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The Wingham Advance, 1908-01-30, Page 7ANOTHER BIG FIRE • PORTLAND, MAINE. Big Fire In Business+ - 0aptillii. 00.1, oiot him dead. Upon this "the enraged Indians" prepred, to avenge the death of their comrade. Against the counsel of those with tarn, Captain Ceok went on to the heath, OM A notire, stepping behind him, knocked hun down with a club. He im- mediately rose and went alene into the crowd. When he rushed back he was ittithbed and thrown into the water. Then lie was dragged to the beaett again, Alla beaten end stabbed to death, ' The diarist tells grows= stories of the vengeance that was exacted by the suvivors of the expedition, mid ma,kes it clear that Captain Cook's death was la a large measure due to hie own rash - nese and lack of tat. District of City. Death and Disaster Meet Chicago Firemen. Man and Little Child Burned to Death. Portland, Me., Jan. 27.-4\. fire which several times threatened seriously to wipe out the business district of this city, and which caused a damage esti- mated at over $900,000 before it was finally controlled, was kept confined to the block in which•it started this morn- ingaafter almost ten hours' fighting by. Portland's almost exhausted firemen, aided by men and apparatus from sev- eral outside cities and favored by a light rain and shifts of wind. The fire burned in the block occupied by Milli- ken, Consens & Co., and A. F. Cox & Son, and it was here that practieMly all the damage was done at the nearby business house, where, several times threatened by the flames and suffered somewhat from smoke and water. The fire started from an unknown cause in the -wholesale dry goods house of Cousens & Co., which is a branch of the large New York wholesale house of Derring, Milliken & Co., and it was in their hell of the building that the greater part of the loss was sue- tainecl. Later, when the fire was thought. to be under control, the other ball of the building, occupied by A. F. Cox & Sons, WAA invaded by the flames, which had tnade their way through the roof and a party wall simultaneously and the $250,000 stock of hoots and shoes were ruined, The fire burned within a block of the scene of Friday's great conflagration; when the city hall and police buildings. were destroyed A remarkable feature of the fire was the entire absence of casualties. . Several companies sustained extdnsive damage to their stock by smoke And water, notably the Parker, Thomas CO., whose building was threatened. many times by the flames, their loss beingees- timited 'at $100,0013. An aggregate dam- age of $100,000 was caused .by smoke and water to the nearby firms of Cook, Everath & Pennel Oo„ wholesale drug- gists.; F. C. Belle, & Co., carriages; Lewis & Co., wholesale clothiers; A. H. Berry & Co., boots and shoes; M. Aw- serhouse & Co., hardware dealers, and Russ, Eveleth & Engels, wholesale dry goods dealers. The First National building caught fire several times ,but the blazes were small and easily extinguished. The fire assumed such serious propor- tions after it broke away and caught on to the opposite Aide of the block in which it started, that .Mayor Leighton called- for help front ten cities in Massia etcusettts, New Hampshire and Maine. The fire origin has not been develop- ed, and as there were no known causes, it is regarded as suspicious. The build- ing in whieh. it started,. that of the Mil- liken,' Causene 44r. Co„ jsleated by steam from an outside plant, and an electric iower is turned off each right. Paraffine Works Blaze. 73altlinore, Jan. 27.--Ite new paraffine works othe Standard Oil Co., at Can- ton,a southerti suburb of Baltimore, ore on fire.. Many Firemen Hart, ,.CillieegoJan, 27. -One fireman is sup- posed to have been killed, more than a score of others were injured and prop- erty valued at half a million dollars was destroyed in A fire whieh densttitted. the Mayer Wilding, a seven storey brick building, and the Hotel Florence, 10- 107 Adams straa, early to -day. The fire broko out in the basement of the Mayer building and spread so rapidly that %men the first detachment of firemen arrived the entirebumiding was in flaznes. A strong north wind Jinitept the flames to the adjacent hotel Wilding and in a few minutes that atruoture was also a roaring furnaee. The walls and roofs of both etruetures galapsed about an hour later, carrying alown with them an entire company of firemen. All exeept one, James Gallag- &pea of truck company No. 1, were res- ented. His body is ,believod to hp in the Man and Baby Burned. New York, Jan, 27.- Camino Berner - done, a barber, and his 17 months old son, Antonio, were burned to death in their "home on the top floor of, the tenement house at No. 163 Mulberry street early tollay. Bemardone had. been separated from big wife since last Thureday and slime that time he had been liVing alone with the baby, After the fire Fratteisco IlethlArdone, abyoth- er of the dead man, said that lie believ- ed his brother had. set fiee to the flat with the intention of killing himself and the child. Twenty-five other families who lived in the house were roused by the alarm a fire ani rushed to the street. The flamea were Confined to Beinardone's apartment, bowevpr, and Within half an hour the other teDaints svere back in their rooms. •WOW CAPTAIN COOK DIED. An Ancient Manuscript Tells of the Explorer's End. London, Jan. 21. ---Two hundred years ago » seaman, Sohn Law, who accom- panied Captain Cook on his ill -feted voy- age to the Sandwieli Islands, kept a ,diary of be incidente of the expedition. Libtk did he think that his qurdntly- seritten notes wonld one day have a plasse in the British Museum. Recently, howee`or Mr. C. G. LAWTA1WA LW -Ono of his seesidants-presented the ()sail to tile museum, and it has now been Oarefully bowed, and placed in the mann. iieript room. Allichof t is almeet illegible, but it Stentaine a spirited and graphie aecount, of the death of ,Ottptain Cook. Tite originof Ole trouble Was the ' theft of a pair of ttmge and The thief went off in a 'eanoe, svhieh was pursued and fired at. Captain Cook then determined to secure the Ring as a hostage. The aged hfonareli at first agreed to go on board the Resolution - Captain Cook's vessel- but Ids people pereuitcled him to 'return to his 'tense. • One Of the .rottiv,ss grew insolent and BIG SNOW STORM. Snow and Wind Storni Strikes Montreal and Ottawa. - Montreal, Que., Jan. 27. -The biggest snow storm of the season struck Mont- real' and vicinity yesterday, thirteea inches of snow falling hi 24 hours, The storm started yesterday morning and wound. up this morning between 9 and 10, having been in progress just the full 24 hours, with brief interruptions. Yester- day the storm was of the blizzard vari- ety, but later the temperature went down and. the wind ceased, and there was a steady fall throughout the morning. As the effects of the last storm had been pretty well removed in the city, there vas no interruption to street car traffic nor were the railways seriously impeded. In Ottawa Valley. Ottawa, Jan. 27. -The 'Ottawa valley to -day is experiencing the worst snow snd wind storm of the season, and the district roads are badly blocked. About seven inches of snow has fallen, and it has been drifted by a wind going twenty miles an hour. Fortunately, however, the temperathre has not reached 'lower than about 7 degrees above zero. The Ottawa Electric Railway has maintained a continuous service, and the steam teains are arriving from half an hoer to two hours late. A GREAT GUSHER. The Most Productive Gas Well in the Province. Leamington, Out,. Jan. 27. -Near Glen- wood, in Romney township, Kent county, there lately has been sunk the most pro- ductive gas well in Ontario. It has the enormous pressure of 600 pounds, and therefore will produce over seven million feet of gas in 24 hours. Theayell is own- ed, by a. Leamington company, and the company has another within a mile of No. 1 with the. sanat rock pressure, end are sinking yet another. This is undoubtedly the heart of the gas dis- trict. Old No. 1 well, the original well in this district, lia,d a gassroek of .160.. feet, but in thb Romney field the gas rock is over 200 feet thick, and with pro- per handling the gas is practically inex- haustible, OTTAWA'S TROLLEY, Increase in Receipts and in ligmber of Passengers Carried. Ottawa, Ont., Jan. 27. -(Special.) -The annual meeting of the Ottawa Electric Railway Company for 1907 -Was held to. day. Thereceipts for the year were , . $574,278, an inereaee over 190 of $48,531. The net earnings were $224;449, ',Che pro- fits were over 18 per cent?, after paying fixed thargee, and dividends of 12 per cent. werepaid, The number of passen- gers carried was 12,623,440, an iiierease of 1,215,218 over the peeyious year, The Ottawe Electric Railway Company has had 0. remarkable growth. Its re- ceipts ie 1892 were $71,000; its receipts in the year- eloeed show an increase of $500,000, Elver millien tepee passen- gers were carried last year than in the first year of the company's operations. The old Board of Directors was re- elected, viz.: T Ahearn, President; Peter Whelen, Vice -President; Warren Y. So- per, Geo. P. Brophy, Thonuta 'Workman, Hon. Geo. A, Cox. • HISTORIC BIBLE Was Given in 1758- by Prince of Wale! to Oneidas. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 27.-A special to the Pioneer Press from Marsh- field, Wis., sapi that Rev. Jos. Brown, a Sunday 330bool missionary, has found among the Indians in Qponto eounty, Wis' . a. Bible •given to the Oneida tribe in 178 by the secretary of the Prince of Wales. The presenta- don, was made m behalf of, the Church of England'. At that time the tribe was living. in Massachusetts. The histerie, Dible Is in two volumes, each weighing twenty pourids. The I3ible is now in possession .01 tke dian with whom Rev, Mr. Rrown stay- ed while organizing a 013144 among the red ,men in °mute odunty, t PRONOUNCED TO BE GENUINE. • Freer Bible Manuscript Nothing Less Than a Complete Codex. • Canal Dover. Ohio, Jan, 27.--4oll0*-' ders, of Michigan University, tont • the Detroit Arehaeological Soeiely to -day that the Freer Bible manuscript re- cently brought from Egypt is nothing less than a complete eodex, eovering two-thirds Of tip Bible, and as au- thentic as any of the three codices here. before known, namely, the 171We:tit, the Alexandrinian, and the Sinaitie. Ile Is eonvinced of this because of the character of the manuscript. They r re a Greek trauscriPt of some 0104r manuaoript, in which instance they are on it par with the three other recogniz- ed codices. The Age of the eillection, Prof. Saunders piton at from 400 to 000 A. • The hetik &tea not.enniAtin thg Uvp• latione of John, ainee the end is lit the mu, D u. A m collection, and tide part of the ileripture le. lacking. Dwelling on this feature, ANaunivinil Prof. Saunders tiled° an interesting ,ob. • were found: not so many years .ago 1.4th MAY ,ETI RE servation. Tie revelations of lit. Veter same place where, presumably,. this Vmor codex was unearthed. This present . codex, the professor offered as a theory-, • was part ot a Bible of six books, which - included the Revelation of St. Deter, in- stead. of St. John, and was used by a Greek Church in Upper Egypt and burn- ed or lost at the time of the Moslem, invaelon in 640, KAISER'S BIRTHDAY ,I,0•••••••••10, EN1PEROR WILLIAM 49 YEARS you N G TO.-D.Y. Wakened After He Was Up by Trum- peters and Choristers -Heard Ser.: mon, Then Held Reception -A Med i terms nean Cruise. •••••,` Berlin, Jan. 27.-Fanperor Williain is forty-nine years old to -day. He was "awakened" this lemming according to the immemorial birthday custom by the palace trumpeters and the singing of a hymn by the castle choir at 8 o'clock. As a matter of fact, however, the Em- peror had risen s'everal hours earlier, and had disposed of a variety of State documents by the time the singing be- gan, after which he appeared at a win - down of the castle overlooking the court where ths musicians were gathered. His Majesty, dressed in a field marshal's uni- form, greeted the clunieters, and receiv- ed the congratulations of the visiting Princes, after Which there were services in the private chapel of the palace. Dr. Dryander, the court preacher, de- livered a sermon from the text, "God be with us." The Imperial couple took their places aftee the conclusion of the service on the dais in the great white hall of the palace. The visiting Princes were ar- ranged on- the left of their Majesties, and. the Princes on the right, -while a thousand officials and officers defiled at a distance of fifteen feet from the Emperor and Empress, each pausing to bow as he passed before the royal cou- ple. The Emperor stood 'almost immov- able for an hour durina. this. function. En the afternoon he eallgcl at the differ- ent foreign embassies, where he left cards, Rome, Jan. 27.- -It is announced here that tbeEmperor of Germany will make a cruise in the Mediterranean in the lat- ter part of March, and that King Ed- ward will make a similar cruise in April, both monarchs visiting Sicily and Flor- ence. 1 • t THE OPEN SHOP. Goldfield Mine Operators Discard Card System. Goldfield, Nev., Jan. 27e -The Gold- field Mine Operators' Association last night abolished the card system, which required all employees to sign an agree- ment renouncing the-Westeen Federation of :Mailers, and declared an open shop policy The resolution adopted stated that hereafter applicants for employ- ment "shall only be required to satisfy the secretary of the association and the employers of their competency and reli- ability." This action was determined upon, it is said„.becasise ,the agreement which the men were required to sign was in conflict with the statutes of Nevada. "We shall operate on the open shop plan," said Sec- retary Erb, of the mine owners' associa- tion, "itncl employ men regardless 'of their membership in any amen." It is believed that there are fully 1,000 Feder- ation men in the camp who will return to work under the new 'ruling. e I - WIRELESS TOIL_HE SEVEN SEAS. France Will Call Her Warships When. ever Stationed From Eiffel Tower. Paris, Jan. 20.-A highly placed French military official stated. to -day that the French Government, by means of it wireless station on the Eiffel Tower, hoped soon to have a unique method of communication with French warships in all parts of the world. "Comniunieatione will be sent to • our warships without using any land re- ceiving station. In the ease of the eam- paign in :Morocco we . send despatehes. direct to the French Warship that is in the vicinity of the point we wish to reach. In the saMe way, if the Metter was lying in Nev Orleans, for me:ample, we could send her a message direct without employing the present round- about methods!) - ANOTHER INTERNATIONAL LINE. Buffalo 84 Rochester Seeking Entrance - to Niagara Falls, 'Ont. Niagara Falls, Jan. 26.-Aneatmounce- ment of great interest, to Niagara Fells and to all railway •interests in south - eta Ontario was made yesterday. It is that the Baffalo, Rochester & Eastern, Railway Company will apply to the United States Public Service Commieeion for permission to alter the plans for its road so' as to enter Niagara Falls by a new line front Tonawanda. In the orig- inal plan Buffalo was to be the western terminus of the line, and its connections to points further west were to he over roads running south of Lake Erie. • This new application is declared by railway men to be practically a dechare- tion that the thiffalo, Rochester & East- ern has at last arranged Nyith the Grand Trunk to handle its western bueitieki through Canada, and that. Niagara Vittle, N: Y.; *here the new rotid will connect -with the Grand Trunk, will be its main western terreinitta If this is correct itmeaus an enormotis addition to the freight tfaffie across Southere Onto* betsyeeif the Niegaret and Detroit Rivers. tosiviissgp THEitAWAN§. Rockefeller's Method of Relievirig Tarrytown Unemployed. New York, Tan. 20. -To ma the large neither of the unemployed of Tarrytown, who have appealed to him for help, John D. Roekefeller sent word' yester- day froni the south to the superintend- ent of his estate at Patantito to lay oft all foreigners and, give eMployment ,to needy residents. In addition, Mr. Rocke- feller has •given petinisition to flies° in wiintto go intO his woods tnittelit Wood ' to wartit their homes. Mr, Itoekefelier was appealed to by ministers and the wives of men out of employment, and he added to •relieve the laboring men, There were hundreds of Italians wopking on the Itookefellek estate and thoy were diamiseed to -day. Throe hundred unemployed Men will be put to work Mt the Roelsefeller estate 01.3404147. R Report That Mr. Asquith May Succeed Him. Alarmist Reports as to Labor Joining Socialists. Pending Fight With the House of Lords in Prospect London, Jan. 20. -The absolve of the Ptierlotne:linister from the Privy Council i Saturday and the cancellation of the evening party that WAS to take place at his official residence next Tues- day is explained by the official an- nouncement that "Sir Henry Campbell - Bannerman is 0i:stained to; his room by a cold," But I understand that Sir Henry's health is so bad that his retirement from active political life nmy be expected at any moment. Re is suffering from angina pectoris, but this is not generally known. • , In the event of the Prime Minister's retirement the conduct of affairs in the coming session, beginning Wednesday, ould devolve upon Mr..Herbert Henry Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer, end Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The promotion of Mr. Winston Churchill to the Cabinet is now regarded as a certainty, and there seems to be a good likelihood of the fulfillment of the plan to give Mr. Herbert Gladstone a Peerage and a seat in the House of Lords. Labor Party and Socialism. In all the political movements of Eng- land possibly no such sudden and re. markable swing of the pendulum of pub- lic opinion has over been witnessed as that re'corded this week, when in a con- ference at Hull the representatives of millions a British workingmen forming the Labor party hoisted the red ffag of Socialism. The parry put itself on record as ac- cepting the Socialistic doctrine that pro- duction, distribution and exchange should be controlled by a democratic State in the interest of the entire com- munity, and as favoring the establish- ment of social and eeonomic equality between the sexes. Persons who professed astonishment and. fear. when the lonesome figure of John Burns -since raised to a, seat in the Cabinet -entered Parliament as a representative of a Labor constituency many years ago, have now a real reason to fear for the traditional conservative trend of British legislative institutions. Socialism in Parliament. Among other things, the latest move of the Labor party really means that the cry of Socialism will not only be raised. with it strong voice in the Reuse of Commons, but that the present Labor members of Parliament who have so suddenly thanged their political com- plexion will be backed in pushing the Socialistic propaganda by the strong or- ganization and wealthy treasury of the Labor party, though it is true that since theHull meeting some non -Socialist members of the party have condemned its action and threatened to break away. Nevertheless it now; seems plain enough that unless other. political. par- ties can succeed in breaking up the So- cialist party, nothing short of a political reVolution can be e,xpected. There are already indicattons that the present Lib- eral Goyernment will attempt to obtain the early support of the Socialists in the pending fight against the House of Lords, and that if this aid be forthcom- ing the next session of Parliament be- • ginning Wednesday is likely to be the most exciting in many years. Radial Libenal Programme. Even the Liberal Government itself has a programme that is rather start- ling to conservative British voters, in- cluding as it does,. rapid progress with the okl•age pension bill, to further im- prove the •conditions of Ireland and other measures which will entail bitter fights. •' Impaetial obseryers in edme quarters declare that .the middle and upper classes of England, who have such good ground to fear the present Socialistic movement,. have only themselves to blame for the Labor party's sudden change of front. In other words, laboring men seem to be practically driv- en to take their latest radical step from her desperation at their present de- plorable plight -the growing rarity of employment and the rise in the cost of living. Flagstaffs Before Bread. The percentage 'of hungry men, wo- men and children begging bread throughout England this winter is greater than for twenty years past, and the desolation in many towns and vit. lages, to say nothing of the larger cit- ies, is appalling. The labor leaders, while acknovtledging the splendid ef- forts innate to relieve the suffeting, point to the utter impossibility of preventing starvation and to the utter .indifference of the great mass of the people to the condition of the poor. • A typical illustration of their ground for resmitmeat against the more for- tunate portion of the eommunity is found in London this week, where tlie County Couneil insisted on voting A libOrAl sum of money for the purehase of flagstaffs to be set uti on the public schools rather than voteemoiley toward school children who average less than one U1O111 A day and always go to school hungry. 'Oountest• of Warwlek The lebor leaders have wisitly taken inf4ponelaeratidn the econontie • condi- tiott'S Of the country in fretting their accusations, and by so doing they strengthen another charge, that of "rerimtnel callousness," against the prosperous sections that are always Willing to open their theaue books for the aid of sentimental measures -Mott. latent funds, funds for the preserve. tion of old buildings, te.-but who de - rase to intereet themselves in the de• mends of elutrIty. Among tlioae who Imo hailed with delight the Hull Socialistie a -Vowels of the Laboaparty is the totintess of War- wick, Who- lute sinee seet several. tele- geams to. the newspapers on the sub! jeer -Lu' Peogramme 6f Collectivism. , NOW, YOTIY, attn. 20. -The Sun has re- 'ecived the following eable despateit from London: The programinnie detmoding theioeialization of the means of produe- 'How and their diattibation and exchange voted for by the Labor oonference Test week, is the full programme of eollee tivism. It MAAR Clovernment land, , Gv- ezi AMA crops, •Uovernotent manuiae- AcurE tures, Government railroads, Govern- . mut eommeree awl Gavel:nava em- • • - • pleyment exeopt in domeetie service; in SAID. ENGLISH PHYSPAN. NIA, THAW'S TROUBLE, faet, Socialism pure and otrapie. The conferenee whieh voted Obi pro- gramme presented ostensibly A meinbership of about 1,090.000 voters. They expect to add another half million next month, when the Miner' Union will vote on the question of joining the La- bor party. They represent also a great body of Socialist sentiment in the cowl try outside of thee° officially identified with the movement. Nevertheless, they do not represent the majority sentiment of Englishmen as it would be recorded if they eould declare 11 at the polls in the near future. Socialism lute become, however, great power in the land and it domin- ates the present Government. It is not a ease of the tail wagging the dog, but it means the death of the dog. The Liberal party can no longer exist as at present constituted. The party contains many members to whom Socialism is an auatehma., Protection and other Tilden- ist doctrines are trifling ablearrences to them in comparison with the vital clues. tion of national self•representation. 1-t SAFE IN PORT. MOUNT ROYAL'S PASSENGERS FINISH THEIR VOYAGE AT LAST Were Fifty Days at Sea -Last Trip Was Almost as Stormy as First - Some of the Unfortunates Will be Sent Back. St, John, N. B., An. e6. -After near- ly 00 days on the ocean the 300 immi- grants who left Antwerp on Deo. 7 Or St. John on the O. P. R. stearaer Mount Royal to make homes in western Gawk and the United States arrived here to -day on the C. P, R. steamer Montrose. As is known, the 1VIouut Royal wa-s buffeted about the Atlantic for a month, given up for lost and. final- ly reaehed Queensto.wn, There the pas- songers were transferred to the Mont- rose, and on Jan. 11, left again for St. John. On the Montrose were also 100 other immigrants from Antwerp. The Montrose should have reached here on Wednesday last, but very rough weather delayed the steamer. For seven . days between Jan. 13 .and 19 little mere than 60 miles was covered on any day. On the 14th A great sea carried away a lifeboat. On the 19th the 'storm was very heavy, and while it raged the body of a child who had died the day before was committed to the deep, The Mont- rose officers say the voyage was the roughest in their experience. Of the Mount Royals *Bangers few elm speak English. One Englishman has, however, told a theilling etoiy. "When days followed 'days," he Said., "and no land wasareadhed the immi- grants bee,ame alarmed, but their fears became absolute terror when on Olnist- nuts word went round that the boilers had given out. They prayed and cried, women tore their hair in their agony, and one woman attempted suicide by hanging herself to a beam. but was cut down. The weather was very remelt and the ship plunged into -111 ate seas, cne mounting almost to the crow's rest Of those on the Montrose 226 sre for western Canada, 50 for Cape Briton and 126 for United States points. Neer. ly all passed athe immigration inspec. tors. A Russian lad had his feet Troten. while travellina.overland to Aneramp from his hometo join the steamer. Re- latives and the lad was placed in the hospital here, but will likely have to have his feet amputated and also will likely be deported. When the immigration °Malls bed completed insp.eetion it was found that after all their hardships in trying to reach the new land eighty-five hil bu-n held up for various causes, shortage of money, old age, trachoma, ed. Softie will eventually get to their dee-alma:an, but some must go the wearisome journey home again. Among tate latter is a young Belgian. Just before willing ,lie heard of finaneial losses he bed suffered, and this, prayed ofl htis mind. IT -e is np*olryteidn. AFTERMATH OF THE CRISIS. the asylum here, and will be de - National Bank of North 'America . Closed for Liquidation, New York, Jan. 26. -Comptroller of the Currency W. B. Ridgeley to -night ordered. the National Bank of North Am- erica dosed for liquidation, and appoint. ed Charles A. Hanna, national bank ex - milliner, as receiver. The aftermath of the financial storm of last October in its effect on the bank has been in the shape of heavy and per- sistent withdrawals, the result, accord- ing to President W. F. Havemyer, of persistent rumors set afloat respecting the bank's condition. Meinbership of the Cleating House As- sociation enabled the bank to weather the gale for a time, but the aid extended by this association in the form of loan certificatea finally became the means Of bringing about the decision to go into liquidation when the call for their re- demption was intimated to the directors on Saturday last. The bank's indebted- ness to the Clearing House Association is $2,200,000. : I BATTLEFIELD PARK. . . Committee Will Consider Plan This ' Week-tii.perts Are Busy, • Ottawa, Jan. 26. -The. Man to .estab- lish a national park on the battlefield. of the Plains -of Abraham is already assuming. tangible form. The central committee will meet this week for the purpose ef considering an outline plan of the proposed park. The ereetion of the Peace statue also recommended by His Excellency is provided for in the sketch. The perking of the historic field is being loOked after by an architect and an engineer of international reputation, and as soon ite these gentlernee forward their suggestions, the committee will get to work at once to put the scheme ititelligently before the country. t GERMANY'S TRADE GROWING, Great Gains in Both Imports and Ess. ports In 1907. ' Jan. 26.-Desp1te the fact that financial worry east a antic cloud over the Germen tinniness world in the last three moatlis of 1007, the fatherland's general trade volfiane for . the year showed heavy gains over 1906: The exports totalled $1,780,000,600, mal the importi ran up to $2,000,000e 000. • The figures show increases MI' 11)06 of $358,000,000 with respect to ex - Potts, and 020,000,000 with respect to imports, vraalow t 1.6.111,14 • • Wirinala .1 -fanged Herself. 33rockville, Ott, atm. Qd, - Mr,. VI Ilaskins, of liar& Township, a women 78 yeaes Of age, committed sitiehle by • hanging herself from a bean- ,so low that her feet touelted the $rovul. , Wanted 20 Tons of Ice and Whole Staff of Nurses --Family Doctor Also Talks New York, Jan. 27. -The morning sea- ison of. the Thaw trial began at 10.20 o'clock, with Dr, Charles Francis Binge - man, the Thaw family physician, of Pittsburg, on the witness stand. Dr. Pingamari told of the early symptoms Of nervousness in Harry Thaw, saying he was Met called to attend -the boy when lie wits three years old. At this time his nervousness almost bordered on con- vulsions, The attacks usually followed various. children's • diseases": Thaw slept badly, eequiriag A relay of nurses roost of the time, Dr. Dingman said that in the fall of 1903 he was called to attend Harry Thaw in Pittsburg, and treated , him for nervousness and melancholy: was after Thaw's first trip abroad With Evelyn Nesbit. The witness saw Thaw several times in the Tombs after Itis, arrest, and the defendant always referred to Madison Square Garden tra- gedy -as the "act of Providence." It was of Dr. Bingaman tht District Attorney Jerome said at the last trial, when Thaw's mental condition was under investigation: "I had rather have the testimony df an old family practitioner like this than all the experts you could put on the stand," Following Dr. Binga.man came the first of the foreign witnesses, Dr. Sydney Rus- sell Wells, of London, who was called to attend Thaw in the British capital in the early part of 1899. "Mr. Thaw was in a very nervous con- dition," said Dr. Wells. "His pulse was extremely rapid, and he complained of pains in the head. I diagnosed his case as one of mental disturbance." On one of his visits the doetor said Ito found his patient in a highly excitable state, despite the fact that his tempera- ture was only 99 degrees. Ho feared Thaw might harm himself. Thaw did not respond to treatment, even opiates failing, and Dr. Wells said he decided to send the young man to the Devonshire Nursing Association's hospital. On an- other visit he found Thaw dancing about the room like it thadmen. He reported his case at the hospital as acute mania. • "Mr. Thaw at the hospital had a per- fectly enormous room„' continued Dr. Wells, "but he complained that he did not have room to breathe. He also com- plained of the terrific heat, and demand- ed that twenty tons of ice be placed in his room. He did not like the nurse as- signed to him, and wanted me to em- ploy a whole staff of nurses so he might Had one he liked. When he was in bed the patient's eyes glared into vacancy. The acute attack at the hospital con - Untied six days. Ile had no fever at any time. His talk was largely Incoherent. There was no evidonee--of alcoholism." "J)uring your entire attendance on Mr. Thaw in 1899, doctor ' what conelu• Hien did you reach?" asked Mr. Little. ton. "I diegnosed hie aim ea aeute recur- rent insanity," Dr. Wells said he saw Thaw in 1001, 1902 and in 1903 or 1004. He treated him at these times, but there were no aeute symptoms as in 1899. On eroes.examination by District At- torney Jerome, Dr. Wells said that the time he treated Thaw in 1899 he bad made no particular study of modal dis- eases, and had but little experience along that lino. Miss Lillian Maeltride, of London, a professio-nal nmae as she described her- self, followed Dr, Wells, She was eall- ed in to attend Thaw as nurse in his rooms in Londem in July, 3899. Thaw was very restless and excited. and his talk was iecoherent. "What was the appearance of his face?" asked Mr. Littleton. "Oh. iery wild, indeed," replied the witness. Although he had no temper, Thaw eomplained of the frightful heat. There was no evidence of alcoholism, "Did his acts and appearance during your attendance impress you as ration- al or irrational?" A. -Oh, most irration- al." The third of the foreign witnesees to be called was Dr. Frederick 3. Burton - Brown, of London, formerly of the In- dia medical service, and for a time prac- tieing psysician in Rome. Dr. Burton - Brown constantly referred to himself as it "medical man" rather than a doctor. It was in Mani], 1902, that the witness was called to attend Thew in Rome. He diagnosed the ease os one of simple or mild mania. Next came Dr. Maurice Gft114/4, of Par- is. who gitva his testimony through the official court interpreter. Ire attended Thaw in Paris in the spring of 1904, when he attempted sui- cide by swallowing laudanum. Dr. Ganja deieribed Thaw's condition but said that he had not diagnosed as laudanum poisoning. At first he thought it was ptomaine poisoning. Mr. Littleton her announced that with the exception of the testimony of the foreign witnesses, who had just tes- tified, the hypothetical question for the extmrts was complete. Dr. Smith -Ely Jolliffe, of Columbian University, was sworn, and it was agreed that the question should be read to him and Drs. Charles G. Wagner, of Binghamptou, N. Y., and Britton D. Ev- ans, of Morris Plains, N. J., at the same time. HON. JAS. BRYCE'S VISIT. May Discuss Fiat* Protection With the Government. Ottawa Jan. 26. -Hon. James Bryce, British AMbassador at Washington, who j is coming to Canada next. week as guest of His Excellency the Governor- General at Rideau Hall, and who will also address the Canadian Club of Mont- real, is not coming, as has been an - flounced in despatches front Washington, un behalf of the British Government to lay, before the Government here any ; large scheme for the settlement of all ' the outstanding matters at issue be- : -tween Canada and the United States, ' sneh as the definition of boundaries, in- ternational waterways, fisheries, etc. ! Mr, Bryce is coining on his annual visit to Canada, and will naturallymake use of the occasion to put himself en rap- port • with Canadian affairs and with the Canadian viewpoint on all matters affecting the Dominion's relations with the United States. At the present time there are good prospects of an agreement being reached with regard to the fisheries on the great lakes .and of the St. Lawrence River along the intern:Menai boundary. At present, owing to the lack df uniform regulations, these fisheries are beim,.crap- idly depleted; and the desire of bothGov- ernments is to effeet% an. arrangement looking to their preservation through adequate joint regulations. Mr. Bryce will discuss with the members of the Government the negotiations now under way for the settlement of this question. In respect to other matters at issue, • Rich as the international waterways and the redelimitation of certain parts of the boundary, matters remain practi• sally itt statu quo. 1:4 THE GRADING OF APPLES. Belleville Dealer Charged With Vio- lating Fruit Marks Act. Belleville, Jan. 26. -Mr. R. 3. Graham, the local dealer in evaporated and can- ned goods, was charged yesterday after- noon before 'Magistrat Masson at the instance of the fruit division of the Do- minion Department of Agriculture with . a violation of the fruit marks act. As a shipper Mr. Graham was charged with having overgraded certain apples shipped to the old country, and which were in: spected itt Montreal. An adjournment till next Saturday was made by his Worship. Mr. E. F. O'Flynn, of Belle- ville, is prosecuting on behalf of the de- partment. To -morrow Inspectors Baker attd Mc- Cabe, who have been in this seetion same days, with Mr. A. MeNeill, ehief of the division, will press a prosecution at Trenton. KILLED BY A TRAIN. Body of Nelson Schooley Found 0,n Railway Near Hawttey, St. Thomas, Jan, 20. -The body of Nelson Sehimley, it yonng farmer, was found on 'the M. C. 'R. tracks west of Hawtrey on Saturday. He had been struck by a train and instantly killed. The body wee taken to the home of Itis brother, William Schooley, near Haw trey. COAL PILES BURNING. Flomers in the Vicinity of Erieau Se- , cueing Cheep 'Coal. Chatham, Jan. 20.---Thoneands of tons of soft eottl stacked on the Lake Erie dock at Erittait ate on fire, So enklous is the *company to get vid of fool and aot lose too intich flint it is selling at $1 a single box load and $1.75 it double bott hunt Naturelly the farmers are floeking from all over the distriet to telce tolvaritage of the offer, • , ; A general oonvention of provincial HOMO inspeetors will ho held in To., toido soon, to ho athlressed hy Hon, Istt Tioaltpt, LOOKS LIKE A MURDER. MAN FOUND DEAD NEAR HIS OWN HOME. Body Found Near Railread Tracks in Lancaster and Theory is That He Was Fatally Assaulted and Rob bed -Had Gone to Buy Groceries for Sunday Meal. Buffalo, Jan, 27.-1Vithin a, stone's throw of his home, Horace Clia,pman, well-known resident of Lancaster, was found dead at 10.30 o'clock yesterday inorning. The discovery of the body beside the railroad track gives rise to the saspicion of murder, and the p.olice last niglit worked with that theory up - Chapman had been out Saturday night to buy groceries and do soine other shopping. He usually took the. railroad 'track to reach the grocery store. He did not take much money with him; no more than he needed for the groceries lie intended to buy. : When his body. was found beside the 1 tracks'there was not a peany in his pockets, nor were any, groceries lying about. His niother-in-law, Mrs. Cor- nell, started out to find why he had not returned with the food for the Sunday dinner. This was at 10 o'clock. She had not gone many paces from the rear of her home when she found the body, The face was bruised and the nose broken. The woman rushed. to neigh, hors, and Dr. Ewell, of Laneaster, was called. "That man was never struck by a railroad train," said Dr. Ewell to reporter last night. "Was he assaulted?" he was asked. "I am not sure. The men's faeo indi- cated that he had been beaten, but death may have resulted fror exposure, for it was a rather cold eight," Medical Examiner Denser was notified and viewed the body and the premises late yesterday afternoon. He ordered the body sent to the home of the family. According to the residents of Lan. caster, Chapman bore tia excellent reptt- Wien. He was married and two little children and his wife survive him. Rela- tives and friends believe he was assaulted and left to die near the tracks. Chapman was employed by the Lancas- ter Machine & Electric Works, FORTUNE SMILED TOQ LATE. Inventor, Lens In Want, Died dust as Luck TUrned, Troy, N. Y., Jan, 28. -Chas, Beidinger, an inventor, was found dead in his room in a cheap lodging house here last night. Ile had been in extreme want lately end lind just learned that the Superior Court at Cincinnati, Ohio, had derided it patent i right claim n his favor, awarding him $03,000 and interest upon it for several years. His invention, a machine for tnakiog paper wrappers, was pateeted while he was in a sanitarium by his financial backers, who refused an et - counting when the inventor was dis- eharged from the sauiterium. The sut followed, with the verdict of A fortune which tame too late. Queen's Prop e rty Sto len, valutibbe miTarititatt,°rIeltsaan,or th2e(1. ii-uollhelsrse(1 af rile, the Queen of Norway, and Prinerss Vietorie, all belonging to Queen Alex- andra, have been -stolen 'or burglars from the studio oan engraver in LOU. 40th ti which they had 'been sent for reproduetion, POLAND WILL MOURN. // , There WW be N. 9elebration en the kaiser'a Birthday. Berlin, Jam. "4.-1W 'the forty-nintli anniversary of the Icaleer's birthday, whieh comeil to -morrow, his discontented Polish subjects are fomenting an organ- ised affront., Their leaders and news- papera veil on all loyal Poles to thaw their curtains and keep their windows darkened throughout the day and even - lug, in order that' Polish borne e may wear an aspect of mourning, in strong contrast with the symbols of celebratioa displayed elsewhere. "Let the unanimity of our deraonstra- qion," any the official Polish orgaus, "show that all of us feel deeply the in- jwillisitelheee°rifetsliteo141Ittsvt env LfIV. 4reilv°01Zree; si°14 The action in queetion is the now oppression by law whereby Prussia seeks with the Loa of a $100,000,000 • if)soulied:to dispossess the rebellious Polith and settle their estates with German land ovvnere of the province of Posen Emperor William was saluted with more than usual deference as he welked through the Tiergarten early this after- noon. He has so long been regarded in the public mind as it youthful and impul- sive monarch that it is difficult to appre- einte; as one of the loyalist newspapers says, that he i$ entering ite,m the period when he soon will be )poked amen as Ven- erable. The. Emperor is near the close of the twentieth year of his reign. The sharp, unpleasant stories that used to be related of him rarely are heard, now. The references to hine now, in private conversation, have become kindly, and the young generation that is now grow- ing up admires William IL as mach as the old Emperor was admired by the older generation. NROME'S AURELIA WALLS, ; Plot by Which Their Demolition Was Accomplished, Rome, Jan. 26, --The Mayor has de- cided to prevent any further demoli- tion of the Aurelian walls. adlee- Giornale points out that it is. not Italians but foreigners, who are re- sponsible for the vandalism already perpetrated. it declares that two• English women and an American are the culprits, end proceed -s to unveil the following little plot of these An- glo-American conspirators. The ledies oecupy houses inside andoutside the walls. Thus, although they were close neighbors, they were unable to visit each other without a hong walk ai'liiiii4 A.merican gentleman lives on the outside. Ile, with the foresight char- acteristic of hie nation saw hotv the land in the neighborhood would increase in value if the walls were pierced, so he joined forces With the English ladies to bring about the piercing of the Ivens, first purchasing the lands on each side of the wall for a considerable distance. = TWO BODIES FOUND. Supposed to be Indians Killed by G. T. R. Train. • Middlemise, Jan. 26. -The bodies of two persons were found by a sectionman on the G. T. R. tracks about two and it half miles west of here, at what is known as Gentleman's Bridge. One is presumably that of a boy, about four- teen years of age, and the other seems to be that of it full-sized adult, but both are mangled beyond possible recognition. It is the general opinion that they are two Indians who Were returning to the Muncey Reserve when killed. Dr. Walk - or, Coroner, arrived from Muncie about o p. Tu. and ordered the remains to the 0.' T.' R. station at Middlemiss, where they now lay awaiting the orders of the Coroner. a e A BOGUS AUTHOR. Hungarian Countess Charged With Series of Literary Swindles. Dresden, Jan, 2Z. -Countess Von Sturm, a member of the Hungarian nobility, was arrested here to -day on the charge of having carried out a series of literary swindles. t was her custom to Men her own name to the works of mithors.not known in Germany or Aus- tin, and then sell the manuscripts for darge sums. For seine time past the countess, had been a leading figure in the literary worlds of Austria and Germany, and she has lived in. princely style on money obtained by false pretences from mem- bers of the nobility. TO SOUTH P2LE BY MOTOR. Expedition Will Not be Again Heard From for a Year. London, Jan. 26. -.Lieut. E. IL Shackleton, of the British Army, who is in eornmand of an Antaretie Polar ex- pedition, which left New Zealand on ,Tenuary ist, sent the other day the last message that will be received from his South Pole motor expedition until March of next year. When he des- patched the message he WitS still on bOard the Nimrod. The xpessage says he will begin his motor journey about Oc- tober. In spite of ten days of gales, he. t h reports thais force is all doing well. TOWN IS WITHOUT A MAYOR. Acceptance of Office by Westmount Alderman Would Break Deadlock. Montreol, Jan. 26. A peoutiar situa- tion has arisen in the Town of West - mount, adjacent to Montreal. The Town Coutteil consists of eight members, and as a reeult of the recent elections. the members are equally divided into two parties composed of four members each. The Mayor of the town is eleoted by the Council, but none of the members will accept the position as the acceptaace of office by any of the members would naturally plaee his side in ti minor- ity. The result is that there is a dead. lock and the town is Without a Mayor; NO NEED TO 'GET WET. Umbrellas Can be Provided at Ber- lin by Slot Machines. Berlin, Jan. 26. -All the stations in Berlin are now provided with tattoMatie machinee, which for fifty oats furnish an umbrella, with a stamped ticket. If the latter is delivered with the umbrel- la to the comptitty owning the Machines within two days forty cents is refirded. = SIR WILLIAM 401-INSON DEAD. Was Descendant of Sir William, Chief of the Mohawks, Montreal. Jan. 26. -Sir William atorge aolaison, of St. Matthias, Que., died to- day at net. Sir William Was itdescend- ttrit of Sir William Johnson, 'who exer- eked great authority over the Mohawks and other Itu1btn inXew York State during colonial days, awl who married Molly, the sister of the famous Joseph Brent. Ite was born in 1830, a sOrt of CO1, John Johnson, nini succeeded his uncle in the title in 1843.