YEAR 5-NO. 116. LOVER ~ STRICKEN Brother and Shater er Commit Frat ricide. Young Pedtant Poisoned. For Wealth that! He Had Accumulated in America. -------------- Milan, May erime is reported from ArdenBo, mountain village negr Brescia. A young nt named Giovanni Mesaia, lately returned home with a goodly hoard of savings from the united States, where for several years he had been employed as a restaurant whiter. Abserving that be was deeply in love with a village gid, his brother, Charles, and hus winter, Ade- aide, exerted themselves to] break off the match, fearing that if he were married they would not reap the bene fit of his hoard. Matters, however, ut a" fag that arrangements were je the bans published. other sad Sister thereupon appesr to have resolved to remove twovanhi, By Palm Sunday he bad disappeared, One day the Piva caught, a middle aged servant of t Mescia family, named Maddalena Bianchini in the get of posting a letter to Milan be seeching a iriend to send from that city an inelosed missive, which was addressed to the parish priest, Arden- nio. "Fhis purported to be in Gio- vanni's handwriting, and informed the jest that he (Giovanni) lay ill at flan under medical treatment, and that, as his doctor has sternly coun soiled him to abandon the idea of matrimony, he begged the priest to discontinue the publication of the bans, Un being arrested, Bianchini admitted having procured quantities DAILY MEMORANDA. "we Voting Registration Monday. Soo the barghing offered in the Want Advis. to-day. "Charley's Aunt" Blouse, 8.15 pan. Wonderland Lonudie "a oar Old 4 wouthonrt 'a 5 Nobb, prices, r t Hint it Bros'. opens, 9 am, The Nore for Aliv kinds, rand Opora Theatre--Two Picture an Mad," and "A BE tog Song, time A quality Sets. 6 Pieces, $1.40 10 Pieces, $1.65 all colors. Bi In poss "Ca ry Agency. Forni Lands, in best location. Insurance EXTRAORDINARY One of he | finest Mirrors Jn te sountry Pelished Jax 14 brary and Rustic Umbrella Stands, both Cr dn one, 703. 16.---A blood-eprdling- ol strychnine, with which Charles and a | Adelaide had poisoned their brother. ; yesterday to the Devon Cattle Breed + cones from the sale at TURK'S, RINGETON » ONTARIO, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1908. i -------- -- Thereupon' the pohee arrested the brother and sister. Yedterday Bianchini made further revelations, which resulted in the dis- covery of the murdered man's body, ! buried ning feet deep in a viseyard belonging to the Mescia family. The brother and sister have mow confessed to poisoning Giovanni, who, they say, expired in agonies due te big doses of strychnipe, early on Halm Sunday. Assisted by, Bianchini, they despoiled the victim of all, save his shirt, and shrouded the body in a couple of sheets, tightly bound with rope. C barles occupied the whole day Monday i im holy week, digging the tim's grave. When midnight sounded he shouldered the corpse, followed hy his sister and the ser- | vant, went across the fields to "the vineyard and descended the grave by means of a ladder, while the two wo- men helped to lower the body. They then filled the grave with earth, over which they heaped basketfuls of stones, The young girl to whom the victim was to have been married is prostra- ted with grief. a Sues Cornwall's Mayor. Montreal, May 16.--8. F. Callaghan, inspector of the Montreal Travellers' Insurance company, has taken an ac tion for $5,000 aginst W. J, Des raxier, mayor of Cornwall, for libel Callaghan claims that be had an ar gument with the mayor ig Cornwall over some financial matter, .and that the latter afterwards went to the of fice of the Travellers' company and made false statements about him to the officials. Penny-In-The-Slot Banks. Berlin, May 16.---Automatic savings banks on the principle of the penny- in-the-slot machines have been install on vie had and they have collected ten of these coun ters they take them to the school: mastér, who presents them with save ings bank hooks, in which the amounts are entered. English Cattle For Japan. Liverpool, May 16.--~The agent-gene- ral of the Japanese government wrote ers" Society stating that a number of cattle experts would arrive from To- kio in June for the purpose of huying representatives of the most noted breed of English cattle for the Japanese gov- ernment, How Alligators Travel. London, May 16.--~Twenty-one alli- gators from Plorida reached Tilbury poks, yesterday, on their way to the ungarian exposition at Earl's Court, They were packed in coffiu-shaped boxes, with slits down the middle to | admit air and were fed through a hole { with fish and mest. The largest whighed » netirly half & | Two St. Peterkburg, May 16.--Serious news bas been received from Urumia, a Persian town near the Russian bor- der, and from Salmai' Two thousand Kurds of the Zorga Mamush and Mergovire tribes are mak- ing an expedition of pillage and mur- der, bun villages, destroying tale- graphs, Killing and plundering as they *¥ Fourteen villages have heen attack. ed. In some cases the villagers have offered afmed resistance, aml (hove has boon henve fighting, with a large wumber: Killod. "Tn other villaves the | chairs. CREMA TED IN MOSQUE Thousand Kurds Bent. Be ee sacstian sho RL Be like nitdere ina te he did so be form a would spoil the Tor 1 he and ™ GAMBLING 18 CHF CKED. and Its Suburbs Under Terror's Reign, Rome, May 16+-The alarming growth of hoologasism. and crimes of the knife in the province of Rome, re cently exemflilied in the barbarous attack on two unoffending-students of the Scotch College, bas decided Sig- nor Giolitti, the premier, to intfoduce in an amended form bis hill for regu- lating the kind and length of knife which citivens may carry. Parliament refused to assent to the earlier measure on the score of its being too onerpus, though Signor Gio- litti explained at the time that the apparent severity of ite provisions was justified by the fact that the Naples Camorrists had mamlactured a spe- cial knife for criminal purpose, which skilfully evaded the actual letter of the law. The prefect of Rome has seized the present moment of moral awakéning in the city to issue a decree -with- drawing immediately all licenses from publi¢ gambling saloons, anil ordering Rome a the universal closing of taverns and eating houses at eleven w'clock at night. Today the psofectural man- date has been affixed ta all such en tablishments, while the chief of police is organising a number of fying squadrons to enfores the new hy laws. 5 Kingston And Ottawa. "Rideau King," for Ottawa, cvery Modday apd Thursday, at James Swilt & Co... agents. - Cats' Home at Vienna, 6 am. also loft £500 to a {played with the eats. DECLARED "OPEN SHOP.' Trouble at Prescott With he Coal | Handlers. | Ogdensburg, N.Y. May 16. ihe un- jon. coal handlers of Prescott bh rt t stubbornly refused to acedpt the t rms igrant of the George Halli company, or to) submit the matter to arbitration gs! the company proposed, and the com-} pany on the other hand declining to} yieid to the: demands of the men, the! 'open shop!" has been declared sng the coal company has made an ar Brussels, May 16.--The report of the Bara Emigration company, of Ant rangement with James Cosgrove, a |werp, on the emigration movement in Presvott contractor, to unload the! eeont months, has just been publish. Goats during the season. Mr, Uosgravei oy and contains much iteresting ma has arranged to 'bring a wong of Ha: { terial. In 1907 every wevolt occurring lian: shovellers to Prescott to unload lin Russia,.or every "PORTom' was the steamer Henry B. Hall. followed by a heavy curreat of emi- gration. Thousands and sian enugranis, thousands of Rus. ruined and almost starved, went, to the United States, seeking "freedom and rest. Among these people, it is interesting to notice, there Xag a heavy percentage of mad- men, ln latter times, however, owing to the American crisis, the emigration tide has diminished in intensity, and even the return of many emigrants has been recorded. The report also tells the thrilling story of a Hungarian who had emi: grated to the United States and who, SE ------ rr r Drill Ground In A Crypt. London, May 16.~One of the or ganizations in connection' with the parish of St. James, Clerkenwell, is a battalion of ~ the Church Lads' Brig- ade. Tim church has no sthool build- ings, and it, therefore, ds to be used for ihe Sunday sdhoel, and the crypt for drilling the members of the brigade. The crypt is also used for the practice of the brass band. Legacy For Cats. Vienna, May 16 Frau Barbara THEN LANDED IN PORT Loses His So Son on : on Shipboard---Taken For Stowaway. | | come back to fetch his son, a boy of fourteens who is an idiot. On their way back father and son left by the Antwerp route. Alter the departure the father went to sleep, while son wandered about the boat. boy, who only knew a few words Hungarian, thus arrived in the steer- age, where the stewards asked him whence he came. He could, of course, give no answer, and as nobody ia the stevrage knew him, it was decid ed that he should be landed at Flush- ing. This was done. When the father woke up the ship was in the North Sea, and it is easy to imagine his anguish at the idea that his boy was alone in Flushing, where he knew nobody. Messyges wore teived. It was only on the arrival at New York that the father learned that his boy had been taken vare of hy the Ezra Emigration com- Wenz, who died last week at Kloster: [having made a little money there, had neuberg, has begue athed. $2,300 to the 80 that her ;ten cats may Le kept in fusuey. She Ltée girl whol PITH OF THE NEWS. | The Very Latest at Oulled From All Over The World. The C.P.R. shops at Winnipeg have SENATOR GEORGE A. COX A Man Who Has Climbed the Ladder to Financial Yet Retains the Geniality of His Youthful Days, Citizen of Toronto, a Methodist and a Liberal. i -- Link With Days Of Sedem Chairs. Paris, May 16.--A man of ninety four, MT Caumont, has just died at Bayeux, where he was the last con | tractor for the old-fashioned sedan Until 1865 there were horse-drawn vehicles in Bayeux. no -------- Pillage are On v inhabitants - fled as the Kurds ap proached into the mountains. Many- especially women--were captared hy the Kurds and carried off into captiv ity. A grim tragedy was enacted in the village of Dumatchin, where a great amber of the inhabitants took refuge il a mosque. The Kurds set fire to the building, aml all within it per ished an the fumes, Two sidwntey battalions, a battery of quick "fers and a wpatdron of Cog: socks have 'boen dispatched to the frontier irom Tiflis, mENQuNCES 3 POETRY. Tella Peasant That it is a Silly Superstition. St. Pel May 16. Count Tol soy, ae Si to an educated yrasant ik government, w asked him Tespecting KH closed for two weeks, A series of thefts from the Winnipeg f post office are reported Miss Clara Brett Martin may {for the Omtario legislature. Fire at Mimico lodustrial School | workshop did $15,000 damage. : Conservative candidates for Toronto | i undecided about constituencies West Toronto liberals i George Miles for A, and ne for RB. constituencies, respectively, Hamar Greenwood ie arranging take a large party to Canada in gust, The failures in the dominion during the past week were 26; same week, | 1907, 23, { Thirty are now known to be dead | las a vesult of WednesMay's tornado | in northwest Louisiana, The king has subscribed one hundred guinoas, towards a British memorial of Walle and Montealm. Clapde MBwet, the famous French ar- tist, utterly ruined a series of valu- able paintings by himself. Beville Stanier, the unionist eandi- {date, was elected in North Shrop- | wmjority of 96. run Au- h feel sor. for attem I spurs Hewry lerael Howe of New . Edin purgh, a brother of W. Dean Howells, the noted novelist, died oii Friday The French fought two all-dav bat- tles with fanatical Arabs in Algeria and bombarded the town of Boudenih. Sir T. Shaughnessy will, on Tues- day, give evidence before the London Board of Trade about the All-Red traute. hai i Pekin is becoming alarmed at thode- Ibels in the provinee of Yen Nan, are now 10,000 1n number and drilled, F. W: Boschen, the broker, favs he will leents on the dollar in | his debts, Twenty-cix hundred {tives in Montreal have teopt the ten per cent. well stock twenty of Montreal offer settlement Prosperity, He is a Leading cotton opera- decided to ae reduction and 200 NATIVES ENGAGED. | The" speakers | Chacago | and Siberia, is complaining of who | pany and was feoling all right. De. Amos T. * Hahere 1 acting superin- {tendlent of the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Matteawan, in his 'opinion, says it would be dangerous to public salety to have at large. At Toronto Dr. Ashton Fletcher was | {Charged with performing an illegal | loperation on Ellen Gould | he girl died. A verdict of not guilty was returned, | Speaking at Guelph, on Friday I juight, Hon. Adam Beck said the gov feroment had secured figures not made public, that would geeatly reduce the {cost of Niagara power. Eugene Debs chosen as the socialist candidate for the 8. presidency. al the convention in dengunced Brvan and Taft: called Roosevelt the most de- spicable coward ever known. The Canadian postoflice departme Thar decided that such journals gs the Ladies' Home Journal and the Satur ay Evening Post are not entitled tg the second-class privileges of the Can adian mails. George Slack, sent to the I tiary for life for robbigy, with vio | lencd; Mrs, Elizabeth Davis, Toronto A Chinese society at Khabarovsk, the arrest of 200 Uhinese residents because they were without passports. The Russian ties raided the theatre i the. en audience, including many prominent merchants, Thaw go Jessie peniten On Lakes Since '62. Ogdensburg, N.Y., May 16.--Canpt Harvey H. Brown, of Cape Vincent, was in town, vesterday. having pilot ed the steamer John Sharples down the river to Prescott. This is Capt Brown's first season ashore in forty-five years, Jn 1862 he command ed one of the alii propellors that plied between, Ogdensburg and and he hag been in active now. For mauy vears he R. Langdon, of the Rut cago, sey vice until sailed the J. land line Verdict Watertown, N.Y., awarded William Denny $100 in hi lawsuit against Pelicoman Colon. of | or Denny. May 16 Tho jury | London {retary to work. The close season for bass in Ontario May 16.--Basking in the | has hoen fixed dominion order-in Nice at the present mo-[eouncil from April 18th to June 15th, are 200 natives of India and | both days inclusive. who a fortaight hence mill be- | seesmm---- population of the ludian aud | WILL C ET T of the East in Capital. Glimpse London, hy sunshine ment Ceylon, come the Ceylon sx hibition maly, 1 camels, eyen of viillag ses ut the Franco-British | With them are ity wi wing nine elephants two twa Mysore oxen, eight bus. dwarf donkevs, deer, antelope | apd bears, all under the charge of | Gustav Hagenbeck, one of the famous! family of animal trainers and import ers of Hamburg. 'At Nice," sald Victor who is bringing the anbmgls to London, become acclimatized. carefully selected representatives of (off by many cas tes, and each is canable of (Cause he changed his religious faith showing some typical side of the life'years ago, Kev, Dr. David Gregg, who of the east. Among them we have, a for thirteen "years was pastor. of the group of beautiful Hindoo dancing {Lafayette Presbyterian church, Prook- girls, Mahommedsn snake charmers (lyn, has just inherited $750,000, or and Buddist workers in mictal, silk, 'about half his father's estate, unger ivory and precious stones. We shall {the will of his mother, Mrs. Margaret show some astonishing balancidg and (Gregg, Pit®burg, recently decensed, other adrobatie fonts and all the fam- | Dr. Gregg, it is stated, incorred his Hue illusions and mysteries 'of India, {father's displeasure because he leit the including the basket trick, in which a | t Bihari] i the | Tn New York, May M.--Although his futher, a millionaire, he- natives and "the peowle will} They are very cat over the head with a club without Clayton, who, he claimed, struck him | ' provocation { Pive-inrh Fits, all silk, for 15¢ tat Crumley's, to-night BIG SLICE | ll chur h of the Covenanters, a re members voting for candidates for pub thie office, and connected mecll with [the Presbyterian denomidation 5 The property which Dr, Gregg inher ite wnder, his mother's will is chiefly Hoeated in Pittsburg and All vhenV tr. Grege, who is president 'of 'Western Theologieal Seminars, fvieiting at present : with his daughter jin Brooklyn, « young girl is apparently thrast through with a in sacs appears | GERMANY COVETS THE SEA. trained shphants will make a glissade' in : the he | Tdea of World Power Rapidly Da ir down a ipice into a la i etn promise hat this will he jake | Berlin, May report realistic than anything of =~ the kind of the German Naty League for the seen in London. before: (tenth year of its existeney gives the "The tetms upon which the natives {otal membership as = 1,018,500, as cote ate the payment of return fares, compared with 906,706 last year, and! ,. lodging, medical attendance and and 633,457 in the year of its inbtitution. a fixed sw per month. They will! Last vear the leagoe arranged mote ve : Er medical advice if they than 700 lectures and mumerous cine cequire St. bat 1 understand that thoy matograph entertamments in promo are bringing also their own doctor, [tion of its propaganda for an incréase who is 8 quaint little person Sous in the oe elo and naval exhibi- feet high, with a. grat Rpnthtion tions were in seventy-cight toprng - of over inhabitants and" were ag, vied hundewd wiehers vere, inken Party's Predicament. 'on a sea trip, and seven scholars' ex- 16.~The mayor of Cas te «per "I a vm Shungh. soy larity of his furrows. "Poetry, even. when it is good, is! » & very "willy supersti- 1.000 children tobk successtully trips for adult members, ---------------- Not Music Lovers. Mapich, May a marriage eetomony vesterday, because, st the last Sot t, he ois: jist % at ry. who was merous o taken oth anh exiract the coins at, od suddenly burst fortly cursions to seaports, in which over part, were also cartied out, as well as nu- | 16. While hurghoes usin attempting to Res uiés an au ---- | © pEsTROYED PICTURES. S------------ A French Artist, Thought Them Unsatisfactory, Paris, May 15. Pictures, with market value of hall » million francs representing three years constant | labor, were destroyed, yesterday, by Claude Monet, the French impression | st master, because he had reached 5 conviction that they were wnsatisine flosy. The pictures' 'destroyed had al ready been seen by friends of the 34s. cand Slin ending critics, who pro * among the hest works the artist had ever accomplished, ---------- Chinaman With Lepiosy. Austin, Man, missionary visited here, 8 lay, later telling the residents yar, at called tion wired the health officer, Dr, sard, who pronoupeed it ht two xs" 2 ~ notified, and meanwhile : the victim is Aosely quarantined fo get much informa Chinaman, whe fveaha] but be admits . Camsett was LAST EDITION TT Probabilities Toronto Out. May 16 Ottawa Valley and Up~ per St. Lawrence (10 a. m.)=+Fine: and warm to-day and on Sunday. sent hy wireless, but no veply was ve | hoat's | B ® Black & Tan Lace Hose i Fine Cashmere Hose & French Chiffon Scarfs » purchasing. over |i Chi- | {HARDY ~At moon + At ions lorganization with rules which forbade | i FAUTTAN-SMITH ~At IDULMAGE~MOORE «At emeritus | | "Phones 577. May 16.-A Chis ied that one China: Jase Redden be and after a cursory Xaming: { of | The fedeeal pu- | he has | Sovanto Jeculuiors. were hit by & fniluge, $ an i oo a Tan Embroidered Hose wu] Embroidered Collars New Lace Collars Embroidered Wash Belts New Kid Belts E Merry Widow Bows New Floral Ribbons E New Auto Veils Summer Underwear 4 ] Daisty Muslin Blouses New Lace Blouses list wl intend Ay items on this you if you TR = LR We Invite Inspection. wD | nT [oe dl oom ao) and M 11th May ay and Hard ew hurry May TH A ir A ila Moor Reo. Dr. Gregg Cat € Of But But Provided For by' wd Mother. {ir M Fre Sask FULRE ariel Albert SAUNDERS. ~ May 10th, to MH. Saunders a son MARRIED Fig! May 6th, Miss Myri RF Anughter Mr and Mrs Po. and William BH. Rottay, Sydeabesn bode ong Fits Ft Ms Fo " y Mo only ROT Deweronto Unt. on ay 12th. Vis daighieor of Mr and and George Didinage Mrs. Thomas Dulmage ROBERT J. REID, The Sasa, Undertaker. 3 Fam meet, NO ADVANCE Although Teas have Sdvaneed in pris, we are still esliing Our Own Special Blend ar | } As the old prices of 35 Cents the Pound. | Aso anid quality is as good as ever. ~TRY IT- ih. Uwbrellas & Umbrellas | Ask to see the wonderful one dollar Smperters: Of Fing It (lines at Camphell Broa', the store thst saves you money. os