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The Wingham Advance, 1908-01-23, Page 7- • A71..P.• • •INP.,..• WANTED PERMISSION TO GO WITH THEU, So PACIFIC REEL Trouble Between the Russian Minister of Foieign Affairs and the Admiralty. !St. Petereburg, Jan. 20.--TA16 nnflict evilich has arisen betattn, tlin RUS31411 111-nistry of lao6igri Affairs end the Ad. entra1ty regaeding the alleged efforts of Vommaatier Aitebleoff to secure perinis- 4on to accompany the American bate tleship fleet unsler Rear.Admiral Evans, on its- voyage to the Nettie, 1.1as arous- ed, mueit continent in .the local press, partly owing to the impression that pre. Valle here, that this officer was the only Aono permitted to aceompany the fleet, lintt chiefly as en 'evidenee of the dice semd existing hetweeu the two Minis - dries, The publication of the correspon- 'donee in this affair is regarded at the ZS/reign Office as a grave instiecretiou, STRANGE AFFAIR DUBLIN JEWELS STOLEN BY NO COMMON TIIIXP. Revenge, Not Reoty, is Said to Have Been the Motive—Well-Known Name Mentioned AS That of Guilty Person, London, Jan, 19.—A despatch from Dublin says thai . the premised sensa- tional scandal concerning the disappear- ance of thq Dublin Castle jewels has to all intents and .purposes materialized, -`ti well known name is on almost eY"-"ey lip there as the person who remov- 'ed the jewels through motives of rc. venge toward Sir Arthur Vicars or some other person or persons. Excitement is at fever heat, and every effort is being made to counteract plans for a vote of censure in Parliamenb and the conse- quent Cabinet crisis. The first theory that the regalia was etolen, quickly broken up and disposed of , seems to be dissipated, the belief being issrthat the jewels are now held by certain persons, and that with due vigilance they may be recovered after the mis- ereante find their object frustrated. Doubts at first cast on Sir • Arthur Vicars' action in refusing to testify be- fore the Vice -regal Cominission of In- v:reads/Mien are now turned to a geefiral tooting of admiration for him and Ws qburse is generally thought to Lye. be. n 'vindicated by events. The ramifications of the political vim detta will, it is freely said, reveal.h.gh titles and well known men if the effete s to hush up the entire afafir are not sec- cessful. It seems to be establieted Unit the Dublin police have been working on every tack but the one most spineselly credited, which, however, bas Leen brought to their attention Several tiines. In view of the police admissio'i thst the safe containing the jewels was open- ed with Sir Aethur Vicars' key, the oyes; tion as to the identity of the person who had. access to this key seems to be most vital. Almost any person in Dublin is willing to answer the questin, and eel - such a, remarkable State of affa'rsas that described is allowed to .conti•me. The Vice -regal Commission•hae7g4n7 up its work as a bad _job. - - COUNTS PRICE. zechenyi and Piiiss Vanderbilt's Pre -nuptial Days. New York, Jan. 20.—Miss Gladys Van- derbilt and her fiancee, Count Lazzio Szechenyi, who are to be married on Januar' 27th, will have little time to themselves from now on until the Wed- ding day. There will be a sucession of receptions, dinners, balls and various functions quite aside from other mani- fold demands upon their time, Evidently neither the Count nor Miss Vanderbilt entertain superstitions on the stbject of the number "13" since the wedding invitations were sent out on January 13th. The wedding itself will take place at noon ono week from to -morrow at the Vanderbilt mansion' Fiftavenue and 57th street. A special h dispensation has been seemed for the music for the ceremony. Mgr. 'Michael J. Lavelle will offielate, and the Count and Miss Vanderbilt will be married in the presence of members of the Szchenyi family, who are hero from Hungary; the Vanderbilts' intimate friends, and the members of the Austro-Hungarian Em- bassy. The inarriaga ceremony will be followed by a reception for a few hun- dred guests. It was stated to -day that Miss Van- derbilt's wedding present to Ceunt Szchenyi will be in the form of a dot of $5 000 000 of which the Count is to have , ilehe use of the income "only." e CHAMBERS TO HINGSTON. New "Lifet" is Shackled to Prevent Suicide. Toronto'Jan. 20.—Shackled to pre- vent him from carrying out an oft -re- peated threat t� suicide, George Chem. bers, highwayman, was taken to Kings- ton Saturday morning to serve out a life .sentence imposed on him in criminal assizes by Chancellor 13oyd Friday. As he was boarding the train he Said, "You don't need to think that you will keep me long. I will end it soon." He was put in the ?melting emu partment ef the first-class 'coach and ie under %Saul guard of County Con. stable Stewart and Deputy Sheriff Jarvis. PENSIONS FOR ALL OVER 65. -- What lather Deniends of the British Government. Londonan. 1.9.—The tabor Party Congress to -day issued fresh instruc- tions to a submissive Government, which ; dares not disobey them. Chancellor of the. Estehequer Asquith announced , Vaguely the other day that he would introduce an old -age perishm scheme at I the eoening session of Patliament, adding I that it would 'requite new taasttiOn and ; hinting that the necessary funds must ! rallied partly by local authorities and ; artly by national taxation. The Istbor , party sees signs of evading the Govern- ' istertee full pledge in a matter that ealle for universal pensions. has passed reeolu limit demanding that the Governntent'S selieme shall be noneliscriminittoisv and nomeentributory, and shall be applicable to all who lia°1 reached the age of O. ThfaconOnes fur, , tending to discredit Russia in the eyes of the world. There are indications that important persons are back et the campaign being conducted by the Novoe Vreniya, as only the highest officials' of the two minietrice coneerned were cognizant of the incident, The Novoe Vremr emus to be acting on a well-theught•out It is turning its gum suceeesfully upon the .mere members et the Cebi- net, the ammunition beittt7 furnished by a Oka* of bareatterate) Who believe that the .tinai is ripe for an effort to reetore the old meter of thifige, M. Raid -mann, the former lelimster of Edmation, was the first vidnin and, st%tie driven out of office. Filoesofoff, the late Minister of Finenee, was under fire \thee he died. they declared that the reveititee for pen- sions eleauld be obtained by direct taxa- tion -upon incomes, a large part ef which is social ia its origin and. aught never to have been appropriated for private use. This, of course, is a -plain Socialistic declaraton. Nevertheless, both Camp- bell -Bannerman and Asquith stand pledg- ed to universal pensions, which they now admit would be impossible ;without new scheme of taxation, which, by rea- son of the vast amount bivalved, must he confiscatory in its nature. There is nething surprising, in these 01mm- :dances, that the Goverruns at lost a seat in Devonshire yesterday ss hich had been overwhelmingly Liberal for many years paste SHOT BROTHER, James Doylt) Perhaps Fatally Injured. North Tonawanda, Jan, 20,—,laines Doyle, the sixsyear-old• son of James Doyle, who lives at Franklin and Niag- ara streets, was perhaps fatally shot by his 14 -year-old brother at their liorte tonight. The boy is at the Sisters' Hos- pital in Buffalo, and is not expected to recover, Tlie older brother wee tuiloaditig a re- volver of small, calibre . at the family home. Janice was watching the °itera- tion with great interest. Alt bat one of the cartridges had been temoVed from the chamber of the gut, when in some unknowit manner the boy pulled thetrig- ger and the revolver exploded. The bullet. entered the cheek of the younger boy, who dropped to! the floe]: with a loud scream. Up to a late hour he had not recovered consciousness, POOR MAN'S CHURCH •Chicago to Have One With ''Soups; Beds and Religion. Chicane) Jan. 20.--,A Model "pox •natufs'elinreli," 'with plentSeeotsoup, bis- cuits, religion and possibly beds; is to be a branch of the great revival now in pro- gress in two hundred and seven Chicago Protestant churches, under -the. auspices of the Laynien'e- Evangelical ;Slovenia:it, The Plans for the new chmini were an- nounced yesterday by Dr. A. C. Dixon, pastor of the Moody -church. They com- prise the establislunent of an "open door" church in the lodging houee dis- trict, for the purpose of '`reacbing" the great army of the imemplayed: • LIVING SOVEREIGNS Far Beneath the Morality of Major- ity Says Tolstoi. • Paris, Jan. 20.—The Matin Publishes a letter from Count Tolstoi to Henry X. Sienkiewiez, in reference to the latter' world pleafor the expatriation of Po- land, in which Tolstoi scathingly de- nounces nob only Prussia for its "despoil- ment" of Poland, but all governmental power in which he finds moral decadence the chief qualification for high office. "As to living sovereigns, the promoters of all kinds of massacres and violence," says Tolstoi, "they are so far beneath the morality df the majerity that they tio not awaken our indignation, but arouse our pity and aversion." CONVENT PREY TO FLAMES. Fine Structure at St. Remi, Quebec, Was Totally Destroyed. St, Remi, Que., Jan. 1D.—The Convent of St. Anne at this place, a fine struc- ture, was totally destroyed by fire to- day, involving a logs of nearly $50,000. A large number of children were in the convent, but fortunately no lives were lost. The fire started shortly before noon, being aused, so far s can be ascertain- ed, by a defective chimney, and the ileums spread 'with great rapidity. Ow- ing to the inadequate fire appliances there was very little clunice of fighting the Mines, but almost the entire papa- lation of the village turned out and bat- tled with the fire, succeeding in saving a large quantity of the contents and keeping the fire confined to the convent huilding The nuns and children were got from the building ats the outset.' Ontario Legislathres Toronto, Jan. 20. -e --Official notice is given in The Ontario Chtzette of the opening of the Legislature Ifebruney 5. Monday, February 17, will be the kat day for pre,senting petitions for priesate bills; Itforiday, the 24th, ter introducing teivate bills; Friday, March ath, for receiving reports f committees on private bills, and no nubile bills to mimed the municipal or astessment act shalt be introduced . after Sfitteli Government mettsuers eeeepted. IN ONE GRAVE'. Boyertown, Pa., Jett imiliee of twenty-four unidentifis.1 deed, who het their lives in the Rhodee Opera anus(' fire Istet Monkey, were buried vests riles: 111 Feireiew Ono .11W, ItTaCe. TrilWara of 9.010 uo.ple .ft I tapir el :Prvirog thet method tlis intsiment, of the fire *deans/tr, trim wets hurled in ofie Janke drenter. Aaptil. trench, • •!' EVELYN THAW r. ELLS HER STORY. Recites the Tale She Told Thaw, of Her Stanford White Experiences—. The Public Not Excluded From the Court Room, New York, Jan. a—Wien the Thaw trial was resumed at 10,20 .o'clock this morning Mrs, Evelyn Neebit Thaw was called to the nand to. repeat her story ofa year ago, District Attorney jer. onto immediately renewed his motion of last Friday afternooti that the public, including the representatives of the newspapers, be excluded from the court room. Ito eited a erludnal case tried, in Monroe Coulter seiterel years ago as a precedent lilt °Wilding all persons ex. c.ept those immediately concerned 'with the triLTIt Mr; tittletom for the defence, said he deeined tti icatre the matter entirely iii the hands of the court, District Attorney Jerome declared he understood Mr. -Littleton to join in the motion when it was made last Friday, and did not quite grasp the change of front. "I said on Friday," retorted Mr, Lit- . tleton, "that I would like to spare Mrs: Thaw from the gaze of the idle curious, but as to all points of legality and pro- priety I reiterate what I said then, that the matter rests entirely with the court," • Justice Dowling said he had consulted. all the authorities cited by District At- torney Jerome and could. find no war- rant under the constitution for exclud- ing the public frorn a capital eases. The harm done by publishing the details of revolting testimony, he added, was more tha,n offset by the safeguard thrown around a defendant be granting him "a speedy and public 'hearing." "The court will not exclude anyone who toiniticts hiinself with propriety," concluded . the court. Mr. Littleton then asked Mrs. Thaw to tell of her experience with Stanford White as she told it to Than, in Pails in 1903, when he asked her to beanie° his. , Wife. • . District Attorney Jeroine tib once, en- • tered a strenuous objection. He argued ; the matter at Some length. "Here is a recital of years before the ! homieicie," declared the prosecutor, "and ; I contend that it does not come within ! the limits of any precedent that I know I of. It certainly does not come within ; the Wood case, where the man to whom i the story was tielcl was so mentally af- fected that he immediately went off and ! killed tt man. This recital by this Wit- ; noes iseeoe i•emote. It is absurd on tho I -fitce of it to say that this conversation three years before accounted for the ; sanity of the defendant at the time of ; the killing. Certainly under the widest ! expansion of the Wood case we ought ! to have some scientific testimony ad- i dressed to the court—not to the jury— I that a conversation of 'thee years' stand- ing could have any effect upon the de- fendant's Mind." HELD ON TO THEIR STOCK. NONE OF THE SOVEREIGN BANK DIRECTORS SOLD STOCK. Public Take News Quietly—Theee, Was No Sign of a Run at Any of the Out - of -Town Branches.' , • t Toronto, Jan. 20.—"I ain no prophet, but we have done the very best thing possible uuder the circumstances to safe- guard the interests of the•sareholders." This was the statement made yester- day regarding those• who had a financial interest in the business of the Sovereign Bank. • As the surprise occasioned by the news of the absorption Saturday morning passed away, and business mon began to get at the real facts of the case, a brignter feeling was prevalent. It had been expected in some quarters that there might be a run on some other banks, but nothing of the kind occurred. Probably the outstanding exemple set by Canadian banks when the Ontario Bank failed over a year ago ha,d much to do with allaying any excitement, which 'might otherwise .have arisen. All went alone as on an ordinary business day witl?the exception that customers were notified'where their banking transac- tions had been placed under the plan a,s.outlined by the commitiee in charge. There was never any doubt as to the depositors being protected, but there was some natural anxiety on the part of the shareholders. Realizing on the Assets. The realization of the assets will of course be a rather slow process, but, as President Jarvis has stated, very good results might be anticipated. Ow- ing to the prevailing scarcity of money in the States some of the assets eon hardly be -realized upon for a few months al least. Senator Campbell, a directors and one of the largest pri- vate shareholders, went so far as to express the opinion last night that, there seemed to be good grounds for believ- ing that the shareholders would. eventit- ally receive one hundred cents on the Mho% A comparison of the list of share- holdees for 1000 with those of 1907 slums that the two largest holders of tock, the Dresdner Pank and the subsidiary Morgaa firms, have not sold their stock: A representative of the foreign inter-- estis who was here at the time of re- organisation, it was understood, was not personally optimistic that the efforts to re-establish the bank would meet with success. Slime then these interests have been kept cognizant of the condition of the institutien, and it was With their eineurrence that the present step was taken, It is also 'understood that the bank managers feared that sooner or later there might be danger or difficulty in redeeming the bank's currency as the result of clearing -house operatioes, It is turther reported that, while not able, owing to the commercial conditions, to liquidate the bank's business as rapidly as they had, expeeted, the management of theliovereign Bank have placed the discounts on a more solid basis by quiring further security front those bor. rewers to whom advarcees had been made !under the previous administration. No Adverse Action. Whatever meetings of the shertholds yrs may be necessary to eonfirm any action of the directors; the latter have no fear of any advents action by the , Sherishoiders. The direetore have in, thefameseetion,,,-or card sure of haviiigo 11. Justice Dowling interrupted the Dis- triet Attorney to say that he found j nothing in the antborities fixing a time I limit to convereatione or statemente (hieing or tending to induce insanity, He - thought the Wood ease covered the pain and overruled the objectiod. Young Mrs..Thaw was Stiffering boni intd colds and coughed freqUently while teetifying.. In response to questions from Mr Littleton, .the , witness told again, bit mine briefly than last year, of her .ex. perience in the 24th street house, where she was taken to lunch, with Stanford White, and drank eltampagne and be- came dizzy. She told again of -the velvet swing and the mirrored mem, and the big Japanese parasol attached to the "Every ceil- tmie you were swung up to the ceiling your feet would ,crash through the paper of the parasol," said the wit - 'less, "anda fresh one would be pro- cured."' Evidently induced. by Mr. Jerome's con- stant objections and his manner of inter- rupting his square -shouldered figure int. mediately between her and her husband, Mrs. Thaw's voice hadea tone of womanly defiance in it that was lacking at the first trial, and that did not add to the effectiveness- of her recital. 'When the prosecutor occasionally would take ids seat, Thaw would gaze intently Bit his wife, fixing her with a coesstant stare.- When Mr, Jerome was on his foet the defendant would crane his neck to get a view of the blue clad figure- on the witness stand, with the round velvet hat and its crown of violet trimimnge. • 11,Irs. Thaw, as 1a,et year, constantly re- iterated that she was repeating only what she had told Thaw in Paris. Dis- eiet Attomncy Jerome constantly ob- • jected when it seemed to him the witness -Was „transgressing. Justice Dowling ruled that Mrs. Thaw must 'first tell all she remembered of the conversation'without any question - mg from counsel, unless it appeared tlse witness had forgotten any details, when hen attention might be called to them. The witness said her experience in the 24.th street house occurred after her 'mother had been sent by Stanford White to visit friends itt Pittsburg. Mr, Jerome here insisted that the wit- ness first should tell all she could re- member. and then that the attorney pould go back over the story with her to add the details. The witness had all hen wits about her, and when Mr. Jerome offered some of his objnotiona, she would turn to him sand insist.: "That's -what I told him, Me. Jerome." Mrs. Thaw said it was the day aftei she had gone with Stanford White to a studio in East 2nd street to have some photographs taken in costume, that she received a note from him, asking her to lunch with a party at the 241h street house after the theatre. She was play- ing at the Casino in Florodore at the time, "When we got to the hoase there was no one there except Mt White and my- self," continued the Witness, "aud he l; said, They have all taitned ine down, but, never Mind. sve'll have our supper/ and then show you all ever 'the house. You have nevet seen Mrs, Thaw's voice broke at last, when , she told of all thet happened, and she went on with some difficulty. Thaw broke down completely, and wept into bis handkerchief, whiek he held con- stantly to his eyes. Mr. Littleton attempted to assist Mrs. Thaw when she was in difficuly, se:II:seemed about to cry, but the harsh tones of the District Attorney's voice sraieed objeetioa, seemed to give her all the strength or stimulus she requir- ed, and composure quickly reasserted it - The story varied in not detail from the narrative of last seear. "Mr, Thaw, when I told him. got very excited, and walked up and down the ,room and moaned and sobbed and. his eyes were wild," said the Witness. "He bit his nails and said, 'My God; My Goal's" "How long did that keep .ap?" asked. Mr. Littleton. 'What did Mr. Thaw say when you had concluded?" "Re said it was not my fault, and that he thought just as much of Inc as ever. He said he wanted me to marry him, and I said it would make him the laughing stock of bis friends, for some 'people knew of what had happened to Inc. Fe wanted to know a lot about my mother, and how often she had seen Stanford White, and whet he had done for her. I told him my mother did not know anything about it." Mr. Jerome would allow any ques- tions to be Raked until the witness had I completely exhausted her memory of ! the conversation with Thaw. His con- stant objections did much to decrease the effectiveness of the reetat "Did Mr. Thaw ask you anybbing about your early life?" "Yes sir." "What did you tell him." Mr, Jerome objected, and was sustaim ed. by court. Mr. Littleton argued that the story of the early life of the witness of her hardships and the poverty of her fam- ily, bad' a great deal to do with impres- sing Thaw with the truth of her story and thus had a direct effect as te In. clueing insanity. Upon this presentiom of the matter, Justice Dowling reversed his former rul- ing and allowed the witnerss to proceed. Mrs. Thaw said she was 15 years -old when she came to New York and 10 when she met Stanford White. She went briefly over the events which followed her return from Europe in Nov., 1003, of meeting again with Stanford White, of hearing from him that Thaw had made a practice of treating young girls brutally and of telling this to Thaw. !I required; practically all 'the proxies of I absent shareholders, as well as haying : the •support of those who generally at- tend the bank meetings. It is stated an pretty good authority that not less than ninety-five per cent. of the whole body of shareholders have already ex- pressed their approval of the action taken. From legal sources in close touch with the Sovereign Bank sit was learned on Saturday that no legal proceedings were expected from any shareholders. Since the bank ltd not "failed," the share- holders would not be able to file the jeocness.sary „declarations for any such acs Messrs, Macdonell & Boland aro the solicitors df the bank, and Mn. Claude Macdonell, M. P., of that firm, was in Toronto conferring with the officials on Saturday. . Apportioning the Business. The Sovereign Bank had only one branch and its head office in Toronto. The branch was at St. Lawrence Market, and a fine new office for this branch is almost; completed just a little east of the premises now used as the market branch. The business itt this branch goes to the Bank of Commerce, and the business of the head office is divided among the folloeving banks: The Domin- ion, the Merchants, Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Toronto the Royal Bank and the 13ank of Montreal. Outside of To- ronto the allocation of the branch busi- ness was as- follows: To the Dominion Bank—Branches at Huntsville, Tilbury, - Berlin, !Linwood, Mannora, Mount Al. bent and Pefferla,w. To the Standard 13ank—Branc1tes at Markham, Unionville, Walton, Durham, :Beaverton, Brechin, Stouffville, and -Claremont. • To the Bank of Hamilton—Branehes ztt Peneteng, Teeswater, Milverton, Monk - ton, Millbank and Hamilton.. To the Bank of British North America, —Branches at London am montreai. To the Merchants' Bank—Branches at Galt and Owen Sound. To the Imperial Bank—Branches at Essex, New Liskeard, Niagara -on -the - Lake, Bt, David's, Thessalon, Aylmer, Harrow and Amherstburg. To the Bank of Nova. Scotia,—Branches at St. Catharines, Bebnont and Si. Jacobs. To the Bank of Toronto ---Branches at London East, Montreal West End, Have- lock, Newmarket and Wyoming. To the Bank of Ottawa—Branches at Itaileybury, North Bay and Roekland. To the Royal Bank of Canada -- Branches at Ottawa Market, Eurk's Sprucedale, South River, Clinton and Brucefield. To the Banleof Montreal—Branehes at Perth, Mount Forest, Tweed, Sterling, Sutton, Frehighsburg, Waterloo, Stan. bridge East,. Stanistead and Beebe Plebs. To the Canadian Bank of Commerce— Bratelies at Chatham,' Windsor, Sand- wich, London, ilderton, Lambeth, Thorn. dale, Ottawa, Goderieh, Exeter, Dash- wood, Orediton, Hensel), Zurith, Thecl- ford and Arkona, About noon on Saturday Mr. Kennedy, local manager of the bank, announced that the sitedegs bank bushing of the city customers would go to the following banks in this apportionment: Merchants Bank—Accounts I to 1g90. Dentinion Bank—Ace/mints 1,300 to 2,800. 3,6N90o.Vst Scotia 13ank—Accounts 2,900 to. 'Toronto Ban s ---Accounts 3,000 to 4 NO. Anxiety for Shareholder& 'With the 'depositors and borrowers of the Sovereign flank amply provided for, some aiixtety, among the shareholders is• pardonable. Mr. jarvie, the President, la speaking of the prospects of the shareholdereosaid he woe not pl'ophet, but the stem taken were the very best in; the • interests of the shareholders, And • Ise far as it was at present possible to judge, there did not appear to be any ground for anxiety on their part. The business of the Sovereign Bank would be looked after with the utmost care, he sai ,a nd it might take eighteen months or two years before all was settled. The realization of the assets of the bank would necessarily be a slow process, he added, and if conditions were normal very good results might be anticipated. Assets of the bank, which less even than a year ago were looked upon as sound, and which may even yet be sound, could not at present be realized upon, because of the financial stringency in the United States, . Mr. W. X. McNaught, M. P. P., one of the directors and a shareholder to the extent of $25,000, was of the opinion that the shareholders would he ,paid in full. The Hon. Senator Archibald Campbell, it director and shareholder to the ameunt of $30.000, feels certain all sharehollers will eventually be paid in full. Mr. Randolf INfacdomild, Vies -Presi- dent of the bank, and who holds $45,000 in shares, sees no reason to doubt that the shareholders will all be paid in fillkitir. A. E. Dyment, a director, holds similar views. The Real Estate. A valuation of the reel estate of the Sovereign Bank was recently made so asto be included in the report which the hank in common with all similar in- atitutions must make to the Govern! ment on or. before the 31st day of Sanitary 111 eat+ year, and, although the actual figures are not yet available, the total will probably reach about half a million dollars. Tho bank has only a, lease of its !present head office buildings end the most important real estate it possesses in Toronto is the new mar- ket branch, which is rapidly approach- ing completion, As the Bank of Com- merce, which takes over the Soyeerign's market branch, has just .moved,into its own new market branch building, itfol- lows that the new Sovereign branch will be for sale. The Sovereign Bank also has a fine central new building in Mont- real, with a eplenlid new branch build- ing an St. Cetherine street. Both of t the Montreal buildings will easily F,ell or lease shetild the ;slinks which take ever the 'Montreal business not releits the office. A real eetate Agent who merce, withal takes over the Sovereign's ttatik• properly, saps all their branches are Teeny valuable sites, and if the banks taking, over the Sovereign busi- ! IiOStt 111 any place do not take the Sot'- 'rei'n offices -there will be no difficulty linding tenant e where the Isite is leaeed or purchasers where! the Sover- eign owns its own offiees. In not a few cases not a single deposi- tor withdrew funds, while in centres as largo as Hamilton., Winnipeg, and even Montreal, there was pritetleally no ab. normal eall for &posits. Tt WOtild be wearisome to repeat the deepittebese The Tritete and Outirentee Company end 3. 3. Warren &Oar° they have no Sovereign Bank' stork. Their tarliPS were set down in the lest government vested as holding About $24.000; hut this stock Wag held over as 'milker:11 need has long sinca been got rid. of. KiNG AND STONECUTTERS. Italy's Meneteli Sent for the Men, Who Mobbed Him. Rows, Jan, 10.—A remelt attinnot, of stonemitters, who were ant of work, to mob the Xing on 8 visit to the Victor Emmanuel monument, and lav their grievithee before him, and an interest- ing Amulet *Melt shosve the Sympathy. of , the Xing for workmen, lie sent for three of lin % lottilerg and had half ftit hourts ' talk with them itt the where he promised *min that he would see t*. it persionally that they Iva itot with. out work inlY lowigef; JleSlteok 1igd ivitli titibn on parting, arid Said: "Yoii liciVe spoken much better .thait diatiaghished persons who usually come tb' !see me. I eannot see why you should be at of work, es I have recently personally contributed $40,000 for the repairing of the Baths Diocletian, and realty don't know how the money has been employ- ed." The King's straightforward speech, which implied considerably more than Ito actually said, had an immediate re- sult in an official announcement that the facade of the Santa Maria Deglia Angell, etose to the Baths Diocletian, would be repaired within the next three Years, TRAMPLED TO DEATH Erie Man •Found Dying Beneath fleas of Frantit Erie, Pa„ jam 20.—Erneet Holmberg, 04 years of age, was triunpled to death under a horse's feet early yesterday morning. He was employed on the farm of Mrs. E. Knoblocb, of West Millereek, and. was last seen eugaged itt cleaning horses in the etables. This was at 0.3Q o'cloek. Other men were in other parts of the barn, 'milking. He was heard singing, and at times speaking to the horses. A loud cry alarmed the help a few minutes later end they ran raw the horse barn quickly with their lights. One of the horse wes trampling eland in his stall, uneasily, and under his hoofs lay the body of Ernest Holmberg. It was an easy matter to get the man out, for the horse was in no way frac- tious, There was still some life flicker- ing, but it went out very soon after the body was dragged from under the. horse. , MAY HANG THEM. Looking For Two Negroes Suspected of Murder. Knoxvile, Tenn., Jan. 20,—Two negroes whose names .are believed to be Walter Cole and Jess Williams have committed a double crime whic1u has greatly excited the people of Morgan county, Tenn. With robbery as their motive, it is believed that they waylaid John Brown, a Cincinnati Southern telegraph operator at Annadel, Tenn., brained him -with an ease, and took a pistol from hiiu, with which they later shot and instantly kill; ed David Langley, jun., a watchman for the same railroad, at Annadel Hundreds of whites are searching for the negroes. • • 1 CRASHED INTO'CABOOSE. One Man Instantly Ca. urIeilled; Two Men I Tcrontu. Ian. 20—Zacinth Larocque, aged 27, titLi. h French-Canadian, of St. Lazare, Que., instantly killed, Joseph Prefontaine, cook, aged 29, mar- ried of South Durham Ceunty, throe ribs broken and much cut about head. MaxiMe Cfialnpaigae, single, aged 26, lineman,. of Deny, Que., legs broken. One man was killed, two men injured and an old passenger coach of the Grand Trunk in use for a line gang as their boarding, eating and cooking car,and in which there were twelve men at the time, with an empty caboose, were smashed to fragments by a collision with a light engine backing up from the east at what is described by sever- al witnesses as groat speed. The boarding car was on the main track of the Grand Trunk Just west of Dufferin Street crossing, at the end of a string of about fourteen cars bound for Hagersvillo. It had been in the Exhibition siding some little time before but had been left on the main line ready for pulling out about ton minutes before the accident happened, about a quarter after 4 on SatuOay afternoon. The engineer of the light engino was Alexander Rice and the fireman's name is Holmes, both of Mimic°. 1' ST. ANDREW'S CONFERENCE. Clan of an Interesting Meeting Held at Brockville. Brockville, Jan. 19.—The Ontario Confer- ence of the Brotherlimid Of St, AtidreW, which has been in session her since Friday, Mos - ed to -night with a public meeting in St. Peter's Church, conduOted by Rev. T. W. Powell, M. A., Benton. About 125 dele- gates were present, and the Meetings very largely attended. Thin afternoon in the Opera Hollso Very Rev. Dean DuMoulin, of Cleveland, and Mr. Hubert Carleton, 21, A., Bostpn, Secretary of tho Brotherhood in the United States, addressed a gathering of SOO men in the Opera House. The speakers were given ckwe attention, and the 'meeting proved must in- teresting. Bishop Mille presided. A public meeting was held last night in Victoria, Hall, addressed by Dean Farthing, 'Kingston, and Dean DuMoulin. _ / POUND DEAD. Man of Robust Health and Splendid Physique Dies Suddenly. Stratford, Jan. 19.—Lemon Hamilton, who was visiting in the city from the west, was found dead in bed this morn- ing, at the home of his sister, Mrs. Hill, Erie street. Re had been in robust health up to the hour of retiring last night. He . was it man of strong physique, being 0 feet 0 inches in height, and his untimely death came as a shock to his friends. He is survived by his mother, five brothers anLl three sisters, SCOTLAND YARD'S LONG ARM. Jewel Robbers Arrested in California After Five Year& Merced, Cal., Jan. 10.—A Scotland Yeed detective is reported to have ar- rested in this city last Sunday two men, who are itemised of having committed it $200,000 jewelry robbery in London neer. ly five years ago. The accused men, it is said, waived extradition and expressed a willingness to return to London at otter. It is reported that the detective and his trisofters left for New •York on Sunday night. LONDON TIMES NOT SOLD, Negotiations Had Beet hi Ptogrets, But No Sale Wes Effected. London, jam IR.—Apparently a hibell has oecurred in the reorganization of The Times, which on Jan. 0, it was an- nourteed bed pesed front the control of the Walter family to a new emptily, with. C. Arthur IkParii3Oil en managinr direetor. A paragraph impeare in The Them tide mornites eteting ihnt no !sale been effected tend that the preViOne etittement only referred to the negotia- tions that Were in progress, TORTURED . • IN PRISON SKATERS DROMD, TWEloVE CHMBREll BROKE TUROUOU ICE Oti SATURDAY. ,Edwara jois Kept for Two Tears six Nues:::::,1,411vaesso.:k403:wo:atN.11,10: Four Mere at Indiana, Pa., One at in 14111TOW Cageo Cheeter, N,U, falsely Convicted a Attempt to Kill the Sultan. ••••••••i,,,, Officials Tried to Wring a Confes- sion From Him. ••••••••••••• Antwerp, Jan, 20.—After spending twoyears la a *age in a Turkish pd. sou, guarded day end night, and fed on bread and water, Edward Janis is back in his Relive Belgium. He wes sentenced to death by a Turkish court, which had adjudged him guilty of attempting to take the life of the Sultan, Iii restoation to his home is due to the persistent efforts in Itis behalf made by the Belgian Govern- ment. When Joris, et You sick num, was brought ashore .at this port the other day heataked. his attendants to sit him down upon the ground so that he might kiss the soil of Belgium. They did so, and he imprinted a fervent kis upon the ground. I saw him a day or two afterward ,at his 'house,. and he told me some- thing of hie horrible experiences. "I was sentenced to death," said he, "on the false evidence of it spy, who charged me withattempting to kill Abdul Hemid with 'a bomb just as be was leaving the mosque. The bomb, you remember, killed two bystanders and wounded the thief of the Turkish de- tective service. "While the trial was in progress I was tortured for twenty-four consecu- tive .h.ours in order that a confession might be obtained from me. So as to break my spirit 1 wiu3 told that my wifebad been killed. in the explosion, detectives showing me a rag from one of my wife's dresees and saying that she had been blown to pieces by the bomb. The story was a lie, and f knew it to be a. Ilo.• "When they had failed to wring a eonfeesion from me, .genclarmes were ordered to take me to it place from which I never Amnia return. Aeeora- ingly I was put brto it 'prison where I lay for seveeal days upon a (imp floor without, anything to eat. 1 was then placed in a specially-coastructed cage in which I had: barely toom to turn over; and I remained in tins edge fot ,two whole years. "One of the Turks who was accused of -being concerned in the affair of the bomb wns for it time in the same room with me in another cage. One day he was buried alive after methylated spirits had bern poured oven him end set ablaze. "I was told I would meet the same fate the next day, but in the morning the announcement came that the Bel- gian Goverment. having interestedit- self in my behalf, my prison authorities had abandoned their intention to kill me. In course of time Belgium secured my release, and here I am and here I shall stay" A LITTLE ROMANCE. Hamilton Woman Finds Husband With Another Wife. Chicago, Ill., Jan. 20.—(Special). — Divorced- fifteen years since she spent Shame Drives Him Insane and Leads • ,to His Death. Newark/ N, Je Jan, 'J.—Three bops were drowned and another had II nor. row map° from death while Whig to. cross over 'Xirschgeesner Pond on Nineteenth street on elle ice toeley. The ico gave way under the boys' 'weight where the water in the pond is the deepest and the llttle fellows were sub- merged. Three went under 'the ice end were dead when taken out. The vies tints were Gustave liertnetu, nine eenra of age; Louis Redman, nine years olds and Leo Smith, ten years of age. Arthur and Horry Morton, twine, 15 years old, and Homo Weeks, aged. 12, were drowued at Tenafly to -day, after breaking through the ice on a emall pond. Boston, An, 18,—Robert Armstrorg, aged. 12 years, was drewaed today while skating ou Crystal Lake, in New- tenville, Edward Tremaine, aged thhteen, wits, drowned in the cocheco Myer at Roch- ester, N. II., by breaking through the ice, Indiana, Pa., Jan. I8,—Four children were drowned to -day while skating on the reservoir at the Wharton .Coal & Coke Company's ovens at Coral, neer here. The dead are: Sadie Xinley, 12 years; Renie Kinley, 11 years; Charlotte Kin - ley, 8 years; Roy Stokes, 13 years. I PRISON FOR LIFE. SALUTARY SENTENCE ON CHAM- BERS, THE HIGHWAYMAN. Chancellor Boyd Also Gave Fred, Morgan Five Years and Twenty-five Lashes, But With a Proviso—Chambers Threatens Suicide. A Toronto despatch: Imprisonment for life Was the terrible sentence meted out in the Assizes yesterday afternoon by Chancellor Boyd to George Chambers, the man who pleaded guilty earlier in the week to committing five highway robberies and to three charges of ellen- ing at his victims with a revolver with intent to do bodily' harm. His companion in crime, Fred Reis! gan, who pleaded guilty to being in- volved in two of the robberies, was see - tended to five years' imprisonment aud twenty-five lashes, but the sentence is not to be put in force if Morgan, who has already several convictions against him for minor ()Renew, !should observe good conduet in the future. Chambers, who is only twenty-six years of age, had been discharged from Kingston Penitentiary, after serv- ing a three-year term for housebreak- ing, hut two days before the first of the highway robberies was committed. Slime the age of thirteen he has spent nine years of his life in prison. Itt appearance he looks exceptionally Intel- ligent and determined. , Previous to being brouglit into court fon sentence he .remarked to en officer that if the Judge gave him more than five years.he would make someone bite the dust when he got out. After being led out of court he turned to Detective Newton, who arrested him, and said, "Ill never give him the sat- isfaction of knowing lie put me away for life. put an end to it at the first chance I get." Chambers had previously made threats of suicide, and a close watch is being kept on him by the authortiies. : HISSED SINGER KILLS HIMSELF. four 'years in an insane asylum in Ham- ilton, Mrs. Theresa Wood, insane wo- man, followed her husband to Milwau- kee, persuaded him to marry her again. She made her way to his home and see- ing his present wife, is said to have at- tempted to attack her. It was found ne- emery to place her under arrest as she was violent and threatened harm to some one. She will be returned to Ham- ilton as soon as matters can be among - ed. _sees g FATAL RIOTS IN ENGLAND. Serious Aftermath of the Devonshire Election. on Saturday. London, Jan. 19.—Serious rioting fol- lowed the result of the poll in Devon- shire yesterday to fill a vacancy in the House of Commons, when the Conserva- tives won the seat. A mob of angry Liberal rowdies rib Newton -Abbott sought revenge for that party's defeat, and attacked peaceable Unionists on the. streets. They besieged the Unionist' Club, smashed the windows With stones, and partially wrecked the interior. Miley persons were injured and several of them were taken to the hospitals. Mrs. Pankhurst and Mrs. Martell, no- torious suffragettes, took part in the eleetion in opposition to Mr. Buxton, the Liberal candidate. They were recogniz- ed by the infuriated crowd, and were hustled and pelted with stones mid eggs. Finally they were knocked. down and kicked. Thee opportune arrival of the police was the only thing that saved their lives. Early this morning the body of Sergt- itfejor Rendell, one of the most active of the Unionists, was found in it mill stream near Newton -Abbott Marks of violence were found on the body, which leads to the belief that lie was the victim of foul play. :- DEAD ON THE SIDEWALIt, Body Of T. J. Cammerer Fotind WOolsley Street, Toronto, on Toronto. Jan. 20. ---Thomas Cam- inerer, it foreman carpenter'SI ;years old, was found dead, 1a1 1410; lying on the sidewalk neer his home as 30 Wolseley Street. Until it post -modem examination is concluded to-dny it le impossible to stile definitely the came of death, but Dr. Mesta, whe nits called, from his examination of the ie. mains, believes the man died item eon- euesion of the brain, due te the elippery sidewalk; Deveased left his home a little after 0 o'cleek to 500 a relative on the ear at th s mete- ef Queen ned Denison avenne„ 'mil in about half an hour he was found dead antleleeaVer DesvidAw end two children. BUFFALO FIREMAN DEAD., Paris, htn. 17.— Maurice Filliaux, a locksmith's apprentice, aged 19, sang in the workshop from morning till night, till one day a comrade said to him, "With such a treasure in your throat, why remain apprentice." Maurice soon persuaded himself that he had the makings of a great artiste, Ha made his debut in a little cafe concert, but was howled down, and, purple with shame, fled. On the morrow he said to his moth- er: "I have a treasure in my throat. . . . We are to be rich." For day e after he rambled in glowing phases ,about the future. Last night his mother found him on the floor in a great' pool of blood, with a kitchen knife by his side. In his madness he had cut his throat to get out the hid- den treasure. NEWSIES ARRESTED For Shouting That There Was War Between U. S. . 1 , Chicago, Jan. 20.—Eleven newsboys were arrosted last night for shouting "War is declared between the U. S. and Japan." The boys for hours had gone through the streete giving utterance to the sen- sational cry. They were selling a week- ly newspaper and meeting with it huge sale until the victimized persoes called 111) the• police. The boys were released after having been warned. r ARGENTINE'S BIG CROP. Over Hundred Million Bushels of Wheat for Export. New York, Jan. 20.—The Herald has received the following cable despatch from Buenos Ayres The optimistic reports regarding the Argentine harvest are fully confirmed. 'the wheat crop is splendid. There probably will remain about 116,001:000 bushels available for export. Linseed affered considerably, but as the aereagm is bigger than last year, there will be no decrease in export. Oats are rather a novelty here, but the crop is steadily increasing and prob- ably half a million tons will be ex- ported. It is still to Parly to estimate the maize orop, but there is no reason to fear a failure. The total value of the export grain for the eurrent you is estimated at $600,- 000,000. LOBSTERS SCARCE. Portland, Me., Jan, 20. --The scarcity of lobsters tilon,,e, the Maine eoest hits noffale,, ar.„Ten, 20,- slate biiidhig neeeseitated the calling 'upon helot i11 of the Colonial Club. tn• De bleed te ave. the Maritime Provinces to supply the intr. was -damaged by fire last night, market in this eity, rind the fimt ship - to the extent of $5,001, Danes( O'Coarkets 1110111 of lobstere that ever rime into a fireman, eeniainell in the leaning bum. rnrumni from conatA artivod 'during itig too long, find was overeome by the past week, and has been followed sinoke, dying shortly after being resened.since by several large consignments.