The Brantford Weekly Expositor from Brantford, Ontario, Canada • 1

i 1 a sum timtvmnmm Ajr- ml ESTABLISHED 1852 $100 PER ANNUM BRANTPORDb WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 29 1909 SIXTEEN PAGES I i i i NeWs From All Over the Dominion Recent 'Doings Across the Border 54 days The womsa was sent to Jail Just a year ago on a similar charge: 8T CATHARINES Dec Chas Llney aged 16 years son of a re-j cently-arrtved Immigrant was acci-j dentally shot by his father while set- ting a trap for a muskrat oa the tcei at Lock 13 Welland Canal He ia in the hospital in a precarious condition The elder Uney called this attention to hand him a rifle which was accidentally discharged the bullet lodging above the lad left ear and breaking his skull ENGLEHART Dec A stopping place nine miles from Elk Lake kept by Mr Hayes was burned yesterday morning Mrs Hayes and her two children were burned to death Particulars of the fire hare not yet been received but It Is understood that! the mother and children were burned In their beds OTTAWA Private Information has been received that Sir Wilfrid Iaturier will get an Invitation to accompany the Prince of Wales to South Africa to attend tbe opening of parliament of the United South Africa It is not at all likely that the premier will be able to accept Should the opening occur any time within the next four months he will be busy in Ottawa and next summer will probably take a trip to the Pacific coast TORONTO Dec With the confession that he had murdered two men upon his lips Paval Steffoff convicted of the murder of Vanl Semoff last April calmly went to his death In Toronto Jail this morning The drop was made at 808 and seven minutes later the doctor in attendance declared life extinct confession of two murders was made to his spiritual adviser about an hour before the doomed man was conducted from his cell to the death chamber The man protested his Innocence almost to the last confessing only when he had decided in his own mind that death would be soon upon him Besides the murder of Semoff Stefoff confessed to murdering an Englishman at Terra Haute Mont He did not give the Englishman's name nor the time of the affair All he said was that he shot the Englishman dead In a quarrel the shooting taking place at 1 o'clock at night The police he said got on his track but fellow Macedonians In the city hid him and put the police on the wrong scent and so he escaped Stefoff spent a restless night last night according to the guards He refused breakfast this morning satisfying himself with a glass of water result from the investigation obtained in any of the civic departments Most of the others named were either aldermen contractors or middlemen OWEN SOUND Dec As a result of statements which have been published by the opiiouents of local option strong resolutions were pfbaed at a public meeting of citisens which crowded tbq town hall and at which leading dtlxens took a prominent put- The meeting waa called to repudiate the statements that were made un the authority of wfcat a Toronto reporter saw in Owen Sound There statements have been stamped by Mr Saunders the chief of the Provincial License Departmnt aa absolutely false in a letter issued on Thursday laat in reply to the question whether It was no possible to enter an action for libel against th parties responsible for the appearance of the advertisements The resolution 1 pointed out categorically the falseness of each statement these advertisements con- tained so far as they referred to Ow- en Sound showing that the value of town property on a conservative estimate had increased to over five millions of dollnni an advance of half a million In the past four years In which the Act has been in force In Owen Sound that the school attendance hud Increased from about fifteen hundred four years ago to about twenty-five hundred indicating that where formerly children were neglected they are now being sent to school that drunkenness Is confined almost exclusively to those who formed the habit prior to the coming Into force of tbe Act that crime la not prevalent In town and that morally Intellectually and commercially the town will compare most favorably with the beat In the land Satisfaction was expressed with tbe results since the passing of the Act as contrasted with The efforts of the few remaining hotel men to have the license system restored and who are not credited with any philanthropic object In tbelr efforts GALT A young man George Zimmers of Preston victim of a fall from a load a week ago and who has lain unconscious ever since was taken to Galt hospital to-day for an operation on the skull TORONTO Catherine North charged with stealing handkerchiefs purses brooches umbrellas gloves and various other small articles from the counters of the Robert Simpson Co was found guilty In the police court this morning and sent to jail for i SARXIA Dee 24 A men identified papers bis pocket John Arnold Dick of Kingston OnL found lying on the ground in Bay view perk Wednesday In terrible state from liquor and exhaustion being unabh' to talk or move He bad in bis possession a masters certificate from the Canadian Government dated January SI 1908 Thirteen delta: in money was also found a bis cl-snlng and on the ground beside him One foot was so badly frosen that it will probably have to be amputated 8everal toes on the right foot have already been removed CHATHAM Dec Tbeophllus Gonyou white and Harvey Wilson Ida Wilson and Georgs Scott colored are In Jail for Christmas awaiting their trial for the robbery of Albert Toulouse and Noah Samphire two Frenchmen from Big Point who put up laat night at Wilson's dive on Queen street south Toulouse was robbed of $33 and Sampire of $10 as well as about half of their clothes When a night officer went to make the arrests the four occupants of the shack set upon him and be was forced to use his revolver before be could taken them In They will be tried (Tuesday LONDON Dec Hon Adam Beck stated yesterday afternoon that two legal gentlemen whom he consulted bad Informed him that his connection with the water supply scheme which was put through during the summer places him in the position of a city contractor and for that reason he finds it Impossible to he a candidate for the mayoralty This leaves the field to Aid Donald Ferguson and Aid A Beattie The mayoralty race will be between Aid 11 A Beattie an opponent of tbe power scheme and Aid Donald Ferguson who appeared on the platform with John McEvoy who at the general election was Mr Beck's opponent Mr McEvoy was a straight anti-power man Only a small proportion of the municipal candidates proposed have qualified SUDBURY Dec In the heat of the local option campaign at Chap-lean a charge of selling liquor without a license has been laid against Thomas Pel low a merchant of that town an ardent local optlonlst and a member of the board of license commissioners for the district of Sudburv The charge which was to have been heard yesterday was adjourned for a week at the request of the crown owing to the absence of an important witness whose duties compelled him to be out of town It Is alleged by the private prosecutor thit Fellow has been selling wine in his store which is greatly In excess Of the prescribed strength allowed by law OTTAWA Dec In identically the same way in the same lumber camp and within a few days of tbe same time of the year as his father met his death four years ago Louis Gauvreau of Aylmer aged 18 was on Tuesday crushed to death by a falling tree at lumber camp Bear Mattawa He did not move far enough out of the danger xone when the choppers brohght down the tree MONTREAL Dec Montreal has two Recorders but they do not always see eye to eye Last week Mr Recorder Weir fined two Jewish bakers for delivering bread on the Christian Sabbath Tbe police at once became active and yesterday morning Mr Recorder Dupuis bad six of the of life" manufacturers before him all Hebrews charged with having delivered on the Sabbath He dismissed them Now the police don't know what to do OTTAWA Dec A youth ed Gauvreau a log hauler was killed at the Ritchie camps near Mattawa by a falling tree He had stepped aside but did not move far enough and was crushed between two logs Tbe foreman started out on horseback with the woundel man to ride to Mattawa to tbe hospital but the Victim died on the way MONTREAL Dec Mr Robin-Son Watson brother of William Watson the poet has Issued a statement In reply to one sent from Havana by the bride who accuses her brother-in-law of attempting to ruin her husband Mr Robinson Watson adheres to his belief that his brother the poet is mentally affected but says that the poet's wife evidently does not know the sad aspect of the case So convinced is Mr Watson here that his brother needs help that he Intends to leave Montreal today en route for Havana to give what aid he can He is quite upset by the controversy over his brother "It was as though I were handling the knife against my own flesh and he says referring to his preparation of the statement that he believed the mind affected WOODSTOCK Dec George Thornton aged 24 whose home is In Ingersoll was charged at the police court yesterday with bigamy He pleaded guilty and was sentenced two years In Kingston penitentiary Thornton was tried on the same charge here four years ago but was released on condition that he would look after his second wife He went to Flint Mich after deserting two little ones and married a third wife On a warrant sworn out by bis second wife here he was arrested Wednesday His ouly plea was that men had led him astrav KINGSTON Dec Herbert Stanford and Frederick Redden two hotel porters charged with stupifying two waitresses at a Collins Bay temper- ance house with liquor for immoral purposes were acquitted before Judge Madden yesterday afternoon' The evidence failed to sustain tbe charge Mrs Fuller wife of the proprietor of the Collins Bay bouse testified that she did not see any drug put in the liquor which the girls drank of their own accord The hotel pro- prletor could not get the $200 which he was fined for selling liquor without a license and he is spending three months in Jail WINDSOR Dec Camille Asottl a Grand Trunk section hand lies at the Hotel Dieu with a broken back the result of a fall from a hand cart our on the line Wednesday AsotM can talk little English and the phy-l stdans have been unable to learn how the accident occurred He Is not expected to recover BELLEVILLE Dec Louis Be-dore an employee of the Gtlmour box factory Trenton was yesterday struck by a broken belt which fractured his skull He lived only a few minutes He was a married man with a family TORONTO Dec 23 The municipal nominations to-day were quiet and but little real Interest was manifested in tbe speeches Although several mayoralty candidates were nominated tbe real fight will be between Controllers Geary and Hocken The nominations were as follows: For Mayor Horatio Clarence Hocken Journalist George Reginald Geary barrister William Alexander Douglas accountant Robert Bulsi' Noble gentleman Joel Marvin Briggs broker and Thos Davies gentleman SAULT 8TE MARIE Ont Dec 23 Louise Bray the slx-year-old daughter of Mr Chat Bray Ottawa waa almost instantly killed at the Wellington and John streets crossing at Steelton at 430 yesterday afternoon Tbe child was sleighing and her sleigh became caught in the track Returning to get it she was struck 'by a freight car which was being shunted She was struck on the temple and lived only twenty-five minutes The girl had been In the Soo about one month coming here to act as flower girl at the wedding of her aunt An Inquest will be held The mother was In the Soo at the time of the accident WINNIPEG Man Dec All the returns from the 41 municipalities are in from the province and as a result of the spirited local option contest twenty-one were won by the veto people and twenty by the liquor forces Eleven hotels will be closed as the result and one which was formerly closed will be allowed to reopen The net gain therefore to the temperance cause Is that the province will contain ten fewer hotels this year than last year MONTREAL Dec 23 At a meeting of the civic finance committee yesterday afternoon it was decided to vote the maximum legal salary to the future members at the Board of Con-) trol namely $10000 a year each The sum of $40000 altogether was voted including $38000 for the four controllers for eleven months and $2000 extra salary for thvs Mayor increasing his salary from $4000 to $6000 a year LONDON Ont Dec 23 Five candidates were nominated fur the Mayoralty here yesterday as follows: Aid Beattie Aid Ferguson lion Adam Beck Mayor Slevely and ex-Ald Matthews Strong pressure is being brought to bear to hare Hon Adam Beck a candidate but so far he has not consented MONTREAL Dec 23 A cablegram received yesterday afternoon from Port Said conveyed the news that Mr Ames MP for St Antoine Division of Montreal who waa on his way home from the Chambers of Commerce Congress In Australia is 111 with typhoid fever at Port Said Mr condition is not serious but it will be some weeks before he is able tot return home OTTAWA Dec Mr Chamberlin vice-president and general manager of the Grand Trunk Pacific stated yesterday in Ottawa that the road would be completed to the Pacific coast by the end of 1912 and perhaps before The new joint terminals of the and at Winnipeg be said would be completed by March and will only be equalled on this continent by tbe Pennsylvania in New York and the depot at Washington The National Transcontinental Commissioners expect to have the Government end of the road from Moncton to Winnipeg completed during 1912 Sandwich has a "Black scare three citizens Dieudoune Merrlt Beclgneull and Jules Roblnett having received each a letter decorated with the skull and cross-bones The first named was also threatened with hanging The police have been investigating and believe the letters were sent by a local resident to gratify a personal spite There was little change in the condltlpn of Joseph Mitchell who on Tuesday evening shot himself following his arrest for theft The doctors are beginning to form the opinion that he may have a chance to recover TORONTO Dec While stealing a ride on a shunting engine on the G-TR tracks between Galt Avenue and Marjory street this morning Percy Hodgson aged fourteen years of 264 Paul Avenue was thrown under the wheels and Instantly killed An inquest into the fatality has been ordered District Fire Chiefs Dubois and Marin two of tbe officials named in Judge report on the civic investigation as having been guilty of malversation in office were suspended today by Chief Trembley acting under instructions from Alderman Yates chairman of the fire commission The chiefs report on these men will be presented at the meeting of committee Monday when It Is likely Dubois and Marin will be dismissed This is the first actual NEW Aliuuagh Mr Caroline Martin mother of Ocey Snead has been indicted with her two sisters for the murder of the East Orange bath tub victim the New Jersey authorities have not yet obtained possession of Mrs Martin's person and the self-willed elderly woman is determined not to be taken from New York without a fight Today her attorney Colbert Haine announced that he would at once take steps tor bringing habeas corpus proceedings to test the strength of the case against his client Alternative indictments have been found against Mrs Martin Miss Virginia Wardlaw and Mrs Mary Suead under which they may be tried either as having directly caused the death of Ocey Snead or abetted her In suicide This waa held today to Indicate that the prosecutor means to leave no avenue through which the elderly trio can escape the alleged responsibility of having been tbe instruments through which tbe tragedy waa enacted DETROIT uec 23 The rumor that Dr Frederick A Cook the dla credited North Pole discoverer is un dergolng treatment at Mount Clem ena the famous miners water bath town receives considerable credit In that place The numerous hotel keepers deny' cook Is their guest unless under an assumed name hut the fact that the physician attending the man believed to be Dr Cook refuses positively to deny the rumors strengthens them locally NEW A Coienhagen cable despatch to the World this morning says that Captain Ronald Amundsen discoverer of the North West pashge who has planned a four years' voyage In Frltjof Nansen's Arctic steamer Fram to prove that a current runa from the Behring Straits over the North Pole has begun a systematic search for Dr Cook The mysterious disappearance of Dr Cook at a time when he was expected to keep In close touch with the university of Copenhagen which waa testing his claim waa the first cause of the doubt of his story which now the university regards aa false PHILADELPHIA Pa Dec At the coroner's Inquest here yesterday it was found that the five girls who were burned to death In the fire which destroyed the casket manufacturing plant of Shrark Sherwood last Thursday night met their death while groping In tbe dark among the of Interest constituency there are three Union 1st candidates and only one Radical Desite the exertions of the Liber al party chiefs to avert three-cornered contests by tbe adoption of both Liberal and Labor they have been successful In more than a dozen such a division of forces Is threatened In 76 constltuen six in Ijondon 52 In the prov Inces three in Wale and 15 in Scot land BLUE FI ELDS General Strada It la said today will immediately assume tbe offensive against the Government of President Madriz The Insurgent leader holds that the Zelayan element was removed from consideration by the sweeping battle of Rama Madris and hla associates now represent the enemy ATHENS The military league whose members were the authors of the recent revolutionary movement In Greece has announced its Intention to overthrow tbe ministry of Its own choosing The cabinet will resign probably to-day or to-morrow and be replaced by an extra parliamentary ministry which It Is expected will have the support of tbe chamber BRISTOL Dec Theresa Garnett the Suffragette who assaulted Winston Churchill president of the Board of Trade with a dog whip at the railway station here some weeks ago and who served a prison sentence for her action applied to a magistrate here this morning for the return of the whip with which shs slashed tbe Cabinet Minister The magistrate refused the application and ordered (hat the whip which Is now in Mr Churchill's possession be destroyed PARIS Dec 23 The police have decided that Madame Gouin widow of the late Jules Edouard Gouin governor of the Bank of France whose body waa found under a train near this city last Thursday was murdered while she waa occupying a compartment of the train The family has offered a reward of $5000 for the apprehension of the murderer The conclusion of the police that dealh waa not accidental was based upon the examination of finger marks made Jn blood upon a curtain in the railway compartment The finger prints prove to be those of a man COPENHAGEN Dec The apeclal committee of Copenhagen University which investigated Dr Frederick A Polar records is now considering whether or not It will publish a second report giving further details of Its work If It should decide to do so it will Issue the report about the middle of January A member of the committee said yesterday that some of the details of Cook's narrative of bis expedition were fabricated and hla papers showed that he had used calcultalona furnished by Capt Loose The second report he added would present evidence to that effect Thomas Palmer M-CR conductor- was crushed between cars at Montrose and killed 1 day morning and bled to death spondency waa the probable -n-r PRATT Kansas While lira Henry Blanton was across the street talking to a neighbor yesterday the looked at her home to aee It a mass of fire with her three children inside burning to death It was imposslbls to save the children after the flames were discovered JOUET I1L An Innovation in church music was offered at a special service In the Central Presbyterian church A large phonograph played NEW Mayor McClellan today laid the cornerstone of the new municipal building near the Brooklyn Bridge terminal The new building will be ready la January 1912 TWO STAND FOR PARIS Layton and Armstrong Are Candidates For Mayor of the Town PARIS Dec 28 Municipal nomlna lions were held In the council chamber last night and telling speeches were made by both mayoralty oandV dates There was a big crowd present the room being crowded to Its utmost capacity The positions regve deputy reeve and school true tees in all wards went by acclaoue tion but there will be a fight for the mayoralty and commissi onershlpa Both mayoralty candidates touched on the Hydro-Electric by-law which cornea before the people on Monday next Mr Armstrong contending that the acceptance of the by-law would commit the town to nothing it would be merely an expression of opinion and If favorable to the by-law would lend assurance to the council to probe the matter and find out It would affect The town Mr Layton on the other hand stated tha he was not sure that It would commit the town to nothing If such were the case what would be the use of voting upon the by-law at all For hla part he wanted a definite assurance from Mr Beck or someone else In authority that the result of the by-law would not affect the town financially He had been unable to secure that aaadrance from anyone In authority and until It waa definitely given he was not In favot of the measure The Nominations For Jas Layton pro posed by seconded by Murray George II Armstrong: by Dr Wm Burt and Smoke Thomson: by Patterson and Hairs Deputy John Brock bank: by Patterson and Murray Aldermen A Copeman John Toe ranee Dr McPherson Alex Davidson II A Crooks Laskey Commissioners John Kay John Inksater Patterson School Trustees South Ward: Alex Kirkpatrick Wickaon Martin Jos Harrison M-Martln John Inksater Martin Jno Inksaker Kings: Caroll Wickaon John KnllL North: fillborn Armltage Dunton Separate School truateei Alphua Kuhlman I-ayden Jno Blake Flahiff Jno Aldwin T-Rooney John Blake A Kuhlman Frank Fry WILL HELP i The Bolt Company Merger Will Increase Output of Local Factory The announcement wear made yes terday that a bolt works amalgams tion had been effected with Lloyd Harris a president Mr Harris if at present out of the city but It li learned locally that the effect of th -merger on local interest will to largely Increase the output of the Brantford Screw works There le absolutely no danger of the work I being removed on the other hand extensions will no doubt be made at the business Increase In the future The merger will be entirely beneficial to Brantford NEWS NOTES Thomas Johnson of Kingston Ont committed suicide at Rochester NY 1 Prince Hans brother of the late -King Christian of Denmark Is serl ously ill Five trainmen were killed In a collision on the Baltimore Ohlc Southern in Indiana Gov attempt to aetlU the strike fn the north-western States has failed An unknown man waa burned to death In a farm house fire near Dun-' durn Saak Hamilton City Council passed a bylaw to raise $25000 for the Car negle Library Mrs Cole and two children were -burned to death In a fire that de stroyed their dwelling near Elk Lake V' Thirty-three persons lost theli -lives In the vicinity of New York and -Boston In the storm that began on Christmas Day Drinking on Christmas Day was re -sponsible for ten deaths by accident or assault In the mining village oi Bluefields WVa 1 John Gordon was killed at Saulf Ste Marie by' falling Into the canal lock John Erickson was on the floor 1 of the lock and was struck by soms timbers that were being lowered sad very badly hurt coUins which filK-d me room which they were at work A minute after the fire was discovered the electric liga's in the building went out and the grls lost their way In the smoke and daikness In trying to reach an exit The firm was exonerated from bltme A fireman waa burned to death tylng to reach the girls A merry Christ-Is promised for to-morrow' at the White House the first that President Taft and family will spent in the executive mansion All the members of the family will be present as well as a number of guests to make the day one of mirth and jollity During the past few days Christmas boxes for the president's family have arrived at the White House in goodly number Some of the packages were addressed to Charlie Taft whose popularity In the country seems to be as extensive as was that enjoyed by bis chum Archie Roosevelt NEW YORK Dec Edward Harrlman waa really worth at tbe time of his death over $200000000 although a recent appraisal of hit estate placed its value at $149000000 The discrepancy between the actual and the appraised value of the Harri-man estate It waa learned on trustworthy authority yesterday la due to the fact that shortly before hit death Mr Harrlman transferred to his wife and his elder son securities valued at over $50000000 Since Mr death bis estate has profited by a rise In tbe market values and it la stated that the wealth of Mrs Harrlman may be conservatively estimated at $220000-000 which would make her probably the richest woman In the world JACKSONVILLE Fla Dec Wm Bryan who has been In this city several days as the guest of his cousin ex-Governor Wm Jennings was too 111 last night to deliver his scheduled address at the Duval Theatre for the benefit of a local hospital Mr Bryan Is suffering from a severe cold and la threatened with pneumonia He has cancelled all future dates and will remain here for several days ST IXHJIS Mo Dec Eight men were killed and 400 others had a narrow escape in a explosion of gas In mine A of the Chicago and Car-tersvtlle Coal Company at Herrin 111 late yesterday Open lamps carried by employees of the mine are believed to have caused the disaster There were three men and a boy In this party and all are dead The dead include Pierce mine engineer Eugene Barrett assistant engineer and Thomas Williams assistant manager Despite the black damp which flowed Into the chambers adpolnlng those in which Pierce and his party were killed rescuers went down into the workings within five minutes after the explosion and recovered the bodies of three miners NEW YORK Dec Timothy Sullivan the of the Bowery and a power In metropolitan politics died at East Side house at 630 o'clock last night He had been In bad health for more than six months and within a week hla condi-I tlon had become critical Death resulted from Bright's disease and In flam a-tion of the heart I ST PAUL St Paul passenger train No 43 running north at 35 (miles an hour spread the rails one-i half mile east of Good Thunder Minn (near Mankato and plunged Into the ditch last night Forty passengers (were hurt none fatally it Is bellev-led The mail car rolled down 30-foot embankment and caught fire The injured were taken to Mankato KANSAS CITY After a two-hours' (fight made hasardous by frequent ex-I plosions and falling walls firemen (here early to-day gained control of a (blaze that consumed the Rialto bundling at Ninth street and Grande avenue and caused a loss approximately I of $250000 A few persons slept In the building but it Is believed all escaped The building was a total lost not even the walla remaining PHILADELPHIA Bernard Ball second vice-president and general freight traffic manager of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company became violently Insane to-day In hla office in the Reading terminal the big office building and a struggle was removed to a hospital for the Insane BUFFALO Run through the heart with a butcher's knife In the hands of Ernest Frost 26 years old cook at a main street lunch room George Conners 18 of Cleveland Ohio fell dead In his tracks to-day Frost at police headquarters claimed Conners accidentally ran against the knife He Is held pending Investigation were no witnesses Frank Kendall 28 years of age of Plymouth Mich waa crushed to death Richard Roe 7 years old of Detroit had one hand cut off and la In a critical condition and a score of other passengers were less seriously hurt when an Intefurban car on the Detroit United Railway jumped the tracks and tipped over last night on a curve five mtlee north of the village of Wayne Practically! the entire detective force of Greater Pittsburg Is attempting a solution to-day of the death of James Lawrence Ariel the 14-year-old boy whose body was found yesterday In an abandoned bouse mortally wounded Police Captain Galvin states that tbe assassins known in the Tongs as men were sent here from Boston following the legal action there of flvd Hip Tong members who were cduvlcted of killing several Leon Tond men and that their mission was revenge ROCHESTER Thomas Johnson 38 years of age of Kingston OnL slashed his throat with a razor at a rooming house on SL Paul street yeiter- Charles Munson was gored to death by a bull in North Vancouver Cablegrams pecu London are much brighter than a month back The Liberal has withdrawn his can dldature In East Manchester end the Socialist from South Bristol thus leaving a straight party fight Voting on 15th Aa a result of Issuing the writs on Jan 10 a great many borough pol lings will take place on Saturday Jan 15 The Conservatives had hop ed that the first elections would take place on the 14th but excepting In a few cases when the writ is received before sunset on the 10th an elec tion on the 14th will be Impossible After the results of the polling on the 15th are announced a fair guesa can be made aa to how the elections sre golnk The Liberals recognise that London is uncertain' The leaders will addrere meetings next week Gerald Balfour la not yet a candL date There Is a rumor that the Unionist whip Is unable to find a safe seat Efforts to Induce the Tory candidates in East Marylebone to re tire In favor of Gerald Balfour are unsuccessful The Unionists claim good chances In North London the south east and parts of the Eastend untouched by the Influence of Labor members The split between the Liberals and Labor members In Bow Bromley Shore ditch North and Central Hackney give the Tories hope of success Mile End the Tories also claim The squabbling of the two Conner vative candidates In Marylebone the Unionists fear will lead to disaster Positions of Unionist Candidates The Standard gives the positions of the Unionist candidates as follows: All the constituencies In England Scotland and Wales are now provided with Unionist candidates with tbe exception of the following: Durham (Mid) Durham (HoughtonJe Spring) Leicester (Bonwortb) Cardiganshire Kirkcaldy It Is to be feared that among the Unionists of Cardiganshire no candl date will be forthcoming much to the disgust of all enthusiastic Union Ists who are strongly of opinion that the seat ought to he fought No Radical candidates had down to last night been adopted for the following City of London (2 seats) Holborn Kenslng ton (South) St George's Hanover Square Birmingham (West) Wigan Bury street Edmunds Durham City Grantham Sussex (Horsham) Staffordshire (Handaworth) Oxford Uni verslty Cambridge University Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities Edinburgh and St Andrew's Universities Triangular Contests Thera are eight constituencies In which three-cornered contests are likely to endanger what would other wise be safe Unionist seats The eon stltuencles are: Deptford Maryle borne (East) Bristol (North) Gin terhury Lincoln Reading Oxford University (2 seats) Hoiderneaa (Yorks) In Southampton twomember Old World LUNUON Dec The Tory au-ticlpatlon of John Redmond in command of a German fleet at Belfast and laird Curxon's dictum that the House of Commons "is not fit to Be left alone" are the subject of much humor in the Radical press aua on the Radical platform The Radicals profess exceeding gladness that It Is so clearly Indicated that every vote for a Unionist Is a vote against tbe popular House The I-ondon correspondent of The Freeman's Journal is responsible for the statement that the Conservatives expect to get only twenty seats In London whereas last year it was commonly agreed that the Radicals would get only ten LONDON Dec John Burns President of tire local Government board speaking at Nine Elms last night complained that the placards and cartoons of the Unionists were scandalous They were Issued In the Interests of the food-taxer and the trusts which would get a footing through the tariff and bring about the moral degradation of the people aa well as political corruption It was monstrous that London should be subjected to grotesque exaggeration which hid the facts from the people LONDON Dec Mrs Versch-oyle Cronyn wife of Verschoyle roil yn KC died at her home yesterday morning In her 73rd year Mr Cronyn' maiden name wan Sophy Blake and waa a daughter of the late Chancellor Blake Hon Edward Blake and Hon Blake are her brothers LONDON Dec Lord Strath-cona the Canadian High Commissioner had a narrow escape from serious injury Tuesday night He had lust driven up to the Canadian Government office on Victoria street when another automobile collided with a motor bua and forced the latter on top of Lord Strathcona's car which was badly damaged Lord Btrathcona was thrown down but was not hurt LONDON Dec The schort Christmas truce In tbe British elections will be broken to day and the campaign renewed with the greatest vigor There will be 10000 meetings tbhi week alone 4500 whereof are Unionist The Unionists are short of canvassers and want 100000 of them It Is a great poster campaign and scores of mil lions of leaflets have been issued Mr Balfour Is convalescent but Lord Milner Is unwell In a modest article The Morning Post expresses the view that London and the home counties are safe It estimates that the following will be the result of the elections: Unionists 278 Liberals 260 Nationalists 83 Labor 49 The Morning Post editorially thinks tint the raising of the constitutional Issues has been a failure and urges the Unionists to bring tariff reform to the front vigorously on every occs Ion Then victory will be assured The News thinks the Liberal pros i -fr ft- I -V'" 'f- -A 1 -tw eO r'- -V i 1-.