The Exeter Advocate, 1890-5-22, Page 3etarmaxam moiety.
re Murderous ASSault with the oblect ot
ramming money,
A Paris oleo of aundita imatt Marie
IGligtion, the eien44nondaine, better known
'under the name of Marlene, whose mesas -
siltation wee attempted on Friday, luta not
recovered coneciousnese up to a late hour
last evening. M. Gordon and his principal
inepeotor, M. Jeume, were busily engaged
yesterdey hunting for ;slues, but they were
unrewarded. They are of opinion fleet the
;murder wail committed by an await d'occa•
sion. The concierge of the how, No. 11
Mae de Provence, where Marital° resided,
did not see her visitor enter. The criminal
appears to have begun his ;sanguinary work
EOM after entering idarielle's apartment,
that hi about half.past a, when the
woman changea her out -door apparel for
ler peignoir. Ile etre& her two heavy
blow with a spiked knuokleauster or
some similar weapon on the head, and,
blinded with the blood that spurted from
the wound, Marlene fell with a groan which
was heard by a woman living on the floor
above. For about an hour silence reigned.
Then this woman again heard Marlene
moaning. She knocked on the floor, and it
is supposed that the murderer then struck
laie victim a third blow which crushed in her
right ti. mple. The assassin remained in the
apartment until daybreak and searched for
the fruits of his crime. As Marielle's
jewellery wee not great in value, he did not
,appropriate it, contenting himself with
lard cash as a less dangerous booty. He
was heard moving about the room at 5 a.m.
lit the occupant of the apartment next
latarielhas. Mariana was only 23 years of
age, very pretty, with naturally golden
lair. She was well known among Parisian
degrafees'and watt an habteue of the Folies
Bergete, afrontag,ue's Renee, Cafe Anteri-
taloa and other resorts frequented by her
class. Her apartment is very coquettishly
1 nrinsited. She lied only occupied the Rue
de Provence apartment for the last few
months, and previously lived in line de
'Chateau d'Ean. She had the reputation or
being at an economical character, having
in a mug a little eum put by for a rainy day.
Newel from Lariboisiere Malaita at a late
lour to -night is that Marie Gagnon con-
tinues in the sae comatose state, whioh
laas thus far defied all that medical edema
can suggest. Although powerless to utter•
a word be poor girl seems to comprehend
all that goes on around her, When drink
is offered her, she Marne on one side for
greater convenience and afterwards wipes
ler lips. Her right eye is horribly turni-
ted, but her left remains uninjarea. Por-
tions of her brain are exposed in three gap.
leg wounds. The dooton hope, even if
*bey minima save her life, at least to restore
consciousness so far as to allow her to tell
'what she alone knows of the terrible drama
in which she has played such a fearful
part.
PATREB'S LOVE.
This Man Billed Himself Bather Than
Testify Against Ms Son.
Pittsfield despatch says: William D.
Bale, of Hinsdale committed suicide this
321orning by taking a large dose of lauaantira
and also a dose of aconite. He was greatly
,depreasea because he WU to testify to-
aay in the case of his son Frederick, who
in charged with murdering his brother
ilirenry a week ago. Mr. Hale drove home
fromPittefield on Saturday after the inquest
on the body of hie son. He was much de.
ipreesed. Hehad learned that he was liable
lobe arrested as an aocassory to the murder.
ills daughter Alice tried to console him, bat
in vain. He drove borne, nine miles, so
rapidly that his horse was made sick and his
daughter went two miles to Hinsdale to get
needicizej for it. She came beak with
chloroform and laudanum. Mr. Hale had
Aconite in the House. He gave the horse
strong doges of the medicine, but it was of
no use, and the horse died. Hale early this
morning told his daughter to be ready to go
Ito Pittsfield to the trial. He got the oar-
aiage out of the barn, bub just before they
were ready to start he complainea of being
Dr. Comins was sent for and discovered
that he was poisoned. He died about 10
teoloels. Medical examiner Paddock, of
Pittsfield, found that the stomach of the
ilead
roan contained chloroform, laudanum
and aconite, that the dose would have killed
two znen. The daughter said that when
her father was iu great pain he mid he had
taken his own life rather tban testify
egainet his own son. larre. Hale is crazed
by the double tragedy, and the daughter
-Alice is prostrated. There is fear that she
wilI cornmit suicide. Tbe neighbors are
caring for her and her mother. Frederick,
veto is now in the Pittsfield jail, is so over -
tome by the news of the death of his father
that he says he is -ready to die.
A Woman'e Pocketbook.
I read in to -day's paper that a pocket-
book had been left here by some one who
had foiled it, and I called to ask about it;
1 have lost mine," said a New York woman
in a newspaper office the other day.
"Yes, ma'am," replied the clerk in at-
tendance. "Will you please desoribo the
aontents of the pocketbook you lost ?"
"Well, now -let me See. 1 think I can
mama everything that V758 in ray purse.
There was a dollar bill, two ten -cent
pieces, one or two nickel% two or three
ooppers, some postage stemma some silk
eamples, a email sample of yellow floes, a
pearl -handled glove buttoner, a little poern
entitled 'Baby's Bath,' a reoipe for sweet
ipickles, a look of baby's hair, a oar tioket,
a Wimple of torchon lace, a memorandum
of things I wanted to get, a row of pins, a
funny little joke ont from a newepsper, a
small bead button, a braes teig, aeveral
addresses, a tiny lead pencil, a Canadian
,dirne with a hole in it, a small rubber
sower, a railroad timemard, an advertise-
ment of a bargain sale of handkerchiefs, a
premed violet in a bit of tissue paper, a
sample of dress braid and five or six other
little things thet I can't -Oh, thank you
yes, that's my pocketbook."
And the pocketbook he handed her was
just 31 inane long by 2a wide, and half an
inoh thick. -Z. D., in Puck.
mushy.,
Hortense (from the corner of the oohs, at
half -past eleven pan., edter a blissful
eilerice of nearly two hours) -Arthur, dear,
does oo love oo itty Topey Wovy as much
as ever?
Arthur (olose by her eide)-Eris, my ittle
Toney Worley. Why does oo ask ?
lifoetense-Cese oe have only tamed me
sixteen times sinew eleven o'clock.
And the surrounding quietnees was imnie-
aistely disturbed by e noise which began like
the chirping of sperrowe and ended like *he
tearing of a yard and a half of cheap calico
on the Mae,
azzl e-Dazze mniaisla
Here is the latest speohnen of razzle-
dazzle English fot boys and girls with
nothing better to do to practice upon :
Six silver sieve e of sifted thistleand a
gine of ungifted thistlee. I am a tinted
thistle sifter and an omitted thistle enter
with a We've of sifted thistles and sieve of
'Red thistles " Exalt
Thom . ange.
--Preserved violets are a dainty dodo -
*lottery, but they are indigeetiblei
RAILWAY .81:113SIDIEO.
List of the Lucky Companies to Receive
Government Aid -The Niagara
Ceu-
trat Subsidy -The '11‘,, E. & B. Left Out in
the imam
An Ottawa despatch sap : Sir John
aleedenead gave notice last night of the fel-
lowing resolutions granting or renewing
railway subsidies: Vaudirenil & Ottawa
Railwey, additional, 690,000; Waterloo
Ontario Junotion Ri1wy, 635,200; for a
railway from Woodstock, Ont.,
to Chat -
hare 6256,000; St. Catharines & Niagera
Rails:aim, 644,800; liorrisburg & Ottawa
Reilway, 6166,400;Erie & Huron Rail-
way, 670,400 ; Brockville & Westport Rail-
way, 683,000; Manitoulin ce North Shore
Bailwaa, 696,000; Port Arthur, Duluth
tt Western, 16,000; Lake Erie &
Detroit River Road, 616,000 ; Lindsay,
Ontario & Bobaitygeon Railway, §51,200;
Kingston & Ottawa Railway, 1152O0;$
Ottawa and Parry Sound Road, $96,000;
Bay of Quint° & Lake Nipirising Railway,
696,000; Cobonrg & Paoifio Railway, $96,i
000; St. Stephen, N.B., and Milltown Rail -
Way, $11,200, and Woodstock, N. B., &
Centreville Railway (re -vote), 619,200;
Frederioton to Westfield Medea, 80 miles,
96,000, and New Brunswick Central Rail-
way, for four miles, 614,400; railway from
Shelburne, N.S., to Annapolis, via Liver-
pool, 6290,000;'Inverness & Richmond
Railway, 50 miles, from Hewkesbury to
Breedlove, 450,000 ($1,000 per mile); Inter-
national Railway CloMpany (additional),
63,840; Montreal & Sorel Railway, 640,000;
tPrai
oentir L&akremaoiafisokiRnoanilgweRaaa, i0124,0y,01
00;010oon;
Great Eastern Railvvey. for bridges near
Nicola, P.Q ,637,500; Drummond County,
676,800; Joliette, P.Q., & St. Felix
Railway, 648,000; Lake Teraiscemingue
Railway, 664,000; Morrie Oxford, Ontario
de Kingsville Railway, 667,200; Mitskin-
onge, P, Q , & Nipiseing Railway, 648,000;
litaililas (lunar Union Railway, 648,000;
Valleyfiela, P. Q., & Huntingdon Ritilwey,
686,000; Quebec Genteel Railway,
6288,000; Lake St, John, P. Q., Railway,
668,400; fer a railway from Sunercierside,
P. E. I., to Riohmona Bay, 69,600;
Stewiecke Valley Railway (renewal),
680,000; railway from Frederieton, N. B.,
towards Prince William, 670,400; St.
John Valley .Railway, from Prince
William towards Wooastook, 670,000;
Kooteray Valley (B. C.) Railway, 6150,000 ;
St. John Valley & Riviere du Loup,
67°.40°;
The ailway subeidies brought down to-
night will be supplemented by a few others
next weak. The disappointed members are
bringing great pressure to beer on the
Government, and some are " kicking " so
vigoionely that the Government will take
to -morrow to consider the situation in
Counoil. The Hudson Bay Railway is
left in the cold so far, arid the Temiecouta
is not incladed, though it is likely the latter
will be.
LST CHANOV.
The Courts .Agree to the 117ost Expeditions
Manner of Settling It.
An Auburn despatch of Saturday night
says : The case of Kenomier came before
County Judge Underwood in Chambers
thin morning on a writ of habeas corpus
granted by Judge Corlett 'at Buffalo. The
writ wee iesued to disposs of the question
is to whether the warden of Auburn prison
can legally execute Kemoaler, Couneellor
Hatch arguing ibat nobody but the sheriff
of Erie county can legally put histlient to
death.
Mr. Coohrane stated that his application
was made, not for delay, but in good faith,
and, because it was firmly be/laved that a
constinithonal provision was infringed;
that in order to come to a final and speedy
decision of this question, with the consent
of the Attorney -General a pro forma order
should be granted now overruling his de.
murrer and remanding the prisoner, and
that an appeal should be taken at once to
the general teeth of the Supreme Court,
where the order now made should, without
argument, be afarmed immediately upon
the meeting of that Court in June, end rati
appeal from that decision taken at once to
the Court of Appeals, where the matter
might be argued and finally anided some
time in June.
The Attorney -General stated that he
would interpose no objection to the steps
proposed tending to expedite matters. It
was then ordered by Judge Underwood, it,
5000rdatte0 with this understanding, that
the demurrer to the return be overruled,
and the prisoner be remanded to the cus-
tody of the warden.
Interesting for Larkin.
Jimmy Jayselith (to caller) -Can you
whistle, Mr. Larkin?
Larkin -Not very well, Jimmy. Why'?.
Well, I think yoa had better learn
how, for pop told mamma hot night you'd
have to whistle for the $100 he owes you."
John Vindicated.
"Our John is the greatest fellow to put
off you ever saw."
" He procrastinates, eh?"
"Oh, dear, no; I don't think John would
do anything so bad as that. He only puts
everything off. That's the worst I ever
heard anybody Fay about him."
Sir William Janus', the Queenei physi-
cian, is about to retire from London and
live on his Hampshire estate, where he
will make a collection of his writings and
perhaps do other important literary work
A hairdresser says "Every girl should
choose a style that suits her face, and then
stiols to it.'
Each member of Congress mite; about
5,000 envelopes full of seeds every yrar, and
the bill Uncle Sam pays for them ar ounts
to about $100 000. 0
" Style is the dress of thoughta said
Chesterfield. He would sten at the deco'.
letee fashion in whittle thought ,goes about
now attys.
Patron -I notice yen ain't afraid to adul-
terate the geode you send over to the Prim
family. Don't they complain sometimes?
Chalkem-You forget, sir, the motto they
have in that household-" To the pure, 01
things are pare."--Americart Omer.
TEE SATIIBLAY VABALII.
Up and down,
Stare and frown,
Poure the King street mob,
Elhopgirl and swell,
Mingled poll-melI-
Walking's an lawful jobt
abetter and Smile,
Flirting the while,
On each other's heels they tread,
,Chafflug and joking.,
Mashing and smoking -
It's enough to turn your head
-13ipatiletEl of flowere will deck the com-
mencement girls' eltoulders.
-The United States pension paymente
for April were 49,200,000 more than for the
same month of 1889. Ithe recent bills
will inmate° the United States pension
tax to between 140 and 150 miniene a year.
New York boding say that a spatial style
of stockings is made Abroad Dee Atnerioan
women. It is email in the foot and full in
the leg. The Mane kind of stocking is made
for the Spanish trade.
GLADSTONIAINTS BNJI)Y IT.
Gosehen's Budget Causes a Somewhat
Lively Debate,
HE HAS SOMETHING TO LEARN.'
A London cable imps ailatirsdayas pro-
ceedings in the House of Colnmene were
isighly interesting and important. For the
moment they have clanged the whole feu
of polities, The Government, having
introduced a clause into its budget appro-
priating the revenue from new taxation to
the formation of a fund for the extinction
of licienees to public houses, it follows that
in some measure they have pledged their
very existenee to the success of the enter-
prise upon which they have embarked.
These clauses in the budget oould not now
aeaivithdrawn without a heavy blow being
i 'dieted upon the Ministry, and cense.
9 ently the debate on the bat which is to
arm the principle of compensation must
ere/ with it att issue not originally von -
t initiated. Should there by any chance be
a4 majority against the bill the budget
w uld have to be reconstructed. The pro.
pe d extra duty on spirits would fail
tlar ugheand the superannuation fund for
the lice would have to be provided in
some o aertway. Coneidering the agitation
which exists in the country on the com-
pensation question it can scarcely be
doubted that it was somewhat rash to
involve the budget in this issue.
As matters stand the Unieeist party
generally will have to support compen-
sation, for the defeat of the Government
would necessarily =melon serious results.
This woeld not have been the ease if the
question had been kept clear of the budget
altogether. The Budget Bill proves to be
fertile in surprises. On the dame im-
mooing increased duty on spirits, Mr. Storey
began to discuss the chief objects to which
the money was to be devoted. He had not
proceeded very far before the chairman
ruled that the purposes of the tax could
not then be debated. This produced vigor-
ous oheers from the Gladstonians. It Was
speedily seen that the chairman's decision
had landed the committee and Government
in a very awkward predicament; for if a
totally new principle of taxation was to be
introduced without the House of Commons
assenting to that principle, a great depar
tare from all sound rules and precedent
would he established.
Sir Vernon Harcourt was enforcing this
point, when the Chairman interfered with
the explanation that he had not forbidden
" allusion to the feat" that the new taxa, -
tion was to be applied in a certain way.
"Upon this modified ruling, Sir Vernon
Harcourt pounced down in a somewbat
venomous way. They did not discuss new
taxes, he said, by alluding to them. It
was somewhat neve to have an allusive
discuseion of the budget. It became
pretty clear by this time that the Ministry
would have to postpone the objectionable
clauses.
Mr. Gladstone drove all the points home
in one of his incisive and masterly little
speeches. Here was a new taxation to be
Unposed for a totally new purpose. Did
the Government mean to say that the
House raust vote the money before it had
time even to eonsider the method of it3 ap.
plication ?
Mr. Gosahen attempted an explanation,
but of neceseity it fell far short of the
requirements of the occasion. The judicious
leader of the House rose and coneented to
postpone the clauses. The Opposition
scored the first victory on the great com-
pensation dispute. This will put new life
into the agitation, and by next Monday the
heather will indeed be on fire.
Recovered Part of the Swag.
The agents of the Paoifio Express Com.
party passed westward on Saturday after
finishing up their business in Montreal in
connection with the robbery of 637,000
from the express company at Dallas, Tex.,
by F. A. Walton. About two months ago
Walton cleared out with the sum men.
Honed and was mattered in New Bruns-
wick. He at once gave up all the money
he had in his possession, but this was only
a small proportion of the total amount
stolen. He had left 615,00010 the care of
a woman of ill -fame in Kansas City.
This has also been' recovered. Some
sherpers who relieved the thief of about
610,000 while he was passing through Mon-
treal are now being proceeded against on a
charge of larceny.
It Burned Down.
"1 say," eaid the city editor to the new
mporter who stood trembling in the
presence, "you have it here that the house
burned down. Do you regard that as good
language ? "
In this ease I do," replied the new man.
"It was a 14 -story building, and the fire
started in the top story."
sarcasm.
First Housekeeper -What is your idea of
the height of sarcasm?
Second Housekeeper -Calling servants
For a reminder of home the Weenie
TIMES fills the bill to perfection and only
outs 41.00 per year.
LOOM BENEATH MEE CAFOL
Beneath a fair exterior
,A rascal often lurks :
IL is true of men and watches:
You may tell them by their works.
MHO milAvEBT MAN
The bravest man is he who wears,
Regardless of remarks and stares,
The
First
Straw
Bat
Crispas wife was snubbed by the Italian
queen once, but after the premier sent her
royal highness word that if it ocourrea,
again he would deolare the republic in
Italy, she was cordially received at court.
An effort will be made this season to
popularize the common sense, broad -soled,
bow heeled, bettele brown shoe. ,
George W. White, a Washington
blaming, while taking a spin a few even-
ings ago was dashed against a telegraph
pole with a force that may kill him; the
machine having slipped and "doubled up."
Tbe marriage contract of Mary Stuart,
Queen of Scotland, with Francis II. is to
be odd by elation thorny in London. It
is a quaint old menusoript of nine folio
pages.
le, S. Senator Beck, recently dead, often
quoted Burne and could, it is said, repeat
booth's "Lady of the Lake" offhand.
The excavations being pursued at Me-
galapolis in the Poloponneens' under the,
direction of the British Schoolof Arches -
elegy, have resulted in some interesting
diseoveriee.
There aro now placed in the museum at
Pompeii the planer caste of the bodies' of
two men and a Woman taken front impree.
BiOrlEi made in a stratum of ashes outside
the fitithian mike.
News hem Mulled Ottawa that the Int.
paid' Government has, or is about to, Ms.
allotv the Canadian Copyright Act oflast
SOSSiOn.
AMA/a rime,
The Vrecautions 1:7-ak-ett by the Ontario
The tereiale6'071rirlirtiren.
atLonguePointe
Asylum, with its impelling loss of life,
naturally tures public) attention to the
institutions for the treatment of the inaane
in thie Province, and prompts inquiry into
the nature of the safeguarde adopted, the
appliances used and precautions taken in
the event of their being overtaken by the
dread catastrophe of fire.
Dr. W. T. O'Reilly, Inspeeior of Peitione
and Publio Oberitiee for Ontario, has given
great allentien to this important eabject.
He isa man of long experimme aea of
proved mbiliby, and any statement he makes
is mire to be Accepted as ehe utteranoe of
one wleo cen speak with authority, In an
interview yesterday afternoon, Br. O'Reilly
freely spelt° of the stens that have and
are bang, taken to nrevent the spread of the
&mei in the event of a fire arming:
By 'way of prelims to Dr. O'Reilly's
statesterat, it may be remarked that the
Government of this Province never refuse
money to be expended in procuring ap-
pliances that experience may suggest as
neceseary to increase the nourity of public
inetantions from fire,
"Toronto Asylum, being in the catty,"
said the Inspector, him all the protection
of tbe city fire brigade and waterworks,
beelike a local fire brigade, composed of
the men of the institution, and all the
tummy hose and everything of that sort,
and hydrants on tee ground. With the
aselums at London, Hamilton and King-
Eatilli the case is elomewhitt different. The
institutions there aro all onteide the oor-
poration limite, or rather cut of reach of
the local fire brigades -that is for iesrae.
diate service. The London Asylum is three
realm from the oity. The Hamilton Asylum
is 01013er than that to the civic) (imam, but
it is on the top of a hill. Kingeton is about
two miles away from the town. But all
of these asylums ere well provided with
hydrants, and also with all sorts of fire
appliances, and we are always adding to
them as we learn about new things and see
their applicability.
" Take the asylum which I have reoently
had cognizance of -the London Asylum.
We have there an abundant supply of
water and a large steam pump. That
pump is there for no other purpose than
fire. We have steam alwaye up, and a
rani always in attendance. There are
plenty of hoses, and they have Imamate on
the grounds and a regularly organized fire
brigade. For example, the engineer has
his gang, and the men know exactly the
spot to go to when a fire alarm sounds.
The carpenter has his gang, ana the gar-
dener has hie, and so with all the heeds of
depertmentei each cornmanding his own
;little posse of men. Then, in addition to
Ibis, the building is well supplied inside
with Baboocks for extinguishing incipient
fires.
"Besides that, I have in contemplation
pow another safeguard in the shape of a
thermostedt. You Bee that one on the wall
of ray cface here. 1 have it there, wader
my clime personal observation, so that I
can front dem to day see how iv works.
My design is to have a thermostadt itt
eery room, sot to give an alarm as soon as
the temperature reaches a certain height.
Then if a bed or any article of farnitrire in
a room takes fire, and the heat is sufaoient
to raise the temperature to a fixed point, an
alarm is given at once. This is a new thing,
and its usefulness is not well demonstrated,
but I am endeavoring to find out whether it
is of praotioal ueo or not.
" Al/ our asylum buildings • are so con-
structed that the stairways are ample for
the maps cf patient in case of fire. Two
taus ago we had e fire in the lavatory aria
Molten of the Asylum at Hamilton. This
was itt the day time, it is true, but all
the patient were out of the building said in
the yard ready to be removed within ten
minutia of the out -break. I was not
present, but that is what I was told by the
Superintendent. I do not think it possible
any loss of life could °our in one of the
Government asylums in the case of fire
'breaking out in any part of the building."
"The new Asylums •cit alimieo and at
Orillia will be fully equipped with all the
Latest developments in the matter of fire
extingnishing apparatus ?"
FAB-oFF STAB.
It Would Take a Cannon -Ball 100,000,000
Years to Hit It.
It is difficult to conceive that the beauti-
ful dog Star is a globe much larger than
our sun, yet it is a fact that Sirius is a
sun many Crass more mighty than our
own. This splendid star, which, even in
our most powerfni telescopes, appears as a
mere point of light, is in reality a globe
emitting 80 NOOrra0118 a quantity of light
and heat, that, were it to take the place of
our Bun, every creature on this earth would
be oonstiraed by its burning rays.
Sirius shining with Inc greater lustre
than any other star, it was natural that
astronomers should. have regarded this as
being theneareat of all the " fixed " stars,
but recent investigation on the distances of
the stars has shown that the nearest to us
is Alpha Clentauri, a star belonging
to the Southern /standee, though it
is probable that Sirius is about
fourth on the list in order of distance.
For though there are about fifteen or twenty
stars whose distances have been conjec-
tured, the astronomer knows that in reality
all of them, save three or four, lie at die.
tames too great to be measured by any
instruments we have at present.
Astronomers agree in fixing the distance
of the nearest star at 22,000,000,000,000
miles, and it is certain that the distance of
Siring is more than three endless than six
times that of Alpha Centauri, most likely
about five times; so that we are probably
not far from the truth if we set the distance
of Sirius at about 100,000,000,000,000 of
/kilos What a vast distance is this whioh
separates us from that bright star; words
and figures of themselves (ail to convey to
our mutat' any adequate idea of its true
character.
To take a common example of illustrating
such enormous distances: It is ululated
that the ball from an Armstrong 100.
pounder quits the gun with the Rued of
about 400 yards per mond. New if this
velthity could be kept up it would require
ito fewer than 100,000,000 years before
the ball could mach Sirita.-Chantbee's
Journal.
Bobbed and Deserted his Wife.
,mrs, Lone Paterson, a Swede, who had
saved up some 4800 while in service in the
United States, met Charles Moller, also a
Swede, at Rochelle, New York. They were
married last month,and though he was a
soldier in the American forces he came to
Toronto a few days ago and mit up with
his wife at the Lucas House, et Teraulay
and Louisa sireets. A aay or two after
their arrival Moller left his wife, taking
with him 6500 of her money and leaving
her penniless. Mee. Moller says that
Moller has got from her altogether °ince
her luckless Marriage nearly 000 of her
twangs,
tgeTntlike catitlativloatworu oilet'st ao6v0o ifcoer seveeorursseoftof,
twenty lessona Voice building is to be
reckoned among the remunerative callings,
A 4EE4DE1JL TATE.
'Ewo Railway Men Hurled to Death by a
Boiler Explosion.
AWFUL hIGLIT AT' BUFFALO.
A laat (Monday) Wealth. Buffalo despatch
flays Imeomotive explosionare not com-
mon, and it is not now remembered that
more than one euah terrible dieaster has
oocurred itt 13riffele during the pest 15 or 20
yeare ; but y miterday.furelehed an event of
ar
that eltactee filet in its terrific effect,
horrifying results and herrowing &tale
has had few parallela.
About 2 o'clock this Afternoon Lehigh
Valley engine No, 261, George Pearl, engi-
neer, and Efenre J. O'Connor, fireman,
started for East Buffalo from the yards of
the Tifft farm with a string of 27 oars,
some of which wore loaded with freight.
The train was moving slowly and had
mimed the Lake Shore tracks at the
Buffalo meek janotion, where the mating
signalman wae jut changing the semaphore.
The engine at that time had reached that
point where the tracks of the Lehigh
Valley and Buffalo, Ttochester & Pittelourg
intersect eaoli other adjacent to those of
the Nickel Plate and the Western New
York de Penneylvania, when it exploded.
A roar was heard like the disoharge of a
battery of lieevy artillery, the earth trem-
bled and shook as though seized with the
tremor of an earthquake, end the air Was
filled with flyieg fragments of iron, steel,
brags and timber, accompanied by a cloud
of raingled steam and dust. The hearts of
people in the vioinity were struck with
terror. Eugine No. 261 had disappeared,
and all that remained of its ponderous
rues of eixty tons of raeolianism were the
six driving wheels, the truck and wheels at
the forward end and the disabled tender at
the rear.
The rails were ripped from the ties and
bent out of shape, the ground was torn up
for some (latent*, and broken telegraph
and electric) light wires dangled from their
posts a tangled mass. It was an awful
scene. Desolation ana ruin had, been
wrought in the twinkling of an eye, and
two precious lives had been sacrificed like
the snuffling of e, candle, for there was no
trace of either engineer or fireman.
What waa apparently it human body was
seen flying through the air at an elevation
of perhaps 100 feet, itna descending was ob-
served to fell on the line of the Lake Shore
Rsilroed at least 1,000 feet to the west of
the place where the explosion maimed.
Another objeot, baleved to be the body of
the other unfortunate man, took a north-
easterly course at a high elevation and
dropped into elle creek about 400 or 500
feet away.
In the Flitch to the west was the shat-
tered 25 ton boiler; oia the other side, 100
feet distant, wee the crown sheet, battered
and twisted out ol shape, and acmes the
adjuent slip the dome and a huge frag-
ment of the boiler lay upon the coal damp.
ing pier of the Buffalo, Rochester Lk Pitts-
burg road, 400 feet, away. In striking it
had crashect into the tirabers and sent
greet eplintera in ell direotions. A switch
shanty elongside the truk was badly
wreaked.
As soon as the train hands and others
had recovered Prom the shock, a search for
the missing engineer and fireman was
begun. The body of Pearl was found in
creek. It wax brought to the surface by a
young man named Daniel Murphy, and
with the Ossietanoe of Patrolman Wheeler,
of the ninth preainct, and Dillon, of the
seventh, who had arrived upon the scene of
the accident, tbe mangled °wpm was
hoisted to the coal dook before mentioned.
Its condition was shocking. Apparently
every bone was broken, the head aria face
were frightfully mutilated, as was also the
trunk, neerly the entire abdomen being
torn away.
O'Conecees body was found between the
gnarled stumps of two trees alongside the
Lake Shore tracks, where it had been aeon
to faii. The head was crushed, the face dis-
figured beyond recognition, and in the left
side was a great gaping hole. The man's
shoes had been wrenched from his feet and
carried no one could say where, and his ger-
meets, like those or Pearl, were reduced to
mere shreds. The legs and arms were
apparently fractured.
The contpanions of the dead man shud-
dered as they looked for a moment upon
his gashed and bleeding corpse, and it was
revereetly covered yank a coat to await the
arrival of a coroner.
-Laos is seen on jacket sleeves.
A lettuce lunch at bedtime helps sleep.
Straw hats are struggling for recognition.
- Pork amps are more assthetio with
tomato catchup.
-Potatoes done on a wire broiler are
said to excel the fried.
-White Macs are beautiful to fling to
the oommeneement girl.
James Nesmith, the celebrated English
meohatical engineer and inventor of the
steam hammer, is dead.
At a Conservative meeting at Brewer's
Mills, near Kingston, on Monday night,
the opinion was expressed that the present
proteotive tariff is ruining the farmers.
Official despatches from Kotonan arty
that the botabeaaing of Whydah has de-
moralized the Dahomiana, and they are
inclined to accept the terms of the French.
The East Larabton Reform Convention
held at Watford yesterday, tendered the
nomination of the riding in the Local
House to Mr. Hugh McKenzie, of War-
wir.Canadian PacifioRailway survey leaves
Winnipeg shortly, eo it is reported, to
lento a line through Crow's Nest Pass,
Rooky Mountains. The party will be absent
all summer.
The teachers in the Manitoba Pablio
Sohools were notified yesterday to discon-
tinue religions exercises, which have
usually been held on the opening of the
schools in the morning.
Hon. Thomas Greenway, Premier of
Manitoba, is in Toronto, and will be at the
Queen's Hotel for some days. Mr. Green-
way came to Toronto on matters connected
with heunigration to Manitoba.
The Legislature of Prince Edward
Island has unanimously pas:Bed a resolu-
tion sympathizing with Newfonedland in
its protest against the modus vivendi with
reference to lobster itsbing between England
and France.
I cablegram, dated Yokohama, was re-
ceived yeeterday by the Mayor of Winni-
peg from the Equerry to the Duke of
Connaught, accepting on bohelf of His
Royal Plighnese the proffered hospitalities
of Manitoba's capital.
Yesterday morning a warrant was issued
in the Quebec Police Coart against a promi.
nent and wealthy citizen of St. Anne de
13eaupre, charged with itidecent behavior
on board. the Montmorency and Charlevoix
Railway care, aria making immoral and in.
deoent propositions to a passenger eh board
the eirtMe train. It is said that this ill the
Ismond time that a warrant has been
issued against tlae (406t15011 for the ulna
bffente.
TILLEIGHAPILIC SUMMARY.
It has been definitely settled that the
Duke of Connaught will visit Ottawe
Juno 5th.
The disagreement between the moulders
of the Kingeton foundry mid the euperin-
tendent late not yet been settled.
It is expected that construction wora oe
the Kingston, Sraithte Faili & (llama lea.
way will coriunence in the autumn.
Henry Baas'formerly a clergyiume of
the Malocoat Chemin won:tatted imiolac
at Kingston yeeteraay hy droweing.
A cook on No. 10 adiehieen Central 'xiti:4
was killed at Welland yesterday by beteg
etruck on the bead by a standpipe.
It is expected that the new Peoteateet
Insane Asylarta at Montreal will be opened
for patients in the course of a few weekei
The British steerner Wingate, from'.
Philadelphia to Copenhagen, has been
given up as lost with her orew of thirty
men. ,
The seventeenth annual session of tao
Grand Lodge of terue Blues opened mama.
day in St. Catharines, with a large attettd..
ance of delegates.
A verdict of "found drowned" wee
returned in the cue of George Moadasteri
the traveller for a Montreal arm, who met
his death in Toronto bay.
The Toronto Hotted of Trade Council bite
expressed syeapathy with Newfoundland,
and endorsee the action of the colony con.
'tuning her coma grievances.
The Emile Pasha expedition to the 'n,.
terior of ;Aarhus is meeting with great diffi,
°plies through the death and desertion et
porters, and the progress is very slow.
The trial of Henry Smith Inc the mardee
of his wife is in progress at London. The
evidence thus Inc ni much the same as that
published in the Teams at the time of the
arrest.
A despatch from Kotonan, Del:trireme
some that during an exchange of prism:ere
nine Dahoiniens commited suicide by
throwing themselves into the waters el'
the harbor. '
The Synod of Toronto and Kingeton
the Presbyterian Church inet in amins.
session at Orillia yesterday. Rev. John,
Abraham, of Whitby, WWI elected Modera-
tor for the coining year.
There are now three candidates in ths
field for the Lincoln bye -election for the
Dominion House, namely, Messrs. J. co
Rykert and A. H. Pettit, Conservative;
and Mr. W. K. Pattison, Reform.
The Bishopric of St. Albans has been
offered to Canon Liddon by Lord Salisbuzy,
but was refused. Canon Liddon is, no
doubt, waiting for the Deanery of St.
Pa,nas whenever that may be vaunt.
The Governor of LOrlid11116, in madras.
ing the State Legislature, denounced the
lottery as a monster evil, and said he wouid
use his best exertions to prevent the corm
pany obtaining a renewal of its charter.
Thermo Pell, an employee of the Stria.
ford mille, went up in the loft to -day *to
shovel a load of bran down the ohnte. .By
some means he got in the chute hienselt
and was mothered. He had been em-
ployed in the mills for a year. His wife le
now in the Toronto Hospital.
Mr. James McGinn, a well-known To-
ronto hotel -keeper, fellin a fainting fit ea
Adelaide street oppoeite the Grand Opera
Howie. He was eareied to his home at the
corner of By and Adelaide streets, when
he expired a short time afterwarda. De-
ceased had been suffering from Briginis
disease for some time.
The Foals planted at Mount Ventral,
Washington, in 1862 by the Prince of
Wales having died, Sir jtaian Pannoefote,
the British Minister, yesterday planted an
oak grown from a British acorn near
Washington's tomb. A number of pro-
mient people witnessed the affair. Sir
Julian made an address eulogizing Wash-
ington.
Morgan Butler, a citizen of the town of
New Hertford, N. Y., yesterday presented
his village with a town hall building, to be
known as the Butler Memorial Hall, con-
taining a post office, justioe's court,
public libraries, gymnasium, and a large
assembly hail, all completely equipped.
The building hi of brick, substantially
constricted, and cost 620,000.
The British warship( Emerald, Pelican
and Forward have sailed for Newfoundland
waters on fishing protection service under
the oonamand of Captain Sir Baldwin
Walker. These ship3 will oomperate with
the French fleet in carrying out the pro-
ViSiOne of the mans vivendi remeritly
negotiated between France and England
and witioh is so obnoxious to Newfound.
hind.
A party of Albanians has attacked and
plundered a provision train on its way
from Trek to Cettinje. A woman, a pas -
ganger on the troll, was killed, and several
othet persons were wounded. The Mon-
tenegrins are greatly excited, and conflicts
are irapendingt although the Porte has
promised to bring the perpetrators of the
outrage to justice and to indemnify the
suffeeers.
An enthusiastic) reception was given to
Stanley at Guildhall, London, yesterday by
2,000 people. He was presented with a
gold casket containing an address from the
corporation of London. Stanley made it
speech in which he said that if Englishmen •
listened to him England to -day might have
had. the Congo Free State and East Africa.
He said Quakerism, peace societiee, and
nambypamby journalism were clogs to
every hearty endeavor made by England.
The &lamming exodus from Newfound -
lana is still going on. Two hundred and
fifty young men recently left Harbor
i
Grace n a body for Canada. There were
one hundred applications for paseage on
the steamer Ashdene, from St. John's for
Montreal. The captain could only take
fifty, but the MOO were so anxious to go to
Canticle that they agreed to sleep on the
bare decks if the captain would take them.
They were transported from St. John's to
Montreal at $5 per head.
Great indignation eippeare to have been
excited in Scotland because Dr. Bowden,
Episcopal Bishop of Edinburgh, was the
offioiel representative of the clutches at the
opening of the Edinburgh Exhibition'ilia
in that capitally offered up a prayer. This
is regarded as a shocking slight on all
Presbyterians and as a gross insult to the
netionel feeling in acotlana. Theproper
person to officiete 00 such an occasion weie
Oa:imam Lf282, dean of the Order of the
Thistle.
Dr. Zucthanineti has reoeived e letter
flora linein Pasha, dated 13agardoyo,
March 31et. Ilmin says : When 1 loft the
hormitel I found myself between the Eng.
lish arid the Germans. My decision to
return to the heart of Afrioa in the inter-
ests Of the Germans was soon taken, when
SIM the Englieh were endeavoring to
derive advantage from the prestige of my
name. With referenoe to Stanley and
Tipp° Tit), 1 have information in my
possession whioh, if ptiblished, would
Create it great sensation. Stanley will be
the first person to stir up the people,
against roe.