Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 19, 1912, Winnipeg, Manitoba WEATHER Fine and 4.19 8.40 Moon 9.30 00. JUNE 19, 1912. TWENTY-EIGHT NO. 299, four BESIDE MEN Highness Weil Pleased i Bearing and Working of Troops with laid and his own foot made them prepared miles distant automobile lie took advancing column j of a Brit- WORLD'S NEWS SUMMARY June 19. Tho weather forecast for to-day is as follows Fine and Senator Elihu Root elected chairman the Republican tional a majority of 56 over Governor timers at the Apolitical game refuse to express an opinion as will get the Page 1. French investors who subscribed to the stock of the National du Canada are demanding an into the organization of the Page 1, Canadian railways say that the son the congestion of traffic is the inability of tha car shops to turn out the rolling stock Page 1. Charles Beresford declares that the proposed reduction of the ranean fleet is an admission of According to a despatch from has agreed to a. conference of ithe powers to end the war with Page 10. Controller Douglas reports a shortage of a supply sufficient for two and a. days only being on Page 5. The decision of the Dominion way board on the western freight rates not expected until Page 9. Senator Elihu A Taft is Temporary Chairman I WANT AN INVESTIGATION OVER FIVE HOURS WERE REQUIRED TO COME Charges and Bitter Invective of Roosevelt Filled TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN When Tumult Had Died Away Root Found to Have Won By 56 flale and was of and 'the the the their bearing and highness the of no indication the 3 advance of the Strenuous I J nn later SCOTT Former Changes June J. one the best known prominent citizens of that on Monday and made to nis kite he had decided to offer for i m the constituency of i an independent supporter 01 Agnew fin oe n actively Identified ike conservative and at in the old territorial of Mr. election of 1908 Mr. one of the workers attests of J E. the in Prince Albert i Mr. the full of his oi Dr. opponent Mr. takes his stand today in tof the Scott government solely i of its record during past He holds the view that Mr. lus colleagues in the M have been honest ana 1 suspicion of w by the 1 of ciny whatever of on the part oC the Hater the circumstances Mr. Ms that it is the fluty of to retain the government Sows June 100 ot whom were atives of Milestone li nominated T. J. of a. convention the Illness of tho present E is un- at advisers for- Mm to enter the Scott at Swift The Duke of Connaught spent four hours it with the soldiers at Petawawa Page 1. The French steamer Ville de Cayenne has been wrecked off the coast of Page 10. The funeral of the late Rev. Dr. Sparling took place yesterday after- Page 12. Garment workers in Montreal strike charge detective with 1. The convention of Manitoba grain growers meets in Brandon on June 29. Page 13. child met death by drowning in a pail at a farm home near Gilbert Page 1. A vacant poolroom and ber shop are destroyed at Page 1. Visitors from Minneapolis are ed at the growth of Page 28. Financial building arid Page General Pages (i and and foreign Page 10. Commercial 18. TWO MURDER CASES Crown Not Ready to Proceed With Prosecutions IS. Neither of the murder cases scheduled for to-day dealt with at the special sitting the supreme court presided over by Mr. Justice as the crown was Motion to Convention of to Coma Up Charge Made Regarding Affairs of Basque National du June the charges and bitter invective of the Roosevelt the Taft ers in the Republican national con- vention put through the first portion of their programme by selecting ator Elihu of New as temporary It required more than five hours to a vote on the The calling of the roll was beset with the very first on the list of but in the when the tumult had died ator Root was found to have won by a vote of 558 to 502 for Governor of with 14 ELIHU Elected Temporary Chairman of Republican National Convention Yesterday by Majority of 56. Senator the chairman of the national convention is by no means new t for eight years ago he filled the same position in the same seum when Roosevelt secured the Senator is ly regarded as one of the most ed of the In the McKinley ministry he was secretary for war from 1899 till 1904, in the and Taft cabinets he was secretary from 19-OS till 1909. He was born in the state of New York in 1845. Early in life he devoted self to the practice of and always regarded as the man of high radical Only a few years ago he was one of the members of the Alaskan MEN COLONEL BOOM Majority for so Smali That Anything May Now President's Backers Fear That Some Southern Band Believes Candidate Will Carry the (New Uie 3Ianittfba FRENCH INVESTORS That Certain of Canadian Subscribers Only Paid First SAY SHOPS BEHIND WITH WORK Railways Declare They not Get Required Rolling Stock mg votes and four not not prepared to proceed with The prisoners are Anton and John Tne fightin Tonight both the Taft and velt forces are claiming that this vote indicates that their candidate is lutely sure to The advantage pears to be with the for while he is sure to lose some of the votes that were cast for Senator it is claimed he will if instructions are to some of independently oast for Those leaders who have been urging a compromise candidate ever since they arrived in Chicago are pointing to another angle in the figures and claim that they show it is essential to have a so-called to save the day for the Republican speech which could not be the big gavel to Jeers and demanded attention from his place in the Pennsylvania but was A minute after Senator Boot stepped out the froni of the platform to begin his speech a of and Jeers broke Root prefaced Ms pre- pared speech by a few ous he bes you believe that I John charged with at- wife at six weeks pleaded guilty to the and was sentenced to thiee years in. Prince Albert head Stray Bullet Struck June Showler on passenger tram No. in the shoulder near bay it is thought by stray The engineer had his window The minutes wound Which not and the engineer took charge of his train again after the doctor fixed him Child Dies on to undergo an died shortly after the train is Ito be renewed at 11 o'clock when motion of the Roosevelt leaders to substitute a delegates for those seated ie of the congested cases heard the national committee is to as the unfinished committees were named to-night new some No committees and none will until this motion the convention of delegates to the convention of is exposed of. i defeated on a point of bu Roosevelt declare that par deeply appreciate expression of four came a- rom the brought a group of policemen flying n Stone called upon the chief of police to restore order in the front rank of the Pennsylvania hut R. ting in bhp put hand .to iis mouth and called of him called People Leave Mr. Root had scarcely his ad- dress before hundreds people on the floor and in the galleries began to move out of the noisily and Boot suspended his and asked Stone to ask those wished to leave to June a narrow and dangerous the Taft forces to-day won the battle for the presidential In the most sensational and spectacular session of a convention held in a with the galleries packed with a cheering with de- legates shouting and to the presiding and with solid lines of policemen stretched about the great hall in the expecting a riot which but did not They elected their Senator Elihu chairman of the con- He had 56 more votes than his He had IS more than be required nominate President Taft for the It was a. clean-up the forces of the president and those of Colonel The declare that it foreshadows the nomination of their The colonel's managers say the Taft men cannot poll the vote for that they did on the Men Not The Taft men are not at the The third term boomers around like a mob ot They are shouting tory already on the big delegates from all the meeting to tighten their lines and gather recruits if managers are summoning lowers and preparing grand battle say that on the following day they will their Twit a than that tor Root had June Free Bank in- is. likely to be followed by another investigation the tion of the National de which was organized by Sir The charge is made by a French newspaper of that a syndicate was ed among the Canadian subscribers by which a pool was for a period IS months under which Sir Rodolphe Forget would have the right and will to use it in his own tion to dispose of the pooled shares in all or in part at any time during the above period to the best interest of the having made a profit of least a It was further provided that the ager bound to ad- vance every except the first on the shares so the Canadian some of whom were members of this were Robert A. E. H. A. J. N. E. A. D. O. E. Hon. B. minister of inland Hon. L. P. and V. The charge is made that while the subscribers to the stock of the bank In France and together PROBING Winnipeg's be Looked Rate Case Not June tion of traffic congestion on various Canadian railways came before tha railway board In a variety ways at the sitting probably the most important development was the statement by J. of the and H. Grand that the shortage of. rolling stock is due In a large measure to the of the companies to have the stock all thw car shops of the country being behind with Jri this connection Leonard stated that the of director's had recently the expenditure of no less than company wus 10 its with the majority of the Canadian had to pay u-p in the members of the pool were only re- quired to pay the first call and to re- the benefit of the 10 per It is understood French will apply to the for ail SHOOTING IT Fred Young English Found Dead Outside His Home With Bullet in go at Promised James J. Hill at Montreal the railway arrived MOD. as desiring to have the senator will Stone tho mega- and the spectators began to crowd resumed his place at the Senator voice could not be clown the As the senator sat with a stuck in the corner of mouth and lys straw hat Jammed down on his climbed over the stag's He stepped to Senator Hoot shook and conferred with him tor several leaving just Koot resumed When Mr. Root the rear part of the floor and gallery was and those who remained to him crowded to the front and the agree the delegates now favorable to him he will expert figures that he would have 20 fewer than were polled for ana SSr more than the 54f- required to June the second within has been the scene of a shooting The last victim is a young English Fred dead body with A hole in the chest ani a 3S revolver lying about four feet was found outside the door of his house at last while a closed between and the corpse were the widow children of the dead gether with his former a man It is alleged that Smith was playing gramophone to the woman and children when the body was ana he did not go naar the door after -a neighbors been brought to the spot by a lad named It is also stated that Mrs. when questioned as. to the cause of her stated that the man and Smith left the house 15 minutes before body was money and give it rolling stock for lu He also stated that within the past few days authority had been Spend oa double tracking and improving the grades of Superior section between Chalk River and Fort 74 Miles will ba double tracked without Congestion of The first case heard vras a general complaint from Toronto and Montreal of congestion freight ut tive railway terminals in the two more the Grand H. L. corporation counsel for the city of quoted cases of delays in delivering shipments ng the past four months running 49 to 75 He told of some ces where cars stood in the terminals of Toronto for over a month before they were sorted out and goods de- Expert of the dian Manufacturer's ed lack of system at transfer results being heavy loss to the ness On of the Montreal board of trade and the Produce Merchants it vraa stated that goods were being held up from a week to 10 days in the yards and they often spoiled in Fooled by Rapid Mr. of the eral Superintendent of the Grand informed the board the conditions were due in large sure to the peculiar weather of last which caused a This is so that of his managers are un- that u they bold but they do not say so r induced before from tine Taft of admitting some their June rocott arrived here this ge for his election He d a He series of meetings in the now and polling Million For Double had 12 rolling out the wit h few exceptions tne fast for the Taft When Pandemonium Broke by of Boot a. was at Vancouver 1 c loose in the A d yelled ana cne and eu- ored n tne state standard bearing rkers Charge Detective L Pickets IS. reversing tne a the private t charged with toward and was re- trial till Other detectives are claiming that detectives to Mitt force strikers to re- hisses from enthusiasts the re but for the ii Keeping their factories anj claim that the re- to ut claim that they h r Strike M tne first time next the -a big w 0" Satart been decidedly temperatures Minimum 75- 54. 52, EQ Moose AH so. 4b. 78: 4S. 62; Montreal Oceania OCEAN Arrived New York York V Genoa Havre York Cheer Trust Root continued his speech to a and audience. Here there he elicited a ripple oi particularly when ipon the trust prosecutions of Aft Once a grapher set f he ng and chemical everyone tu let wara the Roosevelt Needs 32. thP other Roosevelt needs 12 votra to give him a and had shot but to play the phone and neither them left the house at Trouble Between Two to the members of the men the Temple and a been partners in the some this and Temple brought his and so chance of their ing recruits from gates who are to say ng a Republican he was iriven a hand of nr speech at and was Minor 'The appointment of minor moved to vote to the very to eo down with if the ship goes go the i congestion of cars across the They said the railway companies were using efforts to conditions by increasing Normal conditions wore rapidly restored and business was being over- we realized five I ears said Mr. two cities would grow as have we would have taken then to increase our much faster than we Now are doing our best to keep pace with Ithe phenomenal growth of business at Mr Walsh read a letter from president of the in which thn opinion was expressed that relief not be given by 'the purchase of. care and locomotives The railways should do more double-tracking and provide facilities certain W H Biggar interrupted to point out Mr. Curry Is the of the Car with which the Grand Trunk has placed a large order for cars to delivered in These cars had not been ed and the railway could not get Walsh replied that tho members 9 of the Manufacturers Page LOOKING BACKWARD in LaFollette Hopes are offered the situation most not voting two a District of Porto V Minneapolis K. P. Lulae Canopic Carpathia Manxman Sa T. F. Bremen Gibraltar Montreal Kew York Now YorK Boston Montreal Bristol lmi the hoarse while the lively had the York Root two and announced by 502; 1; yelled itself into a Stone in. business to be taken up on The e asked for the substitution 92 Roosevelt delegates for 92 Taft men now sitting in the convention as 2, Arkansas 2, California 2, Indiana Kentucky Michigan 6, Oklahoma 2, 4, 26, Washington Virginia 18, District of Columbia 2. p.m. when the convention adjourned until Roofs Boot as of the that I appreciate ex- pression of I competent for the service in so Smith and the widow ana Z. SS Years Ago bonnets at ins take on tlie club Stiver Thirty Years Ago To Hon. P. was elected for A cyclone caused at P Canadian pacific railway took possession the North ary roll of the FIRE AT MATHER Vacant House and Poolroom and her Shop Destroyed June town of Mather Tras visited by fire last about A pool shop and house totally destroy d. The fire had gained such T PAIL Sixteen Meets Tragic Death Near Gilbert Plains June TO of C. a farmer living two miles west of drowned yesterday by falling Into water which was standing on P The walked through the side door of the house and was not again until was discovered In the Blast Costs Woman's June lying 111 in her teat house in South was by a section of a tree day a blast A was a. notary for of tho city c-t 1 of received a piece bridal cake of Twenty-five Ago Over two In the the Smith by three other who oter round outside tlie accident and who were Bradshaw to Stand B. June shaw charged with starting a on the Granite road has been committed for Brandon lowest lor the the Bed Valley railway Hugh firm ot Parsons hS changed to BcU Years Ago at A Ulster convention opened at orer 10.MO delegates were Hon. the Sir prairie near
