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The Exeter Advocate, 1890-4-3, Page 6WHY MD iiU LEAVE ? ' � ETHE MBE ()F GERMANY, [ MU1 This is the Question Woodstock Asks herr lace and About ('�klhall. WRITS ISSUED AGAINST RIM ills Prevarications—He Lias au ditas— Hlurrav TbinNS There May be Other Viotiwus—airs. Birehell. A Woodstock deepateh says : There is aaothing new in reference to Birehell today, tint cariosity and speculation over the mysterious disappearance of Tarlatan, the goung Englishman, who disappeared on February 10th, and hie probable connec- tion with Birehell appears to be in- •oreasing. A young lady, a member of a well.known gamily, living a few mike from here, who is well acquainted with Pioktheh, stated to•day that on the morning of February 12th she was in Woodetook, and while standing in front of .John White & Co's. e3ry goods store sometime, she eaw Pick - than drive up Finkle street in his own buggy. He turned down Dundee street east. His manner suggested to her mind the idea that he did not wish to be observed. She is POSITIVE AS TO THE DATE, -that being the only day of the week she was in town. This is the day on whioh Mr. Franoie, editor of the Times, saw Pickthall, the date being fixed clearly and beyond ,doubt by various fade whioh he bas al. ready mentioned. Now, on the Metro. peahen Hotel register, New York, on the 11th of February, the name " H. A. Jaok- aon, New York," appears, but he was not assigned to a room. On the 13th, however, the register shows a poorly written sigma - tare "H. Jackson, Buffalo," who was given room 265. The books show that he settled his bill on February 14th, but he :evidently changed his mind as to his move- ments and remained on till February 17th. Here, then, are some curious dates and facts : Pickthall left Woodstock on the 5 20 train, Monday afternoon, February 10th. He was seen by Mr. W. H. Van- ingen, collector of customs of Woodetook, eat the Bridge that evening. He stated that he was going to New York to meet :one of his sisters who was coming out to live with him. THIS WAS UNTRUE, as was probably another statement that be was then looking for a young man from Woodetook. The next day, February llth, he registers in New Yorkae H. A. Jackson. The next day (Wednesday, the 12tb) he is seen in Woodstock by two persona who know him well, one of whom spoke to him, and both of whom have no doubt whatever about the date. The next day, the 13th, are ngain appears to register in New York as H. Jackson, Buffalo. On the 14th, the day on which the Birohell-Benwell party arrived, he settles hie bill at the hotel, but remained there until the 17th. the day when Birehell and Benwell are seen at Eastwood. After the 17th Febrn. ary Piokthall's whereabouts was a mystery -until the 28th, when a telegram reached here from him from Tuoeon, Arizona. Following this a letter arrived on March 2nd. In these he declares that he had lost his money and was in need of finds, but does not clear np the mystery of his de- parture. His 'friends, who have the tele- gram and letters, declare that there is nothing in them to throw any light upon the mystery, and that they know of no other facie that will. HE IS IN ARIZONA. Nothing more is heard of him until on March 14th, a New York World reporter interviews him at Tucson. The interview ie clearly genuine, but the same cannot be said of Pickthell'e alleged reason for leav- ing Woodstock. He declares ' that he arrived in New York on the 11th and left for California on the 14th. It is now six weeks since he disappeared, during one month of whioh bis name has been con- stantly connected with the BircheIl- BenwelI mystery, which he moat know all about by letter and from the newspapers. Still he has not returned, nor offered any reason for going away. If he is in Tucson, is sane and innocent of crime, why does he not return and let the world know it 2 The more the mystery is looked into the stranger it seem. A RAY OF LIGET. The business agenciee of Toronto re. calved word yesterday that write had been issued by two Woodstock firma against Mr. Neville T. Piokthall. When Mr. Pickthall ghat left Woodstock the reason given was business embarrassments, and that he did not wish personal service. It appears now that there must have been some truth in this statement. The firms that have issued writs against him are Meagre. White & Co. and Mr. T. H. Parker. A PICETHALL CONVEYANCE. On Friday afternoon an instrument was registered at the registry office here by whioh Piokthall deeds all his property to his wife. The doonment reads as follows : United States of America, territory of Ari- zona, County of Prina, to wit : William Fraser Overton, of the city of Tucson, in the County of ?'rine, and Territory of Arizona, one of the Ter- ritories of the United States of America, express agent, make oath and say : (1) That I was per- sonally present and did eeo the within instru- ment and duplicate thereof duly signed, sealed and executed by Neville Hunter Pickthall, one of the parties thereto ; (2) That the said instru- ment and duplicate wore executed at Tucson aforesaid ; (3) ThatI know the said party ; (4) That I am a subscribing witness to the said instrument and duplicate. (Signed) War. F. OVERTON. Sworn before me at the city of Tucson, in the County of Prins, in the Territory of Arizona, this 12th day of March, in the year of our Lord 1850. (Signed) Taos, H. HORTON, Notary Public, Trina county, Arizona. NOT A WORD 03 EXPLANATION. Mr. Finkle, solicitor for the estate, on be- half of Mrs. Pickthall and others interested here, forwarded papers through the express office with instructions to the express agent M Tnoaon to have them signed by Pickthall. and returned. These are the papers that are now here. They transfer the land and property to his wife, who will now be in' a position to dispose of the Dame and to meet Whatever liabilities he has. Mr. Finkle states that no letter accompanied the papers—not a word to explain the cause of Piokthall'e disappearance, hie reasons for staying away, or his intentions for the future. All these are as great a mystery to all hie friends here as to the public. Mrs. Pickthall may have received a letter from him at Port Rowan since last heard from. She le expooted in town in a day or two in connection with the business of the estate. "Alonzo is the true metal after all, mother." " I'm glad of that, my dear, for no many men are counterfeits nowadays, yon know," "I had my doubts there, too, 00 I Bounded hint, and he gave forth the genuine diamond ring.'' At a recent Wagner concert at the Metropolitan Opera Honee—" Are yon not carried away by Wagner's mask?" she Inked, de ho reached for hie hat prepare - leery to an interview with a clove. " Wall --ter no, not exactly l I situ. driven sit+Inity." Wmdt�orsE s Party for Peace the c: of erar's Reforms, TRE K,AISEII CARRIES THE FLAG, Sootal Reform the Paramount Question -- Sorry the U. 1. and Russia Were Not N epresented at the Labor .Conterence.— Vienneee Sentiment. ABerlin special says: The new Reichstag will contain three great politioel groups, two in deadly oppoeition to each other, the third holdiuga sort of middle position between them. The first two parties are the remnant of the Cartel group, shrunk during the recent elections from 214 votes to 137, and the left, or opposition, grown recently from a band of 55 to one of 127 The third party is the centre or clerical Roman Catholic party. It includes ten delegates from Aleaoe-Lor- raine and sixteen Poles. It has certain definite aims to which it has always re• mained true. It believes in religious in- struction in schools and the entire freedom of the Roman Catholic Church in Ger- many. It preserves its political inde- pendence and either opposes the Govern- ment or supporta it as it deems beet. Its mouthpiece is Ludwig VonWindthoret, ex- Minister of the old kingdom of Hanover, the only man who ever held his own with Prince eeiemarck an the Reichstag floor. He is a contemporary of the Prince. for Herr Von Windthoret was born Jan - nary 17th, 1812. He is a small slight man with wrinkled face from whioh shine forth two eyes, brimful of intelli- gence, kindliness, courage and humor. In the Reichstag his party holds the''balenoe of power. With Bismarck away, Wind• thoret is the beat parliamentarian and the best debater on the floor. In an interview yesterday, Herr Windthoret said : Oar great objeot at the elections was the defeat of the Cartel party. To achieve that we strained every nerve. Nothing was neglected. We remained victors and the Cartel party has ceaeed to exist. The individual parties composing it and other parties are entirely independent, and in the new Reichstag new groups meat be formed. No perman- ent coalitions will be made by the Centre party, only certain combinations from time to time as necessity may arise. The Centre stands in the middle between all parties, and will accept the support of any other party which, when certain contin- gencies arise, it may deem beat able to support it. There is no question of a systematic opposition to the Government on our part. The Centre would mnoh prefer to further the affairs of Germany by a mutual good understanding with the Government without of course conceding a single one of their principles. We will especially support with the entire strength of our party the policy of social reform inaugurated by the Kaiser. With good will on both sides affairs will go on with peifeot smoothness. Most important is that all without regard to party stand- peint, should rally to the support of society and the Government and protect them against every attack. The new Reichstag will support the Peace policy of the Government to the best of its ability. Germany's interests are those of peace, and can be furthered by peace and by peace alone. The new Reiohstag will be able to protect the independence and security of the country from all attaoks whatsoever from whatever side they may come. The idea of social reform will develop more and more. I am sorry Russia and America did not take part in the Labor Conference. Every State where there is not slavery, but free labor, is interested in the result of this conference. I and my friends were delighted at the Kaiser's having taken the initiative now, as the Pope had before. In this matter the Pope and the Kaiser are as one. The agitation that leads to Socialism and Nihilism exists also where slavery exists, as in the East, only there it is not on the sur- face. Of a million votes cast for the Socialist candidates here I do not believe more than 10, or at least 15, per Dent. Dame from genuine social democrats. The larger portion were cast by workmen, who think that the success of Socialism would benefit their condition, and who form the dissatisfied elements. 1 hope and pray for the success of the labor oonferenoe. It is impossible for one nation alone to do much to improve the condition of the workingmen. If I had been Presidentof the United States I ehonld have sent one of, the ablest men in the country over to wateh and report about the success of the conference. Social re. form is the most important question at the end of this century, as the question of civil rights was of the last century. rt ie no time for anyone to pull his nightcap over his eyes. The Kaiser carries the flag : we march behind him. We are in earnest. Count Kalnoky, the Imperial Prime Minister, has suggested that a oonferenoe be held between the Emperor William, Emperor Francis Joseph and King Hum- bert, as the only meane of allaying anxiety prevailing in Austria and Italy in regard to the situation arising from Prince Bis• merck's resignation. It is hoped Emperor William will agree to attend each a confer- ence, and that he will bring with him Gen. Von Caprivi, the new Chancellor. Connt Kalnoky and Signor Orispi, the Italian Prime Minister would also be present at the oonferenoe in ease Chancellor Von Caprivi attended. The Austrian Govern. ment considers that Emperor William's declination to attend snob a conference would canoe trouble and nneaeiness throughout Europe, especially would this be the ease in the Balkan States, in regard to which it is reported that the Govern- ments of Russia and Germany are tending to agreement at the expense of Bulgaria. five Men in a Burning Mine. A special from Harley, Wis., eaya : A bigfire is rain in the Germania mine and fie men havebeenburned to death. It was about midnight when the fire was discovered an No. 2 shaft at the third level. The alarm was quickly given to the men at work in the mine. In spite of their efforts to escape, five of the men at work between the fifth and sixth levels in the same shaft were.out Off. The fire burned fiercely, and anon found its way to the surface and destroyed the shaft hoose and threatened the engine and boiler house. The entire timbering of the 'shaft and the rooms in that part of the mine will be destroyed. Waller Dame to the surface once and re- turned to look for his companions, and. there is no doubt he was suffocated and fell down the shaft. The bodice of Thomas and his eon were found shortly before noon. The loss so far will reeoh $100,000. " Did ou tie the •list examination ?" y � s eMd 'a Senator to a rather stupid son. "Well, er---bo ; I didn't fart elictly pave it. 1 laid down my band, AO it were." ;BALFOIIR'9 LAND BILL, Partioularg of the "' ¥uoh-Talked-of Measure Stated and Explained. PARNELL OBJECTS TO IT. A London cable of yesterday says ; In the House of Commons to -night Mr. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, introduced a Bill for the purohaee of land in Ireland and for the improvement of the poorer and more congested dietriets. The Bill also provides for the establiehment of an Irish land department. Mr. Balfour teid he believed every party agreed as to the necessity for increasing the number of occupying owners in Ireland. There were now five bodies for the valuation and sale of land. The Bill proposed to coned i - dote these into one body. Regarding the question, " Ought the Land Pursues° Bill , be compulsory ? " the Government answered : No, compulsion should be used most sparingly—(ironical Iriah cheers)— bat when justified by necessity it should be applied. (Ministerial cheers) The Gov• ernment saw no possibility of proposing at one go such an enormous' treneaotion es the compulsory transfer of the whole land of Ireland from the existing owners to the existing oaoupiera. (Hear, hear.) Ought they to throw any risk upon the British taxpayers, . The Government again answered no. Such a course was practically impossible. Still British credit, under perfectly secure conditions, must be need. (Parnellite laughter,) In dealing with advances to tenants to enable them to purchase, the Government bad decided against advancing more than a twenty years' rental, meaning the ref tVfFom whioh had been deducted the loos Tates, whioh are now paid by the landlord, but whioh, after the purchase, mast be paid by the tenant. Mr. Balfour instanced a holding, the gross rent of whioh is £107, and the net rent £100 yearly, upon whioh one year is due. The bill, he said, encouraged the tenant and landlord to bargain as to the price of the holding, and if they failed to agree, refer the question of the price to the Land Department. When the bargain is struck the department may issue a vesting order making the tenant the owner of the holding, all arrears of rent to the landlord being wiped out and the tenant pat in possession free of obligation, except the payment of . 4 per cent yearly upon the money advanced. But during the first five years the hill required the tenant to pay 80 per cent. of the net annual rent. In the ease sup. posed this would amount to £80, of which the Government proposed to return £12 as the tenants' insurance fund, to meet sea- sons of special distress. The bill contained the provisions of the Ashbourne Act improved, and in addition required security for the purohases. They might take as security local or general taxation, or the fund contributed to Ireland from the Imperial exohequer. He proposed to take as security the contributions of the British exchequer to local Irish purposes, and to make the local county authorities responsi- ble for default. The bill would thus establish a guarantee fund, the capitalized value of which at 4 per cent. would be £33,000,000. Mr. Balfour showed there wee no danger of the guarantee fund being affected, except in the unlikely event of a calamitous famine. He next explained that it was designed to use one•fourth per cent. from the tenant's annual 4 per cent. as a local fend for the erection of laborers' dwellings. The :tenants' 4 per cent. extended over 49 years. Where a congested area covered 25 per cent. •f. an county it would be oonsen, -. a separate county for the purposes of the Act. A board, consisting of the Chief Secretary for Ireland, a delegate from the Land De- partment, and a delegate from the Fishery Board, who would be the official members, and five others would be selected to con• trol the congested districts. A grant of a million and a half from the Irish Church surplus would be devoted to relieving con. gestion, assisting the development of the fisheries, and otherwise, fostering indus- tries and ameliorating the oondition of the poorest districts. Mr. Balfour defended the scheme as without conceivable risk. The Act would establish a perpetual fund, from whioh future purchases by tenants might leo made. Mr. Gladstone said the scheme was cer- tainly very complicated, and thanks were due to Mr. Balfour for the obvious pains he had taken in its preparation. It was premature to discuss the involved pro - pose's of the bill, which `required close scrutiny. The bill passed its first reading. IT DOES NOT SUIT PARNELL. The Dublin Freeman's Journal prints the report of an interview with Mr. Parnell on the subject of the Land Purchase bill. He said the bill was absurd and objectionable. The liability whioh the English taxpayer will not incur it is coolly proposed to trans- fer to the Irish ceespayer ; that the object of the Government is to inflate the valve of Irish land to an inordinate extent. A fatal defeat of the measure is that it proposes tto give no local control over its administration. The Standard eeyo that not only is the measure thorough, but it is singularly in• genions. It thinks that although 30 years ie fixed as the maximum time for purchase, 17 years is likely to be the average. It attaches mnoh importance to the proposal dealing with arrears, and while admitting points that may be advantageously modi. fled, it says that in general scope and bear- ing the measure may be trusted to stand the brunt even of malevolent criticism. The Daily News says : A more elaborate and complicated measure than the Land Purchase Bill baa seldom, if ever, been in- troduced in Parliament. One thing Mends out clearly from the tangled labyrinth—that British credit may be pledged to the extent of £33,000,000 for the benefit nominally of the Isiah tenant, but really for the benefit of the landlord. The fiagrent inegnality of a echenie nominally applicable to the whole country, but really limited by the arbi- trary will of the landlords, must result in chaos and disorder. Mr. Balfour stated that if the landlords disliked the proposed Irish stook at 2a per cent. they could have consols instead. Everything is done to please the landlords, bat if the Govern- ment is obliged -to'advance and 'therefore to borrow £33,000,000 it will be obliged to give more than 2e per cent., end will, in. the judgment ofcompetent authority, lower the pride of consols.;: Tho Chronicle says : The scheme is nom - P ..reheneive and ingenious, and if the Oppo. sition approach the question in the spirit of Gladstone's remarks with the .view of bettering Ireland nether than of damaging the Government, we may get a scheme that will go far toward solving the Irish problem. Mr. Balfour's Parchese Bill provides that the landlords are to receive the Gov. ernment stock at 21 per cent. interest, ay - able in not less than thirty years, and to be exchangeable for consols wherever pre, farted Mr. Gladstone expressed pleased enrprise on hearing the possibility of there being £1,500,000 left of the Irish Chnroh surplus. He said that when be was last oditoielly informed on thesubject he learned that the money had been exhausted. After the presentation of the Land Pur. chase Sill by Mr. Balfour, Mr, Gladstone made a epeeele at a dinner at the National Liberal Club. He spoke of the bill as a bold measure, whioh involved the Britieh taxpayers assuming a large peopniary liability, and wbich therefore demanded eearohing consideration. Referring to the Parnell Commission he said : The Gov- ernment, in allowing a Commiseion of Judges to decide a question of had restored to them a power bestowedlibel exclu- sively on Sweat by an unreformed Parlia- ment. The Commission was crippled and oree•sided as it did not 'condemn the Times. The Tory majority had invented political methods whioh were as new-fangled as they were abominable. The St. James' Gazette defends the Bill. The chief merit of the measure, it says, lies in its elaborate system of checks and counter cheeks, by means of, which pur- chasing tenants are prevented from be. coming a burden upon the Imperial Exchequer. Mr. Devitt is pronounced against the Land Purchase Bill, es an inaidions pro- posal to give the landlord more than the value of his land. Mr. Sexton says the bill is less favorable to the tenant than the Ashbourne Aot. ANOTHER DISASTER. The Walls of a Burned Building Collapse With Terrible Results. An Indianapolis despatch says : Part of the Bowen Merrill Company's building which projected from the iron front fell at 1 o'clock this afternoon, burying "a number of men in the mine. It is believed that from fifteen to twentyflve persona were killed or injured. Great excitement pre- vails. Thousands of people surround the scene of the disaster. The reports of eye- witnesses are conflicting as to the number supposed to be in the wreck. It is proba- ble most of those near the falling wall escaped when the roofs fell. Captain Campbell, of the Metropolitan polioe, and Officers Manning and Leffler were standing on the main floor, about forty-five feet from the front. Almost directly beneath the projecting root were Peter Albin and Wm. Meadows, carpenters, who were bracing up the iron front. Tbe officere es- caped injury, but Albin and Meadows were buried beneath the timbers. Both were extricated in a few minutes. Meadows was struck in the back with a piece of heavy timber, and may he injured" inter- nally. Albin escaped with a few bruises, but is prostrated from fright. It is im- possible to clear away the wreck at this time, as the iron front is cracking badly, and may topple over any moment. The fire department is working heroically. Im• medially after the fall of the roof the east. ern part of the building, occupied by Bicknell's five and ten oent store fell in with a crash. It is stated, bat not authenticated, that all the onetomers and clerka esoaped. Forty-five men working under the supervision of Commissioner de Reyter narrowly escaped. It is now known only two men were injured, and they bat slightly. Several bad narrow escapee. Bicknell's loes is $10,000. HIS CARGO EXPLODED. A Carter Blown to Pieces by a Nito Glycerine Explosion. A Decatur, Ind., despatch of Satur- day says : This afternoon, near Stone, a small station south of this city on the Grand Rapids & Indiana -Bailmed, a man named Barr, together with his team and waggon, was blown to atoms by the explosion of a large quantity of nitro. glycerine. He was on his way to a gas well in that vicinity which was to have been shot with she explosive. The explosion also dug np a circle of ground sixty yards in diameter, tore windows from a house, and besides making other general havoc killed a woman and her little babe, who were the only inmates of the house at the time. No traces of either the man or horses are to be found, excepting small pieces of flesh hang- ing upon the trees remote from the spot where the explosion occurred. Hundreds of persons are flodking to witness the fearful destruction. This is the second accident which has occurred in thio State growing out of hauling nitro-glycerine overland, the first having been near Boonsboro' about two years ago, when two men and horses were blown to pieces. DECAPITATED HIS MOTHER. An 11 -year-old Lad" in Jail Charged with Matricide. A. Somerville, Tenn., deepetoh says : Mrs. Saltie Hobson, cclored, was a servant in the family of the Episcopal minister, and lived with her four children in a small home in the rear of the parsonage This morning her husband, who had been in the country at work, celled at the house with another negro, and after a short stay started out for a walk. Returning half an hoar later he found on one side of the door the decapitated remains of his wife, and several feet away the head. A stick of wood on which her neck hed been planed when the nutting was done, showed three distinct ante of the axe. The woman's 11.year-old son was playing with the other children. His clothing was saturated with blood. He at first claimed the blood cams from a chicken which he killed, but at the inquest admitted he had committed the crime. He said his mother laid her bead on the bloc+•, and told him if he did not oat her head off she would kill him. The boy's story is not believed, and be was placed in jail. A Rather Too Enterprising Reporter. A Saturday's New York despatch says : A sensation was ousted at midnight by the report that a reporter had been found in the room with the jury in the Flack con- spiracy ossa. He was Dilworth Choate, of the New York World, and admitted that he bad concealed himself behind the onrtain in the room. Tbe defence demanded that he, be punished. Judge Barrett said the law did not provide a punishment. Choate was compelled to give np his notes, and Judge Barrett, after expressing hie abomination of the act, asked Choate to say Chet he would not pablieh what he had heard. Choate declined' to make the promiee and asked counsel. The judge said he needed no counsel.' He was allowed to go and the jury was sent back to deliberate. No Room for Economy. Jones Brown is rich and stingy. An acquaintance of his met Brown's ton the other day and eyed : "Your father seems to have lost a good deal of money lately. The last time I sew him he was complaining. and saying ho meat 'economize. "Economize? Did he 'say where he was going to begin ? " " Yes on his table, he said." " Then be rated be going to take away the tsbleoloth," was the filial declara- tion. Both sorry. Minister (to convict) -My good man, I'm voysorry to find you here in prison. onedot 1111—,Yes sir ; but yort ain't half 00 sorry u I am. IN HARD LINK, A, '.,t,'orontoniau Becomes a Victim of the U. i9. Pauper Immigrant Law. A special from New York details it eevere hardship forced upon en aged resident of Toronto by the United States emigrant authorities at Castle Garden • It says : There arrived yesterday from Queenstown on the Germanio, Henry Beoket, a benevo- lent looking gentleman, whose age is in the neighborhood of 6Q. He had with him a charming English girl, aged 17, whom he says is hie wife. Be was stopped became he had no visible means of eupport. He says that he came originally from Ireland to this country twenty years ago, and after four years' rooming settled down in Toronto, where for sixteen years he has supported himself as a market gardener in the suburbs. Last fall, feeling he was getting old, he decided to take a trip for pleasure to the Old Country to get a look at Erin again before he died. Ho started and reached Dublin in safety. While there be visited an old friend, a email farmer, near Belfast, named John Hewitt, and here met the girl, who was stopping with them. Old as he was he was greatly taken with her, and so eager was she to see America that when he offered to take her over if she would marry she immediately consented. They were married in Armagh by a Methodist clergyman, and after a brief honeymoon start- ed for home. Getting married had swamped hie finances, so he determined to dome to New York, where some friends were, and from them procure means of getting back to Toronto.. He and his bride reached Hero to -day. Ho had 75 coots in money left, and between them a tin trunk containing one change of cloth- ing. The girl wears a wealth of light brown hair woundinto a diadem on a shapely head. Her jacket was cheap and her gown of blank still cheaper, but she was neat, clean and wholesome, and she declared she loved. her " dear old man dearly." Her shoes were brogans and her hat was a 15•cent black chip, with an impossible yellow crown impaled upon it. Becket eaya his property in Toronto con sista of three agree of valuable land, improved by a farm house, and offered to expend hie last 75 cents in telegraphing to Toronto for identification, but the officers would not take hie word, so unless some of bis Canadian friends will come forward and endorse him—for his relatives here have removed to parts unknown—the pair will be returned to England as paupers. The young wife is terribly disappointed at not being allowed to land, and Becket is in despair, as all his money is gone and be will be landed a pauper in England. He is anxiousto get to Toronto, as he says his property will be going to ruin if he stays away. OUR COIt1:MERCIAL WAR. The Interstate Commerce Committee Gun. Ming for Canadian Railroads. A Washington despatch of Monday night says : The Canadian Pacific Railroad Company have had an attorney here dnring the session of Congress thus far, whose business it is not only to present arguments before the Interstate Commerce Committee of the Senate in opposition to any measure whioh might be hostile to the Canadian Pacific road, but to keep himself informed as to the proepeats,of action by that com. mittee. It is his opinion, as the result of careful inquiry, that there will be an im- mediate report from that committee, and that the report will not be as severe as it was at one time expected that it would be. Snob, however, is not the opinion of those who are in a position to be well informed upon the subject. A draft of the report has already been completed. It will be submitted for the consideration of the whole committee within a few days. It is a report whioh will greatly surprise the Canadian Pacific people if they are relying upon any aesurances from any quarter that it will be a mild affair. It will be very severe with respect to the Canadian Pacific railroad, and will recom- mend such legislation as will bring that corporation directly ander the provisions of the Inter -state Commerce Act. Some of the lawyers of the Senate are of opinion that the bond given to the steam- ship line from San Feanoisco to Port Moody, by means of whioh the Oanadian Pacific is enabled to act es a bonded com- mon carrier within the United States and to enter into competition with the United States transcontinental and other rail- roads, is not legal ; that even if it is legal, it is inexpedient; and that it is well within the power of the Secretary of the Treasury to revoke it as an Executive sot if he is so disposed. It is said, however, that the Canadian Pacific need not fear any such action on the part of the Secretary of the Treasury at present, as that official is not disposed to interfere with the bond granted by his predecessor now that the subject is about to be dealt with by Congress. Not Allowed to Immolate Herself. A San h rencieno deepatoh says : Dr. J. M. Whitney, of Honolulu, who arrived here yesterday, states that Sister Rose Gertrude, the English girl who was anxious to nurse lepers at Molokai, will not become an exile in the leper settlement and perhaps die there as she anticipated. The settlement of Molokai is in charge of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart, who are maintained there by the Hawaiian Government, and as Sister Bose Gertrude belongs to another Order, the Dominican Sisters, she could not be admitted. She is therefore at Kalili, the receiving station for lepers or those who are supposed to have contraoted the disease. There they oared for until it can be determined what their ailment really is. Dr. Whitney states that she is very oomforteble at Kalili, and not isolated, though she is disappointed in her expectations. The Serpent's Sting. Irene (old time rival)—Maud, deer, that's a beautiful ring on your finger. May I ask how much it Dost ? Mand (malioiouely)—I didn't ask Harry how mnch it coat. Irene, love. Irene (sweetly)—I always had a curios. ity to know. When I was wearing it ;myself, you know, I couldn't very well ask him. secret of Happiness. Yanetey—I enppose that married life is really more happy than the life of a bachelor. Wickwire—Yee ; I gnus it is. Still, there's room for improvement. I believe it would be more of a success if she would pay more attention to what I say and not quite so mnch to what I do. patterned silks displayed The large p Played in shop windows are made up for °loots and worn for the carriage, the opera or theatre patty. All the street wraps and rosily of the basgnes are double-breasted. In the mili- tary jackets braidedfroga take the plane of buttons. General Francis H, Smith, who for fifty rthe years was Superintendent ent d o f Virginia Military Inetitate at Lexington, Va., died at Richmond, Va., on Friday. imene'tea's"?' NORTaWEST NNW'S,, Attorney.General Martin introduoed'into. the Manitoba Legielatnre today a resold. tion petitioning the Dominion Parliament to enter into negotiations with the United: States Government with a view to establish, it system of unrestricted reciprocity between the two countries. The Manitoba Government will introduce. B resolution in the Legislature to give a melt subsidy to the Hudson Bay liAilway of one minion dollars. The new High School Bill just dia. talented to the Legislature wipes out the Normal Soboole, and pute all High Schools ander the control of the Department of Education. Over $1,000 has been appropriated by the Northwest Courcil to buy strychnine to poison gophers this spring.. The poison will be distributed among the settlers. The Educational Bill establishing a nationel.eohool system passed the third reading on a vote of 25 to 11. Messrs. Rolin, O'Malley, Gillies,Wood and Norgnay voted against it with the French membere. Mr. Norquay voted nay under a mieappre. bension, and will make an explanation to the House, as he favors the principle of the bill. A company is forming at Whitewood for the purpose of erecting a large sugar beet factory, the plant alone to coat $350,000, and they will at once commence operations and building, providing a number of far- mers agree to plant and grow from ten to fifteen sores of beets, The Agricultural Committee of the Legislature decided to recommend a grant of 30,000 for Winnipeg Provincial Exhi- bition. In the Legislature yesterday, the Duluth & Winnipeg Railway Bill passed ite third reading. At the second canons of the Government eupporters last night, it was decided not to give the Hndeon Bay Railway Company mure than $600,000 bonus. Some members do not want to give that much. The Ogilviee are going to double the capacity of their elevator here. The Bill relating to the taxation of church property passed the third reading in the Legislature today. Charoh build- ings and colleges affiliated with the Mani- toba Univereity are alone exempted. The Bill re-enaoting the disallowed Bill legaliz- ing tax sales prior to 1889 also pissed. A human skeleton heti been found at the north end of the Lake of the Woods. The skeletons of seven wolves and a revolver with seven cartridges was also found near by, and it is supposed that the men was attacked by wolves and had fought deeper- ately for his life, killing seven of the animals before the pack overpowered him. McManne, an old explorer, has been absent for some time, and it is thought that it is be who has fallen a victim to the furlong beasts. Mr. Young, agent of the Canadian North west Land Company, who is in charge o the crofter settlement near Killarney, re- ports that the rumors of destitution and suffering among the crofters are enterely without foundation. The bill taxing church property passed the Legislature yesterday. It goes into effeot in 1892. The buildings and the land to the amount of two sores on whioh they are situated will be exempt. The Dennis County Conservative Asso- ciation in Manitoba are petitioning the Dominion Government for a reduotion of duties. ' In the Legislature yesterday the supple- mentary estimates were brought down. Among the items are included 37,000 for a new jail at Portage la Prairie and $8,500 for the Agriculture Department. The total amount of payments to schools, inspection, of, schools, examination of teachers, Normal schools and education offices amounted in 1889 to $89,358, against 384,265 is 1888 and $61,881 in 1887 Particulars have been received of the accident on the Galt Railway on Wednes- day last. As a heavy train was nearing Lethbridge the engines drawing it jumped the track, and were ditched with a num- ber of care. Superintendent Bailey, who was on the train in ,his private car, was seriously injured, and Dan. McNabb severely scalded. All traffio on the road is blocked. Mr. Perley, Calgary, reports twenty-four feet of snow on the mountain at Glacier, three feet having fallen daring his stay at Glaoier House. Mr. Perley made the ascent of Great Glacier on snow shoes,. going np 500 feet on the glacier at an angle of 60 degrees. Three boys, named respectively Gravely, Allen and Cameron, were yesterday lodged in the Provincial Jail for thirty days. They had organized a sort of juvenile desperado gang at Carmen and started to terrorize the good people of the village. They hada stook of small firearms and pocket knives, and were prepared to do any kind of wild end desperate deeds. Two passenger trains on the Canadian Paoifio Railway came within ten feet of colliding during a anowetorm yesterday. The operator gave wrong orders. $12Dr.,000• Soovit, Rat Portage, has sold the Stewart mine to Mr.Charles F. Esohweider,. mining engineer, Milwaukee, for the sum of Wm. Reggel, a young man who has been living in the city during the winter, is missing. He left on the 12th February to go to hie farm at Whitewood, and has not been. heard of since. It is pretty certain the Dominion Lands, office will be removed from here to Ottawa. or abolished altogether next spring.Twenty. two hands are employed. While it has been established beyond doubt that the prisoner at Portage la Prairie • is not McDuff, the old-time terror of western Ontario it is just possible that he may be • Holton'samnrderer. It is thought' that the prisoner may have assumed the name of McDuff. Many people here know the tough McDuff of ten or fifteen years ago, and they all say that he is dead, while young Ferris swears positively that the prisoner • went under the name of McDuff in Essex county, and that he had been with him and been in his company there several times • within the past eighteen years. Detective, Rogers and McKee are still in Portage wait- ing inetrnctions from Attorney•General Mowat. Dr. Aiklen, seed 95, died on Friday in West Goshen, N.Y. He was in the Black Hawk war, and had an evenefal career. Kid moccasins appear in the imported beby baskets for young and fortunate morsels of humanity, Charles H. Mallory, founder and senior partner of the eteamship firm of C. H. Mallory & Co., died of heart failure at his late residence, No. 31 Grace court, Brook- yn, on Friday afternoon at the •age of 76. Mr. De Boer—Miss Emma, perhaps 1 ought not to call daring Lent, for I under. stand you deny yourself all amusement. Ming E.—Yee,1 do, Mr. De Boer. Come as often es you like. Customer—Does the edge of a razor. improve if you lay it away for a while after' boning it ? Barber—Yee, eir. Customer— Well, yon ought to lay that away for 2,000, years, " I see they are talking of running a it Land." „ railroad through the goiy Land. Singlet, tract road, 1 suppose." 4i