Daily British Whig (1850), 29 Jul 1910, p. 1

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big LAST EDITION r prm---- WEATHER PROBABILITIES. Toronta, Ont. July 29, 10 amm-=Ot- tawa Valley and Upper St. Lawrehoe-- Moderate south-west winds; fise and warm. Saturday, showery. t 29, ---- (ME 10 TIM YEAR 77-N0O. 174 GTR. STRIK KINGSTON, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JULY LATEST NEWS -- reasonable, JOHNSTON FINED, NEARLY DROWNED. are employees' demands are and your claim is true that you not receiving profit enough, 1 am cer- tain that the entire retail commercial community will support you if you re quire more profit and if you put it on Richard Barrett Had Narrow Escape at T.1. Park. Thousand Island Park, No-X., July 129. --Wednesday afternoon, while play- ling on the dock, Miss Dorothy Hovey, Hockey Player Who Assaulted G , R. Employee. Brockville, July 29.~Frnie Johnston, the Wanderer hockey player, was 5 i ~~ CUTOFF CONCESSIONS 4 ' : 'them: to live? In our opinion, if your _ Threats Are Made Strike Leaders VICE-PRESIDENT MUR. DOCK HAS TO SAY. * WHAT A Railway Commisioner Thinks the Law Should 'be Amended so That Compulsory Arbitration Can be Imposed---Latest News From All Quarters, ? Montreal, July 2-1 the twenty dour hours do not bring a set * tlement of the demands of the B. of BR. T., in charge of the firand Trunk strike, the strikers are going to free the fighting, and make thow first roa ly aggressive moveinent. This is the intimation given out ths morning by = Vice President Murdock of the %. of R. T., in charge of the strike in this district, and that the drastic measures Ao be introdu od within the next few days wal aks things more than sver uncontiort able for the company, the strike Joader was quite emphatic in declaring, As outlined briefly by Mr. Murdock the earls portion of the Agsressive campaign which the stro imtend- to adopt will be felt more particalarly at the points of copnection between the Grand Trunk and other railenys, sad will include the withde wal of every concession, no malts how einali which the strikers huve made since the walk-out took place. Hon. M. E. Bernier of the railway commission was heve, yesterday, and snid that he did wot expect that the commission would have anythin¥ to do with the settlement of the strike. It could not act unless complaints were made to it that the Grand Trunk was not handling its business properly. In an interview - be stated that in his opinion thete ought to be some alter- ation in the law providing for com: Julsory arbitration in a ease of this ind, and added there should be a provision compelling the digputants to accept the finding of an arbilration board, next mn Merchants are Hard Hit. Toronto, July 20,~The latest addi tion to the already large army that | is to restore between the GTR. and 'its men is the Retail Morchanis' Association of Canada. EE. M. Trowern, dominion secretary of the association, has written to-Mr. Hays, pointing out that the men on strike are customers of the retail mer- the cost. This seems to us to be the business way of settling the matier," says Mr. Trowern. in. conclusion, it is assumed by the writer that neither the Grand Trunk nor the men are approaching the mat- ter in the right way. A Car on Fire, Ottawa, July 29,--~At Valleyfield, Inst wight, seme one set fire to the inter- jor of a G.T.R: box ear. Reports to Superintendent Donaldson state that the "station agent was awakened by neighbors, late at night, and that he and the Valleyfield chief of police, on investigating, found the car on fire, The inside was rather badly burned. In one coraér was found a quantity of axle waste, which had been placed there, and four of the car axle boxes, where the waste and oil had been tak- en from, were found open. No arrests have been made. 'At Central station, here, late Inst night, some one placed a torpedo on it exploded and part of iv struck a lady's dress, but did no harm, rere Second Hudson Bay Railway. Peince Albert, Sask., July 29.--A de- mand for a secood railway to Hudson Bay was made upon the premier here. The railway for whose construction a delegation east of here pessed would run from Pas at the mouth of the Saskatchewan river. Prince Albert de- signs another road to run from here to Fort Churchill. Tt is claimed that this road would avoid the muskeg whith would be encountered on the soute from the Pas. The Hudson Bay Pacific company is now locating a line to Churchill. The demand was voiced by the board of trade here through its president, ex-Judge MeGuire. ---------- Pomestic Partially Paralyzed, Victoria Harbor, July 29 During a very severe thunderstorm yesterday, lightning struck the Maids' Residence at Minnicoganashehie, shattering mir rors and doing other damage. One domestic had her clothes burnt from the waist and was temporarily paralyzed in the lower limbs. Several others were howled over, Guests In the hotel were frightened by the shock, but escaped injury. IN THE OPEN MARKET PROPOSAL THAT DETROIT BUY STREET. RAILWAY, ------ ft Would Cost But Three Million Dollars to Secure a Controlling interest in Detroit United People May Vote on it. Detroit, Mich,, July 29.--A proposi- 001 uently the strike is ma- terially affecting their sales disadvan- tageously, es explains Mr. Trow- ern, "many of the strikers are unable to. pay their accounts. Also, those who require oredit, and who have | dealt with us for years, we feel under: a moral gation to absist, especially when they have families. We are also the 1 customers - you have, . as most of your freight and express is direc forwarded to retail merchants | all over Canada, and we, therefore, pay you @ ey large sum. ot money every 3 majority of the com: rial Travellers who also travel on' your road, travel over it to visit us, and if our business is injured, your | * business is also injured, as well as the travellers and every one in connection with us." i The writer says. that the main ob- of the request: of his assoiation'} to see if something can be done to | arrive at a speedy and amicable set- | tlement. ; < : ; TI you are not making suflicient | profit to run your toad right, why should you be compelled to work and operate your road at a lows, any more than any other business should be conducted at a loss? Or why should the men work for less than it costs : ¥ MEMORANDA. Campbe r Ey 5 hat sale Is in tull Mast And the hats are going fast Rifle matohes ai Barriefield ranges, Saturday on. rs oC See Waldron inl sale of blouses of Be rts at 9%c. he Scoki on the e Outcast a. ership of the Detroit United [ the once tion somewhat starling in its appar: ent. practicability, by which the city of Detroit may secure munus sal owns allway, and thus settle for ever the dispute over cheap street railway fares, has st been put up to Mayor Breitmey- er and the Common Council, The plan in suggested by Maynard J. Follin, a promment politician in the counsels of the late Hazen 8. Pin- gree, and its very originality has done as much as anything else to commend it to the members of the Council, In a nutshell, the idea is this: "The cap: ital stock. ol the Detroit Unived i $12,500,000. The present market price of D. U. R. is about 41. Have the city of Detroit purchase a controlling interest in the 'stock by going into open market for it. The cost price will not exceed $3,000,000, Then the city can do ak it pleases. Mayor Breitmeyer declared himself strongly against the proposition, but twenty: nine out of thirty-five aldermen are outspoken in its favor. The differ between municipal control and municipal ownership is so slight that the vote of the council last might to submit the matter to a vote o the people on' August 15 can easily ar mended, nd probably will 5: "hang od to suit the mew situation. ------------ Waiting for Troops. Columbus, Olio, July 28.--With all the cars on the street railway locked in the various barns city officials and the railway company are awaiting ihe arrival of the state militia, which detachment of ors Irom Cleveland snd i ti arrived and were hurried to the various bars, wheres; acyom- modations have been provided for them. J Don't say they have to leave La an 3 large clties because they can't find employment in this tows. Literally that statement might be true, but not In a broad te Kingston ston dealers and manufacturers {o give danghters work when you Eo to opher cities to buy Kingston 6 seck work in our the track. When a car passed over it, | {250,000 feet is to be built Dispatches From Near And Distant Places THE WORLD'S TIDINGS BRIEFEST PO» FORM. ---- Matters That Interest Everybody-- Notes From All Over--Little of Everything Easily Read and Be- membered. GIVEN IN THE SIBLE Prince Edward county will spend £50,000 for good roads. Stephen Taylor was killed by lizhtn- ing near Brighton, on Tha sdav, Diplomatic relations between Spain and the Vatican have been iroken off. A lumber mill with daily output' of at Esqui- malt, B. C. Col. Denison, elected vice-president Colonial Institute. A gic of $25,000 has been made lo the Methodist superannunvion find by the estate of the late H. A. Massey. The Ottawa Rowing Club intends to send sn eight to the American Na- tional Regatta at Washington next month. There have been fifteen drowning ac- cidents in the river within view of the Government House, Ottawa, this sea- son. Over sixteen thousand deaths have heen cansed by cholera in lussia since the beginning of the present out sreak in May last. Germany has refused to lodge a pro- test ut Washington against interfer- ence by the United States in the ui- fairs of Nicaragua. Hon. Mackenzie King went to Mon- treal, at the invitation of tae strike lowdors and held a conference with 8'r Frederick Borden. Hon. Messrs. Hanna, Reaame, (ocn- rano and Duff, of the provindial air net, have gone on a three weeks tour of the Rainy River district, A wireless despatch from toe IR. steamer Montrose states vosit'vely what Dr. Crippen is on hoard. The Montrose wps off Belle Isle yesterday. Dr. John Silliam Seott MoCullowsh, Alliston, Opt. has been) appointed secretary of the provincial board of health, to succeed Dr. Charles Hod: gotts, who recently resigned. In New York, on Thursday two men were shot dead, and four dangerously wounded in a pitched battle between the police and a gang of sugpustrike sympathizers, A new postal division has tablished mn the Province of has been the Royal Foronto, of been os- Ontario fon, in charge of Mr. Alired Lemoges as inspector, with headquarters at North Bay. » The United States will not permit the importation of cattle from Fng- land until the extent of the foot-and- mouth disease which has appeared in Yorkshue can be made-clear. President Fallieres commuted the death sentence of Private George Graby, convicted along ) Michel of the murder of Mme. Gouin, to life imprisonment. Graby was oon: demned to be shot. The London News says Sir Wilirid Laurier"s tour in the west is one long demonstrative - against protection. It anticipates a lowering of the tariff in the next parliament when the . west will: have forty representatives. The government's new form of the king's declaration was adopted. with- out division in committee, in the House of Commons, om Thursday | night. The smooth passale of the bill through the House of week, i% anticipated, In thé presence of his five children, after an all-night quarrel, Abraham Roth, New York, tailor, plunged a bread knife into his wife's throat. She jumped through the window to the landing below and died in hospital. The police found Roth later with his own throat cut fatally. Sir C./ Kinloch-Cooke, in British House of Commons, ingu'¥¥l what al- fect 'the admission of railway laborers into Canada would have on the regu. lation prohibiting assisted emigrants other than agriculturists. Col, Seely replied he thought the order did not apply to assisted emigrants. Lords, next is A NEW YORK "GANG FIGHT." Police Reserves Had to be Called to Quell It. New York, July 20. ---Three mon were dangerously wounded and twenty oth- mote Or less severely hurt, to-day, the serious 0 fight" Fi dish htt gi 7 35 fo ge i station on that night and that he was brought, here from Montreal by Chief 7] g la es -- & Burke. 'The warrant upon which he Likely Strike Is Nearing fully and unlawfully assault, obstruct or impede one William McCreary, an officer of the G.T.R., in the execution of his duties upon {he premises of the railway on the 20th inst. When Yrought before Justice R. G. Murphy, i Johnston ssid he had business at the accosted and insulted. In return, he slapped McCreary in the face. A plea of guilty was entered and H. A. Stew- art, on his behalf, argued that it was a common assault 'and as such the magistrate should impose a fine. C R. Deacon, for the prosecution, claim- ed it was an indictable offence and wanted the aceused committed for trial, Upon looking up the law the magistrate found Mr. Stewart was right and imposed a fine of $20 and costs, OTTAWA. Strikers Say it Was Due to an Inex< perienced Orew, but the Company Says the Train was Handled by Ottawa, July 29.~The placing of a torpedo on the tracks in central pot, and the burning of a bex in the Valleyfield yards, besides telescoping of the four box cars in the deep out near the city, are the incidents of the strike in the Ottawa Valley section of the G.T.R. The tor- pedo was placed on the tracks, yes terday, being discharged by an incom- ing passenger train, the particles fly ing around and slightly injuring 'a lady who was waiting to come In on the train. The agent at Valleyfield reported this morning that a Grand Trunk box car had been badly burned jast night. The axle packing which was taken from the boxes, was placed inside the car and fired. Before the blaze was discovered the oar was se riously damaged, Wnile shunting in the yards at the deep cut a passen- ger train backed into a freight stand- ing on a siding. Four cars were tel: escoped on the freight. The strikers Jooally attribute this to the inexper- jence of the men handling the trans, while the officials of the G.T.R. stata that only their oldest employees have charge of the switching in the yards. car the Something May Happen. Montreal, July 29.--~Important velopments in connection with Grand Trunk strike are reported to be impending and it would not be a surprise il the whole thing is ended inside of twenty-four hours. It is dif- ficult to trace this impression to any definite somve but that it prevails is beyond doubt. One report hag it that Hon, Mackenzie King, minister of labor, is in. the. city but is keeping his whereabouts very quiet. lenders are reticent but seem something is going to happen, and very soon, The Star, this afternoon, will stale that the strike is likely to be over inside of twenty-four hours. Confer ences. have been in progress between WILLIAM D. MeRAE, President of the Kingston Old Boye Association, of Toronto, Is a sou of the late W. RH. Me¢Rae, who owned the widely-known Golden Lion grocery Bouse, Mr. McRae shouts for his native Kingston wherever he goes. SHE HAS CONFESSED GIRL ADMITS LIES PUT MAN IN PRISON. de- the Missouri Woman Joins Church and Repents of alot After Victim Serves Term, Princeton, No., July 20.-That GG, Phillips, now residing in St. Joseph, to be known as the North Bay Divis- {federal {v orth, Kan., {Lola Davis Kyser, of Ganby, to whom it was alleged that } » with Henril , clear her conscience she wrote Mo., but formerly a resident of Kan sig City, served fifteen months in the penitentiary at Fort Leaven- as a result of a pilot againgt him, is the admission of Mrs. Neb., Phillips otters prior to the strike leaders, and Mackenzie King, but neither party will give any news for publication. The minister has also soen the Grand Trodk officials and it is believed that strong pressure in being exerted to bring things to a conclusion; - Ail Is Fine, He Says. Toronto, July, 29.--General Superin tendent Brownlee, of the G. ¥. RB. Co; meet the representatives of the = city press, this morning, with, the same cheerful optimistic spirit that has ear ried him through the arduous hours of | the last two weeks, "We are doing fine" he said; "getting in a better pos- ition every day. Our passenger service' treated yom folks," she writes, "and lis normal and we are handling freight am going to make it right as far aslin any quantity. We are very well I can. You treated me as bad as, I|sstisfied with the progress being did you, but that isn't the question | made. New men are being taken = on with me now. There was a put-up and: are being drilled as quickly as job on George. Lies were sworn to, | possible. These are filling the vacan- ste. but 1 want - to say right here ries created by the men who have that my folks did everything . they [RONe out on strike. could to keep me from testifying in that case. 1 am among the very ones Christ died. for, and 1 know what God i$ requiring of me. Lile is short, even at the longest. We will all be glad to straighten 'up our lives when, it is too lates Now | am go ing to ask you people to forgive me and trust in God." had sent improper her marriage. Mre. Hyser, who was | Miss Lola Davis, 8 resident of this city, at the time Phillips was tried in Kansas City, has joiried the <hurch gince her marriage," and in an -eflort n letter to Phillips' parents here in which she confessed that the young man had been wronged. "1 am truly sorry for the way i To the Railway Commissioners, Toronto, July 20.--The Salada Tea company bas written to(the dominios railway commission the Grand Trunk system persistently refuses to . accept the freight, offcred fo -it by the company. nis action of the railway, the letter points out, is causing great loss and injury the company. Jt is also pointed oul that the commission has it in ils power, andsits power only, to com: pel the railway to aet up to its char ter and accept and y the freight offered. The Salada Tea company concludes by asking that the attention oft the commission be immediately called to the matter. Troops Demanded, Bridgeburg, Ont., July 30. ~Becanse of the disorders along the Niagara river, culminating inthe burning of Grand Trunk cars sad os stalion nesy here this morning, Superintendent Cunningham has asked Ottawa to demand troops for protection failway property. imem---- WANTS INTEROCOLONIAL. i -------- MANITOBA ELEVATORS. Nine Owned and Operated by the Commission. Winuipeg, July 29,~The Manitoa Elevator Commission announce that up to date there are nine - elevators owned and operated by the commis sion, while deals for several more ere in an advanced stage. At the follow- iniz plage elevitors are' now owned the commission: Gretna, Hartney, Swan + Lake, Souris, Shoal Lake, Strathelar, Somerset and two at Hamota. Further, theré are ning vew elevators in coarse of erection om sites selected in as many different towns, while the nuniber of sites nn dev consideration is beiny added to daily, according -as the petitions are recerved from: {atmers. bo Members of the commission ™ esti mate that over 200 petitions have % dr and Wore are comin in at the rate of from three to six per day. There are:over 100 petitions now i sutsulstion, and 106 have been recived. ai aveert of Calls it Natural Extension of Canada Montreal, July 20. William Mae! en: zie, presicdént the Canadian Nciih- orn, in aw TE , referred Frag The company's ns, ing ; "We want the interoojonial, which wi the satural extension "of the Usnadian Northern from Montreal to the Atlane tic seaboard." When asked if some of the other companies might get i President Mackenzie replied, "There sot the slightest. danger of that". eri --------. New. clover honey in sections, 1c. James Crawford. f. = A in ---------- gn the window display "of cancel was arrested charged that he did wil- i An End Jeph Rothschild was walking along the {ticed a child pointing Some of Their Oldest and Best Men. i {for about 15 minutes, when she came p=} labor complaining thet; officials, iNew York, aged ten years, lost her balance and fell into the water. Jos lupper promenade at this time and no to the water, and who was too frightened to talk. small body in the water, so he rushed down and CARS TELESCOPED ir Sidi he had The weight was too much as called imothing to hold on to, so he AN ACCIDENT AT THE DEEP CUT, f° © J Richard Barrett of Ro- chester responded. He went to step down and in doing so slipped and went into the water also. As he could pot swim a stroke, it was up to Rothschild to perform the double task, so he reached Barrett's foot and drew him up to dry land and then both ot the child in, who was unconscious y this time, They worked over her to, and getting up she wilked home with a little friend. MUST DO SOMETHING. Where & Minister Would Act as Watchman. New York, July! 290.--After thirty years of work as a missionary in foreign lands, the Rev. A. H. Lamb- ert, of the Methodist Episcopal church, is awaiting replies to the following advertisement, which he placed in New York papers: "Minister; Good standing, married, wants work: watchman or timekeeper preferred." Two years ago Rev. Lambert came to the United States from South Amerien, lured by the hope that he would be able to do "wonderful things in this wonderful country; but I found that missionaries are not sought here," he said, "and that the churches are over-supplied with pastors. I have three children and a wife to care for, and I must do something." Lambert is a linguist ability, and he said that)several of his temporary employers sought to take advantage of this by having him soll questionable stocks among foreign residents. of unusual Butter, Butter, Batter. Prints of butter, extra nice, 28 J. Crawford. SAY HE IS ABOARD THE MONTREAL STAR HAS MES. SAGE FROM SHIP. The Captain Says He Has Dr. Orip- pen and Miss Le Neve--Perey Sherwood is Also of That Opinion. Montreal, July 20.~The Star pub- lished an extra, at noon, stating that Capt. Kendall, of the steamship Mont- rose, had sent the paper a wireless message stating that be. Cri and Miss Loneve are on board but that they do not suspect that their identi- ty is known and that all the other assengers are in agonorance the act. Ottawa, July 29.--~The dominion po- lice have word that "the steamer Mont- rose will not reach Rimouski before some time to-morrow night. While not absolutely definite the best informa- tion Colonel Sherwood has leads him to believe that Dr. Crippen is aboard that steamer. pg ---- PLEA FOR CLEMENCY, Ib Friends Will Try and Have Wm. Dob- son Released. Niagara Falls, July 29.<Through the efforts of a brother in Hamilton and friends hore, William: Dobson, now serving a four-years' sentence in peni- tentiary for his part in the robbery of $14,000 from the Canadian Express company = here last fall, expects to rgnin his freedom. Purl 8, Whistler, of Niagara Falls, N,Y., sentenced to three years' imprisonment for the same = of fence, recently secured his liberty through the influence of prominent friends. A petition-wiil be presented to - the authorities in Dobson's beball through the member of parliament' at Hamilton. Chinese Want Deportation. Washington, July ""29.---~Just_ séross the Mexican bowler, tens of thousands of starving Chinese are joining in a conspiracy to indice the United States government, by fraud, to pay their » back te China, The conspiracy has been long sue pected, and recent arvests of Chines who had crossed into . Arizona, brought the facts to Fight. This infor- mation is eoutsi i two letters now in the possession the depary ment of commerce and labor, sent by Chinese prisoners now held in jail at Tacson, Arizons, on & charge of vio- lating thé Chinese exclusion laws. Labor conditions in Mexico, accord: ing to the letters, have become #0 bad that even a Chinese cannot make his {living there, A plan was evolved {whereby the Chinese were to cross the American border, surrender themsslves to the United States immigration of- ficers, and be sintenced to a free trip T0 - MORROW Special 'Bargain Sale Ladies' VESTS 60 DOZ, IN THE LOT. A part of a manufacturer's surplus stock, bought at a price which en ables us to give you EXTRAORDIN- ARY VALUES, 42 DIFFERENT STYLES. trimmed with Lace and Ribbon, short sleeves or Many are prettily sleeveless -- GARMENTS worth 20e, 26e, 30¢ to b0¢, SALE PRICE, 15c¢. Special Sale oF Men's Socks Fancy Colored Socks for Men In Cotton Lisle and Silk Lisle. We have them with stripes, dots and silk em- Regular prices. 40¢ to 76e. SALE PRICE, 28e¢. THERIAULT 1 Kingston, on July «95th, 1910, to Mr. and Mrs. Fravels H. Theriault, a daughter ROBERT J. REID, The Leading Undertaker, "Phone B77. Princess JAMES REID The Od Pirm of 264 and 336 PRINCESS Phone 147 Tow ANTIQUE FURNITURE Mahogany Book Cease and Desk coms bined: also large Hall Table, at Turks Phone, 705 Fa Pork and Beans In Tomato Sauce HEINZ'S 10c, 15¢, 25¢ Tins. CLARK'S "CHATEAU BRAND, Be, 10¢ Tins, ARMOUR'S, 15¢ Tins, SNIDER'S 15¢c Tins. Jas. Redden & Co. IMPORTERS OF FINE GROCERIRN, LOST CHILD'S BODY FOUND. ibame. This would cost Uncle Sam $90 | 4 ro per Chink, i -------------------- | Reports From Perth. ! orth, July 38The crops here, in spite of the dry weather, are splendid. { Monday next is Perth's. civic holiday. iMes. Robert Huddleston is spending. a {iow days at ber home wear Lanark. s. Jokn Perrier and daughter, of (Va are visiting § 1 Mrs. {J. . McMillan and children spent week at AMhorpe with Ber lather, George Pournier. Mr. suid Mrs, McKervacher, 'of North ate visit: a respondible, many hauled by the police, ---------- Want . Macdonald. Halifax, N.S. July 20.-The oom Jamba ation of Bt arch, Dartmouth, John {ded Bow STEACY'S BORN.

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