THREE MILLION ASTOR Girl Widow of Cal, Astor Gives Birth tp a Son. - CHILD TO BE NAMED JOHN JACOB AFTER ITS DEAD FATHER. Mother and Infant are Doing Well-- It is Haid "There Will be Legal Fights Among the Astors® as the Result of This Baby's Arrival. New York, Aug, 14.--The Jong- expected threv-millioh-dollar Astor baby arrived at ¥.15 o'clock this morning, 'and is a boy as the girl- widow mother publicly intimated she desired. Coupled with the physi- clan's bulletin, announcing the birth and good progress of mother and child, cam: the statement that the child would bé known as John Ja- cob Astor; in 'honorable memory of the father who went down on the Titanic. Im legal circles, it is intimated that the birth of' this boy will in- | crease the complications between the Ava, Willing Astor and Made- {ne Fbree "Astor branches of the ate John Jacob Astor's family. "There is prospect of a keen and long | drawn out fight over the big estate, | now nominally controlled by Vin- cent Astor, the big step-brother to the little fellow who arrived to-day. The a¥vent of-a royal heir was hover awaited with such interest as that. of this Astor baby, . in. view of the sensations cognected with the marriage of the late Col. Astor the twenty-year-old Madeline orate ree ciling series of short tacks in the beat & year ago, and his death at sea on April 14th last, when the Titanic sank with 1,600 souls to the bot- tom of the ocean. The birth of this baby means that three million dol- lars of the Astor weaith i8 now. se- cure to the youthful widow, although legal contests will no doubt occur, TOOK TWO GIRLS CAPTIVES. . ---- Story of Survivors of Massacre by Mexican Rebels. i Mexi¢o City, Aug. Amador Salazar led of rebels after they had slaughtered sixty-one soldiers and train pas sengers near Tieuman, Sunday, he took with him two young women whose lives he had spared. This is one of the stories brought here to-day by eleven passengers who escaped from the Zapatista shambles, During the fighting the éleven hid in the underbrush along the right-of-way. They saw the re- bols withdraw with the women captives after looting the train. Stories of cruelty were told by the bassengers. One woman carried in her arms 'her dead baby struck by a bullet in the attack, A column of federal soldiers was sent in pur- Bult of the rebels. : BIG COTTON CROP IN EGYPT. Fifteen Por Cont. Above Ave -Ten Years. Cairo, Aug.' 1. Official information Justifies conviction that Egyptian cot ton crow this year will be exceptional ly big In Lowh Fgypt the oop, it fs stated, will be twelve per cent and in Upper Fgypt fifteen and half par eat. above the average Just year away his band rage o » one fon ) Weather is favorable anc prospects of Nile floods bave much improved. Irrigation water, without being plentiful, is generally sufficient. The crop is fifteen days in advance of the usual time. Plants are health, and vigorous and earry more flowers and pods than last year. Area under enltivation ix about 14,000 acrés in excess of 1911 : Record Price for Beef. Chicago, August 14.--The highest price ever paid for cattle in the Un- ited States was given Monday at the stock yards, when beef on the hoo! brought $10.40 a hundred weight. The nearest approach to this price was made last week when $10.20 a hundred was paid. The record figure was secured by a feedér of Tuscola, Ill, whe disposed of his entire lot of corn fed cattle at $10.40. Two other price records also were set for cattle during the day. Dis- tillery 'steers brought $10 a hund- red, and range steers $9. Regina Accepts Loan Regina, Sask., Aug. 14.--Having gard nothing further from the fed- eral government at Ottawa regard- ing the proposed loan of ome mil- lion for the cyclone sufferers, the city of Regina, at & public meeting of ratepayers decided to accept the half million dollar loan from the provincial government offered for that purpose. ' The money will be forthcoming at once and the wreck- ed area rebuilt immediately i such cases where this h as been done already, b het - Bulgaria Wants War, London Aug. 14.---The declaration war by B ria demanded at a mass meeting at -by 20,000 people in Sdiia, ¥y according\lo a news agency despatch drow that dty. Politicians of all par- ties made speeches in support of the demand. -- . DANY Vaudeville, Take' pm - KX. The 14. --When | against Turkey was § 3.30 Ree t ght hand : or SRS Pe het ere + TTT. BABY IS BORN ol WILLIAM G. McADOO York tunnel pointed vice fiational cor PATRICIA WON AGAIN, Defeated the Michicago at Chicago» hy Seconds, Chicago, Aug. M.- Victory for the second time in the of macht races in the International trophy went to the Patricia, of Toronto, vesterday i She crossed the finish line a third of.a length ahead of the Michicago. The | yachts were only seconds apart during the last two miles of the race, | The Michicigo erossed: the starting tinea full length shend of the Pa { tricia. The completion of the first half of the course was gnarked by an ex: series to the windward. The Canadians ont {| sailed the Chicago crew, and favored | By strong wind shot into the lead a quarter of a mile from the buoy. eee PEEP PPVPRIP ICLP PILI obd | |* IMITATES MURDER, Auburn, N.Y. Aug. 14 Imitating what he said he had seen in moving pictures, four-year-old Leo Avery, son's of Merton Avery, picked up a revolver which he saw ly- ing on' a mantelpiece in his home and fired a bullet into the brain of his two-year-old brother, Floyd, killing him instantly. + & * * + +» 4 + + + + FRADE PEF D ILD I SL PPLE LPP CAMPBELLFORD'S TOWER 'GONF Sy Arrangement Necessitated Canal Construction. Campbellford, Ang. 14.-The big power dam across the Trent river | which flows through the middle of this town, ks in course of demolition | t make way fon the Trent Valley oanal Two charges of dynamite were put in the west wing on Saturday night and a huge hole was blown in the structure which has held the waters back for sixty vears. Ihe dam supplied or tw» the Trent Vallay . mills, the Dickson Bridge Works, and other in. dustries along the river. These will be takeh care of by the dominion tovefnient in compensation for the destruction of the walir power The power will be supplied by the Soy company. FOREIGNERS FEARFUL OF CHINESE LAW ---- Britain Does Not Wish to Aid is Depriving Powers of Autherity . . in China. Hong Kong, Aug. 14.----The rea! reason Fngland objects to the ae opt ance: by ex-Chief Justice Sir Frand® Piggott, of Hoang Kong, of President Yuan's offer to make him his judicial ad\leer, it is said in * business and official cirgles kere, is that Yuvan wart: him as angexpert on extra-tes ritorinlity to aid in depriving foreusn ers of the nght to exorcise authority in Cit Fo residents are horlied at th idea of Iricoming subject to Chines Inw, and Envland doesnot want Fng alpen to awaist an bringing such» thing about New by 1,000 horse pow maour a1 RUSHING THE BINDER TWINE. Filire Unloaded in New . York Service in West Same Week, Fargo, X.I)., Aug. 11. -By running specinl express trains lowded solid with twine daily from Chicago to Fargo, Grand Forks and Minot, the twine | companies have kept ahead of the de § mand in this state, . lt is stated en good authority that fire Whicaded from the ships in New York last Monday, August Sth, was expresied to Chicpgo, made into twine if a factory shore and was binding «nhsat in Nothh Dakota fields Inst Saturday, August 10th. Enough of . bis surplus ie being sent over the ling i Canadian farmers, £14.000.000 for New York 'Land. "New-York, Aug. 14.-The Fquitabh Life Assurances Society has sold iu property at 120 Broadway. The pur chase price agreed wpon has not bees stated, but it is known that the Equit able nsked at least $14,000,000 for the plot, Galt, Ont. is to have a mail de Nvexy, gomprising six postmen, Shi fii 5 fi . 1 f Dail KINGSTON, ONTARIO, W Tin the West = - s ANOTHER GRAIN BLOCKADE is' Said ' Likely: . Ottawa, Aug. I4.--While it is hoped that repetition of last gran blockade can be ® greal exumt avoided this season, it is nevertheless lcared in government ciréles hery that it will pe practically impossible ti prevent a tie-up on a smalier scale. ', Hon. br. Roche, who has returned to the capital rom .a iwo-months stay in Manitoba, expressed the opin won that it will' pe duheult to prevent a blockade, although he is hopeful that with the government directing every energy towards its prevention it to. be Very @ year's to. {must necessarily be on a much smaller of last states scale than that season The minister that while. the railways ard doing everything "that is possible undér the circumstances, to concentrate all the facilities within their power, to quickly remove the grain to the eastern seaboard, hes nave in a pumber of cased been unable so have their orders for increased roll ing stock litled, eting Chairman D'Arcy Seott, of the railway commission, who has just returned from his western four, also UX Press: d some fear of a recurrence of last year's blockade. He says that it is not the scarcity of ears which is the source 'of the trouble, hut the inade- quacy of the elevators in handling the grain. An encouraging feature, how- ever, he says, is that many of the grain. growers are building small granaries, and it is hoped that in this way much loss will be prevented. PROTESTANT MISSION ~~ BARRED FROM PERU Will Not Be Allowed to Investigate the Atrocities Practised on the Poor Indians. London, Aug. (14.--The Peruvian government will not permit a 1*ro- testant mission 10 go to Putumaye to investigate the alleged atrocities re ported by Sir Roger Casement--on be hall of the British gavernment -to have been perpetrated om the Indians in the Peruvian rubber-gathering dis twict. 3 At the request of -an association which is raising funds here for that purpose, the British minister at Lima, Charles L. Desgraz, had been in- structed to ascertain what the facili ties w granted to a Protestant mission by the Peruvian goyern pent. In reply the British minister cabled that the Peruvian foreign minister ad informed him, after a consultation with the president of the zepunlic, that anv commission other than one composed of Roman Catholics, would be barred by Article-1V of the Peru vian constitution. Cardinal Gibbons thas been appealed to ba Alired Mitchell Innes, charge 'd affaies of the British emimssy, to start a movement in the United Sta tes for sending Roman Catholic mis sioparies into the Putpmayo dis trio. TO REMOVE TWO VESSELS. Government Wants Douglas and Monguagon Taken Away. Windsor, Aug. 14.--The Canadian government has advertised for bids on the removal of the steamer Douglas nd the barge Monghagon. The Doug aground near Walkerville, and lying on her side. She has been there for several years. Previons to going 'aground she operated on the Kingsville, P'elee Island and Walker ville route as a passenger boat. Monguagan tan. aground just, above the Windsor waterworks during a storm about a year ago. She was laden with grain Capt. Hl. W. Baker, of Detroit, # nt present working on the removal of the steamer J, C. Sait, will put in his bids on both of the Canadian } \ hoats, las is 8 who SUPPLY GAMBLING MACHINES, Quebec Syndicate Takes Rake-ofl on Money Takers at Hotels, Montreal, Aug. 14 the officers of n Quebec have unearthed evidence showing that there is a syndicate in operation in this province to supply hotels with slot gambling machines This syndicate shaves the profits of the machines with the hotel proprie Phe first bt the police into the scheme obtained day vhin a' raid at Valois, whet sover of ant the names of their o secvred. A virgorous crusade is proseented against' the syndicate. The and Dominion police the Alliance OTS, sy got vest or s made on a hotel dis nerd to be machines were arson i » Gifts From Duke of Connaught. Montreal, Aug. 14.--H: R. H. the Duke of Connaught made presents to-day to all in attendance at the Royal Victoria hospital on the Duchess of Connaught during bes recent illness. Dr. Garrow got a diamond scarf pin, the four special nurses diamond brooches, and all the othér nurses who came in coun tact with the royal patient auto | graph phetographs. eras y London Coal Men Boost Prices. London, Aug. 14.-On September Ist hesitant coal, which is: now $7.50 per ton, will be advanced locally to $8 er ton, and further advances are very probable later in the season Furnaes conl. which at present is valved at 37.20 per ton, will be ad- vanced to $1.75 per ton in September. Western MP. to Wed. ; Windsor, Aug. 1. The engagemend is annovpend of Miss Margaret Wright. man, of this city, and A. WH. Clarke. K€, MB. formerly of Windsor, and wow of Calgary. The Marriage wil take place ugust 19th, at xley He Oakville, Ont, the roumiry Abomie of Mr. and Mrs, Gundy. The! EPNESDAY, Despatches From - Near And Distant Places. THE LATEST fIDINGS PRESENTED IN THE BRIEFEST ~ POSSIBLE FORM, Apry The W hig's. Daily Condensation of the News of the World From Tele- graph Service and Newspaper Fx. changes. fo Scurvy, duo to lack of vegelaldes, ravaged the «crew ot the Prench ship, Marie, which arrived at San Francis v0, from Rotterdam. Miss Nellie Schmidt, of Alameda, swam acsoss San Francisco Bay \a distance of about four miles, in three hours, with a rough sea running Princess Frederick Charles of Hesse, the kaiser's was robbed of jewels of enormous value as she was leaving London for Germany last week. : . Edward Clarke, of Atlantic City, N.J., who became a victim of aphasia four months ago, has had his mem ory restored by meceiving a blow wom an axe +8. Jager, a Toronto man, has pa tented a device, which, it is claimed will prevent trains from spreading rails, and which will hold a broken rail in place. I'he torrential raine which have fallen during . the Yast few days have had the effect of swelling many river in Quebec province, including those of laval and Montmorenc y. Au Barnet Mirskey, of J., was changing the carbon tank: on his soda water fountain, one of them exploded and he was fnjused so that he died ten minutes later. The farmers in Eastern and ern New Brunswick are greatly couraged hy the rainy weather and unless there ix a change soon many of the crops will be a bad failure. IMIS ATR MIMEI OT TINE FORTY YEARS DRY. sister, Pasgaie, N North dis' Aug. 14.--The Pelham has the honor of having completed forty years of prohibifion, having adopted the Canada temperance act about that time long ago, and from. that time it has not had a liquor license 'within its limits. One attempt was made to have licenses, - but it was over. whelmingly defeated. The citizens intend arranging a demonstration in 'honor of the event, and expect to have N. W. Rowell, K.C., leader of the opposition {in the legislature, attend, » RPP PPEPE FPP R ERP P EBS 024 C. H. Karnopp, superintendent o the Grenfell Seamen's Institute, bas been arrested at St. John's, Nfid., on a charee of misappropriation of the funds the amount Welland, township of lee A PEAT PPEIRPPRRPRPOPR Ty BABB BRN a . mission to of £1.000, For thme months Detective William J. Burns paid a high police officer 81,800 for protection for a gambling house in W Forty-Fifth street near Sixth avenue, New York, wher Rurns detectives posed . ns proprie tora, The strike of the masters' and "mjtes of the International Steam ship company, at Honolulu, is ended a compromise having been effected the strikers received fifteen per cent increase of pay stead of twenty per cent, asx demanded; The death occurred at Wa summer cottage at Siasconsett, N.Y. of Prof John Craig, one of the best known horticulturists in the United States, and for the past ten years professor in_that science in the state college of agriciiture 'at Cornell university. He was born in (Quebec province. TAT. STILL FAVORS TRADE RECIPROCITY Sut He Does Not Care 'to Clip fon the Canadian Act . Again, Aug. M.~Politieal ad President Tait they do he ever expressed an opi non on. the repeal of the Canadian aprocity act. It is declared that the president has not reversed his at esi Washington, Visels ta not believe any ding the oulcome of the Canadian ole stions fast fail. Government chiefs sav they desire the reciprocity act to remain upon the statutes fm some time in the hope that Canada will reverse itself and sanciion the agree ment. This view is declared to heid "by the president. ; : While the president still believes in Canadian reciorocity he does not do site to dhampion the act again. A PHYSICIAN INFECTED 'While Fighting Rocky . . Spotted Fever, Washington, Aug. HH. De. Thomas . MeClidton. of the public health ser vice, whe bas been fighting Rocks Mountain spotted fever in Momtawa all summer, has been infected with "he disease and is being rushed to Wash ington for trealnent. 3 3 y i is thought he contracted the dis ease during laboratory work. ° Rocky Mountain spotied fever exists only in America and bas purrbdd ihe scion Mountain tists much. 3 ' 3 : AUGUST 14, 1912, PITH OF NEWS| tituda on this auestion," notwithsian be itish NO BARRIEFIELD CONSTABLE And County Constable Loses Mors Than He Receives. There. is some uncertainty of late as to what sort of provision is made in the township of Pittsburg for the keeping of peace A few days 4go a vagrant was reported to be in a& pitiable condition on Barriefield common and it was impossible to find a constable to place him under arrest. The © former constgble, George Muller, was spoken for but he. was 'found to be. 'off the job" pow. It was also learned that at present there' was no constable in Barriefield. The county constable, findlly at his own. expense, went out of pity for the old man and took him in. He says that the last two arrests he made for Pittsburg cost him more than he got for the work. The city police have authority to kéep order on the bridge, but be- yond that the village is unprotected. It may be that Barriefield is a sort of spotless village, where no offi- ters of the Jaw are needed, but all will admit that even though thoy are not frequently needed they are nice to have around, sibly be found a necessity even in Barriefield. ; ---- Baseball ga Labor Day. Three. baseball games will be played+| al the Labor day picnic at Lake Un- tario Park. In the morning two of the unions will have a game. At one o'clock two of the junior teams will play, and later the Athletics and the Victorias 'will meet for a purse of $75 PINNED UNDER AUTO - AND FATALLY BURNED ---- Terrible Accident to William Dillon, a Prominent Business Man at Samia, Ont., Aug. 14 A prominent Sarnia businesj was prolmbly fatally burned his big tourmg car took fire after rolling down a steep embank ment near Arkona last night. Mr. Dillon was pinned under the steering gear and although his son. worked lesperately to free "him the gasoline burned so fiercely that when Mn. Dil lon was finally dragged out sot a particle of his clotidng remained Ihe son was badly burned" tog No- thing was leit of the big Cadinac car but the engine. Theccident was caused by Mr, Dillon trying to! pass a buggy "in a very narrow plas in the roadway: London, Diilon, man, when Willian SUMMER SESSION ENDS. Presentition to Prof. Bonner by Chemistry Students, 7 The summer session of Queen's uni versity was brought to a close Wednesday. The students and 1es80rs Mport a very successful sion, with the largest attendance the school has ever had. The increase in the attendance over last_ year was forty per eent. Coupled with .the closing a pleasing event took place on Tuesday even- mg when the students of the chem- istry class presented Prof. Bonner with a beautiful gold tie pin, set with a ruby and pearls. I'he stu: dents accompanied the gift with ef pressions of appreciation of his at- tention to them during their sum mer term, and their good wishes upon the event of "their separation on pro Ses. GAS ELECTRIC VESSEL Will be Brought Out by Montreal - Transportation Co, Contracts have just been lat by the Montreal Transportation company by which the Canadian canal trade wit) have the first electrically propelled merchant 'vessel ever built. The ship will take itg-place in the trade next spring fhe ment new vessel will be oi the internal combustion . en Zine type tried out last year. The vessel has been contracted the outcome of designs John Red & Co, Glasgbiw, 'the contract Electric Marine fd Glasgow. The ship is being built to heir the Hunter and Wigham- Richardson firm. It will be of the usual Canadian canal form and dimensions. a develop for stibmitted of Montren! and with the company, 8 WwW being Propulsion plans by Swan, * Lived in Kingston. A Renirew paper woting the refer ence of the Whig to the fact thay the father of Police Licut. E. Becker, ui New York. once #ived in Kingston, says : "Police-Lieutenant Becker, against whom a' charge of murder is now pending . in the Rosenthal case m New York, is the son of Becker, for many years proprietor of the British hotel here. The lieu: tenant's father married a Mis Pa trick Kelly, of this town. Theregwore no children from' this marriage, but it is Jemrned that Mr. Becker, sr., had been previously married in New York statd." Before gong to Renirew Mr. Becker lived in Kingston. Kingston's New Principal: The Guelph Mercury has the follow ng : The Kingston Board of Educa tion has appointed George W. Hof ferd, M.A., of Guelph, principal of Victoria school, at a salary of 51.550 a wear. Mr. Hofferd has been prine pal of the Lucan high school for the past two years, and has 'done splendid work thére. He and Mrs. Hofferd are well known. in Guelph, where they have of recent years spent the summer months, pt x Meteoric Showers To-Night, 'Astrongmers are oh the lookout jor 'he first sight of a series of meteoric showers due in the north-eastern heavens, in the Constells Perseus. This fine display of fofling stars should be seen tonight. ¢hward mid. night, hesoming more brdliant just before daybreak. . > - and may pos-' George & THE | | | i i i i i i i i JACOR G. SCHURMAR the ew United sthtes nine by Canadians From England Companies. Toronto, Aug, 14 E. P. Heaton, insurance expert of the Canadian manufacturers association, after a long investigation has "returned to this 'city with the startling infor- mation that ope hundred and fifty millions of Canadian fire insurance business is placed with New Eng- land Mutual fire . insurance com- panies in preference to Canadian? and British companies. The New England Mutuals have no agents here, and are not licensed 10 ao business, but - manufacturers and others go to these companies with business, as the premium 'is only half 'that of the Canadiap com- panies A large proportion of this business' comes from Ontario. Secured New FEEPRPPLPPEP EPR L PPE PIED 0 -* DROWNED SAVING FIANCEE, Saskatoon, Sask., 14 Acting © Mayor Hood, of Lanigan ed in Watrous morning while life of hie fiancee farlane. to whom be married to-day They had motored over together from Lanigan to spend the day. Aug R I was drow Lake . this saving the Miss Mac- was n=. he Lo & % &> PUPP PLEETIEI PEEP PLP P SIPS CPR PP ERP Pee BANKING 1 NTELESTS 1H York Di Police Ntliance. New Yio, Aug. 14.---Powerful banking interests, acting through the New York Clearing Houses com- mittee, came to the aid of District- Attorney Whitman yesterday in his efforts to lay bare the alleged cor- rupt alliance between the police and { the gambling fraternity, founded on { graft and blackmail A vittual command was given to the committee to all banks in the clearing house to furnish the dis- trict-attorney with a reeord de posits they have received from any of the high police officials whom the district-attorney suspects of having been® a collector of blackmail from the disorderly elements of the city As a result, records showing that within the last eight months Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, charged with the murder of Herman Rosen- thal and accused of gambling graft has made bank deposits of $55.84 in his own name or that of his wife. were placed in the hands of the public prosseutor. NEW POSTAL TRICK NIPPED IN THE BUD Addressees Can't. Send - Back Parcels They have Opened. Aug. 14.---A new and original postal fraud haz resulted in the issue of a notice of warning to postmasters by the post- office department The officers of the department somchow discovered that a package of third-class matter sent from To ronto was received by the addressee, who opened the parcel, took out what he wanted of the contents, and then returned the balance. in the original wrapper, without postage The department points out that this is an illegal practice and post masters are required to see that only unopened packages which have Bot reached their addressees are re. turned to senders free. New Attorney in of Ottawa, perfectly Grand Encampment, 1.O.OF Hamilton, Aug. 14.--The Grand Encampment of. Ontario met yester- day in the new Oddfellows' Temple, J. R. Mowson, grand patriarch. of Windsor, presiding Ninety-nine subordinate encampments were re- presented. The eioction of officers resultéd "as follows: --Grand patri- arch, E. M. Clapp. Toronto: grand high priest, R..H. Ketcheson, To- roato; grand senior warden, W. J. Graham, Toronto; grand scribe, J A. Macdonald, Toronfs: grand treasurer, E..C iarbuty, Picton; grand repres:ntative.'J. R. Thomason, Windsor; grand junior werden, Charles H. Bogaur, New Liskeard: fhe appointed officers were, grand marshall, J. Leckié. Newton; grand sentinel, 'W. W. Savigney, Peter. 0'; grand outside sentinel, I. C. Parker, Woodstock. . | « LAST EDITION. HE STEAMER CORSICAN - ~~ STILL NEAR BELLE ISLE The Lake Champlain is Stand- ing by Her: NO DANGER REPORTED BY EITHER OF THEM TO ALLAN LINE OFFICE, Uneasiness is Felt as to Why They Have Not Moved=--The Fog Not so Dense--A Private Message Leaked Out. ------ Montreal, Aug. 14.~--~The Allan line officials to-day received word from Captain Cook, of the Corsican, to the effect that the weather had cleared, 'and the Corsican Was. pro. ceeding toward Liverpool at - half speed. He said there was no cause tor alarm. ' Montreal, Aug. 14. The signal ger- Vice, questioned. just before midnight, replied that the Corsican, which struck an-leeberg op Monday. and the C.P.R. liner Lake Champlain were stl in the same position, 120 cast of Belle isle. The stips not stirred from this position the amident occurred, Both report no. danger Shipping experts begin to surmise that much mors damage must have been actually done than was admitted by Captain Cook in the wircless messages he sent the Alan Line oflices. No further word from Captain Cook has announced from the . Allan line 2" the message which said that the vessel was only slightly injured the waterline and was making no water, and that she would proceed to Liverpool as soon as the fog Kifted But if there is no danger, as re- ported, it seems strange that the ship should _have made no progress, no matter how slow. Also it is difficult to understand why if the Corsican able to proceed to Liverpool as stated the Lake Champlain should find it ssary to stand by all day and tify herself with each report made with the injured. ship, : A private messgge sent' from thed Corsican "by wireless tn Moon to vi Port Amour leaked out in transmission. Questions addressed to the party to whom the message vas sent were replied to by a portion the truth, but (he fact was sup- weed that the Lake Champlain commander considered it advisable to stand by the Corsican to be ready to give aid if necessary, sithough this in Captain Cook's miles hava since bien ollices nhove = yesterday was incorporated mosyape » The fog at Belle Island was, acoord ing to Captain Cook, not so dénse but that the berg was perceived by lookbut man In time to reverse engines and strike lightly, SO unless the fog im thicker thers seems reason "why the ships should not have proceeded slowly. Signal re- ports state thé fog if anything is not so dense, A pessimistic feuding growing among those who hava knowledge" of navigation that all is not so well with the Corsican as is painted the the no Windsor Manager Suicides. Windsor, Aug 14 Despondent over having been dismissed as man- ager of a local firm and unable to longer support his wife and three children, D. M. Waterbury, aged fifty, placed a revolver at his temple, this morning, firing a #hot that caused instant death, ------------------ U.S. Minister to Greece, Washington, -Aug. 14 President Taft yesterday sent to The senate the nomination of Jacob Gould Schur- man, president of Cgrnell university minister from. the United States to Greece and Montenegro to be Keep Cool on the Water, pam. America tour of the Is- Thursday, 2 makes her famous lands, 50 cents. ------------ The in" the Alberta are hardly or a8 heavy as those farther south. In the immediate of Fdmon« ton wheat and oats look very well "Puy toilet " ROBERT J. 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