av ~ Th aly ritish Whi *" YEAR 79--NO. 241 CRESCENT VERSUS CROSS IS NOW THE REAL ISSUE uy Refuses the Offer of the Powers BLOODY WR CERTAIN IT WILL DECIDE THE FATE OF TURKEY, Russia Has 300,000 Men Ready to Advance on Turkish Frontier-- the ' The Reforms «Balkan States, London, October 15. «Fhe chuneeller- --on-of Europe seem reluctantly conv: ced that s general war in the Balkans is pow inevitable, Cestainly the pict ures: and the news reaching London 'from Constantinople and other Turk- ish centres prove that enthusiasm, amounting in some cases to religious delividm, is animating Turks of classes, who are parading the stréets, joinlug the regiments in shoulmg de fianoe and ndicule to the Balkan states, 5 The favorite cry is: "Burn the Bul gars, Ureeke, Slavs and Montene grins!' shouted in unison with fran tie excitement, It is '"I'he Crescent versus the ('ross" all over again. The Turks know that they are fighting lor lar mere than re- forms in Macedonia. 'They realize that it is the fast fateful struggle, begue five hindred yedrs ago to decide whe thie the 1 urk Nauk) be driven out ol t As the pv puss the Hritish em bassy, wild cheers are given. Feeling 1s very different in Germany There, in a vampaign of abnost un precedented ferocity and irresponsibil ity, journal of the war parties de clare that Great Hritain is engaged io a diabolical attempt to foment an Kur. opean contlagration, which would end » Germany falling an emsy prey io o-French: domunation. . © "Times rebukes Lloyd-George in Demanded hy its Tost dignified fashion for saying that if war ensued he hoped one result would be that the bounds of freedom und ol good government would be ex- - tended. ' "Ths," says the 'Dvmes, "wil cer tainly be gnoted abroad as sn ill concealed' Aoi of taking sides. 'Lhe truth is that whole efiorts of Sir Kdward wwe divested towards pny dur 'the fires of striie, and w prove inevitable, conlining them the narrowest, pp "But he and all informed © Foglidh- men ah kngp shat the real oi will the battles are lost or won, when Russa, Austria, termany und Italy, each with its own conbist- all | i | LISA Y er to Adrisnople. n Macedonia Tur- key already has 200,000 men under arms. The Ottoman leaders hope Bul garig will mareh on Adrianople, the country approaching it favore the 'defence, gnd the Turks believe the al lies would break themselves on the Adrianople: fortifications, whereas they fear a long drawn out guerilla war fare in Macedonis. NOT WITH "CARSON AT LARGE. Christabel Pankhurst Refuses to Go to Jail With Him Out. Paris, Oct, '15. Miss Pavkhurst is stilt here. In an inter view she declared that she would not | go to prison so long as Sir Edward Carson, the head of the Ulster anti home rule movement, is free. "He! isin open-revoltiand so are we. The government! dare not imprison him why should I let them imprison nw while he .is at liberty 7" In Soply to the question as = to whether she intended to try to get elected to patliamént when women were enfranchised, Miss Pankhurst said ©: "No, 1 have the heartiest con- The Christabel | party 'business 45 Sormapl, selfish and disgusting. 1 would mot be a mem: ber of the house of ceminons for anes thing in the world." SHORTEN THE ROUTE, "SAVING ELEVEN DAYS ing ambitions, see the victors procesd- | ing to enjoy thew hard-eurned spoils." ithin twenty-four hours Furkey may find herself al war with every state in the Balkans. ambassadors of the powers its to thew note, iftorming them Hut Turkey will not tolerate any foseigs, interference . he » Satrying oy of reforms 3he ha Mace donis. 1 ade Peopaeed hope off a pe t of the problem, = able gett leaves the ns no option but re course to arms. The Reforms Demanded. Paris, Oct, 15.--A synopsis of the re ply of the Balkan allies to the e- watats igns of the Powers is given na icial uote. for thanking thie powers for their interest in the reforms demanded in European Turkey, the reply declare that the repeated promises given by Turkey in connection with the reforms have remained a dead letter, The situai.on of the Christians in Macedonia has become intolerable, it continues; and, therefore, the Balkan states believe it to be their duty to- ask auie she Oltawan ge government directly ements con: ins in the Bote atl by the al ies. In this note they ask Turkey to grant without delay the following re ofma and to promise to apply them v within six months with the assistance: of the great powers and the Balkan ~ slates : The division of the provinces of Eu- rapean - ey into ethnical circon- The pominaling « of Belgian or Swis« Christin governc ae equaliky .- sohools of whatever t reply . he &yuality of tion in the ; Tai pa. - 'Fhe Porte issued to the | Time of Journey From England to Los Angeles, Cal, Oct. 15. --With a saving of eleven days between Liver pool and Australia, thousands of Eng: lish travellers are to be brought hy Los Angeles. under a new traffie »ar rangement made by the Uceanic steam- ship company. By the plan the steamship company to New York and then actoss the United Siates by rail. They will Rave a choice of routing which will igeludy Los Angeles, it is expected that this oppertunity for seeing the breadth of the United States will be a magnet for thousand: of travellers The present routing by the way of the Suez casal from Eng: land requires torty-one days, while by the rad across the continental route the entre trip can he made in thirty days. Fresh shipment of McCon' ey's chocolates. Gibson's. ¥ nt. : i of Christians into ov" ory branch of adminigbration of 'be put into execution by of Christians and Mus the ol represen: ration of he reforms is She demand that Turkey de Ber army, ote a for the hous of commons whole political system aod the whole | will bring the tourists from England | KINGSTON, | BETRAYED BY BIG SHOES. Beattle Burglar Identified by Large Footprints He Left Behind. Seattle, Oct. 15. -- Frederick Barry I Strorg, aged twenty-four, the "college burglar," who, after his arrest on suspicicn created by his large shoes, admitted that he had broken into {twenty-two Peaitle houses and stolen {articles worth $3,000, said that his parents live' in Columbus, Ohio, and are, prominent. - He was sent to thy -Apnapolis Military Academy four years ago, he says. After beicg dismissed from the aca' dewy in his first year, Strong says he was ashamed to go home, and became a 'ugabond. He drifted to San Fran sco, enlisted on a cruiser as fireman, was dishonorably discharged at the Puget Soind yard after two years' service, and, coming to Seattle,, be came a-house breaker. People whose houses had been rob Led mentioned the large footprints left by the burglar, and this led to Strong's detection. * BOY CHOOSES OWN CALLING. | Quebec Father Wem to Law to side Question. Montreal, Oct. 15.--An interesting judgment op parental authority has heen given by Justice Mercier in Beau- harnois county. Alexis Bail, a earpen- ter, sought un injunction against Theodore Lemieux, to prevent his son | being employed as a blacksmith's ap prentice, the father wanting the boy [to become a carpenter. The judge, however, decided that the son should be allowed to choose his calling for himself. "IRISH NOT SUPPORTING | THE FRENCH PROTEST Concerning the » English-French Sep- School Regulations in the (iitawa, Oet, 15. --As the appoint. { ment of Protestant supervising spe { tors does not concern or apply . to | English schools mn Untario at @all, | three of the English-speaking trustees on the Ottawa Separate school board k are opposed to the stand the rest of the board is taking in opposition to { the new French-Lnglish regulations, } and they claim to represent » per | cent. of local Irish Catholic Separate | school supporters in so doing. Furthermore, several trustees it clear that the engaging of counsel to determine the legal aspect of the ease had not been done by the board, De- made | authorized no such action. C. H. Ca- ban, K.U., of Montreal, 'is now under- stood to be the man secured, A daily paper {3 @vVocate the claims ol the Separate schools and Rowdn Catholivs resident in Ontario genersi- ly, is the latest project of those be- hind the movement against the new French-English regulations of the On- tario government. Railway Out of Edmonton, Edmonton, Alta, Oct, 15. "Three hundred * miles of electric rallways, connecting Fdmonton with numerous towns, coal mines and gravel de. posits, grain and dairy districts, brick, tonc-ete. and other manufacturing Jia in central Alberta, will be built p § Edmonton Interurban Railway company. George Berbey, of Paris and Vancouver, head of a French syn. dicaty, which has already invested more than $10,000,000 in Canada, 's president. C hannel! Isla Island Tmmigrants. Eduotonton,"' Alta, «.-Qct. 15.--Ntss Edythe Bellington, who represents the imigration of England in Jersey, atrived in Edmonton yesterday . with fourtten immigrants from the Channel Islands. They will sctile on farm | lands in central Atbertn* and engagd in dairying, (rack-gardening and poul- try raising It is contended in new south Wales that the time 1s now ripe for holding a conlerence between representatives of Canada awd Australia on the question of uniting mn poheing the Pacilic ocdan nthe interest of the Hritish empire; inasmuch as the board as a whole had" ONTARIO, JUESDAY, Distant Places. THE LATEST TIDINGS PRESENTED IN THE BRIEFEST POSSIPLE FORM. The Whig's Daily Condensation of the News of the World From Tele- graph Service and Newspaper Ex. changes. An armed highwayman held up four stores and fired at leronto police, it 1s generally accepted now that all the Balkans are at war against Tur. key. Pr. James KK. Inch, Sackville, N.B., losmeny chiel superintendent of edu- cation lor New Brunswigk, died in the Amherst hospital following an opera- tion. Ur. Edward I. Foote, physician and author, 1s dead at his home in New York. He was a pioneer in the pro- motion of eugenics in this country and one ol the firgt advocates of the teach- ing of sex hygiene in the public schools Hon. l'rank Cochrane, Minister of Railways and Canals, has returned to Ottawa from a tour of inspection over the Welland canal. While it is well known that the government 1s anxious to hasten the construction of this work, 1t 1s realized that owing to a lack of accurate information, which i# necessary for specications, it will be impossible to let apy contract un til next spring. A motor boat from Alexandria Bay containing €x persons and making over twenty miles an hour collided with a barge being used in the dredyg Canadian chan ing operations in the nel at Fudler"s Elbow. 'The man at the helm mistook a fight on the dredge some distance away for a buoy hight. The motor boat was so badly damag- ed that it sunk but the occupants were rescued. Une woman was so badly in- jured that it is feared she cannot re- cover. EX-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, Shot by a maniac in Milwaukee Monday night. op a 1] | SHOT EX-PRESIDENT. Milwaukee, Wis, Ont, 15. -A German maniac named Stranck shot Ex-President Roosevelt as he stepped into an automobile. Chitago, Oct. 15 velt was operated on this morning; bullet od from undér tenth rib The surgeons say Roosevelt's injuries are slight, though blood p@svning is possible. Roose- here remoy- Tastes reeet oe Yak diete tetrad aw "RACE FOR WORLD'S SCULLING GUAM. Eddie Durnan, the Canadien a amplen, Ernest Barry, h -who defeated hi ends. [i Fades, Fusand, \ pe OCTOBER 15, PITH OF NEWS Despatches From Near hod 1012, BOY TIED TO COW'S TAIL. Victim of Companion's Pranks Dragged Through Pond. Louis, Oct. 15.--Joseph Otten: ten years old, of No. THT Vir ginia avenue, was arrested by the po- lice of she Carondelet district on com: plaint of Mrs, Josephine Swicker of No. 7517 Virginia avente that he was leader of a gang of boys who had tied a rope about her five-year-old son's neck and' then tied the rope to a cow's tail, causing the child to be dragged through a pasture and through a pond Mrs. Swicker told the police after tymg the rope to the cow the boys prodded the animal and caused it to run through the pond. She said: hei son was nearly drowned and suffered many bruises. WENT NAKED 35 YEARS. fd berger, Did Penance for the Murder of His Mother. Mytompmgd tah, Oct. 15.~Inepegut, a Ute Indian, who for almost thirty- five years has done penance, for the murder of his mother, by going naked and refusing to mingle with other members of his tribe, was found dead in his lonely tepee near here yester- day. He had been supplied with food by his tribesmen, who considered him sacred. London Needs More Schools. London, Oct. 15.--The Board of Education has decided to ask at once for $250,000 to build another public school and a second colleg- iate institute. The present collegiate institute has been badly overcrowd- ed for years. [LAVERGNE 1S CLOSE ON COL. HUGHES HEELS 'Is Again at Ottawa to Urge the | Nationalist Views of Navy Question. Ottawa, Oct 15.~Armand La- vergne, who since Mr. Bourassa's comparative political retirement has been the chief Nationalist parlia- mentary agent, has again come to the capital to emphasize with the ministers nationalist opposition to any large measure of- naval assist. ance to Great Britain. He arrives cose oii the heels of Col. the Hon. | sam Hughes, who is urging the government in the other direction The naval policy of the government Is still in flux, according to minis | statements here, but an effort will be made next week, when all the ministers are on hand, to finally harmonize conflicting views within the cabinet and settle the details of the emergency contribution policy jto be submitted next month. | "THE COCKPIT OF HORRORS Is What the Balkan States Will Now lecome. { London, Oct. 15.--Regarding the Balkan situation the big newspapers hete are convinced that fierce fighting fs going on to-day. Little real news | has filtered through from Turkey or the Pelkans for twenty-four hours. The Daily Express says that diplom- 'acy having faSled, thy Balkans will { now become the cockpit 'of horrors i ---------- a -- "4 16,000 ALLEGED VETERANS, Department Has Issued Warrapts to $2,800 of Them. Ottawa, Oct. 15.--The Department of Militia and Defence has received a to tal of 16,000 applications for $100 grants by Fenian raid veterans. The department has issued 2,800 warrants so far. CARLETON BYE-ELECTION. Nomination October 30th and Vot- ing November 6th. Ottawa, Oct. 15.--~The day of hhomi pation for the constituency of the county of Carlton, rendered vacant by the death of the late Edward Kidd, has been fixed for October 30th, and election one week later, November 6th Prince of Wales Nicknamed, London, Oet. 15.--~1he Oxiord un- dergraduates have nicknamed the Prince of Wales, who has just entered there "The Pragger Wagger."" It wags an established custom ot the under- graduates to call the late Queen Vie- toria "the Quagger'" and the prince by analogy is 'the Pragger." "Wales" was rather a difficulty," said an under graduate in explaining,' "but 'wagger' $ was the only possible solution which seemed "Lo fit To Wed Former Flance's Mother. Chicago, Uet, 15:~The breaking of the engapéineng of Hobert lshan. Ran- dolph and Miss Dorothy Meckean turee years ago, when they were popular members of the younger set of Kiver- side, 1s to have a romantic sequel next Thursday in the marriage of Mr. Kan- dolph and his former fiance's mother, Mrs. Martha Melean. Randolph i 30 and Mrs. Maclean 45 years old. Miss Muclean is now Mrs. Harold Heilyer. London, Oct. 15. --Mortimar Froy, who was once well known in Can- ada and had a distinguished mili- tary career, having received high testimonials from Lord Strathcona and others, got a year's: lmprison- ment. His downfall was due to drink. fiuy Mortimer Fry, who was once well-known in Canada and had a dis tinguished military: career and recesv- od high testimonials from Lord SAratheons and others got a year's isonment in London, ps downfall is due to drink, EF Mr. A. BE, Lows, Odessa, and her daughter, Mrs. F. G. Henderson, is in the city today. SAyGE Gewry, Loronto, has been ap ne at that | As His Condition Demans| -- Absolute Rest BULLET WAS: FIRED BY WOULD-BE ASSASSIN FROM RUSTY REVOLVER. Operation to be Performed Shortly --Would-be Assassin says He Was 'Led to Deed by Reading of Colonel's Alleged Iniquity in seeking Third Term, Chicago, Oct. 15.--The condition of i | } ex-President Theodore Roosevelt at the Merey hospital, suffering from a bullet wend, fired "by a would-be assassin in Milwaukee: last night, much more 'serious than at first thought. The ex-president's speeial train arrived here early this morning and the patient was immediately tak en to the hospital. He walked to the operating-room and was examined by half a dozen eminent surgeons, with an X-ray apparatus. The bullet: was | found three inches deep under the tenih rib, pressing close to the wall of 'the chest. The greatest danger (is from blood-poisoning, as the bullet was find from a rusty revolver. Doc tors say. (Col. Roosevelt has great chest development. Ihe operation for the removal of the bullet will be performed shortly. Mrs Roosevelt is expected from New York train. the would-be ass says except that he was led to the », reading papers discussing the Roosevelt's dem nd for is on an early Schrank, little, deed b mi wity of Col. a third term Gol. Roosevelt tie campaigning this year the announcement made by at the Mercy hospital, after a consul tation this morning. When the pati ent is sufficiently well to be moved, he must go to Oyster Bay and rest up for months. The colonel -necepted this order of the surgeons with siderable impatience. Finally, luctantly agreed, though he felt fit enough to make a two-hour platform speech that minlbte Chicago, Oct. 15.~Thete was anoth er X-ray examination of Col. Roose velt, this afternoon, which. the patient bore with characieristic cheerfulness, He joked with the doctors about his Linjury, and said : "They will have to use a bigger bullet thap that to get me. It would take a Howitzer bat tery to kill a bull moose. While he stoutly avers that there is no pain worth mention'ng, the doctors agreed, this afternoon; that it very spot, and the absence vere pain mig ht be the indication of pe ssible complications "You are taking this thing too set ously," laughed Col. Roosevelt, when his doctors told him. "I ill be speaking sgain from the platform in one wee An eminent naval surgeon is accompanying Mrs. Roosevelt from New York, asin can do no mote ac This was surgeons con he said he re Was a sofe of se Fanatic's Mind Unhinged. Milwaukee, Wis, Oct; 15. ~John Sch rank, the fanatic, who attempted the life of Col. Roosuvelt, was arraigned in distifct. court here to-day, and plegded guilty - to attempted murder He was remanded on 85,000 bail til) L Dec. 10th, To reporters to-day the prisoner talked freely, saying he had lost his sweetheart in the General Slocum disaster in 1910 and had not legn hungry since. His mind is plainly undinged, President Taft's Message, New York, Oct, 15 President Tads bv wireless rom She Atlantie- fleet, which he is reviewing off the New Eng. land coast, has senl mersages pathy with Colonel and Mrs Roose: velt. 'The president deplores that wudh dastardiw outrages can he possible 1 hberty-loving countr i ol sym un demoeradic Story of the Sheoting. Milwaukee, Wis, Oct, 15 Theodore Rabsevelt was shot was leaving the Gilpatrick hotel in sn automobile for the Auditoriam to make a speech. The colopel weni td the hall and began his speech alter fie had seen the assailant ares ted and taken to the siation The man was 'seized and held til policemen --same Up. A mob surged around the prisoner Colonel Hoosevell s Iske bably saved by a mamiscript of tig speech which be delivered. The bully struck the manuscript, which. retarded ite force as it passed through inlo the flesh. Hic assailaft was prevented from firing a second shot by Athert H. Mas ; bn, one of tolopel Roosevelt's | woeretaries. Colonel Roosevelt had just stepped inte an automobile when the would-be assassin pushed hiv way through the crowd in the street and fired. Martin, who was stamgfbng in the car with the colonel, leaped onto the man's shouldérs and bore him io the ground. 4 Captain A. 0. Girard of Milwaukee, who was on the front seal, jumped almost 'at the same time, and in an instant the man was overpowered and disarmed. ho A wild ery of "Lynch biml" went up: Colonel Roosevelt told them to oH the man, wht was then token into 5 hotel and held there uglil be was. removed to the police station. In spite of the entreaties of ysis Colonel as he on polios way prob LAST EDITION. ROOSEVELT MUST CEASE HIS CAMPAIGN WORK ce Sp ------------------------ a BTR CY ALEXANDER Whe the donald, MORRISON byé.eloction Man MPs in Maes w ELECTION OF MIRRISON 1S T0 8 CONT ESTED Dangers are San | Following Lhe Methods Employed to Gain Large Majority. Uttawa, Oot. 15.-The rejoicing of the governmental party, at the eapi- tal, over the results of the Macdonald bye-election "dre. not unmixed with a certain degree of foreboding. Two dans gers pre themselves to thinkag conserva here as a result of the methods employed, to gain the large majority. In the list place it is eons sidered hera 'fo be absolutely osrtain that the clgétion of Morrison wilhiibe contested on 'the grounds of bribery and corruption aud the conlravening, in almost all its phases, of the on Despe rate eagerness of "party to win the election called fie ry measure known to the Manltobe machine and its former mipuster. public works. lo addition | to i danger the jubiliation caused hy heavy majonly polled against the can- didate for W¥ Msrkats m the héarts of the eastern protectionist has Is ready, it is understood, a#sumed erete form in the new demands to the minister of finance for an increase Gn: the tani on certain manufactured are ticles coming mto Canada from the United States, mt act, ove Left for Toren. case of the young woman wha was found wandering around the streed at all hours of the night, and who was taken iff Charge by the police, was: disposed of by Magistrate Farrell at the police court Tuesday morning. The woman s husband is. is Toronto snd he sent on a raliway ticket for her to go to lgronto, and she left on the noos tram [he A The shallow low area which Was Northern = Ontario, yesterdsy, has moved to the lower Bt. Lawrsses, and a pronounced high area 'with low temperature is now spreading oves the great lakes, The weather con tinues fine Rnd moderately warm Lim the wastern provinces , BORN. Kingeto: #ig, to Mr COHEN-In Ont ) 13 of. Brookive. NEw 4d Mra Chas Elizabeth # { ingston, in JF Ww. oe, sfdext daugh Caines, of ngest won Belleville. y Oat Pglice Lurg. 1214 y Magis aged 7 i Che in-law ir ati, Undertaker, Princess po am ao nn A AA---- The Od Firm of Underta 254 and 256 PRINCESS ¥ ' 'Phone 147 for Ambulunce, 'Phone 577. A STOVES AND RANGES, The best lot we have ever had; Dressers, Biagds and . ie ine Reasonable prices, At Fuone 70% = is the highest standsrd of ness. No change has been the quality fn spite of u prices No other tea is "just good." * Packed In Ceylon and tans Colonel Roosevelt insisted "on ering: address, "4 will_make ihe sheet or Qie-on Jive bis or the other," he said.