The Quebec chronicle, 1 avril 1912, lundi 1 avril 1912

[" \u201c> , into Chapman's room and *ald him of / The Weather ¢air; Same Temperature.ESTABLISHED 1764.BRAZIL NUTS 1912 CROP.Received Saturday .EASTER NOVELTIES Including Fancy Chocolate and Sugar Eggs, Chocolate Heus.Rabbits, Fancy Baskets, Etc.The most complete assortment ever displayed.A.GRENIER Phone 1141, PROBABLE FATAL SHOOTING CASE In a Hotel \u2014 Three Brothers Wounded in a Row About a Woman, Montreal, March 31\u2014Attempting to avenge a fancied insult to a lady acquaintance of their brother, Edgar and Herbert Chapman were shot.probably fatally, in a room in the Savoy Hotel at four o'clock this morning, while Harold Chapman, the brother, lies in the hospital with a bullet in his knee.Carl Hemmans.a player in the orchestra of the Enchantress Company sith Kity Gordon which finished its engagement in Montreal last night and left to-day for New York, is held charged with the shooting, and will plead self-defence.Harold Chapman had a room in the Savoy Hotel, and carly this morning & woman called to see him, saying she had heard he was sick.He was in his room asleep.The woman found the Inck broken and started to mend it.The noise of her hammering awoke Harry Sanford, a player in the sante company as Hemmuans, who came nut und asked the woman not to make so much noise.She desisted and went her eonversation with Samford.Sanford, in the meantime, went into Hemmans' room for a talk.Chapman came to the door and sw Sanford entering Heamans' room.Hs got up and dressed and then sent a message to hit brothers who lived nearby, saying that he was in trouble.The messenger came back with some money.his brothers helieving he meant financial difficulty.Harold Chapman then got a hack, drove up to his brothers\u2019 residence where they lived with their mother, and got them out of bed, bringing them down to the Savoy Hotel.The three men went to Chapman's room and removed their | coats.Then they went to Hemmans\u2019 | room where Sanford had been seen | to enter by Harold Chapman.They; broke down the door.Sanford had left the room for his own while Har- | old Chapman had gone out, but Hem- | mans was seen sitting on the side of) the bed.As they entered some object\u2019 broke the clectric light, plunging the room in darkness Shouting out threats, the three brothers rushed at Hemmans, whom Harold took to he the man who had had the conversation with the woman outside his door, and throwing him to the floor.started to beat his Hemmans managed to struggle to his dress suit case on the top of which he had left a revolver.and opened fire in the darkness.All three brothers were hit.When the hotel employes arrived on the scene they found the Chapmans helpless and Hemmans badly beaten.The shooting was done with a 32- ealibre revolver, with soft-nosed hul- lets.Edgar Chapman has a bullet in his lungs, while Herbert is wounded in the liver and chest.Neither are expected to recover.To-day the ante-mortem statements of the wounded men were taken.kdgar Chapman identified Hemmans, whe is held by the police and offered to shake hands with him.saying : \u201cYou're not to blame at ali, old man\u201d The woman in the case declares that she did not tell Chapman that Sanford's words were discourteous, merely saying that he had asked her not to make so much noise.What story Harold Chapman could have told his brothers, who both have good reputations as steady workers at their trade as painters, to get thet out of bed at dead of night to make an assault on a man they had never seen is unknown as yet, Harold Chapman will be remember.| Copyright Branch, Dominion of Can- ed as one of the ushers at the Orpheum who was present at the fatal card game fact November when Chas.Ross shot and killed Bob Fitzsimmons, the ticket taker, during a quarrel over a bet.cree.28e 1b, Est.1882 LARGE INCREASE IN | CUSTOMS RECEIPTS For Fiscal Year Just Closed\u2014.Was Over Fourteen Million! Dollars, (Special to the Chronicle.) Ottawa, March 31.\u2014An increase of approximately fifteen million dollars will be shown in the final return of customs receipts for the fiscal year | just closed.The excess as compared with the full returns for the fiscal ! year ending March 31, 1911, is already over fourteen millions.Re- | ceipts for the month of March | amounted to $R2631783, as compared | with $7.445.474 for the corresponding month of the preceding fiscal year.The total receipts for 1910-11 amounted to $72.345866.The total receipts {or the year just closed, so far entered, reached the unusually large figure of $86,397,943.It is estimated that post entries will swell thi- figure hy another million.in round numbers, bringing the increase for the Year up to fifteen millions or more.CAPTAIN SCOTT'S PERSONAL STORY Of His Experiences in the Antarctic Will Appear in Tues- day's Chronicle.(Copyrighted in the United Kingdom by the Central News, Ltd.London; in the United States hy the New .York Times Company, and registered in the Deparument of Agriculture, | ada.by the Central News, Ltd, London.All rights reserved.) Akarowa, New Zealand, April 1.\u2014 The Terra Nova, of the British Ant- | arctic expedition, 1910, arrived here at ; 7,30 this morning unheralded.under | the command of Lieutenant pene.Lieutenant Pennell reported that owing to the bad ice conditions the \u2018 Terra Nôva was oblized to leave the ! Antarctic without waiting for the re-| turn of Captain Scott and members | of his expedition.The latest news | heard.however, showed that the members of the expedition were making gallant efforts despite very adverse conditions to achieve their o)- jective, and Licutenant Pennell expressed the utmost confidence in their | success, Lieutenant Pennell brought back with him Captain Seat(s personal narrative of the first part of the work of the expedition, and reported that scientific wrrk of the most val.uahle character had been achieved.The health of the members of the ex- ; pedition was excellent, with the exception of Lieutenant Evans, who, he said.was now convalescent from seurvy.No alarm need he felt for the safety of the expedition, The Terra Nova will return south in Noveinher next.(The first part of Captain Seott's personal narrative will apacar in The Chronicle tamarrow morning Any alleged information, respecting the achievements of the expedition puh- lithed in the meantime may safely be regarded as conjectural) LARGE FIRE IN MANILA.Manila, Aptil 1\u2014\u2014The Standard Oil Company's main storuge plant here has been destroyed hy fre.Three large petroleum warehouses and one for the storage of gasoline were burned.\u2018The fire hroke out early Sunday evehing and continued ! throughout the nigh.The loss 1s estimated at $1,000,000.POMMERY FILS& CO: Sh:ppers of the famous POMMERY CHAMPAGNE \u201cPOMMERY\" stands for the highest grade of Champagne shipped PARIS won} Pay the Highest AW, YOUNG & CGO.bo from France .Prices for POMMERY MONTREAL | | things said were : ; reason, Î can only say with Olive Ee The Quebec Chronicle QUEBEC, MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1912, DOMINION HOUSE READY TO CLOSE All Business Completed\u2014The Grand Trunk and Mr.Hays Roughly Handled.(Special to the Chronicle.) Ottawa, March 31\u2014Monduy wil! find the Commons ready for pror.ga- tion, all business being done except part of concurrence.There really wags not a full day's work, and members filled in the time with talk until | evening, when one important piece of | business was transacted.This was handling of Grand Trunk legislation.| The attitude taken by the Govern.| ment and by the unanimous House! was two-fold : The legislation before the House should be dealt with on its! merits, namely, passed ; the flow of capital into the country must not be checked ; improvements of the trans-! portation system of the country mnst not cease; it would be wrong to seek : to contral the Grand Trunk by indirect means.In doing so the \u2018Government and the whole House expressed most emphatic disapproval of and contempt for the course folowed by the Grand Trunk and Mr.Hays.: The plainest language was used in, charging him with antruthfulness, and direct legislation to compe! the rai way to keep its pronuses to its employes was all but definitely annoanc- The language used hy members was excecdiugly severe.Some of the ) Mr.Lancaster\u2014He had nothing but contempt for Hays, who said first, that be was not intelligent | enough to understanil the agreement \u2018 he had made ; second, that he was no® honest enough to keep it.Mr, Marphy\u2014\"Said dealings not exist between man and man.or between two great railway corpura- ! conld i tions.\u201d Hon.Gen.P.Graham.former Min-! ister of Railways\u2014\"I have no patience with a man in high or low life who won't keep an agreement.\u201d The ac-: tion of the railway had been ahsalute- : ly unfair and a direct violation of the agreement.! Major Currie, sponsor for the bill\u2014| Hays had lost his usefulness in this | country.All classes in the community had lost all faith in him, Mr.Borden agreed that the railway company had violated its agreements.Its: conduct had ot bean such #3%o commend it to members of the House.It must have been exas- | perating to the late Government.lt had been very exasperating to the present Government.lt might be necessary to intervene decisively.But if this were done it should he by means of direct legislation.it should not be done indirectly.At the opening of the House, Mr.White dealt with the Senate amendments tu the Tarif Commission bill.Of two important amendments he accepted one which alters the term of commissioners\u2019 appointments from | term of years te \u201cduring pleasure.\u201d | Tle rejected the one which calls for special inquiry with a report whenever application is made for increase of duty.As regards the first change, he regarded it as undesirable.hut he was willing to accept it.The second amendment was irrelevant and asked for nothing already covered.and by particularizing in reality weakened the force of the statute.Mr.Pugsley attacked the super- cession of Sir George Gibbon and confreres as members of the International Joint Waterways Commission.Mr.Borden defended the action of the Government.Then followed the Opposition's weneral complaint of all things in general.Mr.A.K.Maclean took an unfavorable view of everything the \u2018Government had done, was liberal in charges nf hrok:n promises.and set- tll down to a very sad study of the finances.He added together the estimates, guarantees.subsidies, probable expenditures and pocsible liahil- itice, and worked out a tale of $205,- 000.000, Tn particular he attacked bitterly the Government's highway poiicy.Mr.White rallied Mr, Maclean on the singular spectacle he presented! as an advocate of economy and recalled his complaisance under the expenditures of the laurier-Fielding era.He compared estimates of the past few years, dwelling on increases.! In 1911 the increase over 1910 was: $22.000,000._ In 1912 the increase over 1911 was $24.000,000.In 1913 the increase over 1912 is $10,000,000.\u201cWhen | I consider,\u201d said Mr.White, \u201ctha.this, party has been out of power for 15: years, that many constituencies have been deprived of public works for this that | am astonished at our own moderation.\u201d PREMIER McBRIDE AND THE DIAMONDVALE DISASTER Victoria, B.C.March 31\u2014Premier McBride has taken cognizatice of the verdict returned by the coroner's jury which has been investigating at Merritt the circumstances attending the recent deplorahle disaster at the mines of the Diamondvale Coal Conear Nicola City.The jury in its finding held that the accident was occasioned hy the neglect of prescribed precautions on the part of the company and further held an inspector of Merritt blamable in his not having posted or seen to the posting of certain notices which are called for by rovisions of the Provincial Coal ines Regulations Act, On Monday next the question of these charges wilt ba taken up hv the ministar, | i New York's subway and elevated «y