~ # * > = nen TEAR 16-NO, 262 LINEMAN MET D ON ELECTRIC LIGHT POLE Simon Byme Electrocuted on Friday Evening DEAD MAN HUNG LIMP, IN DARKNESS IN PRESENCE OF 'BIG CROWD. | Body Lowered by the Firemen by } Means 'of Tong Ladder--The | Dead Lineman Had Been Cutting | # Wire That Had Cauked Trouble. A gruesomg fatality occurred, on Feiday evenitig, shortly aiter 8.30 o'clock, when Simon Bryne, a lineman in the employment of the city light, heat and power plant, met instant dedth by 'electrocution while at the top of an ace lamp pole at the corner of Princess afd King streets, The cor ner was"in derkness at the time, the Pripcess sireet circuit - having been turned off, and the dead lineman hung limp, strapped to the pole with a belt, in 'the presence of a large crowd of people who had rushed to the reenc when the fire ladder, truck and Cor- bett's ambulance dashed at full speed to the King street corner. An electric flashlight was all that revealed the dark body on the pole to the silent crowd assembled helow, : About 7.15 o'clock the pole had | caught fire, and the fire brigade was called out to exiinguish the blaze. Two linemen, Simon Pryne and F. Peg, went out, from the plant to cut the wires, and the former was in the act of making the cutting when he re ceived the fatal shock. The first wire | had been cut by Mr. Peg, and as Mr. Bryne was nearest to the second, he told his companion that he would nip it. He bed his plyers, and as he took hold of the wire, the current passed through him. Mr. Peg, who was up higher on the pole than his companion, saw what ppened, and immediately called to sowe men below to throw him up a piece of rope that they had heen us- ing, and he would tie it #ound his sompanionte keep him from falling to the ground. When the firemen arrived, a ladder i the pole, and all, electrician of the up, He carried a y "and placed it overthe [Bl other end was tied around the dead man, (at he bendy Was i to ti street, i was then removed to Cor- bett's rooms. U the body it was found that' the current had entered his left hand and gone up the arm and across the , and out the a ht sid w the Atm i, 1 very madly. e flesh on ue fingers were burned off, the bone was visible Collamer C. Folger, general wana: t, asked by the how he wonld account for the ty, stated that the 'only reason i was that Myr. Byrne PEEP IPPPEP PL PENS time accidentally, placed | his elbow on the main wire, making a cross-cicouit. On that elbow there is showing plainly that it must come in contact with a wire. As the linemen are accustomed to cutting the wires when the power is on, the current was turned on while they were at work. They had no light with them. ° a small scar, was a man of about fifty-one of age, and was of a very heavy build, weighing over (wo hundred . He was a very faith. ful worker. He is survived by a wile two A . a has decided to hold ap inquest at « o'clock on Satyrda) night. ; J . GIRL FINDS. 800, WEDS OWNER. ------------ v ree. Leads Woman to Man Nov. 9. a Cornwall, of thia CRUGE DENTISTRY METHOD {Using Ordinary Pliers to Extract an out a dozen of his ewn teeth. came land waitress in the eating heuso. Yor tng him * * Land returned to find 'and pick up tho EATH | DTG BY THOMPSON. NEW YORK. BRAMWELL BOOTH, ed his father ax hedd Salvation Army QEN. Vho succeed { the MAKES MANIAC OF VICTIM Dozen of His Teeth, Goes Mad. Chico, Cal., Nov. 9. --John Ferris, aged roustabout at the Nelson boarding house in this city, took a pair of ordinary pliers and jerked 8 intense was the pain that hg be- raving mad, seized a buge butcher knife and attacked the cook Just as the knife was descending on the shoulders of the cogk a young boarder, Will Doyle, rushed td ibe rescue and fought with the madman ten minutes, finally overpower after receiving 4 broken nose. Ferris was disarmed and it .ree quired the efforts of two big paticce men to get him to the stadion house. | | i LATEST WAR NEWS, Sofia, Nov. 9.--It Is stat- ed that peace negotiations between Bulgaria and Tur- key have already been pen- ned. Constantinople, Nov. 9.-- The head of the Turkish hierarchy has Issued an ap- peal for a holy war. London, Nov. 9.--Turkey has cancelled its orders for battleships. PPP EPPS ADRIFT IN A BAILBOAT. Picked Up In Precarious Condition After Thirty-six Hours. Fictou, N. 8, Nov. §.----A Mr. Mac- Gregor left Grindstone, Magdalen Is lands, in a sail boat on Monday. for Entry Island. Owing to the heavy wind the boat was disabled and drifted about helplessly until eight o'clock Tuesday. night, when the steamer Lady Sybil came slong. Captain Ferguson, with the ald ob the searchlight, saw an abject on thn water directly ahead and had bare. ly time to altér the ship's course and avold going over what proved to bn a boat. He at once stopped the ship >h CEPLLEFVCL RSID ENS man and with difficulty got him »n board and took the disabled boat in tow. Mr. MacGregor was thirty-six hours in the boat, was thinly clad, and without anything to eat. He could not have survived much longer. COUPLE WERE MARRIED | AFTER FIFTY YERS| 2 |Enpogement Made in 1865 Lapsed When Couple Became Separated; ._ Re-united Now. Ottawa, Nov. S.--After a separation of almost sixty vears, M. F. Beach, seventy-vight years of age, was mar 2 to the sweetheart of hin 3 in Barber; on years. ier ey were born in what ix now Ni. Iroquois, Unt. where Mr. i . 'they wore 10 | wae wakened Che Daily EINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATUEDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1912 PHAGEDY SUPPLANTS WEDDING #ather Breaks Neck in Effort to Avoid Fall Fayette City, Pa., Nov. 9. -- Break- ing his neek standing, the death. of John B. Harris, a wealthy farmer, caused the postponement of his daugh- ter's marriage for which he had just dressed. Harris, « man six feet in height, had gone upstairs immediately after supper to get ready for the succeeding wedding festivities. Udlling to his wife that he was coming dowuastairs to have her adjust his collar and necktie. Harris was about to descend and was on the top landing, when one of his' feet. caught in the carpet. ; Straightening ip with a jerk Harris twisted his neck so badly that it was broken and his head dropped over on his chest. As his wife hastened wu the stairs Harris reached 'up wit both hands, took hold of his head and then toppled forward, his wife pre venting the body from rolling down the stairway. When he was picked up be was dead In addition artery in the been ruptured. Word was hastily sent to the invited calling off the wedding. 'The bride vo-be when she saw her father lying dead fell in a swoon, and for a time her life was despaired of. READY TO CUT to the broken peck an back of his neck and Juicy Melon Crew on the Oats Patch. Chicago, Nov. 9.--A dividend of fi- ty per cent. on the common stock, payable to holders of November re- eord of Quaker Oats company. The dividend is declared against surplus, and will reimburse stockholders for money used in improvements and in acquisitions of new properties. A special meeting of stockholders has been called for November 20th to hauthorize an increase in the common stock from 25,500,000 to $10,000,000. Of the additional stock $2,500,000 will be held for future dividend purposes. The new stock will participate in the payable January nd, In addition to the "melon" a regu- lar dividend of one and a half per cant. was declared on the preferred stock, OWL STRAYS INTO BEDROOM. Prepares to Fight Barglar, Faints on Seeing Bird. tic City, N.J., Nov. 9.--Miss Smith, sevenieen years old, from a sound sleep, early this morning, by a 'strange flut- ter and queer sounds about her bed- room. In the darkness she suspected a apartment. Brave the bed, with the Atl Beatri ly led though the police' v ver, reached up with the other hand and fashed on the electric light. Percched op the bed post almost at her elbow "oh a big owl. "Hoot," ut- tered the bird, then the girl fainted. Her father ran into the room, discov: ered the cause qf tho disturbance and took it captive, MAN'S DEATH IS CAUSED BY A BIRD ay Sparrow Flies in Steeplejack's Face Over Hand. " Detroit, Nov. 9.--An English spar row flapping its wings on his face caused the death of Samuel Park, of New York, a steeplejack. Park was painting a sign three stor- i in the air and wanted to get to roof for a brush. Ie climbed from the staging on which he was working to the roof of another building, and from there started to cross hand-over hand along a wire. Ile was half way between the buildidgs when a sparrow flew in his face: ° The bird, apparently bewildered, sank its claws into Park's face in an attempt to poise a moment before re- ming its light. Park tried with one hy to brush the bird away and his t hand slipped. He fell to thq rotnd, breaking his neck and dying tantly. OWES LIFE TO SON. Man Escapes Klectrie Chair Through Pity. Nov. 9.- -Rather than pel a fifteen-year-old to testily against his father om trial for mur- ¥, Prosecutor Webster permitted Carey 8. Beidler. thirty-eight, to en- ter a plea of guilty to the charge of f8taily shooting his wite September 16th, and receive a life sentence in the penitentiary. Beidler was arraigned before Justice Chittenden to receive his life ence. Immediately afterward Chittenden statéd he heartily ved + the action of the prose- * Toledo, eutor. 'Beidler shot his wife after an un _ Fticcensful attémpt to induce her tof Hye with him again. The sen. Mar ion, was the only witness of the tragedy. i | |G. E. FOSTER INDIGNANT: yr PITH OF NEWS Despatches From Near Aud Distant Places. THE LATEST TIDINGS PRESENTED IN THE BRIEVKST POSSIBLE FORM. The Whig's Daily Condensation of the News Of the Wortd From Tele- graph Service and Newspaper Ks. changes. M~ Haves, Petarboro, is likely to succeed the late Judge Donahue, Pem- broke. fjuy Stewart, aged twenty, is in} jail at Foriville, Indiana, accused of shooting and killing his father. Dr. Stewart declared, hefore he died, that it was not his son that did the shoot- ing, It is reported in New York, and con- fidently believed, that four gunmen charged with the actual murder of Rosenthal, will, on Monday, plead guilty to second degree murder and throw themselves on the mercy of the COUrs. » Champion "Jack" Johnson woke in Cook county jail cell, Chicago, on Saturday morning, took as much ex- ercise as his narrow quarters permit- ted, and wondered where he could raise £30,000 bail demanded by Judge Landis. He will probably spend Sun- day in jail anyway. . COLD-BLOODED MURDER. Three Assailants Blndgeon a Vie tim to Death. Regina, BSask., Nov. 9. --One ot the most cold blooded murders ever perpetrated in the city was commit- ted when Frank Zatowski, a German real estate agent, and former polc court interpreter, was bludgeoned to death in the open roadway at tha corner of Montreal street and Tenth avenue. The actual committal ot the crime was witnessed by an on- looker, but at too great a distanzo to identify the three assailants of the murdered man, who after strik- ing down their victim, made off across a nearby vacant bloek. The two weapons with which tbc crime was committed, short heavily- weighted clubs, were found lying close beside the mnrdered wan. Be- yond these there Bt present appear: to be no trace by the assailants, detective force of the city are sugaged in a sy tematic search for the murderers. SWINGS ON A PIVOT. Attempts to be Made to Pull Steamer Off. A Quebec, Nov. 9.--The S.8. Royal (leorge changed her positiof through the force of the wind from the west, to northwest to northeast, which shows that the vessel is caught amid- week. She wore her handsome weod- a pivot. She made a good deal of water yesterday, No. 2 hold being full and No. 1 hold and stoke hold leak- ing. Pumps were placed in No. 2 hold and have started work. At six o'clock when it is i out an at: tempt will be made to pull the steamer off. ROHEMINT TO RUN. an Independent Liberal Hochelaga . Montreal, Nov. -9.--Arthur Ecre- ment, ex-M.P., sprang.s surprise on the phblic by announcing that he would rus in Hochelaga as an in delctuletst liberal. lorethent is not receiving the en: dorsation of the liberal executive, as it decided to take Sir Wilivid Laur- ier's advice and make no fight vntil the naval pdliey eb the government was announced. TO BE LONG LIST As in Of Those to Gel Honors at the New ' Year. London, Nov. 9.~The Daily News says the New Year honor list promis- es to be a lengthy one and will con- tain the names of a large number ot officers here and in the dominions: It will be headed by Prince Arthur of Connaught, whose promotion to a roy- al dikedom has been strangely delay- ed. Primes Arthur has decided to win- ter in Canada and hopes to sail early 0 Becember. & La bodisd od bbb dd eee > bey KINGSTON INDUSTRIES, On pages 9 and 14 will be found readable descriptions of various industrial con- cerns in Kingston. Every citizen should know the his- tory and work of the big factories, and the Whig is seeking to spread broadcast this knowledge. Next Satur- V er will be AEP PLP RP Ore CEFF PEPPY 3 ' i THE TOWN OF GANANOQUE. Factory to Manufacture Rubber Bath Tubs. Gananoque, Nov. 9. ---The f{actowy operated by the estate of D. D. Cow- an is installing a new industry in wanection with its business, and will in the near future start the manu. facture of rubber hath tubs. An ex- pert from the westi is here directing the fitting out of the plant for that purpose. The Nellie Grill Players Co. another good house at the , Opera House last 'evening, playing " The Third Degree." Mrs. E. X. Belnois and nephew, W. Schoepleber, are spending a short time with relatives in Brockville. Messrs. Robert Haig and = Thomas Cockrill are enjoying a two weeks hunt for big game in the vicinity of Fort Coulonges, Que. Aunanoque soccer football team re- ceived word from the Brockville team yesterday that it would be here to play their return game Saturday af- terndon, at the Driving 'ark. The local team defeated the visitors in Brockville, on Thanksgiviag Day, by a score of two goals to one: Mra. Melvin Taylor held a recep- tion at the parsomage on Thursday. Mrs. B. O. Britton assisted the host- ess, Mrs. UC. J. Wilson presided at the tea table and was assisted by the Misses Freda Sunbury, Marie Squire and Ruth Lowe. The dining room was tastefully decorated with chrysan- themums and ferns. | Cowan drew KINGSTON MAN WAS FOUND DEAD UNDER TRESTLE The Police Will Look Into the Cir cumstances of the Case. Special to the Whig, Buffalo, N.Y., Nov. 9.---Patrick Dor an, the Kendall, N.Y., farmer found on Tubsday morning, uncopscious wun der a trestle of the Bufialo Lockport and Kochester railway at Albion, N. Y., and who died last night in Albion, was born in Kingston, Ont., June Sth, 1860, and for thirty years was a resi dent of Mingstor His presence under the trestle cannot be accounted for as his team was foumd in a local barp at Albion. Police will hold an inves tigation. | A COMING HORROR, Paris, Nov. 9.---Whlle it may be ible to save t Europea residents of C 'stantineple, thewnative Chris- tian population, fumbering fully 600,000: must ihevitab- ly be practically wiped out in the event of a massacre. The Turks are not only en- raged against the Christians because it is by an alllance of Christian nations that they are being vanquished, but attribute their defeats directly to the disaffection # 'of the Christian soldiers in & their own ranks. Ps FPL PEER P IES SP S44 | | GREATEST IN HISTORY. Largest Yield Ever Grown in Any Country. Washington, Nov. 9.---A corn crop lof 3,619,137,000 bushels, or 281921. 000 bushels more than the greatest crop of corn ever grown in amy coun: try of the world, is the feature ol the country's most remarkable agri cultural year in history, according to the November crop report of the Uni: ted States department of agriculture. The report completed the govern 'ment's preliminary estimates of the nation's principal farm crop. This great crop of corn was worth, on Nov. lst, to farmers, $1,8580,776,000 The enormous sum of $4,171,134,000 represented the farm value of Nov. Ist of the United States' crops of corn, hay, wheat, oats, putatoes, bar lay, flaxseed, rye and buckwheat. With the valué of the growing vetion crop and the crops of iobaceo, rice and apples, the regate of these prin cipal farm ucts will amount well beyond $5,000,000,000. THEY HID CHILDREN IN THE CUPBOARDS Quebec Health Inspectors Obstruct- ed in Efforts to Locate Patients in Convents. Montreal, Nov. 9. -- Inspectors who have been detailed to investigate cases of smallpox which have been hidden by convents in the repor' that they have had Do diili- culty in locating pstients. : They have found that after the chil- dren are sent home from the convents they have beén hidden in cellars and cupboards by their parents, so that they should mot be discovered by the i the Provincial LEVI PLIE LIP PPP L0PeY SERVIA RUSHES Despite the Wamings and Demands of Austria THE TRPLE ALLIANCES MAY SOON BE AT EACH OTHER'S THROAT. It is Reported in Paris That Cone stantinople Has Surrendered-- Turks Massacred Before the Salonica. Greeks - Entered London, Nov. 9.--In defiance of Aus- tria warnings and demands, Seavia is rushing an army to-day to seize and hold the Adriatic seaport of Duralzo. Austria has also threatened to throw a strong miiitary force across the Ner vian froutier, it the Servians disre gard Austria's warning. That Servia doubtless is backed up by Russia and has taken up the gauntiet, was quoted here as promising immediate precipita tions of a crisis Whether the triple alliance allies oi England, Frauee and and the triple alliance Austrin and Italy, will be at each olher's throats within another was Ivy garded by level headed diplomats here to-day as depending on hardly more than the flip of a coin. As the French ex-minister tor foreign aflairs put to-day : "Europe is at the evenls Russin ol Germany, week, it of mercy Contradictory Reports, / 9.---Wild and con- Paris, France, Nov tradictory reports reached this city to-day. One was that Nazim Pasha with the bulk of his army defending Constantinople, had been surrounded by the Bulgarian troops, and surrend- ered. Another report said that the Bulgarians were still besieging the Tehataldja forts, Phere is nothing definite from the foreign warships outside of Constanti nople, so the powers prefer to wait till there is, before believing any further reports Full of Fight Yet, Constantinople, Nov, 9.--~Thers is every indication here how that the war against the Balkan allies will he continued to the bitter end ns ads vised by Nazim Pasba, the TFuvkish commander in chief." The Yeni Gazette says : wishes to tear up trealies it may do s0, but we will not allow the Koran and the history of Osman to be torn ap. All the Turkish ministers, with the grand vizier, aged eighty-four, at their head, as well as our high digni- taries, our soldiers and the whole, na- tion, have -sween to shed their blood in that cause. Those who entertain the idea of abandoni the father: | land will inour the malediction of the Almighty Prophet." "I Europe Greeks Occupy Salonica. London, Nov. 9.--A despateh from Constantinople to the Daily Chroni cle, coming by an indirect route, con- firms the previous report of the Greek occupation of Salonica, and says the approach of the Greeks was attended by awful scemes. Before they entered the town, a terrible massacre of the non-Moslem population jflook place, and the shooting and looting was gen- eral. When the GC took posses sion, they impris®ed all the pashas, officials 'and Turkish officers, The Turks now in captivity at Salonica pumber 27,000 men » Servia Must Give Way. London, Nov. 9.--While some quar- ters believe the omens are favorable for 'an amicable sottlement of the po litical situation 'ariwing out of the claims, of the Balkan allies, and of the determinktion of Austria that their ambitions shall not, be vealized, it is difficult to adjust the two. paints of view It is said that Germany, Austria Hun and Italy will agree to let Servi ave A port on the Aegean sea, but Servia wants part of Alban in and a post on the Adriatic sea, and her armies are now pushing in that direction. . . In other quarters 'it. is believed that the only hope for a settlement is for Servia to give way. Adrfanople Fallen? London, Nov. 9.--Charles E. Hands, the special correspondent of the Lon don Mail, telegraphs from Bucharest the following : "I have just arrived from Sofia, and have grounds for believing that Ad- rianople has fallen, but the Bulgar ians are concesling the fact lest the powers, realizing that a decisive point had been reached in the war, should intervene before the capture of Con- stantinople." He says he believes the garrison su on Tuesday. Kings to Enter Constantinople. Sofia, Bulgaria, Nov. ~The unity of the Balkan allies evidenced to-day invitation to sccompany him into Constantino: ple, and be t at the first Chris tian service in St. ia since that place of ip became a Mohan medan mosque. Thiy can all reach Constantivople within a day or two, Sp ------------- Jobe J. Mulville has purchased Wil Yiam Crozier's fine dairy farm in West 85000, Mr. Mulville will Non-Mostemsi LAST EDITION, ARMY T0 SEIZE A SEAPORT CZAR FERDINAND OF BULGARIA, Wha is in personal command of his troops in the war against Turkey. TIDINGS FROM NAPANEE. Recital of Ladies Musical Clab on Friday Afternoon. Nov I'he Ladies Musi: met in the town hall, yes: afternoon, from four to six I'here was a large number of present and a very good pro- was rendered, vocal and in- strumental.. The following ladies took part : Mrs. Black, Miss Friezell, Miss Grieve, Mise VanLuven, Miss i tage, Miss Saul, Miss Wilson, ! E. Kidd and Mrs. Finkle. The gramme was arranged by Mes. J. B, Robinson, Wrs. B. Black and Mrs. U. M. Wilson, and light refreshments were served al clase. Mrs. Henry A. Bakbr leaves, next Napanea, eal Club terday o clock member gramme week, for her home in Calgary, after spending two very delightiul months with Mr. and Mrs. R. Il. Baker and family Mes, C. D, Black and two children, Weyburn, arrived home, to- day, to spend the winter with hes parentf, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Smith, Routh Napanee, F, K left, this w 4 W. CG, Pruyiia . ds Miss Madge in Toft" Fernie, B.C, ers o ] position w -- - Mis. J. Ro Allison Adelphustown, announces the marriage of her daugh- ter, Amy Uenn, to John Watson Dul- fort, on Wednesdny morning, Novem: ber 20th, at the residence of OC. R. 'bison, Adolphustown German Valleau returned, last Sat. urday, from a two ' months' stay in the west. John Conger also arrived home, this week, after a two months' stay in Wioni with his sons. Mrs. William Hayes, an old and re spectad resident of Napanee, died, Monday, at her home, Thomas street, aged ninety « years. Deceased leaves, besides her aged husband, two dnughe ters, Mrs. Shorts, Napanee, and Mrs, Websdale, of Websdgle, Alta, and three sons, Fdward, Napanee; Frauk, troit, and Dorland, Lansing, Mich. The remains were interred in River: gide cemetery. Mrs. Harold Anderson held her posts nuptial reception on Wednesday after noon, from three to six o'clock. The voung ladies of the town gave a very enjoyable leap year dance in the Oddfellows' hall last evening. Dr. Elliott Vanslstine, of Chicago, spent = oom of days, this week, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Irvine Vanalstine, President-Elect to Rest, Princeton, Nt. Nov. # President elect Woodrow Wilson intends to sols Jow out his "listening policy" for sev: eral weeks hefore making any asnouns cements of important matters of state, I'he president-elect has decided to go away next week on a vacation of three or four weeks MARRIED. MORRIB--~In Kingsty by 2 M.A. Barah rin, daughter of Mr Morris. South Frederick George's non Novem. the Hey. Cston Elizabeth and Mrs. Wales, to Timms, of TIMMS at Cathedral Sth, 1812 Winnipeg, Man, on Nov, 7th, 1812, Marion belovdd wife of ohn formerly of Catsraqui, ral notice later. on A Phone 577, Princess treet. STOVES AND RANGES, The best 1 we L have ever had; ine Hansouable sot, Bed i 7 ane Just Arrived NEW TABLE RAISINS, SEW TABLE FIGS. NEW DATES, NEW SWERF CIDER. NEW CANNED TOMATOES, NEW CORN. SEW CANNED PEAS. NEW CANNED BEANS. > JAS.REDDEN & CO.