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The Wingham Advance, 1908-02-27, Page 7• MUSIC STORE WRECKED BY BLACK HAND BOMBThQ responsibility far the accident :thteliatirnesetilltetitil tzViza common is in dispute. The survivors cannot be questioned as yet, and the only New York Police Unable to Cope With This driven through the lowered gates, the other witness WIle the orossing-gete tender. He claims that the too-te was driver seeing the train, but believing Class of Crimc, he could beat it. 4 tretinae,....*44 414;*-,744.410.....144.4,9**4444.. 4-4,4444.41.444... were instbeing remoxed to the liudeort Geunty P u'R KILLE . EST antly killed, two died whiI Hospital at Hoboken, N. J.., and the D .1 .. AT ALTAR. New York, Feb.. e4, -----An Itellait bomb eeplesion, similar in elIeracter to many which have takett place in this city with- in a year, oteurred in Brooklyn to -day, when Nter Local's% musio store la Mote gan nvenue, was wrecked. Loealos had 'received so-called "black hand" letters, but having refused to pay for his in- demnity, his store was at first blown test spring. In December last another bomb an left on the stoop, and the sloore land windows demolished. Since then he has received several letters de - 'weeding money, but has ignored then, and a third mysterious attack followed to -day. The lives of Loc•alo, his wife end his three children, who occupied were* in the rear of the store, were endangered by the last explosion, but they escaped with slight injuries. A few months ago the body of an Italian was fouud itt the street near Locale's store. There was a bomb in the pocket of the dead man, and it was be- lieved that he had been delegated to com- mit genie outrage, had failed, and had been murdered by his associates for his failure to carry out his instructions.. The police have had such slight sec - cess in detecting the men responsible for this class of crime that the police com- missioner declared recently he would need the services of a large number of new detectives unknown to the eriminals, who could pretend to join them in their black mailing plans. Immediately following the murder of Giocolamo Cella, a well-known Italian merchant, last night, to -day's crime is regarded by the police as evidence that the Mackmailers nue murderers, whose crimes have been nimed chiefly at Ital. Ian, have been made bolder by -the con - tinned: inability of the police to detect and punish them. MADE HIS WILL, Wealthy Italian Merchant Found With Head Battered. New York, Feb. 23.-Gerolama Oel- la, one of the partners in the firm. of Cella Brother, importers of wines and wholesale groceries at 528 West Broadway, and credited with being one of the wealthiest business men in New York's Italian colony, went to a lawyer on Saturday to get advice on the matter of changing his will. He .steicl at the time that he was go ing away from home, nevem to come back. At 1 o'clock this morning he was found by his brother, Dominic° Cella, lying in a heap on the floor of hit darkenedoffice in the West Broad- way store with his skull fractured by a blow from a hammer, his theoat bruised by the rnarks of fingers and an empty vial which had contained concentrated sulphuric acid on a table beside him. When the police were called in by Dominic° Cella they accepted the ease as one of suicide, persuaded as they were by a letter, believed to be in the handwriting of Gerolama Cella, which said that the writer was go- ing to kill hiinself and which was signed by the name of the dead man. Later Coronet Harburger learned some things which convinced him that a tnurder had been done, and the police, making a rapid change of front, ar- rested Dominice Cella, fitst as -a ma- terial witness and later rearrested him as a -suspicious person and they also held Cesare Bianchi, a stepson of the dead man, as a witness. FATHER LEO HEINRICH MAY YET BE CANONIZED. In Twenty Centuries of the Catholic Church No Parallel to Denver Crime. • Denver, Col., Feb. 24. -In the twenty N. J., instructing him to forward the. centuries of history of the Catholic ! body of Father Leo to that city. Father Church, niembers of its priesthood in Eusebius will acompany the body. this city .deolare there is no record of Funeral services will be held at Mim- e tragedy to parallel that of the killing beth on Wednesday morning, when sol- e, Father Leo Heinrich while administer- I emit requiem high mass, will be cele- Ggiseppa ewe._ brla,ted. ing the sacrament to, ether Wm. (Man, pastor of St. !mei°, at the altar of St. Elizabeth'*! Leo's will deliver an eulogy on Father church yesterday morning. This crime Leo and a sermon against anarchy and they say will stand out as one of the socialism. most fearful in criminal records, and its Guisseppe Guarnaccio, the murderer, talked freely in jail concerning his Hen -- perpetration may result in the eanona dish act. For his crime he declared he ration of Father Leo as a martyr of had no regret. He said he is a native of the church in whose service he fell while s Sicily, is a shoemaker and is 56 years performing his duty. 1 old. He became a socialist and anarchist Father Eusebius, as u twenty years ago. He eame to America ast" SL "”hi two years ago and has since been teach- tabeth's, received et telegram last night Ng anarchy, working but little at his from the father provincial in Paterson, trade. .(11E TOLD, -SO PASSENGERS SAFE. THEY KILLED HIM. AND NIPPED OFF HIS TONGUE AND CUT UP HIS BODY, Boy Makes the Discovery on the Edge of Fletbush-Police Deduce That Mar- chinne Was Stilettoed in a Barber's Chair, But Don't Know Who Dia It. New York, Feb. 2 -Z. -Salvatore Mars Menne, who knew more than wes good for him and told more than he should, went into a barber snop 1-ennewhere in the Italian colony in hrooklyn after closing hours on Wednesda: night and wits staved. Just lie the barber was finishing with him some one from be - hied pinioned his arms to the chair, while another man drove a stiletto deep We -Vete Ieft side of his neek with three essage strokes. The blincls were down in the front of the shop at the time an the door was locked, but despite the in.ti1 danger of interruption the men who had planned the death of Marchinee hurried bung- lingly about their task of disposing of his body. First they took the oorpee out of the barber's chair and into a back room where baths were located. eglien with the barber's razors and with smell hacksaw, such as is used by laborers to saw through teel, they dis- membered the body, separating the limbs from the trunk. and cutting through the bones below the joints. So hurriedly did the nuivderers per- form their task that they did not even undress the body before beginning, but made the -sweeps of the razor through outer clothes and undergarments. Then to insure, as they thought, against the identification of their metim when his dismembered body should be found they sliced off all of the features of the face that fell within the sweep of one or two shtsh[ngelltS of the rezor. That done, the severed stumps of the lintbS Nvere washed Olen% and after , much of the blood that flowed from the •wattnde. ha drained away into the vents of tho bathtub or upon oilcloth laid up- on the floor, the murderers um up the - body in one bundle of new oilcloth and the limbs in another, and some time af- ter the etornt had eteased OltWedeeseety night or early Thersday morning they took the two bundles in a cart -out to a . dump grounds, neat the toner of Reeler Niter avenue and Rutland road, in the rIatintsh district of Brooklyn, and there dumped them amotig the piles of rub - bleb. John Hanlon, a venteena ear -old boy, Who matter sreeerious livirg by eolleetieg and soiree junk rind who. sometimes takes ordme on Thursday for Friday's fish among the people who live tke"Figtown," as .the diefrict on ft e out- "Tkirte of the Viatinteh is called, found the body in the Margit. rree Delivery At St. Throttle& StThome*, 00., 23.--efeyor Geddee, of this eity, received inferme- thin yesterday from the Peetnutsiet- flerterni, Menu, ilea St. Thomewill be given fre tniJ &limey at an .early asbt, Steamer Beta Wrecked Off Turk'e Island. Halifax, Feb. 23.-A special cable to The Olteonicle froin Turks Island re- ports the loss of the Pickford & Black Liner Beta, off that island last night. The Beta, which sailed front Halifax on February 14th for Kingston, Jamai- ca, called at Bermuda, toad was making into Turk's Island hist night. The ap- proaches are obstructed with dangerous ledges, and the steamer ran in on a rock five miles northeast of Tuik's. She was so badly damaged by the impact and subsequent action of the waves that Eel hope of floating the veseel was speedily abandoned mid prompt action was 'taken to ensure the safety of those aboard. Boats were got ready as quickly t14 possible, and at 10.45 last night all the passengers and crew were rescued. : THE AIR iS BLACK. ' , - A Remarkable Discovery by a British Scientist. New York, Feb. 23. -The world pub- lishes to-dar the following special cable from Lon.don: Frederick Hoven- deze a prominent English scientist, claims to have photographed the eth- erie waves of heat and electricity, wbich are invisible, of course. He says they are a fluid which, properly il- luminated, becomes visible to the nak- ed eye and Can be cinematographed. He fills a square glass box with to- bacco smoke, put his finger through. a hole in the side and turns on the box the rays from a powerful eleetrie. lamp. Then, he says, he sees the ether issuing from his finger and per- meating the tobacco maoke. The ether eseapos from his linger even wben it is covered with a tight -fitting rubber cap. Hovenden also demonstrates that the air we breathe is coal black in color. He illurninatee powerfully and microscopically enlarges by mantrdia- meters ordinary air issuing from a hole in a glass box. Then the black molecules forming the air can be seen. " STOLE SECRETS, 44.4.4.4.04414. FRENCH COURT-MARTIAL DEGRADES AND IMPRISONS NAVAL OFFICER. He Made a Partial Confession -Intended to Sell Them to Foreign Power - Naval Tactics Reconstructed as a Result. TRAM STRUCK WAGON. Six Killed in Level Crossing Accident in New York State, Spring Valley, N.Y., Feb. 23.-A foam -flecked pair of horsee thattOre through the stteets early to -day, &ag- eing between them a splintered wag eon pole. brought to the vilinge the first ne of a grade crossing acci- dent, itt which nine members of its most prominent families were either • 'killerl outright or frightfully injured. Tho rterewaye brought up at the Heeler stelae of George Young, front whom the• had been hired the night before t° 4 tate a party of men and eiele to a basketball game at Nyack. Thatrettine in the early lusare of the 19v the waggon load of merrymakers vt.te run down at it Weet Nyack erose - inn by an °Marie. At Western penmen - ger exprese train, Vont Of the party -- Toulon, Feb. 23. -Charles B. Ullme,• an ensign in the French navy, has been found guitty by a court-martial of attempt -in to sell navel secrete to a foreign power and senteneed to life imprisonment in a. fortress ane toque de- graded from his rank. Ensign Ullano was arrested at Tou. bon, Oct. 250, on the charge of being a spy. An exemination of his effects showed him to be in possessiou of many valuable documentet and be af- terwards °confessed to having atstract- ed a secret signal book and the naval cipher. An army reserve officer named Burton was arrested later at Ven- dome on simitae• charges, ana at Toulon on Nov. 10th five ringleaders of an important association of interna- tional spies were taken into custody. Tt is believed. that all these men were in some way oennected with Ullnetes plan, The authorities found evidence that Mini had offered to sell informa- tion concerning the defences of France to e German agent. Memo made a partial coefession to the charges brought against him, and as a result the Frenehauthorities de- cided to order the reconstruetion of the Frei:eh naval tactics. The .eourt decided meselmonly that Ensign 'Clime had abetratted military documents involving the security of the State and bud oommunicated them to a foreign power with the view to gelling them. He had not, however, ac- tually disposed of the papers. Counsel for , Ultra° practically admitted the facts as charged, but asked for cle- mency on the ground that Ulm° was a victim of the opium Writ and had fallen under the power of au unscrupu- lons woman, for whom be had equan- dered his fortune and ruined his life. Ullme was completely crushed when his sent -mice was read. . Bid Ledacy For Hospital Chicago, Feb. 24. -Mrs. Mary Adelaide Yerkes, widow of Charles T. Yerkes, the Chicago financier and traction magnate, announced yesterday that it was her desire to devote a portion of her Szo,000,- 000 estate to the erection ,of a magnificent hospital in Chicago. It is Mrs. Yerkes' desire to herself design the hospital. The incom- plete plans provide for the erection of at least one of the groups of buildings during' her lifetime. The erection of the rest of the group and the necessary endowment for the entire institution will be pro- vided for in her will. BLOWN FROM TRACK. VIOLENT HURRICANE VISITS ENG- LAND AND IRELAND. . Eight Men Drowned in the Mersey - Fatalities in Several Cities -A Dozen Grand Stands Blown Down and Churches Unroofed. 1..m1444.4140.0, Father Heinrichs Shot by Anarchist in Denver Church, Proud of Deed, Had Grudge Against All Priests. He Had Never Seen His Victim Before. Denver, Col,. Feb. 23. --Father Leo .Heinriche was shot and killed to -day - by Guiseppe Guaraaccto, au avowed Anarchist and priest.hater, while the Priest was etbninistering the sacrement et the early mans In St. Elizabeth's Rone an Catholic Church. Kueeling at the el - tar rail between two women, Guiseppe pressed the 'nuzzle of a revolver against the body of the priest, after rdeeiving from lain the cousecrated wafer, and shot the priest through tee heart, Ex- deliaeiniing, "My God, ray God!" Father - Leo fell prone iu front of the altar and d. Withau inarticulate weans the as- sassin sprang into the aisle, and wav- ing the smoking pistol about his head dashed to the church door, For a mo- ment the lumdred or more persons in the church were (lased. Then a woman shrieked and the congregation became panic-stricken. Several women faint- ed and many others became hysterical. Several men, .inoluding Petroleum Daniel Cronin, started in pursuit of the murderer. Patrolman Cronin over- took the fleeing Italian on the church steps, Guarnaccto attempted to shoot the police:nan, but was foiled and 'overpow- ered, after a desperate streak, in which several men assisted the officer. The murderer was- hurriedly removed to the city jail. At threats of summary veneeanee by men who eatlected in fret; of the church Chief of Police Michael Delaney callea out the reserve force of patrolmen, who were kept on guard all day and to -night. Before the commotion caused by the tragedy subsided the Franciscan Broth- ers connected with St. Elizabeth's Church silently brought candles for •the dead and placed them beside the body of their superior, where he lay. By direction of Bishop Matz, the church was closed for the day. A single bullet hole in the white communion robes of the priest showed that the lead had gone straight to the heart. The bullets remaining in Gni- seeleds teeelver had sharpened points. Guarnaccto was placed in solitary confinement. He admitted to the police- man that the priest whom he had killed was a stranger to him, ana in explana- tion of his crime said: "I just went over there because I heve a grudge against all priests in general. They are all against the workingman. I went to the communion rail because I could get a better shot. I did not give a whether he was a German priest or any other kind oe a priest. They are all in the same -class. "I left Italy three monthsago, and .went first to Central Ameriea, and then came to Denver. I an an An- erchist, and I am proud of it. I shot him, and my only regret is that could not shoot the whole bunch of priests in the -church. I am a shoe- maker, but have not worked since com- ing to Denver." Father Leo was born in Rode, Ger- many, Aug. 15, 1867. He was a Francis- can and mune here last September from Paterson, N. J, where for time years he was rector of St. Bonaventure's. He had previously served three years in Croghan, N. Y. Ite had been planning to sail for Germany in June to visit rela- tives whom he had not seen for sixteen London, reb. 22.7 -England and Ireland were in the grasp of a hurricane to -day which left death and destruction in its wake. In the Mersey River a schooner was capsized and eight men drowned. Several small steamers are reported- in distress off Holyhead, while a number of small craft have been driven ashore. No less than one dozen grand stands at several provincial points were blown down, and many. of the occupants who had gathered to witness local football matches injured: The tornado was- of short duration, but most violent, unroofing schools and churches andnprooting trees. Fatalities are reported through the collapse of buildings in Manchester, Sheerness, Wis. be& and Leeds. The tramway services in Liverpool end Manchester were par. tially suspended because of trees that had fallen over the tracks.. The light- ship at Grimsby Was Slink, but the crew was rescued by a trawler. A schooner foundered off Sheerness anti the skipper was drowned. Many were injured at Birmingham. A Ueda running between Ilurtonport and Donegal was blown off the rails by the wind while crossing a viaduct and nearly crashed into the bog beneath. The passengere were miscued unhurt. The launehing at Belfast of the now 25,000-tou tearner Rotterdam for the Note York service of the Holland -Amer- ican Line had to be postponed on ac. emelt of the gale. " BROKER SUICIDES. London, Veb, 24. --J. C. Ilayldon, a well-known broker, who dealt mostly in American railroad securities, e0111 - milted suicide by Apatite at his home in Dalwieh, a suburb of this eV, yester- day.. lie at one tree conducted a large busntess which recently luta fallen off. Worry over fineteciel mattere is given as the anise of the snicide. SEAL. PISHERIES, yeat.s. t ANOTHER ITALIAN MURDER. Vicarro Silvio Shot Through the Head at Montreal. Montreal, Feb. 23.-Auother Italian murder was eommitted here on Satur- day night, following close on the stab- bing of Friday afternoon. The victim of the last killing is named Vicarro Sil- vio,who was shot through the head, expiring on Sunday morning in Notre Dame Hospital without having regained consciousness. An Italian named Coldorone Carmine is accused of the deed, but he has escap- ed. Two friends of the aecused man stated tonight that Carmino etimmitted the deed in self-defence, and when ho had prepared his line of defence intended giving himself up to the police. The two men lived together on Cavil- lier street with a number of other Ital- ians, Silvio and. his wife having only gone there a mouth ago. The police are at a loss how to deal with the Italian problem in this city. STOMACH UNNECESSARY. A French Meter Has Removea It in Ten Cases, New York, Feb. 23. -The Sun has re- ceived the following cable despatch from. Paris: Dr. Delagemere, lecturhigat the Academy of Medicine, Assured his hear- ers that it was possible to live without a stomach, but the figures he quoted are not likely to eneourage many to get rid of that ofttimes troublesome organ. Of ten eases hi which Dr. Delit- geniere entirely removed the stomech owing to Advanced cancer four did uot survive the operation, The remainder lived from settee months to three and a half years. One patient attends to his daily oceupittion and is in excellent beelth, although be was relieved of his stomach two yeaes -ego. The doctor is eouvineed that when the technical side of the operation is snore perfeetly performed the subseqttent dur- ation of life will be extended and that cases- of average danger will be operated upon, and not merely ' as now eases where all hope has been abandoued. SETTLED Fog THREE YEARS. Torento trickleyers and Masons Agree With Emplemers, ' Ottawa, Ott., Feb, 24.---(Speeie1),-- Toronto, Feb. 24. -An iniportant A delegation is here from British (kl. three-year agreement between the stone- umbia seeing the POVerlintent With illOSOnSi the brieklayers aml their ena view to obtaining a close SeatI011 for ployers WAS ratified last week, whore- partien are bound to maintaill seal fiSiterieg whielt are being extermin. bY All work the coinipg rieeson on the salve terms ea to wages and hours ae pre- vNIVERSITY veiled last year. The position of the plumbers and structural iron workers remains apparently unehauged as 30t. OF TORONTO The men declare that their strikes ere still on. As a result of a reeent j. formal confereute a better feeling seems to exist between the olundaere and their employers, and the employers appear to be satisfied that they will have all the men they require fee the summer's work. The employers also Wilk they will have all the structural iron workers they can find work for this ammo. ","4. CHASED 10,000 MILES .1•••••••••re Alleged Murderer Brought From the Argentine Republic, New York, Feb. 24. -After 5 chaseof over ten thou -send miles, lasting nearly a year, Detective Baldwin, of Roanoke, Va., brofight beck yesterday from- Ar- gentine Republic, by way of England, Moses Fates, it young Syrian, wauted itt Virginiafor tee killing of e country, man, Frank Abluaid, IAA Mara. The prisoner and his eaptor arrived on the steamed') St. Louis. Faris assert e that he killed Aehaid, who was a merchant in Roanoke, in self-eefenee, after the man had attacked him with e knife. He says he would have given himself up in coma bat Ube eight of a crowd of angry Sy- sians frightened him away. He fled to Canada with $600 in his poseession, re- turned to New York and sailed for Buenos Ayres. Last August Detective Baldwin leaan- ed of the whereabouts of Faris. Armed with papers from the 'United States, he had Faris arrested at Chilectito, Argen- tine, where he Wan living with two cou- sins. • After a fight through Argentine courts, consuming four mouths, extradi- tion papers were obtained and Paris brought back. : . - ' until May 1, 1011, the present rate of wages, 50 ont an lour, anclaaI eight MOULDERS' WAGES. Employers AB Over Ontario Want to Make a Cut. Toronto, Feb. 24.-A report that the master mouldere of Ontario will reduce the wages of their employee's twenty per cent. has somewhat startled the mould- ers. of Toronto. The employers aro un- derstood to have been. considering the matme ter for some ti. "We Will.resist any wage reduction," said a prominent °Men of the union to -day, "With the cost of living as it is, our men could not possibly Amid a wage reduction. Wre_ have had to fight hard enough to get what we have, and our num have in- steuetions to quit woe); wherever a wage reduetion is announced." Ut, Se AUTO. hour day'. noteworthy cause inserted in the agreements with the two unions Miehign11 City, /na., Feb, 24.---Thn A111- N that the men eegage not to enter iftto lean ear in the New York to Paris au- any sympathetic strike in cams of troll- tortiebile raee left here At 1.30 tide his with the members of any other tin- mernieg, headea for Itobatt, twenty ion, tuilee weet. erew expects to be in Tire 'carpenters, paintere aria. builders' SLASHES THROAT. "Sparrows Told Me to Do It," Says Man Who Tried Suicide. EMT REPORT OF DIRECTORS SDICE REORGANIZAnold. Figures ef Revenue and Expmditure--.. increase of Salaries and More Teach- ers-13uilding Must Be Enlarged to Meet Demands of Students. Toronto, Feb, 24.- (Special. } e Board of Governors of the University of Toronto have presented to the Govern- ment their first report of affairs of the inetitution since its reorganization in 1000. The statement covers the year ending Julie 30, 1907, When the revenue amounted. to $450,398. Of the total $47,- 453 was the income from the endowment, • $184,211 from fees of students, $e24,728 the grant from the Province. For man. tenanne the expenditure aggregated $411,096, less $44,700, repaid into the en- dowment fund on account of the con- struotion of the new physics building. rho apparent increase in the expenses the preceding year was $111,000, but from this must be deducted. $53,547, the cost of inaintainin.g the faculty of ap• plied science from Jan. 1, when it first became a part of the University proper. The actual increase of the year was therefore $57,519, of which $5e,330 was spent in the faculty of arts and the ad- aunistration of the University and Col- lege. The largest Rein of increase was $26,925, due to expenditures for salaries. Phis was occasioned by the increases in salaries and partly by the employment of additional iustructors to teach the growing number of students in attend - twee. In all the faculties of the Univ. sity3038 students took courses during Ike academie year 1906-7, as compared with 2,547 in the previous years, The re. port deals with the needs of the Univer- sity for the future, and says that if it is to keep pace with the educational de- mand it must face the necessity of con- stantly adding to its teaching stelf, It also says that the University must look forward to a large increase in expendi- ture in the enlargement of the now over- crowded buildings. New York, Feb. 24. -Shortly before noon to -day Policeman Fitzgerald saw a young man enter the cave in Central Park opposite 'West Seventy -Seventh street. The policeman started -for the Rable, but heard a cry for help corning from the cave and ran them He found the man with a gash in his throat and an open razor in his hand. "One of the sparrows told me to do it. I didn't want to, but I had to obey,'' the man said. He told the policeman that his mime was Grove Kein, that be was 25 years old and had. been employed as a ship- ping clerk in Great Barrington, Mass. He Was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital, where the wound was dressed. Then he was locked up on a charge of attempted suicide. I ' t IN MANCHURIA. Chinese Surprised and Mystified by Russia in That Territory. Pekin, Feb. 24.-A conference of the eastern situation in Manchuria is to take place in Mukden during the first week of March, When the governors of the three provinces composing Manchuria will meet Hsu Shi Chang, the Viceroy of Ma-nchuria. China is apprehensive of further political surprises in Manchuria, and is mystified by the possibility of the establishment of various municipal gov- ernments under Russian control, such as is the case at Harbin. EX -MAYOR ACQUITTED. Verdict Net Guilty on One Count. of Burchell Indictment. Halifax, Feb. 23. -After four and a half hems' deliberation yesterday af- ternoon the Jury in the case of the Xing vs. M. D. Burchell, ex -Mayor of Glace Bay, on the information of J. IS, L. Ross, of the Dominion Coal ()mammy, retain:ea a terilict of not geilty on the fhst cou lit of the indictment, chatting Min with the embezzlement of $421.72. Item .are seill seventeett eounts in the indictment, but whether alt theeewi 11 be tried is a question width is now be- ing oonsidereit by'laWyers on either side, and will depend on future dewloptirents in connection svith the cast, After the announcement el the ver - diet a pereeptible wave of relief wept over the' ;largo audience assembled in the court room at Sydney, many of whom crowded about the defendant with the hope that he svould wine out of the remaining ()Mont equally success- - PANIC AT TEHERAN. : NINE -HOUR LAW. Railways Say it Will Make Trouble For Them. Washington, Feb. 24. -In the opinion of operating officials of railroads they have not been confronted for many years with a condition so serious as Is contained in the nine -hour law, which by its terms, bc.xunes effective on March 4. In personal conference and in corres- pondence with the Inter -State Com. mere° Commission the officials ha-ve in- dicated an intention to conform to the act, but they express the belief that it will not be possible fully and immediate- ly to comply with the requirements. Petitions of a considerable number of the railroad companies have been filed with the Inter -State Commerce Cone mission requesting, that an extension of the time of the going into effect of the law be granted them. Next Thursday the 27t1i inst., the commission will accord. to a large num- ber of railways a formal hearing at which an effort will be made to thresh out the matter of the extensions of the law. Ten Killed and Score Wounded Duting Procession. Teheran, Feb. 23. -Ten person were killed and a score orhuore wounded, ha eluding several ecclesiastics, as a result of a panic in the main streets hereto- ' day, durmg the passage of it religious procession celebrating the Mohammedan . Ainharrinan, a religious festive] hem dur- ing the first month of the. Aloliamteedan year.. 1 - _um. eau. ENGLISH EDUCATION ACT, tondoreFeb. 21--T1e new edueational bill was introduced in the Howse of Com- . Mote to -day by Reginald MeXetne, pre- eielent of the Hoard of Education. The bill regedates the rontlitione under which ! public money may be applied in aid of I elementary education In England artcl Wales, Ching° by night. laborers will, it is understood, resume ▪ I ABSCESS IN EAR. Inventor Ediso:n-0-perated on and Doing Well. New York, Feb. 24. -Thomas A. Edi- son, the inventor, who submitted to an operation for the reinoval of an abscess in the ear last night, was reported as resting easily this morning. Dr. A. B. Duel, who performed the op- eration, said Mr Edison -mond a fairly comfortable night, and that. steady im- provement in his condition is expected. SUICIDE AT MONTREAL. Young Man After Taking Poison Turns on the Gas. Montreal, Feb. 23. -Tired of life at the age of 22 years, Francois Za.vier Cadaret killed himself early this morning by first swallowing strych- nine ane then jumping into bed and turning on the gas jet. He left a note, written on ans envelope, addressed to hi, sister, stating that this was the third t'me that he had attempted to kill himself, and that he sincerely hoped he Would be successful. No reasons whatever wore given for the rash act, but it is thought that the young man had been disappointed in love. • •-• •-•-•-••••• MGR. LANGEVIN'S SERMON. Loyalty of French Clergy to the Church. • lcineipeg, Feb. 23. -Strong statements were made by Archbishop Langevin in a sermon here this evening before the Cercle Sacra Coeur of Sached Heart par- ish. He referred, to the fight of the clergy in Prance itgainst "that greedy vulture, Free Masonry, which had ob. Mime such n hold in England." Ho be- lieved it had chosen an ill time to ignore the Pope when monarchs, including the Xing of England, were planning to visit His Holiness. They must uphold the Church with the most fervent loyalty, and he felt that if Quebec had seen its duty to send 300,000 immigrants to Manitoba, instead of to the 'United States, this Province might have been French Catholic. 5: HITCHCOCK CASE, NEWS IN BRIEF U. 8, capitalists Will establish a steel rolling mill at Campbellford, Ont. 8, 3, Pox, bf.r. P., hart been rienoinhe ated, by West Victoria. Conservatives. The Meedelssolin Choir left for Buf- falo by special train at 1 p,ni. to -day, West Victoria Conservatives have nominated Mr, 8, J. Fax, M. P. P., for the Legislature. Deputy Chief Noble, of the fire de, pertinent, is a possible selection for sup- erinteadent of Toronto Parks, The G. T. R. have dismissed eight em- ployees for bad language and drunken- ness on duty, John P. Marlette shoe dealer, 1,155 Yong° street, Toronto, dropped dead while waiting on a customer. Ap Ottawa despatch says - that Sir Richard' Cartwright is the probable next Lieutenant -Governor of Ontario. Windsor Opt,, Vele 24. -David Defout, 83 years old, is dead at his noun on the Tecumseh toad, of old age. William Miller, aged l0 01 Brooklyn, shot himself, "because," he ivrote hia father, "you wanted to get rid of me." The wedding of two jeuts in Montreal is postponed because the groom is in jail, and the magistrate refuses permission to have the ceremony there. Ottawa, Feb. 24. -City View Metho- dist Church, five Miles from the clty, was destroyed by fire yesterday after- noon. While a St. Louis svoinan was shop- ping a dray drove tip to the house and four burglars looted it of everything ex- cept a canary. A. H. B. Mackenzie, who has been man-. ager of the Montreal brancli of the Sov- ereign Bank, will come to Toronto, and C. A. Kennedy will take his place. A numbee of Ameriean capitalists have nebreed to meet a $60,000 plant at Campheliford to manufacture steel plate if the town grauts certain conoessions. Charles B. Clime, a French naval lieu- tenant, has been sentenced to life impri- sonment in a fortress for attempting to sell naval secrets to it foreign power. Ruthven, Essex county, Ont., Feb. 24. - The post office here was entered early yesterday morning, and the thieves suc- ceeded in getting away with a few•dol- lars and swine stomps, Winnipeg G0aill. Exchange will stop tlimaidn.ing in futures on account of the leg - 'elation 'pissed by the Legislature, and there is taile of moving to Fort Wil - Detroit, Mich., Feb. 24. -Mrs. David Williams, of Toronto, has written the police for information concerning her husband, who, she says, left her two years ago. Port Dalhousie, Feb. 24. -The school trustees have given orders this morning closing all rooms in the public schools for an indefinite period on account of the seerlet fever epidemic which is raging here. Dorchester, N. B., Feb. 24.-Itelatives of Capt. William Palmer, a vessel owner of this town, who was an officer on the British ship 'Alcarita, have abandoned hope that the vessel will be heard from again. The Alcaeita sailed from Delagoa Bay, South Africa, on August 5, 1907, for Hong Kong and Baltimore. Montreal, Que., Feb, 24. -The right Hon. James Bryce, British Ambassador to the United States, arrived here from Ottawa at noon to -day, in the company of Earl Grey„ Governor General, and this afternoon received the Honorary degree of LL.D., at the bands of McGill University. Toronto, Ont„ Feb. 24. -The amend- ments to the Act respecting horticul- ture'socioties introduced by. lion. Nelson Monteith, Minister of Agriculture, -pro- vide that the annual meeting of such or- - ganizations must be.held during the first' week in November hereafter, instead of the first of the year. MONTREAL -TRAGEDY -44/4.404.4.1.444,44.444rnet New York, Feb. 24. -The trial of Raymond Hitchcock, the comedian, on an indictment which resulted from charges preferred by it youftg girl, whielt was to have been begun in the supreme court to -day, Was postponed until next Monday. The postponement was grant- ed upon applieation of counsel for the defendant on the ground that Hitch - cook's chief counsel was engaged iit en - other ease in another court. In granting the motiou for delay, judge Dowling said that no shelter biotite, in the fu- ture would be entertained in the ease. Ho Warned all parties to be prepared for trial next ItIondey, 41*. STOCKS LOWER. New York, Feb. 24.-4Vall street. -- The resumption of lateirteee after the two day holidny interval found stooks fuelling fraetionally lower than on Friday, Or. dere on hAna were executed within a few minntes and the dertliege sank into extreme dullness. Italian Arrested Charged With Mur- dering His Wife. Montreal, Que., Feb. 24. -Michael Tortora, an Italian living at 511 St. Timorhee street, was placed under arrest this. morning on the charge of killing his wife. Mrs. Tortoro is dead with it bullet wound inher heart. But Tortoro claims the shooting was accidental. The two were alone in the house at the time. The police are investigating the circumstances. Thisis the third Italian tragedy in this city within a. few days. - BRITISH ARMY. Decrease in Number of Men and of the Estimated Expenses. London, Feb. 24. -The Army estimates for 1008-1009 have been issued. The gross total is $154,185,120, as against $155,211,834 for 1907-1908. The War Secretary. Mr. Haldane, estimates for a total of 185,000 num in the home and colonial establishments, irrespective of India. This is a decrease of 5,000 men front last year. • cRANGEs IN LIQUOR ACT. Manitoba Legislature Makes Some Im- portant Amendments. Winnipeg, Feb. 23. -The Legisiature on leriday inede furthee changes in tee bill reetreining tlic liquor traffic, A 'vote on local option, or the repeal thereof, may be taken tumidly on twenty per cent, -of the rtsident elec- tor% of tiny nineicipellity petitioning for it, No bar-rooun shall 'ewe more thee two doors, nor shell there be any stab -- way or other means of ememunication with the basement or cellar. WAS FORMERLY CHIEF OF POLICE. .ALLgOgA SWINDLER C0101,APSES WHEN IDENTITY MADE KNOWN, OhAreed With Uttering rietitious Cheques -A Clever Dedge-Adver, tised for Refined Woman- Then Borrowed, ifroo Fran Her. 4pg. • M.., .44, San Francisco, Feb, 24.-Ifero1d Mac' GUI, acowied of uttering a fictitious cheque, after a preliminary examination before Police Judge Weller, was Wen. tified by the police as A former chief of police of Saratoga, N. Y., having filled time position from 1888 to 1898, Ite ',early collapsed M court when hie former position was revealed. MacGill is said to have advertised in a paper about a week ago for a refined woman to ac0Ora- pan5r Ids "wife and infants" on an east. ern tour. Mrs. Margaret Page answered the advertisement. He advised her that she must be equipped with an elaborate wardrobe, and accent -mulled, her to a dry goods store, whereshe 'bought hexe a great deal of wearing apparel, it is alleged, paying for it with a 'cheque. After the purchase had been made, MacC4111, it is said, borrowed $100 frora Airs. Page, Saying, she reports, that he could get no more ready money until the banks °pence on the following day. After receiving the $100 in cash MaeGill is said to have countermanded the order foe the goods, and Mrs. Page saw him no more until after the officers arrested him at the Emeryville race track. CANADA'S PAPER IN AUSTRALIA. -- Likely to Drive IL S. Product From Commonwealth Market. London, Feb. 23, ---Australian adviees to the Fineman:I News state that Cana. diem paper manufacturers are making strong inronels at all centres in the Com monwealth, If the standard of quality of the paper is maintained there will b it strong preference, in favor of the DO Iminion's product ageinst that of th VnIted State, Well paper manufactur ere are Also finding it good market. ALMOST MATURED. ORE TERRORISTS ARRESTED NEAR ST. PETERSBURG. Most of the Prisoners Are Young - Had I ntended to Assassinate Grand Duke Nicholas and the Minister of Justice. St. Petersburg, Feb. 24, -The frus- tration ie this city yesterday of a ter- rorist plot and the arrest of fifty men and women for alleged complicity was followed to -day by the capture in sub- urban towns of several other persons implicated in the abortive attempt: at assassination. The police believe they have made the most important and tell- ing move against the terrorists that has been engineered in . several years. The plot of yesterday came very much nearer maturity than did the last unsuccessful conspiracy against • the Emperor, and participants ha which were tried and condemned last July. According to the police, yesterday's band had two victims in view, Grand Duke Nicholas Nieholaievitch and Judge Chtcheglovitoff, Minister of Jus- tice. Both were to have been assas- sinated between their residences and the railroad station at Tearskoe- Selo, where they were going to see the Emperor. Two distinctive revolutionary organ- izations were concerned. The first bad its headquarters in Finland mid the se- cond was the so called northern flying column, recruited in the vicinity of Moscow. Most of the -prisoners are young, between seventeen and twenty- one years, ,well dressed and well imp - plied with money. The Italian who was taken in on the Grande Morekaia, is the aecsedited cor- respondent of two . prominent Rathioal Italian newspapers, one at Rome and the other at Milan. He was in re- ceipt of the press privileges of the House of Parliament and the Council of the empire. His friends, however, insist that he had no connection with the plot. - e MUTINY IN A SCHOOL. French Boys Attacked Soldiers Sent to Arrest Them. Paris, Feb. 24. -The pupils of the Arts and Crafts School at Ohalons-sur-Marne mutinied a few days ago and bombarded a force of gendarmes who tried to ar- rest them. An aggrieved pupil, who had hurled two or three heavy blocks of wood at his teacher, was ordered to leave. The pupils of the class, however, resisted the expulsion and thrashed the masters who tried to !turn him out. The youth was then allowed to spend the night in the school, but in the morn- ing a body of gendarmes entered the building. A stand-up fight with the first class tollowed, but the gendarmes seized the pupil and took him under a strong guard to the railwaystation. A detachmenti of nfantry was sum- moned, and all the thirty members of the first class were then captured and taken to the railway station. As sooe as the first class had gone the second class revolted. They shut them- :eg ss. in the carpenter's shop at the school, smashed all the windows they could reach, and sang revolutionary When the head of the school and the Prefect of Chalons returned from the railway station they had to summon an- other company of infantry to deal with the new outbreak. The soldiers were received with a tremendous volley of weed bloeks, and several Men were se- verely hurt. Eventually the military stormed the carpenter's shop, captured the mutineers and marched them all off to the railway station. A fovou of the third class is expected to;KruroNve. --+: t ENNESS INCREASES. Annual Report of Liquor License De- partment for Year. Toronto, Feb. 24. -During the last li- cense year the number of tavern, shop and wholesale liquor licenses was realm, ed by 198. The Hon. W. J. BUM, in the annual report of the Liquor Lieense Departineut, which was late o -n the table of the Legislature yesterdtty, states that the employment of a speeial staff of °Meet's to enforce the act theoughout the Proviure has resulted in the more striet observance of the law by eensees, and as it eonsequenee fewer proseeutions were necessary. In local option municipalities, the repott the law \vas 'vigorously etifereml, arta $4,175 Was Collected in Mice, The rev- enue froni the lieenee branch for the fineteiel yeer wan $587,120.00. The total amount eollected on mount of licenses and films, including the SUM impeeed by municipal by-lawsWasi $991;652.80, en increarie, ounneeted' With the previous year, of $833,839.42. Of the total Itmount collected $411,010.71 went • to the nraticipelitiee. During the year 4,174 persons welt e committed for deankenneee, ea ram - • pared with 4,216 ift the peevioue pear, • SInte 1870 the number of tOtivietiom • for this eke% of °netted lute Meowed by preetically thattSaild. • 4.