphans' Home and the land surrounding it and the castle to the order. On the demise of lee son the log cabin nue the remainder of the island, exeept the Wigwam and the and attaihed, which are owued, by Mrs. John - Aston, will go to the order. "The Pines" le a farm of 150 acres, which descended to the late Dr, Won. hyatekbe from his forefather, A lease- hold of 150 acres is attaehetl to the home- stead, Tbis property is left to his son. Sufficient of the personalty to divide the estate equally goes to the daughter. Deceased carried $5,000 life insurance in the Foresters and a policy for about $30,000 in another company. In addi- tion, there are other small policies, bringing the total insurance to about $40,000. o. , 4.4 4-4-4-•-• Mrs. Perkins Will Have to Face Murder at Cayuga Next Month. A. Cayuga speeial despateh: The sensational evidence that it was expecte ed the Crown wotad spring iu the pre- liminary hearing in the ease of Airs. Mettle Cany-Peraine, of Canfield, charg- ed with tee murder a her hueband, Henry Perkin, on Christmas Day, did not come out and it remained for the Justices of the Puttee to do something tut usual, At the conclusion of the Crowe' case and without aeking counsel for the se accused if they intended to call any wit- nesses for the defence, Justice Harri- son announced that lie aud Ms colleague on the bench had decided to commit the prisoner for trial, without hewing any argument. Mr. Johnston wee indignant at the ac- tion of the justices and. said he had a right to 'address the eourt in regard to the cam. Ile said he would not say much in view of the remarkable action of the presiding justices of the peace, further than to express his great surprise thet- a woman should be committed for trial— be compelled to remain: in jail after a - preliminary hearing in which not a par- ticle of evidence had been adducea to connect her with the crime of which she was charged. The sudden termination of the ease and the action of the J. P.'s was a mat- ter of great surmise in the courtroom, as few present expected the Crown's cue would be so weak and fewer con- sidered that the treatment accorded the counsel for the prisoner was justified or that the woman should have been held on sa the evidence given. The Rana crowd r'quickly filed out of the court house and there were soon little knots of people on the street corners discussing the case. Judging by the conversations a big change has taken place in the minds of the people here in the past two days and public sympathy is now with Mrs. Perkins. Crown Attorney Murphy stated later that the Crown had not shown all its lutncle but admitted that the testbnony of Tom McDonald, his mother and some other witnesses had proved a disappcdnt- "A.s far as 1 dare." "Ever farther than dared?" "No, never." Dilse admitted he never thought thing about the stove incident tia kins .died end John Perkins had with Wee, Curtis :Reece, Junction, knew Saw her and. Tom, the track, toward arm, This was leg. .e Homer Ashbourne, another employee at Caefiled Junction, saw Toni McDonald and the prisoner to- gether -once, to meet train at the Junc- tion. On another be the same couple The Star Witness. Thomas McDonald, hardware merchant at Canfield, was next called. When lie stepped to the stand, there was sup- presed excitement in the court room.'..Nic- Donald was red in the face end seemed to be trying hard to appear unconcern- ed. To the Crown he said he had known Mrs. Perkins three years. He treated her like other women, gallantly. Mrs. Perkins once asked him to guess how much in.oney she had made as a eh dressmaker since e came to Canfield.. She told. him $500. She never spoke to him about her husband making a will or what rights she would have in case her husband died. without a Will - "Did. you hear her talking about ter rights?" "L will swear did. not hear what she said." aDid she say she had. consulted. any- body about her rights?" "I don't know whetner she said she had seen Murphy or was going to see him." "What were her feelings toward you, as expressed?" "How can he tell," interjected Mr. johnstoe. "He has already told," replied Crown you signai men at Mrs, Perkins by elclionald walking Canfield, their about 7.30 in the any - Per. talk Canfield sight.08 in arm even. railway saidILC occasion saw men . Attorney Murphy. Miss Moodie's Evident 1 "Did she ever compare you with her Miss Mary Moodie, of Canfield, was late husband?" the first witness at this afternoon's SPA "I don't remember." sion. She recalled a convey tionii—ad. unci`Wdahp did she say in respect to bus - with Airs. Perkins in regard tsott.Perkins' "- health. Mrs. Perkins said he had ulcers "I could not say that she said any- .' thine" and was going like his father, and his „ae: death was a, matter or only a few were you ever alone with her at her months. house at night?" C. C. Hall, Welland, contracbor, said "I was there one night putting up a , Perkins (worked for him a few days last etove and I was alone with h t f er par o mons eay the Hine." October. He remembered P 1 '. once that his stomaah Wirt him. 'How late was this?" Mrs. William Spencer, Welland knew "It was after 12 .o'clock when I got Perkins for about two months prior to through. Mother was there most of the his death, he having boarded with her. thee." He did not complain of his health, and Continuing, in answer to questions by he lost no time from work. The prison- the Crown, he said he once drove from er mice visited Perkins at her house and the farm with Mrs. Perkins. alone and Perkins remarked that he would probe,. once he walked along the railway track bly eeturn to his home nt. Canfield. Mrs. with her. Perkin's remarked to him that she did "Ever load or unload hay in the barn os not want him to i..come home and lie or in the field alone with the prisoner?" around doing nothing." "I did not. Oh, excuse me did you say Witness gathered that .lhere was no hay or oats?" said the witness. work at Canfield for the deceased to do, "Well, hay or oats?" Nelson Flanders. a, neighbor of the de- "Yes, we loaded a wagon with oats eeaeed, said. he never heard Perkins coin- once on the ftwm. Mother was fixing the plain about his heath. fence at the side of the farm at the Joel Smith, a, builder, had employed time." . Perkins at Canfield, in 1005. Perkins "Two weeks prior to the death, when appeared to enjoy good health and two she returned from 'Welland, what re- deem was all the time he knew of him Port did. she give of Henry's health?" losing from work on that account. "She never told me.'; Dead Man's Brother Testifies. "Have you been asked and pressed John Perkins, of Winnipeg, brother of to tell a different story than you are the deceased, identified a letter proem -telling now?" "Yes, I have." ed by the Crown, as one he received. from the deceased's wife. Mr. Johnston, after "Have you lime pressed to sey that the letter to the prisoner (showing , ad, you had improper relations with this witted -the signature. woman?" Wetness told of secieg the prisoner at "Yee Canfield on Feb. 60, when. they spoke "That will do." Crown Attorney Murphy wanted to of a settlement of the property. He clear the skirts of the crown, and askedtold her she should try to help him to him if he took any advantage of him find out who poisoned her husband and at any time and if he (Murphy) did not she aid she was stemeeted, but they °Guide% prove it mite.ss they swore to a tell him to consult his father before sign - peek of lies. She also said that if ing a statement. "Mr. Murphy is not reflected upon for she were forced to defend herself she a minute," said. Mr. Johnston, "he was band's estate. He asked her if it were would use up every dollar of her hus- not the man that made the threats against McDonald." sae suicide, and she replied that Henry McDonald said he had no complaint r would. not do such a thing; that if . Kerr against Mr. Murphy and said Detective there was any poison in him Dr Greer saw him several times when. Mr. must have given. it to him. r "You and your brother were not Maphy was not present. Ile admitted that after signing the very friendly," began Mr. Johnston. "I never had anything against him," paper, he went back without again see - replied the witnees. ing ii,, and requested it change made in Queetioned by Mr. Johnston, the wit- it. nese denied that there was any bad feel- "eVae any advantage taken of you by ing between the deceased tuul himself, the crown at all?" but said that lie haa only written five or "The statement was not my words." six 'eters to his brother in ten years. All "Was the substance?" . the detters pertained to either his fath- "Not quite." er's estate or his father's death. Deceas- "Did you not say that she said she ed did not rtnewer the Wet letters that would like to have ti. mau like me and be 'wrote. Witness relmitteel that he then revise it?" uederstooa there was hard feeline on "I told you she never said. that." the part of leis sisters toward Mrs.°Per- "That closes the case," said. Mr. . kins, and that be objected to his father Murphy. "I shall request the court deeding the farm to his brother Henry. upon the evidence to send the prison - The first thing he did on hearing of ei to trial." Henry Perkine death was to write Mrs. "We have considered the matter " Perkins,. and ask her if there was a will, said Magistrate Harrison, without loofa and if the deceased had, any insurtuice. ing et his colleague, "and we will sena With much difficulty Mr. Jolmsten got her for tam Mr, Perkins to admit that in the letter Mr. Johnston jumped up. "There is be expreseed no sorrow for the widow. not a tittle of evidence to connect this He said he had not been in this country woman with any' poison et all and, ' for 24 years, and he eame this time to granted that he died of poison and find out who poisoned his lirother, and if strychnine, there is nothing to connect Mrs. Perkins did the deed to see her the prisoner with it. I am surprised punished. that such a thing would take place in Witness did not take Mrs. Perkins' this county, and I mean what I say." etatement to mean that the doctor lied After the Hearing. intentionally eiren the husband poison, . but thought die meta the poison was( in Before the .crowd had filed out of the the inedieme. lie, said that of the prop- collet room, Mrs. Perkins was lea away erty left by (hie brother, 1.00 acres were to her cell, which is in the jail annex, m the rear of the Onirt House. She will given him by his father. Thought Them Too Thick. have to remain there till the Assizes on - April 16th, The ease will be laid be - Erect Dilse, a, G. T. It. section man, fore the (trend Jury, and on whether said that while working near Canfield, the 'Clown has more evidence tean was he beardedi with Mrs. John McDonald given at the priliminary hearing. will for sheet six weeks. While there lie- trobably depend the action of the Grand bad seen the prisoner and Mr. McDon- 1 ,Jrtry that will deal with the indictment. aid stand beside the stove wIth their Mr. ;retake :Mabee will be the presiding arms strotted each other. He -saw the Juage itt the Assizee at Cayuga. couple in the bell en Another oecaeion, Mrs. Perkins, it, is stated,-wite in a and he thought my were "very thiek ,, more eontented Dtate of maul last even - for a young man end a married woman. bes than at any time since- her arrest. Ito had also seen them at a picnic. The Sirs. Tivmbi.,ller, 01 cuitiboro, who WAA ItrA. rakillit told him he would have to ;1,11(,111(;(141 121:14,0" Palmirts it "''tilv wit' put on I, ie stand. It is last night he wee itt Melionald's house, .. . get another boarding house, It4- she stake that lea testimony would simply would Mt Wait on Min. have been that she WAR to laVe gone to Dike bad an eneornfortftble ten min- Mae Perkins' house the day before 'Christ. Mee, while under eress.examination. mai; to try on a deem, whielt 'Mee. Per - "Dia you ever have yout arms around kins waa .naking for- her, end that Mac. -*- a woman?" ftsked Mr. Johnston. Perkins sent word ia her s(weral days "Not a married one." before not in porno, till it later day. "Single W0171011?" The hearing was one of the biggest "Yes, .giris." things that the {own of Cayuga has had "How old wore the girls yon Prnotieed sinee the Sternamain trial. The town out tightmou to tweuty years, old?" Ara,l filled with tole from the serround. "About that," ing vountry bath days. The driviug "Any sixteen Years of age?" .11.41‘; at the eiturchts and boleti Were ' "Not that young. • "HOW far did you go with theee. young Oder Anti -Suicide Club New York, March ix.—Commans der Miss Booth, of the Salvation Army, as a result of an analysis of the work done during the ten days of its existence here, an- nounced to -day that the anti -sui- cide bureau of the army had suc- cessfully passed the experimental stage, and that it will now be maee a permanent feature of the organization in this country. Since its inception the new departure, it is said, has saved a number of men and. women from self-destruc- tion and proved of assistance to a still larger number. GREAT WAVE SWEEPS LINER. PASSENGERS WERE TERRIFIED WHEN SHOCK CAME. Occupants of Smoking Room Knocked Down and Flood Poured Into Cabins and State Rooms—None Seriously Harmed. New York, March 10.—The lama. line steamer La Savoie, from Havre March 2, arrived. here to -day after perhaps the most . severe experience of any of the trans-Atlantic liners that has recently reported rough weather at sea. On hoard were 1,018 passengers, and a crowd better pleased than they to reach port seldom hurried down the gangplank. The La Savoie ran into nasty weather on the second day out, series of north- west to west gales increasing in violence, until Therscley, when a monster wave swept the main deck, and forced Capt. Tournier to bring his craft to. The steamer drifted. eight hours before the voyage could be safely resumed. About 11 o'clock on Thursday morning, the La Savoie, having safely ridden a number of tall waves, was lying in the trough of the sea, when a wave measur- ing iu the eyes of the crew anywhere from 45 to 60 feet in height broke over the ship from. the forward port side. In a second tons of water flooded the vessel, sbattering It heavy oak door which opened into the corridor outside the smoking saloon.' The great volume of water rushed in, swept along the corridor and then poured down the grand stairway into the main dining saloon. The heavy iron stairway leading front the main deck down to the promenade deck was washed aevay with the flood. Where the iron did not snap at the force of the blow it was rooted up from the deck flooring. The glass in the portholes of the purser's windows was smashed. Occupants of the smoking -room were thrown from their feet, and when upon recovering themselves they opened the door to learn what had happened, the water front the corridor rushed in upon them. The water invaded the cabins and every stateroom where an open door invited entrance, rising at pointe where ie was temporarily stayed to a height, it was declared, of four feet. The inrush of water disabled the electric light sys- tem for ft time, and sudden darkness further terrified the passengers. Many were bowled. over, but beyond a little wetting none was seriously harmed. NEVIS IN BRIEF , CANADIAN. William Jolly was struck by an engine at Nine Sask., and killed. J. A. Milton was killed yesterday at the steel werks at Sault Ste. Mane by falling into the machinery, Mies Eva Oilers was fatally' burned et 305 Wellesley street, Toronto, on Sun. day through her dressing Basque eatele Mg fire. At Saturday% meeting of the Cabinet Mr. Hessaulles, of $t. Hyacinthe was appointed Senator in suecession 'to the late Sir William Hingston. John. Thaekeray, an aged Toronto in - ()Agent, died suddenly from heart failure 71 the police ambulauce on his way to St. Miami's lioepital, last night. The infant daugheer of Mr. Basil Mil- ner, of Chatham, died on Saturday after. noon, from drinkiug laudautun, found in. the drawer of a. sewing inathine. An alleged defaulting clerk of the Bank of England, named Anderson, was arrested at Dominion City, Man., charg- ed with robbing the bank of over a thou- sand pounds, removal io a hospital in it serieus oendi- 4sii,i,t. Walker and Varaley probably will A Bavarian wine dealer has been sentenced to two months' imprionment and to pay a fine tit $2.600 for adulterat- lug wine. it was proved that lie MAIM. factured 50,0001011mm of "wine" in one year by means of chemicals,. wit ming it single drop of grape juice. It is reported at Moreno that several objects 91 art have disappeared from the house of a nobleman at Pistoia, H- oly. They include it eldnutey piece val- ued at $10,000, it magnificent painting by Bottieelli, an um letter of emelt value, and other treasures. An official investigation of the report published in London early lit month of the torturing of political prisoners at Riga,. Livonia, has eonfirmed the state. meets. Premier Stolypin has. ordered that proceedings be emnineneed against the guilty allele's. A statue- of William of Orange, who was William of England, which the Kaieer will peseta to King Edward, a breeze figure eine feet high, will be ship- ped in June, and an exact duplieate will be ereeted on the terrace of the royal palaee Berlin. John A. Duncan, late manager of the Bank of Commeree at Ayr, was arrestee on Saturday night on it charge of raising a, voucher some thirteen hundred dollars and falsifying the books to cover the am- ount, Within a day or two it will be official- ly. annoueeed that the Uovernment ho,ve eelected the centeal or back mite through New Brunswick for the National Transeontinental Railway between Grand Valle .ana Chipman. Jacob Ginebere, wanted in Chicago on a ebiuge of °deserting a woman t o whom he had been married. for only three days and stealing from her two diamond rings and $350 in money, was arrested at the Union Station, in Tor- onto, on Saturday. By it hill brought in to the British Columbia House, the McBride Govern- ment repealed the tax on commercial travellers from other Provinces. The only exception is the case of travellers for tobacco Red liquor firms who have no branch houses in the Province. At the ninth annual oratorial contest of the Union Literary Society of the On - taxi° Agricultural College there were five competitors—T. H. Binnie, P. Diaz, E. Slater, G. Termer and E. F. Milien. Air. Slater won easily with his speech on national greatness. A rubber, supposed to belong to Miss Sadie Bishop, the Preseott school teacher, who mysteriously disappeared from her lodging house last week, has been dis- covered. near the edge of the open water in the river. She was despondent and, it is supposed, committed suieide. An Indian named Johns and two squaws wore returning last night to their shacks on the River road., a few miles west of 81. 'Monies, when they were at- tacked. by six other Indians and. terribly beaten. Jane was left unconscious in the road. Three of the assailants were arrested and lodged in the county jail. WON .4 • • MUNN DEAD. A. STRIKE WHICH LIONS IN WAGES. London, whose 111» stated in London that Prince Ed- ward and Prifiee Albert the two. eldest sons of the Prime of Wales, will, in due course, make a tour of the world in a battleship, Prime Edward is destined for the army and Prince Albert for the superstrueture will be laid svith the to- nnes'. timony of Anthony Debits, the policeman Aceordin g to the Melbourne Argus, oa the roof garden, who saw the the negotiations for preferential' tariffs slIwting; the fireman who aided in utak- relations between Canada and Australia have reached important _stage, Can- ada haring submitted a definite scheme under which she asks concessions regard- ing feat, lumber, paper and agricultural implements. KRONIt BEGINS MS REBUTTAL 'EVIDENCE Chas. W. Longfellow Asked to Identify Some of Evelyn Thaw's Letters, New York, March Attor- Mrs. Wm. Thaw, mother of the defend- ant, will be constantly preisent At the trial until Lt. verdict le returned. She has taken charge of her son's CAlie with it greater aseumption of authority than , she bass ehowa before, having absorbed emelt knowledge of legal procedure and The Wien of the defeuee in suddenly °I t:!le fel!tiF6 °f the e°°11sel• While it is thought that she will give resting its ease( en Friday took Mr. Jos- - way to her 8011 where she deems it wise, eme by surprise and, 11118 mune( she will doubtless be the dominant spirit henceforth in consultation hi. court, as* pared to go on with the rebuttal. Since the adjournment, which be asked. for, the welittlit118•118thltV%iThiftes'y trit.il entering it9 dietriet attornev and hie assistants have eighth week to.day, District Attorney worked night alul day getting their ease Jeronee. began the eeal work of the pro. together. Their work wae carried on all set:Mum—the offering of testimony M through %May, and when night came rrebulal of the defence built up by Mr. Jeromeaftid lie was ready to proceed. a The State's case in The foundation on whieh tbe, present. hiaw 81vIllair1Vrasii concluded in iese than. don's alienists are to build the scientific( two home after the jury panel had been completed, consisted simply of the teat - many of eye.witnesees to the tragedy. :Ile first witness called by Mr. Jerome thee mornieg was Chas. W. Longfellow, one of the Thaw family attorneys, who heretofore has appeared in the ease. He was. galled by the defence some time ago to identify certain. letters which Harry ie. Thaw wrote him in 1003. To- day Mr. Jerome wanted him to identify a letter handed. him by Evelyn Nesbit T, haw upon her arrival from Europe late in 1003. eir. Longfellow met Mrs, Thaw at the ship, whica he thought arrived in the afternoon. The records of the steam- ney Jerome will to -day begin the pre- sentation of evidence in rebuttal in the 'Thaw trial. Ills object will be to combat the contention that Thaw was Wane when he shot and killed Stanford White. 44 • Burn Them Down I Chicago, March ix.— Incensed over the revelation contained in the testimony in two truancy cases involving young girls, Judge George A. Carpenter, sitting in the juven- ile court, on Saturday urged the burning of "cheap dance halls and still cheaper theatres" as the best way to save the youth of the city from moral degeneration. "If such places were burned," said the court, "there would be fewer such cases in court. Most of the delinquents, especially the girls, owe their unhappy condition to the frequenting of such places." MESSENGER MISSING BANK FUNDS ALSO GONE—LOOKING FOR HIM IN CANADA. A N. Y. C. freight train went to wreck on the lower steel such bridge across the 'Niagara gorge on Saturday, and. when all was over two cars were teetering on the edge of the bridge, as if a good push wined send them down into the rapids two bemire:1 and fifty feet below. Part of the train wns (amide and the rest was in the Vetted States. A huge reel estate deal was announced in Winnipeg on Saturday, in which the Norwood Improvement Company dispos- ed .of the balance of its valuable holdings fdr it little over $500,000. The deal is said to be fraught with greater' cense- (peewee to the investing public in that ,seetion of the city concerned than any traesection that has taken place in local real estate for some time. As a meta of the negotiations which have been carried on during the last seven or eight weeke between Mr. Thompson, Commiseioner of Industries e'er Torento, and the King Raelator net only is the complies,- goiny, to estahli,:h hum auliater works in the Ashbridge Bay dietriet, but a subsi- diary eupeern Wm made arrangements with the eammissioner for it site on which they propose to build the largest braes manufactory in the Dominion. A practical joke played on the science freshmen in McGill]. Union, Afontreal, Sat- urday night may result seriously. Electric light wires were cut, and at the sante time a large bottle of ammonia, was thrown into the hall. The bottle broke and filled the room with the overwhelm- ing fumes peculiar to ammonia. This got into the eyse. of several of the fellows, and four of them bad to be taken to the hospital and treated for very painful injuries. BRITISH AND FOREIGN COST MIL - March Penthyn, dispute with his employees at the Bethesda slate (parries brought him into great prominence, is dead. 11. --Lord wee with sass of people who drove hi. Tie( betels st ere taxetl to the utmost, and cote were placed n tome elf the r001114. 'DMZ. The- quarrymen struck, and Lora Pen- rhyn refused to parley with them shut down the quarries, and refusea 'to re- open them except on hie own terms. The men yielded. after three years' struggle, which cost the Bethesda distriet nearly $2,000,000 in. wages and which it is claim. td did not do anybody any good. except, the foreign quarrymen, wh.o, e result of the (Repute, developed a thriving bust- ness in the way of sending slates to Eng- land. The deceased peer Ives born in 1830 and succeeded his father in 1886. MINISTER DEAD. Barrie, Ont., Mareb..11.---Bov. Dr. Mc- Leod received a cable this morning from London, Eng., itnnouneing the death of his brother, Rev. P. McLeod. The latter was 01 yeara ()ILI, MI was ill ill eallada. It0 1111a pastorates in Stratford, Central Chureh Toronto, and Vi Ionia, B. C. For the last ten years he had. been in ripper Tooting. 'London. ing the arrest, and polite sergeants Me. earthy and MeC'aint, who were in the statiou house when the prisoner was arraigned. and who noted his demeanor when he asked Reporter licElhone if it was necessary that he (Thaw) give his real name. McElwee will be summoned to rebut the testimony of Martin Green, another reporter, who testified that the manner of the defendant immediately after the shooting was not rational. Following these witnesees Drs. McDon- ald, Flint and. Mabon will probably take shm company, Mr, Jerome said, showed the tithed. The dietrict attorney has ser- that the ship docked at 2.30 p. m., and etal other alienists, who are expected to the witness was willing to admit that testify. Mrs. Thaw arrived at that time. New York, March 11.—Tthat William 0. Gillespie, it messenger of the National Park Bank, of .ehis city, has been miss- ing, together with about $1,600 of the bank's funds, since last Tuesday was officially stated by the bank officials to -day, in this announcement: William 0, Gillespie, 23 years old, a meseenger in the employ ef the National Park Bank for about six months, failed to return last Tuesday afternoons after making Iris customary collections. He had (allotted. about $1,600 and $1,700 and no trace of hint has been found." Oillespie is said to be a native of Scot- land, who came to the bank from Canada about ,six months ago. His duties were to make collections on votes and drafts sent in by the correspondents of the bank. IL: lived in a boarding house in East elith street. Last Tuesday afternoon be is Mu to have gone to les MOMS, where he was joined by another yonng man witl, whom he hail been friendly. The two left the houee together, and on the cornet met two young women. Later, it was astartained that a. party of leer Answering the description of Gillespie enel bis friends had boarded a train for Buffalo- at the Oland Central Station. Agents of the bank are reported to have searebed unsuccessfully for•Gilles- pie ir. Buffalo and in Canadian cities. Ten men were prosecuted and fined in Glasgow last week for spitting in tram cars. Great Britain and Russia have come to an agreement regarding interference in the affairs of Persia,. Lord Tweedmouth, First Lord of the Admiralty, has announced that there will be no reduction in the British navy. The Right Hon. Sir Daniel Dixon, Un- ionist member of Parliament for North Belfast, is dead. He was 63 years of age. The strike of the electricians el Paris, which Deese the city into .obscurity for the best part of two nights, has come to ttn end as abruptly as it began. Redmond Barry, Solicitor-Generia for Ireland, has been returned to Parlia- ment for North Tyrom by it majority of seven votes -over his 'Unionist opponent. A waterspout et the village of Ortona, in the Abruzzi provinees, Italy, proved a great bleseing to the inhabitants, al the streets of the village were left literally covered with fish of n11 sizes ana quality. INVtNTOR DIES. Hanover, Come, Alareit 11. --ltodolphus W. Fuller, the invenier of tin' nutehine to inalse horee sloyea, died early to -day, afeel 81 veers 'I Ito inventor died A poor Pi PASTOR'S ROMANCE. FATHER AND GIRLS SLAIN. Lackawanna Flyer Crashes Into Wagon Killing Michael Bauer and Two Daughters. HIS THIRD WIFE THE SISTER OF HIS FIRST. Buffalo, March 11.—Two persons were instantly killed yesterday morning and a third so badly injured that she died in the General Hospital several hours later, when it Lackawanna passenger train running on the Erie tracks near Lancaster crashed into it horse and a buggy bearing Michael Bauer, a farmer; and. his two daughters. The dead are: Miehael Bauer, 50 years old, who lived on the Erie road about a mile east of the village of Lancaster. Nearly every bone in his body was broken. Isabel]. Batter, 10 years old, badly mit- Dieted. and literally beheaded'. Rose Bauer, 13 years old, badly injur- ed and removed. to the General Hospital in this ei•ty. Died from it fracture of the skull. The accident Occurred about 11 o'clock at the Central Avenue crossing of the Erie =Broad. A wreck on the Lack- awanna road earlier in the day had blockea the tracks, which necessitated the Isackawanna, erains using the Erie tracks. Mr. Bauer and. his two daugh- ters had. (biven to the town of Lancas- ter in the one-horse buggy, as was the custom .of the man for several years, to deliver milk. He was returniess to lee home when the accident occurrerd. Nearly all of the residents of the town kno wthe time when the different trains pass throeg,h the village, aria as Central Avenue is the main crossing they are generally aware of the coming of trains. Owing to the faet that the train which ran them down was a special, and run - Rev. E. E. Fairchild, of Buffalo, Wedded to Miss Jennie Stayzer, of Fenwick, Ont.—Has Accepted Call to Guthrie, Okla. ning for the Lackawanna, Mr. Bauer is thought to have taken the crossing, be- lieving that, he had it clear way. According to witnesses, the engineer of the train when he saw the horse and buggy in the centre of the tracks, blew a short, sharp, warning whistle, but (itt next instant the train was upon the lit- tle party. The horse was instantly kill- ed and the buggy smashed, into bits, throwing the occupants out against the station waiting room. Mr. Bauer was badly mutilated, nearly every bone in his body being broken. Isabell was thrown up against the side of the wait- ing room and her head was severed. from her body. Rose was thrown vio- lently from the carriage and was picked up in an unconscious condition andrush- ed to Buffalo, where she was taken to the General Hospital. The phyeicians at that institution were unable to save her life, however, and the little girl succumbed to her injuries early in hte evening. People who witnessea the accident declare that there was no flagman at the crossing when the train ran the party down They &dare thet the flagman was inside eating his lunch and, said afterward that he did not know there was a, train approaching. When the engineer saw that be had run down it horse and buggy he stopped his train tamest instantly soul theerew went Nick to aid the wounded. Medical aid. was summoneti from the Tillage but the man fuel the girl were beyond help. Deputy Medical Examiner Howland was notified and after investigating turnea the bodies over to an undertaker. fACTORY IN RUINS. TORONTO PLATE GLASS PREMISES GUTTED BY FIRE. Serious Conflagration on Victoria Street on Saturday afternoon—Firemen In- jured—Loss Nearly Two Hundred Thousand Dollars—Insurance—Cause is Unkno*n. Buffalo, March ,1I. --After marrying last Sunday for the third time and re- signing his pastorate itt the Seneca Street M. E. Church, Buffalo, two days later, Rev. E. E. Fairchild, formerly a school teacher of Fenwick, Ont., will fill the pulpit ef a. prominent church in Guthrie, Okla., next. Sunday, where be has neeepted it call. The trustees of the Seneca Street Church are hunting for a pastor. Dr, Fairchild's bride is Miss Jennie Stayzer, of Fenwick, a sister of his first wife, who .died three years ego, while Dr. Fairchild was pester of Jae Ripley Memorial thereh here. They were mar - :lea in Fenwiek, Ont. Dr. Fairchild married a Miss Kirby, of Kansas City, on the 26th ef last June. She died in ()e- ither The meariage to Mise Kirby was meite remantio. He met her at it church eon- ventien, and it was a ease ef love at first sight. Since the death of the second Mrs. Faircbild the present bride acted as housekeeper at the parsonage here and cared for Dr. Fairchild's children. A despatch from Cuxhaven reports the loss of thirty-four lives by the founder- ing of two vessels, it German cargo steamer, the tleorge Wattern, and. a trawler, during a heavy gale in the North tam. At Dankly's., France, it serious epidemie of black smallpox bas broken out and has spread to the City of Lille. A ease of the disease is also reported to have matinee in a fashionable quarter of ifrussele, Belgium. Borneo he attempted to whip ie boy pupil, Perry Evans, teacher of it country school in oklahama, was assaulted by a number of male pupils, and injured so that he died it few hours later. The young men who Committed the assault aref under arrest. persms were precipitated into the held of the liamburg-Amerietin steamship Romani., at Hoboken, New York, en Sat- urday. 'ellen tile liatehway on width they were sitthig .gave way. Beat:main Louie andl,!eamen Walker. Horton and Kennel, HIT BY BOMB. --- MAN W110 THREW IT TOOK HIS OWN LIFE. FIREMEN INJURED. Capt. Wm. Crawford, Berkeley Street Station. Capt. W. J. Smith, Lombard Street Station. Lieut. Alex, B. Deans, Portland Street Station, Fireman Thomas Spence, Queen Street Station. Fireman Jos. Waterman, Queen Street Station. PROPERTY DESTROYED. Toronto Plate Glass Importing Co's. premises, 135-143 Victoria street; loss, about $185,000. In- ..4-.4-•-e-4-.4++.44-+++4-4- surance, $145,000. 1 Yalta, Crimea, March Dttm- bralze, commandant of the -garrison here was slightly wounded, and his edjutent and his coachman were seriously injured to -day by a bomb thrown itt the -colo- nel's earriage from an upper window in it house mi a street through which Ile WAS driVillg. '1110 1111111 who threw the bomb emu - mitt ea tetiehle. Toronto, elaich 11.—Fire from un- known cause breaking out in the prem- ises of the Toronto Plate Glass Import- ing Company at 135-143 Victoria. street about 2 o meek eattuday Afterrie011 01111i. ea $18;e00o damage mut tompletely stroyed the (atablishment. Several fire- men were injured by ladders falling when the wall's gave way and by flying glass. Captain William Crawford, Berke- ley street, toe tabled it broken iieht col- lar -bone, and Lieut. Alex. B. Drees, Porthole stieet, was injured in the bates and lege. Captain eV. J. entitle Lune beta street, sees cut about the hands by flying glees. Fireman Cherie( Spenee and J ()sell \ Vaterman, Queen etttet, eufferea :similar injuries. The blaze was one of the most state Welder itt Toronto's fire reeorJ. Stew building, which was comparatively pew. being built oil the site whore the volepany's former warehouse was burned ia 1001, was eoutpletely destroyed. 11 11%1A valued at $40.000, the instuanee being $30,000. The steels, estimated itt $1e5,- 000, was inemea for $100,000. The plant. with the teseeption of the betiding kiln itt another budding at e00-213 Victoria street, was ht the two upper storeys. It was worth $20,000, with insurance ot $1500. The insuranee is carried in some twenty companies, Winding 1 he Royal, Merehantee tleonomieal, Homo um' voinumvial Union The fire is smelt:sea to have (alienated on the groupie fleor, bat the eause is a myetery. The engineer, Edward 1Vilkineon, left at 1.20, having first Winked his fires as emaking in the building was for- bidden bet it is possible that at dis- missal hour in going out a workman may have throun a liglited match to the 11°8°elee:eral small houses adjoining to the north were seen to be in danger from Wilier('° walla rind the, occupants were or- deredout, se part of the south wall fell very shortly after the firemen in the lane had been erdered from their lad- ders. It crashed down on an unoccu- pied 2 -storey house itt Victoria lane. Three firemen in that vicinity had to desert their hose and run for safety. The nortli wall fell in parts. and the top storey of the front wall fell later. The falling of the rear wall, against which ladders were placed, eausea a 60 -foot extension ladder to injure Captain Craw- ford mid Lieut. Deans as it fell. They were removed to St. Michael's Hospital, where both men are reported to be doing well. • 4 • 0 Wililant Iterbertson on Thursday night committed suicide .at his -residence on Wtealfe street, Galt, by taking Paris green. There is 110 motive known for the net, eseept some business difficulties that recently overtook him, end be brood- ed over bis losses. He was 05 years of and Mesa Boys l'arsley and Cater were age. THE COMET'S TAR. WILL IT SWITCH THE EARTH IN PASSING? If It Does the Surrounding Atmosphere Will Be Ignited and. All Trace of Life Burned From the Planet—An Italian Astronomer's Preduction. London, Marsh 11.—Grave danger to tee earth le predicted by an Italian it's 1> mimeo Pr: lesser Lorenzo Alatteuc- ci, of the Royal Observatory on Mount Veseviue, front the aproach of a new comet. Sueli importanee does Professor Mat- teeeei atteeh to his speeulations that he 1:0.•, 1,:sitell it statement to the Italian prese, in which he predicts the eta of the wt.ri1. Ills authority on matters of astronomy is not, bowever, entelusive. lie liaA by his work with his niorts famous brother in the Royal Obsetva tray on Mount Vesuvine, where for yearAlie has watched erepticie, iit1 ehronieled seismic MOT - molts. Ms Leother last year during the deingeroes eruption distinguished himeelf by his eourage and coolness ure Jer atiecs of eNirellle daliter. Ilis brother 1A of the game epinion as to the peril tef the eartle Both netron. enure held that if the actual nucleus I 1 the Ponta iA Merely erosAet1 by the uarth ihe danger will be brief, though iwee,atily matte. If. however, the 1>11 11> (edibles with, not the nucleus, but the tail ef the vomet, our atmospheft will mutably be ignited. And every traee tIlife will be immediately And vio• Icuti•.%.• eleetroed. V. Thither, Harry Sineleir and ;leek 'Bartlett ‚at>'>' preAelliell with the medial of the lleyal Canadian Humane Society at. Toronto on 'Saturday.