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. Leon Stainton, _ in His conviction and the death sen- we HE' MURDERED LEON {STAINTON, | »AND DIED PROTESTING HIS. gs INNOCENCE. h Ll THE HISTORY OF THE CRIME «4 AND THE CLEVER WORK 2 OF THE POLICE. a y wh A Fort Soli btan, N.W. T., Mar ch 26. --C. B. Bullock \ was executed at the . bolice* 'barracks' here. this morn- ing. at 7 a. m. for the murder of on April 26, 1901. Death was instantaneous. Bullock made no confession, declaring his innocence to the last. Since his arrival at the: police . -bar- sacks here he, has 'been visited. daily by Rev. G.. Cr 'Deasum, 'Anglican cler- gyman, and the Rev. A. Aldridge, Methodist minister. The latter was with him at the execution. It was thought a few days ago that Bul- lock would make some statement as to the crime, of which he was found guilty, but in spite of ithe earnest efforts of the two ministers mention- ed ¥ above, he refused to discuss the subject Jat all. Much sympathy is felt for Bullock's father, who visited his*son last evening. BULLOCK'S CRIME. Charles Bullock was hanged for the murder of ILeon' Stainton; in the Battle River country, in. April last. The dead youth, Leon Stainton, had left his home in Kalamazoo, Mich., to take a position with the Union Pacific railway at Aspen, Wyo. There he met Charles Bullock, a young man from his state of Michi- gan. Bullock's parents lived on a farm: inthe Battle River.district, of | Alberta, N. W. T., and they had written to their son to come there and get land. Bullock asked Stain- ton, who was barely nineteen years old, to accompany him. When they left Aspen Bullock had: $42 and Stainton $220. The two started -to- gether, but Bullock reached his home alone. He had plenty of money hon he arrived, and gave his family .$5 more than he had when he left oo pen. He stayed only three days, going away to British Columbia, as he said. Instead he went to Mon- tana, and changed his name. months later a body was found half buried in a bluff, near the Bullock farm. that of Stainton tence. CECIL: RHODES DEAD. Cape Town, March 26.-- Cecil Rhodes died to-day peacefully at | 5.57 7p. m. He slept during the af- ternoon « but his breathing became more difficult and his strength. per- ceptibly diminished until he: passed away. ar DEFAULTER CAUGHT. Detective Titus, of New York, re- ceived. a telegram from "Philadelphia announcing the arrest there of Mor- ris Schwartz, who was accused of defrauding the Seventh National Bank of New York out of $80,000. Ll "= 'COUNTERFRITERS NABBED. United States secret service agents report that a large counterfeiting plant was raided at Corona, Long Island, and that five men -were ar- "rested. The counterfeiters were imi- tating $5 gold pieces when the offi- cers appeared. POLICE CHIEF DISMISSED. Geperal Cameau, the chief of police at Port au Prince, Hayti, who was directly responsible for the immedi- ate execution of Leon Gabriel, the French citizen who fired a 'revolver at him, March 22, has been dismiss- ed by request of the French govern- ment. This closes the incident. SEALING REPORTS. steamer Leopard has arrived at St. John's, Nfld., from the seal fishery, loaded with 12,000 seals. She brings a much better report from the sealing fleet than the steam er Newfodndland brought on Mon- day. The reports of the Leopard ac- count for about 120,000 seals so far. £4 % The WILL DIE BY ELECTRICITY. Albert T. Patrick, lawyer, of New York, has been convicted of the mur- der of the elderly millionaire recluse, Wm. Marsh Rice, on September 23, 1900. The penalty under the statue is death in the electric chair. A scant three hours of deliberation at the close of a trial prolonged for nine weeks and replete with sensa- tional interest, sufficed to enable the jury to reach their verdict. The is- sue of the trial establishes the charge that Patrick conspired with Rice's valet, Charles ¥'. Jones, ta ob- tain possession of the Texan's es- tate, estimated at $7,000,000, and that Jones killed his employer by the administration of chloroform at the direct instigation of Patrick. Two The 'body was identified as 1d: i "A FOURTH CONTINGENT. Dominion Government Has Another Offer of 2,000 Men to Ter ial Author ities. SEA ion gover nment has offered a fourth contingent to go to South Africa to aid the cause of the empire. It is understood that this contin- gent is to be. the largest on record. If the 'Imperial authorities accept Canada will forward with the ut- most despatch 2,000 men. As to the 'composition of the force, that will depend entirely upon the wish of the war oKce. In this as in re- 'gard to the contingents that have alrcady been sent to the front Can- ada will carry out the desire of the home authorities believing that in doing so she. will be acting in the best interests 'of the empire. There is every reason to believe that the war office will: ask that the greater proportion of the. number offered will be mounted infantry. ° But as to the details of the force, that can- not be decided until an acceptance of the offer has been received. The contingent will, no doubt, be raised the same way as the last one. Canada will supply the men and the department of militia will outfit and equip the contingent while Great Britain will, no doulit, insist, as it did in the last instance, in recouping the Dominion for the cost. There will be no difficulty in getting all the men necessary. Indeed there will be far more recruits than posi- tions. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS Marconi New York. has left Cape Britain for Prince Henry of Prussia will visit Canada in 1904. Mr. €:H. Royal has .been elected mayor of St. Boniface. Mr. Roger Goulet, sr., a Manitoba pioneer, died in St. Bomifare. The C.. P. R, has refused to pay their employees semi-monthly. On May 20 the United States will turn: Cuba..over to her people. The Irish land bill has been intro- duced into the British Commons. Lord Aylmer will command the Canadian Coronation contingent. the Stuartburn wife mur- 1 Salamon, |derer, will be hanged in Winnipeg May 27. Jos. Hopkins, formerly of Brandon. a safe blower, was shot by a pal in Chicago. 5 King Fdward's cutter, Britannia, will race the Xaiser's: schooner, Meteor. ola. F. D. Momk, M. P., has issued a $10,000 libel suit against La Patrie, of Ronmenl; : The Territorial "Assembly has ad- journed until April 3, awaiting the autonomy papers. High water near Chater has caus- ed C.P.R. trains to be cancelled. The Assiniboine river: is rising rapidly. John Connolly, convicted of rob- bery, with assault, at the Winnipeg assizes, received a ten years' sen- tence. | Sir George Goldie has brought back pessimistic news 'from South Africa; Cape Colony is especially dan- gerous. . In a Chicago suberb, Austen, the citizens 'had a hand to hand fight against the employees of a traction company. Trouble is ahead in the building line in Winnipeg, the carpenters, masons and bricklayers demanding higher wages. : It "is - stated that there will be 2,500 Colonial troops in London .for the coronation; practically every colony will be represented. Cape Town, March 27.-- Cecil Rhodes experienced a bad heart at- tack yesterday evening. 'At midnight he was weaker than at any time during his illness. . 5 Hon. Jos. Chamberlain has cabled the department at Ottawa that Trooper Goodman, S.A.C., had died 'from enteric fever on March 18. Goodman's next of kin is Mrs. Doro- thy, ol Winnipeg. Mrs. Henrietta Miller, 76 years of 'age, a resident of Los Angeles, Cal., was 'brutally assaulted by a negro in the railway yards at La Junta, Cal. A mob captured the guilty man from the sheriff and lynched him. reports from the regular and display stations of the weather bureau on the lakes indicate that the ice at the Straits of Macinac will break up between April 5 and 10, and that St. Mary's river can be opened up by April 1 if the prosont warm weather continues. The Made |g a Ottawa, March 55, -- The Pomin SOUTH AFRICAN SITUATION. Sir 'tedles Goldie' s Tadas are Decid- Lied Pessimistic. London, March D5 Lie? Cetrge Goldie, (vice-president of the royal Geographical society and: founder 'of a thorough investigation of South Nigeriap), who has just returned from Africa, where he conferred with Lord Milner, Lord Kitchener, Cecil Rhodes, Sir, Walter Hely-Hutchinson, the governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and numbers of the other in- fluential' men, brings home rather pessimistic ideas of the general situ- ation from a British point of view. The conditions in Cape Colony he re- gards as' especially dangerous, and he considers that the most serious British difficulties will be encounter- ed there in the future as at present. In the course of an interview with a representative of the Associated Press. Sir George Goldie, while re- cognizing the possible importance of. acting President Schalkburger's step,' said he was convinced that the ques tion of peace or war rests in the harids of President Steyn, and that Mr. Kruger and the other Boers in Europe, no longer represent Boer opinion. The real difficulty in the path of 'peace, he Believes, is the question of, gr anting amnesty to the Cape and Natal rebels, George says, the vague promises of the British government have not the slightest weight while the fighting burghers are in their present state of mind. Sir George Goldie advo- cates granting amnesty to the rebels but he insists that every one must be disfranchised for life. This, he claims, would go far towards allay- ing the bitterness of the loyalists. Sir George deprecates any attempt to permit the use of a dual language He says English alone must be the official language, and adds that the actual fact that practically the whole of the rising generations of. the two republics' are now in the concentration camps and are rapid- ly learning English, will be of great aid "in this direction. He estimates that 100,000 armed men will be needed in South Africa for some years .. after: the conclusion of peace. Sir George Goldie failed to meet any. Boers who yet recognized that they had been finally. 'beaten, though some' of them admitted that they had been Somporanily over-weighted by num- bers. ATTACK ON DELARY. Lord Kitchener Rerorls the Capture of Gu 5 and: Prisoners. A dispatch from London dated March 26 says : Incomplete reports of the result of the combined move- ment of British:columns against Gen Delary have enabled Lord Kitchener to announce the capture of about a hundred = 'prisoners, three fifteen pounders, two pom poms and quan- tities of stock and wagons. General Delary appears to have successfully evaded Lord Bijchonon! s cordon at the offset. In a dispatch fot Preto Ford Kitchener says: '"At dusk on the evening . of March 23, the combined movement aglainst Delary was under- taken by columns of mounted men, without 'guns or impediments of any sort. The columns started from Commando Drift, on the Vaal river, and travelled rapidly all night and at dawn March 24, occupied posi- tions along the line, from the Com- mando Drift to the Lichtenburg blockhouse line. ; : The troops mnioved rapidly east- ward, keeping a ' continuous' line, with the object of driving the enemy against 'the blockhouses or' forcing action.® The result has not yet been fully reported. Xekewich's column, after the commencement of the ac- tion, captured three fifteen pounders, two pon poms, nine prisoners and a hundred mules, carts and wagons, and a thousand cattle. The troops covered eighty miles in twenty-four hours. The total number of prison- ers is 185." BRAKEMAN KILLED: A sad accident occurred at Moose Jaw on March 26. A young man by the name of Skipworth, acting as brakeman on the train going east, was down on the track attending to the coupling of two parts of the train that were being brought to- gether. = By some means his head was caught between the cars, and he was instantly killed. * He had come from Bsandon the same morning on a heavy section of number one. He is an Englishman, and has friends in Brandon. : and 8 p. m., and in the rural rmuni- endum will be the same in the cities and outside municipalities as in mun- icipal elections. That is, cities, Winnipeg and Brandon, vot- ers will be allowed to register their ballots between the hours of 9 a.m. The hours for voting on the refer- cipalities from 9 a. m. until 5 p. m. An official bulletin on the subject of the cholera at Mecca and Medina admits that 1,196 deaths from that disease have occurred at the two cities mentioned, » ler; Col. Francis W. Rhodes. tate was purchased by Cec] Lo and, Sir | | dently partly turned on. in the participated or: HE RS I CEOIL RHODES' SECRET. i Léft His. Fortune top a Vast scheme of Bdueation, deb oilion Daily' Mail says it. is in a position to assert that Cecil 'Rhodes' left the bulk of his. fortune, outside of some personal and family bequests, to the promotion of his vast imperial plan of education. This project embraces every land where the Union Jack flies. Its pur- pose is the intellectual betterment of | the British race throughout the world and the fostering of the im- perial sentiment. The Daily Mail adds that this idea of better fitting 1 "Younger Britain" to cope success- fully with rival nationalities was long 'a dominant scheme with Cecil Rhodes, but "that even his closest 'friends little imagined the absorbing hold it obtained upon him until this was disclosed by the terms of his will. The details of this plan of ed- ucation will be made public in a few days." \ Cecil Rhodes 'left. the Dino' Hall estate at New Market t0 his broth- last December. - FUNERAL PREPARATIONS The coffin containing the "body of Cecil Rhodes will 'be conveyed to the parliament buildings at Cape Town during the morning of April 8, and will lie in state in the vestibule till three in the afternoon; when it will be removed to. the Anglican cathe dral, where the first portion of the Burial service will be read. The fun- eral procession will afterwards tra- verse the principal streets of Cape Town to the railroad station. Then the coffin will be taken hy special train to Bulwayo, stopping for a short time at Kimberly. Only a few intimate friends will accompany the body to Bulwayo. The coffin, dur- ing the {funeral procession at Cape Town, will "be carried on the gun carriage of 'Long Cecil,"" the fam- ous gun used at the seige of Kim- berly. PIANO MAKER DRAD. Henry -Newcombe, * of the piano, firm of Octavius Néwcombe & Co., Toronto, died on March 28 accident- | in a room of a house on Bond street, in which he lived, the resi- dence of his sister. In the house were two gas jets, one for a stove, the stop for. which was close to-that for light and which had been dcci- . Deceased found dead in this room. He ly, was | was mged 72 and Jumertied. "KIELED. WHILE FISHING. _A strange fatality occurred in Gor- rie, » Ont., on March 28, which re- sulted in the death of Henry Sander- son, a contractor of this place. He was in the act of fishing near the bridge, when his fishing pole came in contact with a live. electric wire, and as a consequence he was in- stantly killed. Deceased was in his forty-second. year and leaves a wid- ow and family of three. POSTAL CLERK MISSING. The famiry and friends of Arthur Lindsay, chief clerk of the post office department at Ottawa, are consid- erably exercised over his mysterious disappearance from the city. He has not heen seen or heard of since ehe morning of Friday, March 21, when he left his home, going as usual to the office. ~~ Mr. Lindsay had a con- siderable sum of money on his per- son, which leads his people to think that he may have mét with foul play. Search has been made for him but without avail. He had appar- ently been laboring of late under some mental aberration which adds to the anxiety of those who knew him. RUSSIAN PRINCES HANGED. In a digpatch from: St. Petersburg the correspondent there of the Lon- don daily mail says that news has |. been received from Kutais, Trans- caucasia, that three Russian nobles Prince Kionaaz, Prince Valerian: and Prince Zulukidz--were executed on March 3 for the murder of over 100 persons. The trials of the princes lasted for two weeks. 'They were the leaders of a widespread bandit organization which had terrorized the Caucasus by systematic robbery, arson and murder. Commissiéner McKenna will hear half-breed claims in Winnipeg May 5. The Ontario Kennel club will give a cup to each field trial meet in Can- 'ada. Three G.T.R. train hands were kill- ed in a head-on collision near Jarvis Ont. Lee Bateman, of Vancouver, recov~ |-ered $800 damages from a Toronto paper. 'The 48th Highlanders, Toronto, in the. Hew York mili- tary tourney. Cc. P.R. agents on the western divi- sion are in Winnipeg to seek an in- creased wage scale. This es-. | fore THE GALICIAN MURDERER SEN- TENCED TO HANG ON /* MAY 27. JOHN CONNOLLY, AN FENDER, GETS SEVEN YEARS IN THE PENITENTIARY. « Winnipeg; March At the spring assizes yesterday Saloman, the Galician who murdered his wife at Stuartburn, Man., was sentenced to be hanged on May 27. The pris- oner was much affected, for mercy. John Connolly, convicted for bery with ~ assault, year sentence 'Connolly, had, arrest released from the Penitentiary where he had been ser ving a sentence for a brutal assault on a woman. { The prisoner sentence. ; . +W. McMillan, found guilty of ut- tering a forged cheque, was sentenc- 25.-- and plead rob- received a ten in the penitentiary. just previous to his |ed to two years in the penitentiary. John Gilhouse for stealing the sum of §8 from a farmer asléep in a 'Winnipeg restaurant, was sentenced to three months hard labor. | One O'Grady, charged with the theft of a cow from a man named Coulter, of Tyndall, Man., received six months hard labor. \ ; SERIOUS STABBING AFFRAY. In a Winnipeg Saloon Fracas a Ne- gro Stabs a White Man. A stabbing affray which may prove to. be a case of murder, took ,place in the Arlington hatel, Winnipeg, on Monday evening. Anderson Martin, {a ¢olored man, drew a kmife and vic- iously stabbed William Skelly, white man, and the latter found to be seriously, fatally injured. The trouble started io an alterca- tion between Skelly and the negro, and, after some words, blows were exchanged, and the colored man 'was apparently getting the worst of the argument, when he drew a knife 'and a was and possibly drove © it with great foice into Skel- ly' s side. IIe repeated the blow quickly, this time the steel blade finding a lodging place in his breast, and with a third blow, he drove the knife deep into the abdomen. Be- those standing. around could lay hands on him, Martin ran back through the dining room of the hotel and .out by a back door. He then ran down a lane, and made his way to a house where he boards. He was arrested. REVOLTING SUICIDE. . Jacoh Wolf, a porter at a Winni- peg hotel committed suicide. The deed was most deliberate and was surrounded by revolting details. The man cut his throat in the din- ing room of the hntel and there was hardly a squarc inch of the room free from the stains of the blood that spurted from the wound in fearful floods. No reason for the act has been discovered. OGILVIE A= MILEING CO. SOLD. Negotiations "have been completed for the sale of the Ogilvie Milling company to Charles R. Hosmer, of Montreal, and F. W. Thompson, of Winnipeg. The latter is at present general manager of the company at Winnipeg. The company, who are the largest millers in Canada, was founded by the late W. He Ogilvie, of Montreal, who, on his death, was succeeded in his interests by his sons. The deal is understood to in- volve between three and four mil- lion dollars. ER a Lo \ HARD ON THE MAYOR. A Woman Uses a Whip on the Chief Magistrate of Topeka, Kan. A dispatch from Topeka, Kan., says :--Miss Blanche Bose, a pro- tege of Mrs. Nation, horsewhipped Mayor Parker in his office at the city hall today. Three times she at her, tore the rawhide out of her hands and pushed her into the hall. Before beginning her horsewhipping Miss Bose gave the mayor a severe scolding and accused him of being responsible for the fact that the joints are running openly in Topeka. When seen by reporters safter the affair, Mayor Parker refused to dis- cuss , it. - The woman who whipped him talked freely. She said : "I was in sympathy with Mrs. Nation, but did not take part in her raids. I have come to the conclusion that the only way to make public officers enforce the temperance laws is to horsewhip them. zation behind me and we have whips for Governor Stanley and Judge Hazen. I think it is a good plan." OLD OF- on the present charge, been thanked the judgefor the slashed the mayor and then he sprang I have an organi-'