Daily British Whig (1850), 24 Jan 1911, p. 1

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The Daily Bi ARC -- YEAR 78 -NO, VIEWED DEAD 19, Coroner's Inquest Into | the Railway Fatality. OPENED LAST NIGHT | ADJOURNED UNTIL FIGHT O'CLOCK THIS EVE NING. Clearing the Wreckage Hay--It is Said That the Danger Signal Was Missed by the Dead | Hngincer----His Was Too Fast, at Collins' Train Going | MeDer Fhomas in wreck orn but no avi adjournment taf eso o'clock when evid was EW a this ston, maned folio the jur anid the McBri Anclrew MeMuhe nings, muchinery i rk of eledrn the wreck uehri team et in . x crew. 'The crew of the train from Hel their + section wreckage the uish wreckir jeville made recor work and of burned gang nipnerous is the tire bu wheat smouldered far All day long s ATT through tae heard the avite of mij exting 1 he and nivht, ori to flgur tho ir was st vrecking | of renin his Superintendent Coleman of Belleville, directed the work atl day and heft on the afterncon train for his ho The scene presented nt the | dis interesting, ahd a EnITEie rer wis very hered from far aster segs git to watch SWE engines and trucks hike me toss them to one side erent an near the mamunolh € ore re pis Ans hings Standing the hardly 5 and at ons side and of serap iron or that had once envine and frocks, : Probaily the most important covery of the day ' hatred yemains ol f Belle his yoking e could been bent mas believe it di i Ww : eng his charred romain underneath it ] body nectacle and cenrried the BOI nd those who the them remains will paver forget left of a eummi 12 picked up in piece of tin and that remained was a s in which could be distig shoulder and part of one the position where the remains it as supposed tl i have ed pail pieces, The bod, pet on carried av mass of All bones ed «a From were us He w tha trans found that Engidver as Dr « her caboose wo given ite th he w A passenge was fallo re the | threw won whe isi Jot SMundred end the gr west of the not travel about a ae people. Hieve that a freight xi 1 at thiv rate of speed, bul the mo ment am i grade would g speed. could be ve the mecessary The Train Was Signalled. If has since come to hight tha signal man dich bis duty, and stationed at the crossing He denvored to draw the attention of the enginder, but the fireman was coaling up at the time and the glare from the 'fircchox, is is thouglt, blinded Desinis, Had he seen the Hagman he might' have had time to throw over the reverse lever hefore reaching the trains 'in front, but the warning pass of by unheeded and the men headed straight for their doom The engine on train WM, Wn 'which the twa men were killed, wae removed from the wreck and run back te 'the siding at the station. The ditched cars containing wheat, flour and cot ton. were unloaded and the contents were piled along the track while the broken cars wore burned as fast as possible. The telegraph wires were #pliced early io the forenoon and tele raph communication with eastern points Was Fesumed. : A great deal of wheat and flour ro | DAILY MEMORANDA. Canadian Club anvoal meeting, pans on ¥ Clty property committer, pm. Wednesday. Poultry shew, Ostario evening awd to-morrow "Bent tinh concert hy rading hient to Hho Comeh Lo-merr W WER. HAIL this { By wiirle. { Hon, The Déad Men, montals : E ! $ painstaking and 3 aS Also 1 arvived ie « + Foster OI TR Oo wdentified i ('M.RA Had a Narrow Escape. § what in been on time, | would pot have } topped | would | and ute the wreck. H the puss bad - plusged- ute thet engine crew ould not have 1 Pall | smoker, | amd wk, the aped' agd with those heavy behind day coach, Ear Ww the probably hav bres ¢ a dozen more lives lost. x NOVELIST DAVID GRAHAM | PHILLIPS INJURED, Crank, Who Torento--Five éct--The Murderer ! i Formerly Lived shots Took Ef- | Suiciaed. n david Graham 1 tom i Monday xd Mm ank who 1 i 1 a fairly nave ted smecide Five sh ¥ r red at and each t took efiect lod red sted etree » by believed to then coOmmat well i Phillips Three en- | pear | one | tar on ib when the were | Davis, the ston James, Tae obi, him into the of Fhe dead Fitzh ah paver, who had toriely as a sovinhst formerly lived in Toronto. HAD A PREMONITION Of His Awful Bereavement--RKnew | it on Train. ne Goldborou achisved some orator, noe. whe 24~Some strane early | awful ! at the! Toronto, Jair, mysterious force? were at work Saturday worning when the tragedy was being enacted Brooks home on ledian road. Riding oft a train from Chicago to Indian apolis, Perey Brooks, according to his physician, became suddenly conscious of some impending calamity. A tele pathic message, the doctor ealls it, taid him that his home was on fire. While: his firm were keofing the wires busy trying to locate hum. he kngw through some my sterious source that he hal beop sadly bereaved, and hastensd to Toronto as fast as pos Nr. Brooks is at the Kige Edward Hotel, where he has heen ever swe he reached t in company with his two brothers, Woodford Brooks and Lawrence R. Mrooks, of New York. He #¥ overcome with grief as a result of the terrible ealamity and the shock of hearing that his family had been en tively wiped out has been a very se vere one on his pervous system. He w in the charge of 5 physician. The fonernl of the dead victims took place to-day. fers § he wrdships SHOT BY A CRANK: {and it of the | © | turally ito | Nine-year-old KINGSTON T0TA KBAMK In the House of Com- mons This Afternoon. | i SAID TRAVERS IES CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIELD- ING TESTIMONIAL. {| The G. KE. Foster is Preparing to, Ask Some: Questions--Prince Ed- | ward Island Again Asks for a Tunnel to the Mainland. n the house v, Mr. Boyce, (Wes Allg notice that he will {prob- that the house go inte | thscugs that of much public importance the by ministers of the crown in the form of and the reported contribution | testimonial { sum of | money by W. R. Travers, former gen eral mansger of the new def inet Farm Bank. The other details, bat main ones, | there ia this | Farmers' George | ves wove to-day}, omnities Lo a matter 18 re. of testa ape gifts of monevs to such of a contained these are the interest Hon is expected! to have some gues it, and it is Thorous notice intense in Sank question ask about said | will be ol on the the finance minister back mestiong=will he asked of him e to the correspondebes there New York ste apd Ot: | ithoritie relative to } tions to that it dis + hohise worst floor of oon St JW of proper $ tween 1 and: the asked when the something Prince Edward line, mainl TOVermment about thi Island as going | The | members | and set hips consty wesley, minister of pub intimated that preparations for Survey to} a tunvel between the island ai the mainland would cost, works, were to he made ADRIFT FOR DAYS In Water-logged Boat Before Being | Rescued. Jan, 24, almost the Ngstery. of. the 'apt. Howard 1 and crew otia schooner H. J. Logan, which | sdoned off the Grand | 19th, arrived in Halifax | the Allan liner Hesperian | Liverpool. Capt. Howard and 1 ere rescued from the water | craft by the steamer Ba d fre Norfolk for Brex hope had been § i n The schooner, which y and one of the left in the sm | hat ham, N.B., New York wit ve Georg wh rudder ~Telling a tale of | unprecedented in! horth Atlantic, of the Noval Hahiax, Re w nks De ember | Sunil fal on from an, im of rescue master, ford sails in Let of laths o hari her osened lass now province, late car i for { es sh 1 iat ane away and al i allowing i pumps v Lent ) hardy 1 to keep big y but the her course, the Grand Banks | afte Y and t captain ang | men paced eck, expe | very moment tha heir ship wo iid f found: f as she pits about trough of the sea satis her to sweep eather, sens imbers, The ht ar i all in vessel on t Wo 1 seat power > the an coa her far off dri ifted to Day tht the ag their Amer: ea she Newfor | gales and day ged his ting hed in ine The provi and for « t rations, sions be w 1 na sufferin On Howard i and wided het 19th, hi December abandon rh ad men was ned by st tried the Fo -Eapanr WAS OW valued at 350, SCALDED BY HOT COFFEE. Watertown Seriously Injured, Watertown, N.Y, Jan. 2H thy a pot of boiling coffee, { had tipped over herself, Nellie, the! { nine-year-old daughter of Mr. and IMs. A. B. Curtis, of No. 1 Fuess | block, in Court street, was serlously burned, Sundas. Lad When the child's father ripped the | anderclothing, from the little girl's limbs the skin of the right leg from | the knee down came with the gar-! went. Last March the child was knocked down by an automobile and | was ill for some time. On three dif- ferent ovcasions this winter she has been sick in bed. The accident occurred in the dining rom of the Curtis apartments. The! child, fully clothed, was sitting before | a low range, when she kicked the stove with her foot, knocking over the pot of hoiling coffes. Hie right leg was buzned Som the knee down, the burns being especially deep at the knee. The other Jog was burped slightly, i A ------_---- Born in Slavery, Died Bishop. Ransas Uiiy, - Mo., Jam. 21. Rev. Abrabam Grant, bishop of the Alrican Methodist Episec ehareh, died at his home mn s City, Kas, on Sunday. His wile died nine Says. ago. Born in slavery at Lake City, ny Bishop Grast arose to . the highest | Girl is -- Seale od | which she | "Frosh Homers, * 'uhone 36, Aleer 5 Teta tog Seach, gts pa] Rloees. EE do ain ve Das le i in the church. Aun ox-cart ONTARIO, mal, fay lout of 1,500 patients by | Koch's band, i destined | CAUSING {commenced TC ESDAY, JANUARY BURNED BY OIL. hijured While .at Work on Steamer. g. NY. Jan. 24. George wigyee of the Fitzgibbons i, i@ at the City hospi ihe Seriously fa ule TR and one ear is Baened to a crisp. ; was ot work on the steamer yurg, of the Rutland Transit fleet. A fuse blew out of a , which other workmen were and the blazing oil was thrown Ring's head. The injured man . about the deck. A fel lo yw workman threw his coat over | King's head, extinguishing the flames. hospital physicians are hopeful "of the man's sight. CURES PARALYSIS, - ul cre nming {| Austrian Physician Claims Success With Tuberculin. Jan. 3. --After three years' tation, Prof. Wagner Von gg, of the University of Vienna, elgims to have cured twenty-three per of es of progressive paralysis injections of tuberculin, The disease here- been considered incurable. srIna, vent. BS tofore has NICHOLAS 1 King of Montenegro. CANADA OVERLOOKED. Gibson Bowles Points Out Flaw in "Declaration of London." London, Jan. 28--Gibson points out that the new rule of the declaration of London, if passed, al- towing the destra ion ~ol captured Ineutrals carrying supposed contra- would apply to every vessel not merely to Britain, but 'anada and other colonies The London Daily Mail says the over- seas dominions appear to have been overlooked throughout in the declara tion. A WRECK IN WALES OF Bowles also tor ( THE DEATH ELEVEN" PERSONS. * A Passenger Train, Going at a Ter- rific Rate of Speed, Crashed Into the Rear of a Standing Freight. Cardiff, Wales sons were killed a njured, seven of thom fatally, ip assenger train crashed into the rear end of a freight train at Hopletins town, near Pontypridd, yeéterday The freight train was standing still when the passenger at a terrific rate of speed, dashed into the rear Cars. 'he dead were crushed to death. Several of the passenger cars were demolished and the debris was scat- tered for several hundred feet. Some of the wreckage caught fire from live coals in the boiler of the locomotive and those who were pinned beneath 24.--Eleven per- yv-two others when a cn the tracks tran, going ihe toveve--badly burned. A special train' was hastily made up here and rushed to Pontypridd, about twenty-seven by i rail, earrvifig medical doe- tors and s > The buildings near the disaster were temporarily | ospitals for the care of the miles away supplies, scene of the turned into wound- S Wreoked crews were rushed to the | scene and the work 6f rescue was .un- der way within a short time of the ilision, The railroad officials immediately an investigation. It is believed that carelessness .in obeying orders was the caase of the disaster. Pontypridd i a town in Glamor- {ganshire, Wales, and is at the con- fluence of the Rhondda and Taft rivers, twelve miles northeast of Car- diff by rail. It has mines of iron and icon], foundries and chain and cable works. * The population is 32,319, Co HIGHER DUTIES ON WHISKIES. United States Will Levy a Counter. vailing Impost. Washington, Jan. 20L--Countervail- ing duties will now be assessed on all Scotch and Irish whiskies imported from Great Britain. The effect " of the i ' Great Britain a years haw been paying a export hounty. of three pence to the exporters, although the practice was not discovered bere until recently. Diplomatic representa- tions failed to gn the British govern: ment to remove the hounty' and a teonntery ailing duty has been imposed accordance with law, ish 24, 1911. Tells the Story of Brutal Montreal Murder. tf CLUBBED T0 DEATH RIBLE STRUGGLE, ' Murderers Set Fire to House to Hide Deed--It is Said That a Woman is at Bottom of W. F. Pope's Mysterious Disappear- ance, Montreal, Jan. 24 Evidence of oné of the most brutal tragedies in the history of Montreal, was found by Police Captain Charpentier, and his men at the departments ot Mrs, Joseph Martin, aged thirty-six, who lived alone. The woman was apparent- ly clubbed -to death, after a terrible struggle, and the murderers set the piace on fire to cover their deed. Tha. body was charreg, but blood bespat- tered walls and stairways, indicated that death was not accidental or suicidal, That 4 woman may he at the bot- tom of the mysterious disappearance of W. F. Pope, of Bromptonville, Que., was discovered by provincial detec tives this morning. It was announced that a telegram from a woman in Bos- ton was found amoag the missing men's effects. The thworr of the de tectives is that. he was lured to Bos- Lv this messaye and may have met with foul play in that city. The cff rials refuse to disslose the coun- tents of the 'nessayc. won THOUGHT HE WAS USED in Book of David Gr m Phillips. New York, Jan. 24.1t has develop- ed that Fitzbuzh Coyle Goldsborough"s shooting of David Graham' Phillips, the noted author, vesterday, was the result of (FOldshorough's idea that he was used as a fizure in a recent book of Phillips. Phillips was reported ins proving this morning. Goldsborough, who suicided, was , violinist, who lived in Toronto {till recently, and frequently appeared at fashionable gatherings throughout Ontario. ORDERED THE ARREST As a Figure Of Mine Owners for Placing Pickets on Mines, i Halifax, Jan. 24,~Jud Longley, to-day ordered the attac nt or ar- rest of Joseph Moss and four other members of the United Mine Workers for contempt of court in refusing to. obgs an order restraining them from pickettimg the Cumberland Mines at Springfeld, where 5 strike is on. The decision will be appealed. a ---------- AN OFFER OF $1,250,000 For the Northern Navigation Com- pany's Fleet. Duluth, Minn., Jan. 24.--It is under- stood that the Iuland Navigation company has made an offer of one and a yuarter million dollars for the Northern: Navigation company's fleet of ten steamers. The offer is to be con- a meeting of the Northern Toronto, on January at m LIFE IMPRISONMENT Given Man and Woman Who Slew Stanley Ketchell. Marshfield, Mo., Jan. 24.--Convicted of manslaughter in comnestion with the death of Stanley Ketchell, the world's middlewespht pugilistic cham- pion, Whiter A. Dipley and Mrs. Gol- die Smith, to-day, were sentenced to life imprisonment. THIEVES MADE BIG HAUL Of Jewellery From the Thaw House 4 in Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 24. --While the family of William Thaw, Jr., were at dinner, last night, thieves got away with thirty-two thousand dollars worth of jewellery, including a seven- teen-thousand-dollar necklace of Mrs. Thaw's, mother of Harry Thaw. Child Ate Pills, 24. --~Four doctors startling statement of of Winnipeg, Jan. have promised a in connection with the death vey Little the two-year-old son Conductor Little, of Winnipeg. Tt is held that the child died in convulsions rangi on by eating 5 goodly num of pellets. The child died Sunday. Mayoralty Recount. Belleville, Jan. 24.--The recount of ballots cast in the mavoralty election was held yesterday, before Judge De- roche, a gain of one being made in favor of Mayor Ackerman. A few byl lots were reserved for srgumentf but not enough, the judge stated, to af fect the gemeral r Accused Cuban Released, Cuba, Jan. 2 Notwith. General Guerra's charge tha Cordoves, who Bas arrested Friday, was implicated in the recent attempt to assassinate him, Judge Niveris, yesterday, otdered the release Havana, standing C Collins Bay has light a great deal af late, The last inquest, it will be remembersd we aver the finding of the dead body of Ban there a Poi Sha ae: aw uidicaly emiiee - BLOODY WALL A WOMAN KILLED AFTER TER- 1 ca LAST EDITION CHINESE FIGHT POLICE. WEATHER PROBABILITIES. ---- T Ta: 24 10 a Battle in Hartford Street Forestalls aid Upper Bt Lan end al ; T t t to west winds Tong War. Fir Al comparatively. mild jo-day MH 4 on Wedt y windows tawa Val Jan Cries om a Hartiord, Atrom Chinese of the top floor Chinese | club house in -Slate vet, early ves terday morning, brought policemen on the run. The policemen, after gle, arrested three well-dressed Chin ese. Two are ftom New York and cue from Boston. It is alleged they are members of Yon Lang Tong. All} Hartford Chinese are affiliated with the Four Brothers Society Jee Hung, William lee, Conn, leaning fi: a strug the was also booked as charged with at a revolver, which, first used 10 terror : Lee Hung, accord ing fo his cards. fives in Mott street, New York. He had in his pockets $108. Policeman Ahearn choked him into submission. The third Chinese, Wu Chang, gave his residenc e¢ at Bos-| ton. who ize local PRIEST GETS THIEF BY RUSE. Alarm in Poor Bex Saves $8.85 to Church. Peoria, 1ll., Jan 2H burglar | alarm recently installed in the con tribution hox of St. Jeseph's church, by Father Herman Grove, caused the arrest of Roy Burns, who had suc cessfully opened the box and taken $8.85. When the automatic attachment. told the police headquarters of an attempt- ed robbery Policeman Archdale re- sponddd, pressing a horse into service to save Lume cancht Burns with the money 3 brake Knife was in} the man's pofigt nud the reninder of | the blade was found the contribu | Is worth while tian box. | the customers of Furs just at half their A int There to-day is no dearth of encourag ny the fact that the time to NOW A GENUINE SAVING Bargaing doubt of buy Furs to i. that brings within reach the best class when they need them actual value, Read This List 3 ONLY BEST QUALITY ALASKA SABLE COLLARS AND 'REVERES. $25 Quality at $10.50 m BODY HURLED Into a Waiting Crowd at New York Station. NH GIRLS A subway train the northbound { a block, struck Miss , a stenographer, was leaning over the edge" of the Twenty-third street station today ip an efiort sf a northbound train was coming Her head was crushed in and she was | instantly killed, while her body, struck with great force, wgs hurled into the crowd on the platform, bowling over several people like tenpins. Among those thus knocked was the victim's escort, wish, 4 mining broker. He ned, as were several others, New York, Jan rupning south tracks because Violet d'Ar as she Baten saan 1 ONLY ALASKA SABLE RUFF, | $20 Quality at «ies. B10 to see ¥ ONLY RUG Quality at.. .; MUFF, $17 « $8.50 1 ONLY MINK MARMOT STOLE {$11 50 Quality for » .7 down he stun John was 1 ONLY LARGE RUFF, , ---- ee American Mink, Aged Woman Ends Life. Rochester, N.Y., Jun. #4. Caroline Kasiske, eighty-four years old, died yesterday afternoon. at Hahpemann hospital, as the result of having cut her throat with a paring 'knife Sa- torday night. The aged woman was in feeble health said she wanted to die. $26 Quality Bt +....¢ «5.4. B18 The importance of this Sale can only be understood by seeing the articles here mentioned. CALL TO-MORROW. STEACY'S BORN. Pletor Mrs and NOT BODY OF LOWES SOME LIGHT THROWN ON THE TRAIN MYSTERY. HARRIS] a: 10th Harris fan aud Baek! "} | MexEILL At Fair View to Mr. and Mrs s daud ghter Samuel Thief River Lowes Has Met Dead Man Likely Drinking. Falls Police Bp t With Foul Play-- | Choked From | M MARRIED. | DAWE--RUTTER--At Picton Cannington, J ar 24 Andrew 101} . Arthur Frederick Lowes, farmer, Derryvil Pi and Miss Btella here, has received a that the body apparently strangled to on the Winnipeg flyer at Falls, Minn, not that L.. R. Lowes, familiarly "Ruddy."" The message one of Mr. Lowes' relatives seen the body The fact that and papers made in favor of Lowes, of Cannington found on the Wpdy, Cannington being near est station to Derryville, used some | excitement and 3 it at first supposed that that of "Ruddy." Winnipeg, Jan. on Jan Dawe hank Ruttey a we near ¥ ted am saying |} 14th at D Har 'algar On Jar George Walker, 4 Ww ALKER man, who Pict death, Thief of known of a. was | found | River | nig » McCUTCHEON ~ Nip on Jan 15th Stewart Camden, te Miss of same Picton At is n, ihe! place Ja as | WAS from who had ver. -Athal tickets ' 3 Marjoria 1 yf fr. and Mrs "letof Was KEATS N 1 Kings! J 23r¢ by Res cay Mrs. Ro here, wus body was 24.~A despatch from the Chief of Police at Thief River Falls | says the body of the dead Theodore Hergshought, and 1 H." Lowes, whose ticket he was was supposed to been by Herushought at point tween Cannington and Misneapolis. | The post-morten shows that 'Hern shought probably was choked as the | Moni result of drigking excessively, and that Al the marks on his throat were pro-| W bably made by himself when dying. | MU Ei Cathérine Murphy A wide search is being conducted for of the late James J Lowes, as it is believed in Thidd Croydon, in her sixty-secns River Falls that be bas been mur. | MOONEY--in Kingston on Jar dered. : 1511, at her late home, 113 Btreel Jar Clizabeth beloved of Hobert Mc ? TRON HAND ON STUDENTS. tice later Determined to Prevent Disorders. : Bt. Petersburg, Jan. 24. ~The cabi- 1 at pet has resolved upon severe measures 1 to prevent a recrudescence of student | disorders after" the holidays. i The customary academic privileges | 'Phone 577. Princess Street. will be enrfailed on the ground that | they have been abused Tor political | they bu ~_JAMES REID Several student ringieaders been exiled for varidus terms, them for four years. Midday Dark as Midnight. London, Eng., Jan, 2)-It was i. dark as midnight in London at mid | day Sunday. The lamps were lighted | Coffee sold fn 1910 .... all day Jong. It being Sunday the | Coffee sold in 180% .... shops were closed, and this made it seem all the darker. Since New Year's | ay there have beem only six hours | of synshine. Gretna Meth have way! some Frederick Jeremiah on Jan i of th 5 years 40 20th, at : w me | Funer A FRESH h A very expensive Golden room Bute: also an up-to Cupboard A snap for a cash TURKS. 'Phone 705. EERE J. REID, Undertaker, i Any More | Oak Ped. te Gloss buyer . have | one of T7450 Is 6,360 lbs. Increase 1910 .... 1.0% Ibs All strictly our own roasting and grinding. No outside brands in- TT ; cluded. These figures speak louder Attorney-General Uolin Campbell is | than words, and we are proud of preparing lo sever a somewhat un | them. satisfactory partnership with Messrs. | poce you tried this good Coffee Roblin and Rogers, and retire from | of gure? the Mapitoba gove ment alter the | comin; session of Ad barrister, BU a

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