A Sst All Taxable Lines of Men's Wear Reduced 30 p.c. Collier's Toggery fy The Baily British Whig All Taxable Limes of Men's Wear Reduced 30 p.c. Collier's Toggery YEAR 87: NO, 148. Ass KINGSTON. ONTARIO. WEDNESDAY, JUNE®S, - 1920. LAST EDITION i THEFT CASE | BEFORE A JURY {Herbert G.I.R. Fireman, on of nn -- {WAS FOUND "NOT GUILTY" { JUDGE SAID HE MUST GET/BENE- FIT OF DOUBT b | i y | A Horse Stealing Case Also Before a Jury--J. 8. Yeomans Counter Claim Dismissed With Costs. i In the county court, before Judge ' Madden and a jury, on Wednesday morning Herbert Hogan, a Grand | Trunk fireman was placed on trial, | on a charge of stealing a quantity of, cigarettes, valued at $60, from a Grand Trunk car, on the night of | Feb, 7th, 1920. The prisoner plead- ed "not guilty," and was defended by A. B. Cupningham. J. L. Whiting . conducted the prosecution. The jury empanelled in the case Was composed of William J. Mercer, ' N. E. Bennington, Joshua Clift, J. B. | Holder, Percy C. Lanson, James * Kelly, Wilmur Keyes, James McKin- non, Carl Long, James Lee, James E. Mullen and John Kingsley. Considerable evidence was taken in the case, the evidence, for the . most part being the same as that gi- yen at the preliminary hearing in -.HARBOR TRAGEDY... ...... AT KOBE, JAPAN (Canadian Press Daspateiy Kobe, Japan, June 9.--Fifty { Japanese seamen are missing, | and shipping in this harbor has been seriously damaged by an {| explosion of gasoline on the | steamer Eiraku Maru yesterday. | © The explosion shook the city like | an earthquake. The Eiraku Maru was destroyed and the fire spread to a score of gasoline- | laden junks, whiocn drifted blaz- | Ing out to sea, their crews | shrieking for help. It 1s believed | the loss of lifa will be very heavy. { 3 'BRITISH COLUMBIA | TO FALL INTO LINE By Changing Rule of the Road | From Left to Right. Vancouver, B.C., June 9 --When | at a date yet to be indicated by the | lieutenant-governor of the province, | British Columbia falls in line with the rest of the American continent | and changes the rule of the road | from left to right, one of the largest | and most intricate fears of engineer- | ing 'in the history of street railway | operation in Canada will confront the | British Columbia Electric Railway | company, costing anywhere from five | hundred thousand to one million dol- | lars. Large crews of men will have to work at least 150 days in Vancou- ver; probably somewhat less in Vie- toria, where the problems are not 80 involved. police court. Mr. Cunningham put Hogan into | the box on his own behalf.: The ac- | cused said he had been in the em- | ployment of the Grand Trunk for | eight years. On the night of Feb. 7th, | he was fireman on the G.T.R. subur- | ban traih, and' told about seeing a | dark object beside a fence near the | All ears, with the exception of the interurbans, are built to «onform | with the 'keep to the left" rule, and to change the rule of the road does | not simply mean. turning the cars! around and running them on the | other track. Many replacements | must be made. | All switches must be taken up and | + INTERNATIONAL BIG BROTHERS A CONVENTION. Top line, left to right Mrs. M. E. Laughton, Toronto, | F CHNGE IN TAX LIMT Likely to Be Made As It Might Encearage Spending. - SESSION IN THE AUTUMN 1S BEING STRONGLY URGED BY. THE FARMERS The Gift of a Speaker's Chair By the Imperial Parliament Formally Ac- cepted By the Capadian Commons. Ottawa, June 9.--Talk of a fall session of Parliament, regular or spe- { cial, is having an accellerating effect | upon the proceedings of the House | and there is widespread talk, as | much on one side as the other, of] getting away in three weeks, assum- ing this as one of the causes. The budget, it is believed, will be disposed of this week. Certain chan- ges are forecast in the incidence of the taxes to remove what are describ- | ed as anomalies. It is understood that | the taxable limit, save in a few cases, | will not be raised, otherwise, it is claimed, péople will simply be en- eouraged to spend, whereas one of the purposes of the budget is to pro- mote economy. However, a fairly ex- tensive list of adjustments is indicat- ed. . Unless the supplementary esti- mates contain something very: con- tentious the business to be disposed of is not sufficient to occupy more than three weeks with ordinary pro- gress. Farmer . members are urging strongly that the session be sum- moned in the fall, so that it would | terminate in the early spring instead DETAILS OF BONUS © TO CIVIL SERVANTS The Return Tabled in Com- mons Gives Rate for Present Fiscal Year. Ottawa, June 9.--Ful]l details of | the bonus to civil servants were giv- en in a return tabled in the House of Commons, Civil service employees | of eighteen years or over, and sup- porting gependents, receiving less' than $1,200 a year, get of bonus of $36 per month throughout the pres- ent fiscal year. In the same class the bonus decreases $2.00 a month for every éxtra $20 of salary. Bonus of $20 a month applies to all salaries between $2,040 and $6,000 per an- num. Civil servants twenty-one years or over and not"supporting dependents receive a bonus of $21 per month if their salaries are less than $960 a year. For every extra $20 per month in salary the bonus drops $2.50. Servants in the same class be- tween eighteen and twenty-one years old and getting less than $960 year- ly, receive a bonus of $12.50 a month Civil servants working full time for part of the year over one month receive a bonus for the period of their service. Those working less than full time the year round are not en- titled to bonus. Among these are rural postmasters and their employ- ees, who get no bonus. DIED SUDDENLY. Minister of Agriculture for Manitoba in Norris Government. Morden, June 9.--Hon. Valentine Winkler, minister of agriculture for Manitoba, died suddenly at his home here on Monday. Hon. Mr. Winkler had come to his farm on Saturday, feeling fit, but took ill on Sunday, and was taken to the hospital, where he died at 10.30 last night. He had been suf- fering from Bright's disease, whioh lead to complications that caused his death. Hon. Valentine Winkler, member for Morden and Rhineland, was born ee ri OF PREFERENCE a Tor 2 Repwbicm Camis For te United States Presidency. HO DENONSTRATIONSTAGED ANY OF THE FAVORITE REPUBLBICAN "SONS." The Delegates Ratify Programme Free of Boss Control--Ballot May Not be Reached Until Friday. . "Janadian Press D-=oparcn) Chicago, June 9.--Delegates to the Republican national convention as- sembled at the Coliseum to-day for the second session, with their views as to who shall lead the party at the polls next November still a mystery, even to themselves. While giving uproarious approval yesterday to Chairman Lodge's opening address. calling for the destruction of the "Wilson dynasty," not a sign of any preference came from the thousand whose votes will select the Republi- can presidential candidate to under- take the job. There were no demonstrations, even for favorite sons; no mention of the "big three" among the aspirants, Wood, Johnson and Lowden. Working with unprecedented free- dom from centralized leadership or "boss™ control, the delegates prompt- ly ratified the programme designed. to make permanent the temporary organization. ' The adoption of the organization committee's report will place the gavel in Senator Lodge's hands as permanent presiding officer and set the convention off on the FOR Guter station, on one of his trips. He | new ones installed, but perhaps the | chairman extension committee; Miss Pearl Micel, Milwaukee; | of midsummer. This plan was tried {March 18th, 1864, at Neustadt, Or. |econd stage of its journey with little got off the locomotive and on mak- | ing an investigation, found two bags | containing cigarettes. This was the | first he knew about the cigarettes be- | ing there. He took the bags on the | engine and afterwards to his own | home. The accused said he knew no- | thing whatever about a G.T.R. car | being broken open and goods taken | at the time, but gvhen he did hear | some days later, he reported to the | lice about his find. Accused said @ never authorized a sale, and ne- | yer intended to make a sale. He gave 'up the goods just as he found them. He did not sell or give any of them | Away. To Mr. Whiting, the accused ad- mever mentioned Is at the G.T.R. oig! , and He did not adven- ) in the newspapers, or inform the lice, The accused admitted having he .in his possession for ten | 'days before he turned them over to the police. : ' Engineer's Testimony. | Engineer Kennedy, who was in the | engine with Hogan, told of seeing | the prisoner with the two bags | containing cigarettes. Hogan had | secured them lying alongside the fence near the railway at the outer station. Witness said he told Hogan _ that the best thing he (Hogan) could do would be to hand them over to the Grand Trunk agent in Kingston. Hogan told witness that he was go- ing to try and find out who owned the cigarettes. Mr. Cunningham argued that there had been no fraudulent taking or no gonversion whatsoever. There had "been no evidence of this against the accused. There was no question as to how the goods came into Ho- gan"s possession. The goods had not been found on Grand Trunk pro- perty, and there was nothing to show that the goods belonged to the Grand Trunk. If Hogan was im- plicated in a scheme to steal, would he have told his engineer about his find ? The accused was not com- pelled to give up the goods until he found the owner. Mr. Whiting held that a theft had . been committed and no doubt Hogan knew of the theft. Engineer Ken- " medy had asked 'the prisoner to hand | the goods over to the G.T.R. agent, but, instead of following this ad- vice, Hogan had taken the goods Home. Then Hogan did not notify the police about his find until he found that the police were at his heels. He did not take any steps to find the owner of the goods. Judge Madden, in addressing the jury, stated that the prisoner must be given the benefit of any doubt, but added that it must be "a rea- sonable doubt." The case was given over to the jury at 12.20 p.m. and court adjourn- ed for an hour. : The jury, after being out ha an hour, returned a verdict of "not guilty." Other Cases. The case of William Johnsom, charged with the theft of a horse, was taken up when court resumed after lunch. J. 8. Yeomans made a counter- "claim against James Hendersop, for '$250, on account of Henderson's line fence being out of repair, necessitat- ing his putting his cattle in another . The action was also dis- missed without costs. : The jury in the Henderson-Yeo- mans case was composed of John Kingsley (foreman), Edward Brad- don, Donald Riddel, D. White, John Ward, Thomas ck, H. A. Bresse, E. R. Ellerbeck, as J. Garrett, James Grant, R. G. Stoness, BE. J. McCann. The grand jury at the Coun Court Is composed of the following: Edwin Elliott (chairman), Hugh Day, William H. Davy, James E. Dix- on, James Hopkinson, George Kirk, 'James R. Keating, Alfred Knight, Wesley Moore, Austin Payne, Wil- . | made into the new spreaders. | don the Teschen plebiscite according most delicate operation involved will | be the rectifying of trolley wires, which do not follow the naturdl curve | of the car. | As a result of the change a large | influx of automobile tourists, eager | to view the splendors of the Sunset Province, and undeterred by fear of accident, is expected. CANADIAN SKIPPER | TO SAIL SHAMROCK III. | Aemilius Jarvis Will Sail in! Trial Races--Lipton Expected Friday. { | "9. --Aemiliug Jar- man, who is to assist in sailing the twenty-three-metre Shamrock III, in the trial races with the challenger, | arrived at City Island yesterday. Mr. | Jarvis has ordered to be sent to this | city a timber of rock elm from the Blue Hills of Ontario, which is to be used in the new spreaders for the challenger. It is eighteen feet long and ten by ten inchs. The substitute spreaders of Douglas fir are to be! {ased until the timber arrives and is | | Sir Thomas Lipten is expected to arrive here from England on Thurs- day or Friday, when the steam yacht Victoria, on which he and his | guests will witness the cup races, will be turned over to him, The Vie- | toria was formerly named Dolaura | and was built in Scotland for the late Hon. James Dunsmuir, of Vie- toria, B. C. ABANDON PLEBISCITE And Will Refer Teschen Matter to Arbitration. (Canadian Press Despatch) Warsaw, June 9.-Poland and Czecho-Slovakia have agreed to aban- to an &nnouncement in authorized circles here. Instead, the announce- ment says, it has been decided to refer the question of the disposition of the district to arbitration of some personality enjoying high moral au-' thority in Europe. Canada Asserts Control. Ottawa, June 9.--Incldentally to his explanations of the Rgyal Canadian Mounted Police estimates, Hon. N. W. Rowell mentioned that a Do- minion Customs House is to be established and rum at Port Bur-| well. This is of international im-| portance, as it indicates that Can-| ada has decided to assert control | over Hudson's Straits, the collection of customs implying sovereignity Some nations have asserted that the Hudson's Straits are open seas. Canada does not think so, and is now backing up her intention by action. THOMAS PALMER HOWARD President of the Canadian Minufec- is managing-directo of the Phoenix Bridge & Iron Works Co., Limited, of liam Toner, Henry Hinckley, James McAvoy. = Montreal. He was born in Montreal on August 17th, 1869. men of the world. Mrs. Caroline B. Wilcox. Second row: GC. W. Noble, now of Madison, Wis., and father of the Big Brother movement in Ganada; Colonel E. K. Coulter, of New York city, and C. L. Burton, president of the Toronto Big Brother Association. Third line : C. J. Atkinson, New York city; J. N. Bares, Shaw- bridge, P.Q., and R. C. Sheldon. Fourth row: Hon. Harry I. Drescher, Big Rapids, Michigan; W. E. Braden, Toronto and O. St. G. Freer, Toronto. CHARTER OF RIGHTS FOR WORLD WOMEN Single Standard of Morals and £8 wh iy = eneva, June 9.-- suffrége with men was the principal plank in a charter of rights for the women of the world, proposed at the eighth Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance which opened its business sessions here to- day. Other declarations of the docu- ment included abolition of the slav- ery of women; equal nationality rights for married women; equal guardian ship rights for married wo- men over their children; a single standard of morals; equal pay for equal work; pensions for mothers, and civil rights for all married wo- BLOWN TO PIECES Stereotyper Meets Tragic Death in Toronto Telegram Office, Toronto, June 9.--By the explo- sion of a'steam table in the stereo- room of t) y 0 Y per, was ! Edward Vitek and H. Alderdice were injured. Dick was working over the table at the time of the explosion and was practically blown to pieces. William McKay and John Ward, who were in the room, had a mir- aculous escape from death, but were untouched. Alberta's New Poll Tax. Lethbridge, Alta., June 9.---A poll tax of $10 to be levied covers every individual, male and female, whose ment roll. School teachers, steno- graphers, miners, clerks, and all en- gaged in business, trade, and labor, not paying taxes, will come under the imposition, and all householders who rent and do not own property. Viscountess Astor was the princi- pal speaker at a mass meeting held last night, at which other speakers were Senator Helen King Robinson, of Colorado, and Miss Munch, offi- cial delegate from Denmark. ACCIDENTS ON RAILWAYS; 7 KILLED IN ONE WRECK A Train Blown From the Rails by a Heavy Wind- storm and Many Injured -- Two Elevated Trains Collide in Chicago. (Canadian Press Despatch.) Schenactady, N.Y., June 9.--At least seven persons were killed and | name does not appear on the assess- | several years ago, but the experience | was that nothing but talk was ever | two trials, abandoned the practice. accomplished before Christmas, and | \ the Borden Government, after one or LLOYD GEORGES REPLY Would Tax Hydro Electric. | In committee on the budget yester- | day, Ernest Lapointe urged that gov- | ernment owned corporations should | be taxed the same as privately owned corporations. He made special refer- ence to the Hydro Electric of Onta- | rio paying no business tax while pri- | vate companies did so. Quebec contri- | buted about three million from these concerns, and Ontario nothing. W. F. MacLean answered that the Hydro distributed its profits to the a 'Henry + stated that "rightly or wrongly," certain public cwned corporations / were received differently from private owned con- { cerns. He never heard of legislation | whereby a province taxed Dominion {| owned property nor of the Dominion | taxing the property of a Province. The gift of a speaker's chair by the mother of Parliaments was for- | mally accepted by the House on mo- | tion of Premier Borden, seconded by | Hon. MacKenzie King. The chair will | be made of oak from the king's forest t THE WHIPPING-POST AND THUMB-SCREW The Restoration of Them is { Urged by World-Famous | | Detective. { a-- {that you must approve the habits i Detroit, Mich, June 9.--Restora- { tion of the whipping post and thumb- screws is endorsed by William A. Pinkerton, world-famons detective, iz a means-to diminish crime. He told the International Police Chiefs Association here that the | whipping post had been retained in | | Delaware and had done wonders in |ing with a Government | c n | lesson better than shame," he said. | "There is no such thing as reforming | & man with soft soap." | Mr. Pinkerton recommended the | leaning up the state. "I know erimi- | als fear the pain of it and pain is a jernments than I dare think." | TO CRITICISMS OF RESUMING RUSSIAN TRADE. {He Says That Great Britain Has {| Opened Up Most of the Cannibal Trade of the World. | London, June 9.--Premier Lloyd | | George's speech in the House of Commons gave no information as to results of the conference with the Soviet ambassador. The premier bas- struction, and the impossibility of fighting and 'crushing Bolshevism unless prepared to sacrifice hyndreds of thousands of lives and add thou- sands of millions to the national debt. He admitted there were con- flicting reports on the amount of exportable commodities in Russia, but said that was not a reason for refusing to trade. He concluded by appealing to the House not to seeks quarrels in a world full of explosive | matter. | Mr. Lloyd George provoked a { hearty round of laughter by remark- ing: "This country has opened up most of the cannibal trade in the world." He went on: "It is a new doctrine {and customs _of any Government trading, and to continue to refuse {to trade with Russia so long as the | Bolshevik Government is in power would be an act of gross folly. '"M. Clemenceau certainly opposed recognition of ' the Soviets' policy, but to urge the impossibility of trad- guilty of atrocities is to rule out more Gov- The { premier, who had been subjected {to severs strictures in that he has taken on with the Russian negotia- tions, justified his policy. He re- strictest censorship of motion pic- [lated the history of the negotions, | tures, and expressed the opinion that {showing that the Allles had been { erime films or magazine illustrations | unanimous in favor of the attempt of criminal acts should be by federal law. "No one is a bigger bug about the prohibited | to reopen trading with Russia, with- out, however, to recognize diplo-| {matic relations unless the Soviet twenty-one were Injured, some of them perhaps fatally, when a fast east- ™OVies than I" he-sald, "but we Government adopted civilized meth- bound Americar express special crashed into the rear of an accomodation passenger train cn the New York Central lines, aboyt four miles west of this city early to-day. Only two of the dead have'so far been identified | make a mistake in making the ban- dit of the film heroic. Boys, 'who See it, say 'That's easy, we can do it," and they do. Movies are a great ods. In contending that it was ir- {relevant to argue against trading | with Mexico and Turkey without | protest being raised, although, he de- | under | ! 5 kish atrociti They are Martin Doyle, of Albany, engineer on the express train, and a | ®ducational medium, but they also Shared hi wero ayn So- | two-year-old baby, supposed to be the child 'of Nellie Crouse, of Utica. Mr. i Crouse was removed to hdspital here unconscious, and the child was identified by a pullman conductor. Among the dead was also a man be- lieved to be W. J. Zuil, of Syracuse. Other dead were two unidentified men, one boy, and an elderly woman. The train which suffered the shock of the collision, and on which vir- tually all the killed and injured were passengers was a New York Central passenger train from Buffalo to New York. The train which crashed into it was the Michigan Central special of ten cars, carrying express for the American Railway Express Company. The rear car of the passenger train was split to pieces by the impact. The train had stopped in an open field between Glenville and Scotia, villages near here, because of a defective water pipe in the engine. Just before the crash came the fireman on the latter train leaped from his cab and escaped serious injury; but Doyle. the engineer, was pinned under the wreckage and was In a dying condition when he was extricated. Rescuers said his hand had to be pried from the throttle. He died as he was being placed on a stretcher. Elevated Trains Collide. (Canadian Press Despatch.) Chicago, June 9.--Fourteen persons were injured, one seriously, when a westbound elevated train crashed Into the rear of another, last night. Most of the injured were cut by flying glass. The failure of the motor- man of the rear train to see the train in front was given as the cause of the accident. he tt . Train Blown From Track. (Canadian Press Despatch.) Breckenridge, Minn., June 9.--Between thirty and forty persons were reported injured. no one fatally, when four cars of a Northern Pacific pas- senger train were blown from the track, about eight miles east of here, last night, during a heavy wind storm. [2 can be a harmful one." PLAN RESTITUTION OF LOUVAIN BOOKS | German-Beigian " Commission | reement Reaches Ag on | Berlin, June 9.--A German-Bel- { glan commissiod of experts has ar- ranged the mode of restitution of 'the Louvain University library, } looted during the war, by which the | bookdealers' association of Leipsic| {has taken charge of buying a fixed | number of books and illuminated manuscripts replacing thé lost ones, ries which give their n. pointed pational commissioner superintend the work. Far From Despatch) { Press Toro ¥ rag eh 9.--The Dominion Permanent Loan affairs are far from settlement. Clarkson's report to the Attorney-General, says the main "'as- set" of the company is a "railroad" in the state of Washington. Action is to be taken against the sharehold- ers.' Thomas Renton, G.T.R. employee, Hamilton, died while sitting down to dinner. thus protecting the German Ilibra-| up duplicates in| possession. The librarian, Dr. Oehler, is ap-| to viet Russia's. | prospect that it will reach a ballot on the presidential nomination before Friday or POSSIbIY Friday night. Little business confronted the dele- Sates when they assembled for the ay. EE A MAN'S BEQUEST. Provides a Home For Bachelors and Widowers Newark, N. J., June '8.--Provision | is made for establishment of a home for "respectable bachelors and widow ers" in the will of Marcus L. Ward, son of New Jersey's civil war govern- or, probated here, and disposing of an estate valued at more than $3.- 000,000 . Men applying for a place in this ed his arguments on th lute need of Tussle 1 TINWORI rarer piomS "must. ba who may have through fortune lost the means they once : for support." They also must be more than 60 years old and residents of New Jersey for at least 10 years. The bulk of the estate is left for charity, bequests of $20,000 each being made to 14 Newark institut- fons. Faithful servants also are re- membered in the will. ) It is estimated that after specifie bequests have been made, more than $2,000,000 will be available for the proposed home. SEEKS FOR MILLIONS. Missing Magnate Had Sum Deposit- ed in Toronto Banks. Toronto, June 9.--It is estimat that Ambrose J. Small, the missi Toronto theatrical magnate, had about $2,000,000 ready cash deposit- ed in five Toronto banks when he disappeared. This sum includes the one million dollar cheque received by Mr. Small from the Montreal com- pany who purchased his theatres, and was deposited in the Dominion Bank on thé day before he so my- steriously vanished from the city. The Capital Trust Corporation of Ottawa, and Mrs. Ambrose Shall and the committee appointed by the court to administer the Small es- tate, have now obtained an order of the court to transfer the balances of the several accounts to the account of the estate. Has Suffered Relapse. Paris, June 9.--Despatches from Nice reported the condition of Mrs Cornwallis West exceedingly critical, following a relapse on the eve of her departure for London, where she was to consult a specialist. It was said she was not expected to recover. Mrs. Cornwallis West, in her youth, was an actress and appeared <n the ndon stage in many success es prior to 1896, her stage name being 'Beatrice Stella." She was first married to Patrick Campbell, in 1884. He was killed in South Africa in 1900. She was mar- ried again in 1914 to George Corm- wallis West. | mews in suLLETIN. The Republican convention at Chicago is split with prospects of trouble over a platform on the lea- gue of nations. Inhabitants of Boston Creek, near Cobalt, battled for sixty hours with- out rest or sleep, but saved the vil- lage from being burned. The new sil-» ver, camp at Gowgania) is threatened. - There is a small majority for the German government. Party leaders and press agree that a new appeal will be necessary. Formosa was shaken by an earth- quake. Some casualties and damage to bulidings are reported. ite, Toronta, znd hag long played &, part in Association : = rs. He is a pal of Huron county. 2 Italian warships are off for Alba- nia. Insurgents forced King Victor's troops from two villages. The Pope's condition is reported serious. Paris bears that he is unable to perform his duties. ---- Ca SS a,