Cly YEAR 77-NO. 237 Baily Brit KINGSTON, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1910. hig LAST EDITION i Sl TOFALLHORT Relief For the Distressed in the West. BODIES IN WOODS WILL REACH A VERY LARGE NUMBER. There are But a Handful to Combat the Present Condition of Affairs-- Will Take Weeks to go Over the Burned District and Gather up the Bodies of the Victims of the Flames. Inteimationnl Falls, Mion. Oct, 12 ~With 200 ani, prouvably S00 dies lying in the woods, the village of Ulamteot (200 persons) levelled to earth, the utmost that could be dope by way of relief will fall tar short of meting the situ=lion as it exsts in the Romy River Basin today, But fifty state militiamcn from Bemidgi and o few refugees, who have not been rendered physical and mental wrecks, are available to combmt the present condition. The hunt for bodies in the woods, and thoy ling every highway and logging road, in the burned dix trict, that now covers that forty square miles, will take weeks. The state authorities should send at least 500 militiamen to toe Rainy River coun try, at once, to seek out the dend bodies, coffins te bury the deal in nd provisions to care for the living. No amonnk:of word painting coud possibly depict the horror of the conthition ard there is n well-founded belief the worst is vel to come. The 4 ) of Apsps, bhava Bo snl : fon. i = Sh that made a veritable hell at Beawd ette, Spooner, Graceton, Pitt, Will inma, Swift and Roosevelt has lost track of the Hawes and is spending its fury. The dend ave likely to fill uy marked graves unless their identity can 'he established Oy their presence near their eabing as their bodies ar charred beyond recognition, More Cheering. Warrod, Ming, Oct, 12. -This morn ing conditions are more cheering throughout the burned country. The wind did not come up with the. fall of darkness, last might, and with thy slight frost the fives have died down to a considerable extent. However, ¢ wind © rine, smatterod over a be "a month, ul thing like n conolete lint of is obtainable, Namen Are Being added to the known dend. The \eslimmbos of the number of known dead run from 400 to 500. The property loss is still estimated at over $100,000,000, Two Yi for Forgery. Cobalt, Ont, Vet. 12.~ Charles Craw. ford was, yesterday, arrested by Chief Caldback, on the charge of forging checks on his former employer. The aocused came before Magistrate Atkin: son and was sentenced to two years at' Kingston. . PAILY MEMORANDUM. Per Fh ylish hats n any shade Campbell's sell the finest made, Cheese Board, 1.30 pm, Thursday, Read Whig want advis. and save money. "Mr. Preedy and the Countess" Grand Opera House, 8.15 pm Tdmestone Lodge No. 81, AOU.W, meets Thursday evening at § o'clock. Canadian Jubllee singers, First Con- f la area it least "before { Hamilton's diy fod him with her cold GOOD A ------ ATEURS, Williams Not Getting Anything for Coming Out. Special to the Whig. Ottawa, Oct. 12. --In reference to objections to Williams playing with Ottawas, and charges of professionalism, the Citizen ways : "Of ficers of the when informed of the above, were very emphatic in welooming investigations by the governors of the Big Four. 'Our books are open to ibs vection at any time," said an officer of the club. 'Charges of professionalism, if such have been made, are ahsoluiely false, Not one player has ever ecvived a cent for his services to the Ottawa Football Chub. Our men are just as good amateurs as there are in the country, The statement reganding Fer- guson is too ridiculous to merit seri- ous attention, and as for Williams, 1, for one, am willing to take an oath that "Jack" is not getting a penny either directly ov indirectly, for com- ing out. It looks to me like a chillish scheme to cause trouble in the Initer- provincial Football Union.' " Williams practised with the team, yesterday; and did some phengmenal kicking. THREE FEET OF HAIL, Many Villages Flooded and Destroyed in Spain, Madrid, Oct 12, rigzingr in several parts of the Crops Severe sLoguns are coun- fry. tn Murcia all the crops hate Deep he towns of Lorca and Cleza and six ville wre Siooded. The water has reached a height of six to nine feet and is carrying a say eat tle and every sort of movable pro- perty, Railway amd other conymunica tion is interrupted. At the village of Torre Esteban, in the province of Toledo, hail fell depth of three feet, and tin rapes and olives, whith constituie the sole wealth of the district, were dettroyed: destroyed. to a FEET SPURNED--WIVE WINS DIVORCE. COLD Husband Objected to Them in the Middle of His Back at Nights Made Unique Plea. ~ 2D Logansport, Ind, Oct. 12.--Because her husband would not let her put her cold feet in the middle of his back to enable her to get to sleep, the courts have granted Mrs. Margaret Owens, gu divorce from Robert (hwens. Mre, Owens said her husband had become 80 fouchy he would almost crawl out of bed every time she tow font, and he hy. ' not kissed her 'in threo years. Judge Lairy held that this was cruelty. Owens put up the defence that three years ago; after a quarrel, his wife in formed / him that thereafter they "would live together only as hired girl and boarder." Using a married man, he said, he had had seruples about kissing the 'hired girl." STOPPED CIRCULATION. Stiff Shirt Front Choked Man to Death Hartlord, Conn, Oct. 12.<A stiflly starched shirt hosom and ueckband choked Frank Johnson to death, as surely as 6 hangman's rope could have done it. Waiting in his wag gon, in a shed, until rain had sub sided, ho had fallen asleep and his head had bobbed forward until his Fehin rested on his breast. Slowly the iron-like neckband acted like "a garrate. It impeded the cirpulation in the great vessels of Johnson's neck until he was unconscious. They shut off the passage of air in his wind- pipe snd choked him to death, When his shirt was taken off a deep, red impression circled Johnson's neck as if a repe had been drawn around ailonal Church, Wednesday, § pm. Admission, he, ' it with great force. Mtawa Football Club, iE HAB -SCRUPLES ===" LATEST NEWS Dispatches From Near And Distant Places GIVEN IN THE BRIEFEST POS. SIBLE FORM. Matters That Interest Everybody-- Notes From All Over--Little of Everybody Easily Read and Re membered. The university of Berlin. is brating the hundredth anniversary its foundation. The C.P.R, will huild a new line from Stratford to Grand Bend and also" to Linwood, Ont, The supposed remains of Delle El more Cvippen were buried semi-private. ly at London, on Tuesday. : The decree expelling religious orders from Portugal will not be enforced against Irish Dominicans. The department of agriculture re- ports poor vegetable particu- larly in Eastern Ontario. The annual report of Indian affairs shows a great improvement in the condition of the natives. The empioyees of the North Western railways in France are on strike, about 50,000 men being involved. Theodore Roosevelt went for u short aeroplane flight with Hoxsey, the aviator, at 8t. Louis on Tuesday. Prisoners at San Carlos fortress on Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, revolted and killed six officers. They all escap- ed. The Duke of Connaught and Princess : yan Swen doit dor Bout Aries; where the duke will officially open the new union parliament. Lady Bileen Elliot, eldest daughter of the Earl of Minto, viceroy of India, has announced ber intention of going on the stage in England. J. J, Crabbe, a former managing editor of the Toronto Star, died Mon day after a week's illness. He wae #sixty-dour years ot age. King George and Queen Mary, returned to London, from Balmoral Castle in Scotland, where they have been _smonding the season. British Columbia has shut the doo to Asiatics and positively will open it even to aid the construetion of the Transcontinental railway, cele: of crops, have not "Asiatic Inbor to work on the Grand Trunk Pacific was refused hy the British Columbia government. Ten years with ten Tashes was the sentence imposed on Herbert Helliwell, Tacmoa, un young man charged with assaulting nine-year-old Clean Walters, of Vancouver. : George H. Griffin, mmmager of the Ban of Montreal, at Sarnia, ~ died Monday nitht, from the offccts of he ing struck by an automobile on the evening of October 3rd. Sir Aemilius Irving, Toronto, who was made a Mason sixtysix . vears ago, and is now ninety-two years of age, was honored by the mother lodge on Tuesday evening. Dr. J. G. Stewart was awarded £2,150 damages in his suit against the Toronto street railway for $10,000 Smajres for having been thrown from one of that company's ears. The Canadian Northern R.R. will establish 'a repair plant and shops at Parry Sound, and proceed next Year with erection of an elevator with a capacity of at least 500,000 bushels. Dr-C. A. E. Harriss is planning to take 'the Sheffield choir on a tour of the empire, a tour which, beginning in Canada some time next March, will extend to Australia and New Zealand, : I . Your Duty to Your Dealer ie pha Spd dnc be Makeit I : Myr, Hayes' request for persiission to fold ASKS BOUNTY FOR EACH BABY. Senator MeNichol Will Introduce Bill in Legislature, Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 12 --State Senator James P. McNichol, one of the republican leaders of Pennsyivania, de claves he believes the parents of every child born in this state should receive a premium from the state. "At the next session of the legisla ture," said Senator McNichol, "41 is my intention §B introduce a bill to provide that « bounty should be paid to the parents of every new baby born in the state. "Let us inerpase our population by an increase in the birth rate rather than in the increase in the number of foreigners that come to the American shore." : PIETRO MABCAGNI, The great Italian composer, who comes to America this fall. His opera, with-be the Tirst grand ope "Ysobel," h 8 HMUPESIRIS AB Sha en: er to ha ar i A UNIQUE SERVICE TWELVE COUPLE CELEBRATE THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING. Are Feted by Town Which is Proud of Such a Remarkable Record Long-lived Germans, Brussels, Oct. 12.--<A remarkable fos- tival took place at the little town of Morbeeque, vesterday, a dozen married couples gelebrated their golden wedding. i During the lyst fortnight the quaint town, whieh nbAPE 2,000 inhahi- tants, hine been greatly excited in pre- pacing a fitting celebration of this un- paralleled event, Early yesterday morning the twelve families were serenaded in turn hy a band outside: their windows, according to their years of married life. The oldest couple are M. and Mme. Dehouilt, who have been married fifty when six years, and they headed the procesid sion of venerable, happy lovers to t church. Never hefore had such a stirring ser- 3 vice been held in the little parish church, which wag lavishly decked with flowers, and after a brief sermon on conjugal devotion, the ceremony ter- minated to the sound of the wedding march. A sumptuous banquet was given to the twelve families by the municipal councillors. "In the afternoon presents were brought to them by almost every man, woman and child in the town. DOUBLE HANGING CASE. Claims to Have Made Important Dis- covery. Toronto, Oct. 12.-A. E. N. Cres wick, K.C.; who defended Thomas Mec- Nulty at Barrie, recently, against a charge of infanticide, has made a dis- covery which. he is confident will over throw the crown's case, Mary Dolan, who, with McNulty, is 'under sentence of death for the murder of her baby, said that she received a letter in To ronto from McNulty om Good Friday at about 1:30 in the afternoon, tell- ing her to strangle the child. Mr. Creswick has acertained that there was only a morning delivery on Good Friday, and in the locality Mary was living in the muil carrier would have been through his delivery at 11:50 am. Mr. Creswick was at the at. torney-general's department. He will appeal to the court of appeal on a stated case. rary Burglar. New York) Oct. 12.-George Wright, who earned the name of "the literary burglar" through the notes he left in the homes of his victims, has been sentenced to serve twenty-one years in Sing Sing. He has served three previ- ous terms for similar offences. In nearly every house be robbed Wright left a not commending the owners on the quality of the silver he had taken or abusing them when the loot was not worth carrying away. 15 sh The Office of C. D. Shel- don in Montreal. GAME IS FINISHED THIS IS THE CONCLUSION OF MANY PEOPLE. Sheldon Had Evidently Expected to Have Kept at His Work for Some Time Longer----Demantds of the Newspapers Soer. Brought Matters to a Climax, Montreal, Oct. 12.---The offices of C. D. Sheldon, the "blind pool' opera- tor, in the City and District Savings Bank building, were closed, to-day. Al though his office stafl expect Sheldon to return, and some of his clients are still hopeful, the concensus of opinion jis thatthe game has been forced to a sudden finish by the newspaper pub- licity given * Sheldon and his methods of doing business. That he expected to be able to carry on business for, at least, 4 year or more yet, without a show-down, is evidenced by the fact that not long since he purchased a new house in Westinount; he had been living in a rented house on Hutchison street, in the city. The demands of the newspapers for an investigation, however, brought things to a climax, started a run on the office and scared away prospective depositors. With an investigation staring him in the face, which no one believes he could stand, the only thing he could do was 10 close MP... im Mrs. Sheldon, who did not accom- pany her husband when he suddenly left the city, yesterday morning, has since left, to doubtless, 'join him, and the house, on Lansdowné avenue, West- mount, is in the hands of bailiffs, as the result of seizures by creditors. The clerks who stood the brunt of affairs, yesterday, putting off anxious depositors, said they would not go through the same thing again, to- day, for any money. Robert Ironsides, a millionaire cat- tle dealer, died, this morning, alter a somewhat lengthy illness. He had been suffering from enlargement of the heart for some time, Mr. Ironsides was a member of the firm of Gordon, Iron sides & Keres, the largest dealers in cattle in the dominion. Douglas Froom, the St. Georgds choir boy, struck by an automobile, while on the way to practice, died Wodnesday morning in the Royal Vie toria hospital, His skull was fracture. ame Lajeunesse, accused of forg name of Hon. 8, N. Parent t, for $230 and $000, admitted ery and added that she had, aid of her husband and » med Samuel Parent, frandulent aimed no less. a sum than $5, within four vears. Uhegtes bad boon forged for different amounts and cashed at diffrent places. The gang got eaurht, however, when they got rid 'of a cheque for $230 upon a Mrs. St. Jacques, BURNING THEMSELVES OUT. It is Thought all Danger is Past From Forest Fires. Rainy River, Ont., Oct. 12.<The for est fires throughout the stricken dis trict are burning themselves out, though it will be some days yet be fore all danger is over. A despatch from Fort Francis says that town and International Falls, just across the river, came through the night safely, notwithstanding fires blazed around them. Both plices it is now believe are free from further dan- ger, A despatch from DBeaudette says it is thought the death list in that vicinity, will not total over fifty. It is announced that Inmber will be permitted to cross the international boundary freé¢ of duty and the lum- ber companies bave offered to out and supply lumber at cost, Merely Swelled Head. Washington, Oct. 12.--Merely be- cause a man has a badly "swelled" head is no excuse for sending him to the lunatic asylum; all inventors have "exaggerated ego," 'but are not ne cessarily insate. Such, in effect, was the verdict passed upon the mental condition of John W. Currell, an inventor of aerial torpedoes, whom alionists declared had that peculiar | brand of lunacy called "exaggerated ego." Former Barrie Man Dead. Winvipeg, Oot. 12. After 8 weck's illness in the General Hospital, A. M. Campbell of Stovewall, Man., dud, Tuesday of pneumonia. He came here thirty years ago from Harrie, later was prinapsl of Edmonten high school, buy the soil recalled him and he became a successful amd prominent agrioulturist. » iiss n---------- First Wheat Over G.T.P. Fort William, Oct. 12--The first trainload of wheatsover the G. T. P. arrived yesterday, and js be un Joaded at the G.T.P. elevator; were thirty-#ix ¢ars on the trip, whi was without event. ini -------------- Sheriff of Bruce Dead. . Walkerton, Oct. 12-0. ¥. Pathe, shoriff of the county of Breuer, died on ga. He wad six: ep pe CRUSHING IT OUT. An Uprising in Spain Will Be Sup. pressed, Madrid, Oct. 12.--The Spanish gov- erument is making its final stand to stamp out, with military force, the first signs of the threatened uprising to-morrow (Farrier day), the anni- versary. of the execution of the teacher and liberal leader. The anarchists from all countries, many from Ameri en, lured by the hope of complete overthrow of law and order, have come to Spain to take advantage of the impending revolt of republicans and allied forces against the throne of King Alonso, Premier Canalejas de- clares. YEAR FOR BRUTAL ASSAULT, ---- Magistrate Severe With Young Man. Merrickville, Ont., QOet. 12.-Milton Whiting, a young man from Montague, about two miles from Merrickville, was arrested on a charge of assault, preferred by his step-father, Thomas Morris. One day last week while at work drawing 'in corn Whiting ats tacked Morris with a heavy stick, fell- ing him to the ground. After re viewing the evidence the magistrate committed the prisoner to the tral prison for ome year and recom: mended that the provineinl authori ties make an examination as to sanity. Mevrrickville Cer his ARRESTED AS SPIES. Army Officers in Russia Get Into Trouble. Moscow, Oet. 12.--Lieut. the Prussian army, closely following the Russian army manoeuvres in the neighborhood of Moscow, was arrested a few days ago, an suspicion of being a spy. Lieut. Wenzel, another I'rus sian officer, who ealled at Lieut Heinze"s lodging to see him after his arrest, was also taken into custody Both prisoners deny the charge of Heinze, of CRIPPEN INDICTED THE GRAND JURY RENDERED A DECISION. : Miss Le Neve Indicted as an Acces sory After the Fact--Her Severest Punishment Will be Imprisonment London, Oct. sitting in Old Bailey retarned an indictment H. Crippen with murder in degree for the death of his Belle Elmore, the music hall 12.<The grand jury, court, to-day, charging H the first wife, wing er. Miss Ethel Clare Leneve, Crippen' companion in bis flight to Canada, was indicted on the charge of being an accessory after the fact of the murder in that she had guilty know! edge that a crime had been com mitted, Under the indictment Crip pen, if convicted, may be hanged but Miss Leneve's severest punishment would be a prison term. The young woman thus escapes any possibility o a death sentence. PITH OF THE NEWS, ---- The Very Latest Culled From Al Over the World, At Campbeliford and Stirling, chees sold at, 1lic. The Indian affairs department re ports the Indian population of Can ada as 111,043, a decrease of 446 in the year. There were 2,499 births and 2,102 deaths. Constables 1.. Charbonneau and F, Campenu, Hull, Que, were committed for trial, on the charge of, forcibly enterivz the house of Basil Ewing, with the intention ¢f committing 4 crime, St. Thomas church vestry, Delloville has agreed to sell to the Noard of Education paxt of the church proper ty on Uhwich streot, required as An addition to the grounds of Queon Yictoria School, The public health conference between federal and provincial officials opened at the conservation commission of fices, Ottawa, to-day, with Hen, Clif ford Sifton presiding. All the pro vince# were represented. Rev. R. B. Cochrane, Knox dhurch, Woodstock, has declined the offer of the of Sit ion of assistant to Rev. E, D. McLaren, secretary of the Presly teria home miswion board, as he wishes to remain in his present charge. Aviator Ferguson fell thirty feet, when bis m lane capsized. in mid air, during a flight at the Aviation tournament at Belfast, Ireland, and was critically injured. Ferguson's ma chine was caught by a gust of wind and the aviator lost control. The monoplane was wrecked. It is stated that the Welland canal enlargement and cut-off scheme is to be abandoned owing to. quicksand beds along the proposed route and that estimates will be prepared for new canal runniog from about six miles west of Port Colborne to the mouth of the Jordan river, _twenty- two miles. 4 The action of The confederstion of railway unions to tie up every rail way system in France, foveing the stagnating strikes from the North Western md Western railways to all the lines owned by the states affects more {han & gmatier of a million men and 2500 miles of railway lines. Twa Chatham Dove are in ou tion au the result Aha contents a geart Bottle of bey" they had found. inghon Bisse i, fourteen years, re- conseiousness after twenty+ boy, Van Solo Oct. 12--A woman the ste ter is [at WEATHER PROBALILITY™™ Toronto, Ont, Oct. 12, 10 a.m Ottawa Valley and Upper St. Lawreaoo Fresh north-west to porta winds, Wee and decidedly cool to-day and on Thursday. Sharp frosts to-night. Knit Underwear Sensation You are expecting sométhing bet- ter---even better than the bargains you got here just a year ago. Yom won't be disappointed Our buyer has turned the markets inside out to prepare for the Knit Underwear rash, which always starts about thls time. Women and Children's Woollen, Cotton and Union Drawers, | kon he - Etc. Vests and Drawers For Women. Very spocial lines in natural color at 83¢ and S0c. Extra Quality in White at 75c¢, Women's Combinations Special values In Cotton at $00 and The. Union Garments at $1.50. White Wool Garments at $2.00 and $3.00, Girls' Combinations at 87 1-9¢. Children's Underwear In natural and white, all sizes, 25¢ to 78¢c. Black Tights from 45¢ to $1.00, STEACY'S BORN. HUNTER---At Isle of Mann, Ont, on Oct, 1ith, 1910 Mr. ahd Mrs, Wiliam Hunter, a to son MARRIED, CHAMBERLAIN TOLHURST in Kingston, an Monday, October 10th 1810, in St. George's Cathedral, by Res. Canon Starr, Florence Mabie eldest daughter of Wm. Tolhurst of Kingston, to George Chamber kin, of Belleville, DIED, Sydenham, en Ont M, Purdy aged 21 years Winnipeg and Fort Vilifam papers please copy BHERIDAN~In Kingston on Oct. 11th, 1910, Joseph M. Shegidan, fourth son of the late George Bheridan, Brock ville, aged 44 years, Interment will take place in family lot in that city, ROBERT J, REID, The Leading Undertoker. "Phone 577. 280 Princess Btreet. JAMES REID 254 and ana n Phone th, PURDY In 110, G TAKE ROTOR. Just got in a Jot hi different kinds of Farniture, especia y Dressers, al Jsssonalie prices, S. "Phones FOND OF COFFEE? TRY OUR Java and Mocha Blend PRICE, 40 CENTS, Absolutely Pure. Sound whiie you walt, Roasted on the premises. Jas. Redden & Co. IMPORTERS OF FINE GROCERIES. At Henfrow, the death cocutred Mon. fay of Maurice OVBrien, frame typhoid fever, eontradtel whild wi in Cobalt. He ix the son of Maurice 1F- Brien, a Insmer of Bagot, and was twdinty vears i for piercing of Bewt's, brass