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The Dutch Steamer W. A. Soholten Ool-
Ede)) witb Another Steamer.
"EARLY A MIDI= OD Piny PERISH.
raeeeregen& stories or the cidamity—whe
saved.
A last (Stuaday) night's London cable
nye : The etearner W. A. Scholten, Cent
Teat, which left Rotterdam yesterday for
bler York. Wes Bunk by t collision with the
Meaner Roes Mery, of Hartlepool, let 11
o'clock last night, ten miles off Dover. The
Scholten mimed a complement of 230 pas-
sengers and crew. The steamer Ebro, of
Sunderland, rescued ninety of the crew and
pateengere end landed them at the Sailor&
Home, Dover. One hundred and forty of
the passeng:ers are missing. Onepaseenger
and a child of the party brought to Dover
were found dead from exposure. It is hoped
that passing vessels have rescued the miss-
ing ones. The W. A. Scholten'e maste are
visible from Dover pier. Boats have left
Dover bound in all directions for the pur-
pose of saving Mend property, if poesible.
The Rosa Mary ie anchored off Ramsgate,
with her bows stove in.
szcoinninio rilS poems.
§ p.m.—Up to this hour 22 bodies from
the W. A. Soholten have been landed at
Dover. The W. A. Boholten left Rotter-
dam Saturday morning. At the time of the
secident a dense fog prevsiled. The
Soholten wee strnek on the port bow by the
Rosa Mary. Immediately after the shook
was felt the Soholten'e passengers, all of
whom lisd retired for the night, rushed on
deck in their nightgowns. The boater were
promptly ordered to be lowered, but it wee
found that only two were available. The
three others were useless and were not
lowered. The water rushed swiftly through
the hole in the bow and a terrible scene
ensued. The panne -stricken passenger'
uttered piercing shriek", and manyfell upon
their knees and preyed aloud. Little
children clung to their mothers, who them -
Naives were shrieking with terror. The
officers were cool and self-possessed, and
remained on the bridge to the last. Several
liens's procured lifeepreeervers and leaped
into the sea. Within twenty minutes of
the shook the Scholten was engulfed. All
those who had put on life -belts floated and
were reamed by the boats from the steamer
Ebro, which cruised around until 4 o'clock
in the morning. Many of the -rescued led
wives, husbands, brothers and sisters. The
survivors were supplied with clothes and
everything possible was done to ensure
their comfort.
courLicritio ACCotoms.
:The passenger& accounts differ regarding
the circumstances of the collision, and the
reports of the officers of the Scholten clash
with those of the officers of the Rosa Mary.
Sense of the passengers state that the even-
ing's merriment had ceased, and most of
the passengers had retired to their bunks,
only a tow remaining in the saloon, when a
tremendous crash WaS heard on the port
bow. They say it is impossible that the
c &Haien could have occurred by the
Scholten striking an anchored vessel. The
second mate.ofethe ,Scholten reports that
he was on deck, when he saw in unknown
steamer coming through the fog. Before
anythin.gcould be done the Scholten was
struck Intl* fore rigging and port.hotr.
The other Yawl, which he now presumes
wies,the Boea Msry, backed off and dieip.
peered. Within twenty minutes the
Scholten sunk: The captain of the Rosa
Mary states that his vessel was rein into
while anchored southeast of South Sand.
head by an unknown steamer. Finding
that his vessel was damaged he proceeded
to Dover Road, where the vessel is now
<looked. The Rosa Mary was laden with
*oil for St. Nazaire.
LIST Or viz num.
The following is a list of the persons
-"eyed and landed at Paver:
;Passengers—Sarah Zuherman, 'Fred.
Stepney, Sarah Gold, Maria Steiner, L.
Robinson, Vanden] rogbrum, John Binkie,
Reid Brownhof, Albert Hensler, Madelena
Sieniel, Anna Roney, C. F. Andeistie, Judi
.Leyeneeii, H. Hastuor, S. Wilnie, E.
Siosky, S. Alpser, I. Sibati, E..Suscarich,
Charles Mills, A. F. Bergstein, G. Apple.
by, P. Schatmider, F. Wilma, Francois
Reiter, J. Gomm, C. Teske, Mayer Sobel-
sneider, L. Streit*, Bars Spat', Marie.
Hobeld, Bergen Kier:
Crew--Moutz, Aims. Bulging,,Kenne-
kampf., Meikelbaoh, Link, Felling, Meyer,
Dimes, Stem, Felbert,Wegendon, Chriske,
Zetloven, Gither, Hallman, Barter, Flekvois,
Konig, Bredins, Kibiengen, Mardevooye,
Jacob Devreis, Dreieen, Reekers, Nielsen,
Debi, Dohm, Springeinaye, Laneperter,
DanoWer, Hake.
According to the 'latest report there were
210 persona on board the steamer, leaving
132 drowned and missing. The first nude
and fourth engineer have been recognized
among the dead. The stestner lies four
miles from the Admiralty pier. Her three
nestle ere visible. She it in a 'position
dangerous to navigation. Abney and lights
121,Ve been placed at the wreek.
• variations' Sroitiss.
One of those saved is Monte Colio, from
the Tyrol. He states that the scenes on
the sinking ship were terrible. The steerage
passengers, stricken With terror, ran about
the deck in wild confusion. The captain
tried his titinoet to reettire order, but with-
out effect. The passengers rushed for the
boots, and it was with theensietestdifficulty
thief the officers could keep them from
jumping into and sinking them. Collo was
in the water two hoist when teakintent„.„trei
was dt'esilY,eshenete4,6w iIC the extreme
escuenis'eiliirte to keep afloat. After
.the reeeelicinit the cries of persons in the
Witter Could be heard for a long time in all
directions.
George Moore,- le passenger, states that
When the cretin Oceihried a general resh
was made for the deck: " I was told that
nothing setiont bad, nO0iiirreito he gam
bat Isecnred a life belt. There were sit
OU bbeidthe vethiel, and
the of tholes, te girlineked,int 16keep in a
stoup that, the ,English ititight go down
together.. Wag in thee.Wieter a long time
lieferelfeitigPieked nth When the Scholten
slink the brie" were heartrending.' The
contain Of the Ebro, the resetting vessel,
Wilfred nobly. Ile had all his deckload of
tiMbeir thrown OVetbeerd, and thisiedicious
act Saved Many liveih Only two of the
Scheltencs beets were towered. The others
0040 he 900 'adr01. I de not knew
whether shicwas due to anyfault on hoard.
The vessel listed OM so much that all the
beat; gold not ha dropped into the waiter.
The people nahed about in the Or*teet
state of excitement, 111 trying to get s
pleee in the two boats which'hiadleen sac?
(usefully launched, These:are and dieorder
prevented many persons being saved. The
water was freezing cold. Thib.haetoned
the death of many, rendering them power-
lese." .
Charles Mills, of Redhill Storey, says:
"The lifeboats appeared as they had not
been used for c long Sirtie• TbeY bed to be
chopped *way with axes wad with the
assistence of the passeugers. I called out
to those on the bridgeito fire rackets. It was
a long time before they did. The greatest
confusion prevailed. The ship was right
over on her port side before they fired the
rockets. 1 waited until the wider touched
the boilers, putting out the fires. Then I
got hold of- e belt, but a Dutch !eller
snitched it away. We were ell mixed to.
gether,roreignere and English, clinging to
one another in the water. I saw severed
drowned in this way and had the greatest
difficulty to keep clear of then*. I gave ,a
spar to a WOMBO to hoid on to. The Dutch
eailore wanted to save themselves and even
thrust women aside. I can swim well,
and I SWAM about tin I got to the
Ebro, when o rope was thrown to me.
After the collision I went down into the
cabin and woke two Deitch ladiee, but they
were paralyzed with terror and wouldn't
get up despite all entreaties. 1 heard other
complaints about the conduct of the Dutch
sailore. The confusion was extreme.
Everybody seamed terror-stricken. This
may account for the apparent want ef die -
alphas. The frantic passengers unnerved
some of the crew, preventing them from
acting es bravely as they might have done.
The captain aid his best to restore -.order.
I believe a good outlook WWI kept. We had
Oar lights up."
The officers of the Rosa Mary avow that
they were lying at spohor and were run
into. They say that they. did not weigh
anchor until morning. Is 1B reported that
the captain of the Rosa Marydenies the
statement that his vessel was in collision
with the W. A. Scholten. He averse that
the Rosy Mary was ,injured by a collision
with another vessel while lying at anchor.
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A HOLZ IN TUE GROUND Imirr.
Awful sweeten in a Michigan Fernery—
Ma Men Annihilated.
A Hancock (Mich.) despatch says: This
town was greatly shaken shortly before
noon yesterday by an earthquake. Houses
rooked and the church spires swayed:. This
was followed by a report like distant thun-
der. Four miles from the *own, on the
i
shore of Portage Lake, and in an solated
spot, were situated the works of the Han-
cock Chemical Company. Among the
other products of the works were dynamite
and nitroglycerine. These explosives were
kept in the pecking -house, a building 150
by 75 feet in size. It was • known that the
works had 1,500 pormds of dynamite on
hand, and Hancock was shaken. The
chemicalworks were at once thought to
have blown up, and a delegation
set out for the factory. Arriving
there they found that not a vein
tip of the buildings remained. Where
they had stood was a hole 100 feet in
diameter, 30 feet in depth and conical in
shape. The concussion hod packed the
sand around the) side of the great cavity
as hard as cement. The locality was
Marched for pieces of the works and in the
faint hopes of finding the bodies, in part or
whole, of the ‘six men employed in the
factory, but not even a button from their
clothes has been or ever will be found. The
monuments in a cemetery about half a
mile away were shattered and knocked
down. On the further shore of the lake
was found a timber, thought to be part of
the building -e -and this was all. Five of
the six men were single. They all lived
across the lake from the scene of the ex-
plosion. Their names are as follows
Willie Renaud, Charles Burkett, Thomas
Thompson Timothy Crowley, William
King and Willism Lapp. The latter leaves
a widow and one child.
TH74 PANAMA CANAL.
Ifiaancial Embarrassment—Forty Thousand
Lives Reported Sacrificed.
A New York deepatch say.: Private
letters received in this city from Panama
report as follows: No work of importance
is being done on the canal. Two leading
firms of Contractor" are eaid to be ember.
raised financially) Anethir prominent con-
tractor claims over 11900,000 from the
eompeny. Several important judgments
have been filed against the Canal Com-
pany, and several seizures and isles are
edvertieed. The importation of the poor
Liberian still cantinues. They are magne.
ficent specimens of manhood, coal black.
It was believed they could resist this death.
dealing climate, but events have proved
otherwise. Of the 282 who were the first
to be brought here 36 died withih four
months. The stetenient of Mr. Blanchett,
in his work on the Panama Canal, that the
cancel has already cost over 40,000 lives is
believed by careful observers here to be no
exaggeration,
*Molted* Sziapping4nrile.
A. Chicago despatch eays : Mise Minden,
19 years old, was buried on Wednesday.
Her death 'WIN unexpected, though the
young ledy had been subject to violent
omens and fits of vomiting for menrdnys.
No doctor Wee able te) dime:seat the'eause of
her death.. Onthe' .day ' before her death
-She; WAS eelled with n More violent
peretylion than ever before. There wet 0
choking senestiOn in her throat, and tinnily
there was forced tip from her stomach ii
live yew* snapping turtle with 1 shell as
large as a silver hal! doller. The phyieiciein
in at denee said the, peemtient bedtime rui-
con
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s and thrusi
t mediately began to
liwel ' in her limbe like one eillioted with
dropay. She never rallied. It is believed
the turtle grew front a germ swallowed in
water from Lake Miehigien.
The eolleetor t Ciletoins at Quebed bas
Seized 910,000 Werth of jewellery imanggled
ititecthe country by some Belgilen 'num
-
grants. .
Mrs. Barbara Kandla, eged 60, WAS tonna
murdered near her he/no at Vnionvillee
en Friday. George Dunham, her son,
in.law, Who is' supplicate be the Murderer,
hat beeh
PROTECTION FOR FISM.
Froce•diegs or the Rational Fishery
Association at New York.
A, New York .despeatch says: The
'National Ftehery Association met yester-
day .1n this Q1SY, with President F. B. Bab -
emu; of Gloucester, Mass, in the chair. He
med. an Address co American fishing
interests, past and present. He claimed
thee* the fisheries and their attendant
hisome„.. matter of etrong
national interest, and that it was of vital
importanee thatlhe Government sheild at
Once take' action so prcitect itis interests.
lleperts from different perts of the country
were presented, showing that the fishery
interest *as in, need of legislotion to, leave it
from destruction. Secretary Wilcox
reported that there were 221 firms in the
association, and that e movement is on
foot bo bend a, theet of Atlaotie fishermen
to the Pacific slope, where the trade
has not been developed. The mackerel
fishermen did 'fairly well off the New
England coast this year, and the cod
fisher" off Labrador did better than ever
before. The demand for fish hasbeen
greeter than ever. Treasurer Few spoke
against Commercial Union with Canada,
on the ground that it would destroy the
Selling industry. Canada, he ,asserted,
would never consent to a union that ebe
did not have the beet of. The policy of the
United States should be to build up its own
cionamerce, not that of another country.,
The Committee on Plan of Action pre-
sented a report recommending that the
representatives of the wisoeistion in each
locality interested should be considered a
conunitise to collect money for the support
of the association and look after its inter -
este, and that F. L. Babson be appointed
as the agent to represent them at Washing-
ton. ReselotiOns were adopted dermuiding
the recognition of the fishery industry as
an importer:it notional affair, which should
be placed on an equality with other indus-
tries by protection agamet the importation
of foreign fish, and securing equal rights
for tlehermen in foreign ports to those
i
accorded -to foreign vessels n our herbors.
The resolution., disavow' any desire of the
right to fish in foreign waters.
WHOLESALIS INTERVIEWING.
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11r. Chamberlain Talcs to Newspaper Men
aadfravorably Impresses Them.
A Washington despatch soya: Mr.
Chamberlain gave audience lest evening to
aboutitweitty newspaper , men. It 'bested
nearly an hour and was chiefly remarkable
for the affable and cordial manner in which
the distinguished envoy declined to en-
lighten his visitors upon the subject of
their more searching inquiries He was
understoodlo Nay at one point that the
purpose of the cominiesion was to make an
entirely new treaty, the existing treaty
haying proved unsatisfactory, bat upon
further inquiry,eepecially as to whether.an
interpretation of the existing treaty mighl
not be found which would'ineet the views
of both sides,. he became non -committal
beyond the point of admitting thst such
restIhStbnothe,possible outcome of the, con.
ference: He said that thoogh, as a matter
of fact, he sdpposidthatMinister West and
himself being a majority of the British
Commiesioo, could decide, any mooted,
point, he should consider any arrangement
which did not have the full concurrence of
Sir Charles Tupper a very dame and un-
satisfactory one. He thought it unlikely
that the subject of Commercial Union with
Canada would Come before the conaniiesion
in any way. There was scarcely a shadow
of doubt that any arrangement agreed to
by the British Commission would be held
binding by their Government. He did not
think any sane man on the other aided the
water ever though* of war as a remote
possibility in connection with the fisheries
dispute.
BIIENED TO TRIM WATER'S EDGE.
The Steamer Arizona Cremated —The
Crew's Escape.
-A Mierquette, Mich., despatch says: The
Mesmer Arizona, of the Like Superior
Transit Line, was Wined to the water's
edgeyesterday morning. She left this port
at.9 o'clock on Thursday night, bound for
Portage), and carrying a full cargo of mer-
chandise. When out thirty miles a heavy
ma wan 'enoountered, and the boat turned
about to come back to Marquette. When
she wee still five miles out the boat com-
menced to roll heserily, and a tank et acid
set her on fire. Nothing could be done to
put out the fiamee, every man being driven
from his post by the fumes of the acid, lint
the boat "kept on moving. When fiame"
were discovered a good fire was put under
the boilers and the steamer swept on under
full steam without the engineer at his pod.
Capt. Gram stood at the Wheel, and,
rounding the breakwater, ren the steal:Mr
up to it, while the crew jumepd off. She
Shen started up into a narrow slip, chasing
the crew, who ran to escape the fennel of
the acid. The boat just missed immense
lumber piles on the docks. Tuge and the
eity fire department went te her assistance,
but could do nothing and she burned to the
weter'e edge. Ship and cargo are a total
lose. The Arizona was 4 freight 'boat,
valued at 1140,000. She was on her last
trip for the Beason.
Norman Lockyer's New 'Theory.
A London cable says: The mientiflo
world is startled by what menu nothing
lees than a new theory or the Constitution
of the universe. This conies before the
peiblio' with all the sanction derived from a
peeper read before the noyel Society, and
with all the authority attached to the
theme of the distinguished estronomer, Mr.
Norman Imatikyer. The new 'theory, he
declares, is the remelt, not of epeoulation,
but a op...tette/sepia reclean*. It is
d immed op in the statement that all the
self-hieninous bodies in the celestial Reams
are composed Of meteorites or masses of
ineteorie vapor produced by heat brought
about by the condensation of meteor
Sivarrati due to gravity. This- hypothesis,
if accepted, may, as one eulogist remarks,
Weld ill previous knowledge into one bar-
nionietie Whole. At present kt is received
by men of science under all Minima.
—X6- *Sachets ben be given of the great
traste'bf fertilizing Metter thst is tennuelly
berried oft .by, the- Water into the sies...13tet
for the fieh taken the ries Would soon
ethernet the land. The great cities are the
Mealtime by which the heaviest loss °donne.
The Sewers conduct away More weilth thou
6an be fotind Over theta.
Ps* GPENou! totm
Tha *
telieener Wretched a!stl ire 'Treat of
She CrettR
A lest (Friday) Plabl'ORinlistandesineteb
says: The Glengarry, with' the • Gelatin
and Glenere in tow, left Fort William some
time ago with grain for Kingenon. While
on Lake Superior they encountered a gale
which blew so hard tic* the Glenora's tow-
line parted and she was left in the rearr4
She mansgal to follow up safely, however;
and get into Jeclifish Bay. After that
everything went fairly well until off
Presque Isle, in Lake Ontario, yesterday
Moron* at 11 °idea. A heavy dile came
after them all the way down, and at the
place named the Glertore's tow line Again
parted and once more she was left to book
after herself. Theis on board the Glengarry
sow her jibs being carried away, a serious
loss in the therm. They also paw her roll
inbo. thetrough of the sea. She disap-
Peered in the distance and has not been
heard of since. A three -masted schooner
is ashore at West Point above.Long Pelee
old it is thought thet the is the Manors.
The sea was so high that on one occasion
the Ciaskin'm crew were going to out the
tow line, thinking that because they had
not leen the Mesmer for two minutes she
had gone to 'the bottom. The miming
schooner has the following crew: Matthew
Patterson, captain; Wm. Patterson, the
captain's nephew, mute; John Moreland,
Weston ; Harry Middleton, Kingston; John
Murray, Kingston; Anthony Seabrooke,
Seeley's Bay, and a man 11141MOWEI, Beb•
man ; Mrs. Middleton, . wife of Harry
Middleton, and the cook. The Glenora
was hunt in Kingston two years ago, .and
cost 518,000. She is sohooner-rigged, iand
was built' so thet the could take care of
herself in a gale. The tug Active, which
went to look for the Gleaners, has returned
without finding any trace of her.
The craws 01 the Glengarry arid .Gasken
had a terrible experience. James Crozier,
on the Glengarry, wee aserly washed over-
heard on one occasion, and so also was D.
O'Coeiruir: I The latter clung to a fender
and was rescued.
THIll rowan's ADTENTLIBB.
• The schooner B. W. Folger arrived from
Oswego with coal. Between the Main
Ducks and `Oswego the wheezier sprang
*leak and lost one of her mastheads. The
water rose above the forecastle. A heievy
sea rolled all the wbile and threatened the
destruction of the:craft. Six men were
kept it the pump", and their exertione
kept the best froth sinking.
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• HABER PASHA MIIA.D.1
Ilis Death from raver at Tel-etiKebir—
Brief Sketch of 'Ills Life.
• A >London cable days: Baker Pasha died
at Tel-elKebir yesterday from.fever!,con-
traded' at 'Port Said' while proceeding to
Cairo.
Valentine ;Baker, son oh Mr. Samuel
Baker, and brother of Sir Samuel, wss born
in 1825. He entered the British Army in
1948: served through the Kaffir war of
1852-3, and in the Crimea during the cam-
paign ;of 1855. In 1860 he took command
of the /Oth Hustlers, whith he resigned in
187' by reason of seniority. After exten-
sive travels through Persia and on the
borders of Afghanistan, he returned to Eng,
land and pablished "Clouds in the East."
In 1874 he wee appointed Assistant Quarter,
master -General at Aldershot. In the
August of the following year he was tried
for assaulting Miss Dickenson in a railway
carriage, for which he wee fined £500 and
sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment
and dismissed the service. In 1877 be
began a new military career in the Turkish
Empire. He was 'employed in organizing
the.genderrnerie, and held the position of
Major•General in the Turkish army. In
the August of that year he went to Shumla
as Staff Military Adviser to the Turkish
Commander,and was conspicuourthrough-
oaf the campaign on the Lom, and shortly
afterwards he WaS given the rank of Pasha.
The Prince of Wales was a staunch friend
of the banished oolonel, and he and other
friend" made repeated but unsuccessful
attempts to moue his reinstatement in the
British army. He was considered one of
the most brilliant cavalry officers in the
service.
A MAGNET MADE OF CANNONS.
It Lifts a Cannon Ball as if 11 Were a
Needle.
A Bridgeport, Conn., desist* says:
One of our leading army engineers has
brought before the engineer classes of late
an experiment of so "Wiling a nature in
its inception as to promise wonderful re.
wine. It is a monster magnet made of two
Rodman guns, Which are connected at the
breech. Around the magnet thus formed
is wound about twenty miles of Ithinarine
cable. The cable is some that has been
need in the torpedo liervice. It is wound
and fastened in a substantial manneroisk.
ing a permsnent magnet. When electricity
is applied some strange results take place.
For instance, a bar of rained iron thirty
feet long, if plitecd in the open cannon's
mouth, cannot be drawn out by as many
men aM can grasp it.
Another instance Of the -strength of this
big Imagist was illustrated Saturday with
a350 -pound cannon ball. The shot was
placed in the mouth of the cannon on the
negative aide. On reversing the) electrical
current it fell from tie position, but was
attracted to the opposite cannon and clung
to its side. The positive current Was then
reversed alternately With the negative, and
the heavy cannon ball pleyed between 'the
two cannon like a tuck between the poles
of a toy magnet.
'The Grit of a Nine-Vear-Old Boy.
A geinall City despatch says: About 5
o'clock last evening es a 13roadway oar was
crossing the cable railroad tracke at Ninth
street, the 9 -year-old son of John Tarsney,
attorney for the eyeteen, who waii rid,
Ing on the frontplAtform, lost his
balance and fell front the bar. Ilie
right leg went imehir the wheels and was
frightfully Mangled,- but the little fellow'
did not lois his nerve in the least,
and when carried to his home cautioned
the pereene with hien to break the news
gentlY hi hie Mother, as she was nervous.
While thejeurgeons Were amputating the
mingled limb the little folio* :did not even
so Much' air-gin/M. Xt lo Mired 'that the
shock and loan of blood will profs fatal.
The father is one of the most prominent
attorneys in the election end is a brother Of
Congreeemen Tenney, of Michigan.
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felThseejionrkin CT°oluirein7C°
10 Y0111n1ecricli sy°Pe, Weahent
resolution iu favor of Commercial Unica
was dismissed, bub uo decision who
arrived at.
It is reported frorn Ottawa that the mat-
ter of the Canadian Pacific crossing law
Grand Trunk at its eastern entrance km
Toronto will boleti in, teheyenoe till Farlia-
ment meets.
Charles Arial, a boiler -maker in the M.
C. R. shops at St. Thome, had his rig* ,
eye ruined for life on Monday evening by a
nye* fing from a plate when struck and
strikingdirectly in the eye.
Aggie Bell, a servant in the house, of Me. .
A. McOrimmon, barrister, St. Thornes,had
her face burned into Meters and her eye-
brows burned off yesterday morning by pod
oil igniting while being peed for kindling a
fire.
44 the regular meeting of the Fergus
Beard of Education on Monday evening it
decided to introduce Dr. Richardson's taxi
book on temperance in the Ilighflehool,
also in the two higbeet departments of the
Public Scheel.
At theendjourned meeting of the share-
holdersof the Ontario Investment Associa-
tion at London lest night, a proposal to
prosecute Mr. Taylor WAS carried' by &show '
of hands, but a stook vote being demanded
the matter was laid over.
A great number Of MEM Of typhoid aid -
I:nebui
la' fever have appeared n °WAWA
recentiy, and it is believed by many that
the disease is dtle to -the continued drouth
and the low state of the Ottawa River,
from which the city water supply is drawn.
At yesterday's meeting, of the Oxford
Ccunty Temperance Association, held at
Woodetooh,t,s. fell report was ,preeented dot
the eperietiOnie„ef the Scott Act since its :
coming intnfo in May, 1885. The re- 4
port showed thari,sring that jperiod them
have been 122 convictions and 117,000Im-
posed te fines /Ape calmly.
' Messrs. Miller ae Bathhouse, of Aylmer,.
solicitors for Mrs. )dary Ann 'MoKenney,
widow aged -40, Being near Richmond,
toivnthit of 13eyham, claims ,112,000 Irons
Solomon Moore, a bachelor farmer about
the same age, also a resident of Bethany
for breach of promise, of marriage. The
ObBe will be tried at the spring Atones.
The wifecd'iohn Stokes, a St. Theme. '
brakeman, narrowly escaped being
poieoned, on 'Monday evening. Feeling
fatigued after washing she sat down and
•drank a cup of, tea., ,Shortly afterward'
she was attacked by vomiting and has bean ;
seriously ill since. Her child, it appears
bad unnoticed dropped a ball of blueing La
the tea pot during the day.
Spain has seised the Island of Peetegil. „
near Ceuta, On which she intends to erode
lighthouse. The Moors are excited over the
seizure. "-•
.Advioes from ,Teheran state that tbo
Shah in April will start on a tour cd
Europe. lie will visit Russia, Germanyy,
Arietrio Frani*); England, Italy and Tur-
key.
Private. telegrams have been receivel
.stating that on October lth Henry N. -
Stanley was 400 miles from .Emin Pasha,
and that he was taking half his force est
forced marches. •
• .,
John Bright writews long letter protean-
ing -'iegainet any Land -Purchase Aot tee
Ireland., Hocontends that the Ashbourne -
Act, improved 1! neceentry, will serve a
purposes fcr a gradual transfer of land tel
tenants when euch' is needed.
The British barque Coronet, from Bull
River, has. arrived at Falmouth. She re-
ports thiet she 'signalled on Nev. 555*. in
lat. 43 deg. 42 moiorth, long. 33 deg 22 m. =
weeKthe British •steamer Naworth Oast*
from New:Orleans. Oct. 18th, for RevaL
The steamer Was leaking badly. Portions
of her cargo had been jettisoned. She .
refrieed 'agenstance Other. than to extent
some,primp loather, of whioh she had none.
Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, referring to his se-
oession from the Baptist Union, says that
when he entered the 'conflict he made up
his Mind thiet even if he were left alone ha •
would be none the lees decided as to the
propriety Of his Course. It is pleasing to'
find, however, hweeye, that many valued
friends approve of his action. He urgep
that continual prayers be offered that some
good may come Out Of the inquiry whicii
hal been aroused.
On Saturday afternoon admit and dumb
man named David I:immolator, aged 1111,
while walking on the Grand Trunk Railway
track if short distance east ' of Kingston.
was etruck by a freight train and mond',
to such an extent that he died shortly after. "
rapers on his person 'showed he was on the
way to Toronto and that he wes lately out
from EnWand.
As Wit Ogilvie, ale* in the dry goods
store of Robertson de Co., St. Thomsen
Wes pining the Grand Central eilley on
Talbot street abou 11 o'clock on Saturday
evening he Was felled to the ground by a
man who fished from the paesage. in fall.
ing on the stone pavement he knocked out
mayoral teeth. A deep out on the left elds),
of his head bled copiously along the payee
ment as he was carried to a surgery. Thera '
it no ohs to the perpetrators of the 'deed.
The French Ministry were defeated Is
the Chan:thee Of Deputiescitt Saturday, and
immediately reeigned, their reeignatios
being accepted by the President.
It it reported from St. Petersburg that
Reeds is Mashing 300,000 goldiere near the
German and Austrian frontiers. The Polish
Jews are said to) he keeping Germany, and
Austria well informed regarding the move -
Menta of the Russian troopii.
The rumor that the Duke Of Norfolk ie
to be Married is eintrue: His Grace starts
for Rime in a fortnight as Queen'e moisten.
ger. It he more than 'probable that he will
enter a monastery, 'se his unnatural
aeoetleiern hal inereineed eine° his young
Wife's death and the hopeless idiocy of his
only ion.
Mr, Fronde, the historien, has written a
letter, in'which he (Aye : Any form of
self.governinent Which might be conceded
tO the Irish *ante, Whether it be locals
councils or a Parliarnent, Would be used to
itiokeese England's diffieulty in keeping Ire-
land ottoolied, totheMinecioni. The hi*
On be governed rtiore'ekeilY then any Mit&
people in the world tinder military or
Otaic-rnilitarY rule. The police ere
ferrety faithful end loyal. Englund hee
nienit yet etuseceded in Wetting holing
constitutionally Wad never will."