AMERICA.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 20, 13 May 1908, Page 8

AMERICA.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier has introduced into the Canadian Parliament a bill subsidising the construction of the railway from Winnipeg to Hudson Bay. The Senate of the United States has ratified the treaty providing for a joint commission to examine the recent surveys and fix the frontier line between Canada and the United States. The Peter Riekmcrs, a large sailing vessel, has been wrecked at Long Isvessel, has been wrecked at Long Island. The crew of one hundred were rescued by means of a land line, after a time of imminent peril. A fire which broke out in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday destroyed six blocks of buildings in the business quarter of the city, including two large hotels. Before the conflagration was extinguished damage to the extent of a quarter of a million sterling was suffered.

Canada and the United States. Governor ' Johnson, Governor of th* State of Minnesota, and one of the Democratic candidates for the Presidency, declares that Americans must obliterate the imaginary line between the United States and the Canadian States. This spreadeagleism meets with small response, except in Minnesota, Michigan, and Dakota, three of the States bordering Canada. Matrimony and Murder. After a fire on a farm at Laporte, Indiana, four bodies, at first believed to be those of the occupier, Mrs. Belle Guinness, and her children, were discovered incinerated. Suspicion resting on a farm hand named Lamphere, he was arrested and charged with murdering the family. Since his arrest, however, nine additional bodies have been found roughly buried near the house, all apparently having been,murdered. The police now believe that Mrs. Guinness escaped to Chicago after killing a strange woman and her children and burning their bodies. The body of the woman was decapitated, evidently to prevent identification. The other corpses are believed to include those of applicants lured to the house in response to Mrs. Guinness’ matrimonial agency advertisements. Having gone to the house, the applicants were, it is believed, robbed and murdered and the insurance money collected. Mrs. Guinness’ first husband is believed to have been poisoned, and there are indications that her second was murdered with a butcher’s cleaver. Mrs. Belle Guinness, on whose farm at Luporti, Indiana, a number of decapitated bodies were found, after the house had been destroyed by fire, and who fled to Chicago, is a handsome woman, fortyeight years of age, and is possessed of extraordinary strength. Thirteen bodies have already been exhumed on her farm, buried with chloride of lime, and it is expected that more will be found. The police suspect that Mrs. Guinness is a murder “fence,” or receiver of the bodies of victims assassinated by a Chicago murder gang. The bodies were all dismembered, apparently by an expert. Bessie Wallace, a pretty girl of 28, has been arrested on suspicion of being the decoy in connection with Mrs. Guinness’ seductive matrimonial advertisements. The police believe that they are on. the track of one of the greatest murder syndicates of the age. Five big trunks were recently- delivered On the farm from Chicago, and placed in a secret room in the basement which was only opened by Mrs. Guinness. American and Japan. The United States and Japan have signed an arbitration treaty similar to those accepted with other countries. The newspapers in New York and Tokio interpret this to mean that all differences between the two countries have now Ireen settled.