YEAR 77-NO. 257 1.5. ELECTIONS They Come ¢ Offi in Forty- Four States. T0-MORROW THE DAY YORK STATE CONTEST 1s OF INTEREST HERE, NEW The Republicans Are Hopeful That the Upstate Vote Will Elect Stim- son as it Did Hughes Two Years Ago--The Democrats are Equally Sure of Victory, Washington, D.C. Nov, will be hetd in forty four states next Tuewony. In several states the pro. og to adopt statewide prohibition he paramount issue. I Florida wotes in the affirmative it will mean a solid "dry" south. Hf Missouri adopts the measure it will abolish the sale of intoxicating lquor in St, Louis, the fourth largest city of the country. It is the first tiroe in many years since a city of the firsh class has been men- aced with such a restriction, Reversing the usual order of Oklahoma electors will vote question of substituting local and high license for statewide hibition. Four states--Oregon, Washiniton, Oklahoma, and South Dakota~-are vote on a constitutiona! amendment _ granting the right of suffrage to wo men, 7 Flee tions things on the option pro to EE ----_---- In New York State. New York, Nav. 7.4 majority for John A. Dix of not less than 100,000 i the final prediction to-day of Will fam F. Rodie of the executive comenit tee of the democratic state committee, a consultation with State Chair man Huppuch. Huppueh thinks the gure w I reach 150,000, Giriscom believes that the plur ality of John A. Dix, the democratic eandidate for governor, in New York county will not be more tnan 10,000, Although Mr, Griscom's political jur- isdiction does not embrace all of the L frester city, he said that roughly : Sieakivg, ha thought Dis' 8 plurality in five boroughs wouli not be over | 70,000, giving him the most liberal fn 1908, New York county gave : and id cw earcied the greater city by 59,901, Republican leaders de | ghare that the vote upstate will be en. gh Lo elect Stinton ax it did Hughes POUNDING TO PIECES, A Great Schooner is Wrecked in Heavy Gale. London, Nov. 7.-The fivemasted ship, Preussen, the largest sailing ves- in the world, lies wrecked in Crab whe Dover, where she is pounding on rocks in a fieree south-west gale. crow are still aboard, it being im- Jhostible on actount of the heavy sea, : wench her. At eleven o'clock Sat- urday night, the Preussen was in col with the ecross-chunnel steamer ton, bound for Dieppe, from New Haver, with pinety gers. The steamer was dl or damaged, foe returned safely to New Haven. Preussen lost her bowsprit and jib boom and possibly sustained other damage. She drifted away in the darkness and was flung ashore in a The storm shows no signs of abat- ing and it is belioved the crew can: mot hold ont much longer. Life boats and tags are still hovering about the NV Helen Ontario Milk Legislation. Toronto, Nov. 7.<Pure. milk legisla: tion will follow the report of the § provincial milk commission. At the | next session of the legislature, W. K., 'McNaught, for North Toronto, will again champion this cause. It was is y petivily that the govern intod the milk commission. 'RVIVORS Of Crew of Forty and Three Passen- gers, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Nov. 7. Two seamen, the sole survivors, ar- rived here and told of the loss of the Anglo-Algerian liner Kirdistan, off Rielly, October 20th. The steamer car- ried a crew of forty, The owners stats three women were the only passengers on the Kurdistan, when the steamer left Manchester. The survivors roached here On German steamer Santa Ursala, The Kurdistan was long overdue at Mar milles, and Saturday the owners sent a Vessel 10 search for her. She sailed from Manchester, on Océtober 17th, and the fact that she Lad foundered was the first intelligence since received. The survivors were drifting in a life boat when, on (tober 21st, they were picked wp by the Pritish ship Vio cent, which transferred them to the Santa Ursula on November 2nd. The Kurdistan was of 1,741 ONLY TWO 8 the tons, Fintter: and was commanded by Capt, Man ning. United States is Asked to Intervenc AND SAVE CRIPPEN PHILADELPHIA YER IS DOING. He Declares That Crippen's Wife, Whom it is Alleged He Put to Death and Cut to Pleces, is Alive and Will be Found in the Vicinity of Chicago. WHAT A LAW. Crippen's hanging - postponed Nov. 23rd. Philadelphia, Pa.; Nov. 7.--Francis Tracy Tobin, a prominent attorney, of this city, left for Washington, D.C., at midnight, last night, to demand that the state department intervene and save Dr. Harvey Hawley Crip from death on the gallows, Tuesday morning, on the ground that Mrs, Belle Ellmore-Crippen is still living. Mr. Tobin will request that the secre tary of state cable at onte to the Am- erican ambassador, asking that th fon the: howe Sesrutarystoh Great Britain to order a stay of exe: catign untif Mrs. Crippen can be pro- duced in the flesh. Botore leaving he said : 'Belle Elmore still lives. When she is found it will be in the vicinity of Chicago, where she is in hiding. 1 have letters in my possession from people who know her and who have seen her since she is said to have been murdered by her husband and her body buried in his London home." A Big Reward. New York, Nov. 7.=~To back belief that Pelle Elmore, the wife of Dr. Harvey Hawley Crippen still lives, Dr. J. M. Munyon, Philadelphia, has offered a reward of 830000 to anyone who will produce her. "T will | even pay it to the woman herself," he said, "if she will come forward in time his 1S SHE ALIVE ? KINGSTON, ONTARIO, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, MAYPAYTHEM British House May Grant an Indemnity FOR ITS MEMBERS LABOR PARTY IS SEEKING SOME RELIEF. THE Vital Question to be Taken up at Coming Session of Parliament---- Necessary to Reténtion of Labor Element, 7.~The coming wes. sion of parliament will, in many re Spe in, be one the most interesting England has ever witnessed, so many re the vital questions to be taken up, of all these probably none is of more practical importance than the payment of the members of the House of Commons, a guestion that has been pushed into the . front rank hy the now famous Osborne judgment, which refused the labor unions the right use their money for political campaign «penises, and to pay the labor mém bers in the for their work. The judgment of the court has cane wd a violent excitement in labor cir cles, and the demand was made that the government, political exist ence, to a certain extent, depends on labor support, must bring forward a bill granting the labor unions the right to use their money for political purposes. A hill of this kind will hardly be able to pass through House of Commons, as it jis constita- ted now, and, if it does, it will surely be kitled in the House of Lords. A solution has to be found, ever. To drive the representatives London, Nov. of but to house whose how- of ALLAN A. RYAN, Son of the noted financier, Thomas F Ryan ite managed the great inter- national aviation meal ceimont Park, New York at House of Commons afford to sit of the gues labor out of the because they cannot thore, ix, of course, out to save her husband." "I believe," continued Dr. Munyon, t who _formegly employed © vippen, "that i either the woman is hiding to carry out one of the most consummate | revenges in the annals of jealousy o else' 'that she has carried an vr ing game too far. I have received let- ters from persons who know re, | Crippen, telling me that they have soon hor alive in this country within the last few weeks. 1 never could be persuaded that Crippen killed his wife, He waz too Nap too gentle a pntle a man." BURNED HERSELF PUNISHED IN JAIL, SHE FIRED HER DRESS, Canton Prisoner Ignited Her Gare ments When Put in a Dark Cell for Misbehaviour, Canton, N.Y. Nov. 7.--Placed in a darkened cell in' the pasemamt of the county jail here, heeause her screams were making the night hideous for other prisoners, Steda Gladle, Ozdens- burg, produced a secreted match and wet ig to her dress, tervibly Lurning a Emmett Reynolds discovered the woman beford the flames coukl envelop her, and by dashing x bucket of water on the biting garments undoubtedly saved bet life. The Gladle woman is serving ao six-months sentence assaulting i She parties are, with more or tion, and both great therefore, advocating less sincerity, the payment of the Frsen representatives of the people, The governmpnt will hardly oppose this sowtion, which was already gested by Gladstope in a conversation with John Morley in 15891, but what is more remarkable that even the ultra conservative press, like the Morning Post, is in fdvor of it, Mr, Raliour has not said anvibhing vet, but it is more than likely that Austen Chamberlain, who tries to imitate his father in everything, even in appear- ance, may champion the cause Joseph Chamberlain fought for twemtyive years ago. At any rate, the question will sure Iv come up for discussion in the House of C ommons, and the demand made by the Chartists in 1837, and which was then considered revolutionary, may be carried through in 1910 with the aid of conservalive voles, FAMINE FOLLOWS STRIKE, Government Showing Alarm--Fear a an Uprising. . Madvid, Nov. 7.--The general strike jroclaimed several dave giro has be cont so serfols in the commercie' and 'manufnsturing districts that the gov- ernment is showing more alarm than it did over the outbreaks of last year. Thousands of workers are out. » In Sabadell, where the xeneral strike order was obeyed almost to a man, there is 'amine, and the discoatented and Mareing people ate on the verge of Npeisk Sroape 4 are beiny poured into the Senor Sugasta, Xin min- ister of the interior, has made ineffec- tive attempts 40 end the strike, Rareelons, h slvr the hotbed of re slg is ¢ CHILDREN. SHOT H 1s OWN Then E. P. French, Whose Mind is Afflicted, Shot Himself, Elizabeth, N.J., Nov, T~After kil, | ing his two young daughters, KE. P.| French, a superintendent for the pub- | lie service corporation, tried to kill | himself on Saturday at kis home here. | He is said to be fatally wounded. French had been ill o long time, and it is believed biz mind had become affected. The two little victims were Reba, twelve yenrs old, and Doris, ten years old, Their father seized a revolver and shot both givls dead, and then turned the weapon against him- self. ---------- Convicted of Perjury. Albert, Sask., Nov. 7.<Helen Seamer, a girl whose evidence before the police investigation caused B. J. McDermott, formerly, of Renfrew, ex- chief of police here, to resign, was sent to jail for three months on a charge of perjury, committed' at the investigation, She arrived from Que | bee; where she was ar She wos aresstad, FINE OF $400 Prinee For Violating the U. 5. Game Law. SEIZED BAGGAGE MAN HAD TRUNK FILLED WITH | VENISON. Hunters Leaving the Woods at! Piercefield Excite . Suspicion of | Warden and Arrest of One Man Follows, Ogdensburg, N.Y., Nov. 7.-E. D. Link, Philadelphia, and his two guests, prominent business men of that city, have found deer bunting in| the Adirondacks an expensive sport, Last season they were foreed 10 pay a fine of $150 for hunting without a non-resident license, and at the close of the present season a fine of $400 was tacked on to them. Mr. Link has a preserve near Plerce- field in St. Lawremce county. When the party arrived at the railway station to leave for Philadelphia, they had three deer, one to each mun, as allow- a) law, but they also had three by snd these exciiofl the Suspicion of Special Protector Frederick 1. Warren, Piercelield, who ordered the baggageman to pull them off the train. My. Link finally agreed to re main with the officer if he would allow the other leave for their homes. This was agreed upon and after train had departed Mr, two men had the keys of their trunks, The protector then smashed the locks with a hatchet and each was found to cofitain a deer, as well as numerous venison steaks and roasts, also a quan- i tity of jerked venison. The trunks were seized and Link con- fessod judgment in $400, The venison will be sold and the receipis turned into the department. two to "the Cashier Gets Twelve Years. Mexico City, Nov. T7>-Robert A. | Cramp, former cashier of the Federal Banking company, which failed sev eral months azo, has been sentenced to twelve years imprisonment follow: iny his conviction for endezzlement of 838.000 from the institution. This is the maximum penalty provided by Mexican laws. The bask was an Am- erican house. 40,000 WERE OUT STRIKE OF GARMENT WORKERS HAS BEEN SETTLED, They Returned to Their Machines on Monday--Committee to Consider Grievances, Chieago, Nov. 7.~The garment workers' strike, which called out 40,. 000 persons in 'the clothing trade, and which was productive of numerous small riots, hag been settled. The strikers returned to their machines on Monday. Details of the settlement of the strike are not given out. Jané Adams, the settlement work: er, and National President Rickert of the garment workers, were active in the negotiations. The strike was called for the purpose of compiling reogni- tion of the inion. The matter of wages | FI was not involved. In advance of ' official statements; it was learned that the employers and strikers will each appoint a member of a committer 1 consider and that these two will select a third. The mutter of ef ion, of the union or a the open shop principle, will not be considered. The committes will uerely consider working conditions, | steatnge {his 8. McCarthy, M.P,, undertake the task. gonnuts' Tailare to Link said the ( - The Daily British 1940. -- LATEST NEWS = Dispatches Fr From Near And Distant Places THE BRIEFEST POS. SIBLE FORM. GIVEN IN Matters That Interest Everybody-- Notes From All Over--Little of Everybody Easily Read and Re- membered. Criminal statistics for 1910 increase in crime throughout the minion. Three Toronto when a hose waggon collided with street car on Dundas street. N. Firpde, a news arent, was arrest ed at Bracebridge, on a warrant charging him with having stolen $300 show do- firemen were injured a {fram a Pale. Donaldson line, from Glasgow, inward, at Father Point, 8:30 am., with 122 cabin and passetgers. Maisonville, former private Reaume, has entered Toronto Saturday 88. Saturnia, at 102 H, C | sceretary to Dr. action against Night for libel. a mass meeting in the Labor Rompe, Toronto, an appeal was made on behalf of Federenko, whose extradi- tion to Russia is sought. It is that Henri Bourassa, Armand and Jean Prevost will try to Ottawa at the coming federal election, In Ottawa at the reciprocity confer ence, there is good feeling on both sides and a belief that something de stated Lavergne to go {finite will be accomplished. weighing ninety A nugget' of zine, was found, {one and one-half pounds, {by Dr, Woolverton, London, during prospecting operations of the Bruce peninsula, a few miles north of Wiarton, Ont. At Syracuse, NY, Lyman C, Smith, millionaire typewriter manufac- turer, dead, Mr. Smith was the founder of the Smith Premier Type writer Co., and the L. C, Smith Bros, F'ypewriter Co. C. A. Magrath, M.P., for Medicine Hut, has definitely refused the leader ship of the conservative opposition in Alberta. It is possible that Maitland for Calgary, may in It ix stated that as a result of Ar win odt at Ot Messrs. Richardson and Young, of Cobalt, formerly of Ot tawa, won $1,000 from "Bob" Simp son, proprietor of the Royal hotel at Hamilton, Ont. Father Odenbach, of St. Ignatius 'ollege Observatory, Cleveland, Ohio, reports the record of an important siesmatic disturbance about 2,000 distant, on Sunday afternoon. Father Odenbach believes the earthquake must have occurred in South America, Archbishop Weber, Berlin, Ont), con firmed 500 boys and girls at St. Hedwig's Catholic church, and 300 at St. Josalat's church, Detroit, on Sun day. Arc hbishop Weber is asvisiing Bishop Foley with the confirmations in Polish churches in view of the latter's ill-health. According to a report to the Trade and department, Canada's exports of flour to Britain have risen from 1480420 cwts. in 1907 to 2, 059,400 in 1909, In three vears ox ports from the United States to Brit ain have declined by 2,800,000 cwts., from Austro-Hungary by 322,000, and from France by 189,000, Frank Adams, aged fifty years, C.R. teamster, was killed in G.T.R. yards, Toronto. Adams Was loading theatrical scenery on to his waggon, when a passing engine fright ened his horses. He tried to stop the animals, but lost his hold and fell under the wheels, which passed over his head, killing him instantly, SCENIC RAILWAY TRAGEDY. Father of Girl Victim Awarded $300 Damages. Welland, Ont, Nov. 7A case of unusual interest was decided in as sizes Bere, when Balthazer Koch, Buffalo, was awarded $500 damages from the Crysis! Beach Amusement company for the death of his daugh- ter On the annual excursion of the Mas ten Park High School, of Buffalo, to Crystal Beach, Louise Koch, a young Indy student took a ride on the scenic rai cing. Sst 2 the the train was emer- tawa, Saturday, commerce a the passengers a rin, Jel when the train was Mead 2 ms the girl's mangled body was the track. fallen from al at 10 oe. bad curve, i he jury Jotul that the ocom- ihany were guilty in that the car bad no ot neglie and was not properly safeguarded. SPENDS HONEYMOON IN CELL. Now York, Nov. T--Peter C. McMar- , In, » farmer, who in 'The ill-fated boat haul Bie. Marie, Whig BIG REAL ESTATE DEAL. Detroit Firm Pay $100,000 for Rig Tract. Windsor, Nov. To-Another big Windsor real estate deal, involving consideration of about $100,000, practically completed; Jacobson's real Estate company, of Detroit, secured a ninety-day option from ex-Mayor John Davis, of this city, on the Moy farm, in the east end of the city. The op tion takes in almost all the land in the east end which ix not at present built up or in of building. There are shout acres in the tract. sr ™ course 135 A Radium Find. Montreal, Nov. 7.-W, C. an American mining expert, here from the Porcupine distriet, where he has heen prospecting in the inter est of American capitalists, reports the discovery of a pitch blend, which he says is richer in radipmg than eith- er the American or. Cornish mines. Mr. Crowther has brought samples of the ore which are to be forwarded to ef Millian Rawsay, the radium ex- Crowther, BOAT BURNED Steamer . Wasaga Caught Fire. AT COPPER HARBOR The FHERE WAS A HIGH GALE AT THE TIME, The Crew Was Rescued by the Steamer Westmount and Taken to Fort WHliam---The i-fated Boat Carried Package Freight for West. ern Ports. Word Collingwood, Ont., No vas received, here, this mokiing, from 'ort William, that the amer Was waza, owned by W. A, Hogs Coll vood, was burned to the water's ode it Copper Harbor, while a Ag gale was blowing. The were WM rescued and were taken Fort Nilliam by the Westmount, was insured in var ous Canadian insurance companies wd carried a cargo of package freight or western ports. Capt, W. A, Gla Oatario, was wierday, row to steamer in 'harge of the vessel, He Took His Life. Hamilton, Ont., Nov. 7.---The news saked out this morning, that William fatthews, a Scotchman, who boarded it MM Park street, committed suicide, laturday afternoon, by cutting his hroat with 4 razor. A Jostor 'was alled when the man's rash act but medical assista fd no avail. Matthews had 'anada only a short time ney over hie inability to secure vas the reason for the deed. A GENERAL hauffeurs Have Quit Work in New York. New York, Nov. 7.=The first oward a general strike, that top every---vehicld in the tates Express company, unless they ield to arbitration, occurred when 00 chauffeurs went on strike and erip- ded the taxicab service. The chauf ours walkout followed an conference f officials of the International wrotherhood which, it was said, eld for the purpose of dans for calling out every teamster n New York with the exception of mion men who drive waggous carry- ng food. : GREAT PAYING MINE ANOTHER DIVIDEND POR THE T. & H. B. 00. was tiscovered, noe was wen in Despond work STRIKE, step will United was discussing Sew Liskard Co. Will Have Paid Twenty-one Per Cent, This Year, on Nov. 12th--A Mine Worth Having. Toronto, Nov. 7.~The directors of he Temiskaming 4d Hudson Bas Mining company have declared another lividend of 300 per cent, on the capi al stoek, to be paid on Saturday, Sovember 12th, 1916. This is the twenty-eighth dividend declared by this ompany and the sevénth this year as follows : Pe Thus making 2.100 per cent this year, snd s total of 17.200 per cent. nad the company started - vidends. par my Be edpital stock of the company woned in 57.746 so that a 300 rent. means s distribetion of $23.- $172 on every $1 share With ils a just declared the company will have paid 81,319,335, or 172 on every #1 shave. LAST EDITION WEATHER PROBACHITINS. Toronto, ¢ y tawa Vail Westerly but mostiy winds ard coo You Can't Go Wrong IF YOU BUY YOUR MATERIALS FOR AFTERNOON OR . ENENING GOWNS HERE. I a m---0Ots ISL Lawreoce- ae Bnew flurries foesday, north-west the best store anticipate your variety allows ev. 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At his home In Upland Wednesday, Oct 26th Charles Wilkinson, formerly Kingston, Ont n his 78th WIL 4K INSON 'al on oe of year RAMSAY ---Buddenly at bis home, 58 ronty November Browster Ramsay of Elle f Interment a ORSER----In Kingston, ¢ Thomas Orser, aged youre Funeral' will take place from his residence (Mrs. Marshall's) Street, Tuesday, 2.30 mde and acquaintances respectfully invited to sttond entered into rest cat! Street. To. 4th, 1910, James beloved husband uged 68 years ant Cemetery Nov. 6 1910 ROBERT J. REID, The Leading Undertaker. "Phone 577. 230 Princess Street JAMES REID 354 and Soe | RANCH Phoue + " for Ambulapre TAKE NOTICE, We have a lot of Candlesticks also Brass Scuttle. Pender Stand. Shove! and Tongs to be sold at » great reduc. tion TIRES, Thone 708 Finest Select Oysters i|--Solid Meats Dnly.. Always Fresh Jas. Redden & Co. IMPORTERS OF FINK GROCEKIEN. WILL DIE FROM BURNS, Neighbors Found Mrs. Tuffield in Flames, . London, Ont, Nov. 7.-Beregms from the home of Mrs. Margaeot Tuffield, of 23 Walnut street, attracted the neigh bors, Sundsy morning, who, on enter i found ber enveloped is dames, ot takes to the hospital and will . From the waist down sie is tor