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The Wingham Advance, 1909-12-16, Page 2„ ee” •••;•=a.mam,a,;--..a,a,a THE BRITISH CAMPAIGN. Austen Chamberlain Criticises the Premier. The Suffragettes Will Fight For Votes For Women. Tory Candidate Chased From Meet. ing at Denbigh. ,•••••••••••••••,I London, Dee. 12.-- A majority of the Woman Suffrage Suelettee hose iseueti leans or campaign, The National Union„ comprising 103 affiliate& societies, will summit only eandhlatee who &clam in favor of woman suffrage in their elec- tion addreeses. Thee-) will be styported regardless of party. „ The Unionist Women's Association, on the other hand, will pat Unionisai first to this extent, that they will not oppoee any Unionist., Ind will not work for any who does net favor woman suffrage. The militant Sufframets case aeide all eausiderations except votes for women The rettring members of the 'Cabinet will be opposed "becanse they have had. the opportunity to do justice and ha iee re - levied to MO it." All known anti -Suf- i ey fri.gis.ts will be ohposeel reganhaes of Where both candidates favor the WO - 111:41, the militants will support or oppose neither, but will conduct a militant pip of proteet against any Government being eleeted without the. censent of WO - Merl. Neither Prime Minister Aegnitles epoech nor Ma Balfour's manifesto eau, oe said to have much advmwed the poli- tical situation or to have markedly stint - :dated interest therein. Both men excel in the House of Commons ibeelf, but nei- ther possesses to any collepiettous degree 47e the gift of stirring to the depths popular enthusiasm outside. Mr. Asquith, of course, had a magnificent reeeptioa by h k great and unanieno tie a utlienve, but the. top note of ezathetelaero wag only struck twice during the evening, once when Mr. Lloyd -George entered the hall, and. again when he arose to propose a vote of thanks to the Primo Minister. judging from Friday night. the Radical enthusiasts look noon him nei the real leader, not the Prime Min- ister. It is difficult, even impoesible, to cen- t:hut the issue of a general election to eine question, bat Mr. Asquith's epoch made it eviaent that the Liberal party will endeavor to keep the attsek om the House of Lords to the forefront. Other intereets must be considered and the usual prontiees were held ont, but were not dwelt upon. 'lite. one pronouncement of Mr. AsqUitles speed). wise contained in the word.e: "The will of the people as deliberately expressed by their pleeted representatives must, within the 'bras of the lifetline of a single Parlia. meat, be made effective." eityineer he favored a. 'second Chamber, Me, Asquith, beyond the words pest quoted anti hie declaration that #alee absolute veto must go," geve indleation of how hie party proposea to reform the present ACeond Chamber. Op. position critics say that the Radical pol- icy amounts to a single Cbamber, While Air. Asguitles sapoorters, in the wurds of the Daily News, declare that "Camp- bell-Bauterman's claseic reeolution out- lines the Meier practicable manner .)vhich the problem can be soleed.." Tide wane what at the time was deecribed 'zee iigoing, going, gone" method, viz., te submit, Ole bill to the House of Lent, genii then for the House of Common.; tez make it a law despite the Lords' re- jection. Though it is generally believed the Vnientists will keep the question of the House of Lords in the background £43 far as possible, Mr, Balfour givee itf irk plaee in his manifesto, but admits that the Howie is capable of improvement. The rest of the manifesto ehowe tht the Unionist cannraign will follow the lino; suggested by the posters whieh ere already appearing upon the hoardings all over the country, attributing the ply - fifty, non -employment and the dearneee cif proviSions to the Liberal Government rend Iree, trade. The elder effect of the impemling fight felt in Lo»don thus far ie the ruin. ation of the Christmae season. Host- ,esses cannot got the right people Mere. ither, the theatres are -suffering, and. until ,Ohristenas IS over polities is l'egitrbd eurnweviin t of a nuisance. To BEAT UNIONISTS. Liberals and Labor to Avoid Triangu- lar Contests. London, Dec. 12.—One of the most important facts in connection with the election campaign is the tacit compact betweea the Government and the Laborites to avoid triangulat contests where a Unionist might be beaten, e3oth parties deny that such an ar. rangement has been made, but its existence, if informal, is already prov- ed by the withdrawal of candidates of both sides in many constituencies. NO RED STRIPES ON TROUSERS. London, Dee. 1e.—The Suffragettes aro deeply disappointed by their failure to interrupt Friday's great Liberal meeting, The diseovery just at the inner door of Albert Hall of ono of their nem - leers, disguised as a messenger boy, calmly walking was a bitter blow, she ware so nearly triumphant, being only found out because she forgot to have red stripes on her trousers, as the usnal messenger boys have. Mr. As- quith's feeble allusion to evoinan's suf- frage has not allayed any of the Suf- fragettes' wrath ageing him, they re- fusIeh to consider it seriously. Even Lib. oral women are indignant, and desper- ate plans am being made to defeat the Liberal candidate at any eost. Many aluniess are divided against themselves. Xn Boma oases a father is running for fierliament, ft»4 his Wife and daughters are Working against him. The new so- ciety-, "The -resumer Suffragists," now numbers a thousand girls, under 20. With Lady Betty Balfour as guide, they had their firet public meeting 'Friday. AUSTEN TALKS. 'Leaden, Dee. 12. *Mr, Austen Cham- berlain, addressing lde coustitutnets last night, Made a seamhing tritieisin of Mr. Asquith's speech at Albert Hall. "There wail not,' said Mr. Chamber - Pain, " word about the question vadat, to those scanning the empire as tvitole, loomed largest amongst all the greet political issue& There was not a word about the queetion of im- perial union or the Methods by v:erielt dotter intercourse, fliendship and al- eianee betWeen onreelves foul oup nutted." (A voice: —"rariff reform.") mon beyond the the seas might be pro- I Di , M te BOW Le C "Tariff reformera were ready to take -21/L4 1La a step forward. They kuow what the next step was, and they invited the electors to march along that lino with them, but the Primo Minister had not a word to ea on le t r at t f 11 g CS o a imperial questions, the ono which was most vital to the future power and influente of our race." . CHASED TORY CANDIDATE. London, Dee. 1.2.—The feature of the Conservative meetings during the past week has beeu the number of Peers who have come forward to support the candidates, and the storms of interruption% and generally good- natured chaff to which they have been subjected. But ea more miens inci- dent occurred at Denbigh last even. ing, when the audience beolre up a Conservative meeting, chased . the can- didate oet of the building, and kicked the Conservative agent unconscious. _Mr. A.usten Chamberlain, the ex. Chaiacollor of the Exchequer, up to the present has been the only Con- servative loader actively iu. the field. Last night he met with stormy interrup- tions again from lets constituent% iu a, suburb of Birmingham. Mr. joseph Chamberlain has issued a manifesto in Manchester and Sal- ford, declaring that tariff reform must be adopted in order to compete with foreign countries. mammas. 1N, TROUBLE. Greenspan Arrested in Buffalo For Wife Desertion. .1..100.•01,110.10 Buffalo, N, Y., Dec, 13.—Morris Green- span, the Hamilton, Ont., tailor who claimed to have been robbed here of $100 several days ago, was sincere in his etory to the court that he was heart- Inoken, especially because the loss of the hundred would keep nim from spend- ing the holidays in the aitme city as his wife—Indianapolis. Ills heart was part- ly, at least, repaired this morning, when he saw Deteeive Samuels, of Indianapo- lis, walk ino the police headquarters and announce that he had come to Buf- falo to take Greenspnn to Indianapolis. Greenspan had one Clara Smith arrested on the charge of robbing him. Tie said he had dallied in Buffalo on his way 114.1st from Hamilton, and bad made Chetah acquaintance on the street, and teat ine next morning he awoke nun is his 'Loney. The judge ,Decharged ;int foe insufficiency of evidente. Greenspan was at once arrested ear dieorderly conduct. His tale about hu, sae in Indianapolis and his being oke ia Irate touched the. judicia lwart, aae Greenspan was also et go. Beme brake he hes dallied sinee then In this city. Meanwhile the Indianapolis polea read of his case and Wailed the Buf- falo police that Indianapvis wantel to sze him as much as he wanted to Pee Ineienapolis. Detectives located the Hemilton tailor, and he was locked uP thl morning. The Indianapolis de b arived with a warrant for Greenspa ile El.rDitii: an a charge of Oa olonment. lie assured Greenspan that his having ;one brehe here would uot preee it his moviae ont• to the eity where ti;s wife is living. 41 — TORPEDO THINKS. Wonderful New Weapon to be Tested by Admiralty. London, Dee. I3.—A wonderful torpe do which picks up sound and tracks it down is reported to be in the leande of the British Admiralty, by whom it will be subjected very 'soon to exttaustive The "torpedo with a brain," as the new weapon has been dubbed, is fitted with a delicate mechanism which is con- trolled by a microphone attached to the torpedo's rudders. When the micro- phone picks up a sound it defects the rudder in such a mamrer as to guide the torpedo straight to the source of the sound. waves. Properly aimed, the in- ventore claim that the torpedo will pick up unfailingly the noise made by the propellers of an enemy's vessel. Further than this, it claimed that the mechanism can be so adjusted that the torpedo will strike, not at the immediate origin of the sound, but thirty or forty yards to the right or left of the propellers at the will of the manipulator. WILL CROOKS. Colonies Will Not Accept. Et If It Means Dearer Food to Britain. Londe», Dee. 12.----Acem.ding to a Mor beeirne cable to the Chroniele, Win drook..s, speaking of the prefeeenee said: "The colonial preferenee gewetion laughea Lo scorn wherever I have been when it is mentioned that preference will raise the price of food. Canadiane Ina New Zealarolers, and, se fax ne bave gone, Australiane, have emphatioally de. dined to accept any preferential system having such an effect. They indignantly refuse to have anything to do with any echeme which would increase the piee of food.to the masses of Great Britain." UNLUCKY LADY. Three Times Ifer Prospective Hus- bands Met Sudden End. • 1.* • Utica, N. Y., Dee. 13.—Herman Spen- cer, a farmer 35 years old, was burned. to death near Guilford, N. Y., in fire that destroyed Ids barn on Sunday morning, 'Spencer WAS to have been married next Wednesday. Five years ago the lady whom Mr. fepeneer Was about to marey was pla»ning for her wedding when her lover was killed by the ears. Two years ago she was again to wed when her affianced husband, was taken suddenly ill, and died in a few b011113. -41 INVENTOR DaDo Chicago, Dee, 13. --Chas. B. Waling - ton, inventor of the first automatie grain binder, end knowo as the father of the grain binding industry, died last evening at his residenee in Janesville. Wis. He was born in :Middlebury, now Ahroe, Oltio, in 1830, and settled in Janesville tie ye.,,,,.(trs (1.4_g*. FATAL BAPTISM. Torinaton, heath—One man Is lieu and six others are under arrest as a result of ft fight at the 1101.40 Of Miehaol Markle, duritur Polish christening celebration Tate yksterday. Gee. form 29 years old and re. tenth" Inserfeee ems tstabbee through the heart, IN A YAWL Picked Up by Commodore Perry on Lake Erie From Missing Car Ferry Bessemer No. 2. Terrible Harvest of Death on Lakes During the Season. 1,•••••••,•••• Windsor, Dee. Ie.—With the recovery to -day Of lee -encrusted corpses of nine members of the crew of the ill-fated car ferry Bessemer No. 2, all hope was aban- doned that the vessel had weathered the storm aria was in shelter. To -night °Melees of the Marquette 0: Bessemer Dock and Navigation Co. gave oat a statement saying that the vessel and its crew of thirty-two had uncloubtedly been engulfed in the waters of Lake Brie during the storm of last Tuesday. The bodice of the nine sailors recovered to- day were piched up in one of the Beast:- e - re r- mer's lifeboalts at a point midway b tween Erie and Long Point. AR we frozen stark and stiff, and had a,pos, ently been dead for several days, Other lifeboats aro believed to be drifting about the lake, and the se.arch for then] is still being continued assidneuear with tugs in hope that some more boaies may be found, Officials of the company incline to the belief that the direet cause of the Bessemer's foundering 1111,3 breaking of the key which. aneeora the loaded freight cars to the de 01,18 lowing the entire deck load. of heaeily loaded ears to rush to the eessz:s ste en and founder her keel. - The bodies, which were tak m to Erie by the. State fisheries boat, Commodore Perry, which found them, were identi: fied as follows: G. R. Smith, steward Conneaut; F. Steele, fireman, Conneaut; J. Shank, fireman, Conneaut; J. Hart, oiler, Conneaut; H. Thomas, second cook, Port Stanley; 3, W. Sonars, wait- er, Conneteut; Chas. Allen, coal passer Conneaut; William Ray, coal passer, Conneaut; Sharp, seaman, Rondeau. When news of the recovery of the bodies readied Conneaut this afternoon solemn public services were held in sev- eral churches. For three days and nights the wives, mothers; daughters and sweethearts of the members of the ill- fated crew had haunted the docks, pay- ing little heed to the bitter winds which sweht across the lake,. end eagerly drink- ing in every little pwee of intelligence from searching parties. When the dread- ful knowledge that the vessel was un- doubtedly lost with all its crew finally forced itself upon them, the scenes were simply heartrending. The whole town of Conneaut is in mourning to -night. The officers and crew of the ferry were young men, and the fourteen who resid- ede at Conneaut were highly esteemsd. The Canadian shore is being patrolled to -night in the expectation that some bodies may be washed up, but this is al- most a forlorn hope, mariners say, as the bodies not found in the lifeboats, probably will not be recovered until spring. They would. not come to the surface with the water in the lake be- low freezing point. FINDING OF THE YAWL. Erie, Pa„ Dec. 12.—Capt. Driscoll, commanding the Commodore Perry, which picked up the yawl of Bessemer No. 2 containing the bodies of nine un- fortunate men, said to -night of the find- ing of the yawl: w.Chere was a heavy sea running at the time we sighted the yawl, and we had. some difficulty in reaching it. As we made her out with out glasses, eight of the men were sit- ting up in the boat, their life -preservers strapped about their shoulders. The ninth man lay at the bottom of the boat frozen th the slat flooring. Tfie faces. of the men were .bloated. Their clothes were heavy with frozen water. We did not attempt to take the dead men .on board, we feared the tiny yawl would. capsize if my men boarded it. The yawl was therefore taken In tow to this place." Thomas, the cook, was the only man who •had worn an overcoat. The eight bodies were dressed in overalls and jumpers, indicati»g that the de- parture from the car ferry had been hurried. In the bow end of the boat was found complete clothing for one men, and it is the belief that the yawl originally contained ten men and that on, becoming crazed, had discarded his clothing and jumped into the icy wa- ters of Lake Erie. Albert I. Weis, of this eity, Treas- urer of the Keystone Fisk Co. and the Bey State iron Works, was a pas- senger on the ilidated boat. His re- latives and friends had not yet given up hope mitit the yawl containing the nine men was towed. .into the port As yet his body has not been found. The dicers of the car ferry cornpany give up all hope. Detroit, Dec. 12.—A special from Ash. tabula. Harbor, Ohio, to -night says: The big Canadian Pacific Railway ferry Ash- tabula, which runs between .Port Bur- well, Ont., and this port, went hard agrohnd this afternoon just oueside her Caeadian dock. The vessel carries a full complement of loade dears, and. in the event of a etorm corning up her positicai is eetreinely hazardous. owing to the possibility of the deck load shifting. The Ashtabula lies squarely aeross the mouth of the harbor and about five hun- dred feet from. the shore. Superintend- ent Buchanan, of the Canadian fleet at Owen Sound, has been notified, a zel ordered several poseerful wrecking tmest to the, scene in an Attempt to pull the ferry off. FIFTY-THREE LIVES LOST. 'Cleveland, Ohio, Dee, 12.—The terrific .storin which passed over Lake Erie Wed- nesdiey and Thursday reaped It ilittVeSt of intirtim lives and more than $1,000,000 worth of shipping property, Late repots show that fifty-three lives were lost, that twenty sailors weer resorted, that four boats were destroyed, and that one is figround and badly dameged. The summary shows: Steamer Clar- ion burned,. fifteen lives lost, six flayed; steamer W. C. Richardson mink, five drowned, fourteen saved; ear ferry Bes- fietTler No. 2 weeeked, thirty-two lives lost; steamer johiali Gt. Munro aground, attempting to- rescue &Wore from the Clarion; two barges sunk, no tires lost. • Sailor from the Itichetdsoe, .erezea by exposure, committed eteeide. There is now practically no thence that any of the thirteen members of the .erew of the Ciritiert 11ftVe survived. 1Ussai of the crew are knOwn to have per - THE SEASON'S HARVEST OF DEATH. Detroit, Dee. 12.—With the .certattity that the men of the steamer Claim - and the Marquette & Bessemer car ferry No, 2 have gotte to their doom the toll of death taken by wind fted VIAVe shied the .offieltel dote of Miele „r" • reetiou on the great lakes one week' aga fella bat four short of the offidal seaeotes total. MiXty•three Melt WaS the meet pto last Saturday, Tide week's death list -53 on Lake lerle and six, on Lake Superioahalready is 59. This total of 122 lives lost in 1000 is for from four Uwe the total of Inet year, when 33 men found watery graves as the result of storm end stress. Ditattele CRUSHED BY ICE . Detroit:, Dee. 11.----A specie! the The Free Press from Sandusky, Ohio, says: After a terrific battle with iee, the steamer Huron City arrived ab Huroe to -night, bearing the crew of the barge Charles Spademan, of Marine Vity, which went down in thirty feet of water about a half tulle southwest of the South Bass Islaud light last night. The rescued were: Captain James Bond, of Marine City; Mate Frank Itobinscin, Port .Huron; Charles Riehardson, SP0,1111111, a Marine City; Miss Qeetrude Struebling, stewardess, of Marine City. With the Specimen in tow, the Role. on City left Huron harbor leriday at, ternoon. :Roth vessels had eergoes of coal, and were bound for Marine City. Near Put -in -Bay they encountered ice, which stove a hale in the Spademan. in ten minutes there were four feet of writer in the barge's lurid. The Huroe City was quickly put about in the storm and lashed to the sinking schooner, Lines were put down, up which Miss Struebling and the three nwo climbed to •safety. The Spademen went down ten min- utes after the crew left her, and this morning all that could be seen of her was her spars. The Spadeznan is owned ke M. Sicken, of Alerine City, 4 • 0 Looking for Others. Erie, Pa., Dec. 13.—When the sun came up to -day every avail- able craft of any size put out of the breakwater here to aid in the search for possible survivors of the ill-fated Marquette and. Bes- semer, ear ferry No, 2, which has probably foundered in the middle of Lake Erie. Nine of the crew of the vessel were brought here last night froz- en to death in a small ten -man yawl, in tow of the State fisheries boat Commodore Perry. It is believed that further boats will be picked up within the next few hours. Capt. Dryscoll, com- manding the Perry, said: "I expect to find other yawls with the members of the crew of the car ferry in them. I hope against hope that I may reach the yawls if there are any afloat in time to be of real serevice," Officers of the Car Ferry Com- pany have spared no efforts to locate their tnissing ship and ship- wrecked crow. It is reported that the burial of the nine bodies recovered yesterday will be paid for by the company, and the loss in some instances falls heavily upoo the sailors' fatuities. The bodies of the nine sailor men were shipped to Conneaut to- day, accompanied:by over a hun- dred mourners. 4-04-4.4-4-0-04-04-4-41-4-0-41-004-4-4-11-04-+± KING LEOPOLD DYING Doctors May Operate in Effort to Save His Life. Brussels, Dec. 13.—King Leopold was reported as dying to -day, but the report lacked confirmation. It is known that the condition of His Majeety has reached a critical stage, but death is not at hand. A conqultation of at bending physicians was held .this morning, when it, was de- eided that if there was no change foi the better by to -morrow lin operation would be performed, Another cons,talta- tion will be held to -night. The King slept Intermittently last night. During one period of wakeful, am he sent for hie private secretary, Baron Goffinet, who remained several momenta in the chamber. Immediately following this mormng's conenitation the King summoned Ms lawyer and,a inytary, with whom he had a prolonged interview, presumably rotative to his will. Hahne - pion* he received the Papal Nati4lo, who brought; the benediction of the Holy Father, and the Spanish Minister. Leo- pold's courage and fortitude in the face of death is a matter of general canunent. His mind remaihs clear, and he insists upon talking about the affairs of state. This afteenoon he summoned his young- est daughter, the Princese Clementioe. Yesterday the patient sufferod a re- lapse, and as the day progressed he grew steadily worse. Last evening it was an- nocuwed that a disquieting affection of the abdomen had appeared, nerd that -dropsy of the legs was also present. The Cabinet was su-mmoned, physicians met in consultation, and the royal chaplain was brought to the bedside. Toward evening 'the King was said to be slightly iMproved, and to have had some sleep. The court physician, Dr, Thiraud, held tern:I:tat whiltrillie°tittlitefvalte417isteuicaeln, t. "Although the paesed celnee ly, the King's condition is not improved. Unlees an Immediate chartg,e oecurs an operation will be necessary, The royal dutplain of Liteken Castle rentaine at the palace, repaired to admitister the last sttentmenta," King Leopold te enfteringo terribly. His pliersicians feer the reenit, of an opera- tion, nud fawned they decide to operate the patient will first receive extreme une- Mon, administered by Cardinal Mender, Archbishop of Afeehelite T:DT—Be' Const inop le condi. tion of M. Bleriot, the French aviator who hied a bad fall when his aeroplane fouled the roof of a, houee yesterday, wits matisfaetory to -day. His left. side was bruised, and it was foxed that he had intetual Works, hut no seri /us COMplications 'developed, "/ wog down to the milliner's and she had just been to the dentist's and lard a nerve killed," "Well, from the prices the aeks for hat& I -should tey the den - fist mueb have killed the Wrong one." --- Kellen City 40=4 rNetvs in Brief , , Canadian canners aro discussing a vo• posed merger. It is believed the legislattlre will open about Wan. 18, Mr. J., Pritchard, ex-Aldexman of Loudon, Ont., died suddenly. An electric railway from the Falls to Dunnville, via Welland, is planned. Coehritue, Ont., will have its firet mu- nicipal electione as n town oe Tan. 12. Eire did vonsiderable damage to the G. T. R. station at North Parkdale early Saturday, A citizen has asked the Toronto Lib- rary Board to open the libraries on Sun- day, An appeal is to he taken against the Medical Council in the case of Dr, W. 11,11C;airn. agene.ies for south. Saskatche- wan estimate the grain 'grown by In- dians at e50,000 bushels. A. German and 'United States firm, each contemplates establishing a smelter in Ashbridge's Marsh, Toronto. Mr. Naven, of Hamburg, who was here buying asbestos, was Wed Itt en automobile accident at Black Lake. Judge Metcalfe, of Winnipeg, has ruled that municipal councils have the right to sanction the submission of cal option by-laws. A sensation has been caused in London society by the mysterious disappearance of Lady Churchill, sister of the Earl of Lonseale. Nine workmen were suffocated to ddath while working in a compressed tee compartment in the harbor at Naples, Three others were rescued. Half a dozen persons bitten by a suspected mad dog at Galt will leave to -day for, treatment at the Pasteur tnstitute, New York. It will met the town $1,500. The government has decided not to, recommend Executive clemency In the capital case of Sbyrhley, a Pole, who killed his wife at Vegreville, Alta., last isnustrer. will be hanged on the 21st Preparations are now completed for the•holding of the seventh annual con- vention of the Manitoba grain growers in I.B?iriadnadyonneoxnt.Wednesday, Thursday and The Right Hon. Arthur 3, Balfour, the Unionist leader, who has been ill for several days, is said to be suffering from pulmonary catarrh andeover-fatigue. His physicians have ordered him to rest for two weeks. Walter Ross is under arrest at New Liskeard charged with having shot and killed Percy Parkinson in a dispute over the boundary line of a mining claim. Ross says Parkinson threatenea him with an axe. At Juvissh-sur-Orge, France, an avia- tor named Perratos, while manoeuvring at a height of 25 feet to -day, fell and received injuries to his arms and legs. His monoplane was smashed. The United States battleships Georgia and Nebraska collided Thursday after- noon while engaged in tactical exercises off the Virginia capes. The effects of the collision were not serious. Rev. J. E. Marshall, pastor of the King Street Baptist Church, Berlin, for the past seven years, has resigned, to accept a new charge in Montreal, that of St. Charles' Baptist Church. News comes from Saint Philippe De Neri, Kamourasko County, Que., that Mrs. Lords Caron, wife of aabootmaker, has given birth to four children at a time. All are in au excellent state of health. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, national or- ganizer of the industrial Workers of the World, was convicted at Spokane of con- spiracy to incite violation of the laws of Spokane and sentenced to three months in the county pail. Christo Vassi, of 64 Niagara street, Toronto, the Macedonian who was so badly burned by falling into a vat of cyanide of potassium at the Canada foundry on Friday afternoon, died in St. Michael's Hospital on Saturday. The King has awarded the Edward Medal (the Miners' Victoria Cross) of the first class to Joseph Davis, of Ben- digo, Australia, for exceptienal bravery shown during an accident in the mine in which he eves employed on ,Tuly '16 last. A severe earthquake occurred la Guam at 9 o'clock on Friday, causing consid- erable damage, according to a cablegram received at the Navy Department at Washington. D. C. The Women's and Children s Hospital was wrecked. There were no casualties. At Winnipeg Magistrate Daly remit- ted the seutence of fifteen lashes impos- ed on William Gale for beating Ids wife. Representations have boon made to him that the woman gave him great provoca. tion, and that her conduct was not such as it should have been. Rev. S. E. Marshall, pestor of Trin- ity Methodist Church, Berlin, whose four-year term is drawing to a close, may be succeeded by Rev. II. W. Crews, of Guelph. The official board has deeided to extend an invitation to Rev. Mr. Crews. William Stevenson, an employee of the M. C. R. shops, at pt. Thomas was run over by an engine in the yard' there on Saturday night, and one leg was so bad- ly crushed that amputation was neces- sary. William Hartwich, of Herschel Town- ship, was crushed to death while work- ing at a portable sawmill, Ho WAS hold- ing a big log in position when his foot slipped and. the log rolled over on him, crushing him so that Ito died in it few hours. The first step towards rendering the London Sunday less gloomy has been taken by the organization of the Lon- don Skating Club. It is a very smart affair, and is patronized by the Aoglo- Amerman smart set, which turned ont in force last Sunday. Fred Miller, of Owen Sound, who jumped kis beil there, where he was eltarged with Assault, and was arrested at Shelburne, eommitted suieido in the eells there. Ile was found dead with an emptybottle, whieh had contnined car - balk acid, heel& him. Chas. K, Ihunilton the Glenn II. Curtiss aeroplane made 2% miles in 3% minutes at Lake Contrary, Miss., on Saturday. He made three flights in ell, Ile (elated the. lake, ana had perfect eon - trot of the machine. The flights were mule -during a snowstorm. Twenty-six Moslem; were executed at Adana, Turkey, yesterday and to -day emineetion with the April massacre& Great crowds witnessed the executions, and the relatives of the condemned men, together with thoueands of others, join- ed in the manifestations of grief. After fighting against tlesepidemie of scarlet fever Wyeltsvood Mut distriet for the pest sie: months Dr. C. A. 'harem of 1,303 Bathurst' street, To- ronto, medical ufficer for York towneltip, has been taken ill with the fever mid lute had to go to the iholation liespital. During November the Edmonton street railway earried 229;708 passeoga era, compared *with 37,302 in the epee month a year ago. The increase is 401 per cent. Wand revenue collections were $9,570.31, against *Lola last year, an increase of 493 her eent. Tito gross receipt% Of the Toronto Rail- way Company this year up to the end of November totalled $3,534,431, of which the city recelved $472,944. The eith •pereentnge luta been $1,413- per day since the beginning of the year, exelusive of the track rental, $800 per mile. snleslady 1» the T. Baton Co's, jew. eiry department at Winnip.eg mistook the figurea a large_ solitaire diamond ring, and sold a $150 jewel for a dollar aud half. The pmchaser hes not beeo located, but the girl is devoting her energies in other lines now, Dr, Ludwig Mond, the notee is dead. Ile was born at Cassel, Ger- many, ou March 7, 1839. Dr. Mond made a number of valuable scientific and commercial inventions, including the Solvay proceas, which he greatly per- rmecatriet4if.acture of ammonle soda by the A, true bileeies brought in by the grand jury the Toronto genera ses- sions yesterday against Jell): Hereto»), on a charge of perjury in connectiou with the trial of Morris Levi, who at the last sessions was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for sub- ornation of perjury, Importations of hides and skins into the United States will aggregate approx- imately one hundred million dollars for the present Wender year. These arti- cles therefore rank second in value in. the list of importations. Sugar is the one article the importation of which ex- ceeds in value hides end skins. There has been a remarkable revival of the demand for South Melee veter- ans' scrip dining the past few days Winnipeg. Scrip which sold as low as $420 n week ago is now in demend at $075 and even higher. The predietion here is that it will. ultimately be worth as high as a thousand driller& A contract was let Yeaterclay by this T. & N. 0. Railway Commiseion to the Canadian Contracts Limited for the eutting away of the rocic ledge near the Cobalt station, to permit of the enlargement of the station and yard. The work will be started at once. Several tenders were submitted. Figures compiled by the U. S. Bur- eau of Statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor show that imports Of paper and paper products have in- creased from $3,000,000 in 1809 to $12,- 000,000 in 1900, while exports of paper and manufactures thereof, have in the same period increased from $5,500,000 to 38;s0t0irn,0a00te,s on the visible supply of broom corn in the States, nearly all of which is controlled by two factories in Evansville, Ind., make it certa:m that the price of brooms will go up rapidly. Offioers of the combination there say they would not be surprised to see housewives paying ono dollar apiece for brooms next year. 's Two beys had a remarkable escape while sleigh riding on a bob sled on Saturday Peterboro. As the sled was crossing the street car track at diar- lotto aid Reid streets a street car Ian- ning at full speed struck it amidships, caught it up in the fender and =vied it some distance, both boys being birled on the road. Neither was much euet, Fifteen lives and half a million dollars in property loss on land and sea is the toll now known to have been taken by the storm which swept Newfoundland and its waters last week, In addition to three Gloucester, Mass., fishing schooners, many Newfoundland vessels were wrecked. All the victims of the storm were Newfoundlanders.. The American Ice Company, one of the largese ice dealing companies in the world, was found guilty to -day in the State Supreme Court of restricting coin. petition and attempting to create a mon- opoly of the ice business. The hery war out one hour and forty aminutes. The court immediately imposed the maxi- mum eentence of a $5,000 fine.• Plans are now being laid for a mon- ster four days' celebration to be held about the third week of June on the occasion of the semeeentenary of the Queen's Own Rifles. The desire i3 to have the eo-operation of tbe 15,000 ex-mentbees of the reeintent, who have largely made it seliatt'it ie, as well as the presence of the 1,000 members Who now fill its ranks. "That Percy Parkinson came to his death by a rifle shot fired by Walter ROSS on Tbersday evening Dec. 9," Ives the verdict rendered by 'the Coroneree jury on Saturday night at Engleittert. 15 generally believed that Parkinson melt- ed a large cheque the day ptevions to the ehooting, bni pockete were pratti- cally empty. The contest between the city of Van- couver on the ono hand,' and Theodore Ludgate and the Vancouver Lumber Company on the other, for possession of Deadman's Island has reached the courts. The city has beeo arraigned in the Supreme Court as defendant in the suit brought by the Vancouver Lumber Company, evho seek to recover possession under the Ludgate lease of 1899 from the Dominion Government. A petition is being circulated. at Brockville for peesentation to the Min- ister of Justice praying for the release out parole of Benson Dickson, sentenced in July, 1908, to five years in the King- ston penitentiary for robbing trains on tho G. T. R. between Mete and King- ston. His companion in crime, R. tyre, obtained his release on ticket -of -leave some time ago after serving more then one-half of a two-year term. Senford Miner, a homesteader, who lest July ambushed eeof shot his neigh- bor, A. D. Fraser, of Margo, was found guilty at Yorkton, Sask., tot Saturday ana sentenced to hang on Fob. 17 by Judge Johnstone. The evidence eeted that while the prisoner is peculiar, he was well aware of the serious nature of the crime, The judge did not use the traditionel bleck eap. A. solitary boat in the stormelossed surface of Lake Superior, plowed her sevey through waves that are being dash- ed over her by the thirty -mile -au -hour gale, and each leteving te new coating of ice, is the sturdy Ittiamie of the North- ern Navigation Co. tilte is the last boat of the year on Lake Superior. All ethers—nt least Canadian owned-- are safe the herbors. France is stirred to -day by the die- eovery of twe horrible trims. At Mee. seillea 410)e -seller slew his whole fann ily and killed himself. Ite shot his mother end cute the throats of hie wife• and three childreh with it razor. At a farm near Tormerre • two %vise cow - herders. bent on robber:Oared a farmer, his wife and four domeeties to n eow- house, where all were slaughtered. The murderers etteeped to a nearby toretite THE STEEL FIGHT iron and Steel Wcrkers Confer itit Goraper3. Federation of Labor May 114 in Fight Against Co-operation. Pittsburg, Dec, 13e ---"We are desirous of helping the Amalgamated Association of .fron, Steel and Tin Workers in this contest with the United States Steel Corporation, and will do all in our power to that cud." That was about es far as Samuel Gortmers, President of the Ain - eel= Federation of Leber, who is here for the conference to -day on the situ - lion of the strike of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel mid Tin Plate Workers against the American Sheet and Tin Plitt° Cm, SIIIMidiery of the Steel iCjio.erppaoztliotiol, ;01:Mild say when asked for a statement relative te what it was There are about 150 delegetes here„ and Mr, Crimpers wed that it would not be right for 111111 to dimes the plans unless they had been presented to the con ference. The conference at the Monongahela Hotel was called to order by President Compel's. Among the early arrivals were James McConnell, of Washington, D. 0,, President of the International Order of Machinists; W. D, Mahon, of Detroit, President of the Amalgemated Association of Street and Electric Rail- way- Employees; Wei. Byrnes, of New York, President of the International Brotherhood of Stationary Engineers. -- 41. • . Boy BURGLARS. Seventeen Appear Court at Montreal. Montrcel, Deo. 13,—Seventeen boYs between the ages of twelve and four- teen were (mewed in court to -day on a charge of burglary. Five of the boys were sentenced to three years in the reformatory, despite the pleadings and tears of their parents. They had been found guilty of breaking into a grocery store ro d stealing cigars, cigar- ettes and candy. "Yes, it is time for yon to ery now," said Judge Lanetot, turning to the five weeping boys lined up in the dock. "Here are boys," continued the judge, "who are regular burglars, going in organized gangs and infeseing the laity. We usual- ly treat young offenders with indulg- enee, but they are abusing this indulg- ence. They are reenter burglars, and we must protect seemly." There was a pathetic saene when the judge pronounced the sentence. The sobbing of the five boys became hysteri- cal. The little fellows each tried to address the judge, but they were choked with sobs and unable to utter the plead- ings they were struggling to express. The mothers also tried to plead with the judge, but les honor' said: "They are robbers, and we must protect society tend property in this eity from their inroads, which are becoming mere alarm- ing every day. It is in the interests of your children nnd of yourselves." The other boys had their cases post- poned. TO FIGHT CANCER. Dying Gift of $1,500,000 From Millionaire to Aid Research. New York, Dec. 13.—The will.of Mr, George Crocaer, who was made public in part by Air. Eugene D. Hawkins, counsel for the eexeutors, after Mr. Crocker's euneral, provides for ft gift to Columbia University that will amount to at least $1,500,000, to be used for an investigation of can- cer, its cause, prevention and cure. It was this disease that caused the death of Mr. Crocker, his wife and les friend and physician, Dr. William T. Bull. That clause of the will provides that his eaeuutors sell his city residence, No. 1 East Sixty-fourth street, and the contents as well as les coaatry home at Darlington N. together with the horses, cattle and other personal property, and pay the net proceeds to the teustees of Colum, bin College, to he invested as a perman- ent fund, to be known as the ...George Crocker Special Research Fund." Should the progress of science make the prosecution of such researches in regard to cancer unnecessary, the will -provides -that the income of the fund may be used as the trustees may determine in the prosecution of other researches in medicine and surgery of the principal or income of the fund and in the allied sciences. No part of the principal or income of the fund is to be used foe the erection of a build- ing. 4 • 0 CHILDREN BURNED. Joseph . Brazier's House Near Eganville Destroyed. . Obtawa, Dec, 12. ---The three infant ehildren of Joeeph Brazier, a Renfrew county farmer, living near Deere, be- tween Ronfrew and Egauville, were burn- ed to death this morning in a fire whie.h daetroyed the house. ;Ur. Brazier had gone to a heighbores farm, and his wife wee in the barn milking, when the house. took fire, presumably through the children playing with -Note at thi kitchen stove. When the fire was dia. covered the flames had suit a hold on the house that the hormr-strieken father and mother were unable to elect an on. trance, The eldest child was a boy an five years of age and the other two chil- dren were respectively three yeam and one month old, MASON DRURY KILLED. Young Grand Tem.* Fireman -Struck by Train et Bradfetd. :Bradford, Dec. eh—Mae:et Drury, a young man firing on the Grand Trunk, yenning out of Allendale, wan acel- Arntally Itillea here last night, He jdst finished &ening out the eelipan of his engine, whieh was on a siding, ana was waiting till the Cobelt special bee gone. it is thought he atee4 too ems(' to the main line, end was ghee.]: by the stem of the train. Ite died in :thud fifteen mintier& before nueleol ei niti reedi him. The body was he• n by a spedel train to Allendale, an 1 wlil en from there hk home in Grined v. It had been firing only about tw nieetlie ' anal was previously employed at Alin. dale as telegraph operator rind tlekel. della AIR FLEET • FOR BRITAIN. Aeroplanes Will Displace Horses in Future Wars. Major Baden-Powell Says Nation Dare Not Fall Behind. 111•••••••41.1..010 ' London, Dee, 13. ----The aseertiOn that aeroplanes. will displace borses*In fttture warfare, and form mounts for dashing squadrons of aerial cavalry, signalized an address by afajor Baden-Powell be. fore the Royal United Service Institu- tion yesterday afternoon, while Lord Roberts uttered: a< stirring .demand that England wake up and prepare for the utilization of aerial craft and prosecute systernaticaly the development of the airship and aeroplane. A large audience of military and naval men and Aero- nautical experts signified their enthus- iastic assent. "We have been contented to wait and benefit by the experience of others," said Lord Roberts. "We cannot afford to be behind -heed. We must make our machines, have trials and have a staff of men trained arid ready to adapt them- selves to aerial machines. "I am anxious that the country wake up to the necessity of doing ite utmost to perfect these craft. :We still are strangely apathetic. The future dirig- ibles and aeroplanes will be as far ahead of those of to -day asepie presort loco- motives are ahead of The first locomo- tive built." Major Baden-Powell saki: "There Is no doubt that the machines of toalay, both dirigibles and aeroplanes, are cap- able of the greatest use in case of war. Let us not forget that they could come without warning from the continent and _wreak great damage. We must make` pieparations to defend ourselves against such possible aggression." • He specifically pointed out that they could be utilized as follows: Reconnais- sance. obtaining complete mod reliable information of the enemy's position, movements of armaments and num- bers; transportation of troops by the employment of thousands of aeroplanes capable of carrying three or four men each; discharge , explosives with much damage by hovering (wee the enemy's country, and dropping bombs on powder magazines, stores, bridges and railways; raids, by carrying small parties of troops for dashing forays; communica- tions, epuld 'carry despatches and coin- municate with any besieged place; in savage warfare they would have great moral effect by dropping bombs to spread panic among the ignorant enemy; as a lookoht; unsurpassed as a coign of vantage for the commander-in-chief during an action; advantages of the air- ship as compared to the marine -vessel, greater speed, wider view, ability to rise to rise to a suffieieet height to avoid projectiles and to get vertically above an enemy. All evoked tremendous enthusiasm. Major Baden-Powell has written sev- eral articles on aeronautics, including "Ballooning as a Sport." Ile invented a man -lifting kite in 1804 and made fro. quent ascents by kites in following years, He refounded the Aeronautie Society and acted as its honorary sec- retary for some years, after which ho was elected president. He joined tho Scots Guards in 1882 and has seen mach actual service. He served with his regi- ment and on staff throughout the South African war. • a CANADIAN HORSES. Won Prizes at Horse Show in Chicago. Chicago, Dee. 13.—The follow- ing are Canadian prize -winners at the hib horse show. Class 50 --Stallion. mare or gelding. over fifteen hands and under fifteen hands and two inches—Lady Avon- dale, George Pepper, second; Lawns- brough Madge, Crow Sr Murray, third. Class 67—jumpers, open to all, per- formances over fences to count-- Stayaway, Crow & Murray, first; The Wasp, Crow & Murray, second; Dutchman, George Pepper, third. Class 62—Hunters, qualified or green (middle -weight), NVon by Crow & hhurrav's blk.g., The Wasp; see- ond, Crow & Murray's br.m., Melba; third, George Pepper's br.g., Lord Minto. COOK'S DATA. Geographic Society to Investigate Fabrication Charges. Washington, Dee. 13.—The Nationae Geographic Society has decided to investigate the claims of Captain Au- gust W. Loose and George Dunkle, an insurance broker. recently made in New York, that they furnished to Dr. Fred- erick A Cook observations and data to prove that he reached the North Pole. Prof. J. II. Gore, Rear Admiral Pills- bury and Dr. C. W. Hayes, of the Geo- logical Survey, went to New York to- day to begin this work. They expect to report to the society here on Monday. Prof. Willis th Moore decided on this course yesterday at a conference with members. 4 • 0 WOOD PULP. Difference of Opinion as to Re- taliation on Canada. Washington, Dec. 13. --House Leader Pnyne nnd Merman Armin, of the Home Committee on Interstete and For- eign Commerce, are not es one on the subjeet of Mr. hiatunds bill providing for postponeenttn for the time when the retaliatory wood pulp provision of the Payne tariff law relatieg to Canada shall go iato effect. Mr. _Mann is very urgent for the eme- sideration of the measure and takes the position that much depends upon early action. On the other hand, Mr. Payne (Ideas, the WY as it 110W stands, and will op- pose strenuously any effort to amend or modify it. Neeessarily, the bill waft referred to the Wept and Mottos Com - %Mee, Whieh Mr. Pone chairmen, rind. for the present at least it is in Mr. Payue's hands. "It Is safe to say," eahl Mr. row to - doe', "that the bill will Tia be eepottcd back before the holidays."