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The Wingham Advance, 1908-02-13, Page 7URDERED A STREET CAR. Young'Wilroand e Killby • • , • have to find emaloyment eemehara a Young IVIan. - Foster eala that he offered to work through the winter for Ms board, if the father would keep. him, but the latter replied that he coulthat afford to. .do that as his twohone would be 'Oki to do alt the work tintt was necessav. He had it little money eavee up, width let haa since paid out foe room rent. Be lived at 140 Wellington street. He had twenty -rive •cents left lad alonday, owl spent it 011 a meat. The young nunt is well developed and according to the doc- tor Ido attended bern wai itt one time very erell immeshed. Uo eomplainea weakness and pains in his stomaoh. Fos- ter alit be provided far at the liospithe 'New York, Feb. 10.-A girl of the ten- Until Isa gots Armor, :Refused to Sit Beside iim aud Was Shot, Murderer Escapes But Others Are Held, caerloin, known to her eompauions ouly "Queenie" about, 25 years old, and decideeng aretty, was shot and almost anstaatly 'killed wane riding on it north- ibelead„ Seeond avenue car at 8th street early to -day. A young num 'WM \MS sitting opposite the Ole in the ear fired . the shot, the police ate, aud then mode las escape. So far the only due the police have is that the murderer had a light grey sivercoat. Two girls, who atid they were aleavel Cousins, of Lyndburst, ere and *Helen Sullivan, of this city, and. 04 'motorman anci conductor of the car l'atve boon detained as witnesses. "Queenie" and the two other girls, 110000W/fed by two young men, one of whom ware it grey overeoat, boarded the ear at Brooklyu bridge. • At first the men sat oppoeite the aisle erom the girls, but the man in the black evercoat erossed over and sat between eQueetsieh and the Cousins girl, and at the eolilsa time the man in the gray eineooat asked "Quchnie" to came over *and it by bim. She refused, and he reached over and triel to pull bee' out of her seat. While they were struggling the Odus- ins girl stealthily reached for his w-atch end fob. They were found in her pocket At the police station, but sbe declares ehe had intended returehig them. Fust. whet caused the shooting lias inot yet been learned. Those whe were (oit the ear say that the first intinmtion they had of any serious trouble was when . they heard a shot and looked e round to see the man in the gray coat standing with a revolver partly ooneeal- ed by it handkerchief held in Ms hand. "Queenie" had half risen from her seat with her bud pressed to her breast, and as the man with the revolver dashed from ehe ear she toppled over to the Veer, dead. The other men also made his escape. The Cousins tiad Sullivau girls declare they knew neither of the men, and knew very little about the dead girl. e s THREATENS TO KILL. Married Man Who Eioped With Daughter. 'New York, Feb. Re -Richard Bell, 29 years old, a shipping clerk, of 52 Bar- row etreet, and Catherine Geugenbach, 25 years old, of 00 Greenwich avenue, were in the Tombs Police Court to -day charged with the laically of jewelry valued at $1,000 from Charles Geugen- bach, the girl's father. Thegirl eloped wall:Bell on Jan, 15, taking the jewelry with her. They were arrested in Chicago last week. Bell has a wife and two children, and it is "stated that at the time of the elopement the Getigenbach girl was about to enter it .ehavent. The girl's father, e ho hed been stand- ing without apparently noticing his daughter, sprang at Bell, crying, "Pm going to kill you for what you have done to -my daughter! Before the man could mach Bell, lawyers forced them woe. lhe father then turned to the girl and said: "You've got just what you deserve, and Pin gain to see that you're punished." When arraigned the pair held each other's hands. Both waivea examina- tion, and Magistrete Corrigan held thcm in $1,000 bail each. ONE IN THREE IDLE. NOW Itork Has oo,000 Union Men Out of Work. New York, Feb, 0. -That one out of every three union men in New York city is out of employment is tlie. statement made by Frank Julian Warne, who has been engaged for the past month in it study of the unemployed situntion in behalf of a group of the charitable or- ganizations. "Li this city at the lowest estimate,' says Mr, Warne, "90,000 members of or. ganized labor are out of employment at this time. The total membership of all the labor unions is about e85,000, the conclusion being that one out of every three union men is out of work. In ad- dition to these 90,000 the city line a va- grant population of at least, 30,000, and Delhi at 10.25 this morning, caused the it is sefe to say that this number of the derailment of the second section of the unemployable has intreased this year Continental leipress, and although two over former periods. This total of mare of the sleepers were turned over on the than 120,000 of the unemployed and un- side ana weut down the embankment, erealoyable does not ineluae n. aerh large and three other teaches bumped along class of unskilled labor, whom members on the ties for O eonsiclerable distaace, ilia idle in„untisual numbers. "Another element deserving eonsider. no one was killed or ,severely hurt. The train was behind tiene, fold Was running alien, which eanuot be measured statie- at a. high rate of epee& amity, comprises clerks, stenographer and typewriters, office boys, porters, /- 81 Tile engine passed over the Tail safely, messional men ana but the baggage car streak the ,broken estio servants, prof others who are out of employment. And rail and dragged the others with it. In all there were forty-uine passengers on the resulting conditions are further ug- board, Ameriearis passing through Can - raveled by many additional CAVS Mitt) and four received it elight shakitig where employment still continues but up end a few bruises, but not sufficient With the workers on reduced time 'or at lower wages." to need medical attehdatme, - TOLD el letTVIII STORY% CHOLERA AMONG PILGRIMS. Thos. Foster Suffered From Starvation Poor Hundred Deaths a Day .at for 58 Hems, Jeddah. 4,014.1.110.0vw. am. ar•MmanAr bettings in small steamerS which ply hetvviien lioinbayi Achin ?hoz, und aro dteembitaked at Jedttuh, where there aro no sanitary Arran ements. Twenty thousand pilgritus rom In- dia alone passA through Jeddah last yenr, and 15,000 MOre e4140 from Itlfopt, escorting the holy carpet which covers the Kalaba, the shrine of Ifa. ,hotnetans at Mecca, every year. Six yeari. ago serious outbreak of cludore, occurred at tTeciclah, and the disease appeared soon afterwards in Egypt, having been. carried by the returning caravans. The mortality at Mecca itself was very high. Thou sands died in a single week. I I I A SOFT SNAP. WHITEWASH For State Officials Charged VTR - Conspiracy and Fraud. Harrisburg, Pa., Feb! 10. -The first act .of Stanford B. Lewis, of Phila- delphia, assistant to Joseph M. Hous- ton, architect of the new state capi- tal. when he took the witness stand toetay at the trial of S. H. Sander- son, contractor; former Auditor -Gen oral Snyder, former State Treasurers Mathews and J. M. Shumaker, Sup- erintendent of public buildings and grounds, charged with eonspiracy to defeated the state, was to eorrect his testimony of Friday, when he impli- cated former Attorney -General Hamp- ton L. Carson in rtn alleged "white- wash" of those who are accused of fraud, Lewis in his correction said that he had confused the titles of state officials and where he said "At- torney -General" he naeant "auditor - general." Mr. Carson, who was at the time attorney -general, took uo part in. the conference where the aleeged "white- wash" of state officials was discus- sed according to Lewis. To -day began the third week of the trial. When court adjourned Friday, Lewis Was under cross-examination Counsel fot the defence announced they had no further questions to ask Lewis to -day and the common- wealth began re -direct examination. Lewis said it was 'Snyder who tele- phoned for him to -come to Harris burg and prepare the Houston. letter to Mr. Carson. This letter was one If a series written by persons con needed with the construction of the capitol in the 'inquiry made in the capitol scandal fourteen months ago by the former Attorney -General Lewis and under cross-examination on Fri- day that this letter was prepared af- ter conferences with Snyder and for- mer Governor Pennypacker to "dove tail" with other letters and that he understood the inquiry to be a "white -wash." _ : t CRUEL ACT Left New -Born Babe to Die in the Snow. St. John, N. B., Feb. 10.-1116mA Grey, of Hartland, is in Woodstock Jail charged with destroying an infant born to his sixteen -year-old doughter. He - left it in the snow about a quarter of a mile from his home, to die from ex- posure, an January 24th, and was later located hi a lumber camp, where the ar- rest took plaee this morning. He was driven away from home by his wife, and was traced by it letter asking for clothes. The double crime has created great indignation in the community. s JAPAN WANTS OUR Hides and Leather and Butter and Eggs, Says Preston. . Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 10.-(Speeial). - W. T. R. Preston,. Trade Commissioner of the Dominion, writes from Hong Kong, where he has just arrived from Yokohama, to the Department, and states that there is a market in Japan for hides and leather. This market will grow in largo protiortions during the next decade or two. Japan is engaged ex- tensively in the manufacture of leather goods. Western habits are showing themselves in the consumption of cheese, and tberefore there will be an opening for Canadian cheese. The taste for but- ter is rapidly developing and in bhe course of a few years there will be an moments demand for that commodity. rABASH TRAIN DERAILED. T.wo Sleepers Turned Over and Weht Down BAnk, St, Thomas, Feb. 0.-A broken rail on the Wabitsb Railway two miles east of ov.,,,•••••••• Bold Swindler Fleeces Italians in Totonto. Toronto, Feb. 10,-Worka-Fotir bours it day. Library-TiVo hours it day. Posi- tion -Light work and cleaning the cora. dors of the King Edward Irciteh A beau- tiful uow Uniform_ and $2.50 it day, The above position was offered to several Italians yesterday by a man who regis- tered at the Xing Edward Hotel as 11. Chapman, The Italians were to put up $16 apiece to get the job. Chapman got between $60 and $70, and took the 6,10 train last night for Chicago. •The matter was reported to the de- partment too bee to get him here but he was arrested at London by Detee'tives Ryder and Egelton. He is described as it man of Jowled) appearance, from 30 to 35 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches, weight 160 pounds, dark complexion, clean shaven, wearging it brown Christy, dark spring overcoat,: black scarf, it brown leather suit case, and it silk hat box. Chapman registered on Saturcley night, He went up to see Michael Basso and got the address at 150 Terailley 'street, where it number of Italians lived. He took several of the foreigners look- ing for work to his room et the hotel, where he displayed a contract for them to sign after they had paid him $15 apiece for getting their new position as general cleaners -up around the big hos- telry. They were to receive $2.50 per day for four hours' work a day, and each day they could have two hours in the library to improve their Englisb, ate. Detectives Guthrie and McKinney are working on the case. 1 t , 1, • Toronto, Feb. le. -After • being fifty . eraJeddahhas, Malan, le i. .- le, e io • eigitt hours withoie food, Thomas Pos. * I . ineteased, arid the average 1111111 ter, it young Engliainen, who hag been . bee of deaths daily in 400. Jeddah, the Red Sea part for pit. in the country for about two years, col- ', retims travelling to and from Mecea, lapsed on Xing street east on Fraley is the world's danger centre for ehol- night year Yonge street, and was taken I ere, ond plague. • to $t. Michael's Hospital by the pollee. ; More th el 100,000 1VIaluirreiten )i1 - Poster, who told a pitiful story to the , grime hole all parts of the wotld visit hospital authorities of the -hardships he ; litocea eye ..r year, and folly half this had. endured, expreesed a perfect wil- I number pate through Jeddah. Moro lingoes* to go to work, but mid that be l them one reat epidemie of eholeta wild tot get any. The young man mid lat, been Oaceable to this enormona 00, lme bad worked in and around Tor- . teriale in pilgrims at the Red Sea .int i for ague time. nett then meowed • poi t. emplo•yment %flit a fernier in Weefiadi ' Me. ieilerime en Tenthtie tile holy lle remained uitli him mail Oeteter'rite where Maliorost Was both itlid last, when be was told (bat lie would preached }Is good are peeked like OUT OF JAIL. Alleged Reverend Counterfeiter Preached Yesterday. •Chicago, Feb, 10. -The Rev. james R. Kaye, convicted in the United States District •Court it Springfield of counter- feiting, resumed the pastorate of the First Congregational Church of Wheaton yesterday, and conducted the Sunday service. The 1ninister was convicted of counterfeiting and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary at Fort Leav- enworth January 11. His case was taken to the United States Court of Appeals, and on Friday he was released from the Springfield County jail, after bonds of $2,500 had been, furnished. His arrest occurred al- ter Federal secret service men had found dies for the -coining of nioney in the pz•eacher's home at Lincoln, Ill.,' where he formerly Wee pastor of a church. The minister claimed the dies were used in making medals for bright Sunday school pupils, but the jury decided otherwise. s : CHIEF OF THE BLACK HAND. He is Bcaieved to Have Been Killed in New York. • New York, Feb. 0.-Coly Calcagno, an Italian barber, who was shot to death in East 106th street last Mon- day., may have been the leader of the Slackhand organization in the United States. Detective Willie= H. Atkin- son, of Baltimore; after seeingthe body yesteide.y, said he was convinced the dead man was the chief of the Blackhand in this country. Calcagno was not his real name. Atkinson said. He is convinced, however, that the body is that of the man who, when known as the leader of the Black - hand organization, dynamited it. house in Baltimore several -years ago, • and at that time was being sought .on a °huge of havingshot and killed a mi prominent an n Pittsburg. The local Italian detective . bureau will make an effort to verify the identifi- cation. • '9s• BRITISH MURDER MYSTERY. Entire Family, Including Two Servants, Shot to Death. London, Feb. 0. - The little Buck- ingham village of Fawley was eshoek- ed to -day by the discovery of 4 quintuple murder. The scene of the tragedy was the residence of F. II, Holmes, who was known to be wealthy. A gardener who was working out - sale the aouse, alarmed at its, un- usual quietness eo late in ehe morn- ing, entered 'an d found successively the bodies of 'two women servants, Mrs, IIolmes and her daughter cal lying in bed. in different rooms. 'Rath had been shot in the limed. Leta the body of Mr. Holmes was foiled in a rtearby wood. He, too, had 'been shot in the head. Whether he com- mitted suicide Or not is a inyetery. 4 i• - AGED PAIR MURDERED, TO LENGTHEN BRITISHDA width the crime was committed. The male -keeping. Meenwatle it is likely that it speolal wittiug of the vourb will he applied for in order that the triel may not be long delved. The Crown • produced the blood-etained knife with ••••••••••t ALL TIDIAPIECED TO DE PDT rQR. WARP EIOIITY TilINDTED. A Bill Premed in Commons-Astrono. Mers at Oreenwmch Say the Scheme coind be Eaelly Adopted-, Afrecte Seciety Dihner Hour. London, Vela 04-A desire, though by no 1110041$ getierel, to lengthen the Brit - lea day during the 1111111I0Or sewn ba,s developed, To soeure this longer suni- nier day, the Nine: mover suggests that all British timepieces be put forward 80 minutes, So that it mita .tlettiog up patently at o in the morning, would really be &lag se at T.40. Thus, lie would gain one liour and twenty min- utes of daylight. William Poore°, M. P,, has now drawn up it bill, called p. Daylight Saving Bill, by meane of which be will ask the House of Commons to legally institute a new British time in the sutniner months, His measure proposes that all clocks sball then be advauced eighty minutes, giving Britishere an extra two hundred caul ten hours of daylight as if by a mired.° to business men. An eminent brain speeialist fleclaxes that all the best work is done ib the early morning bours, Therefore, the scheme will increase the output of au - there, clerks and all sorts and conditions of men. The head of oue of the biggest firms in the city says he is willing to discuss the plan, but the railways and business houses all must concur. An ex- tra hour an a summer evening for cricket and tennis would appeal to the young and to city men The astronomers of .Greenwich say it would "be easy. Already they record three times -sidereal, according to the stars; astronomical, beginningat noon; and civil, beginning at • midnight. The manager of the Savoy Hotel declares it would be impossible to change the time as Mr. Pearce proposes, The society dining hour, he says, is already late, end it is possible that people would dislike walking about in evening dress by day- light. Should the bill pass, it would mean that 7,30 would mean what 0.10 does now. Brother and Sister Were Killed at Corry, Pa. Corry, Pa., Feb. 0. -The authorities have decided that Albert L. Damon and Eliza Damon, whose bodies -were eigit alinister, as this would mean, under found yesterday, were murdered with eaa gehe e uotntitereitii interest, a prim- a blurit instrument.Heal Austrian ?supremacy throughout the Dantori's nose and his sister nose 'Balkans Indeed, it wouki meanAts- woie broketh ttnd other bones Were triah reathing Satanical and Rusela re- fthetered. When the bodies tive marks this would be equivalent to lutv- found yesterdey a prussic acid phial ing Gemeny itt Sekinka. found on the bed monied to paint to me Populo Romeo goes so far as to it suicide pact, and investigations Were chronicle the rumor that it Itusso-Tark- made along that direction first. ish war is likely to moue in the spring. An inquest olWill be held to-inorrow. Turkey has beea raakinf preparatione Damon was 69 years of agee told hs for she now has in 'AWN onia 100,000 of sister was /I years. . her best troops, officered to a great ex- uent by Ger- - as- s. ITALIAN BANKER DEAD, Philadelphia, Vele 10.-Mlehele Mar- DHARGED WITH MURDER. tine, banker, importer and philanthropist . CZAR AND SULTAN. BOTH RUSHING TROOPS TO TURK°. PERSIAN FRONTIER. Supplies. Feorri the Douma-Russia Des- patching 60,000 Fully Equipped • Soldiers -The Etnpire's Prestige in the Middle East Now in the Balance -Trouble in the Balkans. St. Petersburg, Feb. 0. -The Russo- Turkish relations have entered upon a mena.cing phase. Alarmed at the un- checked Turkish penetration of Persia and the mobilisation in Armenia., the Russian Government has decidea to execute it formidable military demon- stration in reply on the Turko-Persian frontier, despatching there a compact expedition- of sixty thousand select troops from Central Russia, with full war equipment, and it is acting wita uncommon rapidity with a view to over- aweing the Turke by a decisive exhibi- tion of force. The Wer Office drow up pions of the expedition, and submitted them Mir- riedly for legislative enactment to the Douala on Friday. The Committee on National Defenee assembled in a virtu- ally closed session. A representative of the Wee Office briefly and impress- ively outlined the Turkish preparation,. of which Russia is fully informed, and asked for an open credit far the male- tenance of an army of sixty thousand, ge met the possible arenunents of econ- omy by saying that Russia had ex- pended blood and treasure in Manchuria itt vaiu, owing to the initial backward- ness in armament. The empire's. pres. tige in the Middle East, he said, is now also in the balance, and Russia must be prepared to defend it, Guchkoff, leader of the Octoberist party, in a speech, seta that the ma- jority in the Douma were Russian pat- riots, and williag t� part with their "last shirt" to defend the fatherland. The 'committee in it high pitch of pat- riotism passed the appropriation unani- mously. At the same session the War Office obtaMed sanction for further item of $10,000,000 to rce.a.te Hoaxing batteries along the Baltic. The cities along this coast since the destruction of• the Russian navy have been entirely at the mercy of Germany. e The British proposal to create a fly- ing column of gendarmerie to be com- manded by Emepeans and charged with Ile task of stamping out marauding bands in Macedonia, mentioned in King Edward's speech from the throne, has 'not met with favor from Russia, on the eround that previous undertakings of a simi' tar sort in Egypt end Crete lutve not proved efficacious, and hove entail- ed it vast oinount of trouble for the aative population. Austria time. Oreemeny cheep that. Russia is trying to obtain revenge for her failure in the far east by turning ;ler attention to the near east, and is resuming her ancient traditional policy of aiming At Constantinople. It is fur- ther asserted by officials of these Gov - elements that she is helped in this abave board by France, and secretly by Great Britain, the letter thus opposing Ger- man influence. Russia. has emphatically declared that it would be impossible to tolerate the carrying out of the proposed plan for the construttion of railways in the Balkana, announced by Baron von Aerenthal the Austria-Ilungerian For - detene of the <ohne are mad tete 'meta culitely atrocious. Nearly theee yeare ago a randier lemma jolineon arrestee been, clutrgea with cattle -killing, and. was ii!olapeetionattAltirsulgilal.P°111ceetortful,41Z took Oat a, however, it is thought that with he connivance of it Para he wade goo I his eseitpe. lie is now in enstory nt Great Fans, Montana, and will, it is thought, return without fightirig extra, clition. The case promises to be one of the most seneational in the history of the distriet, TAKES OVERDOSE. • •i••••••••a Buffalo Man Dies After Second - D034 of Drug. Duffel°, Feb. 10. -Paul Jurica, 62 years old, brushmaker, living at 454 Jefferson street, took an overdose of medicine yesterday morning at 9 o'clock and died a /aiort time later. Juice has been out of work, 'He bas been worrying.until he became ill. Then he got medicine. Wliether this. wee strychnine or morphine Deputy Medical Examiner Howland has been unable to eseertain as yet, Yesterdey morning Janice complained. of nervousness. arose. and took it dose of medicine, Then after he bad waited a short time he arose from his ehair, according to the statements of his wife, and reemeked: "If one dose will not help me, I'll take another," He took the second dose. That caused his death. Dr, Howla.nd saw the medicine bottle from which the pills Were taken and de - *led that it must have been strychnine. After questioning Juriea's wife he con - eluded that there had been no attempt on the part of the man to commit sui- cide, but that he had failed to follow the directions of the lebel on the bottle for the use of the poisonous drug. Besides his widow Jurica left several grown-up 'children. u THREE SUICIDES. TWO PRESIDENTS'. OF BANKS TAKE THEIR OWN LIVES, • Ill Health and Worry in Both Cases Cause of the Suicides -Minister's Son Broods Over the Suicide of One of Them -Shoots and Kills Himself. Fort Worth, Tex, Feb. 10.-L. T. Hutchins, 50 years old, second. Vice - President of the Fort Worth National Bank, committed suicide yesterday tar shooting himself. IR heAlth and mental worry are given as the causes of sui- cide. , Brooding over the suicide of Banker Hutchins, a men lie did not know, Erie C. Gambrell, 38 years old, shot and killed himself at a local hotel last night. Gatabrell was a son of Rev. Dr. J. 33. Gambrel], tem noted Baptist divine, and had practised law in Dallas for mane years. Be formerly edited several newe papers in Mississippi. To -day he called on Hunt McCialeb, an old newspa.per friend and disaussed the suieide of Ban ker Hutchins. Re later went to a hotel and wrote a dote asking that Mel Caleb be notified of whet he had clone. He leaves a widow and a six year old son in Dallas. San Antonio, Tex., Feb. 10.-0, A Beasley, president of the American Bank & Trust Co., at Houston, Texas, and until recently President of the Texaa 13ankers' Association, shot and killed himself late yesterday Be had been in San Antonio for the last five weeks. Ill health is believed to be tbe cause of the act. 00,19,10.00000- . A FRANCO•GOES TO mARSEILLES. explorers, the ship will return to New Zettland. in March, thus oavolding the tisk of being froSen in like the Diner- Aty* Deeember of this year 'die will fihela Sail for the Antarctic., and bring tonna the eepedition in alareh, 1000. The exPloring petty will probably be landed at Mealdrati Bay, and Will la/ to reach the ada.gnetie piahht by Ross 100 milee to tlee westward. Their main *bled, however, will be to follow up the south sledge journey from the Discovery, which penetrated as far south as 82,17 and there foUnd moun- taint ranging up to 15,000 feet height. Ex -VERNIER QP PORITOAL LEAVED IN A 1.11/RBYt ••••••r•+•••••• But the Rest Has Done Rim Oood-*. Accompanied by French Detectives -Maria Pia to visit lier Sister, the Princes Qlotilde. Bordeaux, Feb, 10 -Seidler Franco, the ea -Premier of Portugal, with hie wile and son, left this city by train et 7,43 this morning for :.‘larseilles. Time eepertere was made stuldenly, the hotel • authorities being notifiea of the step at the last moment. It Was twenty minutes before troth timo when Smaller Ammo. onexpeceedly requested his bill ftom the hotel maw ager, The time was so Alert that the hotel porters lied to work rapidly to get the many pieces of Damage of the Franco party over to the steam, in time. Seidler Franco itppears rested from hie fitay here. He le lase depreesed, and walked over to the train et ri quick step. The former Premier eras accompanied by Freueb detectives, but there were no others at the station to seo him off. Going to Turin. Turiu, Italy, Feb. 10. -Maria Pia, the dowager Queen of Portugel, has tele graphed her sister, Princess Clotilde, that she will come here to pees some time, end that the visit will be made so then as her health permits. The Royal Dead. Lisboa, Feb, 10, ---The bodies of King Carlos and Crown Priuce of Portugal are still lying in state this morning at the Cathedral San Vicente. Long before the portals were ripened a greet crowd had congregated mi the streets before the building, and as soon as they were permetted, the people filed through for the last glimpse of the murdered mon- Arch and his son. At 2 o'clock this af- ternoor the coffins will be closed and carried to the Pantheon, where with fur- ther ceremonies they will be placed in the tomb.. The official watchers at the sides of the biers were augmented to- day by mime of the members of the for- eign missions to attend the funeral, who are still in Lisbon. MONEY FOR HEATHEN 3 STEAD AS OLIVER CROMWELL. Will Sacrifice a Beard That Never Yet Has Known a Razor, Louder, Feb. 0. -When it was noticed tliat Oliver Cromwell was to be excluded from the list of characters to figure in London's Iiistotical pageant, W. T. Stead protested vigorously to the committee in charge that this would boycott "the greatest man in English history." The committee replied that it would include Cromwell if Mr. Stead would appear in the part. Mr. Stead gladly and proudly consent - cud, although it will involve the satrifice of an ample beard which never yet has known a razor. It woe never even trim- med till Mr. Stead was past 40. But Mr. Steed deelaias be would have shaved hie heed if necessary. : FORCED WAY. THROUGH DRIFTS. C. P. R. Plow, With Three Engines Opens Road to Owen. Sound. Owen sound, Feb. 0. -After being closed since Tuesday night, the Can- adian Pacific Railway was opened to- night at 6 o'clock, when a snowplow, pushed. by- three powerful engines broke it way through from Orciegeville, and wits followed by the train which left Toronto on Wednesday morning. The - greatest obstruetion was encountered be- tween Orangeville, and Shelburne, where. the plow was stalled yesterelay, and -was pulle.d beek to Orangeville after a reeigh experience. The Grand Trunk was more fortunnte and was able to get its line open Friday worming, though it was necessary to put four locomotives on the snow plow ad two migines on tem light train that followed,. - But None For the Starving People at Home, They Say, Philadelphia, Fob. 10, -An appeal for aid for the destitute People in the Kensington mill diettlet of Phil- adelphia, one ef the greatest indus- trial centres in the wold, was made at the meeting. yesterday at the Cen- tral labor union. The union lis- tened to the plea of a delegation of textile workers who claimed that from 35,003 to 50,000 men, women mid children in the Kensington district ere need of relief. One delegate said: "I suggest that there be it dernriastration to show the thought- lese citizens of Philadelphia where they would best use their spare funds. "The other day one body raised $40,- 000 to send to Africa. for heathens. Another sent shiploads of flour to tha starving people of Russia. Can- not this say also. prevent starvation in its own limits?" A committee was appointed to in- vestigate the maeter, - LOCAL °PIMA* FIGURES. ' Thaniesville the Only Place That Car- ried Repeal, Torouto,Feb. 10 -Returns prepared by the Provincial licensing department show that in the recent Weal option campaign the by -low was earrica in 31 pieces by the required three-fifthe nut- jority. In 27 Municipalitiee axed op- tion received a majatity of the total votee east, but failed to become opera- tive heeneote the nittjeeity VMS under the requisite three-fiftlis. The bylaw wits deftextea 'outright in 27 other plaeee, but in CM seven instritreee where, the (400tOrS VOted. 011 reaeitt the effort, to revett, to the old order of things fAiled THE BATTLEFIELDS. Ask Grant For Plains of Abraham Park. TEN MEN KILLED IN COAL MINE ippygo•••••••,/, PEAPI-Y EXPLOSION AT PORT HOOP, PAPE BRETON, ,Not the 4oast Werning*Bodies Found With Tools •gresincl in Hand-. Six -of the Victims Were Native% of the Neighborhood. tleVeorialr pcconaiesj*litiagvej°1euereialqtareussithol°4ra6wi. wienretihn; the sledges, :nine of the Peet Hood Opal Company at TRAINS COLLIDE. Port Hood, Cape Breton 'About 7,30 o'doele this morning, Overtly after the men laul gone to work,. Train Hands and Pozsengers More . ' . ..........- an explosion occurred inai room cm one of the southern levels of the mine, 'Rae, Port Colborne, or Less Injured news spreatl rapidly, med. much. anxiety WitS felt threugbout the towo by relo- press 'from Buffalo, due here at a ani. Feb. 10. -No. 3,9 exe : tivee and frionels of tbe worainen in the the west, wIdea was etuding on the tea ,1h)ietadel)ClatIllilleg;esr le‘tliceijiemileallly,°Ordnpi7oaceetillnedd collided with a throttaii stock train from eral cets with the engine were derailed, (impute of the room hail been inseaet- Conducter Buohanan of the expresi thott.11:11d•isti'ta: main track in Port Colborne pied. Sev- anIutiedwia:seltyhetno atislitemolsveerenea had a slicaddet and his Wok bruised. ly killed. The position of the boiliee Expresentan Williamoon and Baggage- hands of some were pickaxes, augers when found indieeted tacit the men did man Stewart, wete badly slialten up and other workiug tools, held Artily in end several ,passeng,ere Were 'slightly in- not receive a moment's warning, In the ga,ra Rotel, Buffalo, shoulder bruised, C. six were miners natives of Port Hood men killed Buffalo, back' injured; D. Hyman, Nia- the death grasp. Of the ten E. Clifford, Buffalo, right hip injured. °- town end neighboring districts, and jured as follows: Mrs. IL Predinattn, f Geo. Weyand, B,uffalo, right wrist cut, four were loaders, Bulgarians, of a. W. Tallman, Buffalo, left lame injured; party of 20 who arrived there about L. Oonsatine, Buffalo back injured. two inonthe ago. The deal millers were Mrs. Dell Ilidewa.y, fame injured. Tho all young men, Married, except one, and morning was hazy. The Auxiliary from left widows, and in some cases infant Bridgeburg cleared away the wreckage, Beetonhjohn T. Campbell, John Lucille children. Their names are; Malcolm ICING'S THROAT SORE Gillies, Duncan R. McDonald, Allan IL about thirty years of age. mononald ctncl 'William 'McKenzie, all At 1 o'clock all the bodies bad been e : i His Majesty Gone to Brighten For recovered and brought to the surface. Considerable difficulty was experienced ----ea His Health. in identifying them, so Charred and dis- relatives to identify the bodies. They figured were they from the force of the explosion, but the clothing enabled the to Brighton to -clay fot a °hedge of air. London; Vele 10, -Xing Bdward went office, which had been improvised into were laid out in a row inthe company's His Majesty bas suffered considerably Ali e indeed pitiful. an undertaking room, and tbe scene vow from sore throat receritly, and his troll- around with voices Imehed. It was the - t le eniployees of the mine good ele has entailed sleepless nights. air first accident at the mine attended with Felix Semon, physician extraordinary to. serious loss of life, and its awfulness the Xing, has been in attendance on. his Majesty. made it deep impreesian. The mine of 11. : i chile did everything, possible to show their eympetby and consideration for WILD HORSES. the feelings of the employees and rela- tives and friends of the deceased. • Orders That 15,000 of Them Be riled tile jury, and proceeded to hold an Coroner john Cameron, M. D., empan- e _ Destroyed. tification be ordered tbe bodies to be interred; and adjourned the inquest, inquest. After bearing evidente of iden- awaiting the. arrival of the Deputy In- spector of Mines. Reno, Nev., Feb. 10, -Orders have A ceinmittee of the P. W. A. took charge of the remains after the inquest adjourned. Cause of Accident Unknown. There is considerable speculation as to the cause of the accident. The mine had been pronounced recently as one of tae best ventilated hit ithe Pievince. If there was any gas present in the mine previous to the explosion it was not generally known, It is said that none could be detected immediately after, and that the naine is nole perfectly free Montreal, Feb. 0. -An Italian shooting from gas. The inspector made his usual affair took place on Saturday afternoon rounds of the mine about two hours be- fore the accident and pronounced all and as a result Ernesto Oasseri was con( safe. When the inquest is resumed on dying condition from a. bullet wound he. 1 the• 12th inetant it may he -Abate some 'lila will be thrown on the question. • e The me,n in charge about the pit are veyed to Notre Dame Hospital: in As is usual le Italian cases, no one . • all experienced miners, ane from the seems to know how Caeseri came by his manager down were always noted for his ear, injury. Ho lived with his wife and twd their solicitude for the safety of the boarders at 478 Amherst street, a ram- men. The explosion did not wreck the shackle hovel, A revolver was found in mine very much, lend, apart from the another room of the house, The Italians loss of life, would not be considered seri- ous, The sad event has cast a gloom over the town, as the deceased miners l' ' were general favorites and men of good eharacier. I nspecting the M ine. •••11almmle been received from the Forestry Depart- ment instructing the rangers on the Toelyabe, the Toquinia, and the leoiter reserves in Lander coenty, to kill all wild horses foiled on bbe government &main. There are about 15,000 wild horses on the reserves, They are doing much damage to vegetation and attract- ing domestic' animals to their herds.. : e AN ITALIAN SHOT: Mysterious Affair at Montreal -Victim Said to be Dying. intim house, including the injured inan's, • Ottawa, Feb. 10.-(Specialn-Premier wife, refused to throw the s ightest light Gouin and Hon. Mr. Turgeon, of the on the mystery. The police believe the Quebec Government, ip•e here to -day in- shooting to be the work of tho Black terviewing the Government in reference Heath t I- to it grant for the battlefields memorial A SUICIDE WAS PREVENTED, project of the Governor-General. It is understood that a sum will be placed Toronto Man Was Going to Throw Him - in the e,stimates for this purpose. Just how much has not yet been decided, but Self Before Express. it will be somewhere between $300,000 Toronto, Feb. 10, -To it considerable and $400,000. A commission of members crowd down at the Union Station yes- ancl Senators, selected from both sides terday afternoon it man of about 28 of the House, will be appointed in am- years, named. George Moore, expressed nection with the matter. Messrs. Goan his firm intentioe of throwing himself and Turgeon will also have a,n interview in front of the first express that came ,vith His Excellency the Governor -Gen' in opporteriely. The station authorities era I. telephonea to the police, and P. C. Hawthorn atrested him as it vagrant ICE CUTTERS HAPPY and took lam to Court Street Station. • He had it valise, and MS fairly wen • _ea_ clothed, He will be held pending an in- vestigation as to his sanity. Old Fashioned Winter in Pennsyl. • KING LEOPOLD NOT SANE. vania Makes Work. Critical Situatioti Confronts the Ministry Philadelphia, Fib 10. -The extreme of Belgium, cold weether which act in about ten Brussels, Feb. 9. -There are indications days ago ih Eastern Pennsylvania. still that the Government may soon have to prevails, the temperature in many plac- deal with a difficult problem in regard es falling below the minimum of years. to Xing Leopold. Its nature may be no Country districts report a regular faceted by the remark made by a menn "old fashioned" winter, with ice twelve ber of the Cabinet yesterday in the lob. to 10 inches thick, and snow in many by of the Chamber of Deputies. He said: places two feet deep. Pottsville to -day "the King is no longer in a normal reports minimum. temperature of 7 de- condition of nitride' grees below zero and Reading also ex- Signs of mental breakdown of Leopold perienced zero weather. have been noticea.ble for several Icemen who., up to the middle of Jan- months. nary feared 011 100 famine because of s : the mild weather have been made hap- MIS. J. P. MORGAN' ROBBED. py by the cold weather. Hundreds of .1..../••••••••.• inen who had beet idle all winter are Galverstoti, Texas, Feb. 0. -Mrs, 3. given employment handling the ice. P. Morgan of New York, who is en • , is • • route to L'os 'Angeles, was robbed some - NEGRO HANGED. Mob of Two Thousand Took Him • From Military. Brooklutven, Mise., Feb. 10. -Eli Piga, a negro, who criminally assulted aim where iu Texas before reaching El PASO. She is travelling in her -private ear. with Mrs. I. N. Nappen of Providence, It. L, and Mrs. J. Meredibh, of New York, as her guests. The ear was entered and robbed of several thousand dollars' worth of jewelry, And valuables, and A large sum of money. • 7 Wells in this county a few weeks ago, Pollee Busy at Wintipeg. was takee from the, custody -of a Jack- spent al day taking evidence ngainst Winnyg, Feb. 0. -The police again son militaty eompahy and it posse of aep, those breakieg the Lord's Day Ma Sev- tales and hanged early to -day. The mod hundred violations were. reported, military company was overpowered by it including restaurants, news stands, un - mob of over 2,000 citizees, A number of dertakers and eVen business office,. shots were fired and two membere of The newspeper officee were again in - the mob were wounded. Government Mine Inspector Nichol- son, with Manager John Johnson, of 'Sedney Mines, arrived to -night, and with Manager Beaton, of the Inverness mine. , mines, wiehold an investigation of the This afternoon Manager Beaton, of Inverness, Manager Johnston, of Mabou, and ahanager -McLellan, of Port Hood, were over the affected part of the mine, and state no damage of conse- quence has been done to the mine, and the cause of the. accident is uncertain. whether gas or powder. The bodies of the miners are all reada for interment, which mill take place on Sunday after- noon in the Roman Catholic Cemetery. . Ontario Man Interested. The directors of the Port Hood Coal Company, which was recently organized and doing well, are: President, S. Dyment, Barrie, Ont.; Vice -President, H. Woodington, Toronto; Secretary- Trectsurer end General Manager It A. Marin. Directors, H. G. Baud, Hale efroittlre•'11C1. KING AND WILD BOAR. Dslonbaetlio,rQluicebeicac3;7.10. G. Outran, vatted, and the names of those werking taken. The summonses of Mem violet' OPF TI4 ANTARoTIO, • big the act last Sunday will be issued Sensational Case Opened at to -morrow. Th eases Inc causing a ansa one of the wealthiest /talkies le the British Expedition in Search of South Snot deal of interest, i east, did Ida home here last night, more, Alberta. Blatt- I le every ease exeept One -that of Thamesville. Pole. agea 56 years, Martino was it member Alfonso's Narroev Escape While Hunt ing in Pardo. tion victories, haa its comma meeting to-dity, which fighting epeeches, full of -confidence, were delivered. air. Jos- eph Chamberlain sett licorty congratt- lationsi "I do not doubt that a general election ot which Wife reform was the Xoot yo, towlete vile Nimrod, the ship New York, Pea. Vh•st v6eldlelflti°3fttolentwtrelittssr townktesVte.1".yEedigearVeilit that city. Ile Was owner of La Veva de Mike Pinillps, (+raged with the murder London, refl. 10,-A special &wadi of the Ileitish South PolAr expeclitiou tional Bank of Brooklyn, which dosed tortoni made ft shisting onslaught en Poyulo, leading Italian newspaper of of Uouto Lewis, a rosidett of the red to the Daily News from Qrteenstownj under Limit. Slatekleton, has ieft Lyttle. on Oct. 26 last, re -opened Mr business the Unionist freetraders, whom he held -bank. thie eity, emidueted it_lnrge private light (nettle'', at Bleiretore, in November, says that the Britiali posb (nee lute ' ton for the Antartit, receiving an entini- to day Rinee its closing the blink ime reevonsible for many or the misfortunes wos boatel 'before Tnspeetor Stamen, of made orw Mitred, With the C'ttnard I aiasti4 hireivell from the townspeople. been in the lunette of jelin W. therofichl Meth ilia party hail tuffeleel, While Mr. N, IV, al. P., yesterday. The Mee letieunship ronmany to tarry mane Ur. The Nimrod will r clown to the Will- a reeeiver. A clefieleney of $165,000 whicli Boner Law declared that the Conserve - the by-law was carrie 01 p aces. prietuer being brought to Utter -46d for 102d. 77,60 south. After liteding a party of been made good by the stockholders, next eleetiou. Paris, Geb. 10. -King Altman afts oar- rowly escaped being killed. by a wild boar, says the Madrid correspondent of the Herald. The Marquis Villavicosa states that timing the royal huet at Paido the King nna the Duke of Thrum came unex- pectedly on the boar, which made a dash towards theni. The Xing rapidly raised his gun and shot at the animal, which rolled over apparently dead. Just as Xing Alfonso stepped forward to inspect the fence beast, it suddenly spreng to its het and rushed at, him. The King, who had pieced. his gnu on the ground, was fortmlately able to spring aside, and the Duke of Taxancon, with great promptitude, shot the animal dead. UN loNISTS CONFI Demi*. Expected to Sweep aritain at Next Election. London. Pei). 10. --The Tariff Reform League, inspirited by successive by-elec.- • Maettota Alta, Feb. 10.-aThe of the Now York Chamber 'of Comeneree MAIL CONTRACT. Wellington, X. Z., Feb.10.--The steam - and was for yeare it wine importee inail Iffal (}f 3faximf PilYentts alias BANK REOPEN3. rit the recent keel oni stion 'campaign was remanded until Thursday next, tho hyoen Liverpool and New York until ter quarters of the *coverer in tentacle ,Paittial, Milen the bank suspenitea, ht tiles would sweep the emeetrY let the