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THE STATE OF . FLORIDA.
1 ot 167 persona only forey•four were saved,
and of the barque's crew only fobs- caPtlan
and two map./ ()no hundred and twenty.
three pereeni went down with the atesmer
and twelve With the hareltlar making /4 t4ta1
loos of life of 1$56 The eurvivors will
probably be landed at Quebec.
Leeim•—The Titania !what/led herO ise
short a time that only brief- partioulars
could be obtained. The twenty other sup-
-posed survivors were in another boat. It
is suPPnilaci their Were Pieheel Pa by. Wine
other vessel. • The berquees name is lin.
known AtY ahY of theae en the Titan*. The
Titania will arrive at Quebec about 8
o'clock tomighla but Ohly exishangee * pilot
there Mid preeeede on to Mootreal. It us
probable the surviyere will be sent ashore
'at Quebec wieh the pilot•boat aad pub in
oherge of the proper authorities. ,
Has She Gone Down in* Mid -
Ocean?
CONjECTUREB AS TO gpt FATE
Dynamite or Icebergs the Canso ot the
tesienottyThe' thutudttuni Aboard,,
purple miler's Cituna Ampoule the
ratieeagers.
The agents of the State Line Steamship
Company have received a despatch from
Glasgow this mQrning showingthat the
steamer litete ef Florida, which left New
York for Gettegow on Apxil 12th, wag lost
at sea. The despateh is as follows: The
steamer Devon, from New York for Bristol,
pioked up on April 27th two lifeboats of
the steamship. 'State of Florida, without
moupants or gear. A oiling vessel bound
for the west eignalied the eteamer City of
Rome on April 2361 in lat. 46,, long. 42', that
she had the ehipwreeke& crew of a State
Line steamer on board." The State of
Florida was 4,000 tone burthen, built tit
Glasgow in 1879.
LIST or cennt reesemens.
The cabin paseengers on the State of
Florida were; Daniel Connor, Mrs. Lizzie
Connor, Mrs. Jane Ingraham and infant,
Jos. Bennet, :Andrew Fairbairn, Mr. and
Mrs. 3. Hall and David Strolleers, all of
New York; Henry Wood, Mrs. E. Wood,
Lillian W. Wood, EV E. Wood, and May
Shackleton, of Wellington, Ont. ; Walter
King and ariMeri G. Graham, of Canada;
Jae. Crnikehank Braddock, Pennsylvania;
Andrew Teruo, Abraham Williamson,
Thos., Williamson, Mr. and Mrs. Thos.
Taylor, Thomas Taylor, jun., Mre. Anna
Taylor, Ama Taylor, and Ada Taylor, of
Chicago r George Eddington and A.
Bethune, of Toronto.; Fennell, of lleto-
wid, Ont.; Mrs. Elizabeth Colbaoh and in.
fent, of Philadelphia ; B. Vanderly and J.
J. Baker, of Philadelphirt, and Mre. P
Ward, of 'Cleveland. •
. PASSENSEBS, BY STBERAOE.
The steerage pamengers were Wm. Neoh.
vist, &Imes Patrence;,Martin qames, Robb.
Stewart, Ellen Stewart,john Huts:liaison,
Charles Peterson, Jos. Foreman, Wm.Dlok,
Peter Rowing, Alice Bernie, Mary Burns,
- Susan McDermott, James Grant, Mary
Shannon, Elizabeth Munnilty, Frames Car.
ring, W. Hale, HughMorgan, Edward
Benston;Ellen Rogers, D. Chorchans, Mrs.
Brown and infant, John Hughes, John
• Stewart, Ellen Stewart, W. '.Stewart, Ed.
Stewart, Berhard Hendrioksoni G. 3. Beg -
tem, B. Johnson, Fanny MeAlpin'Mrs. A.
Dick, Ole. G. Hakre,' Martin Peterson,
blre. Jane Scott, Miss Lizzie Leinard, Hugh
Donelly, John, Moore, Martha Shannon,
Kate Tunnility, Jonah . Hale, Benjamin
Wedlake, Jonathan Benston, T. 'Watson,
Edward O'Donnell, • Wm. D: Brown,
Samuel Laverty. The State of Floriealiad
a crew of eighty officers and men.
O'DYNKEITE BOSSA'S AGENTS ABROAD.
When the State of Florid°had left -New
York, a •rawer was given .ourrency that
several cif O'Donovan Rossa's agents were
abroad with dynamite and that detective's
_____were.awaiting_theLarrivaLetthe...iiteamer at
Glasgow to arrest the men. This WWI con-
firmed by oable from England, but Rossa
denied.all knowledge of the men. Captain
Sadler, who commanded the. vessel, was
considered's trustworthy man. • •
A Glaegow cablegram says: The mans:
ger of the State Line believes that there was
an accidental explosion of dynamite' aboard
the steamer State of Florida. et it believed
dynamiterts were among the passengers..
The underwriters will lose £30,000 if the
steataer should prove to be,lost. The ship
that signalled the City of Rome WSS a full-
rigged vessel of English build. She dia-
. played no national flag. After setting her
signalashe proceeded westwardadowly. Fife
other eailing vessels were sighted at the
same time;
A London cablegram says : The' captain
of the steamer Devon pinked
- hosts-of,the State of Florida on Sunday
evening in lat, 47.25,1onie, 34.10. He feels
certain the coottpants were taken off by a
passing vessel.
It is no longer. doubted that the ship
which signalled the (3ity ef Rome slaved
some if not all them on board•the State of'
Florida. • It is calculated that the disaster
occurred on the 18th ult., at whioh 'period
the wind was blowing from the east. • The
boats would drift until rescued. They
must have been launched, beoarise they
were so fixed that they would not otherwise
have floated. The fact.that the bciats were
without gear or oars is regarded favorablee
as indicating that tharesouing ship secured
the oars and gear, and allowed •the boats
to drift Only. One of the boats is the life.
'beat No. 1, the other is a small new boat
not numbered.
THE DINAMITE.THEOHY DISOREDITEO.
The owners are of opinion that the State
of Florida struck an iceberg, as the cap.
tain of the state of Pennsylvania reports
ice in theregiou in whioh she is inipposee
to have been at the time of the disaster.
• The dynamite theory is not received with
any favor whatever. The inventory shows
that the cargo was shipped by two well.
known firms, and all the small packages
on board have been accounted for. The
detectives reported to be awaiting the
arrival of the State of Florida were melting
to arrest a Toronto thief suppmed to he on
the vessel.
The next news concerning the fate of the
• missing vesee‘ is awaited froni Ametioa,
where it is supposed those rescued will be
landed. The oaptain of the City of.Ronie
explains that when the ship dieplayed the
signals there was little or no viind. The
flags 'dewed badly and wore difficult to
read. The City of Renee paseed the ship
raptly without replying.to the signals.
CANADIANS° ON BOOM:
'Mr. A. 13othune, a eon of Dr. Bethune, ef
Toronto, and Mr. George Eddington were
on board the ill•fated steamer. The letter
was a young Scotehmen, and both• were
engaged in orange• growing in Florida.
They were on their way to Glasgow to'
visit Eddingtonle father, who is a wealthy
merchant there. •
Bryson, partner of Miller, the burglar
who got ten years in the Penitentiary for
burglary in this city, is also believed to have
been on board as a steerage' passenger. His
name does not appear on the list, but it in
more than probable he was travelling tinder
an assumed name. He had a let of stolen'
furs' with him which were taken from
Lugsdines store; also a number of gold
nuggets, the proceeds of a robbery at Ellis'
jewellery store, and other artioles, proceede
of other burglaries. Detective Rehurn, who
cleverly timed lim to New York, received
a telegram from the agents of the steamer
that he was on board.
T,he eteamship Titania, from Glasgow,
passed inward this mornieg. She has
twenty -fora a the -crew of the 'steamship
State of Florida on board, said steamer
having gone to the bottom through a
oollieion with a barque in mid.oman. Out
AWL. tralateuelima•
The Kends ot a Dunken Mow,
A Brookville despatch says; The usually
quiet village of North Augusta, a email
pima about fourteen miles northair this
town, was on Saturday night the scene of a
horrible tragedy, over which the surround.
ing country has been thrown into the
wildest state of excitement. The particu-
lars so far obtained are that four yonpg
men, named Daniel Cutway, John Korvin,
Peter Gehan and James .Townsell, left the
village for home on Saturday night with a
bottle of whiskey and quarrelled on the
road. Cutway's skull was so fractured
that he died on Sunday. Tempe% Giehitn
and Korvin are now under arrest. The
tragedy appears to be the direct result of a
drunken row, though as yet it cannot be
amertained whether the Whole three under
arrest had a hand in the 7 murder or not.
This will likely come out at the inquest,
howeveir, and- aii the coinmitnient of time
or all of them to the jail here le almost
certain, full particulars will be available in
a short time. It is reported that Outway,
the victim, was-aelarm-hanclrand lived
about one mile below the village, his
mother, a widow lady, residing in another
direotion. After being found an& taken to
hie mother's' home he never rallied, and
though given, medical attendatioe 4enth
mulled in a few hours. ,
• Late Ammo News
• The Earl of Ragebery will preside at the
anniversary festival of the Cabdrivers'
Benevolent Association in London on June
21st. •
The Duchess- of Argyll is in failing
health, and is rapidly becoming a great
invalid. She is unable to drive out in an
open carriage as the slightest smell of a
• horse produces a epeoies of asthma.
Mr. Robert Ainslie, amistant chamber-
lain to the Duke of Buocleuch at Drum.
lanrig, has been appointed assistant mana-
ger of the Highlanders' Land ee Live Stook
Company.
John Wstson, boot and shoe maker,Pal.
kirk, while passing through Polmone on
April 14th on a tricycle, fell forward on the
machine and breathed his last within two
or three minutes. •
. An extraordinary suicide took place in a
musics hall at Motherwell on Saturday
afternoon week. A performance of cirri's's°
entitled " The Babes in the Wood' was
proceeding, and was being witnessed by a
large number of ohildren, when a retired
grocer named Middleton, who had with
bun in the hall three of hie own children,
rose in the gallery, and, flouriehing a razor
and exclaiming "That is mockery, this is
reality," nut his throat almost from ear to
ear, dying within a few minutes. A terrible
panic ensued, and a rush was made from all
parts of the house to the front door. • The
promptitude of the manager in making his
way to the door, where 'already several
children had fallen, and withdrawing the
bolt, averted what might have been a repstition of the Sunderland calamity. The
event threw the town into a state of great
emitement.
Latent Irish News.
• The 45th Regiment (lst Battalion Sher-
wood Foresters or Derbyshire) is at Pre-
sent at Athlone. ,
There has been a great falling off in the
quantity. of Irish salmon emit be the Lon-
don market this season as compared with
last year. .
Mr. Richard Manders, of Brackenetown
Swords, died on April 14th. .Untilrecently
he was.the head of one of the oldest firms
in Ireland.
In North Ward Dublin poor law elections
recent* the "Lord Mayor (Natioves
defeated by a large majority. The Ccfneer-
vatives carried every seat.
Limerick quarter sessions a maple of
weeks ago, the County Court -Judge was
presented by the Sheriff with a pair of
white.gloves, there being no criminal case
for true, •
A design'cif Deane ds Sons, Dublin, for
the new Irish Science and Art Museum and
National Library has been aeoepted. • The
building will cost over £100,000.
An unsuccessful attebept was made on
April' llth to upset the Kerry mail train,
about flee miles from Tralee. Some damage
was done to the road, but no injury. to the
pascieegers moaned.
• Tbe Marquis of Donegal, who died on
the 20th October last lie Brighton, had per.
sonal estates amounting to £41,000. • By
his will he leaves quarries •and railveay
property in Ireland to his wife, and then to
the truetees of the family estate.
South American News.
- The Brazilian GI-overnraent recirraniz-
ing the national guards of the eeveral
provinces.
The Brazilian Government has jut spent
$10,000,000 upon the new water supply of
Rio. Nevertheless complaints are loudand
'deep of want of water. -
The Government. of the Argentine Be
piiblielas received a proposal for the loan
• of 630,000,000 from some English banking
houses.
The Government of the Province of
Buenos Ayre.baa just ordared the removal
to the new capital, La Pieta, of all_ the de.
partment offices. • In that city a great num.
ber of wooden houses have been put up,
coming froroehe United States.
A robbery of $60,000 by otte Le.mothe has
just been discovered at Buenos • Ayres. A
Minister of State is maid to have been in,
partnership with latmothe in the robbery.
The robber forged the names of thirty
different prominent "people, banker and
merchant's.
At Bio do janeiro there have been pxo.
longed rejoicings over the final abdlition of
elavery in otie of -the twenty provinces of
Brazil. Prom Ceara the following telegram
wee received by the feetival, commission :
"Ceara heti ennobled labor; Brazil.
imitate the example. Press; Senators,
Deputies, Csitizene 01 all reeks, let us labor."
' Owing to the discovery at Moscow of a'
plot to aseatisinate the Czar the festivities;
designed itt Miaow in honor of the coining
of age of the Czarovitch will be held at St.
Petereburg4
nunor cuutAmmr.
kesierlainase Ilurated Dolma sued she In -
Santee Entotisoresi litairbeto Beds!
A last (Thureday nightie Paw Payr
(WOO despatch says:, Bad *nee been fer
the.,disooveri at 2 (Nook is, the maiming
by a man named Halsey, eleeping in the
main building of the Vanburen County
Pear -House, of fire in an addition in the
rear of that etructure, in en PeehaliihtY
• nwly every one of the officer's, employees,
and inmate's, numbering nearly eixtyt&er
w•
het Would have been bumed to dee. or
mothered in their beds. As it is, °barred
fragments are all that remain of fourteen
inmates. Vanburen County poor -house is
located on a farm several miles west of
here and three miles emit of Hartford.
The buildings omelet' of a ,large
two-storey etruoture, whieh ie •the
main buI1ing,* wing on the east iside.,a
two.storey addition in the rear of the main
building, and two deteohedbuildings. Hah
soy was awakened by cries from the rear
addition, and ran down the hall to the floor
leading into the addition. He was almost
overcome by the dense emoke, which at
once assailed him, and saw that the build.
ing was burning furiously.. It was impos-
sible to proceed further into the interior.
Halsey, though nearly Milled, had presence
of mind to close the door and give the
alarm. Pereone en- the front part of the
building were soon aroused, and made all
haste to save their lives. Superintendent
Cash's daughter had recently been sick
with typhoid fever, and was' in a very west'
condition. She was removed in safety
The flames spread with such rapidity that
only an organ, bureau and two or three
other articlee of furniture were saved. The
jail being detached, there was time to
arouseand resoue the inmates before the
-flee ' spread to that building, although
little else could • be saved. After all
Puebla in the way of saving life had beeu
done, meseengem were sent to Hartford,
and a fire engine from that place came at
One% but on the arrival of the firemen they
could do nothing. As soon as the state of
the ruins would admit the ,as
wbioh
was the 'scene of the holoseaust was an.
tered. It was found that nearly all the
victims had been esnothered in • their beds,
although there were indications at one spot
as if three or four had huddled together
and died. One body, which was sub.
etantielly intact, was placed in a box by
Itself. What could be gathered of the re-
maining thirteen bodkin was placed in one
box about the size of an ordinary ooffin.
Among those burnt or smothered to death
were Mrs. Willson and a daughter, who
were recently sent to the County House
from Covert townehip. The mother had
aim two bays with her. Arrangements to
place the ohildren in the State pnblio
eohool at Coldwater had been almost
completed. The two bop emaped. Of
those lost, several were upwards of 70
years of age, and two or three were 'hope-
lessly insane.
Following IS a list of thonwho perished':
James Johnson, an old sailor, 88 yeare of
age; Henry Baker half .mute, aged 40;
Benjamin Bogardus, aged 46; old man
named Sawyer, insane, latelyarrived from
Kalamazoo asylum; a man named fear:
geant, over 70 years old; Fred. Eohen-
berger, an epileptic, aged 71 ; a man mimed
Myers, over 70; Peter Bolden ; Deborah
Gravette, over 70; Mrs. Curtiss, insane;
Caroline Sheaver, aged 35 ; Caroline Long,
aged 30; Mrs. Willson and her daughter,
aged 10. People in the neighborhood did
all in,their power to relieve this unfortun-
ates and make them as comfortable as
circumstances would permit. Thousands
of people visited the ruins. The loss on
buildings is estimated at 215,000; fully
insured. •,
THE 14111,31INGIIIAS1
.DYNAffiIEIa..
.They Intended to slow lip Ward
'Politichnni—Exploshres Found
A last Saturday's London cablegram
nye: The proprietor of the Ship tavern, in
the vicinity of the Strand, seized the effects
of an abecondiug lodger for nonpayment of
rent. Among them was a box containing
twelve pounds of dynamite cartridges and
gun cotton. The lodger is well known and
the polioe are pursuing him. The cartridges
wore mob, as are used in toy pistols.' The
police atteash little importance to the dis-
covery.
Daly, Egan and etiodonnell were ar-
• raigned at Birmingham to -day on the
charge of treason -felony. Daly wail defiant,
Macdonnell dejected. Daly asked why he
was brought to Birmingham to be tried
again after his committal on Thursday to
await the Chester assizes. The prosecution
replied that after the charge was prepared
-against hinrat Liverpool enough evidence
had been brought to light to justify hie re-
moval to Birmingham on greater charges.
• Detectives surrounded the prisoners in
court and there were others outside. The
prisoners seemed to feel their position,
keenly, especially Egan. When the dote°.
tivee described how they had tre,oked Egan
and Daly sines October the two exchanged
significant glances, ••
It appeared from the evidence that prior
to the recent meetings in Birmingham
Town Hall, which were addressed by the
Marquis of Salisbury and Mr. , Joseph
Chamberlain, letters were received by, the
authorities containing .tbreato that dyne -
mite bombs would be thrown wader the
speaker's platform. . Speoial precautions
were Olen to guard age.inet thie. Daly
was arrested shortly before the Birming-
ham election eanepaign of Lord Randolph
Churchill and Col. Burnaby. It is believed
the bombs found in his possesision Were
intended to be explode& among campaign
gatherings. The prisoners were remanded
for a week.
•
New Northwest Enterprises.
Application has been made for a treat of
country On the Athabaece, River withthe
object of engaging in the petroleutn indus-
try, that article having been found there in
quantity. .
A company of English, Canadian and
American capitaliets have Made application
to the authorities for right to engage in
subaqueous gold tainitig in the north Sas-
katchewan River. They propose to employ
expensive machinery iti connection with
their undottaking. •
Queen Victoria's Beds.
Two beds, which havebeen manufactured
at the Cafitle Works, were deopittehed last
week from Windaor to Portsmouth and
Darmstadt, Om wee te lie placied in the
Queen's oebin on board the Osborne,and
the other in the bedroom i
which she s 'to
wimpy In the Faitio Sehloiel, at Darmstadt.
Her Etajonty lovatiably deeps On a bed
made after a eertein pattern, and one is al.
ways sent in advance) for her use when she
is going te a strabge plaeo.--Lonclon Truth.
Lei° espiotous 0i people whub perten' ter
be eo, ton'or.hearted. I onoe kienev't a man
whut had o reueh foolin' dat be wouldn'
dep., on a einder, an' he evut airterwares
hung for Murtlerhe his •witch—Arkansas,'
Traveller. '
A Georgia • nurseryman is said to have
realized elready tbie 'leaden $10,000 from
the sale of fruit trope grown on one acre of
laud.'
*"..LIzaete
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMAR
Lr test Newki. fretril Ui
Over the WOD1d. f
eauuttuistu.
Hon. F, Langelier was re-eleoted Mayor
of Qualm° by aeolamation.'•
• Joseph Henderson, a farmer, !ell out of a
mil kt Waggon at ginget012, andinSuring hie
opine became paralyzed. He died shortly
ate trial of the three men charged with
the murder of Peter Lazier at Bloomfield
last December will come on at the Eaton
Assizes to•morrow.
John McGuire, a cattle drover from St.
Louis, fell from a oar On the Canada South.
ern Railway, near Sti. Thomas), on Sunday
evening and was instantly killed, histead
being severed from hie body. ,
Mr, Johnson Henderson, who left Belle -
villa on Friday lasib to assume charge ot
the Church cif England mission at Roslin„
was thrown from his vehiele by the break-
ins of an axle and Sustained a fracture of
his lower jaw. •
„ At a largely attended meetingof the 711*
Fusiliers at London last evening it was
1111SIIIIHOUSly resolved to tender Col. Walker
a. farewell dinner on the occasion of his
retirement from the command of the bat -
Master Leo H. B. Riggs, aged 4 years
son of the leader of the Belleville Odd
fellows' band, who keoently played the
piano successfully at a concert, has been
presented by Mrs. 3. Irby lles with a silver
oup in recognition of his precocious talent.
On Sunday last Wm. Henry, a dealer in
Old iron, rage'eto., and his teamster,
George Scott, were arrested by the polioe
charged with breaking int e and deetleyang
the type in the 'Stratford Times office.
They were lodged in jail and remanded
until 2 ' p.m. yesterday, when they were
brought before a magistrate and remanded
until 9 a.m. on Wednesday next.
A' drowning accident ocourred on Sun-
day on the North River, at St. Jeroini3,
Que., by which a young man named Be-
langer lest his life. Dammed was out row.
ing with his sister in a skiff, when the tiny
thing wee carried away by the current, and
was hurled over a dam thirteen feet into the
'seething water below. The deceased was
not seen after, tut the girl came to the
surfaoe and was carried rapidly down
stream, Until she was rescued after being
buffeted about against rooks until she was
(Severed, with bruises.
• Luke Phipps, the condemned murderer
in Bandwiehjail, has abandoned. all hope
of esoapiug the gallows now, and is only
anxious that the fatal day shell come: He
said to one of • the jail attendants a few
days ago , that he thought Justice Burton
might have fixed the day of exeouticin
earlier, so that he would be out of suspense.
His lawyer wrote to Washington entreating
the Secretary of State to ask the Do-
minion Government for a commutation of
the sentence from hanging • to imprison-
ment for life. An answer has been received
that the •ome is "not one that calla for
iuterference." •
' European.
l'
rati, the distinguished. Italian poet, is
dying.,
Five of the crew of the ship Iron Crowe.
whioh arrived at Queenstown yeeterday,
died of cholera 10 tho voyage from Java.
The Areb journal, El Bayou, affirms that
El Mahdi domande £500,000 ransom for
• Gen. Gordon, the sum to be paid to him
within three months- ' •
Therproliminaries of the_Kgyptian Con-
ference have been settle. It will meet
in London the first week in June, and
• is expeoted to continue its session three
weeks. . ' •
During w heavy thunddhorm in London
yesterday afternoon aball of Eire fell in the
southern part of the city, and burst with a
lotid-report. The residents for miles around
were terrified. •
Friendly relatione between- Fiance and
Morocco are ruptured. The authorities of
Moromorefused to dismiss the Governor of
WU= at the demand of the Frenoh repre-
sentative, The French legation thereupon ,
hauled down its flag.
Generel Wolseley advides that General
Grabitin •be' placed in command of the
, autumn expedition to Khartoum if,an Eng-
lish force is sent. The War °fee° plan is
that 5,090 troops start from. Assio,ut for
Khartoum about the end of July..
A Catholic missionary recently from the
Soudan writes to the Politische Correspon-
dence, that every OHS it! that region is - im-
pressed With the conviction that Khartoum
and Berber are loot, and unless the British
post a strong enough force to hold A8130119,1a
all Egypt will eventually succumb to the
Mahdi. • • _ •
Marquis Tsang is busily engaged in Paris
setting the affairs of the Chinese Embassy
in order previous to landing them over
to his successor, LI Fong Poa, late Chime
Minister at Berlin. French statesmen feel
uneasroverthrerairge, on aceount 01 the
new ambaseador's friendly relations with
Bismarck and knowledge of his polioy re-
garding China. ,
• Fitzgerald and ten other Fenians were
arraigned at Sligo yesterday, oharged with
being Tnvinoibles and with the murder of
landlords and others, Thomas Moran, a,
friend of Sheridan, testified that when he
joined the Invincibles he was sworn on a
knife and pledged himself te secrecy, to
implicit obedience, to bis leaders, to act
when called upon by them, and to deal
death to all tyrants.
A St. Petersburg despatch nevi arrests
of personeknown to be Nihiliets or 'impact.
ed of connection with the Order continue
without abatement. A very large number
of artillery ofeoers have been arrested, ao•
owed of being connected with' the murder
of Sudeikin. The explanation of them
'arrests is that Degaieff, who assassinated
• Sudeikin, was-himeelf at one time in the
artillery service. Several more students
have been arrestee -at Moscow, and the first
namber of a new paper published by the
students in Momow University, Cheskis-
• vornik, has been seized. The Secretary of
the Board of justices and the mietrese pf
the school for women in Petersburg have
also been arrested,
' American.
John Kister, who is now serving a fifteen.
year sentence for burglary at Trenton, N.J.;
has fallen heir to 660,000, left by an aunt
who died in England. -
Frank Lmie has oomple.ined to the
Chicago police that a Chinese laubdryman
known as "China Joe" has enticed his 'wife
away by giving her diamonds, and that he
hats her concealed in his establishment.
.The police will raid the den• ; •
During a violent hail and rainstorm at
Little Rook, Ark., yesterday afternbon,
Jibed fell on a large number of convicts
employed in briek.nealting.'Ono guard was
• killed arid another seriously, wounded.,
Several Of the conviote were injured.
German Libelee's have organized their
party throughodt the Empire.
LATE N011itT1111191111` maws.
Mr. 'loyal, ba u strived home.
likr# Pear Maris woo reoently rim for
219 per sere. •
Mcintans 'Miners are arriving at oat.
garye
Archbiebop Tullio was presented with
an address on the eve of St. Alexander's
day, his patron mint,
The Bank of • Montesal having secured
two kite on Stephen avenue Calgary,.will
put up subseantial building far a branob
dam about the Bit of June next.
On Wednesday last a six year old son a
Mr. Rowland Hill, 6! Moosejave, was so.
oidentally tedisoned by mingle mid. The
poison was given by a lady friend in
mistake for medioine. •
The High Bluff Branch of the North.
west Farmers' ,Union have:passed a reso-
lution favoring Jicomeion from the Do.
minion.
T
Mr. Beaupre, formerly Deputy Minister
of Publio Works for Manitoba, has been
arrested at Calgary for having Pond%
Extract in his possession. Be was re-
• manded.
Attorney•General Miller left for Ottawa
on Wednesday, and Premier Norquay and
Speaker Murray, the other members of the
delegation, will follow on Tuesday. They
go to seek better terms.
The total value of Winnipeg importations
for the year ending April 301h, 1883, was
$1,762,420; for the year fueling April 3011e.
1884, it amounts to $738,648, a falling off
of 21,023,772.4 The duties collected in
April, 1883, were 2202,567; in April, 1884,
242,592; falling off, 2159,975.
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,The weather is fine throughout Manitoba.
The wife of Hon. C. P. Brown died at
Winnipeg on Thursday after a short Masse.
Mr. Wilson, M. P. P. for North Dufferin,
was sworn in as Provincial Secretary of
,Manitoba-on,Wednesday-night.
The City Council have adopted high
licenses. Saloon licenses with Provincial
and city license will be $660, hotels $400,
groceries $350.
The Portage la Prairie „Review says:
"Lot 260, Saskatchewan avenue, was
offered by T. erouter on Wedneeday and
knooked down for $90. The lot sold for
67,000 during the boom."
Teams continue 10 stick in the mud on
the principal streets of Winnipeg.
Howden, arrested for the manslaughter
of his SOH at Turtle Mountain, has been
released on bail, •
Manitoba has printed her municipal law
in English, French and German, the latter
for the benefit of the Menonites.
An electric+ storm on Sunday entirely
destroyed • telephone communication. at
Winnipeg. Loss $300 to the company.
D. C. MoBean, of Portage la Prairie,
secured the contractof supplying .the
Mounted Polfoe with 15,000'bushels of
.neten„.
Ao
ff
er ba been received for the Win-
,
nipeg ' debentures bearing, 5 per cent. in-
terest of 92e, equal to 107 of 6 per 0811t.
The last 6 per cent. debentures sold at 991.
• Major Walker (formerly of Wentviortn
County) haereceived the informal nomina-
tion to represent Calgary -district ha the
Northwest Council. • •,
It is reportedahat Mr. Cyr, M,P.P., will
be taken into the Local Cabinet to reprn-
sent the French element if it should be
deemed necessary to form a department.
Witiefleaa, May 6. -The steamer Quebec
is within sight of ' Port Arthur. She is
expected- to reach her dock to:might through
ehe ice. - • '
The North Dufferin nominations' will be
held on the 136h inst. Hon. Mr. 'Wilson,
the new Provincial Secretary, will probably
be elected by acclamation. • •
As illustrative of .the rapid progress of
Port Arthur, at an enthusiastic+ meetingof
prominenreitizens of the Port this evening
in the Town Hall, the question of raising
$25,000 as , supplementary ta the 6150,000
voted by the Government for the construc-
tion -of, a breakwater was discussed.." In
less than one hour the amount was sub-
scribed and deposited in the Ontario Bank
at the dispersal of the Government.
• The World's Workers.
The strike at Fall River io still on.
Cigarmaking in wYork is still dull.
It is eetimitted that 235,000,000 is in
vested in the Monongehela 'Valley in the
coal mining alone.
A reduction of wages has taken plemein
the Kingston locomotive works.
Severalof the laborers who were on
strike at Kingston have gone back to work
at $1.25. The wages demanded were 21.50.
Tte growth of the Knights of Labor in
Massachusetts for the past year has been
something remarkable.
Members of Chicago Carperiters' Union,
about 1,800 in number, yesterday demand.
ed an increase of wages to 163 per day.
John Mitchell, of the Telegraphers' Ad-
vocate, has married Mies*nnie L. Swan,
who was one of the prominent ladies in the
late strike. •
"Pennsylvania has 50,000 children at
Work, New York follows closely and
Massachusetts stands third' upon the list.
This is the "full donsumneate flower" of
modemoivjlization. '•
--1The etrikers in the stove foundryof Sher.
man S. Jewett ti4 Co., Buffalo, N. Y., have
resumed work at a 15 per cent. rednotien in
wages,' being .satisfied, after a .conference
with the firm, that the reduotion is nem-
eary. •
The irontnoulders of- St. Louie and
vicinity recently received information that
at a meeting of the Ironmoulderie Ubion
of North America, held at Cinoinhati, 11
was resolved to make a demand of '15 per
cent. increme, to take effecje from and after
May 1st. •.
The furniture interese in 'the lJnited
States is onormoue. Three years ago it
amounted in New York to 300 factories and
a produot of nearly 210,000,000. Cirioinnati
had 119 factories, wan a product 01 24 500,-
000. Chicago turned out above 26,000000;
25,000,000; and Boston,
24,000,000.
The order of the Union Pacific) Directors
reducing,the wages of all employees 10 per
cent. was followed by a general walk -out
along the main line from Council Bluffto
Ogden,- and -also on leased lines and
branches. ully 12,000 men quit wotk,
and with the exception of two paseenger
trains not a wheel wits turned. A ooneroit.
Iso of the :Strikers waited upon General
Manager Clark on Friday at Omaha, and
informed him that the men were out to
stay, and that they. would not asseept it
compromise. -Mr. Clark asked • time to
cement with the New York official% and
promised a decisive answer at 5 o'olook.
He telegraphed to President Dillon,Who
failed to reply. Mr. Clark therefore noti.
fled all heads of departments to take back
men at old rate. There WAS great rejoicing.
"Don't" fetid Tawneue, " don'e throw
that away." "It's only an oldeallorei bill.'
Yes,.but it's paid."—Boston Poet.
• Yee," said the tramp, mournfully,
my father out Me Off with a shilling, and
•
THE FARMER'S COLUMN.
Ilesult's of Notable) IOrperisueintet.,
The following hae been evolved from,
1882 83 experimeuta made at the Modelt
Farm, Guelph
That in competition with Swede turnips,
ensilaged corn fodder gave 15 per cent. kW.
n2ills, 30 per cent. lesa butter, and a poorer
marketable butter in color.
That alareaged wheat can be very econo-
mically used in the fattening of 10ttle--
9 lbs. per head por day gave a daily in-
crease of 2 lbs. per head per day, &tweed,
of 41- mats per lb. to the live weight. ,
That ricemeal, in the fattening of cattle ,
gave a daily increase of 1.81 lbs. per head
per day, by the use of 0 pounds per head
per (ley, at a cost of about 7 cents pertlb.
That barley meal in cattle fattening re-
quires a large amount of other foods in as-
sooiation, and 111 pounds per head per day
gave a . daily inorease of 2,14- pounds per
head per day, at a cod of 7 mute perpetuld
live weight.
That cornmeal took the highestplace, in,
a daily rate of increase in the fattening of
cattle; VI- pounds per head daily gave 2.31
pounds per head per day, at a cost of 5i
cents per pound of the added animal
weight.
Thatpeameiti gave t1.10 Second best daily
i
rate of ncrease at the leeat cost of all the
.regular Cattle leeding grains. Eight and
one-half pounds per head daily gave a rate
of 238 pounds, at met of 5 cents per
pound of the weight added to the animal.
That a pure bred Shorthorn steer can be.
brought to a weight of 1,700 pounds when '
one manta under 2 years old, or a daily
rate of theme° equal to pounds per day..
That Hereford grade 'neer calves oan be
made to average 011 pounds in 238 dam or ,
a rate of 2e pounde en day.
That Aberdeen Pull grade steer naives
can be made to average 720 pounds in 273 -
days, or a•rate of 2 pounds per day.
That during winter a 1,000 pound steer
will consume daily ten pounds hay, thirty*
nine pounds turaips, four pounds bran saact
nine pounds of a iaixture of, grain, upon
which ib Will add 2-11 pounds to 116 'Pm •
weight. ,
That one pained of added weight to a
1,000 pound steer can be obtained from the
use Of varioue materials that oontain eleven.
pounds of drysubatanees, chemically.
That by a larger vaiiety of experiments .
with • several dumb . of cattle, and many
kinds of food, we fled tae actual cost a
adding eve pound to the live weight ef a
1,000 pound animal is ab x cents to the feeder
who groWe his own materials, and nearly.
twelve cents when the food is bought in the
regular Inarket--XTISeillir0 and management
not coneidered.
That sagar beet, weight for weight
with mangolds and turnips, and in assecia.
tion with eqatal hiuds and quantities of
other foods, gave the leigheet returns in
feeding cattld, or 2.70 pounds per head per
. -
That there le a remarkable uniformity
in the annual value'ef weed and mutton
from graclee of Cotswold', Le:nester, Merino,
Oxford Deven and South Down, resulting
from differeaties Da weight and value of both
products. • •
• That from nearly 5,000 observations,,
• the following notes have been obtained as
evidence of peculiarities, characteristics, or
other indications of broods of cattle: • •
• • That tbere ie no such elaes as a "general
purpeee" breed -a -one to do the best for the,
dairyman aacl the buteher.
• That an average cow felt dairy purposes.
should give 20 lbs. of ' milk per day during
200 days of every year; 8:lbe. of mem .
for every 190 lbs. of milk 454bs. of but-
ter from every 100 lbe. ,of. 'cream, and
fully, 10 lbs. of ehecae -for every 100 lbs. of
That bulk, volume or percent. of cream, '
is 116438,i0 criterion of tho,nuantity of butter -
in that cream ; weialit alone is the .proper
mode of jedging.
• 'That breed as nauch, if • not more than
food; a ffeete the -quantity and quality of '
milk, Oreatu, :butter and cheese.
That in Ontario Fxperhneetal farm ex-
perience the Shorthorn . is an average,.
mha
milker, bort duration per season, lovt
in specific gravity, • high' in per tient.- of
cream, paoportioaately high in butter, and -
aleo high la cheese production. The grade.
of thiabreed approaches the nearest of any
eitherslo what is called " general pur- '
pose COW." ' '
‘That the Alierdeen Peelle low in quantity
of milk. end the Beeend highest ol any in
sPeetfie gravity. The grade of, this breed . •
is much ainproved in milking properties.,
giving a greater Weight oi cream; though a.
lower per pent. of ie. • , •
That the Iforeford not more prominent
• thea the Shorthorn :tad Aberdeen Pobi, in
regard to milk, except in ;proportion of
butter from cream, in whigh it is highest.
The grade fe very proinmeatly in advance,
particularly in proper lien Of ereaixt, but one.
af the toweet in izheno,.'
' That tan fecaean is utoet distinot in
highest "st Cibigg gravity of milk,, and the
weight or ehease /torn milk. We have no '
experietice wire the grade of this breed.
That the Calloway milk appears to be e-
a peculiar teaturaaariela or so small in but-
ter -globuli as 40,rit30 very kitqwly and very •
indistinct ia the test tubo.'
That. the Ayrehire is a pertioulaely
heavy, long milker, e4ving five times her -
own wegeba per eeason. The milk is some --
what low in eppel:le gravity and per cent.
of eteain, but ie over the average in cheeseproduotioe. The Ayrshire grade is
improved in any reepeot except in duration:
, of milking poison. ' •
That the lenley remarkable for pro.
portion 01 bream ; averaging thirty-seven
per •cent. and gavinV, a value of dairy pro -
duets inpomParable to any other breed in -
our e4atienee.. • •
That elle uative, or common cow of On-
tario, net Capada properly, bet:amp Que-
heo in particular atands distinct in her
°lase of dairy' clime, takes a high place in
value of annual pre:Inca for ordinary dairy
rurposes, aleitralefrg with the Shorthorn
grade, is peouliarly the dairy cow of the
country. •
• EloelVeluitet,
Concerning the heat in South Australia
six week e ago, the Port 'Augusta Dispatch,
has the following paragraph "Last Sun-
day will be bong roe:le/labored as a' day of
apeoial sneering in Port Auguets, and;
farther north the heat seems to have been
even :nom intense. We are informed that
at Yana, near iNfount Srden Station,nativi
lark@ and magpies in flooks sought shelter
and water in farmers' houses, numbers of' •
them expiring after the thirst bad been
quettOhed. In SIJO ooze touohing gisode.
°Courted. A little gild, with pannikin aria
teaspoon in liond, wasseeu surroiulded by
little feathered eufferere, whose wants she,
adminititered to, gently caressing those who
surVived, weepieg over the defunct, and
burying their bodiee with tender care. Mr.
Mobbed, of Pert augueta, lost` two valua-
ble dogs On the same day and.in the Mae'
imality, through heat alene.''
°
jailer Corbett, Of Kiugston, has instituted
another suit against sbe.Couety Council to
recover btu* salary, whiela will be corded
to a higher wart in order to procure a set&
it was a good deal of DaOHOY, too,. although t
lernent of the qUestion of the power to
I 'didn't think so at the these." • r
edam ejaileres salary by a County Commit