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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1899-3-23, Page 6IF 1111KR ''.iiIia.....4..„ lb . '4 111111r illairertthseandbi °ILM. parsaas of the duty „ hats not altinild. The Aleurney-general a given the same right to require the peer duction of dentmente and to mamba wititeepur as • plaintiff has W an °ruin- str7 llii:stkin. tethering is a new esaten: "Where any property which hes previous to the death of the perton whale eatitto la sub - 41u$ to due, been conveyed or traneferred to some other person la declared table to duty, the court may declare the duty to be in lien upon the property, and may make such declaration, although the amount of such duty has not been Amer - twined; and where any property which, had it renteined In the hands of the per - eon to whom or for whoa benefit it was conveyed or tenneferred by snots deceased porton would have been Ileble to duty, has been conveyed or tranderred to any purchaaer for a valuable consideration, the court may direct the person to whom or fur whore benefit the as id propati was ounveysid or tranderred by such de- ceased pemons ais aforesaid to pay the amount ot the duty to which such prop- ernwould have been subject." The foregoing provtdon is to he retro- spective in its operation, se is also • sub- sequent provision enabling the Provincial Treasurer to register a caution at the registry or Wad Mite office in respect of mortepetes or charges on land which are subjag to duty. The bill also contains provisions mak- ing property wioch the deceased has pewee to dispose of, and estates in dower or by the amnesty, liable to duty. In determining the aggregate tale° tat She estate, property outside of the province is to be included. The fullowieg provision prohibit+ the traneeer of atocks or shares. "No rentign erechter or adminionitor shall assign or transfer any stocks or shares in this prov- ince mending in the DAJDO ef a deceased penmen or in trust for him, which are lin- hie to pay sumeesion duty, until such duty Ls paid eo the treasurer of the pro. - foot", or swurity given as required by 'section 6 of the said act, and any «opera- titm allowing a vender of any stocks or shares contrary to the' section shall be Roble to pay the duty payable in respect thereof." Standard Oil Trust MaStarted the Imperial Commons. THE ROCKEFELLER VICTORY. Baglisli Public Opistle• Stirred VF Orer the Hem& as of the Weill - ambrosia& Oil Trost - Mee* Coed to Thrill tad Said to De lUalianal la Britain. 'New York, liareh 90.-Flenry Norinnn, tabling from London to The Timer, say.: "For the first time in my recollection, common talk, and, indeed. the criticism et frank newspapers, has suggerted thee a vous in the House of Commons was due to an improper outside influence. The Standard Oil Company is a corporation of tipch viva powers and such far-reaching activity, the% perhaps it is not eurprising It should he suspected of having Its in - Buenas on this Isidro!' the ooean on belmlf of what is here dtacribed as 'murder oil.' "Much comment was direct's' to the presence of • number of Americans in the members' lobby of the House of Com mons on the afternoon of the debate. The Pall Mall Gazette odd: 'The American oil ring hes boen too strong for the Rouse of Commone ' The 'Speaker, A leading Liberal weekly, asys: 'Mr. Resekefeller and the American Standard Oil Trust triymphed In the Hotise of Commend on Wednesday afternoon.' •'Tht' Outlook, an Imperieli,.witetly, re.sarcastically JA/„...iireine Collings' eller t0 sleepoltmente "Bvt.jwndun1 witness before the otantniesion, from Lord Kelvin wnward. advocated the high flash.ot oil The Government will nos have low flash oil on ite premiere'. Several import- ant Arne/lean Statue prohibit it. In Lon- don alone 30 Meths every year fur the Last ...von nom leave been directly mused by the lew &eh oil, yet the bled flash point is to IN•litnin for the prcerflt in X nglAnd at 73 degrees. It ie a curious fact that of the Iri.h members. one half voted for the high tic,h oil, and the other half for the low iimih." -CUMNG RAILWATFARES. Hatter.. Aseats et the Union Pact* A* •lsed Time • N•w Schedule Neer awns. C▪ Agent Lome: of the ITnion Paeille, advised' 0enern1 Ifetetern Passenger Agent Tenbroeck that, taking efftrt Rat: urday, second -clam rates from Illeaouri Rider Uri/Arabi to California points will be 742.50, • cot 4 640; from Sioux City and Onothit to niarthern Pact& and inter - Mediate point,* $26: fromLeaverivrorth and Kanwete City to the mime territory, vie Pocatello, 1464.25. The latter rates have been 1140 and $1.60. General Eastern Peasenser Agent Chat*. Kennedy of the Rock Wand was advised to the name affect by Generni Pieseenger Agent Sara - Wan, and it bi expeeted the Canadian Pacific will bulletin theme rates from ESL - - Great ol911711TokoM altuation by announas on the 11 Ind. It will apply half rat.0 to all second - ekes business moving to all pointa from which the regular tare from St. Paul is In exam of Ili The Northern Pacific will undoubeeMil follow ante and other roads .Seated luny be expected to tall in Mna. • BRILLIANT FUNCTION. Time ;First Drawleg Noma of the Now rievere•r-O•n•ral at Ottawa. Ottawa, March 20.=Sefeen or eight h undred bedew and gentlemen attended the first draeing noom of our new Gov- ernor-General in the Senate Chamber on Saturday night. The function was one of the most brilliant of its kind mor held 111 Ottawa, a very noticeable feature be- ing the large number of visitors' from other than Ottawa. ersp-szially of whom there ITEM nearly 100. The reception lasted exactly one hour and IND minutea The Premier was prevented by inclimosition from being present, but the Meanly was represented by the fol- lowing neetnixre all of whom, with the =caption of Sir Henri Joly, wore their official uniforms: Sir Richard Certwright, Sir Louis Device, Sir Henri Joly, Hon. S. .1. Fiedler, Hon. W. Paterson. Hon. A. 0. Blair, Hon. W. S. Fielding, Hon. Davkl Mills, Hon. F. W. Borden, Hon. .1. I. Ta.rte and Hon. W. Mulock. tor -General Fitzpatrick RAS also preeent. The ex -Minister, were elm well repre- sented by Sir Chrales Tupper, Sir Mao- kengie Rowell, Sir Chariot Hibbert Tup- per and CoL Prior. After the reception was orer the Speakers of the Senate and House of Commone Sir Alphonme Pelle- tier and JK Sir anice eene entertained /11. Exrellency and Lady Minter and all thow who hail attendee, the drawing 100m. KIPLINft HICNOING FAST. DNtated t•ons• Letters and taw • Few Erland• on nand•r. New York, March 20. -Mr. Rudyard leet night rend the peepers; dictsted• some lettere and sew a few friends. Tie smoke of getting out soon, and his doctor, Dr. 1)unlam, encouraged him with the prone/se that he will be per- mitted to leave his room in a few days. I .8. ••11nr.. *Vag..Cleveland, 0 . Meech 20. -At a tneet- ing of the executive committee of the lake Carrier.' A -...-le • ion, held here Hetunley, It tv.i• deed's' to aderanne the wage, of melons 75 per month for the coming PIPAntn. The ade vancapplies, floe only to Where. but 1.0 ahl kinds of labor on a vowel, from engineer to deekhand. The advemee eine effect on MI boats owned by members of the nit...eaten, which are about four-fifths 01the cereals antes on the lakee The .11....... will ln genera, however. asthe owners loess not in the moo •151 ion AIM forted to pay the aercliesion rate* of WR•rnn. Death Stoth•r 'loot • Winviipetr. Man -h 10.-0 lempeeht. sterretery sneerer of the lllll Mentality of Rhineland, who mei Abort in Mg sterotnitet 716, 768). has nummIttel stileide at Airtime whersehe tedrinfl. A warrant led been Issued for his erre*, and as the leral non - stable was /about to reenter it, Lempriehli shot himeelf in the head *115. a ravolviT, Which he alweys carted. Death enema laabout an hater. ' THE SUCCESSION Illy - Ortavie • "4"• Illevesirrte Atasederseet. Tornnto, Meech 90. -Ron. lfr. Rttr- srovt'e hill fe amend the COrmetintlefl duty ant prnvIdos deo any rum payable nncter the AeD may be rocoversible by aetion In any went of rompetent pirl.dietinn The ,nigh Court is given jurielietion to deter- ento4i Whatl"la nettle to duty under the me,rYamonnt thereof, and Oho Mr* or times oh to the etroe Is pa - anie. amble* ts 88. ethetettha 01 meet ite to no, 11/1 nation may ba ihrtreght for any .4 45.. peeper's. meention• NEW YORK'S FIRE HORROR. S laloms Knote• Ihrad. 44 Hissing and 17 .Imiered le th• Nolominst of rriSity Ne-wrifork, March 20. -The destruction en Friday afternoon of the Windsor Hotel end the less of perhaps 60 livee is still the allabaorbeng tople here. There c is consternmion in the honiee of many, etheelthereaboater sitindag eels. end telegrams are coming from all ports of res. However, the full tale cannot be told till perhaps to -day, when the work of Mewing 'grey the week will probably P be well under way. Little in the way ot • marching for bodice could be done yester- day. No •more bodies wore taken from the I ruins yesterday. The Wen estimate last n ight is 16 dead, 44 missing and 67 in- jured. It 1. expected that the properkieet hacluding the hotel, °entente and vela- atries owned by guest'', will total $2,000,- 000. Twelve hundred men are now at work In three eight hour shifts engaged In semeiring the deb* FINNS CET A REBUFF, 5C0 Ordered to Return HOMO From St. Petersburg. MAY WORK GOOD FOR CANADA. viototio. ot ea. (tote ot the Caw% Nis Vs4h•r awe alea-601"..ilt,teraritlif tolleirie This A AbsolutImmy It•••14 In Seeding 'ceases lama Desiralrl• bettlere-Cabbe N•stre. St Petersburg, Marvh 90. -The depu- tation of 500 persons who mug here to preens. • petition with 600,000 signatures reletiug to the Imperial domes of Feb. 15, cencerning the oonetitution of land, have been ordered to return home inineelletele. In the event of their failure to comply with this mandate force le threatened. Nation in Mourelog. New York, March 90.-Tbe London correspondent of The Times aye: "The pruepecte of the peace (+engem) at The Ilegue are darkeniug because of the grow- ing eyinpathy of the liberal netions with the people of Finland. This unhappy country is In a Male of despair. Halving - fors, the capital. la in mourning, the theatres are closed and the people dress in black, the newspapere heading their articled with the words: 'A Nation in ' Mourning.' The Czar, his father and his epee% the constitution ot Finland. A. (boned eoprrff this oath hangs in every church. Now through the preaure of Gen. Kuropetkin, the Minister of War, and Potnedonosteeff. Procurator of the Hol thi hes broken. The Emperor's local title, Grand Duke of Finland, dleappeare, and the word 'Empire' or 'timeline' 1. substituted In the soldier's path for the word 'Father- I land.' Outregoomm N "Thirty-five per cent ot the young men, Mewed of 10 per cent, must enter the army for five hers service. with • , liability of semen years more, and they s may le sent to any part of the Russian Empire. while Finlead must lay ten militan =arks as a military contribution. • The Finnish Senate mann* ot 90 mem- ber., nen of these, alarmed by tear of an }Meisel Heimann occupation, accepted the 'ear's manIfeeto. Ten refused, The Prod - lent gaie the casting vote In favor at Russia. "To such • depth are the people I lunged in _despair at the prospect of haring the fate of Poland, or, at best, of being reduced to the stete of Russian pessatnta, that • movement was started also among the young men and is grew- ; ng rapidly, for • wholesale emigration to Caturda. It is incomprehensible that the Czar. whom personal aims have been so enlightened in so many cams, should have permitted this flagrant reversal of his father's anveuying policy and this 0 extension at military despotism, which revolts all the lowint of liberty, on the easy eve Ake :121aring.'h'ob=dciwt-748(17.1ttk: UNFIIIAL J. RONALD heard of off Moreno all4 sftus"rilL I Nang to li• Nome. Madrid March 110 -A viable su miens revolved from General lUoa, the former oututmender et the Spaniel, therm In the Pellippitre Wands, says the situation of the sipanLuels at Menet, is so enticel that they all dada, to return home, the Anurtuans rendering their sojourn in the Philippines imposeible. 'the Spanish weenier Luson left Mena& on Saturday for Cartagena, taking a number of Span - 11.11,19.1111$31-1614.14Lualeattlf..,..... MAMMY. Meillift, Mar& 90. -Some of the rebels recently expelled from Cavite and the ritual towels in the vicinity of nub/ com- bined recent and on Saturday night et - tacked • company of the Washington Vol - unwept, a detached pea at Taguig, about a tulle and • half southeast of Pas*. The rebels fought deeperately, aided materi- ally by the jungle and the darkness, but they WOrn oomuletely muted with heavy low, after two hours' fighting. The A merioam) lost two kllied and 90 wound- ed, aniong the latter Lieut. Frank Jonea in a sortie on Sunday the Oregon Red - meet had one man killed and four wounded, and the 2...tud Regiment One killed.. According to the official reports no fewer than 900 of the Filipinowere killed. Gen. Otis nays the American army and gunboats now command the bike. Ile estimates that property of the ineurgent+ valued at $600,000, with quentlties of rice and sugar and 40 10606 01 coal, which is very valuable Minh have boon ostokozed. Fired • Itritlmh•r. Moe, March 90.-Prender Dupuy, who N French Minister 01the Interior, yester- day signed an order expelling from the Trainee the correirpandent of The London Globe and Mail. This' action is taken by reason of the publioation in London of • number of articles by the narreepondent In question, the tendency of which was to prejudice toraignersagainst the Riviera Our Trade With Dritaim London, March Me -Enquiries at the high oomm'adoner's office with regard to trading between Canada and the Motherland matinee. Addresses are asked or of reliable C.anadian firms shipping wood pulp, mica and oil, _manufacturer. of furniture, and dealterinern walnut and birch.. logs or dressed. A Bristol firm desires the agency of a Canadian packing ileum. Hon. R. Dollen sailed for Canada on Saturday. Ottawa •••••• via Le•den. ....rseistiely March 8L 4leepatee from Ottawa mays Quit ounnection with the agitation looking to the exchange 01 the Brithsh Weft India" for the Philippines or other Aneartoen poestesions, there le • scheme in Canada to submit to Parlia- ment • proposal to exchange the Leeward Islands with the United States for an Alaiikan strip. President III Scents Danger. . Pretoria, March 20-President Kruger, in an important. egerech Ileddelburg, n Friday, empletaized the neceesity of the State retaining the dynamite monop- oly, because, aa he segued, the South African Republic being ern inland State, in the event of trouble with any of the powers its supplies a explosives might otherwise be suddenly cut off. Many thrilling storks of everape and heroic reacue are told, and youtrday over 90 of the amounted among the miming were diecovered, reducing the number now to 44. ?gra Isabella Mandonald, formerly cid Toronto, who name is among the mim- ing, had lived at the Windier for three years, and Was a society newapaper writer. She had been ill for some time and was under the care of .Dr. Carleton Simon. She ooropied moms on the lath Bozo., faring on the inner court. Dr. Simon says dust he hem TO far been un- able to obtain any trace of Mrs Macdon- ald. She is supplied to have perished. The hospital report's an to the injured were mosee favorable yesterday. Most ire the patients were improving. Some of Ahem were able to lesve the hoapitals yeeterday and others will be diataharged to -day. • Clee• to Now insra. Toronto, March 20. -Mr. J. B. Hay al this city left last night for New York to aid in the identifkation of Mrs. Macdon- ald, if necessary. Mrs. Macdonald. who los his aunt, lived here about 15 years ago, but has resided at the Windsor Hotel for some years peat. atm FAKIR ortir IN nis WORK. Vow • 11••••-•11111d• PANS& Get Neel' Illosspoler Stentry. Heepeler, Ont., March 20.-A large number of people in Hespeler and the surrounding country are feeling very sore, the result of the visit of a slick fakir a oouple of days ago, who took away a big roll of good dollars and left in their place a lenee quantity of bad medietne. Ile gave his name as Hamilton and said he wise • brother of a well- itifewn doctor of Toronto. His plan of procedure was, before calling on a family, lkefind out the name a the family physi- cian who usually attended them and asid that he had sent him and highly mourn - mended hie medicines. Ills prima knock- ed the bottom out of the local druggists' quotations Preparations OM sell for 71 • bottle he offered four for $1, with a couple of boxer of "blood pills," • pack- age of herb tee and a couple of bottles of other preparations thrown in. These big bargain*, eonpled with their doetor's renommendation, reeled • great many people, who bought $9 or $3 worth of the stuff, most a which was not genuine. He even sold to the Mathes of the 58.1). 's and druggists. He wan Waned to Guelph, where he registered at a hotel as Lewis, but there gave the police the slip. Thirty six down bottles of medrine, sev- eral dozen boxes of pills and a yeller' be- longing to the fakir, which were left at She hotel there, were wised by the author - idea Amettier tOpearatles. Parte Merril 18 -The Rome mere- imondent of The Figaro "eye the Pope's phydram hare decided npon another operation. ne.e s.eah as • Gambler. When the bee Earl of T -ii was • teeth he was pescieentely fond of play, land never better pleaced than with haring' /dr. >lath foe his eneuronat Naoh row Wish ortesern hie loeichip's foible, ane mete 'rink to one him, though hy a very diem, inrible remedy• Conerione of hie owe :varier skill he determined to en herts in eine], play for A rnfy AIM slim. 11. iielehle in prop011troll a• bp I,* his game, Ina hie temper toe; and a, he appreterheci the gulf, armed Sin PAtra imaer for rein JO lea 111. estate; some writing. were Imo the whiner's poseession; hie reef ,celipaere depreited ass a Ian 'mike, and he Inn that also. But when our gener0,14 genienter hpd freinel AN lord- ahl0 etifilelently pnniettewl for his temerity he refereed ell, only ittlpnlellnyi that he sleuthi be paid 45,000 whenever he shell Id think peeper to make the demand llom ever, he never made any emeh tiemend derring hie loriehfp's lifetime; hnt some time after hie deresen, ?dr. Neshei "Males bsdng In the wen., he elernen,hei the 01 INw lerfleftip'S loeirta.trho honor- ably paid It without any 5.eel1atton.- 11Istory of tiamhl.ng in garland. egadefence summoned to y oppoeite ends." IBLOODTHINSTI" ANARCHISTS. slimy Did Com•plr• to Blow Up th• Italian Chamber. Rome, March 90. -Most of the Italian f, newspapers, prompted by the Chief of Pollee, deny the report that a plot has been dIenovered for blowing up the Chamber of Deputies& Nevertheleen, the xesportele perfectly true, and the people of Rome have to thank Chief Ineprelor Mel- ville of London for averting the diem:ter. The conspirators were so proud of their echeme that they wrote about 11 In their beers to the exiled 'alien Anarchists in London, and thence the news promptly reached Inspector Melville. There appears to be some prospect of a recrudescence cid the Anarchist ferocity in Rome, and the King and Queen and all the Ministers have aalitional detective guards. Strang- ers are unable to (min admission to the Chamber of Deputies, end the public spdleries are dally filled with police agents. Lueetilmi Gems Ned. :London, March 20. -From Denim comes the news thet Empress Elbabeth'e murderer, Lucchini, has completely bro- ken *Awn under the rigors of aolitety imprimonment. He has attempted suleAs on three oecrelons, and has probably be- come violently Insane. MARTINO OYZIIIITHPFBD BOUNDS. illir Claude Naedenal• Now Trauma** Italy's Chins* Buslness. Rome, March 90. -In the Senate on Priturdny Admiral Canevero, Minister nt Roreign Aaffirs, replying to questions upon the subject, stated duet Signor Mar- tino hed elolated hie instructions as Ital- ian Minister to China by putting en„ ultimatum to the Chtnese Government regarding the (innovation at Sartman Bay, and had, therefore, been nevilled. The negothstions between Italy and China, he added, are now entrust...al to Sir ()lands Macdonald, the Britleh minister at Pekin, and Italy had undertaken not to use force onions efforts fail. 11111110VII NUN_PUll IN HA•Atil•. The MPH* •r• Basle, • Hard Timm el t55 la the Cuban Capital. Havana, ldarch 90.-A melon. confli55 between the polio' and people of Havana on Satter -de, night resulted in eon/eider- iable shooting and clubbing. From 60 to 76 persons were wounded, some serioludy. Among the Injured Is Pollee Captain Enemies, formerly • colonel in the Cuban army. Shortly before 9 o'clork 18 was reported thet another ionflke between the people and the polies had taken plane last even- ing In the outakIrte of Havana. and two policemen and several chili/me all wounded, were nonvered to pollee head- quertere 11 ie aesterteri also thee two policemen were killed, and that the ree servo blia bean I ftlled nut. There la mien • rumor *at • policeman wee nabbed to dosik_JthIlbs. afternono• Spa* mad Nor MIIIpls• r•semers. Madrid, Mereh 90 --Senor Silvelet. Pre- mier and lilinieer of Fonign Affairs, had a et -inference yeetersley with the French ameawitenr rorruenng the literetegi Spanish mermen+ In the hands of the Filipino& Spain, it is reported, has deter- mined to proten to the (eviller.' world agaInat the =Weide of the Americana in hindering the efforte of Gen. Rios Spea- k& commender in the Philippine% tlt libisath the primmer& FILIPINOS AGG Key. Dr. K•app Sat., London, March 20. -Rev. Dr. Knapp, ormer principal of Queen's College, ohnek Ned., who mysteries/ay dimp- peered from his renidenoe in Brighthotuste, Wen Yorkshire, on Jan. 18 last, write. to his friends in this country that he has reached New York la • sailing von& Lord Body is Zaalamd. Porternouth, Eng., March 90. -The British cruller Talbot, with the body ot Baron Herschell on beard, which sailed from New York on March 8, arrived here yesterday. STRUCK Ni•D-ON. 1 •• Znalmos-Sresahlisa Collielen at Stintkise. pear. ss Saturdey-Firem•• H•rt. Shakespeare, Ont., March 10. -At 5.40 son. on Saturday a lierd-on collision occurred between • passenger and • freight train on the Grand Trunk Rail- way. The freight train, although the passenger train from ToronM was doe to paw, wan standing foul of the main line OD west siding a the station. At 5.40 o'clock the peasenger train, in charge of conductor Devlin, arrived, but the norm prevented Engineer Walker geeing the engine ahead a him. Both engines were lbadly broken np by the collision. The fine -clams pa/manger coach wee derailed, and the baggage cer was condderably damaged, but Wet* 10 tbe rails. Three oars of the freight train were derailed. The fireman a each engine was badly in- jured when taken ont ot, the wreck. Fire- man Finch of the freight train lost his left foot, and Fireman Law of Toronto waa badly welded and hurt internally. An auxiliery train wemt sent out from Stratford and the track was cleared In hvo hones. The (TOW of the freight train all belong to the Sarnia tunnel, and that a the paseenger to Toronto. "ZDIPIRIC 11P646411• Plehottl• of Ont•rle to Celebrate It on ild•y SS. Toronto, Mareh 20. -"Empire Day" Will be celebrated In the public whools of Ontario on May 28 for this first time. The Rdnoation Department has lamed • circular to school Inepeetors throughout the province, notifying them to thet effect, and ontlining the method in which the day should be Pipent The morning will be devoted tinnily to a familiar talk by the teseher on ()amide's relation to the Empire and readings from Canadian and Britieh authors. Patrioele recitations, songs and apeenheis will be the afternoon grogram. The public will be Invited_ 1111141aad Went* the Smelter. Midland, Man -h 18 -The vote on bonus et $60,000 to the Canada Furresee Com- pany a Montreal for the entehilahment ef • rimmed pig Iron smelting establish- ment took plane yeeterdey, and was nar- eed by a vote of' Vet for mind 16 against. The works are to cost $250,000, and work will be commenced forthwith. Ilteesearm.• 11••my Rentireee, Parte, Marnh 14.-Re-Lfent. Boirtun, Wise Dneasel, formerly of a Freneh in- fantry regiment, who VIM &needed in thie city on ireh. 3 on the charge' of carrying on en Illicit nerreepnneleness with a for eign government, invotylng military werete, wax yesiterday sentenotel 60 NS repine imprieonment, to pay • Ana at L000 frame and to be pithod ado poth aspirrlidon for ten yena‘.._. • Landau, Mareh IS. !iodise ItutpAbeelligar Pmastary 01 State for !nine, Lord GeOrlie Hamilton, th simmering a gore:Ion In the Home of Commons yestercley, maid the object of the Indian Government In imporieg 11.805. Atteak the natter, at Loam Chureh mad Are Kopmlised with Lama Manila. In. -An &Meek wag made by the rnhollA on fiaturdny npon the 1 battery IN Immo Chnmh. hus were re- clulLsed by the Peertirlvenlans with heavy 1.1r08, Tholepins and Privates 11:60:01:nd MoCanao of Complev...0, Waal A gunboat with a onveriany a the nod tesetwereemelereereertne Wan antairrad tn. Watkyns--What did you say to yes? wife anyhow, when pm proposed, lakrinea- Wall I er well- the fact Erre Wanes wee a widow when I married bac --Somerville Joanna IC Pan *60 for Saying His Father Was Fit for the Asylum. CYCLONE KILLS 7 PERSONS. Illebberies all Ottawa. Montreal mad St. --.1DaMislissaLbts .Utit ALU•sa•KAIKA1416 611=16661111161-11WIt- - Jaiat Spoke*. Wagan-SI 1111114111agn6sho4 Visitor at Ottawa. The safe at Bishop's Hotel, Ottawa, was blown open on Saturday morning • et 747 taken from le i The Spanish Cabinet at Saturday'. sw- slon approved the ertelit for the payment of the Interest ou the Cuban debt. 'Henry Cole was sentenced at Portage le Prairie to three years In the peniten- tiary for cauelug the deeth of W. Hubble. Seturesty tomes,/ rubbers Lanka Into Thu Monter! Ster'e up -town °filet% and. working the safe outubination, nolo $900, The office et The Standerd newepaper at Regina, N. W. T. , was burned Satuntay morning. The Mei is partly moored by insurance. According to the statistics of the Im- perial mine the gold production the Ruesian Empire during 18158 amouned to e8t1,250. °oldie & McCulloch 01Galt have been ' &weeded the contract for the new cogent, required fur the electric light works at Mort William. Egan Bros', St. Thomasgygoorx aux robbed Friday night, evidently by perfection. The thieves mewed $91. J. J. Sweeny and F. W. Smith .bave been sentenomint Vernon, RC., to five years web in penitentiary for burghriz- ing Leargill 's bum' at Armstreng. I The Democrats of Christie who are running Carter ilarrime, fer Meyor helve atiepted the question of netniciped owner- ehip of pnblic franchisee as a patriot their platform. Wool has born evened that .4 K. Boyer and J. RIld Perry, U.K, Nep- sautes, who left there..in.Januare, ewe. reached SkaguaresaM^Vbeyeare en route to the Atlindinriet. William Anse the Italian hotelkeeper who killed at Spekane, Wade, 'tally of Toronto, was arrested on Sun- day at Pritot River, and haa,boar lodged ahaa6-aaallitittie. General W. PW . ye& hods, at the in- fused Nicaragua revolution, method at New (Sekund from Beets del TOOTH via Mobile. He ie in bad heath and unde- cided about future plane. Toronto Henry George Club held their third annual dinner on Seourday night. Among the wreakers were Hon. John Sherwin Croeby of the United Stat..'.One hundred and fifty people Went pent ent Rev. Dr. Paget, rector of Trinity Church, llamado& low,., and dean of southern Iowa, has accepted Se Peter's pstrieh, lientistoke. B.C., and will enter on his new duties the fine Sunday in A cyclone struck the, belt 1nountry 1 in between Itel min and ledweintritte Clebunie County. Ala, Satiirlay afternoon, and wrought Menet., clainege. Sere.. [wrens were killed, five of theta In OM house. The number of deaths from coneump- tion in Ontario during the mopth 01Feb- Mary 14 the highest in the hiaory of the previnee, 205 people having dial, from that MUM. The orevioue record for one Waft was 180." Hon John T Toulev member of the New South, Wishes Legislative Council, and one of the proprietor' of The Amara- lian Star. publiched et Sydney, be in Ot- tawa, en route via Vanoouver, B.O. io hie antipodean home. The eitabliehmente of R. Greene & Co., wholevale clothiers; Beaton, hatter, and Thomas Pethick, gents' furnisher and tailor, were considerably damaged by are in London _the Lem on Sunday. Lose $7,000 or Richard Fitzgerald bLethews, formerly of the Postoffice Department in London, Ont., and a reidJent of that city for 51 years, died very unexpeceedly .1 5.1. home on Saturday. Ile was superintendent of mails in London for 39 years. TheFrench Northern Railway Com- pany has just been experimenting in the matter of speed. One of its trains hes made the run from Lille to Paris -250 kilometers (155 relied -in 178 minutia, the fasten time ever made on • French road. Thomas Sidley, the elevator MAO In the Toronto Tong.. 'street Arende, is dead. He was found Saturdey afternoon on the basement floor of the Anode with hie skull smasffied. It is thought he walked into the opening of the shaft and fell to bla death. After lingering in dee:tided agony, with both legs crushed, since Friday morning, Charles Woodruff of Toronto Junction 41,4 in the Toronto General lirsepttal on Sunday night at midnight. He was rue over at Streetaville Junction while coupV; Ina care A new satellite 01the planet Saturn ha* been diseovered by Prof. William H. Pickering at the Harvard Oboe:oratory. Thia satellite 1. three and a half times as distant from Saturn as Iapetus, the out- FITI)OVi matellite hitherto known. The period is about 17 months and the mag- nitude 15%. The body of the late Thonue McIntee of Burford le to be exhumed and an in - quern held at Burford on Friday next before IX. Sinclair, county coroner. The inquest will be held in the afternoon. Mrs. Mclntee is In (mil heidth, and the officials will probnbly take her deposition at her home. Jame.Ronald, a retired farmer living In Listowel, sued and obtained $60 tbun- ages froin his non Robert it maid, who also reside* in lenowel, for writing and causerie to be publiehed a 'statement to the effort that Jamess Ronald wan a fit enbject for a lunatic asylum and should be confined therein. • MARKET REPORTS. • Little Kelly Is 88 ...t as Sallartlay-M Chlorine l'rices d throe a coat Quotation Liverpool, Mama $0. -What futures en Satunay closed 11-811 per muted higher than Friday. Chicago, blarch 90. -Wheat futures rallied on Saturday and at °DO time roes liee above Friday's closing floored. Theri was 110•10 good buying le (mender& and room trader" one "-rep daninge report's were 1106/14, teln most of. Cele., the lather "prove WISH tonsided eerslind1711Pseeeferer _prices for wheat. Teereinerniarlillirehe top for the day. - Lead's. Wbetel-ideiretella. C.A. Abase May. July. Chkego......$ - $ 111 New York. . - 911 911,4 7Ikf M eau see .. 67)4 est m 6tLouis... - 71% 114% Toledo .... 70% m,• 70% 8854 Detroit . . 70 ., -is 7 le 68% Dulutb. No. 1 Northern ee'. tie% 07% 68)4Duluth, No- 1 hisrei e7s, - 611)461134 6716 Toronto. red 68 Ye - - - Toronto, No. 1 bard 'new) 80 - - - 'recreate St. Lawrenee Market. Toronto, March 20.-lestelpte of farm produce on Saturday were next to noth- ing --only a few baskets ot butter, eggs and poultry. Prices practically un- changed. l'oultry warm; pricer firm, chickens selling at 1500 to 111 Per Pale - Eggs plentiful and cheaper, selling at lilJec to 140 per dozen. 0716.68.Wheat. white, bu ......$0 70 te 7 - .,-.14Tbsak„asol. ba,.........., 70 - Wheat, Fife, swing, be. 71 - some person who knows the peewees to Wheat, goose le El ee R e bu 64 - Oats, Du • 114.14 854 Iierley, bu 47 - Buckwheat, be. • 65 _ Pees, bit 60 69 Sloth, Igitled by rel•es. Peterboro, March 20 -A rhild of Mr. John Drew le dead fmm the (dente of does of "rough -on -nth." The little glrl, only • year old, went into Mr. Tnanb- ley's, next door, and see hold of a bottle ormaining the polion. She went home at onne and boom. Ill, when a doctor Was celled et 10.80 a.m. yettercley. At 4.10 p.m d'eth ended the little one's puffer - ins. • To Sea** Yankee Farmers. Chicrurn, March 1&-A. • innennenne Of the Inc?*ee In the prior of woe and tiff. ennardiebstion of tune noel rind Iron indii.e.1.4. the plow menufacturere of the need States an' forinIng a nonibbietion. A emit eompene, capitalised .57680,000,. tinder the Iaw 01 New Jfir107, will Meetly be incorporated. live M•ter Hoe Kettoded. nrientford, Marcel 14 --The water In the (hand River, which threatened a die - nitrous florid to the amithern portkm 01 the Mien, moved during the night, and OW Welk the Mel Gat ne the present ail danger ha. peeled ateresro...e. SEIDL Red elms", be " $3 30 to 113 70 White clover, seed, bu 5 00 8 00 Abate, chcdoe to fancy. 884) 420 Alaike, good, No. 9 3 60 3 60 Aldke, good, No. 3. 8 00 3 40 1 35 Timithy, bu 1 Se Baths. whitaits.._____ SO II•Y *85 STRAW Bay, timothy, per 100714 00 10 10 60 Hay, clover, per ton . 5 66 7 60 Straw, sheaf, per ton 5 50 6 50 Straw, loose, per ton 4 00 6 00 DAIRY PRODUCTL Bailor, lb, -repo, ,....,16411-1.4110 30 Buttes, lam relle1 Eggs, new I POULTRY Chickens, per pair $0 Turkeys, per lb 1 , Spring ducks, per pair FRUITS *ND YILOCTA 17 9)d 14 00.0 31 00 9- le so 90 RUDA Applea..„Rorjabl 52 50 to 13 75 Petedoes, perbag... 75 86 Liverpool Markets, Liverpool, March 40. -Those were the final figure* on Satunlay: Spot wheat dull; futures, red winter, Si 11344 for March and Ss 3 3-84 for May and July. Maim, steady, at 3. 4Sed for INW and HS 6)ed for old spot; futures, 8.8)44 for March, Its 5 3-8d for May and as lieed tar - July. Flour, 17.64. PULP MILLS FOK C•74•11:14. Neva teeth. Loasett 1800 Setters 1111.. .1 1.aad for ThIrt Faroe*. Halifax, March 80.--,Attor157-beneral Locialey laid before the Nova &mita Legidsture on Saturday en agreement entered into on the -Am 01 laatesonth, by which Her Majesty the Quern grants • lease for 30 years of two immense emote at Crown lands in Victoria and Inverness Counties, Cape Breton, comprising alto- gether nearly 1,000 square miles, to three American capitaline-Edward le San- born and Robert B. Blodgett of Boston, and Daniel F. Emery, Jr., of Portland, Ma The lands amleatmed for the p a converting the timber thereo= pulp and paper, and 'The 'Melees muse ham two such mills in operation within the period of two years, and have expended at les= 710,000 in the operation a the business for which the lease is granted. The lessees agree to pay the Government of Nova Scone 116,000 per yver and to do all their manufacturing within the Prov- ince, of Nova Scotia. One provbdon a the agreement pro - White the transfer of Me Tease 80 107 per- son or corporation except the North American Paper& •Polp Company, Lim- ited,without the consent a the Attorney - General a Nova Scotia. The Government reserves the cuetomary mining right. over the property granted, but agrees to sell the land, or any portion thereof, to the heave for the purpose set forth, ae 40 cent+ per sere, the prevailing price of Crown lands In Nova If the terrna of the agreement are ful- filled as nerartie the erection of pulp or paper mine eind the lame are operated thrown) the 'stipulated period, the 1nNAPP9 may obtain a renewal of the grant err a further term of 30 year/ at $6,000 per year. GALICIAN 1,00964 GUILTY. The Corot Cities 5.4 lts Mentes-A• Amaneties Kelton Trite& Winnipeg, Mereh 90. -The probability is that Gliwznk. the Galician, found guilty of lering four Galician chil- dren and their father, will be ientenoed to -day to hang. The trial of the second Galician ierer bovine to -day. The crime of which the Galician Guise ask was found guilty on /Saturday after- noon wan one of the moat rebid blooded on renord. Another Galician named Bojertko had $60 in oash MONend on his person which Gemmel got to knew of and wished tes .cure. He and another nusn named Czuby went to Bojectsko's hut one night armed with g revolver and an are. They shot Bojesesko, matilated his bode with the axe, then killed four children belonging to Bnjeceko and who were denting in the room. The chlktreer were killed with blow. from the ithe alone. Their bodies Were found • few eitel erew's Noll a Mewanse. Vancouver, Marc). 90. -The Crow's Nest Coal Co. Ma seenred MN centred to impnly the }knish fleet at lbsquimelt with owl for the present year. The amount a ceneereptimi 14 not lea then 3,000 bine pew month, find acmes of the remple when hawing t,he elation ferry away with awn more than Mutt for ones trip. Rot Congener/ In Landon. London, Marsh IR -Tbst report mir- rent in high eirelem In Vienna to the effselkohnetehe Privetweit Ytrtorin Alex- andra .01gre Mary, emend desiightee of the Prince of Wale& la to merry Prince ()Annie of Orem& cannot be (confirmed hem Princess Vietorie was born Jelly 6, 1868, and Prince George le 19 pars old. Celholle Colversity for Irelead. lontlem, Moreh 18 -Al a mating (4 the erventivis 'committee of the Liberal Hnionias held rotundity, the Doke or Deenethirs ftimonnamt thaa tb• prathith tiovernwerditt Vrrraitil MN WWI* a Leilselle university in Ireland. es• *OMEN, SYGYCG. .011. Canadian Order of 'Foresters RATES 111011350. PER NONT1 according to age ;la iilliatUtinsured. *500. II 1 000, 1800 OR 82000. Membership pesr 30000 Simples Rtsene Nor. '08, $614,149,85 Full information furnished to la quires* by any of the Officers or Mew beet of the Order, or addrem R. ELLIOTT, TROS. WHITE, IL C. 9.., Ingersoll. High Sec y, lintotionl ERNST 6ARTUN6, SO., Oranges* LOCKROY, THE UNREADY. French Inhellseir or Meta • Startling Ctettfeemlise Its th• Chamber of Dep•ties on rrtem. Manitd_IL,ALathee Chamber at POPokko 7c000rday, during the debate OD Mt naval estimates, M. Lockroy, Mint" twat Marine, skached the Government and gave a curious insight Mb unpreparaineas a the navy during the recent Anglo-French mina. The Minister a Maurine revealed a, aninbeit. al- siesgbiti t�11relatina tits condition of the French arsenals at the eritied juncture in the relations betwe Oen Franoe and nest Britain *Toe months ago. He quoted from the much -talked -of letter written by General de Hordes lad year, decletring that "not gar of our naval beans is able to fulfill 15.. functions for which It was establithed, or capable of making • &deice to save the honor 01Freneh ArDitS." "To -day, however." the Minister de- clared, ''our mast defences are so much bnproved that we con 'meek of the con- dieions of nine months ago as 01 15.. distant pen The difficulty at that time was an &Immo' absolnte lack a men. At our principal only one-third of the batteries oo be Manned on the first day of the mobiliaation, and tome of the shell' had no fumes." Will Not Suppress the Trail'. M. Lockroy deriered that he would never hold bock the truth from the Chamber. "Them helm," he continued, "have been obtained alter painful in- quiries, but there are mem behind the guns everywhere now." Fnutoe, he went on 11111 Inlinirt, mum prepare for the future aMMIltilithe pres- ent, and all her financialleileurces should be monomically employed to this end. Ile spoke in high terms of the pernmen a the French navy, pralaing the mune end loyalty of the men and advocating the German eyetern of forbidding all for- edgners on warships. M. Louis Jourdan, Republieur tnembr for Florae, followed with an excited pro- tein to the effea that somebody ought le be made restponsdble for a "state of things which brought the country within • hah's breadth a a conflict," Th• Rnheria•in. Moat M. Lockrey spoke with the greatest satiatartion regarding the experiments that have proved the submarine teat Guatave Zede capable of real servers. Ile mid the boat's new apparel= enabled It to perceive enemies, and to strike teas with accurate aim, -thus," declared the Minister, "Frame 5740'.'I.0 a new de - @ Worths engine of terrible power." Ought Net to Ile ravish. "Bello, pard!" es:claimed the plumtea "Cold, ain't it?" "Sir?" said the physician "Come, doe," rejoined the plumb& 'Don't let's feel the proud to speak I& each other. I notice thee you and I ste W raps busiest at tee same time, and While you're at work up "Lairs I'm roe ally precticla in the basement."-Chicage Tribune A getable Arblevosisret. "I know." said the picturesque cos greemeit, " t hat my whiskers are peculiar. 1108 10 nay grotesque." "Then -why do yon wear them?" "I'n) proud of theta. They are a am (tent reminder that 1 at last succeeded la anhoidinating their importance to 811.1 01 the remarks which 1 mossiorsally see 111 8. waft through theen."-Waabington 131.1. MI. Onswertualty. '"Rlde your wheel when the mercury is away down below serer What an incur able crank you met" "I don't doll because I enjoy ik I rlde then because it's the only time when there Ian 't somebody standing on the street eor nem bo y.0'leer as ma "-Chioago Trib- es& They Reach • Tile Kidneys. Mr. Conrad Bayer's opinion DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS. No one ..an beeleesithy with the kidneys 111 a dimmed or disordered date. Thr politeness', e7ein Aeld whieh it Is their deity to Alter ont nf the blood, is ferried Into the system and prodnees fthenms- nem Ileadsehem, Ftwkimehes and has.. drede of 11. and ailmente. Any one .80 ,5... the slighted enspiern that the kidneys are not acting right should take Invan's Kidney Pills. are the meet effeetive kkiney renee17 known, Mr. Corned Beyer, at 11. Snyder'. Shoe Store, Berlin, Ont., boot thit mit when he says: "Anyone sreffertng with kidney troubles eannot do better than take Doe/ea Kid- • Pilla for they envied my rife whit has been afilletod with pain in the book and other kidney trembles far • Wag tIm.. nay have helped a ('564.1 111* el ere assmet•Inswies he Ibis tew eatt Mani sey they erre the medhrlws- ebeL ribanli the Warp with the best effeste."