MONTREAL STRIKES MUCH DISORDER SULTING. An Angry Mob of Longshoremen Drive Non-Union Workmen From the Ves- sels--Shots Fired and Men Thrown Into the River. A dispatch froma Montreal, dated April 28, says : The longshoremen's strike developed into disorder and riot at the harbor front this after- noon, with the result that the mil- itia was called out by Mayor Coch- rane. During the disturbances the strikers set fire to the cargo of one of the steamers, and a striker was shot by a stevedore. In neither case the consequence was serious. The disorder started seriously when a mob of 600 angry strikers over- powered the small force of police who endeavored on' the docks to guard non-union men at work dis- charging the five ocean steamers, and rushed up the gangways to the decks, where they frightened off the labor- ers 'and sailors 'handling the cargo. The shooting occurred on Berri St., where a crowd of strikers pursued Ww. A. Quinn, a stevedore. Joseph Lavoie, one of the crowd, jumped on Quinn, who drew his revolver and fired twice, one shot lodging in his assailant's leg. The miob chased Quinn, who escaped. Later he was arrested. b The men employed on the Salacia and Alexandrian, lying at the foot of Berri street, worked until 2.30 this afternoon,when they were driven from the vessels. At 8 oiclock six hundred angry strikers and sympath- izers made a demonstration at the Hochelaga wharf, where the Carri- gan Head was discharging. The mob charged, rushed a handful of police, made up the gangways to the decks of the vessel and frightened off the men who were working. The Viec- toria Rifles, 65th Regiment of Duke of York Hussars, 600 strong, are stationed on the wharves. Each man is provided with fifty rounds of ammunition and strike cartridges. Before the troops were sent to the ~ wharves strikers set fire to the car- go 'of the Leyland liner Alexandrian, lying near the Canadian Pacific ele- vators, which were in danger until the crew extinguished the blaze. A striker named John Donaldson was "arrested for setting the blaze. Six other strikers were arrested during The Canadian Northern railway has issued a crop report which shows the conditions to be most favorable. About 90 per cent. of the seed is in the ground, and there is a substan- tial increase in the area under cul- tivation. The Right Hen. R. - W. Hanbury, president ef the British board of ag- riculture died on April 27. Far Eastern Trouble. Tokio, Japan, April 28.--The Jiji publishes a dispatch' from Pekin in which its correspondent quoted the Russian minister as saying that the offect of the remonstrance of Japan and the other powers would be that the statesmen now, paramount at St. Petersburg would decide to incorpor-. ate the three provinces of Manchuria in the Russian empire. London--Replying to a question put by Earl Spencer, the Liberal leader in the Ilouse of Lords, as to "whether he could lay on the table the dispatches in regard to the coms munications reported to have passed between the Russian and Chinese governments, Foreign Secretary Lansdowne said : "The question is now engaging the most serious at- tention of the gov?rnment. There was some doubt regarding the actual fact of Russia's proposal in regard to the evacuation of Manchuria, and he hoped the silence he was bound to maintain' at present will not be of long duration." Honolulu, April 28.--(By Pacific eable).--The British warship Am- phion and the torpedo boats Spar- row Hawk and Virago have arrived here from Victoria. The vessels will be convoyed to Hong Kong by the Amphirite, which is also in the har- bor. On the arrival of these vessels in Asiatic waters the already power- ful fleet which Great Britain main- tains in the Orient will be greatly strengthened. It is learned from British naval officers that = Great Britain contemplates making im- mense additions to her Asiatic squad- ron and /improving the Asiatic sta- tion in many ways. The 14-year-old son of Phillip Per- reault, of Grand View, Man., was killed at Sinnot's camp by a falling tree last week. The accident was caused by the falling tree striking another tree and rebounding and fall- the disturbances. Three men were thrown into the harbor during the fights. They were all rescued. G. Billedeau, a non-union foreman, was badly beaten and thrown off a wharf. He was rescued. The Canadian Pa- cific liner Lake Champlain has ar- rived, with sixty-five English dock laborers on board. IS RE-| 'stands on its own merits, while CANADIAN BUTTER. Why it Does Not Bring as Much as Other Males. 1 Mr. H. A. Hodgson, of Montreal, cheese and buttér exporter, has just returned from a visit to England, where he has been studying the other end of the exporting business. 'Can- adian 'cheese, he says, is about as good as possible, but the butter has fallen off in quality in the last two years. The butter which brings the best price in England is English but- ter. It is made under conditions of absolute cleanliness that we do not approach in this country. The cow's udder is scrubbed with a rubber brush just before milking, the teats are washed with a special solution, the milkmaid's hands are clean, and immediately after milking the bucket is emptied and washed. The feeding of the cows is. alse carefully attend- ed to, while in this country a farmer will often feed a cow turnips just be- fore milking and so give the milk a bad flavor. Turnips may be fed just after milking without hurting the milk. Besides, in England, under the farm system, each large farm has its own dairy, so that every man's milk in Canada, under the factory system, one man may keep back his cream, or send in tainted milk, so as so: spoil the flavor of the whole output of the factory. = A very little bad butter does a great deal of harm in England, for the English buyer, who works from ten to two, has not time to try every box of butter, but buys entirely from sample. The general appearance of the pack- age has a great effect with the Eng- lish buyer, too. New Zealand butter comes smoothly packed in double parchment paper, in oblong boxes, and this gives it a great advantage. Canadian boxes are often too weak, so that they bulge, and are some- times made of wood that is not pro- perly kiln-dried, and has the germ of mould in 1t Before the butter is put in. This, and parchment made of wood pulp 'instead of rags, often give the outside of the butter a bad flavor. Canadian packers often make patterns on the top of the butter when it is packed, but the English buyer prefers a smooth top. These may be small things, but they affect 'the price of our butter, so that the Siberian and even the Argentine pro- ducts sell higher than Canadian. There is no reason why Canada should not have the same pre-emin- incnce in butter as she has in cheese. ) 'Forestry and Irrigation. In the last report of the States commissioner of the general land office the following statement is made : ; "Irrigated agriculture, as repre- senting the leading industry of the future of a vast portion of the coun- try, and in particular of the arid region, is rapidly forcing to the front the question of irrigation as one of the great national issues of the day, since without water there can be no agriculture, and in like manner the need for irrigation is | equally forcing to the front the ques- tion of forest preservation, since without forests there can be no wa- ter. Forests are an essential factor in any scheme of irrigation. of sufiic- ient magnitude to contemplate the reclamation of our six hundred or more millions of acres of irrigable lands which are now arid." That irrigation depends upon water supply, and that supply depends upon the forests is potent, and the necessity of main- taining the forests for this if for no other reason is equally apparent. There are substitutes in plenty for wood in the construction of build- ings, of barns, and of fences, but there can be no substitute for agri- culture. We must have wheat and corn and vegetables. The necessity of forest preservation for the reclam- ation of the great areas of public lands now wholly arid in the new states and Territories finds an equal demand in the older states, where land now arable is in danger of be- coming arid by the destruction of the forests. If the fertility of our soil is to be maintained, the forests must be preserved. the : Smallpox Germ Discovered. A dispatch from Boston says : The announcement of the discovery of the cause of smallpox was made on Ap- ril 28 by Dr. W. T. Councilman, prao- fessor of: pathoiogy in the Harvard Medical school, at a meeting of the Boston Society of Medical science. The announcement is the outcome of the investigations conducted by Dr. Councilman, Dr. George Burgess McGrath and Dr. Walter Brinckhoft, with the co-operation of the Boston board of health during the recent en- idemic of the discdse in this city. It has been determined that smallpox is caused by a micro-organism repre- sentative of the lowest form of ani- mal life. This fact serves to relate the disease with malaria, and to dis- tinguish it from infectous disease caused by minute forms of vegetable life known as bacteria. Two fishing smacks, the St.Thomas and St. Gustave, are reported to have foundered in the English chan- nel on April 28, and fourteen men are believed to have been drowned. United the water, Philippine INHUMAN TORTURES HORRIBLE STATE OF AF- FAIRS IN PHILLIPPINES. How ¢"Glen's Brigade' Extorted State- ments -- Priests wre Subjected to the Water Torture--Others are Whipped to Death, A dispatch from Washington, D.C., says : The United States war de- partment has made public that por- tion of the report of Lieut.-General Miles which refers to the misconduct of officers and soldiers in the Philip- pines. Secretary Root, has received several requests for this report,sorue of these requests being from persons in Boston, who states that they un- derstood that it contained much mat- ter that had never been brought out in the investigations. The secretary has held that such reports were con- fidential, in order that the officer making them might be free to make such comments as he desired, but as it was learned that General Miles had no objection to the publication of the report. it has been made pub- lic. The statements made by General Miles are the result of his tour of inspection in the Philippines last au- tumn and winter. y The report is dated February 19, 1908, and addressed to the secretary of war. General Miles says that in going from Calamba to Batangus in November last he noticed that the country appeared devastated and that the people were very much de- pressed. Stopping at Lipa, he says a party of citizens, headed by the acting president, met him and stated that they desired to make complaint of harsh treatment of the people of that community, saying they had been concentrated in towns and had suffered great indignities, "that fif- teen of their people had been tortur- ed by what is &nown as the water torture, and that one man, a highly respectable citizen, aged 65 years, named Vincente Luna, while suffering from the effects of the torture and unconscious, was dragged from his house, which had been set on fire, and was burned to death. They state that these atrocities were committed by a company of scouts under com- mand of Lieut. Hennessy; and that their people had been crowded into towns, six hundred being confined in one building." A doctor of the par- ty said he wag Leady to testify that some of the six hundred died from. suffocation. ; { General Miles says he looked at the building, which was one story in height, eighteen or twenty feet wide and possibly sixty or seventy feet long. He asked for a written state- ment to be forwarded him at Manila, but says he never received it, and adds: " I have no reason to. disbe- lieve their statements; in fact, the instance of torture in the case of the man Luna having been tortured and burned to death are confirmed by other reports." Concerning the fail- ure to receive the statement, General Miles says: 'Whether any influence was brought to bear to prevent their statement, either by persuasion or coercion, I am not prepared to say at the present time." : General Miles then refers to other cases, saying that on the island of Cebu it was reported and published in November, 1902, "that two offi- cers, Capt. Samuels, 44th Infantry, U.S.V., and Lieut. Feater, 19th In- fantry, had committed similar atroc- ities against the people of that isl. 'and. It is also reported that at La- oga, in the Island of Luzon, two na- tives were whipped to death. At Tac- loban, Leyte, it was reported that Major Glenn ordered Lieut. Caulfield, Scouts, to take eight prisoners out into the country, and that if they did net guide him to the camp of the insurgent Quison, he was not to bring them back. It was stated that the men were taken out, and that they either did not or could aot do as directed. One of them, who had a son among the scouts, was spared, but the others were sep- arated into two parties, numbering three or four respectively, and while tied together were all murdered by being shot or bayoneted to death, some being in a kneeling position at that time. The pretense was that they were killed while attempt- ing to escape, but so far as I know no official report was ever made out of the circumstances. These facts have been reported by Major Watts, who investigated the case. Besides Iieut. Caulfield, civilian Seouts Ra- mos, Preston, Corn and McKeen were participants. ; "At Calbayog, Samar, it was re- ported that several men in that dis- trict had been subjected to water torture. I saw three men who were subjected to this treatment. One was the president of the town, Mr. Ro- rales, who showed me long deep scars or his arm, which he said were caus- ed by the cords with which he was bound cutting into the flesh. The second man was named Joseph E. Borja, and the third was Padre Jose Diaznes, who stated he was one of three priests who had been subjected to torture by the troops under com- mand of Lieut. Gaujot, Tenth Cav- alry; that his front teeth had been knocked out, which was apparent: that he was otherwise maltreated SAYS : made' and robbed of three hundred dollars. Jt was stated that these priests were taken out to be killed and were only saved by the prompt action of Major Carrington, of the First Infantry, who was sent out for them. Lieut. Gaujot was tried, pleaded guilty. and was given the trivial sentence of three months suspension from com- mand, forfeiting $50 per month for the same period. His pleading guilty prevented all the "facts nud circuni- stances being developed. "It appears that Major Glenn, Lt. Conger and a party of assistants and native scouts were moved from place to place for the purpose of ex- torting statements by means of tor- ture and it became so notorious that his party was called "'Glenn's DBri- gade."" Whether it was possible for officers to be engaged in such acts without the personal knowledge of the general upon whose staff they were serving, namely, Brigadier Gen- eral Hughes, I leave for others to conjecture. These facts came tomy notice in a casual way and many others of similar character have been reported in different parts of the ar- chipelago. I found that with cer- tain officets the impression prevails that such facts were justifiable, and I feel it my duty in order to correct such erroneous and dangerous im- pressions and to prevent the possi- bility of such acts being committed inthe future, which must impair the good .name of American arms and bring discredit to our service for all time to address the division com- mander the following letter of in- structions.'"" "Then follows an order addressed to the commanding gen- eral of the Philippines, under date of February 28, 1903, in which Gen- eral Miles calls attention to the re- ports of atrocities and directs that any orders or circulars of personal instruction which would inspire or encourage any act of cruelty be an- nulled. The order says that '"the excuse that the unusual conditions justify the measures herein condemn- ed are without foundation." Not Iriendly to Canada. The Commonwealth government of Australia has given power to the Bastern extension to extend their lines throughout the Commonwealth. This will mean a big loss of traflic to the Pacific cable and the Domin- jon has sent a remonstrance pointing. out that it is an infringement pf the original agreement between Great Britain and the colonies. Canada some time ago sent a re- commendation to the Pacific Cable board asking that press messages be sent free as an experiment, because the cable was not used bv the press. Premier Barton, referring to this, A'Our postal and Telegraphic Rates Act probably precludes us from joining in our request for free press messages, besides such a step would be immediately met by similar ac- tion by the Fastern Extension." This looks as if Canada's proposi- tion was not to be accepted. New Zealand, it is understood, was agree- able to it. Found Dead in the iields. lad from an orphans' home, was found dead last Thursday in a pasture field near Steinbach village. He had been employed with a German far- mer a short distance from the vil- lage; and several days previous he had gone for the cows and never re- turned. Inquiries had been made all over the district, but to no purpose, until the body was accidentally dis- covered last Thursday. When found he was lying face downward on a cowpath through the srub. An in- quest showed that the cause of death was an abcess breaking beneath the heart. .The deceased had resided with his employer for two years and was of industrious habits and bore a good character. James Goodman, an English A Long Nap. A dispatch from Salt Lake City says : day from her fifty-seven days' sleep. A part of her treatments had been a cold bath every morning. Yesterday when about to be immersed, she broke away from her nurse and ran unassisted to her cot. A short time afterward, when her medicine was about to be administered, she spoke for. the first time since the beginning of her sleep: Then she opened her eyes. The doctors attribute her trouble to an abcess on the brain. When she went to sleep she weighed 127 pounds. Now she weighs only 76. : - 5 Fxplosion Kills Four Men. A dispateh from Halifax says that four men were killed and another fa- tally burned in an explosion of cas in the reserve mine of the Dominion Coal company on April 25. The ex- plosion aoccurred at No. 5 landing. The fire deputy on making his tour of inspection discovered gas, but it seemed the men overlooked the re- port and went in with naked lamps. Shortly afterwards the explosion oc- curred. Michael S. McNeill, of Cape Breton. Joseph King, William Xing and Henry Jackson, all of Newfoundland, are dead. William White was found: 300 feet from the explosion, so bad- ly burned that he will probably die. all go mad in a second, Bessie Knecht, awoke yester= A RAID ON GANBLERS PROVINCIAL POLICE MAKE A BIG HAUL. Three Hundred Persons Surrounded in. Hotel Du Canada, "Winnipeg, on & Sundey Morning and many are Arrast- ed -A Great Scramble to Escape. Seven provincial constables, under: Chief Elliott and A. McMicken, po-- lice magistrate for the city of Win-. nipeg and the province, swooped down on the Hotel du Canada short- ly after 2 o'clock on Sunday morn- ing. The posse of police entered by the front door and discovered nearly 300 gamesters throwing dice in the fascinating game known in sporting vernacular as "crap shooting."' Three: hundred scared men can make con- siderable noise and confusion if they and those who were there say that this is ex- actly what happened. As soon as 1he alleged gamblers understood the situation there was a wild scramble for back entrances and windows. Several jumped through 'the latter, kicking frames and glass before them and out of the large number, esti- mated at 300 only between seventy and eighty were caught. The seven policemen were hardly sufficient for thc purpose and when they had some seventy frightencd captives huddled together in a cot- ner, all trying to plead innocence of gambling at the same time they real- ized the nctessity of a patrol wagon. Silence was at last demanded and Mr. McMicken started business on one of the pool tables where he had the alleged offenders led to him one by one. After securing their names he accepted bail for them, and they - were released. One man who got away was a ner- vous individual, and he jumped through one of the windows on the west side of the hotel. On getting outside he was so wrought up over the shock that he did a marvellous acrobatic stunt and jumped nearly seven feet to the foot of the fire cs- cape on the Merchants bank: Me scrambled up this until he wed 1) the top story and there, as he could get no higher without flying, and as he was afraid to go down he crawl- ed into the bank and came down by. the stairs. The implicated ones in- clude men of nearly all walks of life, old and young, rich and poor. % MAD MULLAH DEFER! British Force Kills Two Thousand Followers. Advices from Aden, Arabia, say : Brig.-Gen. Manning, after an engage- ment with the Mad Mullah's forces, has relieved Col. Cobbe, near Gum- burru, Somaliland, 45 miles west- ward from Galadi. or About 2,000 of the Mad Mullah's men were killed. The British loss is not known. The Somalis losses are reported to have been enormous: The Mullah's forces are reported to aggregate from 3.000 to 4,000 mounted men and about 8,000 spearmen. On April 25 Major Gough, in com- mand of a mobile column, engaged the enemy near Danop. He lost fif- teen killed, including two officers and four officers wounded. The eB-- emy had two hundred killed. Preserve Declaration of Independence. A dispatch from Washington, D.C., says : The declaration of independ-. ence is to be scen no ImMOre by the public. An order has been issued that henceforth the historic manu- script shall be kept under lock and key in a great fire and light proof safe. he declaration will never be exhibited again at any of the great international fairs. 'This decision is the result of an examination of the document by a | committee of ithe American Academy of Science now in session bv this. city, who acted at the instance of Qeeretary Hay, whose attention nah heen called to the sad state of the." famous document of Andrew Allan, librarian for the state department. Most of the text of the declaration is still legible, but only one or two , of the signatures can be made out. There is only a trace of the auto- graph of John Hancock, the first to. sign. : : The committee recommended that the declaration be shut in an air and light tight case and kept from hibition. masini Expelling the Mormons. The governments of Prussia and of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg have decided to expel the Mormon missionaries, of whom there ar 145 on in Germany and 90 in Prussia, the ground that they are propagat- ing a form of religious belief com- patible with the laws of the state . and public morals, and because poly- gary is not excluded from their doc trines. The missionaries, who jent time to settle up their personal affairs. h : A ex- . are . al) Americans, will be allowed suflic-