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he 8 \ aily Bri 4 YEAR 79 -5o, 119 THE STEAMBARGE IONA - BURNED ON LAKE ONTARIO Captain and Crew Escaped in the Boats. VESSEL WENT DOWN THE LOSS IS ESTIMATED AT $20.- AT 000. The Ilona Was En Route From Sodus Point to Montreal With Soft Coal ~=it Had Wintered at Kingston. The steambarge Iona, well-known in this port, havidg wintered here a cou- ple of seasons, caught fire some time during Saturday night, while on her way from Sodus Point, to Montreal, laden with coal, was almost totally destroyed and sunk. Capt. Pavl Ham- mond and the twelve members of the erew escaped. The mishap occurred at Stoney Island, about twelve wiles out of Sucket"s Harbor. News of the af: fair reached Kingston on Sunday, For the most part the members of the crew belong to Montreal. The lona was loaded with soft coal "and made a good run out of Sodus Point on Saturday. The cause of the fire could not be ascertained. When the fire got beyond control, the members of the erew took to the lifeboats, and at daybreak on Sun- day, they landed at dlenderson's Har- bor, N.X., aml from there they went to their respective homes. The steambarge was of 500 tons dis- placemeit and was owned by the F. E. Hall "eampany', of Montreal, and wax insured. There was no insurance on the cargo of eoal. The loss is given as £30,000, The lona was laid up near Anglin's Bay 'all last winter, and was also Inid up here twa years ago. Although an old vessel, she was in good eondi- dition; marine men say, having been fitted over from time to time. Some years hgo there wa% a bad fire on the Iona, near Oswego, mid on that oc- casion she was rebuilt at Trenton. The lone left Owego on Saturday evening, It had taken a eargo of lumber from Three Rivers, near Mon- treal, do Oswego for the Match eompany, The hurning of the vessel was wit- nessed from points along the shore of Lake Ontario. s i -------- - "Lister Particulars. Further particulars of the burn. fug of the Iona have been received. it was a' very dirty night and 'he crew had a bad time of {t after they put off in'a lifeboat, and drified before the gale all night, landing at Henderson Harbor, N, Y., early oh Sunday morning. While al' got safely away, the twelve mep were thoroughly exhausted aft. their long battle with heavy seas during a cold lake storm. That they all gof away so well was due to the lake regulations, which de mand that every vessel shall carry twice sufficient lifeboat accommods tion to carry its crew. The whole crew got int one lifeboat and left the other with the burning vesse! At the time the fire broke ont the lona was steaming about ff. teen miles north of Oswego, N. Y., with a eargo of 1,000 tons of coal, bound from Sodus Point, N.Y.. to Quebec.' There were on board at the time Captain Paul Hymond, of Beaubarnois, and a crew of twelve men, mostly Canadians, the chief engineer. Frank Pattérson, and sev- eral others being from Picton. It was blowing pretty hard from the northeast, and ths boat was having a fairly hard time of it, when shortly before midnight fire was discovered to have broken out near the boiler room, When it was found, the flames had gained "considerable headway abaft the smoke stack, and soon broke turough to the deck. The boat was a ten-year-old woaden vessel, and the fire spread so rapidly that it soon became apparent there was * no hope of saving her. Signals for help were sent . up, but there was no other vessels with- in sight of the rorkets, and after Diamond a short time Cantain Hymond gave the order all hands to the boats. One lifeboat was suffidient to ace commodate the crew, but they had to get away so speedily that Cap- tain Hymound left his clothes and wonsy behind him on the burning vessel, with the result that when he landed at Hemderson Harbor he was literally stranded. As the crew pulled away from the watched it finally | A WILLIAM R. HEARST. Who may be the U.S. presidential de- moeratic candidate. S------------------ Boy Playing Indian Shoots Girl. Uniontown, Pa., May 920.--With a shrill war-hoop Harry Black, seven years old, a little "make-believe" In- |dian, of 'Watersburg, five miles south 'of Uniontown, placed his father's shot 'gun at the head of little Mary Good. ish, aged five, daughter of Mike (ood ish, a prominent merchant of this {eity, and pulled the trigger. The lit- tle girls head was nearly blown from her body. So great was the rebound of the gun that little Marry was found in a corner of the room in- conscious, A Furnace for Miles. Seattle, Wash., May 20.-A from' Dawson City says: "Lhe (kon Valley is a roaring furnace 1200 miles between Big Salmon Ntuart City. Fwerywhere forest "fires are raging, but they are not near any city, MiYions of feet of timber have been ruined." special Ya for and Pebs a Federal Candidate. Indianapolis, May 20.-2Fugene tor Ibs, of Terre Haute, lnd., nominated as a candidate to presidency of the United States the national socialists convention. Ewkle . Seidel, former mayor of . Mil waukee, was named for the vice-pres sidential nomination, Vie- was the by 5 Anthrasite Miners to Go Back. | Wilkesharre, Pa., May 20.-The An thracite Mine Workers' convention on Saturday aiternoon ratified the agree- ment entered by a sub-committee of the miners and operators, and the 'miners will go back to work after an idleness of seven wecks. THE THROAT DOCTORS SEE REAL TRILBY Strange Case of Voice Change Re- vealed to Philadeiphia Phy- Sicians. Philadelphia, May 20.---Medical scientists in session here at the convention of the American Laryn- ological Society heard a most won- derful demonstration which fully justified Du Mayrier's fanciful tale of the transformation of "Trilbys" unmisical voife into that of an ae- complished singer. The psychifal illustration was given by Dr. Farnk E. Miller, of New York, who reported an inter- esting case in which the patient was a girl who had been in the babit of meeting singers in the physician's oflice, where she was employed, and had expressed a desire to go. upon the operatic stage. Realizing that her voice, was one of mediocrity. she asked to be hypnotized anr® allowed to sing to the accompaniment of the pho- toeraph, Dr. Miller . accommodat- ingly made theu experiment, and the »ffect was true to the story of Da Maurier. Voices of well-known soprano and tenor singers were reproduced on the phonograph at to-days- de- monstration and to each the young girl sang with perf-ct ease. While in the hypnotic state ghe was taken about the spacions amphitheatre of the College of Physicians and Sur- geons and introduced to the as sembled physicians and scientists who were in attendance. Dismissed Charges. /San Francisco, May 20.--Tn obed fence to the mandate of he state ap. troffge system ¢ Titanic » this death valian ELECT WOMAN MAYOR. 8 ---- Men Have Allowed Gambling and Other Evils. Cheyenne, Wyo., May 2.--For the first time in the history of Wyoming, which was the state to grant suffrage to women, a woman has been clected mayor of a minicipality. The victori- ous women is Mrs. Susie Wissler, a widoy, and the town is Dayton, an incorporated village of 300 inhhab- itants, located in the central part of Sheridan county, Northern Wyoming. A majority of the voters are women. Dayton for years has been a wide open town, and the men elected to of- fice have failed to curb the gambling, saloon and other evils, but this Mrs. Wissler has promised to do, and has already selected an anti-saloon man for marshal. May Tour Canada. Ljverpool, May 20.--Miss Eva Booth, commander of the Salvation Army, in America, sailed on board the Lusi- tania. After consulting with her father on the subject of the progress of the Salvionists, in America, she arranged for a farewell tour of Can- ada and the United States by *'Gen- eral" Booth next spring. This will, however, be dependent on the opera- tion for cataract which the aged gen- eral is to undergo on May ind, and which it is hoped will restore his sight. Make Home in New York. New York, May 20.--Mrs. Ava Will- ing Astor, first wife of Col, John Jacob Astor, before departing for Europe with her daughter, Muriel, on the steamsi!p Oceanic, made it known that she intended to return later to New York to make her home with her son, Vincent Astor, who will be- come fhe head of the Astor family next fall. Mrs. Astor expects to be abroad about three months. HON. G. E. FOSTER CALLS PATRONAGE DAMNABLE ' Says M.P.'s Are So Harassed That 1, They Can't Properly Attend to 3 a the Country's Business. Fredericton, N.B., May 20.--Speak- ing at a banquet of the University of New Brnnawics alumni, Hon. George E. Foster --deplored' the. fact that public men of Canada were kept so busy that they had no time to fully consider the problems of the coun try. Referring to members of parliament, be said that : while in Ottawa - they were harassed 88 eDOTMONS or respondence, and hounded bv a pa- which was simply damnable. Because of this, he went on 16 say, members of the govern ment and parlisment had no opportu- nity to' earnestly -cousider matters be: fords" them, and consequently their decizions were often' hastily given. bid onp-------- Thousand a Year for Pastors. Boston, May 20.--A movement which ans to make 21,000 the minimum sal- ary of a clergyman has heen launched here by Rev. Dr. Andrew Coultas, « member of the hoard of foreign mis- sions and one of the superintendents ol the Methodist church in New Eng land. In support of the charge that preachers are sadly underpaid, Dr. Coultas = declared that of the 101 churches immediately under his s:per- vision only twelve pay their pastors more than $700 a year. the Girl Born in Automobile, San Luis, Obispo, Cal, May 20. The first baby known to have been horn in an automobile came into the world last night, when its mother, Mrs. George Ingert, was being rushed to a hospital. The baby is an eight- pound girl and bas been named by its parents after the machine in which it was born. Majority of 208 Members. Tokio, May 20.--Returns from the election of members of the house of representatives showed that the Seiyukai . government party scored again 'with an absolute majority of 20% members. The house, established by the constitution of 1899, is com posed of 355 members. George Keefer Dead. Victoria, B.C, May 20.--George Keefer, resident engineer of the do- miniou public works, died on Friday night. His daughter is the widow of the late Sherifi McMarten, of Verth, Out. BAD LENDER BURIED; 30,000 PEOPLE MARCH T0 Thee" Sung. tag., May 20.--The fun- of Walter Hartley, load band, who went to leading his gmusi- cians to the Joff in the event of war. KINGSTON, ONTARIO, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1912. | HEARST NAMED As the Strongest Democratic Candidate. HE MAY BE A FACTOR IN THE RACE FOR THE PRESID. ENCY. Is is Said That He is the Only Maa on the Democratic Side Who Can Out-Roosevelt Col Roosevelt. Washington, May 20.--The democra: tie situation continues to puzzle most observers. That Champ Clark is the most popular candidate so far an- nounced is evident. Jt must be borne in mind, however, that a great part of Mr. Clark's strength comes from the support of William J. Bryan and William R. Hearst. The New York World and other newspapers now ac cuse Mr. Bryan of desiring the no- mination himsei, and there is econ- siderable gossip to the effect that William R. Hearst is prepa: ing to be a candidate. The democrats recognize that they cannot run a mealv-mouth: ed candidate or an Easter-bonnet-pa- cade campaign against the eyelonic and dynamic Roosevelt. There will have to be something doing ev ery minute unless the democratic candi- date is to be lost sight of altogether. Mr. Roosevelt aring and mas- terful that he is likely to seize a toast-and-marmalade candidate like Woodrow Wilson and drown him in his own teapot ! Hearst hates Roosevelt, and with good cause, and in some lines of activity he and his lieuten- ants could keep even the rough rider on a hard gallop Hearst made a good race for the New York city mayvoralty, although sorely assailed hy 'base reports, no doubt calumnies, respecting his / pri yate life. Indeed, he found that the whispered word could be more deadly than the printed word. As the demo- cratic, candidate. for gavernor, he gave Charles E. Hughes a run for his money, and he might be able this year to carry New York siate against Roosevelt. With his chain of news- papers and magazines he would be in many respects a formidable candidate. is so rms eeenap PITH OF THE NEWS, The Very Latest Culled From AU Over the World. A head-on collision op the. C.P near Woudstoek, NA "dertiléd several] cars, : Quobee La Vigie, a liberal newspaper, will become a weekly gan. Toronto Chinamen contributed $1,- 000 to help famine sufferers in their own country. The directors of the Trethewey Co- balt mine have declared a distribution of profits of ten per cent. Symrna, Asia Minor, has informed Quebee Board of Trade of a desire to ultivate Canadian trade. A force of Mexican federals is oper: ating to isolate Chihuahua and foree its submission by starvation. W. P. Ryan, of the Turner Liquor company, Toronto, was found guilty PP, R. daily or- SPIRITUALISM A BLIND To Hide Immorality--London Solici- tor Goes to Prison, London, May 20.--Five years' penal servitude was the sentence passed at the Old Bailey on Thomas Syms; the plaintifi in an extravagant spiritual- {ist case, who had been convicted {isappopriating money belonging to a clhent Syms was a solicitor practising in London and Manchester, and state ments which he made to explain his f being brought against the spiritual- ists, man and wiie--the latter a me diam--of receiving money from him to send to spirits. Th case dramatically collapsed when Syms was confronted with the disclosure that he was the father of the medium's child. Claud Hamilton Izard, forty, writer, and Rhoda Emily Isard, twenty-eight, the medium, were indicted for oblaining money by false pretences from Syms. a RUNAWAY PRIVATE CAR Was Sidetracked Into a Switch Eu- gine at Toronto. Toronto, May 20.--Sir William :Mac- kenzie's private car, Antikoan, while standing on a «ding just outside the city, tlt: morning, was seized with the racing fever which pervades the whole town, started on a down grade of its own momentum, and went through the crowded freight and pas- senger yards towards the Union station at the rate of thirty miles an bour. It narrowly missed wreck- ing two express trains and several freights. Finally, just outside the station train men managed to side track the runaway, sending it into a switch engine with a terrible crash. Both were badly wrecked. Fortunate. ly nobody was aboard and nobody was hurt, MANITOBA CATHOLICS WILL KEEP UP STRUGGLE 2 _ Archbishop Langevin's Reply to an ' Address at St. Edward's Winnipeg, May 20.---~While mak- ing 'his pastoral visit to St. Ed- ward's parish last night, after con- firming about sixty candidates, Archbishop Langevin responded to an address of welcome read by Eg- erton McMillan, son of Hon. Sena- tor McMillan, and made some keen of | nancial position led to an accusation tish Whig LAST EDITION RICHESON IS NOW CALM i 'He Wil Be Flectrocuted Tues- day Horning, HAS MADE HIS PEACE AND IS NOW RESIGNED TO FATE! HIS The Doomed Ex-Minister Finds Com- fort in the Bible--Ris Body Will be Buried Beside That of His Mother. Boston, May 20.--"I have made my peace with God; I am resigned to my fate. 1 wish now to go to my the better." These words, spoken by Clarence V. T. Richeson, former Baptist minister and the confessed slayer of Avis Linnell, to Rev. Herbert H. Johnson, his spiritual adviser, on Sunday, ex- pressed the mental condition of. the condemned man, whose tenure of life is now meaBured only by hours. Therd is much reason to believe will go to his death in the chair shortly wight. Reclining on a cot in his death cell Fcheson talked long and earnest- ly with Rev. Mr. Jobnson, and with | the prison chaplain, Rev. Herbert W, Stebbins. "I don't want to sleep. 1 have so | 1] he | he electric after midnight Monday 1 little time to ve and io much want to say that I must talk," said, i Part of the conversation was of nieditative and religious nature and part was reminiscent. The prisoner recited countless incidents. of his boy- hood in Virginia. His college. days 'at Liberty furnished further topics, as did also his experience at the New- ton theologlcal institution and his various pastorates. When the hour of execution arrives Rev. Herbert S. Johnson, as his spir- itual adviser, will accompany him in the short walk from the death cell to the electric chair. Three physi- comment on the position of the Roman = Catholics of Manitoba. Granting to all others their right fo their convictions and expressing 9. victions honorably. maintained, his Grace declared that his people | would insist on' like treatment, but did mot expect all their rights to | be forced upon them. A struggle was expected, and would surely be forthcoming until all their rights had been recovered. Thankful for the recent modification of the pro- vincial legislation, he was doubly thankful for the assurances he has been receiving in the varions par. igshes, as he thus felt fortified with the assistance of the people, whose rower. he said, was growing smreat- er every day and indispensable to the clergy. Life Wastage. of counselling 'bribery of a police offi oer. . * The steamer Ames" ran into the swing bridge at Hamilton, damaging the structure and effectively blocking the harbor. Another Stock Exchange failure in speculation in Marconi wireless securi- ties, was announced on Friday. M. A. Cleveland, aged sixty-two vears, dropped dead at his home in Brockport, N.Y., on Sunday morning. He formerly lived at Watertown, N.Y. Thé new Japanese battle | cruiser Rongo, of 25,000 tons displacement, launched at Barrow-in-Furness, Eng. Three others are being built in Ja pan, ' The battleship Texas, the largest in the United States navy, was launched at Newport News, Va., on Satdirdav. She is 573 feet long, 95 feet 24 inches beam; speed, 21 knots. The steamship A. W. Perry arrived in Boston, Mase, on Saturday, from Halilax, and reported a collision, in a fog, with an unknown schoomer, off Little Hope Island, N.S. Judge Carman, of St. Catharines, said that citizens would hesitate to mix up in court matters and lose Lime at their work as long as witness fees remain at $1.25 per day. case of smallpox was discovered on Balsam aveawe, Toronto, on Fri day. The patient, a young lady of about twenty-five years, was living in a house with ten other women; all were quarantined. Sir William Ramsay warns Great Britain of another danger. The sup ply of nitric soda, necessary for the manufacture of explosifes, may be cut The supply comes from Chili and Peru. One man was killed and nother fa- tally hurt when an auto upset at Missionary Ridge; Tenn. One man was killed and two injured when an auto crashed through a dence and went London, Eng., in counection with wild! Stecumbed London, May 20.--There nearly a milion children born in England and Wales during the year 1909. Within 12 months 106 out of every thousand died. were 11910 some 35,000 men and women to infectious diseases witich health authorities declare to have been preventible. There were over 50,00 deaths from tuber. | culosis alone. Throughout the | schools of London, 200,000 chil- dren suffer from defects which are largely - avoidable. Many blind childeen might have been cured if reasonable care had been taken at their bith. In even relatively good 1 types of back-to-back houses the death rate is 15 to 20 per cent. higher than in other houses. These significant facts are shown by re- turns to which wide public: atten tion was drawn during the recent "national health week." Four Thousand Arrive. Montreal, May 20.--Four thousand passengers arrived here Sunday, on transatlantic steamers, all delayed considerably by fogs and icebergs off the banks of Newfoundland. About thirty per cent. of the new arrivals are bound for Ontario points, inelud- ing many farm hands and domestic servants. down an t near Lowell, Mass. o Fish i oF § g 7 iE ii Fei 3 r # 2 exh i H Fy if i § 'F | i shes i f ft je £ : i | aminer of the county, and the -Catholic-respect for these gone: cians, the prison doctor, medical ex- sur- AND IS EAGER TO DE death as soon as possible, the quicker | DR. PAASCHE. National liberal leader of Germany and first vice-president of ihe Reichstag. TEN THOUSAND TO STRIKE If Montreal Garment Manufacturers Refuse Increase, s walk out within three weeks if geon-general of the commonwealth, will attend as\ legal wiinesses. T prison chaplain, an officer of the pri- son and a friend of the wondemned man are also entitled to attend. Besides theré may be three witnesses designated by the warden. - An appeal having been made to Governor loss by press associations for representa- tion at the execution, the warden de- cided to accede to the wishes of the governor and will probably name as the three other witnésses representa- tives of three press associations. Surgeon and medical societies eager to gain some knowledge of the post morten examination of the unusual subject have applied for the brain and spinal cord of the victim of the death chair, but these will all be re fused. - Rich:son was deeply pleased when told that his father had promised bis body should lie beside that of his mother in the family lot un Richeson Mountain, in Amherst court house, Virginia. Between Chaplain Stebbins and Rev Mr. Johnson, Richeson has not been without a religious adviser at any time since he received, on Friday, the announcement that there was no hope of his escaping the electric chair Early Sunday Mr. Johnson and Richeson had a long talk on religious matterk. Mi, Johnson asked the for mer minister what passage of the Bi- ble pleased him most, and Richeson recited the twenty-third Psalm. "After reciting ths psalm," said Rev. Mr. Johnson, "Richeson gave a most beau- tiful exposition of it, applying the truths of it to his own experiences and his own life." Finds Comfort in Verse. But the greatest comfort the con: demned man found in the Bible, ac: cording to Mr. Johnson, was the sev-' enteenth verse of the twenty-second chapter of Revelations : "And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." This pagsage he repeated to himseli again and again, oveasionally elaborating on the text The twelfth verse of the twenty-sev- enth psaim be frequently repeated, ap parently believing that of all the scriptural quotations this might most pon f apply to his case : "De liver me not unto the will of mine ene- mies; for false witnesses are arisen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty." Richeson's counsel, William A Morse, visited with the prisoner dur- ing eveni Richesgn secied in good spirits kept up an animated conversation om various #. Oc easionaily in a pause he would sing portions of hymns. ) Ono when the warden went to his cell the prisoner looked up brightly | and exclaimed : "I'll be with you] when you want me, warden. You néedn't worry. I won't break down * ~ He visited the . Nome of his re latives will visit him during his last bours. Richeson's father and sie ter are prostrated with grief. Ham Bec of Chicago told wi ker tk {device worked Montreal, May 20.--Ten garment workers thousand in Montreal will the manufacturers do not accede totheir demands. They ask ten per cent. in- crease of wages and a nine-hour day. They work ten hours a day now. Pre. parations, which some of the manu- facturers ave making for bringing in labor, indicate that it is not their intention to give the strikers any concessions, SERIGUS CANAL BREAK NARROWLY AVERTED Steamer Beavertoh Struck Lock Gates at Thorold--Gowan Device Forced Gates Back. St. Catharines, Ont., May 20.--A serious break | on the Welland canal and a tie-up of navigation was avert ed Sunday night. when-the Cowan saf- ety device for lock poles. préverited the carrying away of the head gates of lock No. 24 wt Thorold, after they had been struck by the steamer Bei verton. The steamer was up-hound, and had entered and locked all right, but} the breaking of a eable caused her to forge $e and force the gates several inches. The Gowan admirably, and forewd the gates back into the mitre hefo the rush of water from th n level above could tear them of is ile BORN, MARKIE OCI 4S ; May 18th, 1912 btarr, Mrs. N. North to Lows Goodman, Rey, Canoy of this ity of Montreal DIED. GILLESPIE Suddenly, Mav 18th, 1912 Jas Ordpance Birest Funeral will take place wm. Service at 2, Picton and Toronto papers copy In Kingston, Fdward in ail Kingston lesple, 1 ° Tuesday, at 2.30 2 Belleville please HINTON on 101° May 20th Hinton, aged ot from the residence years Fun. ia private) of his son, 189 Alfréd Stréet SMITH 1a Kingston, Ont, at Hotel Dieu Hospiial, May 20th, 1912, Mrs Mary Smith, aged 51 years Funeral will take place fram her Iate residence, Chafhan: Street, Tues. day morning, |] 11.45, to K a station. Inferme P nt at Centre. ville y WAGGONER--On Soplay, May imh, #12, At the residence of her son. in-law, B. B yer, , Warwick, Orange County. NY. Bophia Fraser, reifet of the {ate D J Fung Eons, a Olenburnle, er private) 10m - Sydenh Street Methodist Chureh, | Kingp. ton, Wednesdap, May 22nd. at 2.30 pm, ta Catarshuf Cemetery Unt J. MELD, The k Phone B77. J The £30 Princess Street Firm of Usdertakors, and 256 PRINCESS 'TREY. "Phone 147 tor Asive.anes. A' couple domen them.' Wii them at a reason casa. Turk's. "Phone 106 Wan Maple Sugar Maple Syrup We have just received an extra nice lot of both, "which will be the last for this season. Jas. Redden & Co. » Vie we