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The Wingham Advance, 1905-01-12, Page 7R K ON OYAMA. Wants Kouropatkin to Clive Battle *Before Nogi's Troops Arrive. Additional Particulars of the Meeting Between Nogi and Stoessel. • Where is Rojestvensky's Fleet and What Does it Intend Doing? London, Ilan, 9, 4 a.m.— There is the fortress. was the arrival of the Japanese n-mch guns. Ile expressed surprise at Gen. Kouropetkin's defeat, and said that it. was useless for the 13a1. tis fleet to come east now, It is believed that the fourth issue of a war loan of 100,000,000 yen will be announceS shortly, A thousand non-combatants from Port .Arthur have left, Dalny for Clic - foe. Them they will go to Shanghai, and after some delay there, will sail for Europe. More than 4,000 non-combat- ants will be sea to Shanghai. The offi- cers and crew of the Russian torpedo- boat destroyers Ryeshltelni and Raster- onpy, who were brought to Shanghai from Chaim, have, after several requests from. the Toatai of Shanghai, been given their parole. Japanese warships are eweeping the Yellow Sea. for mines. Lieut, -Gone, Fock, Smirnoff and Gohl- bakuski have 'deeided to go to japan as prisoners of war. Gen. Smirnoff was in command of the fonts at Port Arthur and Gen, Pock commanded the fourth' llivision of the army there. Rear -Ad- miral Willthann will also go to Japan. Fifty per cent. of the Russian °Mem will go to japan and share with their mon tbe fate of prisoners of wait s aoractically no new information from Tort Arthur. The further accounts 'that have been received of the 'sur- render ere merely ilifferoxit verbelly ;froth the reports already published. 'Twelve foreign naval attaches have been allowed to visit the piece and examine the Russian warships there. Two fires broke out in the fortress on. Friday, Gen. Stoessel hastened to exprese his regret, and he urged tbe Jap- anese to make their occupation effective as quickly as possible, es only volon- iteers were left in the place, over whom Co had no control. A few additional details have .been 'receiVed about the meeting (if Gen. Nogi and Gen. Stoessel at Plum Tree Cottage. Over the gate through which Stoessel entered the grounds has been inscribed in Japanese characters: "This is the road to pace/' Gen. Stoes- sel in expressing his thanks for the Mikado's permission for the Russian 'officers to retain their swords, said that the honor of his family was now pre- aerved. His descendants would appre- ciate to the last the courtesy extended to him. He declared that he could not praise too highly the work of the Jap- anese artillery, He was particulaily impressed with the accuracy of the con- centrated fire on Sungshushan after- the explosion there. • Terrible Evidence of Ruin. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent at Port Arthur lave that he has just visited the eastern fort lines. Un- doubtedly Wantai formed the key to the position. It is armed with a couple of .G -inch guns. On the slopes there are four 10 -inch howitzers, and to the eastward and westward there are many battery positions, armed with modern guns. Bellied the positions there is an 4Adellent gun road thirty feet wide, splendid shelters for infantry. The entire length of the enciente has a 'wall, with a series of splendid bomb - proofs, which aro absolutely untouched by the shell" fire. It is wonderful how the Japanese ever held the Palungshan forts, for they are exposed to fire from theentire northeastern ridge. After seeing these defences it is easy to understand wby the great assaults in August were un- successful, for the positions attacked were .quite unassailable before the cap- ture of the Q and P forts. Even these were open in the rear, and were exposed on the south to the battery south of Keekwan, which was armed with 0 -inch Krupp guns in a splendid concerted' battery. The position was blown up with dynamite by the Rus- sians on the morning of Jan. 2, and now presents. an extraordinary spec- tacle. The gulls ate overturned and rammed muzzles downward amid the debris, while the mountains and am- munition are scattered on the hillside. From this point to both the . Meting forts can be seco terrible evidaneeof the destructiveness of modern high ex- plosives, for human remains are scat- tered everywebere, and even whitened skeletons. - . The Japanese aro Mk- t victory very calmly, even showing arked indifference to the entrance of their colors into Port. Arthur Sunday. They exult only on a small scale, say- ing than any demonstration will ,Ise reserved instil the end of the war. •. ..PREFER A PRISON. Gen. Fock Among Tho- se Who Will Go to Japan: Tokio, Jan. 8.—It is understood that the San Yo Railway has been instruct- ed to make preparation,sto. transport 20,000 Russiatt prisoners from Shimono- seki to Kure. It is probable that the prisonare swill be quartered nett Kure. The most serious eases 'of sickoess and wounded will be left at Port Ar- thur in the field hospitals for the pres- ent. Those capable of being removedwill be brought to Japan when arrangements for housing. them have been completed. There are five Russian admirals at Port Arthur. Among them is a prince. Lieut. -Gen. Stoessel will leave Dalny Jan 12 on a Japanese transport for Nagasaki. He will be accompanied by the other paroled officers. The Russians probably will remain in Japan a few ;ki and then proceed on a French s1iner to Europe, going, by way of the Suez Canal, Gen. Nom reports that the officers paroled to date number 441 and orderlies 220. The transfer of prisoners at Port Ar- thur was completed at 4.30 p,m. yester- day. The total number of officers trans fan -ed was 878; num, 23,49L The Japanese intend to establish naval statioii at Port Arthur, Vice-Ad- inirai Y. Shilutpania. will probably be placecl in charge of it. The military administration at Port Arthur will re- tain eels, a small garrison as soon as the prisoners aro withdrawn and order is restored. The fleet is busily en- gaged in clearing mines,. but owing to their great number navagation: will be unsafe for a long time, Only Govern. - meta meat yi1l be •allowed to enter the harbor. • It is probable that Dalny Will soon be opened up to tentrals. Jtiptiliese companies are preparing to establish weekly services to that port is proposed shortly to fleet a fourth • doMeatie war loati under the same con- ditions as the third was negotiated, Admiral Tolso's proclamation yester- day, raising the blockade of Port Ar. thur, was issued. bemuse Of the com- plete Japanese oeettplition of the Liao. Tung Penhisida. The japariese found that the hospi- tals were in better condition than they expected to find them. It VMS aseer- Mined thitt there watt m eonsiderithle 'stock of mulled etipplies on Inind. Veg- etables •ate badly needed. Gen. Stoessel and other Russian offi. ecrs and their' Mollies, to the number M about o. thousand, Will arrive at Nagasaki en route to Shanghai on Jan. 11, Despatelme from Seortrl state that the Sixth Russian Infantry attneked the ;re/Armee positions 'near /Ittien-Ohang, 4141 that Russian Artillery made An at illoffic near Wangtszling. Both were re- pulsed, Gen. aoetsel is reported to have said ihew end even more deadly phase of the that the turning point in the siege of struggle was being entered upon, and Reports previously received here were to the effect that both Lieutenant -Gen - emit; Pock and Smirnoff had, been killed at Port Arthur. On Jan. 2 a St. Peters- burg dovetail denied. that Fock had been killed, but admitted that he had been wounded. A despatch received from Muleden Jan. 7 said that while the death of rock had not been pub- lished, it had for six weeks been ac- cepetrl there as a fact. The report of Gen. Smirnoff's death had oiever been confirmed. The only prince admiral known to have been at Port Aathur was Rear - Admiral Prince Onktomsky. A St. Petersburg despatch on Saturday said that information had been received there from Chefoo to the effect that Rear Admiral Prince Ottistomsky, dis- guised, had arrived. at Chefoo on board a launolo SHELLING OF HOSPITALS. To Avoid Risk of Hitting Them Would Have Had to *top Firing. London, Jan. 9.—A despatch to the Times from •Tokio says that the map produced by the Russians at Port Ar- on Dec. 18, in reference to their complaint that the Japanese were shell- ing hospitals, has been published. It shows that the so-called hospitals were so scattered that, to avoid the risk of hitting .amy of them, it. would have been necessary to have refrained alto- gether from firing in the direction of both the new and rold towns. WHERE IS THE FLEET? Vessels Have Not En- tered Madagascar Port. London, Jan 9. --.The Paris correspond- ent Of the Times says he has unimpeach- able authority rot stating that up to 7 O'clock 'Saturday evening not a single Russian warship had entered the port of Diego Suarez, the only port in Mada- gascar suitable for theaccommodation of warsidps. No intimation whatever lias been received in Paris from the Rus- sian.authorities that it is intended that the- 13altic fleet should take up quar- ters at Diego Suarez for the purpose of concentration or even repairs. The Bal- tic 'fleet or a portion of it is probably off the coast of Madagascar, but not a sings ship of either section is at either Diego Suarez, Taniatave or Mojanga, all three of which. places are in telegraphic communication with Paris. The corre- spondent defends the French Govern- ment front any charges on the question of neutrality. He points out that its responsibility scarcely extends to the entire Madagascar coast, which would require it whole 'fleet to patrol. More- over, the monsoon is now blowing, ren- dering at least half the coast perilous. .He suggests that' as reports that the Baltic fleet has arrived. at Diego Suarez cons mostly from or through St. Peters- burg, the object nitiy be to mislead the Japanese in regard to its exact where- abouts. He declares strongly in what is apparently an inspired despatch that it prolonged stay of the Baltic fleet or any break of neutrality there is not to be .apprehended. • CZAR MAY ORDER BATTLE. Anxious to Offset Effect of Fall Of Port • Artimr, London, Jan, 8.—It is expected at St. Petersburg that the Czar will order Kouropatkin to take the offensive im- mediately before Nogi's veterans can join the Japanese forces on the Sha, and at any expense to gain some suc- cess to offset the effect of the loss of Port Arthur upon the Russian people. Such instructions will place Kouropat- kin hi a most difficult position. The severity of the winter in northern Man - clunks make'extensive military opera - lions next . to impossible, even with troops having the best equipment. It is known that the Russian army 18 suffering great deprivation of such ne- cessaries as boots and overcoats, owitig to the wholesale robberies of supplies, and it battle fought solely for politieal reasons would be With advantage strong- ly on the side of the Japanese. THE SURRENDER Cable as a Great and Welcome Surprise. A London cable says: The sone- spontlent of the Standard at Port Ai.. thur, ina, deepatch dated Jan. 2, sends it very vivid narrative of the surreucler of the fortresss. Ile says that the sur- render came as a. great, and 'welcome sm.- prise on New Year's Day, which is a Japanese festival. No one in the nuke of the. besiegers had dreamed that the last net of the long-drawn-out tragedy WS about to be moved The thattlet the guns still woke the claw among the hMs, and in the grey light of the winter's day armed men were still elinib- ing the brown beighte town:tale the Stilll. Ma (If jentsii. It teemed ue tildligit it that the an waa yet far &taut, beit at 4 O'clock in the elternoott a Rine elanoUee appeared before the slap- aneee 'Outputs with. a flag of trace and iniked for a parley. He waa the bearer of it mesitage liana Oen. Stoeuel to the Japanese votamauder. Such au ineident bail not been uncomelon late - and the arrival 01 the envey excited only Mnpegg intereat. a UK) fight went On uninterruptedly until darkness chased on the 1,1111$ and coveretl the sea and the valley 'in which lay the deemed City. NeWe Spread Like Wildfire, ThroUgheut the night the guns tient their suilen =mince ef wer to the death, and the loug Ave of the emett. lights flitted hither sted thither like &tete oyer the face of the black hills. Qnly to Gen. Nogi and his staff was it knowthat Gu. Steeseel bads itt lest, onto to the conclusion that hie easio 'was hopeless, and had surrendered, At 8 o'clock the next inoruilig an envoy left the Japanese lines for Port Arthur, car• tying an invitation from Gen. Nogi to a conference at I o'clock en the terms of capitulation. During the interval of waiting the Pews spread like wildfire throughout the Japanelie camp, yet by these strange people it was received with no remark- able dernonetration of joy. 'Their feel- ing seemed to be one of relief rather than exultation. Everything, went on in the usual routine. There was noth- ing OM the suspenaion of the bom- bardment that was calculated to give an idea that anything unusual was afoot. The appearance of. Gen. Nogi put an end to all doubt, Under the stress of these terrible months the commander, who is not a young man, had aged con- siderably, but this morning he looked ten years younger as he smilingly ac- knowledged. the congratulations slioao ered upon him. ' The Conference. The conference took piece at the Vhl- lage of Suisshi, about two iniles from Port Arthur, It is a typical Chinese hamlet of scattered one -storeyed houses and for weeks it had laid in the thick of the cannonade, with the result that it was little more than a heap of black- ened walls. At most times it has a deserted, ruined aspect, but this after- noon it was the animatecl scene of an event that will live long in history. At the 'end of a broad lake, flanked by the wreckage of demolishedmasonry, stands a mean -looking thatched house, with a .compound at the rear. Its two small windows had been filled with mud and an opening had been made for a door. In this dilapidated building was in pro- gress a conference which was to result' in the surrender of the great fortress. News or the arrival of the Russian commissioners had spread rapidly, and a crowd had. -already collected in the neighborhood. Two white flags, one car- ried by a Cossack and the other by a Japanese trooper, marked the spot 'where the fateful meeting was being held. The Cossack escort of the Russian commis- sioners had dismounted. The men seem- ed to be in excellent health and spirits. Their horses showed no traces whatever of starvation. On both sides of a broad, avenue lead- ing to the house in which the commis- sioners were conferring stretched lines of Japanese soldiers, keenly .interested, but silent spectators of the culminat- ing scene of the great siege. 'The note was one of military shnplicity. There was no parade of formality beyond the posting of a single sentry near the cno trance to the compound. The Russian officers, who were all smarty' dressed in full uniform, numbered seven. After detailing the duration of the conference, the despatch of messengers, and discussing the causes of the sur- render, the correspondent continues: The spectacle of a modem siege o'n great scale is positively appalling. A mere sight of Shushishan and of the destruction wrought by mines was en- ough to strike terror to the bravest heart and to shake the nerve of any garrison, however gallant and devoted. The fort is it mere heap of debris, amid which the defenders had either been en- tombed or blown to pieces. In, the ca - pother lay scores of festering corpse% and near the parapet were two grue- some heaps of what had once been men, soldiers slain at their posts many days ago. Anything But Starved, In a later despatch, dated Jan. 4, the correspondent says that pending, the conviction of the evacuation, the sat diets are making an inspection of the forts. In many cases every trace oi the works has- disappeared. The ruins resemble Lille .that have been shaken by it mighty convulsion. It was evi- dent that the key to the position had been taken by the Japanese, for the works actually in their hands dominate the whole inner line of defences, end render them useless, The town, seems to have suffered comparatively little damage. Carriages and rickshaws are moving about with people well dressed, and apparently anything but starved, The civilians are preparing toleave the city. • They will be quartered near Pig- eon Bay. LOST OVER 50,000 MEN. Officially Admitted the Total Reached This Figure. . Headquarters of the Japanese Third Army at Port Arthur, cable, .vita Che - foo. Jan. 4 (censored.) ---The flag of the Rising Sun floats to -night over the captured eitadel of Port .Arthur. When the news of the surrender of the fortress reached the soldiers yester- day, the Japanese fraternized freely with their late enenties. With nightfall came the great fires, rising from the .camp like a blazing halo, while great choruses of "Banzai" echoed through the hills., The entire gallium and all the nolo combatants will mirth out of the city jail. 5 to Yahuthwei, whence the Rus- sian officers will be transported to Daley, thence to wherever they ina,y desire. The prisoners of war will be detained tuitil they eon be transferred to Diann and thence to japan. The conference between the Ituesian and .Japariese commissioners, at -which the tering of the-suramuler were ar- cranged,• took place. at Shuishiying at 1 p. 111. Monday afternoon, and lasted until 8 &Clock et night. The Russian commissioners were Ohlef of Staff Reiss, Surgeon-Gerierta Ballaehoff, Col. Vastock, and two other 'staff offieerg, with two interpret- ers. The Japanese commissioners were Major -Gen. Ijiebi, chief of staff, Major Yannaoka, Dr, Ariga, and two others, Staff offieers, and two interpreters. yap Losses Over est,000. Thus has japan Wail the great. Ittls. sian stronghold in the far east, after a, five months' siege, in which slit lost over 50,000 eoldiers, who wet° put ont of action in the most sanguinary and desperate fighting the world has ever stem The surrender of the fortress at the present time is it surprise even to flits .Tsmanese, as the desperate determine - lion and eourage of the Russians &mi. (!atod that the atriaggie would be one to the bitter end. Ib 55 well known to the japanese that the destruction of the fortreis guard- ing the mein defences of the western half of the :eastern fortified ridge made SAIL BOAT CAPSIZED, THREE MEN DROWNED. A Mulatto Put to Death in the Electric Chair at Sing Sing This Morning.: Jersey City Police Capture Nine Italian Leaders o the Black Hand.] New York 61aziers Strike Against Decrease of Wages and Increase of Hours. New Origami, jan. 0,-13y the capsizing a sailboat on Lake Ponchartrain yester- day throe young men lost their lives and two were unconscious front exposure when rescued. Thedeed are: Michael Melee, Eiuhl Volgriuger, and Karl Sclni- macher. The Fatal Chair. Ossining, N, Y., Jan. 9,—Win. Spencer, a mulatto, was put' to death in the elect- trie hair in Sing Sing prison at 5.51 o'elock to -clay, for the murder of Charles S. MacFarlane, in New York City, op. Juno 15th, 1903. Spencer shot MacFarlane, an agent of the New York anti -policy league, in the corridor of the crintinal court building, in Now York City. The motive for the murder was revenge. MacFarlane had been active in running down polies/ shops and it was through hie work that Spene- or, who was employed as a sorter, was arrested. On the day of the murder, Spencer was being led into court by two policemen when lie suddenly turned and fired, two shots at Mitaarlane, kiling bit instanly. Spencer's trial was ene of the shortest on record in New York city. He was about 40 years old. The Black Hand. New York, Jan. 9. --In a raid yester- day the police of Jersey City captured nine Italians who they believe to be the leaders of the Mafia or "Black Hand" Society. The prisoners are all The house raided is said to lutve been the meeting plaee for from 00 to 80 It- alians who went there every Sunday from ali parts of Greater New York and nearby places in New Jersey. Angelo De Marco, one of the prison- ers, is described by Chief of Police Mur- phy, of Jersey City, as the brains and organizer of the whole "Black Hand." Marley says that other arrests will fol- low. Glaziers Strike, New York, Jan. 0.—The Times to -day snys: A general strike of glaziers in 28 shops and involving 550 inert has been ordered by the Glaziers' Union, against a reduction of wages, and an increase tho hours of labor. It will go into ef- fect to -day and is expected practically to tie up the trade as far as largo con- cerns are concerned. They want a con- tinuance of the present wages, Which are: Cutters on plate glass, $21, a. week; other enders $181 packers end handlers .S15; apprentices $12. A delegate said the mechanicsin the trade were all skilled men, yet they were unable to command the wages of union hod lar - Tiers. The }strike was endorsed.- amoop•11.11,11, CANCER NOT OFECTIOUS BUT IT IS HEREDITARY. Harvard Medical Cmunission Says Knife or Serum Only Cure. Boston, Mass.,Jan. 10.—The Advertiser says to -day that the HarvardsMeclical Commission, which has for the past two years been making a study of cancer, will, in its report to be made in a few days, declare the intaady to be non -con- tagious.. The commission will find: 1. Cancer is not infectious. 2 It is it hereditary affliction. 3. Its cause is as mysteriehs as that of human life; and 4. The remedies aro either a knife or a serum. Dr. E. H. Nichols is at the head of the commission, width was made possible by a becineat from Mrs. Caroline (Brew- er) Crofts, who gave the Harvard Medi- cal School $100,000, the interest of which is to be spent in original medical re- search. the investment of the city upon the east only a matter of a 'short time, and also ensured the segregation, of the, forts further east Upon the ridge. The steady advance of the besiegers upon the west flank, since the capture of the 203 -Metre Hill, up the valley from the shores of Pigeon Bay to the outskirts of the new town, enabled them with the capture of the North Taiyankoiv fort to close in upon the city from the west and to segregate Chair Hill forts so that they could be dealt with in detail. It was evidment, therefore, that de- spite the most determined opposition, the investing army eould in a week or ten days closely invest, and dominate Port Arthur city, the centre of the whole system of defence, so that the powerful forts both east and west, would be isolated. It has been evident since the capture of 203 -Metre Hill, the destruction of the fleet, and the awful manner in which the forts guarding the westere 'half of idle eastern fortified ridge had been captured by means of explosion of dynamite mines, that the fighting ardor of the garrison was dampened, and that the helplessness of the Russian position had robbed theta of their slogged deter- mination to resist every inch of the ad - of 'the besiegers. This hopelessness was evidenced in the weakness of the opposition to the rapid advance of the Japanese on the west flank since the fleet was destroyed. Beginning of the End. Tho trniendous effect of the explo- sions which wrecked Sungshu Mountain fort, the last of the forts guarding the main defences of the eastern fortified ridge hi which half of the defenders were,killed and the remainder entomb- ed or made prison'ere, completed the disorganization of the defence. • • The subsequent spirited assault by the Japanese upon the principal line of outer fortifications and the higher hills of tue fortified ridges follosved imme- diately after the capture of Sungshu fort was made with feeble opposition, and the night of Jan, • 1 saw the be- siegers in possession of the upper line of the fortified ridge from East Keek- wan Mountain to the 'western extremity. Hati thegarrison fought as it had previously done this would have at least taken days to accomplish, and would have cost many lives. The first definite intimation of the lausaitin intention to surrender tame Jae, 1 at 4 p. in., when the Russian envoys approached the Japanese lines south of the Village ot Simishiying. They were met by Japanese staff officers, to whole they delivered.the letter of Gen. Stoes- sel to Gen. Nogi, asking to have a time for parley arranged. In this letter, as already known, Gen. Stoessel admitted the hopelessness of further continuing the struggle, and that he was prepared to serrender 111 order to save the lives of the rennittnt of the brave garrison, avid& had fought so long and so well, providedsuitable ternis could be arranged. Ile asked for n conforatiee to settle these -terms. Major -Gen. Veld, with a latge escort, left the Japanese heedquarters at 11 o'clock Monday morning and rode to the appointed. place. Shortly before 1 o'clock the Itussitut .eommissioners arrived, neeompitnied by it cavalry eseort. The conference took place with few prelimitiarieto Nona lasted until 8 &Clock at night. A RECONNAISSANCE IN PORCE, jai/mese Mule Attentpt oft Friday Night, St. Petersburg, Zan. 'Couto. patkin reports the frustratiou of artp. $111.0F0 attempt to surprise his entre front on the night of Int 0, and the bayoneting of twenty-one Japanese the night of Jan. 3 by a cavalry reconnais- sance in the valley of the Taitse River, in the direction of Sianchan. -- . Tokio, Jan. 9. --From well informed sources it is estimated that of the orig- inal garrison of Port Arthur about 38,- 00 or 40,000 men, including sailors, were killed or died of sickness. The number of missing men is placed at over 10,000. Wounded Russians Arrive Nagasaki, Jan. 0.—(Noon).—One thou- sand. wounded Russian prisoners of war from Port Arthur have arrived at Dairei hospital. NORTH SEA AFFAIR. Admiral Fournier, of France, Appointed Permanent President, Paris, Jan.. D.—The International Coin - mission appointed to enquire into the North Sea incident, resumed its sessions at the foreign office to -day. Admirals Von Spaun (Austria) and Dubassoff (Russia) were present. .The latter's ap- pointment was officially announced thus making permanent Admiral Easenakoff's retirement on account of illness. Admir- al Fournier (France), was unanimously chosen permanent president. In the course of his speech of ucceptance Ad- miral Fournier said he hoped the tom - mission would be inspired with the same meditation and wisdom which minced Emperor Nicholas and King Edward to refer the question of arbitration. JAPS PLEASED. With the Russian Officers Who Decided to Stick by the Men. Tokio, Jan. 9.—(Noonya--The Japan- ese who express great admiratioa for General nick and other officers for re- fusing parole, and standing by the men of their army are busily preparing to receive the Russian prisoners from Port Arthur. The first batch of ten thou- sand are expected to arrive at Moji and Shemonoseki shortly. After disinfection, they will be gent to Kure, and probably to Matsuyama'Nayognya, tayo- to, etc, The Generals will be treated in the best possible manner. It is un- likely any of the prisoners will be brought to Tokio, The Gazette an - flounces to -day that the Russiaue have delivered five survivors of the third Japanese expedition to block the ete trance to Port Arthur harbor. esasoo CasUalties. Tokio, Jan, 0. (noon). --It is believed that the.Ressian castuatiee at Port Ar- thur will total about twenty-five thou- sand. 4 44, GUIDE CUT THE ROPE. Mountain Tragedy in the Tyrol Raise a Question of Rada. London, Jan. 10. --An interestingques- tion in the ethics of mountaineering is raised by the release from the Tnus- Muck Prison of a Tyrolese guide who had served eight years for maoslaught- er, telegraphs the Vienna correspondent of The Express, TM story of the event which led to the guides Conviction is it pathetic one. Ho and a young 'Viennese &dor, roped together were returning 11.0111 an ex- eursion on one of the most periloue peaks in the Tyrol, when the doetor slipped and fell over it precipice. By it superhuman effort the guide preserv- ed. his balance, find the rope holdirg, he tried to pull his eompanion to eafe- ty. Itis efforts were futile, but be re. mined standing upon the ledge, and from the early afternoon or one day to 11004 the next, inipparted ifba weight of the doctor's body and waited for hoilk, bre help mune, and after hews' of agony, the guide fiadfeg his sbrenU failing, eut the reps. The Meter to his death on the rocks below. The guide suceeeded in reaehing home, and informing the police t tha aceident WS arrested. The doeter'e family; who woreriob and influential, did all in their power to obtain hie value% as they comider ed that be did no wrong in saving Ws own lite when all chance of saving their' relative had gone. They failed, hove - ever, and the guide was .eonvicted, During his incarceration. the clootorle family bave supported his wife and children, and now tbat the guide is a free man again, they intend to eet bim Hp in business. SPIRITS or VIE DEAD. Rev, Dr. Newton Believes . They Can Communicate With the Living. New York, Jan. ie.—Beaming psych- ical science in an address delivereti last night at it meeting of the American lit- stitts for Scientifte Reeearch, the Rev, Dr. R. 'Lieber Newton made the Raton - letting assertion that the spirits of the dead: isOnotainicate with the living, that telepathy is it Over possessed by may men and women, that clairvoyance is an established scientific feet,' that it may he possible for men to carry halos about their heads, end, in short, that a variety of beliefs regarded by the major- ity of persons as superstitious can be demonstrated as truths, "The middle ages believed that the saints were surrounded by Milos," -said Dr. Newton. "The scientist 'laughed in bis sleeve—if the was courteous enough not to laugh openly. Yet Baron Reich-. enbach showed that certain scientists recognized a luminousness in magnets, and since the earth is now known to be a great magnet, man may also be it good-sized one. . "Cleirvoyance was nothing but a will- o'atheovisp, bb ib also is now it confess. ea power of certhin organizations. I know it woman ol fine culture and high character who will not trade her gift for eommercial purposes, but who has that most remarkable power known as psy- chometry—the power of holding a seal- ed letter hasher hand and giving it diag- nosis of the physical conclition of the writer and it picture of his character; of taking it bit of stone from an ancient villa. of Cicero, for. example, -the nature of which is entirely unknown to her, and calling up it vision of the villa as it existed in Cicero's time and of its own- er. She is incapable of fraud, and her wee is but, one of others which I know. "Mesmerism WaS duly laughed out of court at the opening of our century, and lol it is back again, in good stand- ing, under the alias of hypnotism, So one may run on through a list of strange, unaceountable, mysterious and most unbelievablepowersof man, load- ing up to that nightihare of the dog- matie scientist, spiritism. The belief in the existence of unseen spirits and, of their power of communication with us in the flesh is one of the oldest, most surd widespread d and anost insistent beliefs of man, and it has revived strangely in "For the first time in the history of man those powers have been scientifith,l- ly investigated in our day. Already the result is that it considerable number of eminent men of science have &ad the courage to avow that, after allowing for illusion, fraud, and every possible hypo- thesis of interpretation, they have been driven up to the ultimate solution of the problem—the belief .in the actual communication of the spirits of these whom we call dead with the living." SON OF WEALTHY FAMILY. Mystery' of Atlantic City Suicide Cleared 'Up. New Yon Jena 10. --Mystery surround- ing the iaentity of Charles Turner, who killed himself in the Hotel Wilt- shire, at Atlantic City, N. J., in dulaa• 1003, is cleared up. E. J. Outram, head of a London firm of lawyers, made the identification from photographs and de- scriptions. Turner is said to have been a member of an old and wealthy English family, and had been cast off after he had spent a large fortune.' He is said to have since fallen heir to another es- tate of £100,000. The man has been missing from his home for three years, and the present search, -which resulted in the discovery of his death, was instituted at the in- stance of his wife and children, who re- side near London. Turner came here in February of 1903, and engaged rooms at the hotel where he committed sui- cide. e seined to have plenty of money. On the morning of July 8 his body was discovered in his bedroom, his head wrapped in a blanket and the revolver with which he had killed himself still held in his hand. At the request of the British Consul at New York, the body was disinterred and viewed by the members of a titled English family, who were lookine.for a missing son. The English lawyer positively identi- fied the man from a photograph taken after his death, and the proprietor of the hotel, as well aS the police, went before the British Consul at Philadel- phia and swore to the facts concerning the death. The widow will also receive 425,000 insurance carried by Turner: SARNIA TUNNEL WESTINGHOUSE PLANS FOR 'USE OF ELECTRIC POWER. Port Huron, Mich., Jan. 7. --The West- inghouse Electric Co. has submitted plans to the Grand Trunk Railway Com- pany for the suhstitation of electricity for steam power in the tunnel. 'The plan provides for the third mil for the inter- ior of the tube and the overhead wire on the approaches. Owing to the heavy voltage required the overhead system is recommended on the approaches. The plans call for the erection of the neces- sary power buildiegs on the Company's property on the betake of •the St. Clair river directly over the tutmel. They also provide for an elaborate system of iltio initiation for the groat 'underground passage, which would. Make the tunnel one of the big sights along the Grand Trunk system. • CLERGYMAN'S SUDDEN DEATII. Rev, Arthur Brownieg Strickened on the 8 Toronto, Jun, 0..tsrDeeettt. th tune sudden ly to the Rev. Arthur Browning, of 76 that avenue, on Saturday. Ile was re turning home about 4.30, when, opposite Mr. Raised Allan's residence, at 102 tioadview avenue, he fell suddenly to the sidewalk. Mr. Alla' s sons were snovelnug sitoiv off the sidewalk end promptly cerried Mr. Browning itito the 1,0118e, Medical aid was summoned, but bcfore the arrival of Dr. llowirt, Mr Browring passed away. "There" quoted in all things, the Wise Guy, "Yes. agreed the Sint plc Mug, "and a worroin's reasott Is 'be muse.'" LEI j1J„-PED .11.1.M.•••••••F Serious Accident to a Royal Arcanum Party. Many Unconscious and Bat- tered and Bruised. 4.+TrOo. Dumped Into Slush and in Danger of Being Drowned, New York Jan. 10,—A trolley car of the Brooklyn Rapid. Transit Company, carrying forty members Of Adirondack Council of the Royal .A.rearium jumped the track on a, curve at the foot of a steep hill in Douglass street, Brooklyn, early today, turned on its .side and was smashed, injuring sixteen of the os. cupants and diunping them, into slush and water two feet deep. None of the passengers were fatally injured. Bever - ab were temporarily pinned under the wreckage of the oar and help was stiut• moiled in the fear that they would be drowned before they could be released. The party was returning to Bayridge, from Canarsie, where they had installed a new lodge of the Royal Arcanum last night and the street at the foot of Mug - lass street bill was fteodecl by the pour- ing rain that blinded the motorman, and hid ths curve from Ids sight. Fearing that the water would stop the car the motorman. drove his car into it at high speed. Wheivit struck the carve it jump- ed the track and, roiled over. Police re- serves from two stations, Ix kook and ladder coxnpany, a wrecking ear and two doctors with hospital ambulances soon arrived. The wreckage was pried up and the unconscious men taken out in time to prevent drowning. Several suf- fered the fracture of legs or arms and nearly all of those injured Were pain- fully battered and bruised, and suffered the disocation of ankles, shoulders or wrigts Asfast as the injured were removed they -were placed in rows on the slushy sidewalk and in the darkness and driv- ing rain the hospital physician gave them first aid and then hastened them to the hospitals. A number of others besides the sia:teen most badly hurt; were able to go home in carriages, SAW YOUNG SHOT. MAN. SAYS NAN PA.TTERSON IS NOT GUILTY OF MURDER. New York, Jam 0.—Another alum who claims to IliaNe witnessed the tragic .death of Caesar Young, the wealthy bookmaker with whose murder an Pat- terson is ehaaged, has been found hi Jacksonville, Fla., aecording to 'derma - lion received in this city to -day. 'stile alleged witness is W. B. Meyers, who is said to be it wealthy naval stores dealer in the Florida city. According to the story which came here to -day in a letter front Judge H. D. Twigs, of Savannah, Ga., to the cciunsel for the prisoner, Meyers claims to have seen the tragedy in the eab, and deelares that Young fireti the shot which ended his life., Judge Tiviggs satites that Meyers came to him for consultation in a legal matter soon after the Young :tragedy, and casually mentioned that while„ in New York it few, days ,before ht had witnessed a most 'remarkable affair. In reply to questions, Judge Twiggs writes, Meyers said that be bad seen a man shoot, himself In a eab, giving at the sametime the exact location of the spot where •the Patterson -Young affair took place. He said that he had learned that the man's name was Young, but beyond .that he knew nothing. When informed that Nan Patterson bad been arrested, charged with the murder of Young, Judge Twigg says, Meyers declared that lie knew the girl to be innocent, and said that lie would send her his name mid that he would go to New York to testify if she were put on trial. Continuing, Judge Twigg says that he followed the proceedings in the Patter- son tritil carefully, watching eagerly for the testimony of Meyers, and was great- ly surprised when it did not appear. Finally, concluding that Meyers hadnot written to the girl or her counsel, he decided to do so himself, and forwarded the letter. WHAT EVE ATE WAS A QUINCE. Woman Suffragist Says There Were no Apples in Eden. New York, Jan. 8.—The members of the Women's Legislative League held it warm reception at the Murray Hill Ho- tel yesterday afternoon because airs. Lillie Devereaux Blake, the woman suf- fragist, upset all preconceived Scrip- tural notions about the Garden of Eden. 'Eve never ate the apple,” she triuno latently deelared; "it might have been a quince, but it never was an apple. There were no apples in the Garden of "'I le're be no indication in the Bible," she went on, "that Eve ever ate the ap- pla, and, motcover, no apples have ever been knovn to grow in that region." It was in refutation of a statement of Mrs. Albert Johnson, who in a paper on Women and the Spirit M the Times, declared the evidenee showingthat Eve did eat the apple still remains und1s- 1 I, trei, SPY/GI)! ITALY. System of Searchlights on Lake of G Rome, Jan. 100—An official report from Brescia, says that the Austrian mili- tary authorities have strongly increas- ed the armaments in .the Proviece of Trento, better known as Crentino. This province has 317,000 Italian inhabitants and only 10,000 of German origin, and is considered with the towns of Trento and Trieste as the "province itredente" .0111tatP(% 1.ninnindetain-Chiel of the garri- soo of Brescia reports to the Miuistry of 1Var that the Anstrifte staff on the northern side of the Lake of Garda, also known as the Lake of Desenzano, has estehlislied tit eystern of electrie lights with powerful 'reflectors, with the objeet of spying on the Italian territory on the other side la the lake. The Italian Minister of War Itas or- dered the military autlioritlea of Bresele. and Verne, to inform him daily about the inovemeute antl odious of Ails - Irian militen7 on the frontier. The Mined of Minietera on the pro- posal of the 'alinitter of War has iha Med to n•sk tbe thambera for en Ox- traordinary credit of one hundred ant1 forty million lire for gm transkrma- (Ion of the artillery and new tontine*. Bona 011 the eastern frontier.