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hat they have r at Newport."* se would they #as ted, something nr'nousw?‘bldy and Wales at f this nunber : of Boards of 4) ed soon, and ! that makes est Biscuits so you LINIMENT w i0ve BORGE‘3 & NIGHT seth der Av t.â€"Cleveland Piles oonitom Coo+#â€"Bood. o Oces ses, blood im throat, e of ons sn‘t t nis made vile dis MÂ¥ n DAI V nt state 13 budget nearly is that of the nclude a, but parts h will n You mast? Mall ser nd sb 18 Scores of Saloon Keepers Arrested for Sunday Selling. Chicago, Dec. 9. Hundreds of salâ€" oons were closed in lllinois toâ€"day, the local crptkm voted at the last election in fourteen counties becoming effective at midnight. Eight counties are now toâ€" tally "dry" while six allow saloons in only a few precinets, The counties prinâ€" wipally effected are _ in the Southern Tiors and reflect the wave of prohibiâ€" tion that has been sweeping up from the Two Chicago Hotel Men Suicide Over the Worry. A DRY TIME IN ILLINOIS. W 10 Mari AFT THE GOOD INDIANS. NOT ALL DEAD, WRITES A MISSIQONâ€" | duke ARY FROM THE NORTHWEST. | cially o on it ment Defence of the Red Man and a Pathetic Toronto Raturday Night.) Ernest Thompsonâ€"Seton, a Canadian, who has made a rame for bimself, has just returned from several months‘ traâ€" vel in the little known country a thouâ€" sand miles from Edwmonton. The object of his journey was to study the animal life of the far morth, and especially to learn whether buffale herds were to be found there. . He saw two small herds, and fapcies there are wore, but “’9‘9' ers it improbable that they exist . )n large numbers. However, he confirms the «tory told by others that caribou _ in millions range that vast country, which we will call the BX"”‘ Islands. _ This traveller make« tw& statements _ well worth considering. He tells us that much of that eountry is far from barren, and that over wide plains one travels waist high in prajirie grass. He tells us, too, of the Indiansâ€"how diseases Aft wiping them out. So bad is the condiâ€" tion that Mr. Thompsonâ€"Seton rarely saw among them s person of sound h body. It The prohibition sentiment was also t farther north in the state where imny towns volted out the saloons. In dition a systematic cnmrign for the mday closing of saloons has been unâ€" riaken in Chicago and several score saloonkeepers of the city have been rested on evidence gathered by agents the Chicago law and order league. Limor dealers of the State are alarmâ€" at the situation and bave taken steps combat the xelorm movements, in icago the local Association of Saloon epers and the Restaurant _ Keepers‘ ociation have united forces and will ake vigarous attempts to secure the scharge of the .arrested saloon keepers en their cases are called for on Dee. . Two saloonkeepers committed suiâ€" le under xemarkable _ circumstances â€"terday. The members of their familâ€" s attrihute the deaths solely to worry «t the Sunday .closing agitation of the w and order league ruin the saloon isine«s here. The suicides are Matroni ~ter and Orowick Gasper, ith. Ihe followi ng counties + saloons: Ts rt D Appeal for Helpâ€"Old Chieft Tells Ernest Thompson Seton That They Need Doctors More Than Missionâ€" AriGS. mards, Johnson, Massaic, Pope, Unâ€" Waubash, Williamson and Calhoun. some of the principal towns affectâ€" acksonville loses 24 saloons, Duâ€" ie 23; Merrin 15; Carterville 18; m 12; Mound City 11 and Lammera UTres. : are getting pretty much out of =,. and no assistance from anyâ€" . but 1 auppose it will come. Only mle came since we arrived here in 106. und that was a personal one. nz any bales to Mr. Inkster now not a«sist this mission. If we had : now we could get wood, hay, beef, »ats in exchange for them, as the weather is coming on, and people inxious to get clothing for their on. 1 really hope something will soon. 1 am, yours faithfully, D. Macdonald. Miss Appiebe,â€"It is very comâ€" to know that we have someone ted in our work among the Inâ€" 1 am afraid that those people iv that the Indians are no good know much about them; epinâ€" rc _ often borrowed. _ When we wre we were told that the Inâ€" vere bad, and great beggars; this | not io be so. and am tinding out wl w.ore that these people can be it we allow ourselves to be guridâ€" Cionl‘s word and ask Him for Mis h to help us, with a single eye to wory. .lhe Indians were the mnatâ€" wners of this great Northwestern i; they sold it without a murmuur, e white man owes them a living and it is little enough for us, atâ€" + C,. M.S. had done so much to and Cbristianize the Indian, to p its Christian work,. L only wish | meet those people who say the â€" ure no good; 1 would tell them iing which ni#ght change their _ There are many noâ€"goods who nt amoyg the Indians and blame or their .failures. â€" Unfortunatoly ho know .the Indians seldom go to Eastern Canada, maybe be they cannot afford it. And some hrough hy the railways, and when oc those poor unfortunates who wen demoralized by the bad white tanding around the railway staâ€" they go back to their towns and in the east and way they know all the Indian. 1 am sorry that our : in the east have so small an opinâ€" owr Indians. I think if they knew uth they would feel for these poor Pheasants‘ Reserve, Nov Miss Appiebe,â€"It is : â€"< to know that we have all Closed Up in Eight Indians Need Doctess. was a sight to stir the pity. now with 18, 1907. flns EREWEC ORRmTE D C ns and ‘»owner. Mr. James Leask, of Greenbank, ow all ‘Ont.. will realize from this champion in at our | awards and sale receipts a total _ of n opinâ€" lm.uo, As Mr. Leask is his own herdsâ€" r knew | man, he will receive the â€" herdsman‘s e poor | meial offered for feeding the grand l champion. out of This seems to be Canada‘s year as all n anyâ€" | of the Canaiian exhibitors have done _ Only | exceptionally well. In sheep the‘ Canaâ€" here in | lians Imeve taken practically all the al one. | championships and prizes offered in the ‘r now | classes and breeds they have shown. The ve had | money and awards they will carry home y, beef, will be more than the total of all their /. |, 5 | competiters m'r.nbxped. $ o C oaw, An old chiei complained to the traveller of the decline and decay of his people, and said with bitterness that he bad asked again and again to have a doctor and a mounted policeman sent to him, but instead he only gotâ€"missioraties. What an arraignment of the white race is the complaint of this old pagan chief, in lands we call barren. a thonâ€" sand miles north of our newest railway, as heâ€"sits in his tepee and sees his peoâ€" ple rot and decay from diseases they never knew until the white man cameâ€" strange discases against _ which _ the herbs, songs and enchantments of the medicine man of the tribe are powerless â€"and yet when he begs for an officer of the law to protect his people against further wrong, and for a white doctor to cope with the white curses with which tkey have been afflicted, we send them instead missionaries! They need these teachers, it is true. They need them urâ€" gently, for they are dying rapidly. But they want to live as well as die. If we have destroyed their mode of life and imposed on theimn ours, is it not our duty to make our mode something less than murderess in its effects on them*? It is well that good men should pray with these people as they die, and.cheer their pagan hearts with news of eternal, torâ€" ment for the wicked and eternal joy for the _ unfortunate, the weak anu the Budapest, Dec. 9.â€"The Nap, a newsâ€" paper of this city, publishes a sensational ; story toâ€"day to the effect that an Anarâ€" chist plot upon the lives of Emperor P P \Francis Joseph and Arheduke Francis l!"e:d'mund, the heir to the throne, has been discovered. _ ‘The story would appear to be founded on the fact that the Hungarian police were informed recently that four wellâ€" \known Anarchists had left Geneva for Hungary with the object, it was declarâ€" \ed, of making an attempt upon the life of Erancis Ferdinand. ‘The police were | instructed to watch the frontier closely, | but so far as is known no Anarhcists | have yet entered Hungarian | territorq. il Laughed at the Report. | Vienna, Dec. 9.â€"â€"In answer to an inâ€" \ quiry concerning the reported Anarchist | plot to make an attempt upon the lives | of Emperor Francis Joseph and Archâ€" \duke Francis Ferdinand, it was offiâ€" | cially declared toâ€"day that the Governâ€" \ ment had no information whatever to | hear out the suggestion that the Anwrâ€" chists who are supposed to have left |\ Geneva for Hungary had any designs !upon the Emperor or the heir to the throne, and the idea that such an atâ€" ‘.tempt was probable was derided. Four Wellâ€"known Anarchists Said to be ALLEGED PLOT TO KILL EMPEROR AND PRINCE FERDINAND. heavyâ€"laden. ANARCHISTS AFTER FRANCIS JOSEPH. Graham Renfrew‘s "Sir Marcus" Awardâ€" ed Grand Champiouhipâ€"fannh‘an Sheepmen Have Phenomenal ‘Success â€""Roan King" Realized $1,420. Chicago, 11J., Dec. 9.â€"Roan King, the grand champion fat steer of the Interâ€" national _ Live Stock Exposition, was sold toâ€"day at auction to C. KHinch & Company of Buffalo at 24 cents a pound. He weighed 1,080 pounds. This is the first time in the show‘s histary that a grand championship has been won by a Shorttworn. Onee the honor was reâ€" e«éiveil ‘by a grade, twice by a Hereford and four times by an Abendeen Argus. Roan ‘King is fifteen months old. _ Ne has been carefully handled «ince lus Girth, and has been fed on ground wats and peas, with some mixed hay. turnips anil mangles. He has never tasted corn or \bran. He is a beautiful roan in eolor, straight in every line, smooth in his finish and covered with a quality and everness of flesh that is truly wonderful. _ His 1 2 & w hm o on o4. ARE BEST IN THE WORLD, SAY AMERICAN BUYERS. ness. â€" The invested capital aggregates $90,000,000, while the business each year amounts to $700,000,000, More than 200.â€" 000 persons are employed. Last year 12,000,000 head of eattle, calves, hogs and sheep were slaughtered in these yards, _ About 16,000,000 head were reâ€" ceived into the yards in 1906. The sixâ€"thousandâ€"dollar team, owned and exhibited ‘by Morria & Company of the Union Stock Yards is composed of six geldings «standing seventcen hands and weighing about one ton each. They are pureâ€"bred Clydesdales. Three are Canadians and three Scoth. The International Live Stock Exposiâ€" tion is held in the Chicago Umion, Stock Yards. These yards are one mile long and one mile wide. One thousand firms of meat â€" packers are hgre doing . busiâ€" The trained elephant of India comâ€" mences its career of usefulness at the age of twelve, and toils ustil about its eightieth year. 'l‘b':Grn‘hum-Renfrew Company of Bedâ€" ford Park, Toronto, and Graham «Bros. of Claremont, Ont., have excellent exâ€" hibits of Clydesdales, "Sir Marcus," the RBedford Park staltion, captured _ the grand r‘hnmpionihigmin his class. Amâ€" crican draft horse buyers say that Canâ€" ada produces the best Clydesdales in the world. en OUR CLYDESDALES. on Their Track to Take Their Lives â€" Austrian â€" Government â€" Pleads Ignorance. 700 MINERS ENTOMBED. Disastrous Explosion in a West Virâ€" Rushing Physicans and Friends to the Scene of the Accident. Explosion Caused by Dustâ€"Heard Fairmont, W. Va., Dec. 9.â€"â€"An exploâ€" sion is reported at Mines Nos. 6 and 8, of the Fairmont Coal Co., at Monongah, six miles from here. It is said that one thousand men are employed in the two mines. It is said to have been a dust exploâ€" sion. Nothing is known _ here of the number & men in the mines at the time of the xeplosion, but from the fact that the coal company, which controils the traction cars, has stopped traffic and are only sending out cars carrying physiâ€" cians and intimate friends of the miners, it is feared the accident is a serious one. The mines are a part of those owned by the Consolidated Coal Co., of Baltimore. The company bas mines in Fairmount, Clarksburg, Somerset and near Cumberâ€" land. A long distance telephone message to the Associated Press says that the bodâ€" ies of three miners have been recovered near the mouth of the mine No. 6. They were _ foreigners. _ Supertendent John Malone, of the mines, says there Baltimore, Dec. 9.â€"At the office here of the president _ of the Consolidated Coal Co. it was stated that there had been a tremendous explosion at Mononâ€" gah, and that it was feared the loss of life would be heavy. It is believed that a majority of the men entombed were killed. * ETERNAL FLAMES." Fire Eaters Worshipped Natural Gas Gusker. Fhey were _ foreigners. _ Supertendent John Malone, of the mines, says there ire at least five hundred men entomb Baku, Dec. 9.â€"A new oil gusher has been opened at Surakhant, _ ten miles from this city. ‘This indicates an imâ€" portant extension of the Baku oil inâ€" dustry. The new well gives 10,000 barâ€" rels a day. It is located on the site of an ancient temple dedicated at one time to a cult of fire worshippers and it has now been learned _ that the "eternal flames" that burned at the altar of the temple were maintained by natural gas issuing from the ground. According to geologists, this discovery opens up a posâ€" sibility of tapping an oil strata in a reâ€" gion 40 times larger than the present one The new strata includes part of the bed of the Caspian Sea and takes in the soâ€"called "sacred isle" where Zorâ€" oaster, the founder of the persoâ€"lran ian national religion, preached the fire eult. Zoroaster flourished about four hundred years before Christ. ‘Tragic Fate of Aged Recluse in Village in Wellington. . Gamelpit, Ont., despatch: Word was reâ€" ceived here toâ€"day that an old man namâ€" ed Hamilton, who lived alone in a little eabin on the outskirts of Erin village, was this morning found lying dead on the ground omly a few feet from the door of the wretched little hut in which he lived. He looked as though he had died from exposure, and beside him on the ground lay a whiskey flask, a little less than half full Breaks Adrift and Collides With Other War Vessels. Portsmouth, Eng., Dec. 9.â€"There was an exciting scene in this harbor last night, when the battleship St. (Gieorge broke away from her moorings and went adrift. She was finally brought under control, but she was so badly damaged in the meantime that she will have to, be docked, The Prince George grazed a number of warships anchored in the harbor and then collided with such force with the mnew critiser Shannow# which had just arâ€" Dominion Council Has Increased Assoâ€" ciations to Fortyâ€"nine. Toronto report: The Dominion Counâ€" cil of the Young Women‘s Christian Asâ€" sociations of Canada, which held its‘ anâ€" nual meeting yesterday afternoon at the residence of the President, Mrs. Robt. Kilgour, Queen‘s Park, has during the six years since its formation increased the number of city and college associaâ€" tions from fourtees and thirteen, reâ€" spectively, to twenty;six and twentyâ€" three. Representatives of six eollg: and five city associations, fucluding Edmonâ€" top and Hamilton, were present, besides members of the Exeeutive, _ It was thought by those who found bim that he had been lying there dead for three or four days. He was a hachâ€" elor, and had no relatives in the vicinity. rived in from her trials, that & big hole was pierced in the battleship‘s side. The Prince (;m‘rge took in water rapidly, and by the time she had been secured by a tug and towed to dock, she had a heavy list to starboard. The Shannon was damaged .only on her upper works. I The membership of the Y. W. C. A‘s, WORK FOR YOUNG WOMEN. PRINCE GEORGE DEAD NEAR HIS CABIN, Eight Miles Away. of Canada is now about 10,000, ci wham some . 3,000 ~are taking work in educaâ€" tional classes, and over.1,500 are in Bible study clasges. . > _ 3 8 it 0 In addition to the suicides caused by the suspension of the Brooklyn banks, many cases of actual destitution, to say nothing of bankruptcy, are coming to light. Most of the money tied up in the bankrupt institutions is that of people who have urgent need of it. | ‘% Wds es «udn dn </ 560 There was sent from Canada to Japan for two dormitories $4,400 towards the Bring Death and ‘Want to Man Whose Money They Held. â€" . New York, Dec. 9.â€"The King‘s county grand jury continued its examination into the affairs of the suspended Wilâ€" liamsburg Trust Company . toâ€"day. One woman, who has had a weekly allowance from a trust fund in the Williamsburg company, _ would â€" have been evicted toâ€"day had it not been for the receiver, who made arrangements to guarantee her rent, and then gave her $10 out of his own pocket. , Another depositor in the Borough Bank is unable to pay a mortgage that has fallen due, although he had saved the money for this very purpose. He has received notice of foreclosure and will lose his property. Baltimore, Dec. 9.â€"The body of Clara Bloodgood, the actress, who committed suicide by shooting in her room in the hotel Stafford last night, will be taken to New York toâ€"day by her husband, \Wm, Laimbier, of _ New _ York, who reached Balitmore this morning. He deâ€" clined to receive visitors but through John Emmerson, stage manager of the company, stated that the note left for him by his wife gave absolutely no clue as to the motive for her act, It merely referred to some business matters which she desired him to attend to for her in New York, and evidently had been laid aside for mailing M.r. Laimbier _ could not, he declared, assign any reason . for the decd. and Mr.@mmerson addei â€" that he himself was no nearer a solution of the matter toâ€"day than on last evening. He could only ascribe it to the fears of a possible physical breakdown on the part of Mrs. Bloodgood. She had had a hard season, he said, with a large numâ€" ber of oneâ€"night stands and this had told on her nervous system and occasâ€" ionally she would have a little nervous spell. Miss Bloodgood Deliberately Took _The fact of her purchase of the pistol here a few days ago and the discovery of a medical book in her room with marked paragraphs treating of the parts of the brain, seemed to indicate premedâ€" itation. The coromer said that it was plain she had made a careful study of these parâ€" agraphs with the hope of ending her life in a flash when the time came to fire a pistol hall into her head. Other Casualties Resulting From Collision on the Erie. The freight train had broken in two, and when the first part bad passed the switch, the tender supposed it was the end of the train and set the switch for the Wabash engine, the eollision resultâ€" ing. John Kelley, the switchman, was injured by the falling switch target, and Fireman Perey Scanlon was hurt by Jumping. "Bufifalo, N. Y., despateh: John Bain, of 8t. Thomas, Ont., the Wabash locomoâ€" tive engineer, who was so badly scalded last night in a collision between his enâ€" gine and several, runaway cars from a Lake Shore freight train, at the crossâ€" over of the Lake Shore and Erie roads, died late last night from his injuries. _ Thomas Cole, the clerk who ed, jumped upon the engine as the shops in order to reach the lier Scaided to Death While Waiting for His Father. Coroner Parker notified the family, and the body was taken to the county morgue. Owing to the fact that Chrisâ€" tie is a nonâ€"resident, a postâ€"mortem will be held. Christie had $185 and valuable jewelry on his person. eight years old, was scalded to death, | and his brother Walter, nine years old,i was frightfully burned just before 6 w‘ckock this evening when a boiler flue | blew out of the Endicottâ€"Johnson comâ€"| pauy tanners at Endicott, | water down into the fire box. _ The steam generated blew the furnace doors open. The boys, who were standing twenty feet away, were covered by the escaping steam and water, and so badly scalded that the younger one died two hours later. It is thought that Walter will recover. No one else was injured. Expired Suddenly in Detroitâ€"Was on Way to Ohio. Windsor report: John Christie, aged 51, of Toronto, a â€" travelling salesman for building : supply firms, died swlâ€" denly of heart disease at 247 Brush street, Detroit, at 4.15 o‘clock this morning. _ Christie . arrived in Detroit Wednesday night on his way to Ohio. Irving J. Wells, the boys‘ father, is employed â€"at the tannery as fireman. The boys went to the tannery to go home with their father, who was just preparing to quit work for the day when the flue blew out, letting the ACTRESS SUICIDE. iBnghgmi.on, Dec BANK WRECKERS TORONTO MAN‘S SUDDEN END. ENGINEER DEAD. BOY KILLED. Her Life. 0 Edgar Wells, was Kill it passod city ear kill ‘Boston, Dec. 9.â€"John A. Steele, an insane man of Everett, walked into the anteroom of the executive chamber of the State House this afternoon and, finding Governor Guild‘s door closed, turned on three prominen‘t labor leaders, who were waiting in the room and fired three shots at them, probably fatally wounding Edward Cohen, of Lynn, Presâ€" ident of the State branch of the Amâ€" erican Federation of Labor; seriously wounding Dennis R. Driscoll, of Bos: ton, Secretary of the same board, and painfully injuring with the muzzle of his revolver, Arthur M. Huddell, of Bosâ€" ton, former President of < the Central Labor Union of this city. Steele was overpawered by Private Secretary Chas. 8. Groves, General J. H. Whitney, chief of the State police, and Governor Guild, who rushed out of his office. TWO LABOR LEADERS SHOT IN BOSTON STATE HOUSE. COohen was shot twice through _ the head and is in a critical (:omion. The third bullet struck Driscoll a glancing blow on the side of the forehead and rendered him unconscious. _ He recovâ€" ered consciousness half an hour later. Huddell‘s wound was not serious. Steele has been an inmate of various State insane istitutions for the last five years. He was released on J:arol-f from one of tham only last month. PRESIDENT‘S REPORT AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, _ LIMIT IMIEGATION. Over Eighteen Hundred Miles of Road Now Under Constructionâ€" Bridgeâ€" building in the Westâ€"Accommoâ€" dated the Settlers. ‘ Montreal, Dec. 9.â€" At the annual meeting of the directors and shareholdâ€" ers of the Grand Trunk Pacific, held in Montreal toâ€"day, the President submitâ€" ted a report of the [_)rog'res's during tllu year, alu;wiug that the authorized mileâ€" age of the company for the main line and branches consists of 900 miles, no new mileage having been authorized since the last annual meeting. The mileâ€" age under contract, the construction of which is in charge of the Grand Trunk Pacific, consists of 998 miles, from Winâ€" nipeg westerly to Edmonton, and includâ€" ing the Loake Superior branch, The mileâ€" age under contr;wf, the construction of which is in charge of the commissioners of the Transcoftinental Railway, conâ€" sists of 852 miles of the main line of the eastern division, or a total mileage on the entire railway, the construction of which is now in progress, amounting to 1,840 miles. The substructure of the bridge across the South Saskatchewan River at Sasâ€" katoon is completed, and the steel supâ€" erstructure is now being erected, which, it is expected, will be completed so that trackâ€"Jaying can proceed westerly 200 miles to the Battle River with the opening of the work negt spring. The former officers were reâ€"clected. A Toronto despatch: Class II. of the shareholders in the York County Loan & Savings Company came before Referee M. CGeorge Kappele yesterday afterâ€" noon. Mr, Wm. Douglass, K. C., appearâ€" ed for the general body of sharehoiders, Mr. W. R. Smythe for class 11 ciaimâ€" ants, and Mr. C. D. Scott for the liquiâ€" dator. The sitting was ocupiel in an examination of Mr. Stuart Lynn as to the way in which "advance shares" were dealt with,. These shares were those on which the investor had secured a joan from the company. Mr. Lynn said that there was seidom any foriciture of this stock because the loans had become overdue, but simply when payment of the weekly installment on the stock it self had ceased for a certain length of time. Tokio, Dec. 9.â€" Hon. Rodolphe Leâ€" mieux, the Canadian Minister of Labâ€" or, held a lengthy conference toâ€"day With _ Viscount Hayashi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the Foreign Office, and received verbal assurances of the limitation of Japanese emigration, and that he will be given later full details of plans on foot for its control. During the course of the proceedings it transpired that the effect of the byâ€" laws of the company might be that the borrowers are still liable for the amâ€" ount of their loans, and that the shares had ceased to have any value owing to the automatic application of the forfeitâ€" ure resulting from nonâ€"payment of inâ€" stalments. HON. R. LENIEUX RECEIVES ASSURâ€" ANCES FROM.VISCQUNT HAYASHL Agents Will Huve to Abide by Foreign Minister‘s Decisionâ€" Commissioner Ishii Comments on Tyranny of Trades Unions. + Kiki Yiro Ishii, Chief of the Japan A committee from the _ emigration agencies here has held a conference with Minister Hayashi, who announced that th: plan of the Japanese Government was closely to limit all emigration to the United States and Canada,. Some members of the committee angrily anâ€" nounced their opposition to this course, but Minister Hayashi remained _ firm and dismissed the committee _ without changing his attitude or making any MADMAN‘S DEED. ne Man Entered Looking for Govâ€" ernor Guildâ€"Found the Men in the Anteâ€"room and Firedâ€"One of the Wounded Will Probably Die. G. T. PACIFIC. Shares" Were Treated. YORK : 646 of the Toekio uewsrpers around â€" him at the Foreign Office this evening and discussed his mission abroad, HMe said that there were two classes cof Japanâ€" ese in America, day laborers, of whom there were 15,000,â€"and a tew agricultur ists. It was againss Lo | coamgramesut of the former that objection was raised. He found that many of this class were desired by employers, but others said their met{odc of living were objectionâ€" able. The Japanese agricyiturists genâ€" erally were successful. Baron Ishii described the existing ecoâ€" nomic conditions in America, and _ exâ€" plained the method of State selfâ€"governâ€" ment in the United States, He sard that between the trusts and the labor unions the middle class of Americans and forâ€" eign laborers suffered, geclaring that union labor was largely controlled by unreasoning firsons, their attitude be ing almost that of tyrants, and thedy were liable to destroy anything standâ€" ing in their way. Coe o o o cce tw n "Japanese engaged in agriculture as land g\.\'ners or leuors."%.m'd Baron Ishii, "require a few of the best class of their countrymen as iaborers, _ but the Government of Japan has been limâ€" iting the emigration of this class." ese Bureau of Commerce, who a _ few days ago returned from his visit to the United States and Canada, where the was sent to investigate the emigraâ€" tion problem, gathered representatives PROFESSIONAL GAMBLERS "WORKâ€" ING" THE ATLANTIC LINERS. German Baron Loses Heavilyâ€"Organâ€" ized Gang of Card Sharpers Invests the Steamersâ€" Companies Warn Passengers. #48 2y% New York, Dec. 9.â€"The heavy gamâ€" bling on the North German lloyd Line steamer Kron Prinzessin Cecilia on her recent westward voyage from Bremen, when Baron Von Ittersum is said to have been relieved of $600 in cash and a large amount of promissory notes by a professional gambler and a confederâ€" ate, has convinced the agents of the Atâ€" lantic lines in this city that there is a well organized gang working the steamâ€" ers. Herman Winter, passenger manager of the North German Lloyd Line, said yesterday: â€""We have done all in our power to protect . passengers on . the steamers from these card sharpers, but it is very difficult, because in many inâ€" stances the passengers will not take the advice of our officers and conseâ€" quently they are stung." _ < An official of the White Star Line said that the company refused tickets to all gamblers that were known to them, and that in the busy season notices were insertea in the passenger lists warning the patrons of tE: line against gambling with strangers or taking part in large rools on the ship‘s daily run. CLERGYMAN CARRIED SCANDAL, BUT WITHOUT MALICE. Wiarton Divine Says His Duty Led Him to Denounce Fellow Clergyman‘s Toronto, Dec. 9.â€"â€"Upon a motion 1O have the plaintiff give security ror costs in the libel suit of Mary luzabeth Danâ€" ard, wife of a Methodist minister of Oliâ€" phant, Unt,, against ihomas amoore, of the _ same | paace, the @LudaÂ¥ic Of tins uciendant wasâ€" Ihea At Usgoode Maiu, mirs. anard seeks $2000 qaidages 1JO aneged ~defamatoua . of . CBaracter . Uy moule, Who, it is carmed, tord awey. tug» iaver, he says, Rev, Smythe, as chair man ol the Maarton dislme« ol the some ety, askeq hinu, as quarier board neprcâ€" sculdUuive, about the Wouuic, ie cacd repeated â€" the â€" ramors to aney, Duiyine withoui maiice, but because it Was dis duty to teii al he knew under the dis epune of the methodist Cauiea, OLlnel statements compiained of the deiendani agemes having made, ‘ihe repeution of the rumors was taken advantage of by members of tne society, who sought to have Rev, Danâ€" ard desist from the conduct of Daznard evening meetings in the Oliphant Methâ€" odist &hurch, The defendant says that th> plainiif: has not sufficient money to pay costs if judgment should go against her. Wants to Know Why Cape Colony is Making Warlike Preparations. Cape Town, Dec. 9.â€"Chief Dinizulu, who is credited with planning a generai rising of the Zulus against the British, has telegraphed to the Government of Natal expressing surprise at the military preparations that are being made by that colony. He asks why, if the Government thinks he is responsible for the murâ€" ders committed during the rising last year, he is not put on his trial and, if found guilty, punished. Negro Shot Seven White Persons, Then Was Riddled Himself, Augusta, Ark., Dec. ~.â€"Crazed by cocaine, Wash Mussay, negro, ran amuck here toâ€" day shooting seven white persons, two of whom were women. The negro was finally corralled in the railroad yard a nd shot to death by a posse, fighting until he fell, litâ€" erally riddled with b say‘s victime will die. GAMBLING AT SEA. The cause of action arose. NXov COCAINE FIEND RUNS AMUCK. Wife. ASKS DAMAGES. ZULU CHIEF UP TO DATE. <I1O0 ARCHIVES TOROoNTO Upon a motion to Wibs da»r the dis _ lned fendant 3 St. Catharines, Ont., Dec. 9. The whole town toâ€"day is chuckling over one of the funniest things which could befall a man, which took . place . last night,. _ A wellâ€"known business man reâ€" ceived a telegram from his daughter in Buffalo saying that she was coming here on the evening train, and he was to meet her. When he got up town about train time, all the cabs had gone to the station. The only thing for him to do was to wait for one of the cabs to get back, because the G, T. R. depot is a long distance away, at the same time telephoning to the station agent to tell the young lady to wait for him. The first cab that came up town he got into, and started back for _ the station. Malf way there they met another cab, and his Jehu sang oui, "That looks like your daughter coming now." The hero of the story jumped out and stepped into the other cab. Seeing a lady sitting in one corner of the dark cah, without more ado he threw his arms around her and plantâ€" ed a kiss on her lips. The cold chills started down his back a second later when a strange voice exclaimed, "Exâ€" cuse me, sir, there must hbe a mistake," and mistake thore was. 1t turned out to be a lady that lives near the G, T. R. station. who â€" was being taken to the ‘imspilul. Uf course, she accepted the gentleman‘s _ profuse _ apology, . even though delivered in a very fluttered All KEISSED THE WRONG WOMAN IN THAT SAVORY SUIT. manner minutes later. R. F. Forneri, the manâ€" ager, heard the shot in Dawson‘s room over the bank, and went up and found him in bed, dead, with a revolver beâ€" side him. â€" Mis home is in Orangeville, | No cause can be assigned for his act, which was evidently of suicidal intent. Manager Forneri stated that his acâ€" ;munu are all right, That he was very popular socially and that he can _ as Iaign no reason for the rash act. _ Dawâ€" ‘son attended a danece at Harley last 'night and on returning at 4 a‘clock this morning complained to a companion of | feeling ill. At 9.15 he rose and dressed. |Shortly after hbe fired the fatal «hot | without explanation or warning. An inâ€" | _ Moscow, Dec. 9.â€"The woman who yesâ€" ’ terday made an unsuccessful attempt to | kill Lieut..Gen. Guerschelmann, Governâ€" | orâ€"General of Moseow, with a bomb, reâ€" fuses to divulge her name, but her conâ€" ‘ nection has been established, *A number of arrests in connection with the atâ€" | tempt have been made, NO COURT OF HONOR FOR COUNT wW. VON HOHENAU, Announcement by German War Minister in the Reichstagâ€"Another Man Imâ€" plicated in the Orgies Recently Aired in Court. Berlin, Dec, 9.â€"Minister of War YVon Einem announced in the Reichstag toâ€" day that the Emperor had ordered the suspension of the court of honor pro ceedings against Gon. Count Wilhelm Von Hohenau, who, together with Ma jor Count Johannues Lynar, was comproâ€" mised by the testimony given in the Mardenâ€"Von Moltke libe! suit. This action means that Count Von Hohenau must take his chances in an ordinary court of justice, The Minister of War announced further that Count Von Hohenau and Couat L.ynar . had presented themselves for trial and that the cases would take the usual course, This announcement created a great senâ€" sation. The remarks of the Minister of War were called forth by a remarkable speech delivered by Dr. Merman 8. Paasche, First Viceâ€"President of the Reichstag, in which he held up a bunch of letters which he said had been written by Count Von Hohenau from the Imperial headâ€" quarters at Wilhelmshohe to Herr Bollâ€" hardt, who was a witness at the Harden trial, and which indicated that Von Hoâ€" henau had had meretricious relations with Bollhardt. At the trial Bollhardt testified to having taken part in the orgies at the villa of Count 1.ynar, Burford, Ont., despatch: R. R. 1 teller, about 25 years of age, Crown Bank here, shot himsel{ 10.30 toâ€"day the bullet entering h head. Me was dead when found minutes later. R. F. Forneri, th R. B. Dawsor, af the Crown Bank, Burford, Shot Himself. quest will be held Congratulated by the Czar, and Taft The GovernorGeneral _ has received telegrams, congratulating him upon his narrow escape, from the Emperor, Premâ€" ier Stolypin and United States Secretary of War Taft. Middlesex Woman Passes Away at Supâ€" posed Age of 110. A Struthror despatch: Mary Featherâ€" stone, the oldest resident in Adelaide Township, who lived ten miles north of here, died toâ€"day. Although her age was not definitely known, old settlers living around there claim she was an old woman when they were boys, and estiâ€" mate her age at about 110 years. She was born in Ireland, and emigrated to Canada when a child. Miss Nancy Mcâ€" Neill, who was buried here last Saturâ€" day, was 97 years old, and declared Mrs. Featherstone was as old as her mother. Mrs. Featherstone was an inveterate smoker. She leaves a large family. St. Catharines® ChurYling Over Misâ€" take of Man Who Went to Meet His Caughter at Stationâ€"Took a Chance in the Dark. RUSSIAN GENERAL TELLER SUICIDES. LONG PAST CENTURY MARK on His Escape From Deathâ€" EXCUSE ME. Dawson, . at the i about his foreâ€"