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The Signal, 1898-1-28, Page 6s -..ee,r-W..,..- .. MENES UEEEk ills VBRY LATEST FROM ALL Tile WORLD OVER. lemmatise Ova. About Out Own Ceestry Onset Itrttala. tar Limited stats.. nae All Parte of tie ONM. C.eds..,d .M Au.rted tor Rosy Reading. CANADA. Manitoba fanners are shipping large quantities of stock to the Yukon. The Grand Trunk Radia& Company will enlarge its wheel foundry at Ham- elituo. Welland now has natural gas for eating. lighting and manufacturing m rpsses. An agent of the Dominion Govern - meat is at Copenhagen securing Lap- anders and reindeer for the Yukon. The Marquis of Lorne bas accepted the position of Honorary Colonel of the '.6th Battalion, Argyle l.igbt Infantry. Mr. Georgia ('uun.'eli• Clerk of the !Minty of Wentv,orth. diel suddenly et the family residence, Hamilton. on Saturday. f The Department of Inland Revenue effected 215 seizures during the peat year, s i•rge number being illicit wbia- k.y stills. The Spring Hill Coal Company, of Nova Scot a will operate the Souris _"tbal-fields. where they have 0ecnred tracts of 1 and. Messrs. Siegel, Cooper & Company of <ct vttw York and Chicago sem have no intention of opining s depart - rental etore in Toronto. Her Majesty's ship Phaeton, and tor - ?e to dcatroyer 'Sparrowhawk are at Fequimalt, B.C. There are now seven warship In thkt harbor. An order in Council bas been passed designating Port Stanley as a port to which tke harbees set'ah&ll apply, and declaring the limits of the port. Owing to the heavydrafts made on ta the Mooted Police or service in the Yukon, the remaining fords find it dif- ficult to attend to the calls made on them. Tb. -City Hall at London, the scene a Itbe recent accident, is being repalr- �Tt there ls an itstion in the ` y for -£fie ereciivo vi s�pei� 6x"11- lei. ther north. The Government will place some 95.- 6/101`00 5:800,(00 whitefish in Lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, and M. Clair next sum- mer. TM eeggpgs are now being batcbed • IA the Ffanthviccl SifTiery. The investigating governors of the Royal Canadian Humane Association , sword ea a present to Ki,og Menelik of de have award tbe silver medal to Al- em p ole. bort J. Cummer d Hamilton for swing' Klee Amelia Hall from drowning. -, Smuggling in a large way is strongly suspeot.d by the CustomriDepartm•at to be carried ea over the frontier. at Niagara1 ells, but the experts et the imminent are able to nonplus the offi- cers. UNITED STATES. Ths city cleric'sof mad post -office et Black. Versatiee 6•ve beets destroy- ed by fire. A wheel compeer is Buffalo has re- ceived by cable an order for 1000 bi- cycles to be shipped to Hamburg. Oer- The narunation of Attorney -General McKenna as a J uetice of the Supreme Court has leen ratified by the United States Senate. Eight mart were killed and four seri- ously wounded at Sandy Forks. Ky.. in a fight which arose over a game of cards. All were colored. There is • big strike among the cot - teen operation at New Bedford, Maas., ani other New F.ngland towns, over the reduction in wagea. At the annual meeting of the Boston Chamber of Commence the resolutions favoring reeiprocity with Mends were unanimously adopted. The Cleveland Music Hall. which was built in 1885, at • oast of $80,000, was destroyed by fire on Saturday night. It bad a resting capacity of seven thou - send. Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, the noted di ins of Washington, and Mrs. Elmore McCutehenn Collier of Allegheny City were married at Pittsburg, on Satur- day. "Gray Gables," the summer borne of ex -President Cleveland, at Buzzard's Bay. has been visited by burglars. who ransacked the boom from attic to cellar and made good their escape without leaving the slightest clue to their iden- tity. Ths proposition sow before the New York State f.egistature to legs;ixe Su- Meilslotkiiialpt..i M etre Tgrk city has evoked a storm of protects from the theatrical protession, who Melee the idea of toeing their one day of rest. They will ask the clergy to assist therm io a crusade agailed the proposal. In the (sited States Senate on Thursday, Fenatcr Caffrey, of-Lou- ,isiana speaking on the immigrati .n bill, said; 'No immigrant not a pauper Pr insane, or diseased or criminal, should be turned sway from our shores. This bill is the dry of procrastination and selfishness. It is another form of the mann of protection." GENERAL. Yellow fever bas disappeared from Jamaica. Dr. ,8yjlwepiTiQel says PrinceBis- m rieles condition 1. not sttious. Duke Alfred of Saxe -Coburg -Goths has been ordered to Egypt by, the doe- tars. Disastrous floods are reported from �Ot3+l:j.ttSa..os the Hlvslsb frostier o W F1UTUID TEN. emus' tinges Wetssleg ,ion Messes. reset salsa lehmestrs. A despatch from Londe* ..7s -4s. Lord Wolseley, Field Marshal and Ceo- maoder-In-Cbiet of the British array, spesklog at • banquet is London. on Thursday evening, refuted what he called " pesmamist rumours current about the army." lend Wolseley as- sorted that if E+adiand declared war to -morrow she could have two of tis finest and meat fully equipped army ourppi in readiness for any Britiah pert before Mies amid be ensoar.! to em- bark there. He said furthermore that if the men were better paid there would be no difficulty in obtaining re- oruits. The Daily Mall. ooeunenting un the recent Ministerial speeches and the proposed additions to the artily and navy, thinks "it aU proves that Lord Salisbury can be resolute when mom- TO INCRKASE THE NAVY. There has been • responsible state- ment that the Government has decid- ed to add 7,030 mien to the navy, and the firet-olass battleship Hannibal, now at Portsmouth. is to be put at onre into commission. There is. how- ever. no official information or con- firmation is either cases. !!R BULt11T WOUNDS. • fesir store *J a Weans& is etaseMr Me- llowed to 1.e la Canada. A desyetdh from St. PauL Minn.. says -Mrs. Areelia Forks was abot five times at Sheffield Mills, Rice county, on Saturday. She was dead when the neighbors arrived. A satchel mu found on Monday in Mrs. Forke'a barn containing shoes, overahoas, and a cap belonging to Charles Forks. her di- vorced huaband. Mrs. Forke obtained • divorce from her husband two years ago on the ground of cruelty and non- support. Forks was very angry at this proceeding, and, it is said, told her that he would "fix her plenty" for so doing. He went to Minneapolis and went into busineas. and ass there until last Friday, when be sold otit and said be was going to Canada. The evidesee .some, to attlow tiaC immedi- ately after disposing of his business interests in Minneapolis he went to Sheffield Mills, to the home of bis forme, wife, sad hid in the barn Fri- day night. Everyone was away from f home Saturday. except Kta. Perks. ranne. . Tbe Russian army ham sent a costly A fortnightly mall service between Auckland. New Zealand, and San Fran- Naso and Vancouver well be Inaugur- ated os April 1. Tbe Oceanic and Cana- iisntAustralian lines will sail every fourteen days alternately.-- • --- Sines tie beginning of the year thir- ty-nine fernlike from the United Settee bay* takes up their abode in Toronto, being of lbs opinion that the future of that oily is brighter than the out- look is the United States cities. Sus:ceste' obeeryatio of the soar *dI"iem were mode Le India and other parts elft the globe. • Ctle ' 6atbolic priest was slot and times wounded during 'vespers In • Catholic church, Et Corfu. Island of Corfu, Greets. Tbe Mistral -Ma gold yield for the month of November Will; Queensland. 78024 ounces; West Australia, 75,040; Victoria. 70,177. Bucbarest has been imitating Paris by having a duel between journalists. Being lees skilful than their French originals. however, one combatant un- fortunately killed the other. A Cannes despet^h, speaking at Me. Glad'tone's health, says: --"HS Is ex- tremely weak and so dejected as are - cult of neuralgic pains, that be has Countess Russell, widow of Lord John expreweed a desire the` all were over" Rummell, is dead at London. Great Britain has again declined to reopen the sealing question in answer to a request of the United States. It is said in London that the Govern- ment wi11 ask Parliament to sanction an increase of the army by 15.000 men. Alarming rumors regarding Mr. Gladstone's health are again current in London. but reports from Cannes •tate that tbere is little foundation for them. The very Rev. Henry George Lid- dell, the former dean of Christ church, Oxford, is dead. He efts born in 1811, and was at one time chaplain to the Prince Consort. Events ie the far east are forcing again Into prominence the Pacific cap le question. The influential jouruala all point out this urgent need of an •11 - British table. Henry Irving hie been selected as the Rode Ieeturer at Cambridge University The Vat;req etalistician announce* for 1898. The lectureship was establish- that last year the Congregation of Car- ed in Henry VI11.'i1 jme to 1* devoted dinals revived 490 applications for the to "Humanity, Logic, and Philosophy annulment of marriage. took about forever." - halt of thein into consideration, and It is rumoured in London that Em- out the bonds in only six eases. yeror Francis Joseph of Austria will shortly announce the betrothal of the Archduchess Elizabeth. daughter of the late Crown Prism .Rudolph, to the King et Spain. The suit against Lady Sykes id Lon- 6ss.-lt..,J&j l U 8 ey-lender1 has fail•• .4, -tis Jury finding that. The s gnu to tl rioter were forged: This ber Ladyship in a r•tber worse pool- '.lon than before. Messrs. Wields ride Prost . who es- caped tee manners of the Britlsh sur- vey party which was attacked by na- tives at Mekran, on January 12, have reached Ormara, on the Arabian Bea. There was a severs earthquake shock on Monday at Argenta, Italy,eighteen miles south-east of Ferrera,}A church and severs, buildings were wrecked, and some persons were injured. During the past week the deaths from the bubonic plague at Bombay numbered 1151. From all reuses there were 1,540 deaths 'the exodus is increasing, and business is st'sg- n.nt. It is reported that Japan has pur- teased the Itraziliao cruiser. Abreu, now building on the Tyne. for £F10.000, and has also bought the Brazilian Iron- clad.+ Iteod,.re, and Floriano. which are. constructing in France. Considerable surprise has been caus- ed at Berlin, by s despatch from St. Peterahurg, to the Cologne Gazette snnounring that Ruesia has formed a new army corp a on the German and Austrian frontiers at Vilna and Kleif. Mr. Dunbar Plunkett Barton, Q.C., member of Parliament for the Middle Division of Armagh, has been returned to the House of Commons without op- position on his appointment am Solici- toreleoeral for Irel•dd. England has taken a step toward the shandoment of her unituccensful fres negro colony of Sierra Leone, now shut to by Preach territory. The Quart has evoked tbe lettere patine of Itl5ti lin. 'eluting the bishopric of Sierra Lone. The Lord O'Neill was loot on Wed- nesday night off l.imceie.k, and the drew were rescued by the British steamer Kincora, from Liverleot. Tbe• rush may soreat in getting away' m frotheBink ship that the', crew lost everything. The annual commemoration of the death of Prinoe Henry of Battenberg t sok rime no Wednesday at Whipping - ham chsreb, where his remains are rest - ism. The ceremony was attended by Q.soa Vietoria, Prineess Henryof Vatteaherg, Prineeen Chrlctlan, mad the Marehionw of Lorre. The Eseeltt4re Commit`tee of the ewAletrl ted Soeiaty of Engineers ban -- p -I the strikers to aesspt sa44,„.�.n' terms practicallygir- r the letter see nontrol of their It this &deice is accepted work probably he resumed an January Empress Augus ' to . Tat Me-huabaad is a brace hada o[ the seven rni&ia- tnrea e1 her children painted on ivory appearance unannounced one eveningdin sad set in jewels. From the middle picture hangs' the portrait of the Kai- the boudoir where the Countess was ear, to a heart -shelled medallion. bitting with the two Isoys. None had A' swordfish weighing 2070 pounds heard her enter, so silent had been her was lately brought to the market at step, and when they looked up and naw Taiping. in the Straits Settlement. It was 30 feet lrmtr, the fleab and bons weighed 900 eattim, or 1200 pounis; the fat 230 ditties, the entrails, 400, ”t' the awd>rd 30 Melees. it �i "t iri y CANADA SHOULD NELF. Omni s,. Gletwl.$ illistfteeel._ gay Canada sao.ld Pay for Naval serene., A despatch from London say. -Sir Michael hick' Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Bristol on Wednesday evening. ridiculed the no- tion of providing granaries. as has been suggested in some quarters. He " DRAM TO TOR JEWS." Tae rue Pulped Jima' Mem sed eery Me, reuse - elearwd by gessoes -*Snead itemised IelsrM. A despatch from Algiers, mays :-Aatl- lewnh riots were renewed here on Sat- urday. The mob invaded the Jewiak quarter and pillaged the shops in the Rue liabasoum, driving the Jewish seer- cheats ercheats into the street'. A squadron of obsesenre were ordered to the scene and charged tate moi, with draws sword.. but the mob re-formed further on, cheering for the armee Revolvers and daggers were freely used. One man. who was stabbed in thio back and shot In the bash, died on the spot. Many were seriously slabbed, one tamed Cay - oda dying from hie wounds at 4o'clock is the afternoon. The crowd. hearing ut this, became dangerously excited. shouted. " They are murdering us." " Death to this Jews," and reeuwed pil- laging. The fronts of mix shots were destroyed and the toot was burned. The police repeatedly charged the riot- ers. but were stubbornly resisted and were powerless to restore order until the troops arrived. Several policemen were ',seemly malt rested. Man arrests Mete theft have ete made. The Jewish authorities recommend their oo-religionists tc ramaln in- doors. Both the men kidlel is the rioting were Christians and their ooctpaniopi have sworn to avenge them. Disturbas ea and the looting of Jewish shops continued throughout the evening despite the efforts of the troopa to qu.0 tike rLs4a. At 10 e'elee& is the evening new Jewish flour stores wore pillaged and their (entente thrown in- to the streets. The Zouaves then charged the crowd with Cited bayonets and dispersed it, many persons being injured. At tee moment this despatch is sent, 11 o'clock, the rioters are reu- semblrug on the quays and Letting fire to the Jewish spirit stores. Troops are being sent to the spot. Already there have been 150 arrests. The maintenance of order has been entrust- ed to the military, BAGFUL OF BOGUS BILLS. .lora atellasa4►tis) awe made ey weetestate ie New York. A desps.Lh tram New York saes: - In s two-storey frame house on Ann street, West Hoboken, Police Officer Walter Noah on Thursday night found -kr ismartertei't etee Corsets bills. The money was only printed on one side. to this house, in July, 1891 Wittier Brockway, the notorious forge. er, and- blrs. Abbie Smith were w- rested by Secret Service Agent Beggs and a large quantity of counterfeit money was found. Brockway was tried. found guilty of counterfeiting, and sen- tenced to a bong term in New Jersey, while the Smith woman remised a sen - said he was convinced the Briti,h I lade six years. Tbe house u now navy was etrong enough to bold its ' of . E. pied s by apolitical club known as own, and in any war England would the E. 0. Scbrady Aseoriation. Leat night Mr. Noah who lives next door, I have many friends ready to supply arcornpanied by the janitor of the club, 1 cern. Referring to the coming bud- - searched the attic and found concealed get estimates, he said these would between the beam' of the 1 oozing the counterfeit money and Mete. The hills show that the Government was fully i were done up in packages ot 65,000, alive to keeping up the standard of sod were in a waterproof bag. The the army and navy, though, he de- bills are on the Bank of Montreal. Ag- eisred, it tions not creditable to Can- lest ° Bagnotefrssg ieof the Secret Service, a ada or fair to English taxpayers that d and will take abargebaof snob a colony should practically con- the plate and bills. The house will pro - tribute nothing to the naval defences babty be thoroughly smirched again. of the Empire. He hoped Canada would soon turn her attention to this mat- ter. adding that be was oonvinoed that if she did not the day would come when she would have "a rude awaken - lag which would be entirely her own fault." In concluding his speech. the Chancellor of the Exchequer announc- ed that Chins had approached Eng- land for •asiatance to pay the Japanese indemnity. and that the negotiatit.ns were still pending. REVENGE OF A COUNTESS. ' tubed Vitriol I* Ike race e1 a Countess .ad Burned tier Ow■ Sass with tee Arid. Baron von Kudlich-nephew and heir of the well-known general who played MUTINY ON BOARD STEAMER. Talrters •.steers of a Urinate Crew Ar ►N1ld es sa111ase►ti. A despatch from Baltimore, -Md., says: -The British steamer Ursula Bright. thirty days from Havre. arrived here on Friday. Thirteim members of her erew, charged with mutinous conduct, were taken aboard the police boat Lan- non, and conveyed to the office of the British Corseul. Captain \Vhiteon laid Merges against them, and to -morrow a naval court, consisting of two Bri- tish .hipmasters and Consul Frazer, will try their eines. The crew were shipped at Sunderland, England, is July. ties agreement not to extend be- yondso great a part at the court of tbe Tull- tas they mild reachor se sea porn t of feriae married the deformed niece of the United Kingdom. The steamer lett [Deice and Inherited through her mil- Havre on Denemher 22ndand the men lion and the Vienna Fremdenhlatt- after demarsiing their discharge, re deserted his wife in Gratz about a year fused to work. ago for • Countess Gregorowltch, niece of the Premier of Service. He took his two little boys with him to live with the Countess In Vienna and sued for divorces, Bearing the other day thattheCoan- -waa about to beguMmee mot. tV_.desrti d (ted wife, dritap_lbeans with tory', travelled to Vienna and made her tier standing there gazing et them 'without uttering Reword they were pet- rlitel with astonishment. �►�n t((atmos attemptto risrl lIMR kinsr chair Baroness' ktueidarteB Accosting to e. epeeist -despatch re- !leeward and emptied the codtenta of teMed from Berlin, It Is semi-official- a bottle of vitriol over the tats of the ly announced in that city^• that ,(ler- emotesa, some of the burning liquid many will not. °hetet to the appoint- spattering into the faces of the two ament of Prins* George of (erode as Governor of the kilned of Crete, "pro- vidrl the other powers unanimously eoemept:" lie boys. The screams d all three brought Peo- ple to the mem. The Baroness was ar- vested and will doubt be confined In the italinn Chamber of Drpmtks for the remainder of ber life in a lune - on Friday.. blue Premier, libelee, dl tic asylum. The Comtel and the lit- Rudinl, explain -4 that the r,eent dire -LI_ jet lsoys were beton to the great met - °mere in the Hallettprovinces were r'''''''",""&" hospital in '.Leena. due to the ckernes% of foreand lack I Oee of the little boy, fourears old, or employment owing to the retrench- ; he' Inst the sight of one eye. 'be other manta in public experar ndith. little fellow is marked for lib with a vitriol burn oe his cheek. The nnforto- A letter has been received at Rrus- nate Counter is so shockingly injured se4, free Arongat, dated envrtdMr %3„ that death will b. preferable to ear- wbk•h reports. that the iasue/eat, hay, nivel is her ease. filer a es, Dose end attavke.1 and defeated a detaelgaaat1 part of her ups were h away M of the Omelet Ate:* tempi north of the the. vitriol. Luk.. killing their enmmenier eaten, It is one of the most abrwikin trier - Denten perm ally undertook punitive tidies that have taken place In Vienna ienna operations from Lakeside' ha the Masy-I in many • long year and bee crested etre district l • tremendous negation. - STAGES TO DAWSON CUT. Proposal to EsuNlsa • IAN Pow Rdwos/es. tie a. Jam. Ip.( -Special }-J, R. of Nelsen. B,C:, v.presesttiaf, the Commonwealth Mining Company, along with S. O. Shorey. J. C. Holden, Senator Tbihaudeau, Mr. Beique, Mont- real; Mr. Robert Jaffray, of Toronto, and others, waited oat the Government et Ottawa, Wednesday forenoon, Mr. Pow -elle company bas • scheme for a stage Doe between, Ednonton &ad Dawsitvn City In the Yukon, which he says coolie travelled in about twelve days. The Mehemet is about 1,1100 miles. The antimony elks for large powers in td p► miningion me d Mepg'sfi or. T se* the Prertr(s�.na Mmasi's Ir. Tarte and 0iftrst. HUNDREDS REFUSED. SIe011.v Sto.ew Molls from Portland Crowded With Paee►S*en pad Prelitbi. A .lewipateh fmm Portland. Ore., rya --The steamer Oregon, ailed for Alaska On Sueley night with four ha•ctred sad fifty passengers. and 1: Ifie tem of mineral mercharwtiae and baggage. Fifty head of live mt.nek was also part of the cargo. No leas than tkree hundred people wko applied for passage were refused, and hundreds of tees tot freight were lying on the doekm •weitiing transportation to the gold fields. The demand for lumber in Alaska le evinrmnu., but eteemahips refugee 10 retry it, preferring to take 1.w hitt% fr'ght, leaving the lumber for angling verete'• NEWS F8011 TH1 FIB 118T FRANCE AND JAPAN SEND OUT MORE WARSHIPS• 401111• ilea sma.s. Power - N. Will Moak tills hessian fetter - Geranium Maps 55111 to also -Vitae Say ad Wer Cl..da Lues.. d spatoh from Yokohama, says>: - A fleet of new warships will leave in the ooutss of a week for Chinese wa- ters, the Mikado provenly inspecting the Yaahima and the Fuji. steel bar- bette sbipa of 12,450 tons, displacement. Decresa have been issued appointing Lieut. -Gen. Viscount Kawakami chief of staff, and creating a supreme mili- tary advisory council. consisting of the Merqui Yamagsta, Marquis Oy•- aana. Marquis Saigon and Prince Ko-, mann JAPAN PREPARED FOR WAR. The London 8t. Janrsa' Gestates, oola- menting upon the despatch 1rum Yo - It tbsaaa saying that • fleet of nine Jepson* warships will leave Japan in the course of a week tor Chinese es- ters, says: -"Japan is prepared for war. Test. in • nutshell. la the news from Yokohama to -day, and it is really the first news from Japan since the tegenning of the Chinese crisis. it was obvious that the Japanese Govern- ment had stopped telegraphic commu- nication, which it never does except when mobilising the army or navy. That is precisely what it has been do- ing. It fa almost certain that the destisiatioe of the fleet is Wei Ilal- WeL and there is no doubt the move- ment means that the status quo in China. so far as Mao•'hnrie and Corea are oonoerssed, shall nut be altered by Russia or any oombin•tion o[ Russia's allies, is defiance of Great Britain and Japan. ho long as the de- fender's policy 1s equality of opportun- ity in China. they are in a position to enforce their claims." JAPAN'S FIGHTING STRENGTH. '!lb"s 'RC •glies pradswsses to a list et the ships in the Japses.se seem, pointing out Its lmmesens fleeting strength. and ssys; -"Even with Great Britain a mere is-e.Leaker,-4t is prebabla Japan could finish off all the Russian and Germag wars/rips east of the Sue. canal ire abort order. Great Britain. .Oven- including Lbs Powerful. has not • mismel in the North Pacific capable et standing in battle line against three battleships which Japan possesses." IC is reported that Japan has pur- chased the Brazilian cruiser Atereu, now build'ng on the Tyne. for £.170,- 000, and has also bought the Brazilian iren.'lads Theodora anti Floriano, wbtcb are constructing In France. Agents of the Spanish Government have been in Union trying to arrange for the remehare at these vessels, but it is no- derstood that they were unable to raise the mos/wary money. FRENCH SHiPS FOR CHINA. A special despatch from Paris says orders have been received at Cherbourg sad Toulon respectively, to immedi- ately prepare the battleships Bruit and Vauhaa to reinforce the French squadron in the far Ea.*L The Brute is • steel vessel at 4.754 tons displaosenent. and 9.049 indicated bor.e-power. Her speed is estimated at over 18 knots, anti the carries • crew of nearly 400 men. The Vauban in s Meel vessel of 6,2110 toa. an -1 4.560 indicated horse -power. Her nominal speed is about 14 1-2 knots. and she carries • crew at 440 men. The Brriz and Vauban sailed for China on January 24. Admiral de Beaum'*tt boa been anted Com- mander -in -Chief of the French squad - non in the far East. Ha will hoist his flag ote board the Vauban. A special despatch from Shanghai, dated Friday. says that France has purchased three Chinese steamers, and is trying to acquire others for conver- sion into transports. According to the same despatch the ,!spinose squadron sailed from Yokohuka on Saturday for Chinese waters. i11'be morning papers comment editoris'ly upon the menac- ing argeet or affairs in China. De- spatches from Paris say that tbe report is current there that China is trying by the atter of high interest. to obtain a loan without aneistasce, and without the guarantees that Russia and 'Eng- land demand. GF.BBMAN SHIPS AT KIAO-CHAiT. A despatch from Berlin. rya: -The Berliner Neust Nechrichten announces that the German warships are still sounding Ciao -Chan hay, adding that the exact nits of the port is not yet fixed. and that tbe Government intends net the ennstTartkrn tft tbs awls s-et&T port shell be borne by private coin - ponies. it is further stated that one company has already hero formed to construct the docks. LOAN PROSPECTS NOT ftRHiHT. A despatch from Pekim sayer -The prospects at the Rritieh loom are not. bright. The Beitiith and Japanese Min- isters are acting in concert in the abet, ter The lose will be (If arranged) at 3 per cent.. and will be issued at par. GERMANfErs ,eCT ON. A despatch from Benign Lays:-dll e following semi-official aanoltucsement was merle cis Moalay:-"The statement regarding Germany's intention to open t.ba port of Kiso-fie to the commerce or the world are practically cermet. dermas&J desires that its policy in Chlna Monte be of a Moral character. not interfering with t.in commerce of other nations." AN EXAMPLE FOR OTHERS. The Minden Tiamee editorially on Monday morning say.: -"We are glad to learnt from various trustworthy and mutually i•adependent 'nurses that the runvrorn of Germany's intention to open Klan -Chan to the world's eom- m•rne are well foonded. It thio de - (Mine le pusintained. Kim -Chau will probehly Monism as t, busy, and riebing estrepotreof the world'. trade, a :northern Hong Kong The wisdom of the ded•ion cannot be doubt- ed. It will Mod to improve the unnec- e•sarily striped relations between Ragland tied Gerlasrnr. 1t 1. to to k t sd (bat other natio& will follow Germaad's example, and that the tar Em er& question may thereby to greedy slmpllfted " THE WON AND THE AFAR. P rospects or a tla War Over Ma Calsese MSe.tly. The Londoc Daily Standard in an ed- itorial on Saturday presents what la prentnahl'y the off Con•erva.tive view of the Chinese dtustloo. It nays: - "A cabin survey ot the situ tion as it exists on the .pot aoarosly encourages the hap. thee by the mere lapse of time everything will arrange itself. Rawls e nd Great Britain are nus in a post - lien d whltlt it la clear that one or the other will have to give way. It ought not to be Great Britain. If our Foreign Office on thla occasion penults tbe threat@ al the Csar'a Charge-dt'At- Mires to coerce the Taung Li Yemen into ',rejection of our terms, there will be an end to our influence at the Im- perial court. It is not the first, but it is unquestioembly the crucial trial at strength. St. Petersburg twa Moses the ground and thrown down the ahal- j ibe • Standard, continuing. says that there is no lack of means for siert- mg in action the principle that has been so Unequivocally expunged la the words; "If neceemmy. et the cwt of war," uttered by iiiohasl Rieke - Beech reosatly and don ludas-"J&. pan is stated to be acting In ooncert with the United States during the dip- lomatic struggle with the 7'eung Li Yemen. The naval strength d the two States interested in maintaining inviolate the statue quo is overwhelm- ing. It. unhappily, the question of mastery hes to be decided by force, it is bard tome how the policy of onm.. meroial Iibarte and equality man be resietad." TWO BUFFALO MURDERS. Tied asd teems to seat\ - titled • ufrl (Loots. Seo ter*..d to Stowe. A dsap•toh from Buffalo same- Theongb . w einem /metalled Actor of a room In the Yaleowitch block on COm- mercial street, on Wednesday morning, • passerby saw the blood -spattered body of Kate Clark, wife of Ed. Clark, • grain scoops:. The police broke in tlie"T E door. The wills, tied, Roof and. furniture were splotched with blood. The woman had been beaten to death with a choir Neighbors heard the eour+le quarreling the previous night. Clark could not tee found by the police, and they are certain he killed her. Later It was learned that Clark tied tbe hands of the wopan and then heat ber to death with a 'cooper shov- el. Following closely on the brutal mur- der on Wednesday morning of Kate Clark, by her common law husband. comes a double tragedy Murray Bun- dy, thirty-five years of age, married, and the tattler of two ehlldyen, Wed- nesday night drove out to • road -house on Walden avenue, just over the city line, Tbere he rust Mattis E. Van Sickle, a woman of ill -repute, with whom he had beep infatuated for some time. Bundy had repeatedly asked the woman to elope with him, but she had steadily retuned. Wednesday night he preened bee to leave the city, sad upon her refusing to have anything more to do with him, be drew a re- volver and fired two shots at ler. Both bullets entered her body, and she dropped to the floor dead. There were several eye-witnesss of the shooting, but before anyone could make a move Bundy planed the revolver at his lived, and Beat a bullet into bis brain. BURIED iN A SNOWSLIDE. Two 1•luers tilled In as Avalaue r 4. seltMa Col■w*I.. A de+patch from emir, B.C., nays: -Men are digging in a enowslide at. the C'ons-didated Alabama mine, five miles frons here, for the bodies of Charles Wagner, a mining men at Spokane; and J..1. Luna, sets) is be- lieved le have come from Escanaba. Mich. They arrived here Ileceml er 6th. and left with a packer tar the mind. That was the last seen of them alive. As they failed to deme to town for their mail,, fears were ar,tused, sg i Friday a party went up the moon - to the mine. They found asnow- elide had swept down tbe m mtain end wrecked the elackmmith 'bop. The e.bin wee. net struck - and MAL were found the men's eats, witches. mon- ey. and supplies. ONE OF THREE WAYS. Ur. I'kstb.rl.11e. (.•*aria .n Ise CMOS, r.,.. .r tN trwplre. A despatch from London says :-Right Hon. Jos. Chamberlain on Wednesday night at Liverpool paid a warm trib- ute to the imeri•l importance of the Cannditletq Pa old, w i eg val,ed i magnif eilleree I 1* 1a im - Malls signs cent in via* of evente'ln the taT Eats(4 in the Hevelnpenent of which as the Government here fully realize, the Canadian Pacific route pro. vides F.ngiancl for the first time with • strong trump card. Mr. Chamberlain also acid that it wattle be foolish to attempt to predict the form which lbs Miura closer union of the Empire would take. He .tided :-"Tt may to is the shape of a commercial union. or inaperi&l solivereis, which I don't think so absurd an some political economists believe, or It may be 1t the shape of own. imperial oOenMU." ONLY NATURAL. Dorothy. closely eyeing a hornet Oat has name in through the open window-Thterel I should tklsk any flv'd know hetter'o to lace in tight'. that. MERE AIID TNE.. life..1 unseal fail esi rime Alt Part. .t 41.. World. A, top of ooel yields alrltoet 10,000 feet d>t0A The coinage of • sovereign ousts the English mint 3-4d. - A leper %teeth has barge exhibited by a Drerieo watobanaker. The import duty oa hells baa been raised la Plans to twelve trans. A000rding to a German natursliat there are 306.000 species of animals In the world. Ths only civilised country which does ant grant patents on inventions is Switseriand. LAM year tote Berea post-otfioe tor- e aided 291,000,000 news{ apera and re- ceived only 19.700,000 from slsewbsrs. Whw th• 810214's tuanl is completed the distance between London and Brin- disi will be dlminiebod 132 kUaztptres. Ratlw•y-tunnel betiding in 9witser- laedi atm now W dolts .t one-half the oast. and four (loins as Met as thirty yeas* ago. The largest room is the world under one roof and unbroken by 'pillars la at 8t. Petersburg. It V 80 feet lcerg by 130 feet in breadth. Lately as olive -tree wee carelesly d.. stroyed ((sear Nice, wbtob lad a posit, tive record of five centuries and owe aired M feet in eireumference. Madrid is threatened with • strike of if rooms' ahopmrn, who object to were, tag front eight to eleven on week days and till (oar on teen's's. A writer in lbs Fortnightly Review thinks that 56400 termer*. each wart a 100 -sore farm. in Canada. could sup Ph all tb. wheat England seed.. Since the year 1007-'311 the permute(' of recruits to the German army who could not read aged write has needily deor.amed from 0.71 per cent to 0.1. As Austrian eommisfon recently appointed to consider the edvwbiliM of allowing Min manufacture of arti- ficial wins decided in the negative. The dumber of sheep is the worlds estimated b &moult to 568.000,000. Of Ibis number, between one-third and one -hall age_Malha ed to be .madame The numbers of letter. ate., forward• ed last year by the German pont-ot- lime was 3,203,000,000, of which Berl* furnished Dearly one -fifth -435.000,00e. The latest project of the D•aiah gov- ernment is to introduce an income tax of 1 1-4 per cent. a year, those having leas thao 700 ermine of indoles b.ing , free. Pittsburgh firemen are now permit• ted to weer service .tripes o° their sleeve*, different Dolor* denoting oar - lou. terms of service op to the golden stripe for five years. Prua.ia seems to be enjoying better times than it did • decade ago. la 1381 109.190 hectares of lead was confiscated at auction, while in 1896 the figure was only 66,(102 leotards. Kehl lea a new bridge across the Rhine, but tbe complaint is reads that it is se mite a structure tint it conn versa mom uulavoraWy with the � railway bridge buUt forty years ago. It is not generally knows that when a person Latin into the water • common felt hat can leo made gas of s. e life - preserver. Planed upon tar water. run- dowa, It will boor a men tip, it is said. tor boars - .A Liverpool Court bin decided tb•t • nurse attending to a taw of i t.doum disease is entitle i to extra pay meet during the weak which tb. rules of the nurses' home require her ta remain in quarantine. An Italian named Galelllni bas re- cently trade a boat of cement. Tb. framework ie of MUM steel bars 'lay- ered with a wire netting, the latter being. in turn. covered with .learnt. The surface is 'then polished. It is claimed that such a haat cost. 1e.s thus a wooden one, aril despite its extra weight. glides more easily through the water. t CAttAD(t t e'I ri'3 R eep.vM Prow Tae Old Courier aro Tss, Itae..raal.g. A report to the Dominion Agriculture -4 Department from Lottdon, Eng., re- grinding the butter trade, sys:-"Tbere has been a fair demand for Australia• butter during the pest week, especial- ly for butter at • low price, so as to bring a good profit when retailed at 24 Dents. Prices are somewhat easier, sad while gams agents ere selling their choicest brands at 20-1-2 to 21 mots. others are fighting hard for 21 1-2 cents. Mt them7►��d� are selling lowest will win in the tis of sale, and succeed is lowering prime, as well as the pockets at the Australian dairymen. There is in the North of England a very demand for Comedian creamery but - to and in Manobester choicest geni- ehave brousirt from 21 1-2 to M S••4 ee , wholesale, thea exceeding the price for the Altstralien product," NAY PROVE PATAL. .n od Ottawa Sa3.res Mb•.. map sermea isaae Til !Mani h his daughter Oltvre; aged nineteen, •d his mon. ten years old, who lire at the tom nor of Bridge and 'Wright streets, Hull. were pretty .everely burned at their home on Wednesday weenier ly a lamp exploding it is teaTed that Mine Laframtrrise may die in cocas queers of the injury she received(. FORTY PEOPLE KILLED. S spi.alss .r se. to a tetseltl'. Mee /tan■.( T.rMet. Fess .f Lira A despatch from St. Petersburg gym -Forty persons were killed sad sigh- t.m injured by aD espiados et gas in tine of the mules of the tam r Com- pany, in the Taganrog , oO to south shore of the 96a .