ll Li 0 How w THE BUDGET in "THE LIGHT IN THB DARK" Until the Questions of W.F. . Nickle Are Answered. THAT ONTARIO SURPLUS 1.) 2" Called a "Fable" By the atives-in the € Toronto, March 2.--Quite obvi- _ ously, the Conservative group in the legislature has placed upon tha shoulders of W. F. Nickle, K.C., member for Kingston, the big bur- den of "dissecting and demolishing" the Drury government's 1922-1923 million-dollar surplus. Charles Mc- ©Orea, Conservative member for Sud- bury, practically announced the plan of campaign of the Conservative group tin his address on the budget 'esterday, and, incidentally, he is- sued an ultimatum to the govern- ment that the budget debate would be held up until cretain questions of Mr, Nickle's on the order paper were answered by the = provincial treasurer. , Apparently Hon. G. Howard Fer- @uson and his followers suspect the government of closing the expendi- ture aide of the ledger om the dot and keeping the rece: side open af- | " |men's aoxiliary hgre, "RED" SUNDAY SCHOOLS OPENED IN MONTREAL They Try to Teach the Foreign Children That There Is | No God. A ------ / 1 Montreal, March 2.--In Montreal there are Bolshevik Sunday schools which -reerfit their pupils from among foreign, French and Enghsa- | speaking children, teaching then | that there is no God, that it is the | bounden duty of the people to rid themselves alike of government ane police, and advocating the abandon- ment of ordivary principles of moral- My. The authority for this state- ment is Right Rev. John Farthing, Anglican bishop of Montreal, whe | addressed thre annual meeting of the Montreal diccesan branch of the wo- Bishop Farthing warned of the danger "whieh exists in our so-call- od Christian city of the undermining of tha oivilization of which we are tho products." . Mentally Affected Woman Tries to Kill Children Varkworth, March 2.---Mrs. Herb- ert Minor, aged twenty-five, wife of a farmer living near Burnley, and sald to be mentally afiected, last night attempted to kill her infant by cutting its throat with a butcher khife. She also slashed the throat of the four-year-old daughter of her brother, George Bull, and after wards cut her own throat, but was' overpowered by friends before she could inflict. herself fatally. 19 shopkeeper being forced KINGSTON, ON TARIO.- FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1923. WILL SEIZE THE GOODS Upon Which Taxes Are Paid to French Invaders. SHOPKEEPER IN THE RUB Are Between Two Fires They Stand to Lose in Any Event. Dusseldorf, March 2.--The strug- authorities. the civil General Degoutte today declared such collections effective on all wines, tobacco and cigarettes sold in the oc- cupied area. Hotels .who pay these taxes, in deflance of their government's orders, given protection by 'the armies of oc- cupation. and citizens will be The situation marrows down (L a to decide WILL ABOLISH LEGAL PRESUMPTION THE OLD = | | i { {Wife No Longer Necessarily; | Acting Under Coercion When | | Committing Crime. { London, March 2.--Second read- ling was given inthe House of Lords {yesterday to the criminal justice bill, | which was drafted by the lord chan- | {ceilor and is designed to aboMsh the | jancient legal presumption that when | a wife commits a crime in the pres- | ence of her husband she is shld { under his coercion. The necessity for some such mea- | isure has been frequently stressed by | judges, Recvntly there were several | jcases before the courts in which | (wives, charged Jointly with their | husbands, were in every case acquit- ted. Phe lord chancellor sgid that doc- trine of coorcion had 'ho relation ts gle of wills in the Ruhr centred to-|present day realities. Presumption 46 to 76 the House day in the igsue of taxation, follow- [that every wife went In terror of her | ing an announcement by the Ger-|bushand and man government that all goods upon (crime under which taxes had been paid to the true, was certainly not true today. French and Belgians would be coa- fiscated by the Gen. Degoutte announced that collection of taxes on Ruhr products | their guilt or | is the new Franco-Belgian scheme considered on the facts. | for sechiring a portion of the repara-| tions payments which they are miss- and held that human nature had not ing through occupation. would commit any | his influence, If éver | Not every wife is a Lady MacBeth, | {he said, but generally speaking wives | are free agents, and the question of | nnocence should Ye ! Lord Buckmaster opposed the bill | been. changed by granting the vote | to women, and there was no reason to alter & legal presumption which had existed for eleven hundred years, The memorandum of the bill points out incidentally that no such presumption obtains in the laws of any of the British dominions, EE erro ee a TE eT T-- Ee THE BETTING MOTION LOST In the House of Commons By 96-76 Vote. THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE Prepared to Back the Anti- Betting Legislation of Hon. W. E. Raney. --By a vote of of Commons last night rejected W. C. Good's resolution calling for the suppression cf betting om~horse racing The ma- jority of those supporting the Brant member's motion were Progressives, backed up by twelve Liberals, in- cihuding Hon. James Murdock, min- inster of labor, and Hon. W. R. Motherwell, minister of agriculture. Sir Lomer Gouin informed the house, during the debate, that legislation now before the Ontario honuss to pro- hibit pubMc action of racing inform- ation was acceptable to the federal government. The minister of justice, is prepared to back Hon. W. E. Raney in his proposal to put a ban on publication of race track tips and other betting information. Ottawa, March 2 No 'General Agitation, Sir Lomer in volcing his opposi- " The Daily British Whig |U. 8S. SEA COLLAPSE | TO HELP GREAT BRITAIN, It Made the Same Mistake in Shipping as Moscow In Industry. |e | London, . March 2.-- 'America's (collapse at sea," is the big type head- Mine used by the London Chronicle | {above a despatch from its New York | | correspondent, announcing 'the fate | fot the ship subsidy bill and the de- | {cision to place 1,700 American ves- | sels on the market. Commenting | | editoriaty the Chronicle says: "Thus | {ends in catastrophe the vastest and | most futile attempt in history to | create artificially a new industry. It {represents probably the greatest re- corded failure of protectionist theory in practice and consequently the {greatest triumph for free trade. For { America, it megns-Rimost a dead loss of some £570,000,000, it means bit- {ter disillusionment, collapse of dreams to put the American flag in {every port of the world and on all |its seas, failure of a grandiose na- | {tional effect in the furtherance 'of | which the government strained to | {the utmost its influence and re- sources, and threw into the scale its {oficial authority and unique propa- i x ALLEN MON., TUES., WED. RUPERT HUGHES' Farce Comedy - » "Gimmie" EDITION. NORTH Albert F. Healey, Sandwich, Will Have 1,600 Majority. NRAL DISTRICTS ADD To the Vote of Liberal Can- didate---Sectional Change of Public Opinion. Windsor, March of North Essex yesterday chose Al- 1bert F. Healy, Sandwich, Liveral, to represent the constituency in the seat of federal house made vacant by the death of the late Hon. Willlam C, Kennedy. When all returns ae in, it is expected thai us majority will be in the neighborhood of 1,600. In the general electica the rioera: ganda. The dream has been shat-Tmajority in the riding was 7,196, so {tered finally by American tax payers, {but its true .causes of failure are {economic not political; they are sim- {ly these: that America could not {build ships as cheaply as we could |or aswell; that she could neither run [them or man them as we do; that it |1s beyond the power of our govern: iment or of any government to create {a carrying trade artificially; that Washington has made the same mis- {take with shipping that Moscow has | made with industry. Naturaily Brit- that yesterday's figures represent a sectional change of public opinion. The Liberal win falls gyer 5,000 votes short of the humber polled by his predecessor. The conservative candidate, Lieut. Col. S. 'C. Robinson, made a fair showing and it seemed for a time that he might actually overcome the tremendous Liberal majority, but be- lated country returns began to"trickle in showing the substantial major- ity for Mr. Healy. ESSEX LIBERAL WON* .--The electors |isk shipping will benefit. So long {as these American ehips were run jas they were being run for the pur- ipcse of forcing the opening of doors According to the returning officer there were only eleven names on the | ust at Ogibway and eleven ballots were cast for the Liberal candidate. whether, when he makes a sale of articles on the mew tax list, he pre- ters to pay up to forty .per cent. to the French and Belgians and run the "ter the end of the fiscal year. It is upon this subject of provincial finance that Mr. Nickle's questions have to deal. Ia his statement yes- tion to the resolution declared that he did not. believe there was any general agitatten in Canada for the NAVAL GOMPANY FROM THREE KILLED Even ths at hi |. defict terday, Mr. McCrea said it was use- less for opposition enitics to attempt budget criticlam until they knew when the books were closed, bath for receipts and expenditures. The pro- wvincial treasurer interjected the in formation that he had the answers' ready and would give the informa- tion at an early date, so that there would be no need to prolong the discussion on that scord. i "Doomsday Budget." Mr. McCrea dubbed the provincial treasurer's presentation of last the years of defloits, the calling in of a financial expert by the treas- urer, and the edict given. him that | 'somo way, somehow, the. govern- ment must be able to present a sur- plus to the country in this, the last session of the presemt parliament. He twitted the government upon its reconstruction of last year's de- cision to set aside $2,000,000 out of ordinary receipts for fund, and asked the treasurer point biank if the reason were not that the action would have meant another 1 there a surplus?" asked the member far Sudbury. "The people w what the financial sheet says, but they have some information still Bo get before they are going to be satisfied with the statement that there is a surplus of over a million. 'We are nat going to allow this de- bate to close until the provincial treasurer has answered the questions on the order paper asked by the member for Kingston. He will make this so-called surplus disappear into the mists of fable which seem to ¥urmound the honorable treasurer and his government. Niagara Peninsula Fruit Growers pass resolution favoring increased risk of having 'the goods confiscated, EACH OF THE PROVINCES a roadway | BY MOTOR CAR A Shocking Affair jn Philadel- phia, Pa.--A Banker Is Under Arrest. Philadelphia, Pa., March 2.--Two women and one man, Mrs. Ellen O'- Donnell, aged sixty-five, Miss Mary Murphy, aged eighteen, and Leon O'- Donnell, aged twenty-nine, son . of Mrs. O'Donnell, were killed early to- day when an automobile travelling at a high rate of speed crashed into them as they were alighting from a trolley car fn West Philadelphia. The driver of the machine did not slacken speed, but rushed away af his vie- tims were hurled fifty feet from the spot where they were struck, Twen- ty minutes later, Henry Brock, wide- ly-known banker and clubman, was tound four blocks away standing beside the blood bespattered auto wrecked against a pole. He was ar- rested in connection with the killing. Had No Coal;'SoHe Went and Took Some Windsor, March 2---Walter " Kob- inson, McDougall street; had no coal to keep his homa warm, so he drove a waggon to a coal pile of the Mich~ igan Central Railway on the out- skirts of the city and filled it with choice lumps of the best coal he could find. He pleaded quilty in tae Police Court yesterday to theft but could not agree with the police on the amount of coal stolen. i 'Ut might have been half a tom, he told Magistrate Gundy, 'or it might have been less, but apyway, I took it." He is to be sentenced Saturday. Ploneer of Peace River district states problem there is not fmmigra- tion but emigration. . or whether he chooses to refuse pay- ment to the invaders and have them seize and confiscate the goods. A Hunger Blockade. Hamm, Germany, March 2.--The United States will intervene in the Ruhr if France attempts a "hunger blockade," Dr, man industrialist, speech here. Dr. Klonn credited Am- erican Ambassador Houghton with the declmration States might take over the provis- loning of the occupied area under such conditions. The American em- bassy, however, Ambassador Houghton such statement. Klonn; noted Ger- declared in a that the United flatly denfed th had made Cities and Towns Liable. Essen, March 2.--Cities and towns throughout the Rubr Valley are to be held responsible hereafter for sab. otage or other acts of disorder de- s'gned to hinder the French and Bel- gian ermies of occupation, and fina: will accordingly be assessed by order of General Degoutte, French military chlef, French Plundering. Berlin, March 2.1 The damage done in the recent plundering of the Bochum chamber of commerce am- ounted to more than one marks, the Forty-two cases of Fiench soldiers had been reported up| to yesterday, stated. milion Tageblatt estima'es. "robbery" by it 1s semi-officlaily DIVORCE COLONY REGEIES QUITE A SHOCK | 3 . Two Prohibition Officers Posed as Prominent Men Seek- For the Canadian Volunteer Reserve--To Be Fourteen Days' Training Annually. Ottawa, March 2.--Each province will furnish a company for the Ca- nadian naval volunteer reserve, or- ganization of which was authorized recently. In additiom, in the larger provinces where training facilities can be provided, an additional Lalf- company may be raised. The men will be enlisted for three consecutive years and re-enlisted for further £ fhe ze but not exceed- a mi of 10 terms of three years, Training will be for a period of fourteen days annually; and in" addition, instruction will be given in naval subjeots at the various com- pany - headquarters, Officers of the reserve are now be- | ing appointed and their selection will | probably be completed by March 15. | Officers on appointment must be be- | tween the ages of 19 and 40, and | will be chosen from the localities | where companies are established. |! 1,000 officers and men, -------------- { . TRADE PROPAGANDA t | { | Informatig . is Distributed high commissioner's office in Louton | has begun the distribution to the, press of information about Canada's | resources and export trade. | understood the plan it to make the office the centre of cffective Cuaaa- | fan propaganda by other means as! speaking at public functions ana dinners, This is an improvement | that has been advocated for a long! time, and the hope is voiced here! ipared to recommend It §3|'0 well as the time-honored method ot| 3 reform thus sought. torney-general of Ontario (Hon. W E. Raney) had not asked for this. No later than Wednesday, however, the deputy atterney-geneéral of On- tarlo and the crown prosecutor of Toronto had waited on him to ask for certain amendments to the code by which the publication of racing information such as tips, odds, ets, should be prohibited. Sir Lomer said that he was pre. to his col- leagues the embodiment of this sug- gestion in government legislation. In concluding, the minister of jus- tice advised ,the House that there were enough differences of opinion in Camada without-adding to them. In that spirit he would ask the hon- orable members who believed in this new prohibition not to consider it important enough to impose on! the country in opposition to the will of a large.section, if not a majority of public, Free State to Provide For Griffith's Family Dublin, March 2.--In introducing The reserve will form part of the (a bill in the Dail Eireann today |Petes. The question had come to his Canadian navy and will consist of [which would make suitable provis- ®ttention through a press despatch {ions for the widow, children and from London which {sister of the late President Griffith, [Scientific men were never suitably |fylly through the court of appeal | President Cosgrave declared that no rewarded. ' | man could have done more for his | country than the late presidemt, who i' if of it at this time. We enc n on Canadia; idevoted to it not only his talents |5¢ o n Resources kbut whatever wealth he possessed. {sctentific rescarch in the metal and London, March 2,--The Canadian |The appropriation requested wae a (textile 'Industries, but so far we {modest one, barely sufficient, he thought, for the requirements og.the case. The bill passed its first d- 000 OPCQOOCOIOOPIQRIOPQROIOTO b a KILLED BY ICICLE 4+ Montreal, March 2.--Struck # on the head by an icicle wich #4 fell from a roof on St. Lawrence + > + «mit Dr. Banting and his assistants * | {for American traffic arff®not for legi- {timate profit, and so long as the Am- erican citizen was patient enough to {pay out of his pocket for the experi- | ment. it was useless to hope for a re- covery in the shipping trade, A new {chapter now opens for British mer- |cantile marine. At the same time, a {chapter closes in -~conomic history |that has its lesson not only for Am- {erica but for all who have the intel- {Higence to read it." | -- rs ( |For Discovering Insulin Treat- | ment For Diabetes--Plea by Hon. GQ. H. Ferguson. | Toronto, March 2.--Hon, G. How- jard Ferguson in the House yesterday {afternoon brought up the question of 'suitably rewarding Dr. F. G. Bant- (ing and his colleagues, the discov- |erers of insulin treatment for dia- Running true to tradition, the: town of Walkerville, which is the home of Lieut.-Col. Robinson, went strongly for the Conservative candi date, while in Windsor he was given a majority of approximately 1,000 votes, But returns from the rural sections of the riding developed into a regular old-time landslide for Mr. Healy. In Rochester township, for instance, where the Opposition can= didate had made a good fight, the vote was: Healy, 570; Robinson, 16 In the, village of Tecumseh, polled 450 votes, against 95 for R inson, -And so it went, * . WILSON ESTATE HEIRS _WIN IN LAW COURY Twenty-eight Great Grands children of the Testator to Divide $1,500,000. = Montreal, March 2.--Heirs of (the Wilson estate have carried their de- stated "I bave {have not given any encouragement {to the men working In scientific lab- {oratories dealing with the health and |improvement of living conditions {among the human race." He proposed that a sum be set {aside for ten years which will per- to carry on thelr work and investiga- {tions unhampered by financial diffi- (culties. | Premier Drury expressed himself | had in mind for some time | {this subject, and I am availing my- {Surveyer of the superior court and - ourage { which ordered that the twenty-eight | great grandchildrén of the testator mand for division of the $1,500,000 that | properties therein contained success- which rendered judgment yesterday confirming the finding of Mr. Justice come into possession of their legac ies, The executors are also required to render an accounting of the ad- ministration of the properties since the death of Senator Wilson in 1877. Yesterday's judgment was deliver- ed by Justice Guerin, Justices Bere nier and Flynn agreeing with him in the majority finding, while Jus- ticies Tellier and Howard dissented. The case is a famous one and was fought in the lower court a year ago last winter. Judgment was deliver- . Guties on United States product. POLA NEGRI SAYS SHELL NOT MARRY CHARLIE CHAPLIN, MOVIE COMEDIAN * Their Engasment Is Off and Hollywood Stands Aghast-- Chaplin Pleads With the Polish Actress to Change : Her Mind Again. . .ousine stood ouiside. Inside .a +|as being. quite sympathetic to mak- 4 lag some reward to Dr, Banting, but # thought that the equipment in the & university laboratories was quite « sufficient to permit any investiga- + [tions being made. He took cofisider- {able credit for this to his own gov- ernment, {ed in February, 1922, and appeal i was argued last November. Dame Margaret Duchesnay, great- grandniece of Senator Wilson, asked for division of the estate, while the executors opposed the request. that it may be followed by making | * blvd, near Prince Arthur street every Canadian trade commissioner | * Yesterday afternoon, Ira Pal- a mouthpiece for Canadian trade ® mer, > thifieen year-old girl, propaganda, in the country in which © whose home is at 1179 St. Dom- Le is posted It is believed tha. us |® IRlque street was almost fn- much coud be done by acquainting » stantly killed. foreign merchants with Canada's exporting possibilities as by forwaid- ing to the Canadian manufacturer arrests and the closing of a num- [advice, to which he, unfortunately, ber of places where, it had been |geldom listens. ' whispered, those knowing the right : i word could obtain Mquor. ---- "Ing Divorce. Reno, Nevada, March 2.---Reno's divorce colony was gasping at the discovery that two of its. most recent additions, who had became quite prominent among the gayer set, were dry enforcement officers whose ac- tivities had 'brought about thirteen ~~ * PPPRPP000200%%0% 2% 0 0 Floggers' Victim Finds Coffin at His Door mat SERVICE. BAD PRICE OF COAL Engilsh Product Cheaper Than Ger- man in | Canadian Letters for England Tak in 12 Days and Moe 5 London, March 2.--Has the Can~ March 2.-- adian mail service to. Britain deter- Hollywood, Cal, March 2--Hoity- wool reverberates with 'the crash . of the romance of Charlie Chap- lin andl Pola Negri. 'The beau- tiful Polish actress announced that i engagement, which held the at- te ntion of film folk and film. rans the world over, is off. - Just as Charlie feels he is 'too poor" to marry her, so does she feel "he should get a rich American wifes I wish him luck." Lights burned brightly in Pola's - Hollywood residence early today ana // Charlie's limousine was parked out- : side the front door. ~The comedian was reported inside, im a tragic 1ole; pleading with the actress to rescind her decision and marry him. Later Pola was eaid to be in hysterics in an upper roof, while Charlie was - displaying a brand of male hyster- ics in the drawing ; room below. Friends of the couple had yet to earn the ultimate outcome of the _ "dramatic denouncement. "The sudden action of Miss Negri 'was a thunderbolt to Chaplin, his .tonfidants said. When word reach- +d him that the actress had put in "Writing a statement that the engage- | men was over he ordered his car Ta ane le bv hems. Until past dramatic gcene was taking place. Gone was the Chaplin of the baggy pants and the funny feat--it was Charlie, the lover in real life, who was fighting amid the ruins of his romance to persuade his emotional finances to change her mind. Ser- vants hinted at a scene of surpassmy drama between the comedian and the emotignal actress before tne tae, ter gave way to hysterics and fled to the upper part of the ho Whether Charlie succeeded jon suading his finance to change her mind yas not.at firs. clear. - Friends of the couple mentionea the name of Tada Styka, popular young Polish portrait painter, in connection with Pola's announcement. : Pola Relents. Los Angeles, March 2.--Pola Ne- gri, Polish motion, picture trage- dienme, who last night announced she had broken off her engagement to marry Charlie Chaplin, screen comedian, early this morning made another anouncemént that a recon- ciiation had been affected. 'The whole trouble came about," she Md, "through a false state- ment published in a newspaper that Oharlie had saMd he was 2 poor to be married." . One of the agents posed as a film company director and the other ap- peared in the role of "representa- tive of the steel trust." They gained admittance to the select coterie by convincing attorneys that sought divorces from fictitious wives in order to wed equally fictitious women whose purported photographs and letters they displayed. they Both officers, it Is said, became | highly pepular with the: feminine contingent of the colony. ceived a variety of notes and a smaller but equally interesting va- riety of poems from one of the pros- pective divorcees. These he exhibited gleefully, without, however, permitt- ing her name to become 1There is considerable apprehension in the colony regarding subpoenas to testify. One re- known. Eight places have been raided on information obtained by the agents. Coal Famine Is Over, Kitohener, March 2.--Fuel con. trol was abolished in Waterloo to- day. It was announced that the fn- flux of a fair amount of hard coal and ue Svent of milder ' made step possible, Residents will 'henceforth be allowed to order weather [the ponies. MISSIONARIES HAMPERED. Meeting Difficulties Through Gandhi Movement. Toronto, March 2.--Word 'just re- ceived by the Baptist offices in To- ronto is to the effect that for months past Christen missionaries in India bave been meeting with unusual dif- ficulties and' that, as a result of the Ghandhi movement, hostile feelings have been aroused to such an extent that Indian women have turned their backs on white womén missionaries. The Canadian missionaries of the Baptist. denomination, working among the Telugus, have, it is re- ported, suffered with the mission- aries of other denominations in the adverse movement, 3 1 i x ; ( To Baptist Society London, March 2.--Samuel Gam- ble, 3 bookmaker, who died in. Eng- land recemtly, left an estate of $500,000, which he had accumulated in his dealings with folks who play Jie He bequeathed his stock of iiduor to the : a t of th department e Olarksburg, W. Va. Antonio Musce, who on December 6th, last, reported to the police that he had ' been flogged by a band of masked men five miles from the oity, awoke yesterday to find a coffin on the front porch at his home. Pinned to the coffin. was a bit of paper on which had been 'written "you are next." . : : Museci sought protection from: the sheriff, and was promised such ald as the authorities thought necessary, The Largest Zeppelin Will Be Ready Soon London, March 2.--The consernc- tion of the new zeppelin orwerea py the United States Navy, will be fin- ished soon at Freidrichshafen, ac- cording ta a despatch from Berlin. The airship' will be the largest ever constructed amd will from Ber- lin for Chicago early in Jume. It will Sy under the American flag, but operated by Germus wmechauws and airship exports. The trail flight will begin in April and severil Jve: the Alps are proposed. When every- thing is perfected the airship will start for Berlin, where the final preparations for the trans-Atlantic flight will be made, Berlin, March 2.-- English coai has befome cheaper in Germany than ierman coal, although the price is | increasing every weeK, Minister of Economy Becker told the budget committee of the Reichstag yester- day. He added that all German rallroads are running on English He explained that cual and iron are still being produced in the Ruhr, but that none comes to unoccupied «Germany, although industry is so far unaffectod by the shortage. Herr Becker said the recovery of the mark made it possible Lor un- occupied German industry to buy <oal and iron abroad. Steel and pig! fron from countries other than France and Belglum are allowed to "enter Germany free of duty. so that industry can keep going. Native Wines Included 4 Toronto, Mafch- 2.--The Royal Templars of Temperance wit] present a petition to the federal government asking that the exportation, Impor- tation and transportation of liguor between provinces be banned, and that the manufacture of liquor "be (stopped. This petition makes no exception, but includes in its scope jendorsed to that effect. iorated since the pre-war days? The Timber Trade Journal, the organ of British trade, replies to a resolu- tion passed by Canadian Lumber men's Association deploring the abe sence of information about Canada's export of timber in the British by the statement: "There is com Giderable difficulty in obtaining n from Canada. Before the war m was frequently sent via New 1 and was delivered in eight or ning days, 'whereas now, owing to the al sence of an agreement with t38 United States, there fs no s«certal that the mall will be forwarded the fast New York boats even w Cc quently letters {ke twelve days a sometimes longer." Ice Jam at Morrisburg Falls. Ogdensburg, N.Y., March 2 marked. chafige in the ice jam tion was reported today at Mo burg, aside from the fact that ire is gradually melting and voter receding, having fallen in¢hes today.' Heavy ice above the town continued to hold and possibil ties of damage hinge entirely what will happen when this man breaks loose: - wv}