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~! tured. Philip Fartey, and body badtly head hurt Philip Farley, Drayton, face, hands and body badly burned. In addition to the above, some thirty persons were more or less inâ€" jured, incinding Judge Jameson, of Gueliph, who suiferea from a broken arm. wvueiph Report: This morning at 1130 a serious runâ€"of( took place en the Wellington, Grey & Bruce branch of the w. T. K. at Keating‘ts Iarm, some six miles north of _ this city. The morning train going north, io charge of ingineer Hazeiwood and Conmductor â€" Jas. Lillis, left â€" Guelph shortiy after 11 o‘clock, and was running at a fair rate of speed when the arccidenut took place. The train consisted of a baggage car, accommo®iation, mail and smokâ€" i0g car and a firstâ€"class coach. The epngine remained on the track, the temder was partially derailed, and the baggage car and two passengâ€" er cars tursed over and slid down a 15â€"{0ot embankment. into a Creck Bed. The car that first left the rails seems to have been the passenger coach, amt it apparently pulled the combination smoker and mail coach oif after it. Fortunately the cars in leaving tne track held togethber, with the exception of the passenger ecoach, whiehn was projected into the bed of a creek awollen by the spring thaw. The coach, at a distance of 50 feet from tne track, turned partly over on its sile, and in a few secâ€" nds had about two feet of water 30 it. The saddest incident was the drowning 0f a twoâ€"yearâ€"old baby in this coach. The child, who was the son oi J. J. Houston, was drowned Rbefore the rewcuers couki reach the spot where he was. i Piled in a Heap. The passengers were all piled in @ heap on the floor. The uninjured proke the windows in the under side wl the coach and at once proceeded to help those unable to rescue themâ€" meives. The farmers in the vicinity qGickly reachoed the scene of the acâ€" ddent, am! assisted in the removal of the most seriously hurt from the wreck. Dripping wet, muddy and with torn eclothes, tho injured were speedâ€" Uy recovered, and it was learned that only the one death had taken Mrs. Houston, wife of above, _ohoulder Iractured, shock and exâ€" posure, . A tassenger‘s Story. One of the most graphic accounts of the accident is that given by the Rov. 1. O. Stringer, residing at No. 240 Cariton etreet, Toronto. He said: THE DEAD, Charles Houston, Petherton, aged 2 years. , Lillian Irvin, Niagara Falls, New York, infant child of Wm. Irvin. DANGEROUSLY INJUKED. GERIOUS RAILWAY WREGK. HAMILTON PECPLE ON BOARC U was in the rear car with my «riends at the time tne accident hapâ€" goned. After the car jumped the track There was terror and dismay on the stricken ship, but there was no panic. Men and women comported themselves _ with â€" wonderfual _ seltâ€" control. The collision occurred after the vessel! had clawed her way up the Sound throuch a fog, untis she reachâ€" ed a point close east of (Gull Islanc. The westbound steamer drove up out of the fog, and when she was sighted by, the oificers of the Plymouth was too close to avoid the collision. There was a quick exchange of _ whistles, though whother they were correctly given or not there is no statement yet available, and then the _ crash. The bow of the westbound steamer pepetrated ten feet into the hull of the Plymonth, and then as she backed away she raked the upper works of the passenger vessel with terrible destructiveness, tearing out the seeâ€" on# cabin and ripping the statercoms to pleces as ifl they had been built of cardboard. Water poured into the hold and + > w Drowned Men in Their Bunks. WPhe Piymouth was irmmediately beaded for this city. It was thought at one time that the ship‘s company would have to take to the boats, but the closing of the collision bulkheads prevented the water from â€" gaining, amd tho vessel made the harbor and wharft unassisted. Two Little Children Lost Their Lives at Guelph,. There was no way of telling imâ€" mediately â€" how many persons were killed, Six are dead certainly, and New Lonmdon, Con, March 23,â€"In the fog which descended upon the waters ol lthe Sound last night the big Fall River passenger «steamer Pymouth, with 460 passengers and a crew 0 200 men, was run down while passing through the race by the freight «teamer City of Taunton, of the same line. A full bhundred feet of the stazrboard side of the vessel was smashol in as if it had been paper, the impact threatening death to the occupants of the staterooms of the second cabin, which was cut away arâ€"l obliterated as i it had pever been. + b VESSELS CRASH IN FOG SIX MEN KILLED. Disastrous Collision of Steamers Off New London, Conn. Cheeney. mail clerk, «kall {r Houston, Petherton, face and Fortu:.ately No Panic. acâ€" it dragged along for a short distance. It reminded me o shaking marbles up and down in a box. ‘Phis laste| about three scconmis, anmil then _ we felt the car goiong, and it seemed like a dream until we woke up and found ourselves in the water. Then we beard a mothor ealting out that her child was in the water and could not get out. The lttle one had got underneath one of the seats and was drowning. People were dazed for a minute, but the child was got out almost immediately, and Dr. Sarage started the attempts to _ resusciâ€" tate the child, and shortly afterâ€" wards handed it over to ma. I spent about half an hour in the water tryâ€" Ing to bring it to. There was about a foot and, a hbalf of water where it was. In one end of the car there were about two feet and in the other hall a foot! 1 vas on the upper side and wonder that 1 c«caped as well as I did, The only inconvemence 1 feel is that caused by the cold waâ€" ter in which 1 was stanmiing for so long. "‘Those in the fore part of the car were hart the more on account of the breaking in of the car. I think it was about 1.30 or 2 o‘ciock before the relie{f train came. Of course they bad to go in with the jigger." Mr. Stringer is a missionary of the Anglican Church at Herschel, a staâ€" tion in the Arctic circle about 2,000 miles north of Edmonton. He is here on a visic, and with his lay assstant, Mr. W. D. Young, and Mr. Hallam, a teacher at Ridley College, St. Catharâ€" ines, was proceeding to Pinkerton, near Kincardine, to attend his broâ€" ther‘s wedding. Mr. Young is badly cut over the forehead and bruised all over his hody. He was rendered unconscious for a time, and on recovering reâ€" marked, "Well, had we been with a dog train this would not havys hapâ€" pened." Mr. Hallam was uninjured, and all three returned to Toronto with the afternoor train. The Second Death. An auxiliary train was sent out as speedily as possible, with doctors on board, and the more seriously injured Junage Jameson, of t}l;éi-[;l..‘l;a;l an arm broken, but is not dangerously is jured. CEXC â€" PERT Om The Official Statement. ronte to Tho officlal statement sent out by | one centr the Gramd Trusk contains a comâ€" trades tc pleta list of the casualties. Many of nate toâ€" thow eet down as elightly injured ite coun left for tLeir home: after theire counctii. teac ines, near ther were taken to the hospital at Fergus. mhortly after she had been removed to the home of Mr. John Black, Litâ€" an Irvin, inlfant daughter of Wim. Irâ€" vin, of Niagara Falls, N.Y. succumbed to her imjuries. _ At a late hour toâ€" night a meossage from Fergus stated that mail clerk Cheeney was in a critical condition, his skull having been fractured, and that Mrs. Housâ€" ton was in a very dangerous state. The others were reported upon _ as follows : Austin Houston, son, fractured hip. Philip Farley, Drayton, very badly burned on face and hands and part of body. James Robinson, Belwood, suffering from severe fles} wound in side, was taken to Lis sister‘s home here. ly shaken. Marshal Emory. Parkhead. ecalp wound. Henry Carseadden, YVirdon, Man., Lasd badly cut. Georgeo Harrctt, Goldstonc, ecalp sveicrc w & wound, Rev. W. E xaln wound The accident occurred just _ east of Plam Istand, The City of Tauntoa drew off instantly and sounded disâ€" tress «ignals. The officers _ said that they were unable to see her in the fog and could not ascertain the extent of her injuries. (The City of Taunton made this port at 5.45 llvc, morning, _ with her bows stove in and her pumps working. Her hulkhead saved her. Besides Patrick Daly, who had anr arm torn off, another passenâ€" ger was badly injured. His name has not been Jearned. He was found afâ€" ter the collision on a heap of debâ€" ris on the main deck, in the space where the second cabin . was loâ€" catled. | John McCarthy‘s dead pody could be seen in the detris in the dim rays of the ship‘s lamps. Every survivor was up and dressed when the . steamer reached here. The Dead and Injured. The dead so far as known are: Johsa MceCarthy, watchman, head cut off ; Snow Cleman, colored, panâ€" try man, drowned ; Julins Dawson, colored, mess> man, drowned ; Joha Bristoi, colored, waiter, drowned; Johrn Wiltiam, colored, baker, drowned ; Jonathan _ W. Thompson, Wilkesbarre, Pa., skull shattered. Patrick Daly was the first injurâ€" ed4 man to be removed to the hosâ€" pital. His injuries was th>e loss of his right arm. Chances of recovery glight. Michael Kilduff, _ a passenâ€" ger, of Boston, had lus right foot crushed badiv. As the Piymouth was being made fast to the Fishers‘ Island Navigaâ€" tion Company‘s wharf, there was seen to be a hole ten feet square in her hull on the starboard side, about 35 feet from her bow, while for a hundred feet her joiner work had beena carried â€" away, including the entire. second cabit and seven staterooms, on the saloon deck. in the masgs of _ debris from the wrecked . cabin and staterooms there may be several more bodies, while in the steerage, where the water poured in like a Niagara, there â€" may be, and probably are, bodies of others _ drowned besides those reported. E. l_h llam, Wyecliife College, ‘A movement is on foot now among the various trades councils of Toâ€" ronte to unite all the trades into one central council, eack group â€" of trade«s to. be immediately #ubordiâ€" nate to their own council, and all ile councils to constitute the unitâ€" Toronto _ report reporter yesterd; wreck near Guel Jones said : " The damage to equipment will not be greatâ€"not more than $1,000 altoâ€" gether. The baggage car was not damaged to any extent. The comâ€" bination mail and smoker is on the track now, and did not suifer to the rxtent of more than $200, while the Admage to the coach has not yet been estimated. P "The Grand Trunk is seeing that tho injured people are receiving proâ€" per Aattention in the hospitals at Guelph and Fergus." 4 A unanimous call has been esteaded to Rev. J. H. Turnbull, of Bowmnanâ€" ville, by the congregation of Bank Street Church, Ottawa, of which the Rev. Dr. Moore, exâ€"Moderator of the General Assembly, lLas been pasâ€" pastor for many y<ars. Mr. Taurnâ€" bull is a grâ€"aduate of Queen‘s Uniâ€" versity. "It was purely accidental, and no blame can be attached"to anyone as far as we can learn. We know beyond a doubt that there was no defect in the track, and so far as we know there was no defect in the cars. It was one of those accidents that is liable to occur at any time, no matâ€" ter how much care is exercised. It was another case like that at Whitâ€" by. General Roadmaster Ferguson was on the train as far as Marden Pit. about three miles this side of where the accident took place. He got off there,. and as you will see he was able to be on the scene imâ€" mpdi:ltf]l,v afier the occurrence. He has chirge of the maintenance of way, and with Trainmaster Irwin, of Palmerston, who was also present, an invesiigation was promptly made on the spot. The scene was found as already described, but nothing could be learned as to how the accident happened at that particular time and place. ( A Tuae physicians who rendered good service to the injured were Drs. Macâ€" Kinnon, Robinson, O‘Reilly, Stewart, Lindsay and Lowry, of Guelph, Stewâ€" art, of Palmerston, and Robinson and Kerr. of Eiora. Mr. Lionel H. Clarke, of the firm of L. H. Clarke & Co.. malt deaters,. 31 Youge street, was not injared. He was on his way to Palmerston, and alter roeturning to Guelph proceedâ€" ed on his journey later in the day. A«number of the least injured perâ€" sons came into town yesterday and went to their homes. j The twoâ€"yearâ€"old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin. of Niagara Falls, N. Y., had her right thigh broken. She was picked up by Miss Nellie Fisher, of Burlington, and Dr. Savage, who was on the wrecked train, set the broken thigh. A. J. Todd,. implement dealer, of Toronto, is lying at the Royal with serious injuries in the head and back. Mrs Todd arrived from Toronto toâ€" nigh t. The mail clerk, Andrew Cheney, of Southampton, had his chest crushed in. He was taken to Forguas, and there is a possibility that he may rot recover. ® The train bearing the injured arâ€" rived here about 3 o‘clock. The more seriously injured. wore _ placed _ on stretchers and conveyed to the Genâ€" eral Hospital, while others were acâ€" companied by friends in cabs to priâ€" vate houses. Judgo Jameson _ was among those who were able to walk. Mrs. J. H. Landreth. of Roriia, who was taken to the HRoyal Hotel sufâ€" fering from an injured shoulder, beâ€" sides being hurt internally. was reâ€" moved to the General Hospital toâ€" night» % No. 63 Isabella street, Toronto ; Wm. (Gibson, Guelph; A. W. Howell, Iaâ€" gersoli y H. iRoss, Hamilton ; Miss Fisher, Darlington ; R. A. Todd, No. 269 Jarvis street, Toronto ; M. °H. Pierce, No. 32 Fuller street, Toronto: A. W. Jacobs, No. 52 MeGill avenne, Montreal ; E. (6. Cole, No. 598 Doverâ€" court road, Toronto ; C. D. Waldon, No. 84 Augusta strtet, Hamilton. Mail Cleork A. Cheeney, Southamp ton, seriously injured. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Houston, Thesâ€" salon, seriously injured ; one of their children killed and the other not exâ€" pected to live. Judge Jameson, Gueiph, arm broken, Miss (Gibson, Guelph, arm broken. Wm. Bremner, wholesale merchant, Hamilton, seriously injured. At about 11.25 a. m. No. 17, engine 303, Engincer Hazelwood, Conductor Lillis, was derailed at a point seven imiles nortt of Guelph Junction, â€" on the 22nd district. All the cars in the train, consisting of baggage cars, combiaation mail and smoker, firstâ€" class coacl, turnoed over down a 15â€" foot cmbankment. Tke accident ocâ€" curred on a straight track â€" which is in perfect gauge and surface, and not shimmed, so that the cause of the accident is unknown. Two offiâ€" clals oi the Grand Trunk were immeâ€" diately on the scene, and an _ enâ€" gine and two coackes were sent out from Guelpt with doctors, and also fronm Fergus, to the scene of the acâ€" cident, as soon as the report wAas received. The following is a complete list of the casualties : Conductor James Lillis, Brantford, in juged. wouids were dressed. The statement follows : ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO port: Speaking to a erday respecting the Guelph, Superintendent foot now among councils of Toâ€" the trades into eack group â€" of Work of fighting the fire in Doâ€" minion No. 1 pit, Glace Bay, is still going on, and the workers are gradâ€" ually, to all appearances, getting the better of it. "Wike Rev. Charles J. Triggerson, M. A., ot Forest, Ont., has peceived and acâ€" eepted a unanimous _ call to the pastorate oi the Immanuel Baplist Church, o‘ Minuespolis, Minn. Mackenzic & Mann lhave linally acâ€" quired a controlling interest in the stock of the CGreat Northern Railâ€" way, of Quebec, and have elected their own men to the Board of Diâ€" rectors. The five American women nurses who served on the hospital ship Maine in South African and Chinese waters will get British medals. Mrs, â€" Agnes MceClemont died at Kingston, aged 100 years, "Tie Mettawas" the> bgz summer bote!l at hingwsvilie, built by the late Hiram Walker, is to be torn down. Interesting demons«trations of color photography, â€" wireless _ telegraphy and a «inging are lamp were given at University College conversazione. The residence of the late Senator Alian. known as Moss Park, Toronto, and the grounds attached, have been sold by the trustees to the Nasmith Company, Limited. Rev. Dr. Wild, formerly of Bond Street Congregational â€" Church, Toâ€" ronto, and who is just now tempoâ€" rarily occupying the pulpit of Bethel Church, Clinton street, near College strecet, has been olfered the pastorâ€" aite of a church in Califorma, and also of another church in a western State He may probubly accept one o these cals. Actor Chas. Cogwell is dead at San Francleco. The U. 8. commercial treaty stipuâ€" lates that Pekin, Mukden and Takuâ€" san, near the Yalu River, be opened in the manner that treaty ports are It is reported that «dlissensions exist in the British Cabimet in reâ€" gard to the land purchase bill. It is officially announced in Lonâ€" don that the Alian Line has secured the Atlantic mail contract for anâ€" other year. Montreal, Que., March 28. â€" The archives of the Chateau de Ramezay have been ransacked to provide maâ€" terial to prove the Canadian conâ€" tention in the Alaskan â€" boundary ilispute. _ Mr. _ Joseph Pope, Under Secretary of _ State, had a careful search made through the large colâ€" lection of documents amassed by the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society, with the result that Mr. Thomas O‘Leary, of the Chateau, discovered a couple of old atlasses puslished in In the (German Reichstag the Chancellor said that the triple aiâ€" liance would be renewed. It is exist in gard to It is ¢ A syndicate of London, Berlin and New York bankers have offered to assume Venezuela‘® debt to the powers on certain eonditions, The United States Senate ratified the treaty with Cuba. The War Minister of Austria fobridden all officers _ to join Antiâ€"Duelling League. Archives of Chateau de Ramezay, Quebec Yields Valuable Records. Muskegon. Mich., March 23.â€" The Parry Line steamer Alice Stafford, with 20 passengers aboard, bound for Chicago, is fast in a huge floe of slush ice about four miles out and one mile north of this port. The strong southwest wind is rapidly driving the floo toward shore. Who Stole the Gold? Detro‘t, March 23.â€"A bar of gold t1id to be valued at $20,000 to $23,â€" 000, disappeared from the express car PREPARING FOR ALASKA CASE. A $23,000 Bar of Gold Stolen From a Car at Detroit. STEAMER BOUND IN ICE FLOFS. Paris, March 23.â€"The vote in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday evenâ€" ing gives definite form to the present policy of the Government to terminâ€" ate The existence of the religious teaching orders, and to substitute a system of Governmental schools. The principle of this change was formuâ€" lated under the Premiers@gip of M. Waldeckâ€"Rousseau, but its actual enâ€" forcement was left to the present (Combes) Ministry. The law. voted _\'_nstgrday is very brief and â€" negaâ€" tive in its terms, simply refusing auâ€" thorization to teach to all the male teaching orders. The effect of this is to place the orders outside the pale of the law, FRENCH PREMIERS POLICY _ â€"â€"â€"_ SUSTAINED BY CHAMBER. The Religious Orders Will Not be Allowed to Conduct Schools. iflNNcNMf: BRITISH AND FOREIGN. NEWS IN BRIEF { CANADIAN h: the On account of the nearness of the fire it was impossible to use the pump at No. 3 level, and it became necessary to use the pump on No. 4 level. This pump is a very powerfal When the fire was discovered the Glace Bay fire department was called on for assistance. They arrived on the scene shortly before 7 o‘clock, by «pecial train, bringing 2,500 feet of hose with them. Over 4,000 feet of hose was required to get at the fire, and there was only 2,000 feet at Dominion No. 1 colliery, so that the fire was able to gain considerable headway on account of want of sufâ€" ficlent hose. # Halifax, N. S., March â€" 28.â€"Atout four o‘clock this morning fire was discovered in Dominion No. 1 colliery at Glace Bay, and up to midnight toâ€"night it was still burning, though it was stated that officials had every hope of extinguishing the fire within 24 hours. The fire was caused by an explosion following a shot. The fire broke out virtually between shifts. Reventyâ€"eight horses were suffocated and four men are reported missing, but it is thougit that they have esâ€" caped from the mine, although they cannot be located. The mine is on fire in what is known as the north deep, about one thousand feet from the bottom of the shaft, and the air is charged with poisonous gas, so that it is impossible for the men to venture Into the mine. It is reported that the fan shailt broke at 11 o‘ciock last night, and that the men were warmned of the danger of accumulatâ€" ing gae, and they left the mine. The New York police have arrested Giuseppe Micheci, an ltalian, accused of having killed Anthony McHugh and James Kearney in a street fight at Pittston, Pa., on March 15th last. Some doubt is thrown upon the report of the finding of the tomb of Attila. The peasant who claimed to have discovered the bronza colâ€" fin and the stone bearing Attila‘s pame, now says ho found them two years ago. Jose Estrada Palma, a son of Thoma« Estrada Palma, President of the Cuban Republic, and Miss Mabel Jacobs, a student at the Normal College, and daughter of David B. Jacobs, wealthy _ tobacco importer, were privately marrled in New York on February 1l1th. John T. Prior, engineer, received bad injuries about the head by fallâ€" ing backwards into an ash pit while coaling up his engine at London. His left leg was also badly sprained. Conâ€" ductor Jackson was thrown from his train at Woodstock and badly shaken up. Both are from Windsor. Serious Conflagration in Colâ€" liery at Glace Bay, N. S. FOUR WORKMEN ARE MiISsING GOMA MINE 1 ON FIRE Mr. Pope obtained permission from the museum people to iske these documents to â€" Ottawa, where. the maps will be photographed. _ They may be of service to the Canadian commissioners in the coming conferâ€" prce with the United States. Later on Mr. O‘Leary found another atlas, printed&in 1860, seven years before the territory passed into the hands of the United States. This will be forwarded to Mr. Pope in London, the years 1823 and 1824, which ‘give the boundaries of Alaska when that torritory was in possession of Russia. pf Wabash train number four which arived at thoe Union station from the west at 8 o‘clock last evening, and left for Buffalo at midnight. been assigned to the case The property was in charge of the Pacific Express Co., and was conâ€" signed to Buffalo. Just as soon as the messenger missed the gold, he rotified the local express agent o% the company, who, in turn, asked the police to assgist in the search for the missing treasure. be determined the time the orders will be allowed to wind up their a{â€" fairs and terminate their work. Many of the orderg, anticipating the Chamâ€" ber vote of yesterday, already have completed their plans to retire from the field. Tt is expected that a, few months will almost suffice to execute the changes. * Numorous incidental questions are involved in the transfer of the pupils and the effect on the extensive properties, and notices of several interpellations have been given with the view of securing delay permitting an adjustment of the new conditions, but the statements _ of M. Combes and other Ministerialists indicate the prompt carrying out of the Premier‘s policy. and â€" their further existence is through sufferance. There y-_emalns to Every â€" available detective â€" has Coroner John«ton opened an inâ€" quest this morning on the body of the Huston infant. After the jury had been sworn in they viewed the ?ody and adjourned until Friday at wreck who are in the hospital there are doing fairly welbl. Mrs. Hustop is suffering severely from her inâ€" juries, but it is expected that she will recover. Mail Clerk Chewne is doing well, and will also recover. Corongr Johnston opened an inâ€" 1 pm. Three Steamers to Bring 1,400 During Present Week. Halifax, March 28.â€"Three stecamâ€" ers due here this week will bring over 1,400 passengers. The Hamburgâ€" American liner â€" Arcadia, due from Hamburg via Boulogne, has 688 pasâ€" sengers, and the Allan liner Siberian, due on Thursday from Laverpool, has 200 intermediate and steerage pas sengers, besides 134 naval men for Vanconver. â€" The Corinthian, now en rouie with the mails, has 43 firset, But About 25 Horses Were Killed by an Explosion. Halifax, NS, March 23.â€"News hase been received here of an explosion followed by fire at Dominion No. 1, Glace Bay, at 3.45 this morning. The explosion occurred between shifts, and all the men were got out, but about 25 horses were lost. The cause of the explosion is not yet known. Ap engine was sent from Sydney, and it bs believed the fire is now under conâ€" trol Victims of Wrco‘ks in Fergus Hospital Progressing Favorably. Fergus (Ont) mport: Late news from Fergus this afternoon «tates that the nine \‘igtiu!s of the railway 135 second and 320 firstâ€"class sengers. MA! The people bitterly condemn the taxes that are levied on them for such purposes as this. Notwithstandâ€" ing the announcement by the throne that the building of a railway to connect the tombs with the Lu Han line was for the purpose of reducâ€" ing the cost of these pillgrimages, the expenditures â€" have been muitiplied. The best officials complain bitterly of the extensive corruption, sayin it is impossible to escape blnckmafi in one form or another. It is belierâ€" wl the Chinese Government bas nevâ€" er reached a lower state in this re, spect. * t _â€"__â€" Will Conier With the Men. New York, March 23.â€"The direeâ€" tor« of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company met here toâ€"day to take up the employee@ grievances, presented to President Mall. Among those present was J. P. Morgan. A Pageant to Western Tombsâ€"The Meavy Taxes. Pekin, March 23.â€"The court is preparing for the largest pageant in fifteen years, when it starts for the visit to the western tombs on April 5th. There will be 9,000 perâ€" zons in the party, exclusive of the troops who will guard the 80 miles of railway. so. Chapman said he was born in Michigan and was brought up in New York when quite young, by a German family. Me claimed to have worked in barber shops in New York. It is known that he arrived in England in or about 1895. a few: years, were exhumed, and were also found to contain â€" poison. A fourth woman, a Pole, claimed Chap man as her husband, and said his name was Klosowski. Chapman at [irst claimed that he was an Amerâ€" ican citizen, but when Consulâ€"Generâ€" al Evans® called upon him to produse some proofs of this he failed to do Chapman, who was charged with having poisoned a young woman who lived with him as his wile, was arâ€" rested about three months ago. An autopey showed that she had been poisoned. _ The bodies of his Tirst and second wives, who had died within London, March 23.â€"George Chapâ€" man, a Southwark _ saloonâ€"keeper, who was charged with the murder of three whmen, was toâ€"day convicted and sentenced to _ death. In the course of his summing up. Justise Grantham commented on the fact that if cremation had been the law of the land. it would have been imâ€" possible to bring the charges home to Chapman, as nothing would have remained of his victime« to show that they had boen poisoned. He hoped that the people who favored cremaâ€" tion would take this as a warning. MURDERED HIS THREE WIVES DBJECGTS T0 GREMATION Manager Mackenzie eaye toâ€"night that there is no fear of the fire getâ€" ting beyond control, and he expressed confidence that it would be controlâ€" led by toâ€"morrow., Manager Mackenâ€" tie eays that should it become necesâ€" eary to flood the mine, only that porâ€" tion where the »fire is located will be flooded, so that the resultant damage will not be very heary. English Judge,Condemns the Practice, The area covered by the fire is about 800 feet. In the other part of the mine the men went to work as usual, as the fire will not in any way interfere with them. The firemen are still bravely fighting the fire. one, and a line of hose was attached to: it cand a@pood stream of «water was throwpn. . & Bydney also ment assistance, and the men have been fighting the fire ever since. At one‘time during the afternoon it was thought the fire was under control, but it broke out again in the evening and is still burnâ€" ing. The mine is the second of imâ€" portance operated by the Dominion Coal Co., and employs 1,400 men, the daily output being between 2,500 and 3,000 tons. It is expected that the mine will be working within a week, NY IMMIGRANTS EXPECTED ROTTEN TO THE CORE. LIKELY TO RECOVER, MEN WERE SAVED, $ Th ¢ '&;JJUJUJA h IY w\ down t Fal t as the nghi teen more . ! warmth, and Lolis hor (ac Hor hair wa as they Wat morquis with i f1 1t was . 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