The Gazette du lieu suivant : Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 1

f7 TEMPERATURE YESTERDAY Max. 60 above; Min. 47 above WEATHER FORECAST: FAIR AND MILL yOL. NO. 229 MONTREAL, VEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1913.

TWENTY. PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS. STRIKE FEVER IN ENGLAND JEROME IS WAGING PEACE OF EUROPE AGAIN THREATENED FOUR KILLED IN COLLISION ON I.C.R. Two Freight Trains Met Head-on in Siddal's Cut, Near Sackville TRYING TO SOLVE IRISHJUESTION King George Probably Instigated Attempt to Bring Parties Together SCHOOL EXISTED 3200 B.C. Fact Revealed by Tablets From Babylonia Special Cable to the New York Times and Montreal Gazette.

Philadelphia, Sept. 23. The discovery of the existence of the first temple of learning in the world, where the first exponents of the Liturgical system congregated, has Just been made by Professor Stephen Herbert Langdon, professor of Asy-riology in Oxford, who is now investigating the Nippur collection of the University of Pennsylvania. The tablets were collected in three expeditions to Nippur in the southern part of Babylonia. "I have ascertained from the examination of the tablets that priests had a school in the temple at Nippur as early as 3200 B.C.

and that this school existed about 1,000 years," said Dr. Langdon. "To these priests is due the liturgical system which spread throughout Babylonia and Assyria and influenced Greece and Rome. They were the exponents of a great university, the most important center of learning. I believe it was the first school of learning and for that reason the University of Pennsylvania's collection wWr, discloses the presence of MARTYR TO THE X-RAY Philadelphia Physician, After Much Suffering, Succumbs (Special to The Gazette.) Philadelphia, September 23.

Dr. Charles Lester Leonard, expert in X-Ray work, died yesterday at Atlantic City, a martyr to the science to which he had devoted himself. From constant exposure to the rays he was stricken with a disease that baffled the bst surgeons. Nine years ago the hand that guided the light became affected. Medical skill availed nothing and the hand was amputated.

But the ailment had gone further, and a Jew years ago it was found necessary to remove his entire arm. Then it was believed that the disease was conquered. Dr. Leonard arranged to resume his -practice but before the wounds had healed the disease spread over his body. At last he decided to go with his family to Atlantic City in the hope that sea air would restore him to himself, but soon he became bedfast.

Dr. Leonard's father, M. Hayden Leonard, is seriously ill at his home here, and news of his son's death, it is feared, will further increase the seriousness of his condition. Harry W. Cox, of London, who did so much to develop the yRay in its early days and who worked with Sir McKenzie-Davidsbn, who was knighted for his researches in X-Ray work, was infected in the same manner as Dr.

Leonard. Although his hand and then his arm were amputated he died. Dr. Baker, a well known Connecticut physician died In a similar manner, as did several other physicians in this country and in Europe. FIGHT OF HIS LIFE Says Thaw Is Vicious Degenerate and Money Must Not Defeat Justice.

'IS CONFIDENT OF RESULT Arguments Were Concluded and Governor's Decision Will Not Be Known for Week at Least' Concord, N. H. Sept. 23. The duty bf the State of New Hampshire toward Harry Kendall Thaw was the BUbject of exhaustive argument before Governor Felker today.

The legal battle in which William Travers Jerome, special deputy attorney-general of New York state, who seeks to -obtain the extradition of Thaw as a fugitive from justice, was pitted against three of the fugitive's array of counsel, was dramatic at times and near the close came dangerously near to being personal. To the charge that ho had resorted to subterfuge and was rm'bved -by ulterior motives, in his determination to return Thaw to the Matteawan Asylum, Jerome retorted with unusual feeling that the State of New York' would not permit its justice to be defeated by the corrupt use of Thaw money. At the conclusion of arguments, the Governor gave counsel until Monday to file supplementary briefs so his decision will not be known for a week at least. Seated beside the Governor in the Senate chamber of the capitol, where the hearing was held, was Attorney-General Tuttleby. whose opinion the executive has said he will be guided by.

During Jerome's arguments new angles In the celebrated case developed. One that appeared to take the opposing counsel by surprise was his statement that Thaw was now under indictment in Duchess County, charged with conspiracy to escape from the insane asylum." Formler Judge Willianr M. Chase of New Hampshire, and former Governor William Stone, of Pennsylvania, pleading for Thaw, had emphasized the common belief that no bill had been found against their client and that accordingly there was no evidence before the Governor that New York Intended to place him on- trial. Jerome went further and gave his Vord that Thaw wouid be -i-Vvsed on- trial if returned to New; -York State. REASONS FOR SECRECY.

These assertions Were-. coupled with the explanation" that the returning of the indictment had been kept, secret in order that evidence might be presented' to the jury; against the 'insti-gator of this plot) a man of more importance than anybody yet mentioned in this proceeding." Judge Chase, in turn, suggested a new Idea, declaring that New York state had no right to confine Thaw, who, he said, 'was a citizen of Pennsylvania, and should by right have been returned to that state when he was adjudged insane. Governor Felker had announced that counsel would not be confined in their remarks, but -might shed all the light that they could on the case. In opening Mr. Jerome contented himself with stating that the Governor had no alternative to honoring the request of the New York He held that the only points to be determined Were that -Thaw was wanted, that he was in New York state when the alleged offence was committed, and the matter of his.

identity. Judge Chase followed with' the argument that Thaw was Insane when he escaped from Matteawan; and therefore irresponsible. The charge of conspiracy had been trumped up, he said, for the purpose of returning Thaw to the asylum. Speaking in a similar ex-Governor Stone declared that there was no law to punish a lunatic for escaping from an asylum. Both quoted at length from authorities.

George F. Morrison, the third of Thaw's counsel, attacked the petition for saying that it sought to do indirectly what its sponsors could not do directly. In the name of public opinion and public sentiment he asked the Governor to exercise broad discretion in dealing with the case. "It surely will not be said Mr. Jerome, "that the hysteria of the moment is sufficient excuse for contravening the decision of the Su preme Court of the nation and of the States." To the assertion that there was no indictment against Thaw, he replied: "The fact is, which I have a right to know as a deputy attorney-general, that an indictment was found and was signed, but before that indictment was filed a request was preferred by the Attornev-General, through mo, that the grand jury suspend further investigation until I could return from New Hampshire to present to them evidence concerning the instigator of this plot a man of more importance than anyone yet named In the proceedings and it was after a conference between myself and one of the grand jury men appointed as a- committee that the entire matter was laid over, and hat is the history of that." WHY NEW YORK WANTS THAW.

With evidence of increased feeling Mr. Jerome then turned to the charge 4,000 Colliers Quit Work Over Trifling Episode London, September 23. That the strike fever Is not entirely allayed is indicated by the strike of 4,000 colliers today because a company police-' man insulted miner's wife. The company refused to dismiss the policeman and will close the pits tomorrow. This Will bring the number idle up to 9,000.

The postmen's convention adopted a resolution today declaring that the the statement of the Postmaster-General to the effect that the wages of postal employees would be raised $5,000,000 during he course of the year was false and that a decade would expire before the amount would reach that sum. If at the end of six weeks nothing was done to meet the grievances, the convention declared, a general strike of postal employees would be put to vote of the union. PORT OF ST. JOHN MAY SEE A STRIKE 'Longshoremen Make Demands on the Shipping Companies for Increased Wages (Special to The Gazette.) St. John, N.B., September that may result in a strike and a consequent tie-up of the winter port business was taken by the longshoremen's union, numbering all the harbor workers In St.

John, who drew up a new schedule of rates and pre sented it to the shipping companies with the notice that the union would move to put the new schedule into effect on November 16. Local shipping men declined to discuss the demand or the probabie ac tion of the shipping eompaniesi be-yong saying that the matter demanded serious consideration, and that a meeting of shipping men would probably be held in a few days to consider, a line of action. If the shipping companies refuse to grant the demands of the men, there is likelihood of a struggle, as the union men have been preparing to move for higher pay for some years, and they are backed by the luternational Longshoremen's Union. The shipping companies will also have to deal with a demand from the marine freight checkers' union for higher wages on November 16th. Another local of 'the longshoremen's association, the coal handlers' union, which rsed the winter rate from 30 to 35 cents last winter, will make a demand for 40 cents lor day work, to go into effect, on November lHth.

These unions ha- nrt. yet presented their demands, at', they awaUfng on the sanction of th international association. If the shipping companies concede the demands of the men, St. John will be ahead of Boston, Portland, Montreal, Halifax and others ports as regards the wages and conditions of labor for longshoremen. compared with the former rates, the new schedule calls for substanttial in-cheases all round.

While the men have been working in summer for 35 cents an hour, wito a nine-hour day, and for SO cents in winter with a ten-hour day, they want 40 cents an hour throughout the year. Where the old day rates of 35 cents in summer and 30 in winter obtained for night work, they are now asking for 4a cents for night work. Where the Sunday and holiday rate during the day time was 60 cents, they are now asking 80 cents. Where Sunday work was B0 cents, they are asking for 90 cents. Under the old schedule grain was handled for 40 cents day and night; the new schedule for grain calls for 35 cents by day and 60 by night.

The new schedule calls for double pay when the men are required to work meal hours on ordinary days; $1.20 for weal times on Sunday and $1.35 for meal times on Sunday night. For Sunday nights a rate of 90 cents an hour- is asked. The shipping men agree that the situation is serious. Representatives of the longshoremen say they have really not had an increase since 1898. ONLY ON TERMS Kaiser Drives Hard Bargain Over Duchy of Brunswick Special Cable to the New York Timed nnd Montreal Gazette.

Berlin, September 23. The Tagliche Rundschau claims authority for stating that the, forthcoming elevation of the Kaiser's son-in-law, Prince Ernst Augustus, of Cumberland, to th. throne of the Duchy of Brunswick will be conditional on the Prince's father, the Duke of Cumberland, agreeing to the following terms: First, to refrain from any attempt to obtain possession of the throne of Hanover and from machinations designed to imperil the integrity of the territory of Prussia; second, to disavow all connection with any movements which "affect the peace and quiet of Prus sia," and, third, to renounce all his rights in favor of his son. The Journal adds that whe.i the Duke subscribes to these conditions he will cease to have any political status so far as Germany is cmcemed and have only the charaoter of a "private person." Prince Ernst Augustus has already formally assented to the conditions. MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE Australian Court Fixes Day Rate at 8s.

6d. (Canadian Associated Press.) London, September 23. The Federal Arbitration Court of Australia, in 1907, fixed the minimum living wage for unskilled men at seven shillings a day. yesterdays Justice Higglns, gave a highly important decision increasing this to eight shillings and sixpence. The award, it seems, was based on the increased cost of living during the last six yearg.

Aa wages of other worker are based on the basic wage of the state, wages boards and arbitration courts are largely following the lines of the federal award. Justice Higglns'' decision will have far-reaohing effects. The Judge indicated, however, that differentiation will be necessary in regard to different cities, In whlc'i Italy and Austria Likely Take Hand in Albanian Trouble to MOBILIZATION OF SERVIA Assertion Made That Albania Respects Only Force and Delay Would Prove Fatal London, September 23. The situa tion in the Balkans is again extreme ly threatening to the peace of Europe. Italy may take strong measures, even to the extent of, a blockade of Piraeus should Greeoo continue to encroach on southern Albania, while it is rumored Austria wtp form an alliance, with Bulgaria to prevent Servian aggression in north ern Albania.

Late advices, Belgrade aj that Servia intends to mobilize a whole division to deal. with. the Albanian situation, Albania sua any aeiav in the negotiations would be fatal to CAPTURE OF DIBRA. Belgrade, Sept. 23.

The official account of the capture of Dibra by the Albanians says that a large force attacked two companies of Servians in the vicinity of that town Monday morning. After a fierce battle of two hours, the Servians withdrew towards and the Al- banians entered Dibra. Thev num. bered 6,000. and were mmmftnH by foreign officers the nationality of whom has not been established.

Servian reinforcements have been despatched to Dibra. ESSAD PASHA'S ACTIVITIES. Saloniki, September 23 It is re ported from Beiret, which is thirty miles from Avlona, that E3sad Pasha proclaimed Albanian autonomy under the suzerainty of the Sultan, and has ordered Ismail Kemal Bey, president of the provisional government, to leave Avlona. INDEX TO THE NEWS Pag Two Social and Personal ijow Viscountess Wolsedey trains gardeners. Second report of University Settle- ment mentions future activities.

Page Three City and District News. Prisoner awaiting trial' hanged himself In Bordeaux jail. Youth shot in breast by revolver he was playing with, Page Four Realty agent who acted for several proprietors in Sherbrooke street-extension sales gave testimony at civic land probe. Aid. Lapointe opposes purchase oi Touvllle square property.

Sir John Courtis back from West impressed with Dominion's resources. Page Five Sidelights on social evil traffic afforded in hearing case in Court of Appeals. Post office employee charged with stealing letters acquitted by Judge without hearing, defence. Aid. Blumenthal presented motion for shorter working -days at present rate of pay.

Miss Lulu Norton, victim of shooting near Alexandria, shows improvement. Mechanics' Institute and Natural Hi- tory Society come together Page Six The realty market. What Verdun is doing'- to protect property against the spring floods. Page Seven Westmount budget has big increases with assessment lower. Fropnetors to, pay whole cost of IX.

Boulevard widening. RequeBts of aldermen for-new -car routes referred to Board of Control. Page Eight Senate and Minister of Labor Attacked at Labor Congress. Page Nine No- decision on question of referendum at council meeting yesterday. Acting Minister of Interior's action in deporting Thaw upheld by Court.

Sulzer admits Assembly's constitutional right to Impeach. Page Ten Editorial. Page Eleven Rev. Mr. French back from study tour England and Ireland speaks of conditions.

The Civil Courts. Page Twelve Pari mutuels may be used exclusively at Blue Bonnets. Lord Dewey won the $10,000 stake at Columbus. Hunt Club races to be held October 4. Pags Thirteen Referees file claims for fees against P.Q.F.A.

clubs. Hamilton Tigers beat Regina by 24 to 4. Rugby players hard at practice. Page Fourteen Alberta and Great Western Waterways bill. Mexican Affairs.

Page Fifteen News of the shipping. Page Sixteen News of Railroads. Page Seventeen The Grain Markets. Page Eighteen 8wks In Canada. Page Nineteen Stocks In New fork.

Page Twenty Pay's doings In Ta'tff Conference. Congress of alcoholism in Milan. ENGINE CREWS ARE DEAD Conductor George Armstrong Misconstrued Orders and Passed Amherst His Reg- ular Crossing Point Moncton, September 23. Four en- ginemen killed and two brakemen jured, at least a damage of $40,000 to the I. C.

line between Moncton and Halifax tied up for for hours, which necessitated the transference of passengers, mails and baggage from one side of the wreck to the ether, were the results of a wreck on the I. C. in which two trains came together in a head-on collision at a point as Slddalls Cut, about one mile cast of Aulac, or about six miles east of Sackville, this afternoon. The dead are: Enoch Rushton, driver on No. 231, Dufferin street, Moncton.

Byron Colpitts, fireman on No. 231, Moncton. Frank Lyons, driver on No. 234, Truro. Hingley, fireman on No.

234, Stewi-acke. The injured: R. H. Sharpe, forward brakeman on No. 2S1, Moncton.

Banks, forward brakeman on No. 234, Truro. The bodies of the three others, too, presented a gruesome sight They were taken out of the wreckage, placed on the side of the track and cov ered by blankets. Dr. J.

V. Calkin, of Sackville, was summoned and he went to the scene. After the two injured men had been attended to. Dr. Calkin who is cor oner, empanneled a jury, who, after viewing the remains adjourned until today.

The two forward brakemen on each train were riding in the engines with their respective drivers and how they escaped death along with tha other occupants of the two engines is un explained. Brakeman Robert H. Sharpe of Moncton, was badly injured. He was picked up in a critical condition and taken to the Amherst hospital. He win recover.

Banks, the other brakeman, who was in the cab of Driver Lyons' train, was also badly injured, but it is thought, that he will recover. MISCONSTRUED ORDERS. The cause of the collision was due to Conductor George Armstrong of No. 231 train, and Driver Enoch Rush- of the same train, misconstruing their cross with No. 234.

According to '-he time card, the regular cross of these two trains is at Amherst, but both the conductor and engineer tnougnt they were to cross at Sack ville and they were en. route to that point when the catastrophe occurred. Both trains were put on the service recently. Conductor Armstrong, when seen at Aulac by a reporter, said that he ana uriver Rushton had miscon strued the cross and this was the cause of the accident. TRAINS MET ON A CURVE.

The collision occurred on a curve' ona il in etrimatea that about twenty wetfe telescoped, nnve ofl Lii-m puiiig up on top of one another, while others were broken to splinters and one tn would think that the box cars were inaae oi paper or some other weak material. The strongly built cars, some fortified with steel, were broken Into fragments. The wreck occurred at half past four. Number 231, known as the "way freight" in charge of Conductor George Armstrong, of Moncton with Driver Enoch Rushton', were bringing" their train to Moncton, running about two hours iato. The other train in the wreck is known as 234, a "Special," although it runs on schedule, was in charge of Conductor John D.

McDonald, of Truro (known among railway men as Foxy Jack). He had as engineer Frank Lyons, of Truro. This train, like the other, was running behind' time. The crash occurred on the sharp curve at Siddall's Cut, and both engines were only a stiort distance apart when, it is believed, the two drivers saw the. aDnroachlnir inim At any rate, it was too late to avert a collision, as from the position that the badly twisted machinery on both engines, it was thought by all those who inspected it, that hoth drivers had applied the emergency brakes.

Beth trains, it is said, were travelling at a speed of fifteen miles an hour. INSTANTLY KILLED. Drivers Enoch Rushton and Frank Lyons and Firemen Byron Colpitts and Hlngley were instantly killed. Shortly after the collision qpcurred a tire started and the bodies of these four men vere burned almost beyond recognition. At an early hour this morning the body of Lyons, ths engineer, had not been taken out of the wreck, although it was located after thf fire had been extinguished.

From the position of the body, it Is nN-lieved that he made an unsuccessful attempt to jump or crawl out of the cab. The victim was caught about the mlddla of the body between the tender and ths cab of his engine, while other pieces of machinery flying about, no doubt, helped to kill Coupled with this the boiler exploded and he wag n6 doubt, terribly scalded. It is believed that th. man is Driver Lyons, although he was not positively identified and it might be Fireman Hlngley. Explosion on Dairy Farm Colllngwood, September 23.

On? man killed, another not expected to live, and two others seriously hurt, Is the record of a boiler explosion on the dairy farm of Blackstock Just outside the town limits ASQUITH IN A TIGHT FIX Expected to' Make Statement on Subject in Speech to Be Delivered in Scotland on October 11 (Central News Cable Service.) London, Wednesday, September 24. The Standard's lobby correspondent declares that the frequency with which politicians have been visiting Balmoral Castle bears out the inference that it was the King who instigated the attempt to ring the parties together. He adds that very stiious attention is being paid the proposal to exclude Northeastern Ulster from the immediate scheme of the Irish Government. The proposal, ho" continues, would involve the remodelling of present plans so as to convert the Irish Government scheme into a mere Liberal endownment 'jf the Irish Parliament, and he adds that there is reason to believe that Unionist Ulster would accept such a solution of the difficulty. The Daily Express, repeating former utterances on the subject, emphasises its conviction that the present Home Rule Bill is as dead as Julius Caesar.

Premier Asquith is now attacked within his own camp, Mr. Asquith, it says, must either agree to a conference on the Unionist conditions, or must -go out of office. If the Radicals go, it says, Bonar Law will come in. Asquith will make a statement in a speech to be delivered in Scotland 6n the 11th of October. Referring to the suggestion that the Government relieve Sir Edward Carson and Mr.

F. E. Smith of their seats on the Privy Council, the Ex press asserts that such action would be followed by the instant resignation of all the Unionist Privy Councillors. The Daily Mail says that though the Liberal newspaper may maintain a little longer their attitude make-believe, the Liberal ministers know that the nearer the hour approaches for the third enactment of the Home Rule Bill, the more impossible becomes their position. The Times lays stress upon the dangers presented by the strike it-uation at Dublin and admits that the example of Sir Edward Carson may have a serious affect on the labor opinion.

It maintains that the responsibility rests with the Government and it expresses the belief that they, as responsible statesmen, will give the country the chance to support them with a different policy. The Daily Graphic suggests that an election take place in February. The Chronicle (Liberal) is of the opinion that Sir Edward Carson's last desperate effort is likely to fail, whilst the Citizen (Labor) infers that Carson is cUibing down. The Irish Unionist parliamentary party assembled last night at the residence of Captain Craig, near Belfast, there being only two absentees. A private meeting followed a dinner and those present discussed tha proposed provisional Government for U1t ster, arrangements for which will be completed at the Ulster Unionist Council today.

It is expected that 500 delegates will be present at the latter gathering. The Council is expected to ratify the plans for a provisional government submitted by the commission of five, appointed In 1912. The officers of the provisional government will then be created. On Saturday, Sir Edward Carson will inspect fourteen battalions of Belfast volunteers at Balmoral, near Belfast, when, instead of the salute, the General will call for three chsers, whilst the Unionists bands will play Rule Britannia and the National Anthem. A feature of the spectacle will be a huge Union Jack which was used at the Bonar Law meeting in 1912.

BRITISH NAVAL POLICY Announcement by Admiralty Indicates" Radical Changes London, September 23. The announcement by the Admiralty that a fleet comprising eight battleships, three- battle cruisers, eight cruisers and eight light cruisers will be sent to the Mediterranean early in November, coupled with the despatch of four large armored ships, which will have their base in the future at Bermuda, indicates a radical change in the British naval policy, which, on account of friction with Germany, has kept practically all the fighting units within hon.e waters for several years past. The Mediterranean fleet, after manoeuvres, will cruise as far as Alexan dria. With the vessels already in those waters, the visiting fleet, under Vice-Admiral Sir Stanley Colville, will make the most imposing naval demonstration over attempted by Great Britain in the Mediterranean. The fourth cruiser squadron, leaving England September ZD, will proceed direct to Bermuda.

It, is due there October 10, after which the ships will scatter, to visit various porta in the Caribbean. OVERBOARD IN MID-OCEAN SS. Campania Loses a Third-Class Passenger Speclnl Cable to the-New York Times and Mftntrenl Quzette. London, September 23. When the CunKrd liner Campania, which arrived at Queenstown today, was In mid-At-iHntlc an Irish third class passenger, John Eagan, Jumped or fell overboard.

The engines were stopped and a boat rowed quickly to the aid of the drowning man, but a number of sharks were seen in the water, and by the time the boat arrived at the epot there wag no trace of him. It is he--lieved Chat Eagan wag devoured by the sharks. The CampHflia was stopped for about an hour. this university is of the greatest value to scholars. "The discovery will establish more clearly in the minds' of scholars the fact that the -origin 'of religious orders existed in ancient antiquity and that a very important religious or-d-er existed at the temple near Nlp- pur." ADVICE TO CANADA ON NAVAL AFFAIRS British Admiralty Expert Gives Pointers on Construction of a Navy Vancouver, B.C., September 23.

In the opinion of Sir Philip Watts, K. since 1911 advisor on naval construction to the British Admiralty, who arrived in Vancouver this morning, warships of the large kind could be built in Canada, but not. as quickly or cheaply as they are turned out in England. The best way, he declared, for Can ada to start in on navar construction would be to have a few ships built in England at first and then have some built, partly in England and partly in Canada, and finally, when the workmen have been trained and the- shipbuilding plantBIproperly'- organized and equipped here, to bulla the ships altogether in Canada. "Of course," he said.

whole work could, no doubt, be done in Canada from the but I think the cost would be very great and the ships would take a much longer time to construct than Is the case 'England." Building of the ships, however, he remarked would not be the only thing that have to be taken into consideration. There would be the machinery to build and instal. and the most important item of arming the ships when completed. At present Canada has not the facilities to do either of these things, he claimed. As to the Borden naval policy and the naval policy of the Liberal Opposition he said that he had nothing to say, nor would he comment on the British naval PASSING OF PATRICK FORD Editor of Irish World Dead in Brooklyn New York.

Sentemher 53 Pa tY-lnV Ford, editor of the Irish World, died today at his home in Brooklyn. For a generation he had supported with speech and pen Irish opposition to r-ngnsn rule, organizing in 1879 and the few years following some 2,500 branches of the Land League, to the treasurer of which in Ireland he forwarded half a million dollars through his paper. Mr. Ford was born in Ireland in 1837 and emigrated nine year "slater to America, entering Journalism in Boston In 1855. He served, in the Civil War, afterwards settling in Charleston, S.C., where he founded the Charleston Gazette.

Several years later he issued the first copy of the Irish World. He was a close friend of James G. Blaine, whom he supported for the presidency. NOT COUNT DE BEAUCAIRE Identity of Aberdeen Suicide Not Yet Established Aberdeen, Scotland, September 23. A man believed to be a French Count but whose Identity has not yet been established, attempted suicide in a bedroom of a hotel here early this morning.

The man shot himself In the chest with a revolver. He was removed to a hospital, where It was found he was suffering from a superficial wound. Later he was transferred to an asylum for the insane. It was firBt thought that he- was Count Horric de Beaucaire, tlie' French minister to Denmark, as ho had registered under that name, but investigation disclosed that Count Horric de Beaucaire. the French minister, had died on March 28 last.

LEGISLATUREDISS0LVED General Election in Newfound land Called October 30 St. John's, Sept. 23. Hon. Walter Davidson, Governor of New.

foundland, today dissolved the Legislature of Newfoundland, and called a general election in the colony for October 30. Both the premier, Sir Edward Morris, and Sir Robert Bond, the former premier, now leader of th Opposition, have completed their plans for an active campaign. Royal Betrothals JfiurhareKt, September 23. The betrothals of Prince Charles of Rumania to Grand Duchess Olga of and Crown Prince George nf Greece to Princess Elizabeth of Ruman'a, wMI be announced at an enrly date. CHATEAUGUAY AND EAST MIDDLESEX Both Bye-Elections Billed to Take Place in Month of October (Special to The Gazette.) Ottawa, September 23.

Two of the by-elections -necessitated by vacancies In the House of Commons are to be held in October, those of East Middle sex and Chateauguay. In East Middlesex the nomination day will, it. is expected, be fixed for October 14, with polling day on the 21st. W. B.

Harding, of Thorndale, will act as returnl lng officer. Aid. Frank Glass, of London, was recently nominated as the Conservative candidate for East Mid dlesex, and on Saturday the Liberals selected Mr. R. G.

Fisher, barrister as their standard bearer. In the Chateauguay election, which takes place on October 11, the return lng omcer win ee j. jhs, u. advocate, of In each of these counties the vac ancy was caused by the death of th sitting memrjer, feter aison in Jiasi, and J. P.

Brown in Cha. teauguay, the latter of whom died on May. 30. In anticipation of the bringing on of the Chateauguay election, the OTnstown Bulletin recently said "The by-election for this county is expected to take place next month, but so 'far no Liberal is In the field. The Conservatives apparently have two candidates, as Mr.

Wm. Greig in formed us that he had been requested to run by a large number of support srs." Mr. James Morris, who in 1911 game within 40 votes of tielng with the late Mr. Brown, is regarded as the prospective Government candi date. TAKES HARD DIG AT U.S.

Telegraph Answers Critics Anent U.S. Games London, September 24. The Daily Telegraph, in a long editorial this morning, answers American criticisms of Great Britain's reported intention to withdraw from the Olympic Games. It admits that the English public looks upon the proposed Olympic fund with coldness, because it means the breaking down of the spirit of amateurism, which, according to the Telegraph, Is peculiar to English sport. "The auestion is." savs the Tele graph, "whether athletic prowess, as such, when made a matter of business, is or is not helpful to the national welfare.

America thinks it is. So, too, to a large extent, do both Germany and Scandinavia. "AnDarentlv. the mental attitude of an amateur, to speak quite frinkly, is not yet understood in America, Ger- manv Sweden. At all events it is conceivable that the national welfare of the highest and truest sense of the term may not be so dependent on professional athletic excellence as our American critics seem to triink." WAS KING ALFONSO'S WISH So Spain Will Participate in Panama Fair Madrid, Spain, Sept.

23. Count Al- varo de itomanones, ine opanisn premier, informed the Associated Press today that Spain would parti cipate officially in the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco In 1915. He said he had returned from San Sabastlan especially to preside over the meeting of the cabinet this afternoon at which the decision to participate would probably be voted. The necessary funds are to be provided by a special law to be introduced into the Spanish parliament. The decision to participate, it is understood, was due greatly to the Influence of Kin gAlfonso, who particularly desired to see Spain officially represented.

KAISER'S DEALS IN B.C.. Officially Denied, but Story Persisted in (Canadian Associated Press.) London, Wednesday, September 24. The Berlin correspondent of the Dally Telegraph states that the wtury to the effect that the German Emperor had bought land In Vancouver on his own account is officially denied. Notwithstanding this denial, however, a Victoria, rrnwcanre, gays that the Kalser'g Investments 1 Britten Columbian lands are reported to total 000,000. I that he had used subterfuge and was moved by ulterior motives, and said: "Finally, let me say in reply to Judge Chase as to why the New York authorities are so anxious to obtain Thaw, the simple reason, sir, is this: From the very hour that Stanford White lay dead on the roof garden In city of New York his life taken either by a murderer or a lunatic from that im to thin minute It hn been Kald repeatedly that in the end the Thaw money would defeat the ends of justice.

"So far it has not entirely accomplished it, but wherever this case has gone and wherever it has rented, it (Continued on Fe Fourteen) the coft of living varlts..