Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 12, 1900, Winnipeg, Manitoba VOL. 26. NOVEMBER 12, 1900. NO. 109 to the valor and value of the to be re- tue under at 16 ot but after- The lost all ammunition and convoy at this anil their narrowly The mounted rifles and sail for boine Dec. 1. .eu of the first the city n attacked by has been attacked by is wo DOMINION ELECTIONS addressed meeting In the ot Mr. The minister leaves this week for to part in tlie Mr. Frank Oliver was splendid at at It. ln Selkirk is in He The re- Mr. three places to in will teld OF Italian criminals were pardoned by john a of com- has received of nail Karl of will remain lord of h stated Sir Charles in The tiwn of was almost en- tirely destroyed by G. heail of the mercantile flra Dun died in New persons were killed and 15 in a railway collision ill has declined a lucrative position on a Deliver S. was elected of by a small aristocratic gentlemen were mayors of Iho trial the anarchist who attempted the Shah of has commenced FOUNDERED IN BAY Loss of the Yarmouth Line Steamer HEROIC BRITISH How Crew of Torpedo Boat er During a Terrible Hong Nov. A typhoon I struck the town last evening and raged I until The British river I occurred among Uie native Saved by Heroic Out of 37 Persons on Board Lose Their Liberals of Winnipeg will assemble tbe opera house this evening to con- Mr. Sifton on his victory in lit at the Salisbury his early re- N. Nov. mouth line steamer Monticello was lost at sea at 1 a. m. yesterday in a terrible gale which blew in the bay of She foundered off berry 10 miles from Of 37 souls on board 33 are believed to have The Monticello left Westport day morning on her usual trip from St. John to Halifax via bay Two life boats were got away from weather was not at all The sea in fact was very smooth to Petite I saw Captain who said ho thinking of putting into Digby before reaching but about half an hour before reaching there the weather looked liner with i indications of the wind to the and he concluded to try to reach By time we reached Cape St. it was Ins but the ship made fairly good weather all through the This morning at 7 o'clock were about five miles from LAKE STEAMERS Fleet Purchased by American Steel St. Canal Steamers Among Nov. Steel and Wire Co. just bought the fleet of American S. S. Co. of paying There are 12 including the four largest vessels on the six others of 000 tons Two years ago these vessels cost the American Steamship Co. about ACQUITTED OF During the typhoon the British frora to 7.000 tons capacity and gunboats Tweed and Fire and st canal ships o2 the defence ironclad were In great danger as they were dragging their anchors and the Fire Brand was shipping heavy and rapidly All fired distress the British torpedo boat destroyer Otter proceeded to their It was a dangerous under- owing to the furious sea and the great masses of floating The Otter succeeded in saving the crow of the British dispatch boat with the exception of one weather moderating she also saved the other vessels Nov. to Kong correspondent of the Daily Mail Ohe American ship min A. M. which at Hong Kong prior to Sept. 29 from which she left Aug. 9, driven ashore during the Friday the sinking vessel but only one After finding Care Forchu his ed the A large metallic Cant Harding decided to run for the full of including the gers and US all and in charse of one of the did not reach the She must have ered as. it was not seen The saved are Capt. A. N. of steamer Stewardess Kate Quartermaster Elisha of and Third Of- ficer B. of Among those supposed to be lost Capt. A. E. S. and Herbert also of crockery Miss Macdonald and Herbert also of N. C. chief ard S. S. Purser of Prince She had about seven passengers aboard and 30 of a Shippins men are bui found it impossible to get the ship before the although he used every endeavor to do so. The ship was making and we began to jettison emptying several casks of to smooth and as the water continued to gain we decided to take to the This was about 11 o'clock this After getting two boats out on the port we placed all the three in in the first and in five minutes after the boats had cleared the she gradually settled down on the port side and dis- I saw steam if there was an explosion of I was so engrossed with my boat that I did not notice it. The in one boiler had been out for two awaiting with dread news i having been put out by rising water of the disaster in the bay of I in the hold. There were no scenes ot At 6 o'clock last night a 20 mile gale I everything was orderly ana set in from the south and at o'clock there no excitement the meteorological office reported a i Captain Harding and all the le So j aui their duty to the The cap- liave been re- tain assisted us in getting our boat and the last I saw of him he by attending to putting her into the Capt. Harding s American liner St. Louis weather crossing the Atlantic New The Manitoba government has dismissed the old same except ami a new Tbe posse succeeded in the Montana desperado murdered at It. steamer Empress of i i- repaired anil continued its Japan Saturday The Conservatives are jealous over tbe promotions in cabinet fullen Monticello ia the of Fundy and out of 37 un board 33 were revenue for the quarter Oct. 31. is the for the same He three masted O. was In Vineyard and six lives The 01- Liberal party in bus secured seventeen the have only one to C. R. train bringing Lord to Ottawa made the 312 in 100 members of Trinity tlie year of of their V. n terrible typhoon near Hong the crews of British war gallantly rescued by the men of boat destroyer American Steel Co. tins purchased American S. S. of over for the on tlie two St. Lawrence canal mite gale with UO mile far no other disasters Fielding's Mr. S. Dominion i ister of had taken passage on the steamer but ately had not gone on The City of Monticello made weekly conduct was seamanlike The Struggle to the s. earner foundered we were driven to the land by the trips between N. and St. gaJe and landed at John calling at Yarmouth ana about four miles in a very other The steamer was lost i our boat being broken atoms m about 10 miles from Yarmouth on her the second there lady passengers he port at 11 o'clock on d. day The which that night was still blowing a ricane The steamer mane her way across the Bay of Fundy in saved were a thrown upon the and it was only by a miracle that we escaped the fate of the other t way e of the fierce southeaster and wan Was atter a severe struggle tnat four miles off one tve a place of The of the capes in the vicinity of and the stewardess received It was found that water was slight injuries in The last pouring into her It did not take of the boat she had 111 ii 1I1LV II many minutes to show that there was With and we tear no hope of the reaching port. Js no hope of her being She was beyond control Several of tne i is steam had Drifting on the Ha was forlorn hopu surf to the One of the sengers was Capt. Norman of the Battle line boat are buing washed ashore now lying at St. The two boats were and one of them was about 10 and all were Maritime had two and it no responsibility of any of th lope of the Bodies Washing uhe One of the i The of the unfortunates wno was Capt. Norman of went down on the on her James Hardy and Elmer of Minn. Not of the Death of Three Members of the Wise St. Nov. Hardy and Elmer the boys tried at on a charge of murdered members of the Wise were acquitted the jury having been out all The weight of evidence against them ed overwhelming from the the result is a matter of CAME NEXT TO PAARDEBERG Tribute to the Saving of Rear Guard by Brilliant New Nov. a dated 1 a. Mr. ing the New York Tribune like men who have nothing to lose and nothing left to live for and are resolved to die While this final exhibition of genuine Dutch courage Wl the South African says Fresh commands British there Is no details of the engagements in the I turning back from the relentless Transvaal show that the Boers are suit scattered with remarkable courage and battle with Legallis and Delisle was most stubbornly con- and the guns were abandoned only after a display of desperate fighting with Sir Mild Measures are Alfred has sounded fresh warning against sedition in Cape Colony and the military critics at home are crying aloud for Kitchener and scientific measures oC dealing with the As they cannot con- the struggle without obtaining the Boers near Belfast lasted 48 j arms and hours and his rear guard were only i policies are advocated by which saved by a ed by the Canadian whose journals suggests that every placed in charge of Capt. In with him were six was room for but the stricken and crew ed to leave the That moment was for the boat put off and left those on board to their The second boat was launched at the same but no one knows who got into Smith's boat had got only vince oC Life Placed at 48. dispatch from Yarmouth much received City ol i foundered off Cape went down with the ed The City of plies between Yarmouth and Another places the loss of life a It Word has gallantry vied with the valor ed by the Canadian at were heavily reinforced in these operations and not only hung persistently upon the rear and flank of the British but even charged on their horses in front at close This may be the courage of despair but it commands Dutch The Boers are losing men day by but now they are broken up into small bands without artillery or transport they marked facilities for carrying on guerilla war fare and are persistent in keeping in a hopeless they carry little food with them every farm is a store house for them where they can ob- tain supplies and fresh How they contrive to obtain supplies of ammunition is a Their stubbornness in refusing to yield to the British cannot be explained by the illusions of Mr. Kruger's mission in France or ill-founded hopes Bryan's triumph helpful to a few yards away from the City of Results to Date of the ial Elections in st. 10__The polls of St. John's in the just LiberalE have been 1 y aggregate plurality of as against obtained at the i as lhe ff St. John's Bast also er This vanishing point ng the three concede that Know e men already has secured 7 Kurt in. The Liberals claim of the 3i> seats in Uie full the I Recent storms have Fonr Were these unusually The Those below the decks were caught place where the Monticello struck is in the torents of rushing up at the mouth of the Bay of from great holes in the ship's bottom the waters of thu bay join and pouring down her hatches ami those of the There are companion Tho other boat was many reefs and shoals at this spot not seen after the steamer went the currents are many and That in charge Smith lived it one of the worst for only a few but it carried places on the gale last them along on the crest of a great I kicked up a tremendous sea and wave till ic broke on the beach at the same time the vessel struck and all hands were thrown into the i the waves were beating upon the Three of them wore carried up rocks and sending spray for to the where they were able j feet over the to hold on and were but Elsie Monticello was on her way from McDonald and Second Officer Murphy John to Yarmouth with a full and two women passengers were back by the The next wave threw the McDonald girl high and dry on but phy was hurled against a boulder and instantly The others were not seen Those who were ed sustained only slight Capt Smith's Captain Smith made the statement to-night left St. John at 11 on Friday The freight and a fairly large passenger Just before she foundered an attempt was made to the land in a small boat in charge the and it contained Third Officer a stewardess named and three This boat smashed by a huge che occupants being hurled high upon the beach at Pembroke It is believed these are the only ors of the 40. might have been They are fighting fresh recruit from Natal and Cape Colony caught with arms in his hands should be tried by tial and Other suggestions are that every enemy found in British uniform or making foul use ot the white flag or Red Cross should be It is also urged that the districts must be swept of any cattle horses and that farm houses must be burned and the seditious so that raiders be unable to carry on the Gen Kitchener is expected to do all these things since mild measures have been tried without New Nov. N Ford referring to reports of the latest defeat of says Col. who commanded the British force in this brilliant was He was one of Kitchener's men who greatly distinguished himself in the Khartoum was one of the best military officers In the British army and was only 39 years of age Continued on Evidence of Gross Act of Bribery in Behalf of Mr. A letter has been received by Free Press from Mr. W. H. who is said to be the organizer in the acts of bribery and corruption or thu part of the ami sup porters of Mr. In on an elector who resides at Manitoba for Conservative j la Prairie was paid in cash th denying a statement of the Free Bres GREETING TO THE MINISTER Liberals Will Publicly Welcome the Hero Brandon at the Winnipeg Theatre election have also been invited which Liberal candidates and other Walter the hero of Western has wired his acceptance and his presence will undoubtedly be one of the of the A. number of Invitations have been sent out to prominent Liberals and their ladies to take seats on the The will be taken by Robert Muir president of the Winnipeg eral at 8 after prominent Liberals will give brief ad- Mr. Sifton will the er of the It is intended that only an hour and a quarter shall be allowed for the after which all present will have an of meeting Mr. and Mrs. Sifton A first class orchestra has been secured and the proceedings will be interspersed with vocal and The stage will also be appropriately decorated with bunting and The time for making the arrangements has been that an elector who lives in peg had been paid nis fare to go to vote in Brandon and that he was given an order on Mr. Hastings for a sum of which order was cashed by Mr. Hastings in Winnipeg on Mr. Hastings stated that he desires so far as the article refera to him to give it a most emphatic and unqualified de- He person was paid a sum of money by me or at any other time during the late upon an signed by the Macdonald men of or by the Conservative association of or by any individual of nor has any such order been even presented to rne for It is understood that Mr. Hastings had cashed the but if he has not done so It in no way the gravamen of the as it stration of many gross corruption of tlie opposition campaign in As Mr. Hastings demands the reproduction of the the ing copy of it is given with the name of the voter in the struck VIRDEN ROLLER D. 3. W. H. he paid his fare paid fare back to You can settle with him about tbe fare W. D. Mr. W. D. Craig is the president of the Virden Conservative and the document over his signature that the voter was paid his fare from Virden to and authorizes Mr. Hastings to pay the voter his fare Winnipeg to If Mr. denies all ledge of the and he does go so far as he has a was brought all the way from Brit dsh Columbia to vote ior Mr. to avoid being sworn at the po his name was on the where they would have him ther to he suy had under been oath paid whe THE NEXT SPEAKER Understood That Mr. Brodeur Will be Official Declarations Not Nov. is understood hat P. for wUl the next The association has called a meeting of defeated candidates in Mayor who was elected n both Maisonneuve and Two has decided to sit for St. N. Nov. proceedings Saturday were lively tihan Returning Sturdee declared Mr. A. G. minister of and Col. J. Tucker Mr. Blair's over Mr. Foster was 997, and Tucker's was 770 over Ul delivered Nov. returns in Perth put majority at 280. majority in re Wellington is 251. Bell's majority n Addington is 519 with five polls o hear from which may reduce it. Mr. Sutherland's majority in Oxford is with a number of polls to hear from which will in- rease it to Leighton McCarthy's majority in North Simcoe was in Middlesex McNeil's in forth Bruce officially declared was Arc Sot Nov. should be noted that elected for and member elect for West defeating are both Independents rather than Con- Calvin's principal ground of objection to the government is that its tariff reduction was not vere He favors the British preference and has expressed proval of Sir far ed proposition to demand a return for the Thornton in his ic address made before the election declared he was unpledged to either has a majority of only four ever Caldwell in North Lanark and it is understood recount will be asked Both this and North Bruce may yet be added to the Liberal Mr. Fielding's N. Nov. minister of met a treat ovation on return A pleasing feature of evening was the presence on the form in the khaki of Trooper John of Strathcona's The young lad is a son of Rev. John McDougall and had been invalided arriving the day of His introduction by Chairman was the signal for deafening which were caught up again anil At the conclusion of address the band played a About 10 o'clock the chairman throw the meeting open and nearly member of the house came and shook hands with Mr. The meeting broke up with cheers lor the Queen and Mr. The member elect left by the night train for B. he will make his first speech in favor of candidacy of Mr. W. A. of Mr. A. L. has also gone to assist Mr. was announced to speak last night in B. C. THE RESULT IN Still in McCreary's ity Five Three Northern Polls to The polls at Fisher Hiver and The Narrows still remain be heard from and until the returns arc received the election in Selkirk still remains more or less in At present Mr. McCreary leads with majority of and there is every reason to that this increased and that his election he Li great ovation He held a reception hotel yesterday and at the Grand returned last night to Shelbourne for the tion Nov. Corby denies the statement that he offered to resign his for Sir V lor Nov. writ for an election In Nipissing bus been Nomination will take place on Nov. and on Dec. 5. cona was here had a long interview with Sir Wilfrid rler sit the premier's Other The official figures Cor 27 polls were received yesterday frum Che officer and these a slight difference as compared the but in Mr. Word was received from Stonewall last evening that the driver who had gone out to in the deputies from the three polls with their ballot boxes and returns would not return until this evening as the roads are very bad and had other places to which to The table gives the latest vote as far as can be So. Poll 16, 3..-.. 13, 4.. 21, 18, 4.. Icelandic 1 Big Island Lundar Boy school Narrows W. school B. school Govt. Opp. 1 IS 4 52 IS 1. lit school St. mons takes place and are the The complete returns The The Algoma election for the Ill i 4-.' SI to was voted in Uie to of Brandon on a This vote cost Mr. campaign fund over paid contrary to There is no question whatever that there was bribery corruption -in their grossest form employed era be- half of Mr. Macdonald in the attempt to Mr. to beait was the and ing was left from private ito public from the payment of small sums to voters to the payment of large There is no use in any agent of Mr. Macdonald's assuming an air of tue Everyone of them in the city ot Winnipeg knows that Mr. Macdonaid was never elected to the House of Commons by fair and honorable On each oX the two occasions when he induced the returning officer to declare him the election was carried by bribery amd corruption m all their payment of money not to vote and payment of money to the use of money and the use of all and corruption known to the Conservative managers In were to Mr. Macdonald's It is not that methods employed in in the en- deavor to Mr. In- deed the managers m Manitoba know to carry elections Lg HIIT til 1 HiiS i lell tm but active committees I ledge of it. even if it has yet been have been appointed and it is presented to him for payment Mr. mined th ii the reception to Mr. Sifton Craig would certainly not deny that shall be a grand No Liberal he gave such an order or that he paid in the city should miss this of hearing and becoming sonally acquainted with Mr. the member elect for Ohe voter his fare from Virden to More than there is evidence which could be produced of in one the corrupt But .ui of them is too strong to be over- come by these none are so ready to charge their opponents being guilty of Dhose practices m which they It Is bad in to have bat let the and the ballot the and the leave aside cloak of hypocrisy and that assumption of virtue which gives win know tiie facts a somewhat tired of polling are not expected for eral The re-election of Mr. Dyment seems CALGARY HONORS Splendid to to liberal as ot Patriotic 1'olicy Speak at N. W. Nov. torch light procession and mass meeting in the house was Calgary's tri- bute Mr. Frank elect last night to celebrate his return to the House of Commons with a majority double that of his previous His previous majority over a weak man was 7S4. His present majority was over a fluent whose cause was espoused by several able At 8 o'clock an immense concourse gathered in front of the Alberta hotel with torches and drays loaded with fire works and the procession moved down Stephen avenue amid flaming torches and a of a thousand variegated At the opera house the fire brigade band struck up patriotic and popular airs while crowds of both ladies and soon filled the house from top to Mr. A. president of the Liberal in a witty and tasteful Mr. who was received with cheers which did not subside for many Mr. Oliver made a very modest becoming acknowledgement the honor done him and paid an eloquent tribute to Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the patriotic policy he had pursued throughout the campaign and his pre- vious tenure of The result from Brandon was an emphatic Condemnation of so circulated against the minister of He then thanked the Liberals of Calgary for their loyal support and pointed with pride to the fact Cardston in the extreme south shown its appreciation of Liberal principles and practice by giving him I majority of 200. It was a Liberal He complimented the ies on their presence and beautiful decorations of the opera house which was tastefully draped with flags and curtains and adorned with mottoes and a profusion of Mayor Mr. Hugh vice president of the Liberal Mr. C. A. Ex-Mayor James Peter Q. C. Springfield Bank Creek wood Balsom Bay B. Fort Alexander Selkirk school 15, 1........ Mountain school Hope school 16, 1........ 12, 15, 1...... Orange 25. 10. 2 Lake school Francois Ste. Ste. Paul W. school school that had IS tn j 3S mjS mj Lnu school Bluff school school Wm taurier Interviewed Nov. Wilfrid Laurier was in the city to-day and tne congratulations of many uf his friends and supporters on the re- sult of the general nothing to say about the premier remarked to a is unnecessary for me to say In that I am delighted with the for that is easily under- stood without my saying these rumors of cabinet Sir as to there has been ing even for since the tion I am devoting my attention chiefly to getting You know worked pretty hard for a few weeks and feel somewhat but wise I am in splendid But a rest will be very Charlton In Nov. Charlton was one of the first to wait on Sir Wilfrid Laurier to-day to late him on the great victory which his government had had a very pleasant interview the N. W. Nov. polls have now been heard from in West and Mr. Scott's majority Is 229. The of Brandon not influenced in the least by Hugh James Short and Thomas Wanless free Implement recognized called on ana made brief ad- in it a poorly disguised
