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Steel ‘â€"Wallse Homes aper in beautyâ€" ple *" on Winnipeg ople that like Dook is free. 10# gves protection WATCH ‘ool, & regular y a hundred rickety little wer rumbout, bout is altoâ€" rget in Cows, estic tour: a why *Ait5 with hampers & bad stumâ€" arked _ the eshould have ds, ete. O P L E 4 E r Doze in the at Nicht. 34 YOUR 10 WORLD the d the thei by the k of it. d sat John. gsaid Sun a of any 19¢)7 apot vitor _ watchâ€" 1y differâ€" up in the cs make n4 ArS es mend don‘t i the is Deon und to uld tly r, will awi nig:’ im the nough iother in the n have better moveâ€" oat if it ill y but e to ugh night, _ laid â€", the »oling Ur®e old , 1P in y )01« with in 1. is said that they had planned their lhhoneymoon, which was to have been spent in New York. After that they woere to be atâ€"home at Mr. Crowley‘s lirm. Crowley arrived in Buffalo last Saturday .prepared to go through with th» ceremony. He visited his fiancee agair on Sunday, but Monday she was not awaiting to greet him when he called. "I think she may have gone to visit h*r sister who lives somewhere in Michiâ€" gan," said Mrs. McCarthy. "We all exâ€" Mrs John J. McCarthy, who conducts the hotel where Miss Ryan lived, is unâ€" able to explain the cause of the abanâ€" donment of the marriage plans. oC Buifalo, Dec. 2.â€"Shattering a roâ€" mare* extending over a period of eightâ€" eâ€"a months Miss Emma Ryan, who was to have been married to a wealthy Pennâ€" svivania farmer on Thanksgiving eve, sudd PLIGHTED TROTH BROKEN ALMOST AT THE ALTAR. Yh.- coronets. The Duke eut the coronets from the handkershicfs and threw them in the fire. One of the picces of linen, however, did not igrive, and this Mrs. Hamilton kent for years until she was finu"}' told b" her soliâ€" citor that "there will be no mose Druce she could get the corpse from the hosâ€" pital, but ber father replied that that would never do, as bricks must be put into the coffin, _ The Duke‘s comment on this remark was that anytbing wou‘d do to put in the coffin,. . The witness said also that in 1866 ine Puke had shown her a bundle of handkercbiefs with coronets worked in the cotners, which he said his wife had embrofdered in spite of the fact that he had made her Wromise that she never would use SAW DRUCE YEARS AFTER. aAGED WOMAN GIVES EVIDENCE IN GREAT PERJURY CASE. Duke Had False Beardâ€"Told Witness It Was Necessa.y in His Double Lifeâ€"â€" Mirs. Margaret Hamilton Testifies That Druce Told Her He Intended t a $ D iddenly left her home at 190 Niagara reet last Monday without confiding *¢ destination to any of her friends. With her secret locked in her heart, i=~ Ryua, who is a pretty young woâ€" an, fled from the brink of the altar ter all arrangements had been made r the ceremony. lt is said that the iends who were to make up the wedâ€" ux party had already been notified. 1e departing brideâ€"ioâ€"be carried her ousseau away in her trumk. James Crowtey, of Union, Pa., had ready awrrived :or the marriage, hapâ€" in the thought that he was to secure cbarming wife. He returned to his i crestfallen and vowing his faith in mankind shaken for all time to come. ihe couple were to have been marâ€" d in St. Joseph‘s Cathedral Wednesday raing at $.30 o‘clock. The bans had n published twice and all the friends ‘re positive that the marriage would â€"performed. hiiss Ryan had lived at 190 Niagara «* for seven years. It was there that : met Crowley a year and a half ago ile he was visiting relatives. Their |uaintance soon ripened into courtship 1 finally their engagement was anâ€" \rs. Hamilton was under cross stion in regard to the discrenane cen the evidence sh> gave toâ€"d: at given before aaothor court GIRL BACKED OUT. m it â€" tuâ€"uay, was given by Mrs. \|abel â€" 4M L00, an . ou _ lady seventy. sue _ testified _ that co â€" anu _ the PDuke of sortland â€"â€" one and _ the same . person, identified portraits of the Duke, im she descrived as an old friend ot father‘s, bud always had a faise d in his pocket. _ The Duke had at time intended to marry ber, she . ut her father refused nis consent. one occasion she had asked the Duke he wore a false beard. He explainâ€" it was necessary to bave a beard m be appeared as Druce. in 1864," the witness wen on, "the .» of Portland said to her: *Aadge, 1 going to die.‘" You don‘t look like it," sie . reâ€" case was adjourned untit nds M ed him tinuing Hamilton then declared that hber had explained to her that the i# Portland was goicg to cease to . Druce, and she said sne was ~d there was going to be a funâ€" In 1866 she again saw her father e Duke of Portland together in i, and on this occasion she said, wly, to the Duke: hought you were dead and bur She called him Druce and this n, Dee. 2.â€"The principal _ eviâ€" i the /ruee pesjpury case, which amed in the Cietkenweil Police cb nuing, Mrs. Mamilton testified » last saw the Duke of Portiand . The Duke then said thir be y ill, and thougat he was going Mrs. Hamilton said to him, " 1 u will repent of all your sigs," this the Duke answered, "Thank vitness testified that the iman in 1876 was also T. 7. Oruce, ef er street bazaar. _ ‘The Duke, iess averred, suffered from an afâ€" of the skin, and at one time he imp on his nose. e course of her testimony Mre. n said that the fourch Duke of 1 was her god father. She had Weldeck Abbey with her father vuest of the fifth Duke, whom w well in his dual character. Hamilton said, among _ other that â€" when the Puke spoke of in 1864 sbe asked noâ€" father if |\ The Son of Railroad Magnate Shovelling Mr. John Lea Impressed With Canadian Selfâ€"Respect. London, Dec. 2.â€"John Lea, Chairman of the Liverpool Distress Committee, in the course of a lengthy report on his reâ€" cent visit to Canada, says that in Quebec and Montreal there are no great ‘openâ€" ings for the surplus labor of this counâ€" try. In Toronto, with its more genial climate, there probably may be openings for skilled European artisans. Mr. Lea advises emigrants to go west. Canada has no place for kidâ€"glove persons. The cost of fpood in Canada is much the same as at home. The same may be said reâ€" garding clothing. Mr. Lea did not see a man, woman or child in ragged clothing He was much impressed with Canadian high tone of character and marked reâ€" gard for the wellâ€"being of the women and children. New York, N. Y., Dec. 2.â€"The new subway> tunnel under the East River between the Battery and Brooklyn, which connects the traction systens of Manhattan and Brooklyn boroughs, was formally opered toâ€"day. lhbree steel cars, composing the first triin, passed through the tube, This tunnel, which is consilered one of the finest of its kind in the worlkl, was begun on Dec. 19, 1902. ‘The diffiâ€" culties were enormous, and at one time, some engineers even advocated absandonâ€" ment of the whole project. The underâ€" river section of the tuanel is 4,405 feet long, to which are added several thouâ€" sand feet by the Manhattan and Brookâ€" lyn extensions, where the tuanel really becomes a subway. A pected her to be married, but she must haye changed her mind suddenly. I do not know what came up to prevent the ceremony. She was not quite sure where a1» was going when she left." Question of U. S. Citizens Who Vot: in Canadian Elections. Winnipeg, Dec. 2.â€"American citizens who poli a vote in the coming mumicipal elections forfeit their right to citizensmlp in the United States by participating in politics foreign to the United States, and become alien to the land. of their birth. The question has been raised of lat» by American citizens who have overâ€" locked the fact that the municipal act provides that only British subjects are entitled to vote, or who claim, as many of them do, that they were not asked as to their nationality when they applied for registration or for the ballot. In man cases they did not understand thii they had to be British subjects, and considered the ownership of property and payment of taxes the only retquired qualâ€" ifications. This affects a very large number of residents of Winnipeg and western Canada. Noew . York,. Dec. 2.â€"The Herald has received the fodlowing despatch froim Wichita, Kan.: _ After working jour months _ as a wayâ€"bill clerk in the ‘Frisco _ freight â€" office |at â€" Murkoges, Okla., Stuyvesant Fish, jun., son of the one time President of the lllisos Cenâ€" tral, a director of the Missouri Pacific and officer of the National Park Bank, of New York, is now employed as a fireman on the Rock lsland road. His friends were surprised when young Fish took off his coat and set to work as an ordinary clerk, but that was nothâ€" ing to their astonishment when they found him in a grimy, coal blackened suit, shovelling coal fnto the Rock lsland engines. es 3 C e Accused Somnambulist Falls to Her Death From Window of Her Home. Pittsburg, Dec. 2.â€"Mrs Mattie Gilâ€" more of Finleyville died at the South Side Howpital this afternoon of a fracâ€" tured skull, and the police and hospital authorities are trying to figure out wheâ€" ther Mrs. Gilmore was a female highwayâ€" man or merely a somnambulist. t ed First Train Passes Through Tube Under East River, New York. His intention is to learn the rauroad business from the bottom up, as yourg Harriman did a few years ago, when he entered the offices of the Union Paciiie in Omaha as a clerk at 812 a week, Fish is very popular with the railroad men with whom he is associated. Consul Jones states that in his opinâ€" ion such an action as voting places the person doing so in a position where he could not be regarded as an American citizen. Leaving aside the offence of voting in contravention of the laws of the Province, the Consul said: "This is a question that I cannot decide, it being a matter for the courts; but I do think that an American citizen who votes in Canada at municipal, Dominion or Proâ€" vincial elections jeopardizes his Ameriâ€" a mar. to be a British subject to be enâ€" tithd to vote at any election, and it necessarily follows that where an Amerâ€" ican participates in an election in a forâ€" cizmm country he identifies himself with that country." ecan citizenship. This, of course, is based upon the law of Canada, which requires lein eign that HIGHWAYWOMAN IN HER SLEEP. NO RAGGED PEOPLE IN CANADA. YOUNG FISH A FIREMAN,. MAY LOSE CITIZENSHIP. TUNNEL IS OPENED. ice and hospital ] (Greer has been on the case about a figure out wheâ€" | week. The evidence against MeLeod was â€"male highwayâ€" !.-m strong that he has made a confesâ€" nbulist. | sion, admittinc: having written letters attractive â€" and | to Mr. and Mrs. A. E. .\lillington, of A little more | Espanola, where Millington manages the ‘alkor, a Finleyâ€" | Espanola Pulp & Paper Company. Greer more on a dark | has known for a week that Smith and lares that Mrs. | Howard had no connection with the case, d took $75, his : but he allowed that impression to stand him. | to put McLeod off his guard. | | A Prominent Citizen Sought to Secure 1 | Money Under Black Hand Threat by | Using Information Obtained Through E | a Connection by Marriage With One * of His Victims. | â€" _ Washington, Dec. 2.â€" Mrs. Annie !Bmdley's trial for the murder of formâ€" | e Senator Arthur Brown, of Utah in ;this city, Dec, 18, 1906, was resumed at | 10 o‘clock toâ€"day. ! TOLD DOCTOR SHE WOULD FORCE BROWN TO WED HER. « Lockport, Dec. 2.â€"Racked by the pains â€" ofâ€" rheumatism, practically alone in the world, his coffin and rough box awaiting him on the upper fioor of his house, John Davis, 82 years old, reâ€" cluse, put three bullets into his head this morning. _ He was found, covered %with blood, by Mrs. Fred. Mohn, a neighbor. _ On a table lay a letter adâ€" dressed to her, reading: _ Following a long conference between counsel and court, counsel retired .from the room for a further conference, afâ€" Rev. David H. Utter, pastor of the Unâ€" itarian Church of D#hver, Colo., formerâ€" ly of Salt Lake, who performed the marâ€" riage ceremony between Mr. and Mrs. Bradley, then took the stand. _ . Before Dr. Shutt began his testimony, District Attorney Baker submitted to the court the Government‘s prayers in the case, saying that they did not cover the case of murder in the first or second degree, that that point be left for inâ€" struction of the court. The prayers were Dr. Shutt‘s testimony developed nothâ€" ing new.., .â€" ~. * io oo Dr. D. K. Shutt, the _ jail physician, continued his rebuttal testimony begun Wednesday. _ _Since his arrival here Greerâ€"has used his time well. He has made a full case against Smith and Howard, the forgers, who were suspected of many crimes west of the Soo. Smith has made a full confession, and Yoward has been inveigled into damaging admisâ€" sion by a clever ruse on the part of Greer, who intercepted letters from Howard to Smith in the jail here. McLeod denied the charge when arrestâ€" ed, but later sent for Greer and Dowâ€" ney and made a full confession. _ The arrest has created great excitement in the Soo, where the accused is hiskly reâ€" garded. He "Call Taylor & Reynold‘s furniture store. No minister. Bury me on the quiet by the small apple &'ee near the fence. Nend for the coroner. Do it on the â€" quiet. Cannot stand the pain. Have no show over me. 5 The detective discovered that MeLQeod had been on a trip to the Northwest during the time the letters were written, and that he returned just in time to reâ€" ceive the money which was supposed to have been deposited«at the places named in the letters. McLeod is married to a cousin of Mrs. Millington, and that conâ€" vinced Greer he was on the right track, as the family history mentioned in the letters was known only to McLeod‘s wife. ; "BURY ME ON QUIET, UNDER APPLE TREE." Aged Recluse Prepares to Take His Own Life, But Postpones Act for One Yearâ€"Shoots Himself, and Leaves Letter for Neighbor. "John Davis." "Do not let the curious folks look at me to talk about,. _ My suffering is awful. "John Davis." "Wire H. E. Putnam, Cassadaga, N. Y., Chautauqua Co." Davis lived on a little farm on Niâ€" agara roadâ€"alone and in misery. For years he had been suffering from the torments of rheumatism, and, it is thought, anticipated _ selfâ€"destruction more than a year ago. _ At that, time he bought a fine coffin, had a name plate duly inscribed, leaving only the date of death blank, and stored the coffin in a pine box in an unused room in the upper portion of his little home, BUYS COFFIN; KILLS HIMSELF. A Soo, Ont., despatch: This afternoon Detective Wm, Greer, Toronto, in conâ€" junction with Police Chief Downey, apâ€" prehended John MeLeod, a prominent vitizen of the 8Soo, in conncection with the blackâ€"hand letters recently received by Soo citizens. The arrest of AMeâ€" Leod proves the innocence of tne men Smith and Howard, arrested on a forgery charge, who were supposed to have conâ€" nection with the case. It will be impossible to comply with his request to bury him under the apple tree, as *L az..tir laws will not permit. _ W. E. Putaam, to whom he wanted a notification of his death sent, is supposed to be a brotherâ€"inâ€" The despondent man had used a hammeriess revolver and h shot himâ€" self three times. la w THE $O0 BLACK HAND WORKED BY HIMSELF. Thought Her Father or Brother or Somebody Would Do B‘own Bodily Harmâ€"Another Doctor Says She Was Sane When She Shot Brown. MRS. BRADLEY A LONE HAND. M "Why did you do that?" asked Magisâ€" trate Denison. "Because they have robbed me. I have worked hard for them for a couple of years, and have got only from seven to fourteen dollars a month for it." "It was revenge, was it?" "Yes, on the whole class of them." "Well, did you think he was going to rob you?" . . _ .. ArMiye _"Well, I must say it is a code of morâ€" ality that I can hardly appreciate. You will go to the Central for four months." Daniel McKnight Took Heroic Measures to Get Even. Toronto, Dec. 2.â€"Daniel McKnight came to this country from Bonnie Scotâ€" land some three years ago. His principal asset at the time of his arrival was an idea that the farmers of this country owed him a livin;i,’.\'o common, ordinary living, but a good" living. Disappointed in not realizing his bonanza caused black thoughts to arise in the mind of Daniel. While in Toronto the other day he met George Hadley, a farmer, and took from his pocket $70..}... J . .0 ssl2s 1 }.00 _"He looked as if he would like to, the same as all the rest o{_tl}em.” "And your wife had some $260,000 an1i the ‘Inglewood‘ residence at Hamilton?" "Yes." "This was unimpaired until you too!: up the Maritime Sulphite Fibre Company?‘ ‘"Yes." "in 1896 you had exhausted your own resources?" ll\'eS.,' "Your money is all gone?" "Yes... ‘"Mrs. Stuart‘s money is all gone?" ‘EYes‘ll "‘That is some five or six hundred thousand dollars disappeared?"" ‘"Yes, all gone." "And what did your wife get for this money?" ‘"Nothing." "Mrs. Stuart never refused to do anvthing you asked her to do?" ‘"Never; I can say, never." "You never heard any independent advice given to her about jeopardizing he: fortune?" ‘*Never." "Mrs. Stuart was in a delicate state of heatlh, and the doctors said she wis to be kept quiet?" C-Yes"l : "You did not have your own lawâ€" ver, Mr. Bruce, or any other lawyer advise her?" (‘No") ‘"And did you not think she was entitled to agvice from a lawyer?" "I never thought about it." "You had originally a large forâ€" tune of your own?" he asked. ‘‘Yes, between $250,000 and $300,â€" 009 " replied Mr. Stuart. onl Dr. Edward 8. Brush, of Baltimore, a Government expert, declared that in his opinion when Mrs. Bradiley shot Brown she was perfectly sane, The extent of the losses of Mr. and Mis. Stuart in the illâ€"fated Maritime Su.rhite Company was very graphicâ€" ally brought out by ‘Mr. Hlelmuth‘s crossâ€"examination of Mr. Stuart durâ€" ing the morning sitting. 3 f Dr. Utter said that during a conversaâ€" tion with Mrs. Bradley in 1905 he exâ€" pressed the opinion that Brown would not marry her and he said that Mrs. Bradley declared she would foree him to do so. Mrs. Bradtey did not say she werld shoot Brown herself, and the witâ€" ness got the impression that in order to justify the children either Mrs. Bra;i- ley‘s brother, father or somebody would d>» Brown bodily harm. Mrs. Bradley‘s repurtation for peace and good order, he testmied, was good. | _ ____ _ _ The Maritime Sulphite Concern Gobbled Up Allâ€" Mrs. Stuart Was Being Advised by the Bank‘s Solicitor, own name appear in it. He said that consequently he received a letter from M.. Stuart saying, ‘It is with great reluctance I have decided to seek advice elsewhere, after having relied so implicitly on you for advice and for soâ€"long," to which he had replied th«t it would be the better course, "as I am acting the matter on behali of the Bank of Montreal." HALF MILLION WENT TO BAD _A Toronto despatch: The hearing of the suit of Mrs. Jane Jacques Stuart, of Hamilton, against the Bank of Montreal to have certain documents signed by her declared invalid was concluded yesterday, but not in time for. Mr. Justice Mabee‘s judgment to be given. The suit involves $250,000. In his closing speech Mr. I. F. Helimuth said that his client was a trusting and confiding lady, who had acted implicitly on the advice of her husband, signing documents of imâ€" mense importance _ without â€" underâ€" standing their meaning, and she was surprised to find in order to liquiâ€" date the debt of $125,000 the bank had seized the whole of her fortune. HOW JOHN AND MRS. STUART‘S FORTUNES DISAPPEARED, I% transpired in evidence that Mr. Stuart had been acting throughout in the matter on the advice of Mr. Alexâ€" ander Bruce, K.C., who was also actâ€" ing on behalf of the bank. Mr. Bruce in his evidence said that in preparing the agreement and placing it before M:is. Stuart to sign it did not occur to him that the proper thing to do was to tell her to get independent legal advice. He admitted that he was acting as solicitor for the bank when he preâ€" pared the agreement and placedp it before Mrs. Stuart, and that he had not got another firm of solicitors to issue the writ against Mrs. Stuart, because he did not like to have his ter which Dr. Utter testified that durâ€" ing a conversation with Mrs. Bradley he expressed to her his belief that Brown would not marry her. He urged her to %,i" ug her idea of marrying Brown. e replied: "When it comes to a test and the gun is pointed at him ‘Brown will acâ€" REVENGE ON FARMERS. A Woodstock, Ont., special despatch: *â€"At the meeting in the Court House here yesterday afternoon, it was decidâ€" ed to start a movement for the estabâ€" lishment and maintenance by the Proâ€" vincial Government, of two sanitariums for the treatment of consumptives, one in eastern ard one in western Ontario. C:anmunications | will immediately be sent to the County Councils and _ City Councils of all the municipalities in Onâ€" tario, asking them to cperate with the Western Oniario municipalities _ which have inaugurated the movement and apâ€" point delegates to form a big deputation to wait on the Government and press the claim for such institutions. It is the idea to have the deputation go to Toronâ€" to before the beginning of the next sesâ€" sion of the House so that if the proposâ€" al meets with favor legislation for the construction of the necessary building may be passed this seesion and work done next year. The meeting was called to consider the advisability of estabâ€" lishing a sanitarium for tne counties of Oxford, Perth, Waterloo, Wellington, Elâ€" gin, Brant and Norfolk, but after disâ€" cussi‘un,I w-hic:x lasted the greater part culi idns CR d c hi ce d d . T Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 2.â€"Seven men are dead and two fatally injured as the result of a fire in a twoâ€"storey brick rooming house at 1,002 Union avenus, caused by an explosion of gag early this morning. The seven viectims were burned beyond recognition, and it is doubtful whether their identity ever will be estabâ€" lished. The rooming house was patronâ€" ized by transient white railroad laborers, and as the proprietor kept no register the names or number of persons are not known. Proprietor O‘Connell says that his house would mmodate 200 men, but he does not bel‘ge there were more than 50 in the rooms when the explosion occurred. The explosion is believed to have been caused by a guest, who lighted of the day, the larger proposal wasydw cided upon, as preferable, as providing sanitarium conveniences for a big proporâ€" tion of the population of the province, If the Government does not take the matter up,. then the other proposal will be gone into by the ss’en counties inâ€" volved, â€" Those presel;}‘ yesterday were Warden Oliver and M#yor Pattsrson, af Paris, representing Brant, W awien Hool â€" ing, of Perth; Dr. Lockhart, of I poler for Waterloo, and Miss Buensads, Fueamâ€" ing and Folden, for Oxfofd." ° Terrible Result of Gas Explosion in a Boarding House. The fact that the Oakville Pin Co. is running short handed at the present time probably accounts for the few faâ€" talities for the car was about half fillâ€" ed. Ordinaril{, it is stated, these early morning trolleys are loaded with factory employees, the usual number of passengâ€" ers being about seventy, Waterbury, Conn., Nov. 20.â€"A shockâ€" ing accident, in which five factory emâ€" ployees were killed, occurred about 6.30 this morning at 1 West Main street crossing over the Highland division tracks of the N. Y., N. H. & H/ R. R. R., when an extra Hartfordâ€"bound freight train crashed into a trolley car containing 25 persons bound for the pin factories in Oakville. The dead: Sarah Ryan, 26 years old; Annie Corcorry, 23 years old; Robert French, 20 yéars; an unidentified man, about 30 years; an unidentified woman, about 25 years. According to the rules of the Connecâ€" ticut Company which operates the trolâ€" ley cars fi:re, a conductor must _ run abead of his car as far as the tracks and ascertain whether a train is:, apâ€" proaching. This, it is said, was _ not done in this case. There was no chance for the railroad engineer to «top his train in time to prevent the accident. Although he applied the brakes, the enâ€" gine crashed into the trolley car, smashâ€" ing it to splinters and throwing the ocâ€" cupants in all directions, The screams of the victims could be heard for blocks and in a short time a great crowd had collected. Many of those injured were carried to nearby stores, while _ some were unable to walk were laid alongâ€" side of the tracks until carriages and ambulunc?ts)o(gmk them to their homes. The dead ies were quickly taken from the wreckage and sent to morgues. The fragments of the body of the unknown woman were gathered in a basket. WANT ONE EACH FOR EASTERN AND WESTERN ONTARIO. Woodstock Meeting Resolves to Ask Whitney to Establish Themâ€"County and City Councils to be Asked to Take the Matter Up. The car was struck with great foree at right angles directly in the middle, and the dead persons were all badly mangled. Six others were badly injured and had to be carried to their homes. A hurried investigation by the coroner resulted in the arrest of Flagman John Flavin and Conductor John Dillon, of the trolley car. The motorman, Charles Leonâ€" ard, was not held. It is not yet known wh« the persons injured will die. It is stated by those familiar with the facts that the wrecked trolley car was following closely behind _ another car, which had got safely over the crossing. It is customary to drop the gates at the railroad crossing on the approach of a train, but in this instance the gates were up. The flagman was on duty, but it is not known whether he waved his flag showing a clear track. M« CONSUMPTION SANITARIUMS. Trolley Was Cros Railway Tracks. FIVE MENKILLED SEVEN MEN DEAD. known whether any of TORONTO 7 | References to Newfoundland Arbitration s at American Society Dinner. / _ London, Dec. 2.â€"The American Amâ€" â€"| basâ€"ador, in a humorous speech at the l Amcrican Society‘s Thanksgiving dinner, said the United States was enjoying ' universal goodâ€"will. Even Newfoundland, | the spirited little "oldest colony" beyond | the northern frontier, had goodâ€"naturedâ€" | ly agreed to arbitrate things instead of i going to war. However the arbitration .‘ resulted, he was sure both sides of the | frontier would take it smiling, after the | habit of our race. Me made every effort to save his comâ€" panion, but the cold water soon clulled poor Perry so that he was unable to help himself and sank. The body was recovâ€" ered, and is being sent for interment to his home some place near Collingwood. Killed Man in Race at Baltimore, But Did s Not Stop. Baltomire, Md., Dec. 2.â€" During a race between two highâ€"powered autoâ€" mobiles at an early hour toâ€"day, James F. Grinnel, colored, was struck and inâ€" stantly killed by one of the machines. Thessalon despatch: Mr. James Perry, a settler in the township of Wells, about twenty miles from Thessalon, was aeciâ€" dentally drowned yesterday. _ In comâ€" pany with Mr. David Foster, another settler, he was crossing Lake Petrolia, or Burrows Lake, as it is most frequentâ€" ly called. The ice broke and both wenut down. Mr. Foster, being the strouger of the two, and having an axe in his hand, was able to break the ice ahead »t him and get to stronger ice near shore. Brown did not deny being involved in the affair, but declared that it was Elâ€" liott‘s automobile that struck Grinnel, He and his chauffeur were arraigned in court, and released on their own recogâ€" nizances for a hearing next Monday. The police were unable to find Elliott. Long Procession of Divorce Seekers Marches on St. Louis Court House. St. Louis, Dec. 2.â€"The Monday rush of matrimonial misfits at the court house is assuming alarming proportions, and the churches are commencing to take notice. ‘The kidnapping of Marquis Guiseppe Cito has caused great _ astonishment through the discovery that the organizer of the plot is in reality a policeman. On being arrested he confessed. The British Embassy is interested in the case, as Marquis Cito is a trusted antiquarian for several sovereigns, including _ King Edward. The cars were driven by Frank J. Brown, son of former Governor Brown, of this State, and James Elliott, a sporting ma nof Washington, D. C. Neiâ€" ther one stopped after the accident, but continued on their course. _ The police later arrested _ young Brown and his chaffeur. Half a mile of dissatisfied wives, exâ€" tending from the court house down Broadway, was the spectacle offered to an amazed public on Monday of this week. There were some men, too, but they did not count. A Niagara Falls despatch: Returning from a Thanksgiving Day celebration with her parents and brothers, Alice Chapman, 16 years old, was struck by a yellow car at the Tompkins street crossing in La Salle at 9 o‘clock toâ€" night and instantly killed. The f:l was thrown 40 feet into the air and her body was wrriblfl' mutilated. The girl, with her father, Harvey Chapmon, of 1011 19th street, her‘mothâ€" er and her two younger brothers, spent Thanksgiving Day at the home of Mr. Chapman‘s brother at La Salle. About 8.50 o‘clock they left the La Salle house to return to their home in this city. They wSLed toward the Tompkins street crorsing to board a car. _ _ i onto the tracks just as a Buffalo bound car approached the crossing. When she reached the centre of the tracks the rapâ€" idly moving car struck her in the bacE, threwing her high into the air before any of the family realized what had hapâ€" pened. When the girl was picked up it was found that her skull had been fracâ€" tured and that her entire body was Naples, Dec. 2.â€"A dramatic and senâ€" sation@a! kidnapping has occurred here, the victim beitg‘ Marquis Guiseppe Cito, a member of the most ancient aristo cracy and a cousin and aide of the King, The‘ Marquis was seized and carried otf to a grotto where he was tortured and a letter to the Marchioness demanding $500 extorted from him. He was found half frozen and badly injured, and his condition is now considered desperate. One of his assailants was disguised as a policeman. In all there were 230 applicants for freedom, and in 110 cases there was no opposition put up by the other half of the mismated pair. Hurled to Death by Yellow Car i Si ht of Her Parents. James Perry, a Settler, Drowned Near CRUSHED TO DEATH. Cousin of Italy‘s Ki Just what prompted the girl to rush mhead of the rest of the party and enâ€" deavor to cross the tracks is not known. Leaving the rest to follow, she ran out mutilated. One man was taken out of the buildâ€" ing fatally burned, and another was fatally injured by jumping. When the firemen arrived the flames were burning so fiercely that they found the work of fire fighting very difficult. When they finally gained entrance to the building they found the bodies of the wictims piled together on the second floor. It was evident that the men were overcome while seeking an exit. , 2 a match in a room where the gas had been escaping. POLICEMAN DID IT. MOTOR FIENDS PASSED ON. ANGLOâ€"SAXON GOODâ€"WILL. FELL THROUGH THE ICE. ONEâ€"HALF MILE LONG. and Tortured. The 103rd report of the British and Foreign Bible Society has been issued. Ei‘ituwhntup.-nyluv be added to those in which the society has pubâ€" lishea some portion of Scripture. _ 8t. Mark is being produced in a new form of syllables for the Hwa Miao, an aborigâ€" inal tribe in western China, who are embracing Christianity in remarkable numbers. _ The Welish brevier reference Bible, in which the marginal matter of the English revised version will be aglded for the first time in Welsh, may be exâ€" pected in the autumn. The Greek Patri~ arch at Constantinople has K:olnued to supply a large edition of the amended Greex Testament in the traditional text chicfly for circulation among members of the orthodox Greek Church in eastern Kurops, _ ° * The GovernorGeneral of Canada, Earl Grey, at the annual meeting of the Canadian Bible Society, held at Ottawa, March 13th, 1907, said he had heard of six million copies circulated each year by the Bible Society. He said it was a privilege to belong to such a society, which knew no denominational divisions. Earl Grey stated that the forces of the time tended towards union, and he was glad to stand upon a platform broad enough to include Anglicans, Presbyterâ€" ians, Baptists, Congregationalists _ and Quakers. "Bix colporteurs worked in Constantiâ€" nople during the year. . . . Streams of different races from Europe, Asia, and Africa meet, but do not mingle, in Stamâ€" boul. A Bible in the streets of Conâ€" stantinople may find its way # the utâ€" termost ends of the earth,. The colporâ€" teur suffers from fanatical intolerance. In the scattered islands of the Ayean the colporteurs traverse their heights and valleys and pass from island to isâ€" land among a hardy, but scanty, populaâ€" tion. The Cairo Colporteur says: "I reâ€" gularly visit the Roman Catholie monasâ€" tery, and always dispose of a good numâ€" ber of Scriptures to the monks." From Cairo ailso the Rev. D. M. Thornton, of the C, M. 8. Mission, writes in May, 1907: "You willbe interested to hear that during the last two months there has been an unprecedented deâ€" mand for the _ Bibles on the part of sheikhs of the great Moslem University of El Azhar, for the express object â€" of comparing the Old and the New Tostaâ€" ment with the Koran." The report also outlines the good work being done in Syria and Palesâ€" tine, in Cyprus and the Argentine Reâ€" public. : Large Number of Steerage Passengers for Europe. The close of the war between Russia and Japan meant that quite 100,000 fewâ€" er books were given away to soldiers than in the previous year. Amid so much disturbance and distress in Russia, circulation was 10,000 above the half million books ‘distribuged iw the previous year. In Siberia the sales have reached a record figure. Thousands of Testaâ€" ments were bought at railway stations by soldiers on their way home from the far east, many of whom were groud t‘o exhibit the Russian Gospels which had been presented to them on their journey out to the seat of war or while prisoners in Japan. Et. Johr, N. B., Dec. 2.â€"The C,. P. R. steamer Empress of Ireland when she sails from here on Priday will have among her passengers for Liverpool 1000 who are going steerage, and the Allan lin»r Tunisian has booked the same numâ€" ber. The number is an extraordinarily large one for steamers sailing from this port. ‘The «steamship men say they have no advices as to the class of people, but they are probably Britishers and others who have been for some time in Canada and are now going home for a time beâ€" cause of the business depression. The aggregate circulation of the Scripâ€" tures in Germany by all societies comâ€" bined has reached a figure never before attained, A total of 1,169,405 copies last year is most remarkable in a country where so many potent influences are at work to hinder the Bible cause. Elderly Widow of Peterboro Found Dead by Police. Peterboro, Ont., despatch: Mrs. Magâ€" gie Kerr, a widow, aged 60 years, who lived alone in a flat over Dutton‘s grocâ€" ery store, was found dead in bed at noon Mom{ by the police. In retiring on Monday night she had not properly clo«â€" ed the stove, and the room was filled with gas. Coroner Dr. Gray «states that death was due to aspbhyxiation. Mrs. Kerr had been dead three days, and not being about, an investigation was made. Bhe leaves one son, Walter Kerr, 204 King street east, Toronto, In many countries the forces of superâ€" stition and irreligion are alike hostile to the Scriptures. _ One Bible seller was driven out of a Syrian village with pitchâ€" forks as a Lutheran devil, another in Russian Poland was beaten and all his books were torn to pieces; another was pelted in the Island of Mitylene, another was assaulted in Portugal, another was arrested in Peru, another was beaten by the Moslems in Egypt, another in Perâ€" siz was robbed of everything he posâ€" sessed. The reports from Austria are also parâ€" ticularly good. Circulation in Austria last year amounted to the bitherto unâ€" reached total of 101933 copies. Kight New Languages Addedâ€"Colporâ€" teurs Have to Mceet With Vigorous Oppositionâ€" Hundred â€" and Third The work at bhome last year shows the isaue of 265,000 copies of the King dames Bibie and 33,000 revised versions. Grants of Scriptures during the last year have been made to all sorts of societies, inâ€" cluding the Church Army, the London City Mission, various race course misâ€" sions, the Tramps‘ Mission, the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C, A., the Commercial Travellers‘ Christian _ Association, the London Jews‘ Society, Dr. Barnardo‘s Homes, Mrs. Birt‘s Sheltering Homes, Liverpool, the Birkenhead Rescue Assoâ€" ciation, Schools for the Blind, adult schools, hospitals, etc. $ SUFFOCATED IN HER HOME AN EXODUS EASTWARD «j