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The Wingham Advance, 1909-03-11, Page 7COUNT OKUM Imeemev,”••• Pleased With Presidert Taft's In. augural Address. U. S. Need Not be Haunted by • •• tieulless Lusplcon, ••••••••••• Tat IQ) aga 8...,001Int ()Wail, for- mer Preeltlent of the Progressive Party, has written A &Ailed. •artiale for the Toale MaInichi, in which he unreservedly praises President 'raft for Ide embodied in iris inauguralmikes% In regard to that purtion of the ad- dreee clealiug with the treaty rights of alieos, Minute Says that it. would he a =Atter for uutversal rejoicitae ehould the delicate reletionre between Federal and State Legislatures be adjusted in a Iltanuer thoroughly compatiele with 31a. tioual eredit and honor, and the stAnding ete tho United State* tee' a highly civilized power. respeet to the naval programme aPi laid down in,' the inairgural speech, the count, professes to concur fully. Ile writes that President Taft believes that stage an outcome is au unavoidable de- recierd of the timers, und ridienles the idea that it is directed against Japan. 11.e asserts that tide idea is a gross Ms- represeAtation of both Japan and the United States, which believe equally thet a strong navy is the best guarantee of peace. Regarding Immigration the count can- not entertaut the idea of restriction as a principle, but lie is unopposed to it as a temporary measure for preventiug un - 'necessary excitement and. irritation when japan is unfortunateey the object ef unwarranted suspleion. s In conclusion be stty S 3 " Japan's real 3notive was proven on the occasion of tlm visit of the fleet, and now is understood fully by estimable Anierieans. Loeal anti-Japanism fs not 'of serious coucern; and will disappear when ,Americaus vease 'to be haunted by a needless sus- pielon." 4-• REV. DR. ROSE • -- Says Bible is Not' Historically In- fallible. Winnipe.g, March 7. -Rev. Dr. S. P. Rose, formerly of Fiamiltou, now pastor of Broadway Methodist Churcla the most aristocratic Metliodist congregation of Winuipeg, caused a mild sensation to -night -when he attacked the infallibil- ity' of the Bible, The reverend gentle- man made no reference to the Carraan- Jackson controversy, but gave his own reasons for the belief he advanced; Ile plainly 'declared he dial not believe in the doctrine of absolute infallibility, and argued that the Bible was more abused by good people than any other book in the world. a .Dr. Rose quoted passages front the *Bible which he contended proved. it was not historically infallible, and ventured the assertion that owing to his serious doubts on, this :neater he had at •one time contemplated retiring from the Christian ministry, and would have done sobut for the advice of Rev. Dr. Nelies. STRUCK BY EXPRESS. Samna! McCauley, Aged 78, Killed at Sonth Woodslee. Essex, March 7.- Sant McCauley, aged. 78 years, was struck by Mr. C. R. express No. 23 at the cronsing iji South eVoodslera at 2 o'clock. yesterday atfer- men, and died at 5 o'clock. He was driving south, and did not see the train approaching until too late to get. aCross the track. The train struck the ,rear end of the buggy and threw hine nbout forty fleet, breakinghis right arrn. and..leg and otherwise- injuring him. Coroner McNiven, of Comber, has ordered an inquest, and the jury will Wotan Thursday next. He leaves three sons and two daughters. - • TEACHER BURNED. Miss Beanlands, of North Boy, May Not Recover. North Bay, March 'la -Miss Beanlands. directress 'of the kindergarten depart - :meat of the pnblie sebools here, met %lath an unfortunate accident last night while preparing to melte tea on a spirit lamp in her boarding house. The alco- hol blazed up suddenly from all over- flow in filling and the younglady tried to smother tile flames with her skirts. Her clothing took fire, and in an in - slant she was enveloped in a fierce blaze. A gentleman boarder took her in hia arms and ran out of the 'muse, where he smothered the flames in the snow, but not before Miss Bea.nIatids was seriously burned from the waist down. Het condition is critical, and her step- father, Rev. Caton Cody, of Vancouver, has boa notified. Miss Beanlands came to North Bay recently from Toronto, where she took a special course in kin- dergarten work. ;COMPULSORY VACCINATION. SHOT AT LOVER. •••••••••••• Quarrel Between Toronto Calmed People Almost a Tragedy, Toronto, Mara 8,-A,ccorcling to the stories told. the police by Ames leek - son, of 1,0 ulever street, and Ames; Williams, 4 porter at the Palmer House, Toronto came neav having a reel murder last night. Although found sep- arately, jeakson au d Williams told the some story aucl the police aro inclitreei to believe that it is true. It appears that Jackson and A young colored woman of 19 years, named Aga- tha joloison, who have been loaers for some time past, haft a falling-out ee- cently and thae since Geer devotien fo m r aanother ceased Otero raft been noth- ing but trouble in the house, Saturday night there wee a fight and Jackson is suffering from a cut on the side of his head, said to have been caused by a beer bottle in the halals of the -johns rson woman. • Last night, however, things teed; A more serious turn. The two were hav- ing a hot argument and Willittrass as a guest, was sitting by taking it ell iu. It was shorely afrer eleven and every- body was thinking of retiring. The wo- man reached down, Jackson says he thought to fix ber shoe, but bringing out A revolver she had concealed in 'hot skirts, she fired poiat blank at him, The shot just grazed his right ear and the bullet, embedded itself in the wall. Williams sprang on the woman, and, overpowering her, took the gun away and then both he and Jaakson made hurried exit from the house, the lb - ter going to the police station. Cu - stables were sent to the place and the ' woman -was placed under arrest, 'charg- ed with trying to shoot Jackson. The zavolver belongs to Jeekson and ho says that he thought it was safe in his trunk, but that the wo- man got it out in some way or other, •*4 - GREAT TRIAL. NEARLY 400 MEN BEFORE COURTS AT MOSCOW FOR CONSPIRACY. Accused of Looting Russian railroads During Worst Period of Revolu- tionary Disorders - $17,000,000 Worth of Freight Stolen. •New York, March 7.-A cable despateh to the Sun from St.Petersburgsays: Proceedings have just been begun in the High Court of Moscow which in- volve the largest conspiracy trial on re- cord. Three hundred and eighty-four persons are charged with belonging to criminal organization, the object of which was the stealing of merchandise on Russian railroads. Between 1905 and 1907 during the worst period of the revolutionary dis- orders over $17,000,000 worth of pro- perty was 'stolen on two railroads alone. The accused belong to three categories --namely, professional thieves,- or mon who became thieves- during the political revolt, responsible and ofteu aighly placed railroad officers, and many retail dealers. . Valuable. helot was removed daily from trains on orders telegraphed from the chief railroad centres by the heads of the gang and stored in Goverment railroad sheds by Government em- ployees, who -acted. as receivers. They systematically 'dispersed' their hauls by holding special sales to retailers, who in thei-r turn disposed- of the stolen goods in the course of ordinary business. During the period of the gang's activ- ity. the Government did nothing to -pro- tect business rime against the pillage Of their goods in transit. The -whole railroad policy was directed to protect- ing Government treasure and prevent- ing the renewal of the general .railroad strike. a. s Halifax Board of Health Preparing to Enforce Measure. ae„, Halifax, March 7.-Seeretary Wailers, of the Board of Health, has addressed a letter to teeenty city physicians, inti- mating that after March 16 the Board of Health intends having a, visitation made to every house within the city limits, with a -view to enforcing compul- '4( etwy vaceinatien. It is proposed to dividis the city into distriete, eitelt distriet to be in Otago of a physician, who ie to eatecinate every persoti iu the dietrict where possible. 4 • DR. BELL'S AEROPLANES, Official Reeords ofPlighte to be Made la Nova Scotia, New York, Maack 7. -Dr. Alexander CitAhant Bell, president of the Natiorral Aerial Expeeiment Asemiation, luis noti- fled Gartland Field Bishop, president of the Mee Club of Ameriea, to Rend representatives of the elub to Nova Scotia for the purposie of making official ee- eords of aeropterre flights that Are to 'e made there by members of the am - tiers during the next. ten days. MAD AS A HATTER. BIBLE TESTS, Dr. Thomas Eakin's Ores; in Si Andrew's Church, Toronto, ..,•••••••••. Toronto, March 8. -'The gneetion i$ reised for us, 'What is true and, what is not 1arre?---1 mean for our time, for 1 cement now speak absolutely. What is the idea for us? I don't Mutt thet .ought to be difficult, became we be. lieveaa telnietians that Jesus is the final and fall expreeem of God, and any- thing that is at variance with Jeeas no in imperfect. It nuey have been true for ita time, It niA).r hAve-ims, I have no doubt -served its purpose, but if it three eat agree with the teaching of Jersus, then we can say, Tids is imperfect.' For example, if WO find a portrayal of • the eharaeter of God in early times whin: does not agree with the picture of God ;ream gives, thought, no doubt, it served its purpose foe crude men in a crude time, it has been superseded by the pic- ture that Jesus givea? Dr, Tlionnis leetum in Oriental languages at the lanivereity of Toronto, laid, the above down as the test to be applied in order for the Bible sttulent to realize whether he slimild accept or not any teaching of any portion of the Bible. 'The historical interpretation of the Bible?. he (teetered, "is (loin us ao immense service, and there is nothing more to be despised in reference to this subject than to have men under- take to discuss the Bible who, instead of being frank, try aud work on the fears of the ignorant. We must re- member that one of the fumlamental principles is the assumption of the right of private judgment. When Luther said, 'Here stand I. I can do no other, so help in•e Gad,' Protestaatism was horn, giving to the world free- dom. and yet we are afraid of Urea freedom." They hole that the right of private judgment existed, and yet when it was exereleed men were sait to be attack- ing that whieb was held most dear. He condemned "Bibliolatry, or worship of the book." Riot Growing Out of a Strike in a Hat Factory. Woodbine, N. 3,, March 8. -Several persons were injured to -day in a riot growing out of a strike in the hat fac- tory here, when a crowd of about 400 set upon a, dozen workmen who had not left their jobs. Stones, bricks and other missiles were thrown. During the rioting a revolver was fir- ed a.nd Abraham Willert, one of the men attacked, was struck with a brick burl- ed by some One in the erowd of rioters and rendered unconecious. &veva oth- ers were bit by missiles before they suc- ceeded in getting clear of their asasil- ants, but none were seriously injured. When the disturbanee.had been quell- ed the shop was closed down for the day, SUFFRAGISTS WILL WIN. Women Will Get Votes, Says Mr. George Meredith. London, March 7. ---George Meredith, the aged poet and novelist, who is often quoted by suffragettes As an upholder of their cause, evidently does not go to. the length of approving the, methods of the militant suffregettes. In it letterpublished last week Mr, Meredith advised the seekers of votes for women, to follow the lead of Mrs. Fawcett and Mrs. Garrett Anderson, who preserved the rules of good man- ners and anderstood how the cause was to be won, while combative suffragists played the enemy's game. Mr. Meredith continued: "I hold that in spite of much to be saia in opposition, the exercise of the vote will gradeally enlarge the scope of wouten's minds, This who would con- fine them to the domestic eircio are con- stantly complaining of their narrownese. Women have to eontend with logical ereittures. The vote will Pomo in time. and for a .time, there is likely to be a - swamping M Liberalism and a etrength- ening of ecclesiastical pitteneiens that will pass with the eniargemerit of wo- men's minds in the new atmosphere." - KAtse Ft DINES IN HOTEL. For the Piest Time German Emperor Beeaks His Rule, VETERAN HURT. Orita, hue boort teeeieed hero thst Arthkir patron, the 'Member of, the First Clan what tontingent who wile 6ourt-inat, tinted for tapturing Boar ehleken, wee ton Oyer hya motor ear In De- troit end serfnuily hurt. ••• AUTOMOBILE IN WAR Britain Will Experiment With It on Large Scale. London, March 7. -The adaptability of the automolsilo to military uses will be the subject of experiment on A largo scale on March 17, when the War Of- fice will attempt to convey a battalion of infantry of full strength from Lon- don to Hastings and back on the same day, Hastings being roger:led' as the most vulnerable spot for invasion. The troops will becarried in several hun- dred cars, which will be lent by mem- bers of the Automobile Association. The distance to be covered will be about 150 allies. The battalion will comprise some thousand officers and men, and with it must be carried maohine guns, ammuni- tion train, medical stores, entrenching implemeots, commissariat and -water wagons, camp equipment and general. stores. The War Office recently conducted successful:, experiments in transporting troops in motor busses. Negotiations are now in progress for the use of the tax- icabs in time of national danger. Al- ready the Government has subsidized 2,000, and it -hopes to increase the num- ber under subsidy to 4,000 within the next few months. CIVIL SERVICE, Examination For Candidates to Fill Vacancies. Ottawa, March 7. -The tivil Service Commissioners have given -notice in the Canaan, Ciazette of the conditions govern- ing the first eirii service competitive ex- aminations to be held raider the new civil service act. Hereafter 'semi-annual ex- aminations will be lieletein May and No- vember, in the leading centres of the Do- minion. To enable the commissioners to make some pressing appointments, an in- terim examination will -be held on the 3011t inst. The commissioners evidently intended to establith a high standard for entrance to the civil service. In the subjects of examination the candidates will be required to come up to the °raillery pass etandard of the uni- versities, end for positions /*miring spec- ial expert mutlification candidates are required to be university graduates. From the results of the examinations of the 30th inst., abont a score of posi- tions in the ineide service will be filled, including stenographers, clerks, etc., re- quiredin the various, departments. • Special examination papers will be elven the candidates for the vacant posi- tions of ompiler of geological informa- tion, junior assistant in the hydrographie survey., assistant chemist at the Experi- mental Arm, and draughtsman in the 'Mime Department. 'These must alt be university graduates in the, department of seienee. • 4i 4A • TEMPLE OF APOLLO. Bettie, March 7, -For the firsb Onto the Kaiser hal; broken his rale 'Iseeet to dine in a Berlin hotel. This 'breath of lireeedent Was Made in favor df bahquet given at the Hotel Adieu to eommemeeate the 100th aneiversary of the establisioneet 44, the PtUAtlian War Depaettnent. When Andrew' D. White wart Am- ericati Ambaratector to Nair lir 1.001 he itraited the 11ainea ,to dine at hia hotel, the Itaisethof. The Raiser, through his dant Marshal, deeline& en the grolteil .thetr it weathl he tone teary to' etireMettelleirita to eat iu hotel. .•••••••11•••••• Excavators Say It is the Greatest of Architectural Remains. ...reamer ••r• RAILROADS WIN. Reduced Rates Cense Companies to Lose Money. v•Ipv.V., Kamm City, Me., Mareh 8a--4 netable deehdon lit favor of the valiroade 'was handed down to -day by Judge MePher- son, of the United States Dietilet Court, in the .two -cent fare and UlaXianinl freight rate eases, involving eighteen 4lisseuri lines. The reilroade contended. Ora the race$ fixed by tho etatate$oi the Stake were not remunerative _lint eeatiecatory, and that the enforcement of the statutes be enjoined, Tire State brought proccediugs te have them cu - "Thi' question," eald Judge :McPliereon, in hie ateeisient, "is whether the truffle wholly within the State of Missouri gen. many, referred to in the evidenee as local traffic, can be earried under the freight rate statute of 1007 and. the passenger fare statute of 1907 at such profit aswill gave 4 rhson'able retort: after peying expenses upon the inveet. ment, or whether such traffic: is carried el lento t hoer col eusyst t ili lateser rsetaiehrreaeatisioem8,011e 1, ehiSiOn that upon this question the state utory rates fixed by either and both statutes am not remunerative." . judge McPherson also says in the de- cision: "When the statutes im question were entteted, it was believed bymany that by reducing the fare there wOuld be much more travel. For it month or so We proved to be true, But -with the nov- elty gone, the testimony shows that the increase has been less than three per cent., and more nearly one per cent." Ile says further as to the abolition of paws that the evidence shows the pass- enger revenue is increased by reason thereof less than one per cent. • ee• Berlin, March 7.---ReerarkeMe pro- gress was mado mast mouth in the ex- aavatiosi of the Temple of Apollo, near Miletus, under the direetion. of Pref. Wiegand, of the Royal Museum, The entablature and coltunne of the north- east Corner Were folltla in the posi- tion in which they were thrown by the earthquake which destroyed the En the judgment ef the ex- eavatora, the temple is not only the greatest, but also artistically the rielteet of all the Helleni€ Architectural remains in Asia Minor, 'The frieze of the tetnple is taloned with splendidly 'caned heads of Medusa, each over three feet in height t. JUST IN TIME. Elgin Man Found Woman Uncon- scious in Burning Home. St. Thomas, Ont.,. March farm home occupied by Thomas Colemaza near Ridgetown, was completely de- stroyed by fire early yesterday morn- ing during Me- Onlemen's absence in Morpeth. A aceettbor noticed the flames, and rushing to the house found all the doors and windows locked and concluded that all Lite family were ab- sent. lie broke in a window, however, and found Mrs. Coleman unconscious lying on the bed and badly burned on the 'face and. hands. Her condition is The fire is supposed to have been caused from a leaking natural gas pipe. The loss is $1,800, with a small insur. :men. LAND FOR SETTLERS Two Hundred Thousand Homesteads Available in Prairie Provinces. Winnipeg, 'afareli 7.-Statisties com- piled by the Department of Immigra- tion here show that there are still 200,000 homesteads available in the three prairie Provinces under the surveys whieh have been completed. The ex, tension of the surveys, of eourse, will increase this .number greatly. The free farms are located as follows, ac- cording to Provinces: Manitoba, 18,- 118; Saskatchewan, 100,560, and Alberta, - 71,280. Much of the land is .desirable, quite ae good as anything in the coun- try, aud ail that is required to make it equal -is mime:ate railway faellitiee. . . . THE UNWRITTEN LAW. S. -There will he a murder trial nt the Assizes which open here to -morrow, Thomas Smart, a young ititohavelt Indian, is charged with killing his step -grandfather, • altrilea Sem, W. L. Herrington, of ,Napatiee, will defend. It iS Enid the "nnearillea law" will play o part in the defence, the murdered man ham- ing been intimate, it is alleged, with ito prisoner's Meter, 4. aerea-seteesetass,......, Series of sevaletithee in tht Atoe Wen Prevince of Carinthia have ewept AWAY houses in it nitmlry of village, killing tea. people, FOURTEEN ARRESTS. ^ Toronto Policemen. Raid an Alleged Gambling Resort. Toronto, March 8. -Crowded in an up - stab% room, with th•e only exit guarded by constables, fourteen young men, sev- we'll of thent bat sixteen years of age, were placed under arrest early yesterday morning, one on a charge of keeping a common gaming house and the others on charges of being frequenters. The raid was well planned, and wits carried out without a Miele The prisoners were taken to the .jail, and later they were given their liberty on sureties of $200 each. .They will ap- pear before Magistrate Denison in the police court this morning. FOUND DEAD. May Have Been the Man Shot by a Bartender. Chicago, aferch 8. -Hugh Hopkins, 37 yeers old, dm of Je J. Hopkins, super- intendent of stations of the South Side Elevated Railroad, was found clod early this morning in a doorway at 3,703 Wentworth tareritie, after John Latent, a bartender, lutd reported to the polio by telephone that he had exchanged shots With a, hold-up man in a south side saloon. Latera is detained by the au- thorities pending investigation of las story, He says that Hopkins pounded on the door of the saloon after closing hours, and whet the door was opeeed drew it revolver and fired. Latera re- turned the fire, and lloakina fled. His body was found a block from the scene of the shooting. WINE AT WHITE HOUSE:. AWFUL FIX. Choice of Fall of Three Storeys or Death by Fie,' New rerit, Mareh 8.--Ohoosieg bee trreendeath by fire, whieh had driven hint out of his ;Amine' room and onto the narrow ledge, of hie window, and a drop of three stories to the sidewalk below, Dennis Redmond •dropped anct was aimed instantly killed to -day by striking head first oa .an iron railing whielt shut off the baeement etalr4 from the street. Baer° finding refuge on the window ledge. Itedmorni, who had accidentally set fire to iris bed, had shut off escape for himself through the building by piling up a quantity of blazing tura, ture- between himself entl the door in vein endeavor to extinguish the flames, 'When the futility of his offorts was ap- parent, he retreated out of the whitlow, hoping that the firemen would aseist him to safety, The flamecrept steadily -neerer, however, until, muable to hold on any longer, his hands terribly burned, he let go. ...••*41•••••••••••••••...•••• TREATY AMENDED. RIDER ATTACHED TO- WATER-. WAYS AGREEMENT. Subject to Navigation and Navigation Canals, Each Nation May Use Waters of St. Mary's River Within Its Own Territory. Washington, March 7. ---The full text of the Senate 'resolution 'ratifying the interuational waterways treaty, and the important amendment to the treaty pro- posed by Senator Smith, oe Michigan, which was adopted by the Senate when the treaty was ratified on the eve of ad- journinena is as follows: "Resolved (two -third e of the Senelors present coneurring therein), that the tamale advise endcement to the ratifi- cation of the treaty between the United States and Greet Britain providing for the settlement of international differ - mos between the United States and Canada, signed on the llth day of Janu- ary, 1009. "Resolved further (as a part of this ratiflealion), that the United States approve this treaty with the under- standing that nothing in this treaty shall be construed as affecting or as changing any existing territorial or riparian rights in the water or rights' of the owners of lands under water on either side of the international boundary at the rapids of the St. Mary's River at Sault Ste, Marie, in the use of the waters flowhig over such lands, subject to the requirements of navigation in boundary waters and of navigable canals .and without pre- judice to the existing right of the United States and Canada each to use the waters of the St. Mary's River within its own territory; and, further, that nothing in this amply shall be ,construed to interfere with the drain- ageof wet, swamp and overflowed. lands into streams flowing into boanda ary waters, and that this interpreta- tion will be mentioned in the ratificae Mori of this treaty as eonveying the true meaning of the treaty, and will la- dled form part of the treaty." 4'.. Difference of Opinion as to What Mrs, Taft Should D. Pittsburg, Mareh 7. -The effort, headed by Mrs, Sohn Little Morrie, of Columbus, Ind,, to halve Mrs. Taft follow the precedent set by Mre. Rath- erferd B. Hayes and dispenee with wine at the White House table, ie ereconded by Pittsburg club women. The Indiana petition le said to have boon signed by the presidents of all the organizations to which it has been presented with the exeeption of the Columbus Culture Club, tiles Magazine Club and the Tri -Kappas, which main- tain that a reuggeetion nn to whether or not Mrs. Taft should serve wine is impertinent. tiolin T, Hagar, proprietor of the ,7. & T. Belt Company, MontreAl, for the past 25 yeast, turd one of the beet known and Vest respected members et the Itomrd of Trade aud the Canadian Menu. reamers' Aseetiation, died suddenly rat leretardity, alter a very 813ort illness, Itgoa 63. RHODES SCHOLAR 0......••••••••• Mallaster's First One a Woodstock Young Man. SEVENTWS COLONEL. Story of the Position Held Up by Gen, Cotton': Tendon, Ont„ March 8. --The story that the appointment of Major A. sa, Campbell to be col- onel of the 7th Ileglinent, in place of 001, Frank Reid, who xesigned, is being held up as a result of felenerel Cotton taking offence at a epoch, made by .Major Campbell At a banquet in Toronto is creating the keeeest interest among military men tairoughout the &Wet. „Major Campbell is 0140 of the most endu- ed Masons in Canada, and at a banquet. of the inembere of tha Sovereign Grand Priory in Toronto he is said to lieve made a plea for a Ormedian flag, which aroused the ire of General Cotton, who was present. Cleueral Cotton, it is stat- ed, called Major Campbell down at the banquet table, and has eince refusea to ratify his appointment as colonel of the regiment, Major Campbell is an Ameri- lean from the Western States. Toronto, Ont., March 8. -Morden H. Long, B. A., a graduate of ION. was an- nouneed to -day McMaster University's Rhodes scholar by direct appointments: Ralph Bellamy, B. A., A graduate of 1903, was appointee e'e Alberta's first Modes scholar, bet Mr. Long is the first man to go direct 'from McMaster to Ox- ford, Mr. Long is a son of Mr. Ralph Long, confectioner, of Woodstock, and is but 22 years of age. - He is at present attending the Provincial Normal College at Calgary, Alta. se.* BLAME THE QUEEN. London Publishers Say Her Volume of Photographs HatRuined Market London, March 7. -Booksellers and publishers in London are complaining of havirtg had an extremely poor season, and, rather etrangeiv, they blame Queen Alexandra, for it. Over '700,000 copies of a volume of photographs by Her Majes- ty, published in aid of cluaities, were sold, and as there as only a little money to be spent on books, when one of them reaehos its seven hundredth thousand others are likely to remain an tiro shelf, "It is rather hard on a poor beggar of an author," says the Saturday Re- views "when royalty comes into corepetie tion." EXPEL BLASPHEMER. Smytk.Pigett, Who Poses as a Mes. dab, Unfrocked by Anglican Church 4.81 •I•F•yOme Loudon, March 7, -With irnpressive ritethe decree deposing from holy orders the Rev. S. Hugh Smyth -Pigott, the Church of England clergyman who has been _posing as the Messiah, was pronounced by the Bishop of Bath and Veils in Wells Cathedral Saturday. Smyth -Pigott was not present, Smyth -Pigott has been for years the head of a notorious religious commun. ity that =epics an establishment known as Agapemone, or the Abode of Love, in Somersetshire, England. Hie followers worship hini, and he teaches that the ordinary rules of morality are not binding 'upon • those to whom Spiritual light has been given. HO was treed last January bofere an ecclesiasti- cal court at Wells .Cathedral and found guilty of immorality, His expulsien from the eliurele was decreed. FATAL EXPLOSION. Wilmitigton Del., March 8. -Ono man was killed and several were slightly injured to -day by an explosion which de- stroyed two mine in the Bagley Yard of the Dupont Powder Co., near here. The dead. man is George Whitman, Aged 50 years, an employee. The accident Woe caneed by the explosion of an eaperi- mental barrel, The country was shaken for miles around. +so ALFONSO'S TRW. Ceutta, yoroceo, March 8.-1ing Al- fonso strewed heve this morniug from. Algoiras on board the eritiser Extra - Madura. alutes were exchanged with the shore, and to -day delegations from neigliboring tribes are eothiag in to [lay their respeete to*the Ring and to testify their friendliness% with Spain, MAY RECOVER. Cadiz, March, 8. -The, physicians in at, tendatee upon Viee-Admited PARMA Cer- veal, who was eeported to be in a dying eonditioa at Puerta Real last week, are now of the opinion that the Admiral has elinnee of recovery, JAPAN'S NAVY. Thirteen Battleships on Active List -Two Are Being Built. . . Tokio, March 7. ---Speaking on tile naval section of 'the budget to -day, his Excellency Bron Suitesaid there were now on the actitre list 13 battleships, 12 armored cruisers, 43. other cruisers, 55 destroyers and 09 torpedo craft. There were two battleships and. two cruisers in course of construction. One of each would be completed this year, and the others in 1911: .Two battleships, three armored cruisers, one second class cruis- er, and two submarines were projected. eye ..•••eeee,{pel•e0r.see:eeve ••••e• DOUBLE TRAGEDY. Boston Policeman and His Wife Both Found Dead. Boston, March 8.-A suspected mur- der, followed by suicide, was reported to East Boston police to -day. Daniel C. Sipplane, a policeman, was fonnd .dying in his home from the effects of a bullet wouud believed to have been self-inflicted, while the body of his wife lay on the floor beside him. Sip- plano died later at th.a EA Boston Re- lief Hospital. It is said that Spillane was deranged from two years' brooding over the death of it 19 -year-old daughter. Spillane was born within a short dis- tance of the scene of his death in 18'58, while his wife, who was a few years younger, was also an East Boston wo- man. Spillane bad been a policeman' for 22 years. Two sons survive. SUGAR DEARER. New York, Meaelt 8. -All *grader; of refined sugar were Advanced ten mite it Mutated punch; tealey. WAS FATAL, Wellend, 'We Mat& tio-4Ire, W. W. Willson 'died suddenly thie Writing, fol. lowing itei operAtion, \Odell eves perform. ed on Saturday, FEAST OF PURIM. London inspector Seized titian. - Hebrews Incensed. London, Ont., March 8. --There is deep indignation among the Hebrew residents of this city over the action of License Inepector Gelpin, Who, early on Sunday morning, went to iehall where they were celebrating tho Feast of Purim and con- fiscated a Large quantity of whiskey and beer and summoned a number of the leading spirits to appear in court on Tuesday morning for breaking the lie cense laws. The Hebrews intend to fight the case, if possible. SORRY FOR HIM. Rev. Dr. Workman Preached In- stead of Rev. Mr. Jackson. TWO MEN FROZEN. Tragedy at Macleod River in Brit. ish Columbia. I. (V ...FT. Vancouver, Mareh 8. - Word. lies been received from Perherville thAt R. Peden, P, Alyea and 3, (Maio re. port the diseovery of two men frozen to death on the McLeod River, A whit about sixty miles from Barkervilio. It is believed hero that the bedice are thoee of Charters I3aker arid James Me - Curdy, who left Berkerville About sbs or seven Weeke ago, accompanied ,by two hardy old timers, Mesere. Spittal and Henderson, booed. for Tete janune Cache. Mee Peden's party Waa en its way to Baricerville With dog teams to fetch a third comity/Tient of Supplies for the Gaskell party, who are cruising thriber en Got River. It is thought that Barker and Mc- Curdy hail left the company of Spittal and ifenderoon and were returning to 13akerville when they mot their death through exposure, as they had neither food rar blankets when found. BOGUS TICKETS. G, T. R. CONDUCTORS AND TWO OTHERS ARE FOUND GUILTY. The Jury, However, Brings in a Re- commendation to Mercy -No Evi- dence for Defence -Judge Speaks for Detectives. Kingston, March 8. -Rev, Dr. Work - mat, who replaced Rev. MrJackson as preacher at the anniversary service he Brock Street Methodist Churoli yester- day, made this slight reference to the jaekson-Carman controversy. "We are all sorry," he said, "that Mr, aackaen is prevented from being hero to -day be- eatise of siekness and trouble, and we all sympathize with him in his trouble, without saying ,Which side Of tlte Oontro- versy we take. " 41,0- " ENDED IN DEATH. Termite, Ont., Mardi 8. ---As a result of the injuries received 1 y being caught in the shafting of machinery in Myles Shoe Company's feetory on Mari+ 1, Petty Brennan died late Met eight in Grace Hospital. es fr BOATS TO SAIL Detroit, Mayer 8. -The Detroit. & Cleveland Navigation Company, if the present mild Weather continues, will start its first boats to Cleveland on Mareli 23, Work ou the steamers in pro. tpttirdwatill iot for started to -clay u 4 Toronto, Mareh 8. -'--"Guilty, but with aveirte jecOtrernelruiteteai 0 Inatteo ennismaateru,ra" ,:yastie night in the sessions after two and a neater hours". deliberation by the jury in the me el the four men charged with con- spiring to defrinia the Grand Trunk Railway Company. Two of the inea, Daniel Corrigan a,nd. Frank MeGallum, have long been em- ployed as conduotorie by the G. T. IL on the Montreal -Toronto trains, and helm grown grey in the company's service. Corrigan had seen thirty-eight years' service, arid McCallum over twenty. The two men convicted with them, Harry Rosenbes and Joseph Woods, are both young men and Hebrews, and they took their conviction with much less forta hide than did the two conducters. The one pleasing feature in the whole sad affair was the way in which after the jury's verdict was returned, one after another, a score or more of the old friends o.f the two conductors mine up and gripped them by the hand, usually with some epoken expression of good- will and reassurement, and occasionally with 8 feeling too deep for words. Many of the men had come up from Brockville, where McCallum znade his home, and where both men were well known. They had come for the purpose of giving character evidence, but for tactical pur- pose the defence did not call them. At soon as the jury Mal returned their verdict and. Judge Winchester had announced his intention to remand the four men to the eed of the sessions for ontence, a request wasmade that they be admitted to bail until sentence day, but this request his lordship said he was -unable to grant. The trial, which was thee concluded, disclosed the existence of a Onapiracy existing between the four men, whereby the two Hebrews acted as agents, Rosen- bes M Toronto and Woods in Montreal, for securing passengers to travel at re - (Moil rates leetaee.en the two cities, the four dividing the passage moneys be- tween them. The passengers thus secured were nearly all Jews, who travel largely on the night trains between the two citiet, and they Were bound over to secrecy. The , usual price paid for a passage was $4, but from the evidence tendered in the police court it was shown that the- men had aerimpaments made whereby passengeee could get Pull- man berths upon request. Tlee frauds were finally exposed through the agency of a young French-Canadian in the em- ploy of a Toronto clothing firm. Oper- ators who were conversant with the Yiddish language, supplied by the Thiel Detective Agency, got into the confidence of the two Hebrews and secured the evi- dence which convicted the men, The arrests were made simultaneously, detec- tive officers of the Toronto police de- partment arresting the two conductors on their trains and the two Hebrews in their homes, at practically the same moment. 4 • 0 LAST OF ILL-FATED VESSEL. "General Slocum," Converted Into Brick Barge, Sinks. New Bruustvicks N. J. Mar& 7. - The barge Maryland, formerly the steamboat General Slocum, on white' more thaa 1,000 persons lost their lives a few years ago, sank at •Seath River on Friday. The barge was loaded with, 500,000 bricks, consigned to a New York con- tractor. The weight ef her load sank the boat So deep that the bottom scrap- ed along a rook, 'which tore a hole of • considerable size. The Slocum was re- built and converted into a barge some time after the disaster in the East River, New York. YOUNG MAN KILLED, Owert Sound, Ont,, March easejohn aged 20 yeare, eon of Captain David Manley, fell Into the open b610 of the steamer TagernA this morning, alighting on hie head, 'arid was inetturely TWO YEARS FOR BURT. Elizabethtown Farm Hand Found Guilty of Abducting Young Giel, Brockville, Muth. 7. -Robert Burt, an Elizabethtown Tarns hand, who two weeks ago went to Copenhagen, N. Ye, and abducted Ethel May Wiltse, the fifteen -year-old daughter of `Mahlon Wiltse, formerly of Athens, and brooght her to his house plait his wife atal children weto absent on a visit to friends, Was sentencett to testo years in the penitentiary by judge MeDouald to- day. Burt's wife nerd two children, ono a babe in arms, were present, arid Mrs. Butt 'collapsed when the sentence was patseed. blurt is it fetent arrival from the old country. 4 4_ 27 KILLED, Vienna, 'Merril 8. -An avalanelie has destroyed a workarea's ahelter at Solid, - Johan, in the Pongees district of burg, killing killing twenty-seven nersone, teen bodies late% been reerivered from the Wreckage. OW& SHOOTING AFFAIR AT liA111.1LION. Desperate Burglar' Fired On Police. mon wad Citiaen.,rinth bijured, Thief Made His Escapes -Had Been Caught in the Act. ••••,••••• Out„ Dreepeteb,) Titut there are desperate men roam- ing around Ilarniltoe, ready to commit mardiar or any other crime, wee; proven Again, beet night, when one of Hauelle ten'Xi Perdia234 01 the puree, F. 0. Harry Smith, coeda eitizen, James Hanley, who went to • Smith's assi6taaCe, were 0144 by a burglar who had been found in tire Immo of Mr, Eawarti. Kaalsele, 24 Bay street north, last alght ehortly after 9 eieleek. The shooting was most delib- erate. Oonsteible Smith heel cornereit the burglar AS he WAS pushing A bag of stOlell &Aft out of. the cellar wiudoW, and the moment the offieor ordered "Earle up!" he reeelvedsa a reply A Nhot from the burglar's revolver -then tole other.and lAter a third was fired, 0. Smith went about the capture of the buvglar like a cool, brave Mast, hub he never dreamt of the doss ef desperado be had to deal with. The shooting eansed so much consternation that the would-be murderer escaped while tke two men who were shot were being leelced after. Smith was rushed to the City Hos. pital mud medical aid was at once given by Dr, Bingham and the histaie Muff. 110 passed a fairly good night, but this meriting he endured. great euffering. The bullet in hie heact was •not found htSt night. and it was decided to put the Xerny en him and operate tais afternoon. Following so eloisely on the heels of the shoeking Kinrade murder mystery, which has' Hamilton and the surround- ing ountry in a fever of excitement, the shooting affray hist night caused a big sensation When the news spread. The first reports were most alcirming, They declared. that Constable Smith was filially wounded, and that Hanley was in a 'serious condition. By a peculiar co -incident it was just a week ago yes- terday that Ethel lainracle was murdered in her own home in the heart of the eity's foshionable residential district by someone the police have as yet been un- able to discover. While there is no conneetion between tire two erimes, in the opinion of the polio, yet the fact that they occurred so closely together has ereated tremendous interest. BLUDGEON MEN. NEW ACT INVOKED. BY THE MEMBER FOR CORK. Bravos Paid Ten Shillings to Whack Cork Men-Lharge Made That United League Has ReviVed Molly Maguire Methods, London, March 8. -The first case under the new Public Meetings Act opened s -'a Dublin to -day. It will be re- called that the are, the object of which is to protect meetings from being broken up or -unreasonably interfered with by opponents, was the outcome of suf- fragettisen. It was to -day invoked by Eugene Crean M. P. for the southenst division of Coirk, 'against, Joseph Devlin, M. P. for West Belfast, and Mr, John- ston, secretary of the United Irish League, the complainant alleging that they were responsible for an assault he suffered in the recent Nationalist con- vention when Mr, O'Brien and others were refusecl a hearing and an attempt was made to wreck the meeting. Mr, Timothy Healy, M. P., counsel for Mr. Crean, said that Mr. Devlin had gal- vanized. into life the ancient faction of Molly Maguires under the title of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and employed that infamous organization to control the doings of public men. Ho quoted Cardinal Logue's recent pastoral condemning the Ancient Order of Hiber- Mans. He asserted that Devlin and Johnston impoeted bludgeon men from Belfast and instructed them not to allow any man with a Cork accent to approach the platform. Johnston had seeks con- taining bludgeons, one of which Healy produced in court. These bludgeons, he said. ever° served out to the aforesald hirelings, each of whom was paid. ten shilhings atter the meeting. Only one bludgeon man testified in support of Healy's statement: The horing was adjourned. IN 34 EAT:HES, Boston, Marell Chertee ere, who returned from Go Civil War la eommand of the 31111 Masaaehueette Voluetteer Infantry, After having taken part in thirty-four hattirs, is dead, ror seventeen years he WAS deputy einveyor of enatouis for the port of Boston. With his right foot 'erushed off juet'' alsave the ankle, Thernae Patter, ciOd 05 ever% it retired fernier, living IneChel. imitate, was taken from: er trete itt the Toronto l'alea Station ort Saturday night and hurried te Ortree Iteepital. LOOKED INTO HOLF. Point Edward Man Lost Eye in a Peculiar Manner. --- Sarnia, Ont.; despatch: Capt. Nelsou R. Einpey, of Point Edward, lost the sight of one of his eyes through a sin- gular accident. The captala was super- intending the building of a scow for tho company which hits a dredging contraet at Point Edward, and was lining up some auger holes that a workman was boring. He Ives on one side and the man with the auger on the opposite side. Just as Empey put his eye to the hole the mon, who had just completed boring it, shoved the auger through, striking111r. Empey in the left eye, bursting thettell,Neither num knew of the other's presence. Mr. Envoy Was removed to the hospital, wheel the eye eves removed. HEIRS TO SEVEN MILLIONS. James Dykes Was Notified That Mem- bers of His Family Are Rich. London, March 8.- James Deltee, of Wardsville, forty miles from London, the famous elteeker player, bee beta notified by Scottish lawyers that mem- bers of the family have fallen heirs to It hatelerieltsburg, Vit., estate worth $7,000,000, Captain Wood, seperintend- ent of the Intone Asylere et Selkirk, Manitoba, wbose wife is one of the heirs, htas lefe for Scotland, to represent the famil,es. 4,. DOESN'T WANT THRONE. Velem, letaveh 8. -The Semite says that the pretender, Dea Miguel of Ve- ga:neat hes declared his intention to re- nouncer all elttim to the thtmse of Portu- gal, out of eympetily for Kiirg Manuel, Wile WAS SO tragically ealled to the throne. , 4,, Not 'satisfied with tho trips he has already made through the turbulent wAtere of ViagAre, Itobeet Leah, of Chippewa, says he make a trip over the /Castello) rolls in a rubber like rumor is freely circulated in Mittteeel that tato 06.06ritaent letter $16,00,000 to tbe O. T. P. IA teder to tido them beer theie present financial diffieuhloe,