oh YEAR 77--NO, 248 ily B KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, ish 1910. oy W 19 LAST BuItiun EE ---- SWEDT HAI A Great Disaster on Is- chia Island. MANY LIVES LOST SEVERE CLOUD BURST IN BAY ! OF NAPLES. IN NEXT BUDGEY Japin Adds $40,000,000 to Espedi- tures for Navy, Tokio, Oct, 25.-Count Katsura, the premier and minister of finance, speak- ing at a dinner of the Associated Clearing Houses, outlined the next budget briefly and said that the gov ernment would faithfully adhere to the policies already followed. Ihe only new feature in the next budget will be an appropriation for naval increase, amounting to £40,000, 000, payable in six vears. This, the finance minister eaid, has been heceisi- tated by the , sheer requirements of maintaining peace. The damages caused by the recent flood and the annexalion of Korea, he added, would not materially affect the next budget, which would be compiled without recourse to a loan. He dé And Vesuvius Emitted Streams of Mud, Burying Several Families-- Fleet of Warships is Being Hur- vied to Scene of Disaster. Rome, Oct. 25. Confused and incom- plete reports have reached the howe office of a great disaster at Ischia, the capital of the Island of Ischia, wix- teen miles south-west of Naples in the Mediterranean. Direct news are lack- , bui, according to the latest re- orte, a hurricane struck the island at our o'clock, yesterday morning, and destroyed that half the island op posite Procida. Hundreds of lives reported to have been lot. There was a severe cloud burst over the Bay of. Naples during the night, The sea heaved violently and even large steamships in the bay were al- fected, At the same time, Vesuvius emitiod streams of mud and two fami lies were buried at Torre Del Greco, at the foot of the mountain! Five bodies have been recovered, Loss of lite is alveyeported from Ce: tara, on the Bay of Saltern. Great damage was done at Rewina, built an the ruins of Herculuneum, ns well ns at Torre Del Greco. A street in the are ! clared also th original plan of at the redeeming bond amfounting to not less than ¥25,000,000 nnually would not be altered. Y The speaker pointed out signs of ae tivity in the various industries and commerce, statistics showing that the new undertakings and the extension 'of existing business from Jamdary , to September last, represent capital of $151,000,000, Count Katsura emphasized Japan's friendly relations with the powers and her determination to maintain pence in the far east, SEPP EPLPEPPPPPOPPPPR LEP IPE * + BUT ONLY A JOKE. IL, Oet, Four friends of a young bridegroom named Heep, captured him right after his wedding yesterday and chain- ed him in a hotel room, caus- ing the bride prostration, "from which she died. They only did it as a Joke. ar 20.~ Danville, PEEPS EIPENe SEPP 24040309 | : : latter town was almost completely de- stroyed, The mayor of Tassamicsiobs: graphs that his town has been de. stroyed. The telegraph adds that! there are mpny victims and that help in urgently "needed, As a result of | this plea, the governm:nt has sent x of warships, consisting of three battleships and four crufwers, with in structions to hurry to the scene of the disaster' with all provisions and 150d | available. Troops also have .been bur- ried to the stricken city, CHARING CROSS BANK. amp A Statement of Assets and Liabifi- phe ng Crom bank. which its on 17th, has issuod a statement of the of: fairs of that institution. The number of lita - Shaut 25,00, and Mr. LL liabilities at L000. The assets include £133. in cash, £60,000 in book debts , and securities and proper- tion of the value of £156,000, The Tat. ter include in the Gaspe lumber trading mills and saw mills, 40,000 of freshold land, timber rights and other properties at Gaspe valued at £60,000. There are also shares of nt 0 company aad about £300,000 warth of . first mortgage de bentures and all the common stock of the Atlantic, Queboe and, Western ail Iatpenter's expenditures om this are stated to have been £1,250, NO ENEMY OF PROSPERITY. Any More Than the Policoman Is. Ithaca, 3.4 Oct. tol. Roose: volt repeated, in a speech, his that John A. Dix is a member ol the wall paper trust. He said in tending Stone Thrown From Roof, Nw Fork Oot FE Wilkiem Mev Mahon, thirteen, was killed by a paving block thrown from the rool of No, 220 East Tweniy-ninth street, The bov's death was the result of a feud between boys on the East Side and the killing is believed to have been done by a lad about the age of e one killed. Policeman Sommers weni'fd the roof, but there was no one 'there and those in the house said they bad heard no one on the rool. STARTLING NEWS FSPAPER OFFICES BLOW UP; Se -- Prediction by Labor Official of De- struction in Denver Offices Where Strike is Causing Alarm, Denver, Oct. 25.--Prediction by a national official of a labor union, that the buildings of three local news papers, whose pressmen are on strike, will 'encounter destruction before the publishers win, has startled the Den- ver. Trades and Labor Assembly. Wa The Very L Culled From Al RE ota "the 'World. HIGH MORTALITY. Cholera Kills Insane in an Asylumn in aly. Rome, Oct. cholers occurred during the past twen- | ty-four hours among the patients in the asylum for the insane at Aversa, | in the provinee of distance from Naples. The mortality among the insane at this asylum has been very high during the past two weeks, and a majority of | ) fai the patients have suceumbed to the | A PRISONER'S WARD 5 Iu the city of Naples there have been | no new cases and, no new deaths re ported in the past twenty-four hours, but eight new cases developed in the provinces, one in Campobasso, four in Caserta, two in Naples and one in Rome. ------------ 30d eetevee YEP PPE PIES * LAVA DESTROYED THEM. THK 17 001 Judge Declined to Admit the Plea. WOULD NOT SEN- HIM. BUT JUDGE TENCE Because His Plea of Guilty Meant the } Death Sentence----""You Had Better Defend Yourself" Was the Ad- monition of Judge as He Ordered Remand, Chicago, Oct, 25.--For a man avow- edly guilty of taking the life of a friend, the deed being done in a fit of anger following a dispute over a po- litical job, the law offered no elemency to-day, An ominous warning to fight Iris case to the end, for the court pur- posed to abide by the Mosaic law and | expect a life lor a life, was given bh. " Judge Kersten, and when the court : ' 1 | sent for a lawyer for defence the con- | fessed murderer resisted, 3 3 ! "1 am guilty' said Thomas Bent, | whose crime, thus confessed, wus the | slaying of Daniel F, Cummins, store ; keeper at the county hospital, én Au gust 10th, 5 HE i "It will do you no good to plead 3 | guilty," said Judge Kersten, severe | ly. "Under the conditions I advise . you to defend yoursell if you ean." "I don't eare what the penalty is." » | reiterated the prisoner; sullenly, 'I i : am guilty. [I shot Cummins. 1 am . { not asking the mercy of the court." 4 ! "I could sentence you to death on that statement," Judge Kersten said. Take time to consider, . You. . had rf better withdraw that plea and let me appoint a lawyer for you," "No: a lawyer can do me no good," Bent said, without a change of coun tenance, "Pm guilty." With anagther severe admonition from the court Pent was taken away to think over his predicament, and bailiff was sent to proeure a lawyer, Felix Streyckmans was appointed gounsel' for Prent, and he at length succeeded in persuading him to enter a plea of not guilty. Rome, Oct. 25.-- Vesuvius is breaking out again, and at least ten persons were kill- ed in the overflowing lava to-day. Whole families are leaving the district, > PEEPLEPEPIE F PREP IIREOPY | ®| *| a * *, TRE P Ete POWERS, Hamilteh, Ont. M. A President Y.M.C. A, OVER A LAMP 10 ' GURSTS, Clayton Man's Little Joke Sends Him to Hospital for Operation--There Was an Explosion, Watertown, N.Y., Oct, 25. Dr. G. D. Gregor operated on the hand of Harry PITH OF THE NEWS, Hon, W. R. Ross, minister of lands, a in the Pritish Columbia government, wal elected at Fernie by 200 over JJ. W. Bennett. The library of the late Robert Hee, New York, of printing press fame, will be sold shortly. It is valued at a mils lion and a half, | The New American altitude record. speaker was Albert BB. Kreitler, thied | Vice-president printing pressmen and assistants union of Novth America. : "1 tell you the buildings will blow up belore this thing is settled the way the publishers want to settle it," said. Forsons who attended the assembly directed attention to the seemingly eareful phrasing of the prediction particularly that Kreitler did not say the buildings "would be blown up." TAKING UP MATTER. Hoping to Soon Begin Reciprocity Negotiations, Washington, Oct. from the court's decision he has Huo that these were 'the words of a judge. on the bench, and not his words, Taft's action in immediately taking up the matter of Canadian reciprocity co- of the internation] | Start | i { * 263,923,000 bushels; 25. President' Ji A. Drexel, at New York, climbed in his Bleriot until his baragraph re- gistered 7,100 feet, which establishes a Blanchard, a young man of Clayton, at the city hospital, removing several | pieces of cartridge which were imbod- ded in the hand following an explosion at the yaung man's home the ether night, Blanchard had a blank cartridge which he had secured during the Pine Plains manoeuvres. It is said that he was holding it over uw lamp attempting to frighten some guests, when the thing exploded and tore Blauchurd's A Houston, Texas, man offers to a gas engine factory in Sarnia if the council will give him a free site and exemption from taxation. Thomas Holmes, a negro, was sen- eed to five years in Dorchester penitentiary for a criminal assault on Nellie McAllister, a white woman, at $ : 3 25.--Seven deaths from | Caserta, a short | Arc the Prospects For the British Elections. BOTH SES. QUET WHAT THE VETO CONFERENCE MAY END IN. Larger and More Comprehensive Constitutional Council--A De. claration May be Made Early Next Month. London, Oct. There is a recoil from a general election or wid Candidates do not like idea. of paying election bills in two succhssive Jannaries, especially when there is only a slender chance of alter ing the relations of the parties, The unionists admit that they are not likely to gnin more than twenty sogts on a premature appeal to the coun try, while the radicals assert that they are in better fighting condition than their adversaries aud - that they can win back twenty or thirty seats. There is a growing belief that 25. strong 1 both the the | Veto conference will end in a proposal for a larger and more representative constitutional council. Lord Cawdor and Augustine Birrell are reported to be acting as a subcommitiee, and Lord Curzon and Lord Roschery are said to be working with them inform ally. What is expectod by the mode- rate liberals and tories is a declara- tion by Premier Asquith and Mr. Bal four about the middle of next month that the issues are too large for set 4 Mesnond by arourids GaNIN CS deference] of eight men, although the results of the series of meetings have been en- rouraging and substantial progress has been made in the direction of peace, An agreement on the financial or budget question, may be reported, and a recommendation may be made for the referetice of a series of proposi- tiong relating to reform of the lords, the sipeeiacy of the commons, gene ral legislation, home rule for Ire- land, Wales and Scotland, and the re presentation of the colonies in an im: perial council to appoint committee of both houses. This area ent would defer the for a festive coronation and held wp the constitutional settlement until the colonial conference is out of the way, This solution is more acceptable to the tories than to the radicals. Mr, Balfour could safely commit the union- ist pa¥ly to it in spite of the active skirmishing of the forwards, while Premier Asquith's authority would be heavily strained in putting it into op- eration. He might not succeed in holding the advanced radicals, and he would certainly meel strenuous re sistance from the labor and Irish groups, ------------------ THE CAPTAIN FINED. Failure to Report Illness on His Vessel. ~ Sheffield, N.B. The wheat crop in four European countries is thus estimated : France, Italy, 153,339,000; Roumania, 110,863,000; Great Britain and Ireland, 56,075,000. Re James Lawson and his sister Bessie ware out fishing at Gore Bay. They looked a big one. In their excitement their canoe upset, and they were near ly drowned. Mes, Thomas Wilson, Manitou, Mich., was running a grist mill in the absence of her sick husband. Her clothes hand quite badly. REFUSED HIS SALARY. i Heirs. } Washington, Oct. 25.--There is more' than $4,000 in the United States trea- sury placed to the credit of the late David B. Hill, awaiting the action of | the executors of the edtate of the de- | ceased statesman. It is doubtful if the executors will get the money, as the senator himsel withdrawn, Quebee, Oct, 25.--For failing to re port cases of sickness on board his vessel on trips from European ports Over Four Thousand Dollars for His!t0, thei St. Lawrence of late the cap- | of the Thomson line steamship condemmed to nearly $600 in fines and costs in the court of special sessions, Quebec. Twenty-one different charges were laid against the captain, and on fourteen of these he was condemned, the other fifteen being Heo. was fined $20 and costs in each of the fourteen cases pro- secuted, tain Cairnrona was FURTHER OF months, vlear the air' EXPRESSED REGRET That Italians are Figuring in Court Cases, Braceoridze, Ont., Oct. 25-~The trial of Joseph Hisani, an Itahan, charged with the murder of Dommeelli a fellow countryman, on June 15th, ik Foote's Bay, Lake Joseph, took place at the assizos, here, this morn- wz. The alleged murder of Dommeelli was the result of a row in an Malian camp of railway navies and Pom- meelli is said to have belonged to the Black Hawd. Judge Riddell, in chars ing the jury, said three verdicts could 90 given upon the evidence, namely murder, manslaughter or not guilty and he expressed regret that Italians were 80 frequently firuring in crimes of violence. The jury returned at twelve o'clock with a verdict of "not guilty." reehrieieidiacanie VERY ENTHUSIASTIC Over the Plans for Local Campaign. . Ambersthurg, Ont, Oct. ~All de nominations were represented at ap enthusiastic meeting oi those interest. ed in the submission of a local op tion by-law and those present unanim ously decrded to take the necessary steps to bring the question to a vote at the municipal electicnms on Janu ary 2nd, 1911. Petitcns are now be ing circulated asking the council to suomit the by-law. It was also decid ed to carry on a literature campaign, Option 0. PtP P OEP | GUILTY KNOWLEDGE. East St. Louis, Ill, Oct 256.--Confessing to guilty knowledge of several mysteri- ous murders in various cities of the United. States and Canada, a man giving the name of Lee Rhodus, has given himself up to the police. PEPE POP RRS EP 244900300004 | : & 3 2 ® May Know Something. Toronto, Oct. 25.--~Walter J. Bell and Charles G. Jones, arrested for nousc-breaking and with ou number of charges azainst them, were arraigned in police court, this wiorning, avd ro mandad until to-morrow. The author. ities heliove the two men may know something about the marder of 4 Chinaman, at Streetsville, last Jue, and are investigating. ETHEL IS SET FREE A CENTRE OF INTEREST IN THI ' COURT. She Was Arraigned in Old Bailey Court and in a Sweet, Low Voice] Pleaded "Not Guilty"--The Jury's Verdict. London, Oet, Siylishly attired in a modish gown of deep blue and wearing a jaunty automobile jacket, and a heavy veil, Miss Ethel Clare Le neve, the sweetheart of Dr. HH. 11. Crip pen, was arraigned in the Old Bailey court, this morning, charged with be ing an actessory, after the fact, in the {murder of Belle Fimore-Crippen Miss Leneve's slim, girlish figure was the centre of interest as she stood be fore the bar, and, in a weet low voice, replied to the court's interroga ition as to how she would plead, "Not | * " guilty, my lord. | Lord Chief Justice Alverstone, who heard: Crippen's case, and sentenced the American to death, was a stern {and solemn figure in his black robes as the opened court. | It was believed by solicitors who have followed the éase of Crippen, that i Miss Lenove will got off. Barrister Arthur Newton appeared as chief counsel for the girl Miss Leneve was, this a'ternoon, found innocent of being an accessory {to the murder of Belle Elmore, 25. * WEATHER RONALD © Toronto, Ont, Oct, 3 tawa Valley and Up North-west winds ng Wednes day, westerly winds falr and ailig * -- Evening Gloves and - Hosiery par-excellence * * 0» Months ago when Gloves could be bought muc cheaper than now our buyer, ever on the slert; made his selections, and to-day we are able to offer you the very best grads. EVENING KID GLOVES At the ucual second-grade prices WHITE KID GLOVES, 12, und 18 Dution lengths, At $1.95, $2.00 and $8.50, A saving of from 25e to 50¢ per pair, 8, LONG SILK GLOYES, Sky, Pink, Creme, White Binek, 3c, £1.00, $1.23 and $1.37. and FINE SILK HOHE, Pink, 1lelln, Champazne, Crome and White. Sky NEW FRENCH SILK HOSE, Made of the finest Glove Silk with double spliced heels and toos, Colors, Sky, Pink, Creme, Hello ahd White, $2 QUALITY AT $1.75. + + 9 NEW QUARTERLY Winter Style Book Depicting and emphasising the Am- nal erican fashions for Arica. and Canadian Women and Childraad Is ore. a Price, 20c, with cottpon, for any 15¢ Pattern, CALL AND GET ONG. + STEACY"S mt Aa ------ + BORN. BIMPSON-<1Lh Kingston, af # Bay Biroet, Oct. 24th, 1819, fo r. find Mrs. R. J. Simpson, a dsuhter EN DIED, MeNAUGHTONS-Suddenly,. at ari hus, uskoka, on October 24th, 1910, W [x MeNsughton, aged 53 sears Interment Bracebridge * & JAMES REID FPoone MT Hor Amhotums' PARLOR SUITE, Two Setess, Rocker, Arm and Spelt Chair, in Birch, Mahogany, and w Silk coverings. In best of conditisy, $25.00, at TURKS. "Phone 105 refused to accept it, but it is on the government's - book as belonging to him none the less. The amount was placed to his credit as salary as a senator, dating from his election. He did not resign his position as governor, hawever, until some time afterwards, and on the 1 have been called the enemy of fincidently with his a-rival in Wash- [enought in the machinery and she was ho m Prosperity, WERE ASSASSINATED, " he cried, "1 am not more 'ington, has confirmed reports already [badly injured and may die, the enemy of prosperity than the pu. disseminated to the effect that new A Montreal child found a skull in liceman is the enemy of prosperity," negotiations are to be strongly urged. | Westmount and Played with it as & He said he knew Hoiiry Stimson, | It is now believed that preliminaries stick. This led to the discovery of the know him to be the right man (will be undertaken while the president jremaing of a female under a clump of for governor. 'The colonel in la m- is away on his visit to Panama, and bushes. The bones were gnawed clean basted Dix as the wroature of Tam- that an effort will be made to SUBSTITUTED ANOTHER, Negroes on Way to Wedding Cut 'i, Down, Wheeling, W.Va., Oct. 25. Negroes, on their way to a wedding, are he lieved to have been dssassinatod last Picked Out Fine Ring and Put in Another, Toronto, Oct, 25.-~A man, giving the name of Mooney, who first said he was an actor, and, later, said he Ou get a by rats. Police are investigating. many Hall. of Canada's -------------- ; terms before President Tait' gets back : to the United States. = Okla. Det, iii} It ix believed that this will pat tho | Refusal of raed Eo o wiltn, berations definite understanding exeoutive in a position to get definite advice and aid from foreign niiairs leaders in the senate, while later de- are proceeding, and it now Proballle that the scene of ne Washington d ¥ wi _ trome ground that he could not receive two salaries he refused the money. AN INSANE MOTHER. Baby Found Strangled in Case Be- hind Door. Philadelphia; Oct. 25.-Strangled and locked in a suit case to die, a baby, a tly only a day old, was fonad pohin door leading to the trainshnd on Broad street station. The child died six hours later in the Hahnemann hospital. The slayer of the child is thought to have been its mother, and the brutal soldiers igs of the' crime is such that Capt. Souder, of the detectives, believes that she must have been insane. i have a ipti FEAR REVOLT OF TROOPS. Soldiers to Accept Leave of Absence, Lishon, Oct. 25.--The republican gov: ernment is somewhat uneasy over the attitude of the regiments which made the revolution possible. Alfbough not openly insubordinate, the soldiers, flushed with victory, are showing ex: 1 nee dnd are champion: Was a ® er, was arrested on Yonge street, this forenvon, while admiring a ting he obtained at B. and H, B, Kent's jewelery stove. It is claimed Mooney purchased dane ring valuod at #50 and made a devosit of 82.50 on it and while the salesman was ml looking picked up a ring worth #150 and substituted a cheap one for it. HAD FINE EYESIGHT. putation, Amherstburg, Ont, Oct. 25. Walter Venu, ¥, thirty-titres years of agé; and bo , by all captuine under whom he had worked, as one of the hest wheelmen on the freat lakes, is dead. Henley had remarkable eyesight which cnsbled him: to . out the names and details of boats when they were not much more than specks on the water to others. A --------------------. > § OnE £ & A Wheelman Who Had High Re night. The body of Samuel Houston, who was driving a earriage containing six other colored persons, wae found lying in a pool of blood in the-road wav, near Grafton, shortly alter mid night. It had been riddled with bul lots. No trace could be found of the six other persons, and from ovidences of a desperate struggle the polices theory is that all were carried into the woods and lynched. CALLED TO SERVICE, Belgian Residents in Canada Are Now Required. Chatham, Oat, Oct, 25. Belgian residents ; have received orders yan the hame governmmt to report at Antwerp for military service. 7 is In Deved the call on reserves inflicates a fear of the Belgian government that the Portugal revolution will be fo) lowed by disturbances in. Belgiom. A Doctor Dead. Hamilton, Unt, Oct. 25.-Pr. Bills Laugh, a well-known Hamilton physi. cian, died, thie morning. He war born in Grenville county and for the past thirty years had been a resident of Hamilton, 'Queen r Bee' Tea Has just artived from Ceylon after a loug and vesailous de- lay. No, 4, 80 Cents. No. 8, 80 Cents, Jas. Redden & Co IMPORTERS OF FINE GROORRIRS a ---- Former Governor After Big Raflws BC, Os, B.A sit which will aggregate about a million dollars fas been brotl fit against Will. iam MacKenzie, of Toronto, Ow James Dansnuic, former Heatenant- governor. of British Uslambis, The wuit arises frome (he sale of the Dunsmuir coal propértise to Willidm MacKenzie, on Jing 17th, 1910, the price being fixed ot $11,000,000, This was paid, and the p ed duly handled over; nt it was , that the mining experstr Trim tv 10th to J Treh should be peid hy the owner, MacKenrie, who Vietoria, viol