4 HORRIBLE CONDITIONS PRE VAIL IN SPANISH PRISONS, Men Left to Die All Half Naked-- Man Who Spoke Once Received 200 Lashes That Killed Him. Madrid, May 21.--Spanish prisons have at all times an unsavory repuia- tion, and the name of Montjuich has to this day a sinster sound. From time to time the Spanish press has dilated upon the atrocities practiced in the prisons of this country, and has called vigorously for their sup pression and for the purdshment oi the offes€os. A few days ago 8 re presentative of the 'Madrid newspa per, Heraldo, paid a visit to the pri- son of Figueras, in Catalonia, and the fais to which he has given pub licity show the urgent need for re form. In the prison infirmary he found « man of herculean build whose head and grms were swathed in bandages This man, Santisgon by name, had been a soldier and bad fought in the Cuban war with such bravery that Jie won the Cross of Honor of San Fer nando. On his release from service ir 1895 he veturned to his native piace only to find that his wife had beer seduced. Santiagon killed the mar and was condemned to death, but ir view of his honorable record as a soldier. the sentence was commuted to one of hard labor. Materrogated on the Subject of his bandages, the ex-soldier said he had attacked a warder, who had then - fired upon him. The son of the di- rector of the prison was present dur Ing the interview, and the conviot was silent as to the real cause of the injuries. From other prisoners, however, the representative of the Heraldo gather: ed that Santisgon had tried to defend himself from. the warder, who had maltreated him, upon which he was seized, half choked, and brutally flog ged. Then the 'watrder fired at" him with his revolver, with the idea of permanently disabling him. The convicts also msserted that entering 'the prison all their money and every object of value is taken from them, and nothing is ever re- turned to them. For the slightest mi® demeanor the prisoners wore flogged unmercifully, The Heraldo's corres pondent himself saw "several ' prison ers who bore scars and other marks ol ill-treatment. "Ask what Moreno died of," whisp- ered one of them in his ear, The ques tion was put; and the mon of the pri Son superintendent replied © "Moreno was a wild besat. He killed a warder with a knife, What did he die of ? Oh, the prison doctor diagnozed it as organic debility." From another pri- soner the Heraldo's representative learned that Morena had first been scourged till his back was cut into ribbons, and was then thrown into a subterranean dungeon without food or drink, where he died of starvation, - Cases demanding severe punishment are consightd to a ll known among tha prisoners as 'Siberia.' This is a subterranean dungeon, nauseous in at- mosphere, with walls running with moisture, with an opening about two feet in height and scarcely wider than a hand th for the admission of light and air. en the Heraldo's representative entered it he saw stretched round the men "chajped lke dogs," to use the description in the Heraldo. Skeleton- like in aspect, the eyes of the unhappy prisoners seemed to be fixed in an ex- on THE DAILY - HERESY, THE WINNER. The three-year-old colt that on Saturday won the king's plate at the Woodbine Races, Toronto. pression "of absolute despair. They knew only too well that "Siberia" was, for them, the anteroom tb the tomb. They would never see again the sunshine, or breathe a pure air; they would die one after the other a lin- gering death ip that dark and pestil- ential atmosphere. Their only food was a little mouldy grain and putrid water." Even "speech was denied thom, for one unhappy prisoner who had ventured to nt Wi received ~ 200 blows--that is, he was to death. Since June last year twenty. three men had been consigned to "Si. beria," of whom four had died. "Siberia" was the ingenious idea of the director of the prison, and Dr. Pla, the medical man in charge of the establishment, at first ventured . to hint that the place did not fulfil sani tary requirements, but, met with the brutal reply : "So much the better, we shall be the more quickly rid of these vagabonds."" The director at- tempted to justify his methods to the representative of the Heraldo bv say ing that for the surveillance of the 800 prisoners consigned to his charge he was only allowed five warders, and that severe measures were absolutely necessary for the maintenance of dis- cipline, "Once they were relaxed," he added, "the prisoners would be the masters of the situation." The revelations of beaten the Heraldo have made a painful im- pression, and at a recent cabinet Coun- cil it was decided to send a high gov- ernment official from the department of justice 0 open an inquiry. The Liberal adjures the government to make a prompt and thorough investi- gation, and not to stifle the scandal, as is too often, it avers, the custom in Span. The Longest Bar. * Inquiries were made of the aud- ftor for Lewis county by the Ore- gon-Washington Railroad and Navi- gation Company regarding the price of a license permiting it to sell liquor on its trains, and the Question arose as to whether the railroad must take out a separate license for each train or- if one would be sufficient. Auditor Swofford ruled that the railroad would be required to take out a license for a bar 26 - miles long, that being the length of the company's line across the county. This would allow the company the right to sell liquor on any part of its right-of-way.--Centralia cor. St. Paul Pioneer Press, Mrs. Clara McGowan, wife of James McGowan, Belleville, died, Friday, af- ter a brief illness. Deceased was thir- ty-six years of age. -- Nl sneered ! . < Smid, Creek, a hotel EE ------ - "A housewife who has found a. good thing tells her friends about it--for instance, Post Tavern Special food, made of wheat, com and rice, and guests of the Post Tavem, in Battle well-known jor gud Hinge to This new to sugar. eat, is use. LAAN Lg 7 i steamer Harvird, en route to Alberta, thy of all his countrymen. BRITISF{ WHIG, -- NEW ENGLAND ROMANCE. Man Believed Lost at Sea to Bweetheart. San Franciseo, May 18. James Me- Donald arrived here, yesterday, on the Wed Canada, to meet Miss Harriet Wood- side, his sweetheart of twenty-five vears ago, who, until a week ago, be lieved him dead. McDonald sailed from the New Eng. land coast in the whaling bark Fan- nie Griffith, a quarter of a century ago on a voyage for his health. He expected to return and be married. The Fannie Griflith was wrecked. Me Donald was helipved to have been lost, After many hardships he returned to the New Englund village-and | found that Miss: Woodside had married. He did not let his presence become known and returned to the sea. In following years he occaswonally had news of his old-time finances through a' common friend. He learned last week in Los Angeles that her husband had died, and he left for Canada next day, THEY SEEK HIS HAND, Seventeen Fiancees Wish to Marry Him. Geneva, May 18.--Albert Stierli, a | handsome Swiss plumber, was sen. | tenced to a year's imprisonment, for defrauding seventeen young women, to whom he had become engaged at the same time. All of them still want to marry him. The judge remarked that Stierli would eommit a more serious crime if he had "married the lot," at which there was laughter in court. Stierli seemed glad when he was led away by two gendarmes, as the ma- jority of his fiancees were in the court. A Pleasant Announcement! Winnipeg Free Press, A Canadian correspondent who mitted a serious of questions to Canadian Gazette of London is in formed that "if Bonar Law has the decisive word when a unionist minis. try comes into power, duties rgnging from five to ten per cent. wif be put (1) on foreign wheat, with free entry for Canada; (2) on fordgn flour, with probably a lesser duty on Canadian flour; (3) on foreign animals and meat. dairy products, market garden produce and hay and straw, with Jess. er duties on similar Canadian pro- duce." The dominance of Mr. Law in British politics will thus mean that Canadian flour, animals, meat, dairy produce, vegetables, hay, ete., which now enter the British markets free, will have ta overcome the ohstadles of hostile customs duties. There may be. benighted. people in Canada who do not think this wiil be an fim- provement on the present state of affaifs, ; sub- the & Big Men for Big Jobs. Canadian Courier. Has it struck you, the number of big jobs waiting for big men? 'I'nere_ are Prebaniy nity posiuous now vacant waiting for big men to fill them---positions worth all the way from five to fifty thousand a year, Hight million - people in Canada, of whom more than one million are men; and yet it is dif- ficult to find big men. And what are the tests of a big man, Just two--chacater and ability. Character is made by our 'parents and teachers; ability we inherit and develop. Character isn't of much account without ab- ility, and ability is worth litle with- character. Whose fault is it that Canada is short of men with ability and char- acter? It is either the fault of our parents or our teachers. Which do you think? Needle in Infant's Heart. Questioning the mother at a Folk- stone inquest on a girl, aged one year and ten months, who had died from a supposed attack of bronchitis, the cor- oner said : "Were you darning on Sunday 7" The mother, Mrs, Godden, replied, "Yes, sir." "Did you use the needle again ?" "No. I was nursing the child. 1 had the needle in my Pode, and missed it afterward," A doctor who held a post-mortem ex- amination produced the child's heart. A large damning needle was imbedded | in the centre, the ends showing at; either side. | A_verdict of hemorrhage, 'caused by the accidental insertion of a needle, ! was returned. --Folkstone, Eng., cable, in Washington Post, : A Pathetic Spectacle. The spectacle of the aged states- | man, Sir Charles Tupper, convey- | ing his dead wife across the sea to | her last resting place in Nova Scotia is a pathetic one. In 1900, immediately after the general elec- tion, Sir Charles resolved to relin- quish the leadership of the Con- servative party. efore he gave that news to the world he sent a telegram to his wife who was in Winnipeg, saying: "I intend to re- | sign the leadership and devote the rest of my life to you." This mes- sage was from a grand old man! whose present bereavement and ocean vigil will excite the sympa Gave up Berth; Gets $100,000. New Haven, Conn., Ernest W. Marlow, a young New York lawyer who gave.up his berth in a crowded pullman to an elderly woman, on a train between New York and Richmond several years ago will receive nearly $100.00 for his kindness. The elderly woman, Just specifies the amount which he will get as $98,100. Captain's Widow to Get $750, Toronto, May I18.~4 settlement whereby the Muriel St ip ecom- pays the widow of Capt. J. A. iteside, of Owen Sound, $1,000 daw- tO or Bo by ral a y wa- i i - Whiteside was in ' regent of the prophet. TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1012. WAR SCARE FELL FLAT NO CREDIT GIVEN TO STATE- MENTS ABOUT RUSSIA. A Paris Paper Predicted Commercial Partitioning of the Ottoman Em- pire by the Czar. London, Eng., May 21.--A war scare launched by the Daily Telegraph on Saturday has fallen lat in London. It is virteatly ignored here. The scare was based on a story in the Paris Eelair that M. Georges Louis, the French ambassasior to Russia, had been recalled on a demand by Foreign Minister Isvolsky on Premier Poincare. The demand was made, it is stated, because M. Louis worked éon- trary to Russian plans to help Italy diplomatically agamst Turkey and se cure as a reward the opening of the Dardanelles to its navy. 3 The scare plot was thickened y tangling it up with the Marschall Von Bieberstein incident, Europe was described as being in a helpless drift towards a crisis which was due to Russia's schemes io grab spheres of influence in Agia Minor ana open the Dardanelles, gr Germany was ready to take advan. tage of the scheme by regularizing her status in Syria and Asia Minor, The outcome indicated is "the commercial partition of Tirkey," England was to be bribed to accord by the offer of a liberal share of the spoils. Unfor- tunately, the Times simultaneously discounts the story by showing that M. Lonis was slated to go several months ago because his wife could not siand the Russian climate. The paper adds that Russia has no com: plaint against M. Louis, who is now in Paris and has formally announced after an interview with M. Poineare that he intends return to Si. Petersburg. No'change is expected, until after the meeting between M. Sazonoff and Premier Poincare, an few weeks hence. Therefore, there is obviously no crisis Indeed, all -the premises after the Telegraph's deductions are granted re- main misty. It is admitted that no power is working to produce a con vulsion. 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