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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-10-23, Page 3"RD J1, A 11 GAIN British Consul Charged With Sending Dim to Montreal TO FOSTER DYNAMITE. ORTIIAGES. Innocent Men Said to be in Jail Thr Similar Circumstances. The London Labor World •iday serener) that Mr. Hoare, the 13ri Omani at New Y otle in 1883, sent Jo MoDermott from New York to Mont .for the purpose of getting up a dyne agitation M that city and supplied with money and raeans to carry put pud rpose. r. Hoare coromunicated Dublin Castle about the time stated asked the home Government to request Canadian Government to facili performance ot the work which .Dermott was to carry the reply which the Canadian Geyer= sent to the request from Dublin Castle Mr. Hoare was that the Canadian Gove ment considered it its duty to prevent not to encourage or abet it While Dermott wee in Montreal endeavoring t9nanare Iriahmen in that oity in dynam plots he was supplied with funds by Hoare, and encouraged by him to keep •cornmunioetions with O'Donovan Ito nd suoh men in New York. We lirove by sworn testimony, if requir that James McDermott wee posed and denounced in Monttv - by a cable sent by Mr. Da Ate the editor of the Montr .Evening Post. Mr. Hoare supplied MoDerraott with money to travel ba horn Montreal and aent him from N 'York to Liverpool. We further charge h with having at the preeent moment hie employment Bob Pinkerton in N Yord and Willie Pinkerton in Chica le%ether with the notorious MoParl agents, who, at a costly sum to t neeret eervioe fend, manufactured a number of secret conspiracies again England in America. We furth ieliarge Mr. Hoare with having 1883 employed , Matt O'Brien to ent the service of the post office in New Yo in order to tamper with letters goi through that poet office, and that throug Mr. Hoare's influence with a federal po .office official named Newcombe, O'Brie had charge of the keys and stamps whio enabled him to open what boxes he please m the building and use the State stamp of the department for the purpos of the British secret service. We as eierove that O'Brien opened letters by th ecore and wrote letters to Irishmen in No York, which purported to come fro Feni613B and dynamiters in California, S Lowis and Chicago, and that he stampe the bogus letters so as to Make the reoip /tints believe they were communication -which oeme through the postoffioe. Th ioaen to whomt thee letters were addresse were invited by the writer to come to th general postoface to get the other letters which were written by O'Brien as if comin from Feniane and dynamiters from othe cities that would be represented by th &neaps which he put upon the en yelopes. This was done in • order tha O'Brien should see and know the men who were suspected by Mr. Hoare and hienzel of being enemies of the Englishn All this was done by Mr. Hoare's direct and ex plioit inetructions, and we charge that this ilagrant outrage upon the law and State of New York and the Federal authorities of the United States was peforformed by Mr. .Hoare's instruotians and by the aid of the Becret service fund of England. We are prepared to proem that the beginning and ,the end of the Cork, Liverpool and London dynamite conspiracies of 1883 waa Jamee McDermott, and the money ex- pended by him for the purchase of nitro. glycerine was given to him for that purpose IDDIXI the Secret Service Fund. Several men are now undergoing the horrible fate ref penal servitude, not because of the •actual deeds done, but because the agent of Dublin Castle put dynamite and documents into their hands, widish were accepted as • woofs of their guilt by the judge and jury. We demand in the name of justice and fair piny that these men be released. ugh to. tish nes real mite him his ith and the tate Mc. OItt. ern and rim and Mo. to ite Mr. up sea will ed, ex- eal itt eal Mr. ok eve im in OW gifa t: he ny st er in er rk ng et es t. • Interesting Lake Ontario. We venture to say there is no b3dy of water on the American oontinent so inter - eating and so striking in its various nhangee and developments aeLake Ontario. in case of a sterna the waves run almost as ibig,h, and seem almost as mejestio, as the waves of the ocean; but when the winds rest, the waters of the lahe aettle down gently and quietly, and a surface is pre - Rented as smooth, as calm and as beautiful leetnre of this lake is the change of hues rut that of the smallest pond. A striking , •passing through all the colors of the rain - how in a few minutes—now as green as the ocean, then a light, feeble green, and again red, brown, bine and violet. These hues are caused by the shadows of clouds and the reflected light of the sun. The white caps, on a pea green surface, are exceed- ingly beautiful and interesting,—Newark Courier. The Pastor and the Dog. Rochester Herald : The report in the paper was as follows: " So the congrega- lion resolved upon a European trip for their beloved pastor, and on Saturday made him acquainted with the delightfal fact. Accompanying the report of the otmainittee was a nicely filled puree, which was placed at the disposal of the pastor, who, after thanking them, made a turn •down South Mountain street as far as Planet, then up Planet to Benefit street, where he was caught by some boys, who tied a tin pan to his tail.. Away he went :op Benefit street and down College, at the loot of which he was shot by a policemane" Drove Him to Death. Boston Travel'er : She had -just bought a ticket, and asked the agent what time the train left. "Four -forty," replied he. "What time is that ?" she asked. And the, agent, as he tied one of his suspenders around his neck and fastehed the other to Mho gas fixture,. gurgled: si Twenty =nutria to 5 !" The Servian Government, finding the Trasenee of ex.Iiing Milan in the country ,entelerable, has resolved to ask the Skillets- itleinie to pass a bill providing for his expel - •Ilion from Servia. Walter 0. Kernochan, aged 27, and wdelthY, who occupied bachelor apart- ments in the IIIEUHORS Delte I'hi olub house. New York, blew his brains out in tie bed chamber at 5 o'clock Sundey morning The Vienna masters have offered the enother-of.pearl workers half of the uatial wages, lent the offer hat not been accepted, ete the workmen fear the result evehla be a reduction of Wages in the future. Relief wag given on Saturday to 800 unempleyed, workmen. 'MOOTING 0008. No Fear of Hydrophobia if the Deg is Not " Some of the persons pitho have been disoussing mad dogs and the effect% of their bites are more mad than some of the animals that they are bilking about," So said a phyaioian to a New York Mail and Bxpress reporter. "The erouble he" the physicien• went on, " that a great many pereone believe if a dog, bites them, however slightly, that they are sure of suffering from hydro- phobia, and that nothing can preveet it, even in the most simple °sees, RW0 the shooting of the dog. Now this is noes, If the dog be mad, it should be killed, to' prevent it doing others injery. Bo this will not help a person already bitten. As for shooting a dog that has accidentally, perhaps, bitten some one, that is an aot by wlaioh no one benefits. "15 is safe to say," the phyeidtan went on, "that one cannot give what one does not have to give. The same is true of dog. If he has not got hydrophobia he oteanot communicate it. So there is no reasonable cause for the fright displayed by some persons if they but get their skins broken by a dog whose health is perfect. "Mon who are in the habit of bandling dogs think nothing of their bites. Dog fanciers and dog trainers are frequently bitten and think nothing of it. The men Who handle fighting dogs pey scarcely any attention to dog bites unlet e they are severe, and then apply ordinary remedies. I myself have been several tirnes bitten— not by mad dogs, of course—end have suf- fered little or no diecionafort. There are, many things worse than the bite of y healthy dog. I will take it any time in preference to a bad burn or out with a rusty nail. A little common eenee ought to be used in this as in other matters.' Colonial Punishments for Drunkenness Dr. Hammond gives a couple of instances of colonial punishment of drunkenness. Here are others. 1633. Massachusetts : Robert Coles, fined £10 for "abusing hira- self shamefully with drink," and enjoined to etand with "A Drunkard" in great letters on a white sheet on his beck, " soe Jong° as the court thinks meete." [The penalties for repetition next year—dietnen- chisement, eto.—referred to by Dr. Ham. mond, were remitted, May, 1634, on sub- mission and testimony of good behavior.] T. Hawkins and John Vaughan, fined 20a. for a similar offence and sebliug " strong water, contrary to an order of court." In 1643 and 1650 the colcny made the harbor. ing of drunkerds penal. But there is not the slightest evidence that the proceedings in these oases were for sumptuary reasons. 1639 e WmSCI— was fined 40s. for " mis- demeanor in drirking, and corporal pun- islement remitted upon his promise to avoid such occasions. The same year, in New Haven, John Jenner, "accused of being drunk, was acquitted, it appearing to be of infirmity, and occasioned by the extremity of the cold." "Mr. efolenour, accused, but not clearly proved, was re - spited." It could hardly have been the object in these cases to prevent the expen- diture fer the liquor, or to dictate what the persons concerned should or should not drink! Nor when Diorama Frankland was punished "for drinking strong liquors to excess and entertaining disorderly persons into bis cellar to drinking meetings."— Feom Liquor Laws not Sumptuary, by George F. Magoun, .D. D., in the Popular Science Monthly for October. He Was Tickler/. Lord Erskine, when Chief Justice of England, presided once at the Chelmsford Assizes when a oar% of breach of promise of marriage was tried -before him in which a Miss Tickell was plaintiff. The counsel was a prompons young man named Stanton, who opened the case with solemn emphasis thus-- " Tiokell, the plaintiff, my Lord—" when Erskine dryly interrnpted him with— Oh, ;tale her yourself, Mr. Stanton ! It would be unbecoming in my position."— London Tid Bits. That's iiifferent. Buffalo News: "Isn't Jones a Chris- tian scientist—a cure 2" e He is." "Is it true that he wouldn't haves doctor for his wife the other day when she was sick "IS is quite true." "Well, I saw a doctor go into his house just now." " Oh that's all right. He's siok now himself." believer in the faith The Ministers' Duty. New York Herald: There is no earthly reason why a clergyman should live in a balloon and watch the seething crowd of sinners through a marine glass. Let them mingle with the rough and tumble affairs of daily life; they will preach all the better for it. After a six weeks' tussle with those carniverons animals known as practical politioians they will probably resemble the boy who was kicked by a mule—that is, they won't be as handsome, but they will linow more Ministers' sons came to the front in the groat criminal trial at Woodstock. Mr, Osler is a son of the Rev. Canon Osier, formerly of Dundas, Mr. Blackstook is the son of a retired Methodist minister. Ur. Hellmuth is a son of the well- known Episcopal divine of that name. The old slander that ministers' sons never amount to anything is not true of Ontario. It never was true anywhere.—Canada.Presbyterian- Sir Charles Tupper is a son of the late Rev. Charles Tupper; Sir Richard Cart- wright, son of the late Bev. R. D. Cart. wright ; Hon. J. J. C. Abbott, leader of the Government in the Senate, son of the late Rev. Joseph Abbott; Judge Strong, of She Supreme Court, son of the late .Rev. Dr. Strong; Judge Gwynne, son of the late Rev. Wra, GWynne, DX.; Hon. Wm. Hume Blake was e son of Rev. Dominick Blake: R. N. Hall, M P. for Sherbrooke, is a son of Rev. R. V. Hall; J. C. Patterson, M. P. for Essex, son of Rev. James Patter. son E.G. Prior, M. P. for Victoria, B. 0., son of Rev. Henry Prior; Hon. W. H. Richey, late LieuteGovernor of Nova Seotireson of Rev. Matthew Rickey; Deputy Mit:deter of justioe Sedgwick, son of Rev. Dr. Sedgwiok ; Alfred Selwyn, director of geological survey, eon of Rev. T. Selwyn ; Robert Bell, assistant director geological Survey, son of Rev. Andrew Bell; W. H. Smithson, aocodntant of post office depart. merit, son of Rev. 'CV, Smithson; Jedge Rose, son of Rev. Samuel Rose. The by-law to grant $15,000 bonne to the Erie & Huron Railway for a branch frem Dreeden to Petroles was voted upon in Petrolia on Saturday, and defeated by a large majority. Another by-law for #27,000 for a trunk EetVer in the town was siso voted on, and carried by a good Majority. Another tremendous rainstorm etruolt Wheeling, WiVa., at 5 ololook laet evening, doing a large amount of damage. In the valley of Crildevell'a rum Where a dozen lives were lost in 1888, six or eight families were flooded out and three bridges carried away, while a niimber of cattle were drowned and Much property destroyed. THE GREAT STORM, Gallant Rescuers Save the SIOVIVOIS of the Iklmerby Disaster. OTHER VIOTIMS OF THE GALE Seven Saved, Sixteen nost—ehe Male Wreck— Lost Off the Restive Algeria's A dveutureo— ricked -0P Torpedo Boat. A New Glasgow, N. S., despatoh Bap : A rescuing party arrived at the eoene of She wreak of the }Argue Melmerby, at Little Harbor at 2 o'olook this morning, and their hearts were rejoiced to find by the dim light burning on the hull of the barque that the four survivors were still alive. The rescuers remained on the beach all night listening to the whistling winds and rolling waves and watching the glimmer from the lamp on the doomed vessel, 100 yards distant. At daybreak all eyes turned toward the wreak. There lay a dismantled and dis- abled hulk, with head gear gone, foremast heavily sprung to port, yards dangling, lower topsail partly set and the rest of the canvas in shreds. The main mast wae gone by the board, and was lying alongside with the rigging attached. Tthe mizzen topmarit was gone by the cap ePanker and braced up, and from the end of the gaff wore tattered portions of a flag, flying in ribbons and expressing in eloquent though silent terms the helpless conuition of the survivore. A GALLANT °RENY. After some hours a boat was hauled more lean three-quarters of a mile over the beach and manned by the following Yellin - ears : E. H. McLean, Capt. Graham, Vat Williams, James Graham, Daniel Frazer and A. Bourdot. After tremendous fforte the boat cleared the brealtera and he land wash, and was soon beside the reok. The four survivors were then got n board and rowed ashore, amid the nthurriastia °been of the orowd as they ushed into the boiling surf to grasp. the rail little craft with its precious freight. even in all were saved. None of the odies of the sixteen who were drowned ave been recovered. One of the most ffecting incidents was the meeting of old apt. Budrot with hi 's eon. Budrot was aptain of the schooner Mary, which had in by the waterlogged barque. Budrot as aboard the barque when Sunday's orrn sprang up. The schooner was driven to Pioton in command of the son. Erich bought the other had been boat until they et at the wreck, where young Bondrot as one of the rescuers. The Marie Wreck. A despatch from Aso, Bay, C.B., gives tails of the wreck of the barque Marie, days out from Barrow.on-Furness, for harlottetown, with 600 tons steel rails. he captain and crew had a narrow esoape. heir boat was struck by a sea and amped jest as the crew got intoet. They ung to the wreck and were taken off from e there. Lost Off the Restive. The schooner Reative, Capt. Walsh, from apelin By Chaleur, arrived at Summer - de, P. E. I., to -day. During the storm at night she sustained much damage and a man overboard. In Sunday's storm r boat was swept away and the mainsail own to ribbons. Shortly afterwards one She crew. named Charles Rice, of Prince dward Island, was oarried overboard with rt of the deoleload, and owing to the hooner's disabled condition and the ter. le sea running it was impossible to save m. Charles Rito was washed overboard m the schooner Sophia Stewart off West pe, F.B.I., Sunday, and was drowned. ports have rea3hed Charlottetown of esing vessels, but nothing definite can be rned. The storm, which has been rag. since Saturday, is abating somewhat w. On the Bock. despatch from North Sydney, C. B., 5: The barque Algeria, Capt. Deacon, t. John, N.B., from Belfast, Ireland, nd for Sydney, encountered a heavy from the northeast at 2 a. m. on the h off Soatarie. The weather being very k, she could not make land. The wind easing, the captain had to lay the ship The gale became a hurricane and She sails out of the bolt ropes and ugh the force of the wind the vessel me unmanageable and drifted toward breakers. On Sunday afternoon she ok on the north sidemf Cape Dolphin ing into St. Anne's Bey, under a cliff feet high, and became a total wreck. correspondent has not eeen the cap - la at iri de 43 sw ol th Ch ei la los he bl of pa EC rib kii fro Ca Re mi lea ing no A say of S bon gale 125 thio inor to. blew tbro beca the strn open 260 The tain. TEE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE. The eeoond mate and six men arrived here this morning and report that captain and orew narrowly escaped with their lives in the following manner: When the vessel struck one of the men swam ashore with a line and made it fast to a rook at She baee of the cliff and by this line the crew CaD30 aehore one by one in a rope basket. They remained on the rocks about the bottom of the cliff until day- break and then the captain climbed the perpendicular face of the cliff with a rope, made it fast at the top, and the crew fork:weed. Only a part of the hnll of the barque was visible at daybreak. The second mate says he has been going to sea eighteen years and has had several ship- wrecks in the Atlantic and Pacific!, but never experienced such a gale and bigh seas and never had such a close call. Con- sidering the seas, the high cliff and the breakers, it is a miracle that they were saved. The captain and crew lost every- thing. The vessel broke up immediately, and the wreckage drifted into St. Anne's Bay up above Englishtown, some ten miles from the spot where the acoidert happened. A Pick -Up, The torpedo boat towed into North Spit. my yesterday by the Gloucester schooner • Samuel Ryan is the Erin No. 62, a second. class boat and doing duty as a sort of tender to H. AL S. Emerald. She ia not fitted according to the latest style in torpedo horde. The naval authorities have no further information. It is said, how. ever, that it is no uncommon thing in stress of weather for these boats to go adrift if they aro in tow, and of course they ate able to take care of themeelves and are pioked np again next morning. The pick- up is a good thing for the Schooner, as her arilvage will be large. Facts About the Devil. Ram's Horn: A lazy man never eating the devil much uneasiness. The devil works hard, but he never sake for a vaoation. The devil.can make almost antything he wants out of 6 loafer. Evil thougfite are seeds sprouting which the devil has planted. Anything that hinders people from be- coming Christiane helps the devil. A strong eornpany has been engaged t� enppo 1mo Janansobeek, who will open het eeason in Troy next week. HE IBD A DOUBLE 1.IFE. Downfall of a Prominent litiontreal Olergy- man—A Woman in It. A Montreel dermatoh sap : A terrible scandal, involving one of the best•known clergymen of thief city, has just been brought to light, and the revelation haa caused a tremendous sensation. The clergyman in question is the Rev. A. B. Cruchet, pastor of l'Eglise du Sawyer, a French Presbyterian church, and well known not oely as a preacher, buts on Account of hie literary abilities. The story of his downfall is a sad one. On the 2nd or 3rd of last August there arrived in an American village, several hundred miles away, a pair of Canadians. The one was rather a distinguished looking man nearing 40 yeara of age, with a very dark atm. 1 .0 ana large black menet evidently French, but °peaking pe Engliebe The other was a woman o deoidedly good-looking. Meeting a lad She street, the gentleman %meted her, and asked if she knew where he could get board for hie wife for two or three menthe. The lady replied that she herself ocaseionally took boarders. "MB. BENJAMIN AND WIFE." Mr. A. Benjamin, for so he called htmself, accordingly took his wife to the house of their new acquaintanoe, and put up there with her. The new arrival stated that he was engaged in the tea trade, and that he had a female relative in a neighboring town, where he was going to open a branch store. At the boarding-house that evening he was introduced as Mr. A. Benjamin to two prominent residents of the place, one of them being a dootor. Mr. I3enjunin stayed two or thtee days with his wife, and then left for Montreal. TIIIT4GRAPI110 SUMMARY. Thera was a heavy fall of }mow in Min. peseta yeeterday. M. Moro Antoine Calmon, the French statesman and writer, is dead. Mil justice ler, of la" t e United Stake filepreme Court, died last night. The new C4, T. R. citation eua oboe at Lindsay were opened yeaterday. The King of Holland herr been adjudged unfit to reign on account of illness. The Governor. General is not expected to return to Ottawa tell November 3rd. It is rumored that Mr. Gilbert Griffin, P. 0, Inspector, of Kuegeton, has been euperannuated. A man and woman were arrested in To- ronto yesterday ender the Thompson Aot ache, on a charge of adnitorv. sf°0t The Circassian, whioh arrived at Quebec 22, yesterday, brought out a number of Ruesian y On tanailies destined for Manitoba. The by-law authorizing the municipality of Kingsville to lend the Citizens' Natural Gas Company the euna of 015,000 was car- ' d A LITTLE "BENJAMIN." On the 21s5 of September a daughter was brought into the world by Mrs. Benjamin. Her husband had not been to the plat% since his first visit. A telegram was sent to him next day in these words, "Wife and baby doing well. Come at once." This was addressed to "A. Benjamin, 91 MacKey street, Montreal." The telegraph meesenger found that house shut up, so he pushed a slip of paper under the door to inform Mr. Benjamin that there was a message for him at the head office. On the evening of the following day She occupant of the house returned from a short stay in the country, found the slip under the door, and went to the telegraph °fait', inquired for Mr. Benjamin's de- spatch, got it, and sent the following reply: " efre. A. Benjemin—Will come at once." Early next morning Mr. Benjamin started, arriving at the village mentioned in the evening. Entering the house, be was shown into the room where his sick wife lay and saw his child. SIL3PICIONS NATURAL. This time suspicion had very naturally been aroused. What could be the meaning of a Montrealer bringing his wife hundreds of miles away to peas such a crisis among utter strangers On thie question being put to him, Mr. Benjamin said something about having intended taking his wife to stay with his relatives in the neighboring town, and gave an excuse for not having done so. He then paid the landlady's bill and left again on the evening of the next day, the 25th. His explanation was not taken as quite satisfactory, however, and She villagers intereated were very anxious to know who "Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin" really were. On investigation it was found that the real occupant of the house, 91 MacKay street, was none other than Rev. A. B. Crachet, and his photogre.ph, which was sent to the village, was recognized by the people as that of the so -celled Benjamin. • TEE FRAUD CONFESSED, Mr. Crochet has admitted the truth of the oharge. The accepts the whole re- sponsibility, end coneents to make all the reparation possible without a day's delay, namely, to marry the young woman and fitly support her and her child henceforth. He declares that this has been his con- stant intention, and that he would have reeigned big charge, gradually wound np his affairs, and gone with his wife and child to some distant place, where they could retrieve the past. The marriage will take place to.morrow or the next day, and Mr. Cruobet will seek as soon as possi- ble to lead an honest life and gain an honest livelihood elsewhere. The young woman belongs to a very respectable family in this city. Mr. Crochet is a widower, having been twice married. He was noted as a man of great ability and culture, a fine speaker, and olever writer, and he would have been the last man whom anyone would have suspected of leading a double life. The Presbyterian Church, to which he belongs, is likely to take prompt action in the matter. A meeting of the Presbytery will be beld in a few days, when action will be taken to depose him from the ministry. It is painful to have to record the ruin of a bright life, and one can but hope that he may by his future conduct repair his fault. PICKED UP AT SEA. An Abandoned Brig with a Vargo of Salt Taken in Tow. A Quebec despatch says : The officers of the Rose line steamship Ocean King, which arrived in port to -day, had a strange adventure to relate. The Ocean King sailed from Antwerp on the 265h of September, and experienced fine weather for three days afterwards. On the 295h a fresh wind sprang up, the sea rose rapidly, and a sum cession of heavy south-west gales end heavy semi were encountered until the 45h of October. The day following the abatement of the storm a brig was sighted flying signals of distrese. A boat was lowered, and the chief officer and carpenter were sent to examine her. She turned out to be She brig Dover, of Cronstaiit. She was found in good condition and making very little water. She had a cargo of salt. The two sailors of the Ocean King were rather surprised to find the brig abandoned. The fate of the crew belonging to her may never be known. The captain of the Ocean King put hit ohief officer and a crew of three hands into the abandoned brig, and kept her in tow of the Ocean King until the foli lowing day, when a strong gale sprang up from the south,west and parted the tow rope. The chief offioet was then instructed to take her into St. John's, which was 300 miles away from the paint she parted with She Ocean King. She le expected to arrive at that port in a short time. Heavily encumbered. Miss Riverview—What I Yon don't mean to sey you intend to marry that Chicago widow? Bachelor Brother—Why ehouldn't I? She has no incumbrances. Miss Riverview—go inoumbrances Look at her feet Mies Isabel Morris (sister of Felix Morrie, Rosins Yoko' comedian) will star later in the season in a comedy called " a Whirl," under the Management of J. P. Burr% yeeaerc*sy. McKenna, the "king of thieves," was sentenced at Lawrence, yesterdey, under the criminal law, t years in prison. depesited with an American beiekiiskt grto by James P, Field &Co., the London hatailt, ers who recently failed. The order WW1 issued a,t the inetattoe Qt the Arm's end', tore. F. Attwood was found guilty at the aa- eizes in Toronto yesterday of intent to pulL, °babe counterfeit money, The relieving officer has been warned 10 prepare ter 200 eviotions on the Olpherit estate in Etucarrala, Irelend, Nearly 50 eppeale are to be heard by thet Supreme Court at its next Bitting, whioh conernencee on the 24th inst. The 530,000 factory bonne by-law wale defeated and the $15,000 electric light bye Jew was carried in West Toronto Junotien yesterday. The Qcuikera' International Conferenoo opened at Birnainglaapa yesterday, with 460 delegates, including many Arnerioana and Canadians. The President and Secretaries at Waeht ington are studiously avoiding any appetite, am% of extending official courtesies to thre Count of Paris. It is no w reported that Dillon and O'Brien ett Obnteaugriff for Paris, and that they will go to Havre Friday and embark horse for America f3atarday. Moo Admiral Folger wed Lieut. Buokinghant 0 25 have inspected the Sudbury nickel paint% in As to -morrow will be Premier Mercier's 50th birthday, a ntunber of his Montreal friends arid supportere will present him with an address. Roman Catholic children ha Ottawa aro not allowed to attend the Publio night schools [mime under exceptional oiroum- stances and by special permission. The bydaw to raise 515,000 for the COB- struation of waterworks for Leamington wee submitted yesterday to the vote of the ratepayere, end was carried by a majority of 65. • The Rome Riforma believes that negotia- tient! between England and Italy, relative to their Airican possessions, will soon be resumed, and that they will be brought to a successful terminetion. Mr. J. H. Bryan, of New York, is makine.a tour of Canada, purchasing live game for the great game preserve recently eetablished in Northern New Hampshire by Mr. Austin Corbin, the railway mag- nate. Mr. T11311. Kerr, of Port Hope, met with a painful accident on Saturday evening last at the Grand Trank depot. While getting off a moving train, be received a blow on the head, which resulted in concussion of the brain, It is rumored there has been severe fighting between the Germans and the ?defile near Lindi. It is reported the British gimlet ats have entered the Zambesi River without opposition from the Portu- guese fleet. Portugal has made a final attempt to enliat on its side the sympathy of Germany isa the impending negotiations between Portugal e.nd England relative to territory in East Africa, but the overtures looking to this end were unsuccessful. Arabella Epreigh, of Morrisburg, Ont., gave permiseion to an ardent young man to take a smell look of her hair, but he out off half her luxuriaet growth. For this Rape of the Lock she was awarded $15 damages by the Division Court. Samuel Hughes, of 138 Grange avenue, Toronto, sustained a fracture of his left leg yesterday by the breaking of a derrick in the Morrison brass foundry building at Mimic°. Ee was brought into the city on a train and taken home, where Dr. Grasett attended to his injuries. At the annual meeting of the Maisons Bank in Montreal yesterday, Mr. J. H. R. Molson, president, said the earnings for the year had Lot been as great as previous years, and the prospects for thecoming year were not particularly bright as the Mc- Kinley bill will undoubtedly affect the busi- ness of the country. It is announced that the Spanish Gov- ernment will request the United States to admit the products of the Spanish posses - stone hi the West Indies, espeoielly tobacco and sugar, without the recently imposed tariff restrictions. In the event of a re- fusal, Spein, it is said, will exclude Ameri- can products, especially breadetuffs. Despatchea received at Constantinople say that a party of Armenians and Drums attacked the barracks at Silenoia, Syria, and blew up a portion of the buildings. Forty Turkish soldiers were killed. The Armeniansohen invaded the Government building, killed the governor and robbed the treasury. They then proceeded to the prison, which they carried by storm, liber• ating all the prisoners. Great excitement was caused in Woolongong, N. S. W., yesterday by the arrival there of a large party of non-union miners who landectefrom a steamer, in- tending to work in the Coal Cliffs mines. The nnioniets took possession of the mines and refused to allow the non -unionists to work. Many souffles took place. Trouble is feared. The police and military are held in readiness to euppress disorder. The United States Treasury Department has informed the Colleotor of Customs at Suspension Bridge that there is a duty on grapes of 60 cents per barrel of three oubio feet capacity, notwithstanding the fact that they be imported in boxes, baskets, or otherwise than in barrels. If imported in such packages, the department holds that the quantity must be ascertained and duty at the rate of 60 canto imposed on each three cubic feet capacity of such packages. Mrs. O'Connor, wife of William O'Connor, member of th o House ot Commons for East Donegal, who was found yesterday unconsoions, with one of her thighs broken, and who it was be' lieved had fallen from the platfarm of the Walworth Street Station to the street be- low, received her injuries in an attempt to commit stdoide. She is insane. She is now in an asylum. Her condition is critical. Attorney -General Martin'of Manitoba, swore out another information yesterday afternoon charging Mr. W. F. Luxton, of She Free Press, with criminal libel. The libellous article complained of appeared in She Free Press of Sept. Sth under the head. ing, "Pity the Poor Criminal," and the portion on which the action is based eets ont that if the members of the Government who were concerned in the Northern Pacific contract got their deserts they would be in the penitentiary. There has been another Perdition° out- break among Englieh troops, this time in She ranks 02 the Best 8orrey Regiment, stationed on the Island of Guernsey. The trouble arose from a detachment of the regiment being ordered to India. The men refused to prepare for their departure, totally disregarding the commands of their officers. As things were atamming a threat. ening %sped the reoaloitrahts Were dig. anted. Finally, however, all embarked on She waiting vessel, but in a very eulky tend menacing mood. The Bankruptcy COurt has betted an order etopping payment on a draft for t7,000, drawn against that.snm, whichWaa order to report to the United States Navy Department on their resources. Osman Digna is preparing to attack &alum. Arrangements are being made at Cairo to send reinforcements to the Suakinie garrison. The Cabinet has resolved to cover the defioit in the Frenoh budget by means ot a surtax on rice and pharmaceutical and hygienic specialties. A man named Kerley", aged 65, was killed at Londonderry mines yesterday. He wee struck on the head by a heavy block, whiob caused him to fall 30 feet to the solid iron below. The Berlin Post says Baron Wiesmann wUP return to East Afrioa in a fortnight and the Governnaent proposes to appoint a Coloniel Advisory Council, consisting of 30 members. Col. Kttenzli, the Federal Commissionee in the Canton of Tioino, has quietly rai instated the Conservative Governmene there, and the federal cavalry have been withdrawn. Owing to the deeecration of Si. Faure Cathedral by the recent suicide, a " recon. ciliation service " was held in the historio editioe on Monday morning by the Bishop of London. The Toronto Fire Underwriters passed a very strong resolution yesterday favoring the passage of the $224,000 by-law to improve the oity water system, and sug.. geeting the purchase of two chemical tire engines. The Austrian tailor who travelled from Vienna to Paris ineide of a luggage trunk has repeated the feat by travelling in sa trunk from Paris to London. Where ho arrived there hews taken from the tamale in an exhausted condition. Congressman Jno. L. Wilson, who hers just returned from Washington to New York, reports the loss of his pooket.book, containing 510,000 in securities and 5350 in greenbacks, gold and valuable papers. The pocket -book was lost on Saturday. The Count de la Grange's chateau, near Doinfrone, in Orne, has been sacked and burned. The entire building was de. etroyed. There were many valuable worker of art in the ohatean, all of which have been lost. The police are seeking the cul- prits, At a meeting of the London, Eng.., Trades Council yesterday it was reeolved to call a delegates' meeting on October 23rd, representing 153,000 men, to con- sider the raising of L20,000 for the A.110. Malian strikers. The striking Scotch furnacemen have issued an appeal to tho public and trade associations for assiee tance. They say they require e700 weekly. The French Government has decided fa submit to the Senate and Chamber of Deputies a bill providing for a maximum French tariff on goods from countriets whose customs regulations are unfavorable to French products, and a minimum tariff on imports from countries whose tarifa are favorable to France. The bill em- powers the Government to adopt a mini. mum tariff provisionally, but the sanction of the two Chambers will be necessary for its permanent adoption. A young man by the name of Johnston had a very close call the other day from a shocking accident. He was attending to a threehing machine whit& was in operation on Wm. Laidlaw's farm, 45h concession of Westminster. Young Johnston went to oil the cylinder when the machine was in motion, and some of his clothing came in contact with the shaft of the cylinder, andl his arm was pulled between a belt and m pulley. Fortunately the belt broke, relieve ing the arm, otherwise the young man would undoubtedly have been killed or his arm torn off. No bones were broken, although the flesh is badly bruised and the arm very painful. Dr. oineetems Trained Nurses, London Daily News: Hospital nurse are in no small part heroines who have not got on well in their love affairs. Curiously enough, while the uninformed are under the belief that their profession requires long and careful training, the lady.novelistre star•orossed heroine can take to it at omen and "glide," as they express it, "gently from bed to bed" with the best of them. Perhaps one ought to say with the worst of them, for some hold that "nurses haVt3 More tO do than to glide gently." Cherchee Phomme is the key to the mystery : It all depends on the man. Thu e the heroine oil the lady novelist will turn nurse if she loved him so passionately that she treated him scornfully, and so drove bine to Zululand, where he fell with twenty bullets in his breast '• or if she was an actress and found too late what true love is, or if he proposed in the dark night (or shrubbery) and made the awful blunder a mixitig her Sister up. In this latter crone it is observed that the hospital is sure a one of them—the sister if he explainer hie rnietako, the heroine if he considers himself bound in honor to marry the sieser. has also been established that the hospital staff may reckon confidentially on a recruit if on the wedding morning the man dealt not turn up, and they search for his body in vain ; or if the other girl refuses to be him off; or, finally, if he never told 'hi love, but merely kissed her tenderly and then walked thoughtfully away." Ea was Direlizoled. Buffalo News : "How did your lituthand meet his death 2" "He fall through a trap." "In the dark, I suppose ?" " No ; it was broad daylight, )int thorn was a black cap over his hoe and be couldn't see, poor man." The Imperial Government has advanneil £400,000 to the uitialfina Great Western, Railway of Ireland *0 build a road fit* Galway into the distressed district*.