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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-10-23, Page 6THS WORK OF A FIEND Twe Little Girls Horribly Outraged and &rugled WHILE RETRitliNG FROM SCHOOL. The lauppoeea Wretch Who OonaMitted the 1`011.1 °rime jailed. A Cumberland (Russell County), Out , aespatch game the following faller par - healers of the horrible murder of the Mo. Gonigle girls near there oo Tuesday last: Thi e quiet hamlet on the bonito of the Ottawa River is the scene of the trim:hest crane that hes ever etained the Annals this Province. Two girls, Mary and Elizet alcGonigle, wheel ohilaren, woe found in a little petal of maple woods near the village done to death by some fiend, whoee devilish inatinots lead led him to gratify bis lust at the saorifice of the lives a two innocent children. Mary and Eliza Mo. Genial° were the ohildren of James ado- raonigle, who lives about two miles by the public road from the village of Clamber - land. He earns a livelihood working for he farmers about, and is a steady, in. dustrions yeoman. He bas our children, Mary, who was 14, Eliza, who was 12, a abide boy comes next, while the youngeet is a little thing who has not yet learned to walk. Two years ago four of the children were carried off by diphtheria, and today the family is again to stiffer a °eternity more awful even than that. Mr. MoGonigle is a poor mon,but his two girls wore bright, and he struggled manfully to keep them at wheel and give them a fair chance in the battle of life. So it was that the two Mo. Gonigle girls were the cleverest scholars art their °looses. Tian FIRST AT.klin, When their father found, as described in ast night's Tams, that the children liad mot arrived home on Wednesday evening, he told his simple neighbors his etory, and after oeinveaeing the matter and learning that they had been seen to enter the woods, parties were organized with lanterns to scour the blab. They started at 10 o'clock, about thirty men. One of the parties was accompanied by a dog, which a farmer loosed from its chain to aid in the search. A mond party was composed of four men, Eciwead Pauvnet, Docitte Lavergne, Anoille Lasoelle, and Hyacinthe letecelle. These men went down e by road, which runs off the road the girls usually took. Lees than 200 yards down this road they stumbled on a eight but half revealed by the dim light a their lantern which they will not soon forret. There, almost side by side, were , the bodies of the tvvo ohildren. One of the -Enders, with rude pathos, said to•day "When I save them, I thought at once of that piotnre in the second book of the babes in the wood." Yes, they were veritably the babes in the wood. There the autunin leaves lay thiok about them, although not above them. The ruthless hand that quenobed their Ewe did not give them that leafy sepulchre that the little birds ac- corded to the children of the fable. The dog, which, true to its senses, had smelled the blood afar off and came on the scene almost simultaneously witb the original finders, set up a mournful howl which curdled the blood of everybody within hearing. TILE DREADFUL DEED. This was e. signal which brought the whole of the eearchers together. In a minute or two thirty horror-stricken men atoad about and looked at the work of death. As I have said, the bodies were almost side by side. The arm of little Eliza was under the body of her sister. The latter lay on her back, her face damp with dew, and her clothing still wet from the rain that had been falling during Tuesday night. It needed no practised eye to see that the younger sister had been atrangled by the murderer. There were no contusions on her face, but her eyes stared and projected from the sockets. Her sister, on the other hand, presented evidence of cruel ill -usage. Her snip was Put as if with a knife. Just under the right eye was a contused wound, and on the right cheek eteother abrasion, but, ea in the case of the younger child, the protruding eyeballs, the extended tongue almost cut in two by her clenched teeth, the mangled throat, all told of the desper- ate energy with which the ghoul had gripped the throats of his victims until all evidences of life were stilled. It was indeed a sorry sight. Examination showed that a desperate struggle had taken place be- tween the murderer and the girls. All about the few weeds that grew in the forest were beaten down, the leaves were turned up into little drifts, where they had been preesed by the feet of the lusty animal and his tender quarry. The finders did not disturb the bodies, but messengers were despatched for Coroner Ferguson and Magistrate McDonald, who soon arrived. In the meantime the whole village WAS alarmed, and many hurried to the scene of death. " Who has done this ?" was at once 'the question on every man's lips. TRACRING THE BRUTE. Then neighbor after neighbor began to contribute their quota of information. Wm. Gamble and Ben. Barnard recounted that when they met the children in the woods they also met one Narcisse Larocque about a hundred yards in their wake. Then others remembered that when the children paned Windsor's hotel Larocque, who was in the door, fol. lowed them up and entered the gate a abort distance in their rear. It was subse- quent to this, a little further on the road, that he was seen by Messrs. Gamble and Barnard. The children knew Larocque well. He has been known to them since childhood. It is probable that he felted the elder girl genselssa by a blow on the head. Then he turned on the younger sister. She screamed luatily, so lustily that her outcry wise heard at lout a mile away. She made a Spartan fight, for the man who in,a far - tiff field heard her pitiful cries says they maned to him to last nearly fifteen min- utes. Suddenly they mama as the pitiless rangers Memel like a vice on her throat. When the quivering limbo were stilled, be then turned his attention to Mary, and de- liberately strangled the remaining vestiges of life that hits first stunning blow had not quite extinguished. Both were then violated by the incarnate oaten who had tracked them to death. ninoccre e ARREST, When Lacerate's name was mentioned it was at once propmea that he should be seen and questionea. Constablee MacLaren Mad Docitte Levetgrie proceeded to the lecinee where be lived with hie aunt. He was not at home. He haa gone t� the bowie of one Laurent. The constable want to Laurent's. Ho had not been there, but could be found at Homilton'a TIie encore went from place to place, to Pod. Botashier's, to O'Toolear, eight miles ais- tont, and then they found lie had doubled and we on itie way beak to Cumberland. They finally ren trim to earth at an amide% Froncoia Lea:aquae, Rome Ave miles from Cumberland. He accompanied the allure without a word emir* to tteolare hia innorrenee. The pristmer was bora in this yeanity. He ie aa abbrevioted her- onlee. Oily five feet three inohes in height, lee bits yet the °best and barrel of a &tut. His head is Ire, and brirays in all its lime the Largely predorait ant animal in - Moots, Ler oorresponaeut had a, few minutes' ileat with him 1:alright. He act mitted, in reply to the reporter's salute - tion, that he was in a pretty laid erape. "1 am not guilty," he soid. "1 s sw the children, They were ahead of ae for a short dietameebut I aia iot came tip to them. I went off to the left and went aver Ganable'e hill. I avail know who atm- dered them. All I know is I didrat. I never touched theme" A SAD BOLE, It is needless to say that the some at the house, wirer° the two children are laid in the octane side by fade, was heartrending. Mrs. McGonigle, who will soon become a mother, is as may naturally be supplied almost out of her reason. She had to be renamed from the house to be away front the sight of her terrible sorrow. Indeed, it is feored that the awful shook will kill her. It was indeed a hones of mourning, snob as the writer hopes he may never have occasion to enter again. LATER DEVELOBTAIBISTF. A Cumberland despatch says: The whole country side is still horreastricket at the diabolical outrage and murder of the two little girls, Mary and Eliza McGonigle. The prisoner doggedly asserts his inno- cence. I obtained an interview with him this afternoon. He is a chunky little man, with hie head sunken between hie shoulders, closely cropped black hair grow- ing well down on bis forehead, small, dark eyes and a dark moustache. He is a per. son of low intelligence, with a furtive glance. A TALE WITEi THE PRISONER. In answer to a remark that tbis was a serious matter, Laracque said, "Well, I'm not guilty." "What do you think of a men who would do such a deed ?" "Well, it ain't me," Larocque said. Asked how it was thet he started out to see O'Toole knowing he was not at borne, Larocque said he knew that, but it would have served his purpose to have left word with O'Toole's wife, as it was work he was looking for. He said he knew the two girls very well, but did not catch up to them on Tneeday or speak to them. He was not nearer than 100 yards to them. He went on after losing eight of the girls, and sat down to smoke under a tree for about twenty minutes. He thought it was between 6 and 6.30 when he reeohed his consinai, where he stopped over night. Eie changed his pants but no other clothing. PRISONER'S BOOTS FIT THE TRACES Grier brought Ltrocque's boots along with him. A number of the villagers fol. lowed on foot, but were forbidden to come near the spot, with the exception of Dooitte Lavergne, one of the four who discovered the bodies on Wednesday night. He acted as guide. When the little hollow in the woods where the bodies had lain was reeohed, Detective Grier went to work and examined every inch of soil in and around the place. At oneplace where the black vegetable mould had been torn up as if with the muffling of feet, he discovered the print cf a heel, which had been dug into the soil. There it was, as strongly out- lined as if cast in plaater of Paris. He called the attention of the gentlemen about him to it, and taking the prisoner's boot he found that it fitted in needy to the inden- tation. It coincided in every particular. This piece of evidence was then carefully covered np. Since the night of the murder the autumn leaves have been falling, and on the place where the bodies were found a light coating of them lay. WHAT THE LEAVES HID. Carefully lifting these off, the detective disclosed the foliage and earth stained with the blood that had run from the elder girl's wounds. Where her head lay there was the distinct and deep impress of the rounded a/ribs of the shall, showing that the head had struck the mould violently or had been frantically driven into it by the strangler. Where the younger girl lay the imprint made by the head was hs. marked and there was no blood. ON THE TRAIL. After a careful scanning of the imme- diate vicinity of the crime, the officar started on the track which it is believed the nom - doer must have taken in making his escape from the woods. So far as known, or could be ascertained, no other foot than bis had treaded its mazes since the fateful evening until today. The detective led the way, crouching along like a red Indian on the trail of his foes, seeking to read from the very bosom of the earth the name that out- raged justice desires to know. Following him were Locate Lavergne, the bailiff; Leonard Cummings and the writer. The fallen leaves had pretty well oovered the trail, and the rain doubtless helped to obliterate to a great extent the murderer's tracks; but bit by bit it was spelled out patiently and carefully, until at the point where the path is lost in the trees the smashers were able to declare that a roan had passed along there within a day or so, the footprints leading from the scene of the crime. AGAIN THE TRACES. One other heel -print was so plain that they were enabled to fit the left shoe into it; and, again, the outlines of the print coincided. The next task was to follow the track which the prieoner says he took. His story is that he branched off to the left, the girls being at that time a couple of acres ahead of him. He went on till he came to a baker's tree, and tinder which ho sat down and lit bis pipe, and smoked for about twenty minutes. He then resumed his walk towards his cousin's house. The officer and his three followers went over route equally carefully. They found no trace that a man had within any recent time passed along there throughout the whole distance. They found no balsam. tree. Not a single particular supported the prisoner'e story. A Double Suicide at Chicago. A Chicago despatch says: Loot evening the body of Annie V. Dana was found in the lake at the foot of Peck Court, This morning two fishermen found the body of Lawrence McBeth floating near the same place. Both bodies had been a week in the water. The woman was of questionable oharaoter. The man's real thine is said to be Beath, and his home was in Sarnia, Ciarteas. He had been an aotot. A week ago the couple had a qtuirrel, and left the house where they lived together about mid. night. Nothing more Was heard or seen of them until them bodice were fotind in the lake. Cora—You can recommerld this glue, an you? Dealer—Yes, wise. Yon corild piece a broken engagement with it. COrs—rii take a bottle. Whet Tot put otit shoulder to the wheel it is well to notice whether you ere helping it facing or Working agelinat it. DAlkings or THE BEA. Ten, Neu Drowned Off a Eitrantled olloorter —Others Lashed to the Wreck, OPPIER WREOKS tiRPORTED. A ViOtOn Lenaing, N, 8, despatch rays: Newa has juiet readied ben that the 'Maple Melmerby has gone (whore at Merigooteb, onus miles along the Nowt airetian coma Sae, is at this hour (11 o'clook) bait a mile from Jona, stranded on tfie bar, and the see ie breakieg over her. Ten of the crew have already been drowned, and the °there are halted to the mast, but their ream() is ex' treutely improbable. Heavy gales have prevailed the past few daye, and this is the last of a series of calamities. The ship is a wooden sailing oat of 1,500 tonslitirden; and was laden with timber. She left Quebec last Thureday for Liverpool, and by strees of woother was ariven out of her worse. The cargo and vessel were owned by Ross & Co. Quebec., the head of the firm being W. El. Ross, of Liverpool. Everything will be a *Oat loss, as the cargo, se soon as the ship breaks up, will come athere and be +serried off by Daher - men. It Wail at this spot some years ago that the Norwegian barque Wanda went &there, and her crew of twenty men were drowned, and the reef is known aa the most dangeroua on the Maritime coast. This is the most disastrous occurrence in respeot to loss of life that has happened to Canadian marine in many years. Another Account, A Halifax despatch Bays: A special from Little Harbor' Pluton county, gives details of the wreckof the barque Melmer- by, which was one of the moat distressing and heartrending disasters in the history of the Neva Scotia, coeet. The story told your correspondent by one of the survivors is as follows: The barque Melmerby, Captain Olsen, with a crew of 22 men, sailed from Qaebea on October lst for Greenock with a cargo of square timber. All went well until Sunday night, the 5th, when they encountered a heavy gale, from which the ship sprang a leak, and soon there were six feet of water in the hold. All hands were set to work at the pumps, which were kept going all night, but the water gained with smile rapidity that the next morning the ship was waterlogged and nothing but a floating coffin. The deck cargo was thrown over and logs washed about the deck, knocking about and smashing the boats, wrecking the cabin, and destroying the stores. On Tuesday, the 7th, the Norwegian barque Nightingale offered to take the algae, but Capt. Oisen refused to leave the wreck. The Norwegian then supplied them with biscuits and water, which was the first food tasted since the previous Sunday. On Wednesday, a fishing schooner was spoken to, whiale lay by them and supplied them with food at intervals, and with other necessities as far as they were able. They also spoke the cruiser Acadia, and obtained from her eupplies of biscuit and coffee. At this time the vessel was a helpless wreck. Her rudder was gene, the mainmast had gone by the board, and she drifted about in this condition until Sunday, when she struck on a ledge near Roy's Islend. Then Capt. Olsen and fifteen of the crew started in the ship'e long boat to make an attempt to reaoh shore, but the surf and awful force of the under- tow was such that only one men succeeded in reaching shore. He was the pilot who took the vessel out of Quebec. The boat was dashed to pieces and all the others were drowned. The terrible calamity was eeen by crowds of people on shore, who made determined efforts to launch boats, but the sea was ouch that no boat could live in it. Finally at midnight one of the sailors who still remained bo the wreak jumped over, and after desperate exertions succeeded in reaching shore. His name was Seamed Cook. Two hours later Jas. Fletcher successfully followed his example. The other four men were afraid to run the terrible risk, and they still remain on the wreak. Their names are James Kane, D. Evans, the steward, and the captain of the fishing yeeeel which had been near the veseel for Borne days. Evans had one of his shoulders dieloosted and his arm broken, caused by falling from the main gaff some days ago. The two sailors who swam ashore were clothed and eared for by tbe inhabitants. Among the lost are Captain Oben, the first and. emend mates and sailors MacNamara, Donovan, Harrison, Hughes, McDonald and Jones. The names of the other seven are not given. Most of the lost roen belonged to Liverpool. Great fears are entertained for the safety of the font men still on the wreck. The ma is so high that no human help can reach them to -night. Despatchee from Cape Breton late to- night say the warship Pelican has errived there in march of the lost torpedo boat which broke away from her yesterday dar- ing a severe gale. The Pelican is from the Newfoundland fishery service, not Ber- muda, as reported. The warship is now treating with the captain of the Crane as to the amount of salvage. A special frora Cape Breton says the storm was the worat for many yeare. It blew met and northeast, and greatly helped the shipping, as it ran parallel with the island. Had it been southeast everything would have been swept, including the wharves and boats. Two fishing vessels were Reit. The eea was the highest ever known. It swept right across the beach and flooded the homes. Wrecks are re- ported from both north and south, but there are no particulars. Other Wrecks, A St. Ann% C.B., despatch says: A heavy east-northeast gale prevailed on the coaet since Saturday night. The aohooner Lady Franlilyn floated from whence she had been ashore at South Gut. She sus• tained little or no damage. A three -masted vessel is reported ashore mar the entrance to St. Ann's harbor and wreckage is drift. ing ashore. The crew are reported lost. Oar Lumbermen Will Bleed. A Washington despateh of 'I'hursday says: The Treasury department is in re. ceipt of a letter from the Surveyor of Cus- tom, at Albany enquiring as to what rate of duty ohould be impaled on sawed lumber imported train Canada on and after the 61h inst. The ciepartrderit, in a letter to the collector, Sari it is understood that under the laws of Canada now in force an export duty la charged upon Rome, pine, and -cedar logs, and shingle Mite of pine or cedar, and that, stich being the case, it would seem that tinder the provicaorts of paragraph 218, schedule "D," of the Act of Ootober lot, pine, %once and cedar, sawed lumber, would be dutiable at the rate pre. scribed by the Act it force prior to the 6t1I inet. That to under schedule "D" of the Aot of March 303, 1883. It is a anions foot that every watch is a compage. Point the hour hand to the sun and the tenth is exactly half way between the hour and the figure XII on the watch. For instate°, Ouppotre that it it 4 oatleek. Point the hand irtdiesting four to the elm and II on the witteh is exactly email. Nature boa beet kind to the negro. Hie *Ord foe ciatinOt pull the WOol over his. soviArAersIN esslos. •••••••••• arnoximotto Attendant:ea-The Diecussion on the Propaganda. A. Halle cable eater : At to•day's session of the Sooleilist Clongrese, Herr Smug pointed out that the attendance at the Congrese of the delegates from Paris, Lon. don, Copenhagen, Geneva `Narrow, Vienna, The Hogue and Eiltaarieolait carried out the .prediction of Karl Marx that the proletarians of all countries would eveutn. ally unite to fulfil the mission of Socialism and effeot the liberation of ouffering `humanity. Letters expressive of sympathy with the objoote of the Congresti Were read from American, Austrian, Swim, Itelie.n, Frenon and English Sooialiiit soczetieo for the promotion of workmen's education. An address irom Italiso Socialists was also resit. The Congress decided to allow eleven menthera to vote wire had no formal mandate as delegates. This was done in amordance with the special desire of the delegates in question. Herr Babel reported that the solidarity of the peaty had greatly inoreased eine° the Socielist Congress in Paris. The party now owned 104 trade organs which had 600,000 eubsoribers. The finances were in a satisfaotory condition and mob year showed an increase in the receipts. Last year the receipts were 390,609 marks and the eapenditure was 383,325 marke. The total balance on bend was 171,829 marks. He advocated the founding of party organe in the rural districts and also the establish. ment of a Polish workingman's paper and a paper for Alsaos.Lorraine. There was atormy discussion over the rural Socialist propaganda. Herr Bernd declared the Berlin Socialists opposed to measures favored by the extremists. Herr Gallen- berger denounced Herr Werner as a " business Sari:dist" and amid he was prepared to prove Werner was disloyal to the party. Herren Liebkneoht and J3ebe1 denounced anarchism and vio- lence. Herr Singer justified the mi moderate course adopted n the demon- strations last May Day and defended his action in voting with the Liberals. Herr Brandt, a Berlin delegate, protested against Herr Werner's arrogating to the opposition the right to speak on behalf of the Berlin Socialists, as he had not oven been elected in Berlin. A majority of the speakers sup- ported the party leaders against the Berlin opposition. Herr Grillenberger declared that when three members of the oppoaition assembled they never knew whether one might not be a police spy. Herr Babel protested against the defraying of election expenses in individual districts from the party treasury. The attendance at to- day's session was enormous. The general opinion le that the opposition has been finally routed. To•morrow the delegates will attend a hemmers, a feature of whieh will be pictorial representations of the struggle of labor against capital, protection to labor and kindred subjects. A 13AD GANG DISRUPTED. Youngsters 4t7lio Bobbed Trains and Brutally Treated Their victims. A Baltimore despatch saye : A gang of young railroad robbers were arrested near Ellicott City to -day. The youngest is 15 years old and the oldest not over twenty. Their names are William Southoomb, Lee Mullen, Rube Richardson, Harry Strucker, and Frank Mooney. They robbed George W. Williams, of Harper's Ferry. One man is dangerously ill as a result of meeting theoe desperadoes. He was stamped under their feet, hit on the head with " billys, robbed, and theu thrown from the train while it waa going twenty miles an hour. Another man was assaulted and thrown from a moving train. Charlee R. Smith and James Sehrer were made to take off every stitch of clothing by the gang. Each was given an old coat to wear and started off into the woods. They nearly died from exposure. In every instance the robbers compelled submission from their victims at the point of revolvers. Several others are to be arrested. The P. S. crops. A Washington despatch Says: Tne Ootober estimateiof the yield per acre for the entire breadth of cereal crops as con- solidated by the Department of Agriculture are: Winter wheat, 10.8 bushels per acre; spring wheat, 11.05; the wheat crop in general, 11.1; oats, 19.8; barley, 21; rye, 11.8 bushels. The condition of corn 10 70.6 instead of 70.1 last month; buckwheat, 90.7 instead of 90.5; potatoes, 61,7 instead of 65.7; tobacco, 85.4 instead of 82.4.. The returns report a material decline in cotton prospects and a fall in general percentage from 85.5 to 8000. The cause is too much rain. The value of the crop will be some. 'what reduced by discoloration. 0 In the more southern districts there is some com- plaint of the boll worm. Says Devitt Lies. A New York despatch says: When shown the charges made against him by Michael Devitt in •his paper the Labor World, Mr. Hoare, the British Consul in New York, to -day said the whole story was a tissue of malignant falsehoods. He declared be never saw McDermott in his life and never had any connection with him in any way. He denied that he ever se.w or communicated with Postoffice Inspector Newcombe, and said he never employed Matthew O'Brien to enter the service of the postoffice nor woe cognizant of bis being so employed. He stated that the papers at the time explained McDermott's preeence in Montreal was clue to his fear of being assaminated by enemies in New York. at Electricution Approved. An Albany &sprach says: In his report to Governor Hill on the lieramier execution, Dr. Clarke F. McDonald says that despite minor defects in the arrangement and operation of the apparatus, the first execution by eletriaty was a sumerreful experiment. He considers execution by eleetricity infinitely preferable to hanging, The report recommends that there be but one plant for the exeontion of criminals by electricity, locatdd in the central part of the State, in a building specially constrnoted for that purpose, and that the voltage be not less than 1,500 nor more than 2,000. Bad Visitors. A atoehester, N. H., deepatCh Saye : Charles W. Wiland, a farmer, living about three miles frora the village, on returning to his hcitne from work last night found hie wife bound and gagged, and rie an maconocions condition. Cash to the amount of $200 WAS gone front the house. Mra. Wiland has not yet been restored to conscioustrese so as to be able to givo an amount of the affair, and there is no clue whatever to the perpetrator Of the outrage. The theory that whiekey is nmessarti in the treatment of pneumonia has received a blow from Dr. Bull, of New York City, who discovers that in the New York hospitals 65 per cent. of the pneumonia patients die with alcoholic) treatment, while in London, at the Object Lesion Temperance Hospital, onla 6 per cent. diai If ete half of the world knew all the mean things oda about it by the other half Mir of extermination wotad ensue. THE NEGJI0E13' PIITURE, Bishop Potter on the Oondition of the Oolored Nen. FREJUDIVES HIE HARD. A New Yorkdespatch says: Bishop Heory C. Potter, in a letter which he has written to the U. S. African News Company, 'Behar public his viewer as to the future of the negroes in America, as follows: " In regard to the future in America of the African race, I preouree there can be little differ. ewe now as to what the race, freed and enframohised, is entitled to, nor what in common with all of us it needs. It is enti- tled to an eqoal opportunity, and, in order to improve it, it needs an education. I wish I could always be as sure it would bave the one as it seems to have the other —I mean the promiae of its equal ohance does not seem so good as the possibilities of its having religious and literary culture. The prejudices die Slowlyand die hard, and strangely enough Americans, who enslaved theta, of all civilized countries, seem least lately to for. get the matter of color. I do not mean as toacerial relatione, these must adjust them- selves, but I have in mind the tardiness and the unwillingness with which excel- lence and calamity are recognized in the block man. But though prejudice disappears slowly, it is lees universal than it was, and, I think, is steadily diminishing, and liere is the opportunity for the people of the African raoe. They want, of course, to be taught bandiorafts and letters, and then, with their newly acquired culture, they want to do the best work that can be done. I do not forget how much is againat them in their past training. When people talk of the negroes as ahiftless and lazy I find myself tempted to ask, What made them so? Generations of servitude and irre- aponeibility—when no one went to a task save as he was driven to it and where the fruits of one's labor were never his own. These have educated tendencies, whioh it is not surprising it has taken centuries to overcome. But when at the Net commencement of Harvard Uni- versity I saw a young colored man appear as the class orator and heard his brilliant and eloquent address, I said to myself, "Here is what an historic race can do if they have a clear field, a high pur- pose and a resolute will." A high purpose and a resolute will, I wish I could tell you how these can best be attained, but though that is a task too large Inc these limits I should at least like to say to every ycuth of the African race to whom these words may come—hate ease and insolence, cultivate the acquaintance in booke and out of them of minds inspired by a lofty pur- pose and an unselfish spirit, and then resolve to be like them. ERTOGROIIL WRECH. Particulars of the Loss of a Turkish. VOSE0I and 343 Bleu. A San Francisco despatch says: The steamship Belgie has arrived from Yoko- hama. The loss of the Turkish frigate Ertogroul, Japanese papers say, waS due to the explosion of the boilers during a gale. According to the reports of survivors brought to Kobe, the frigate left Yokohama September 151h for Kobe. On the 15th a wile sprung up eif Kislenoski, 250 miles Iran Yokohama, and a heavy sea was run- ning. Suddenly a terrible noise was heard and all was confusion. The men and 'officers were mostly below in their berths. Those not in their berths immediately rushed up to find what remained of the vessel foundering. Capt. Ali Bey was seen on the bridge for a moment with a larap in kis hand, and was heard to cry, "Save yourself." Then he disappeared and was seen DO more. Navigation Officer Mona Bey also perished. The chief engineer was almost the first to die. He went from the cabin to the engine -room just before the explosion, and was literally blown to atoms. The sea was soon full of debris in which the men fought and etruggled Inc life. Osman Pashto the admiral, was swimming toward the shore, when he was struck on the head by a spar and eank. Out of a total of 600 eouls only 6 officers and 57 of the crew reached land. The vessel was old and was formerly used as a training ship. The engines were of English make and bore the date of 1855. Up to Sept. 21s4, 130 corpses had been recovered, and most of the survivors had been removed to Kobe for medical treatment. NEEDS A STRAIT -JACKET. The Fiendishly Cruel Deed of a Crazy Farmer, A Minneapolis despatch soye : Plymouth township, this county, on Monday was the scene of one of the most fiendish deeds that have ocourrea in Minneeota in.roany years. Charles Hoppenroth, a German anima-, and his wife did not live happily together, and last Saturday after a quarrel she left him with the whole family, going to her own folks. This angered Hoppenroth, and this morning he took a heavy chain and fastened his three horses to posts in the barn, brought in all the valuable property near by, and kindling the pile with a quantity of dry straw 1 ram a neighboring stack, set fire to it and sullenly watched it burn to ashes. He next set fire to his new house, and in half an hour the house was levelled to the ground. The flames seemed to goad him on to further destruction. Building a rude fence about the stacks he drove his stock into the enclosure and again applied the firebrand. The flames drove the cattle wild, and they broke down the enclosure and escaped. By this time the neighbors arrived and he was arrested. How Serpa Pinto Gets Revenge. A London cable says: The English Govetriment is preparing to deal with Portugal in a summory manner should that country refuse to carry eta the demands of the Anglo -Portuguese conven- tion and also to make redress for injury done to the property bf British subjeas. English merohants and manufacturers are very sore over the tom of Portugneee trade and the boycott iin that country upon all things English. Maj. Serpa Pinto, the noted African explorer and enemy of Eng- land, twee a spittoon in the form of an Englishma,nai head) and in every way pos- sible the Portuguese are showing their hatred of Great Britain. The British Government is becoming irritated at this state of affairs and it is reported that the little kingdom will soon receive an tad- matueo. M. Bardeen, member of the Frani% dharnber of Deputies from Lyons, in a speech yesterday to the electors of his dis- trict, advocated the purchase of mineral oils from Rtisaia and fats from Auatria and Hungary in reprisal for the new United States tariff kw. A convention of East Huron Liberale will be held at Bruesele on Friday next. Offieere will be elected and arrangements made for a serum of public meetings. The conVention will be addremea by Dr. Mao* dottold, M.P.; Mr, John MoMillon, Miro lid Mr. Thomas GibSon, M. THE STOUT OP A WINOLK, Arreet of BaJeweliee Maarps oz their Arrivia itt N York. A New York despatela eeya : Mrs. Cor- nelia Miller and Mat Primate Field were arreeted in the Fifth Aveaue Betel to,day, and looked up at police heaequartere They were emoted ou male despeoh from London, and were oherged with being fugitivea from justice, who bed a lane amount of money wales:fully, in their pee - session. Their arreet omitted it sensation pt Ole hotel. The ladies are ,both heautitul and refined: Mrs, Miller lira literate,very tall. In her ears she wore meenificont dia. nronds, and her hands blued with the armee precious stones. Mae Field ie dark. The Circumstances which led to theie arrest are as followe : A.bout, tare yens ago a new banking firm was Waterbed in Lon- don under the name of 413444.8 H. Field & alo., the partners being Jernes H. Field, William Wadsworth Miller, and the latter's 19.year•old son, William Yatee 'diner. The firm advertised largely, and promised that investments of money in tbeir beards would realize an interest of from 25 to 30 per cent. every three mouths, Many per. sons invested. The promises of the firm were kept for a year and a half. Fleetly payments began to ire delayed, and custom- ers were put off with plausible excuses Six weeks ago the concern was closed, and no trace of the partners could be found. The depositors, many of whom were ruined financially, put the matter in the hands a detectives. They learned that the part - Dere had fled to the contilient, and that Mrs. Field and. Mrs. Maier bad taken a steamer for New York, with the batter' rayears old daughter. On the 301h ult. they arrived here. At the Fifth Avenue Hotel they registered as Mrsaliller and child, while Mrs. Field bad adoplea the name of Mrs. F. Browning. Dorn became cus- tomers of Brown Brothers, the Wall street bankers, where Mrs. Miller at various times presented drafts on Brown, Shipley & Co., of London. These drafts ranged from $10,000 to e25,000, the total aroottmt being 095,000. Mrs. Iailler alway a int3iLW that the drafts be asehed in 5,000 end $10,000 Treasury notes. A week ago Brown Brothers learned that the drafts ads. Miller was presenting were the pro. ceeds of a stupendous evandle. The next day Bars. Miller called again and pre- sented a draft for $35,000, which the firm refused to honor. Shortly after the women reached this city they engeged the services of Messrs. Howe dr Rummell. To them the last draft was given in hopes they world be more successful in cashing it. The law firm also failed. A writ of habeas corpee was obtained by the women'a counsel, returnable on Monday before. Judge Barrett. When the writ is diepooed of the women will be immediately arrested by the United States authorities upon warrants charging them with bringing. stolen money into this country. Knew It Ali. From Merry Monarch : e in an African desert once there dwelt An ostrich wondrous wise, who carried Ms head so proudly high It almost touched the sides. He had lived so long and had seen so much He was VELiLl as vain could he, And this wonderful bird was frequently heard To remark complacently : 'If ron seek for information, Or desire an explamitioo, I'm a brimuling fount of wisdom that responds to every call. For assorted gilt-edged knowledge I can discount any college; I'm a simple little ostrich, but 1 kuow it all'" ' Thore was something wrong with this %TR -laid' plan, I much regret to say; For they snaked him out of his biding place 'Without the least delay •, They plucked his long tail -feathers out Till he was a sight to see, -And they clipped his wings with shears and, things That burb confoundedly. Than they shipped him o'er the ocean, And to -day, if you've it notion At it second-rate museum in this neighborbood to call, You will see a sight pathetic, For, with mien apolog,,etic, Stands the simple little obtrich, stuffed, who knew it all"t • The Swamp of Death. B Y you dark mime, with cruel, nairdaous hands. I n coldest blood this poor young manwas slain ejoicing in good health, he here did stand 0 areless of ; with short and sudden pain H e falls it victim, to the mord'rer there A man with heart of stone, who loving gold L aid down bis honor and his charact5r- 1. down his all, his life for money sold. 01. 15 y justice caught he now must meet his fate, E 'en now, for it in prison cell doth wait; it aught now can save him from the bangman's rope, W ith God he yet may make his peace, we hope; 310 entreating his Maker in His wondrous grace, L orating from heaven, to find him there a mace, a eading hirc to Him through the realms of space. —Magna Poeta. Jesuits on Top in Mexico. A City of Mexico despatch says: The State constitution was submitted to the people of the Territory yesterday, and the American cities and towns heve given it good majorities, but the Mexican popula- tion have voted almost solidly against it, being opposed on amount of the provisions for Praia° gehools. Up to the time the jesnit priests issued manifestos to vote down the constitution, Mexicans—who are almost all Catholics— , appeared to favor it. The constitution is no doubt defeated by this influence. Congress will be appealed to to provide a system of education and a jury law compelling jurors to read and write the English longtime for this Territory. Both Sides of the Ouestion. St. Louis Globe -Democrat : Mr. Cleve- land is very sick. Mr. Cleveland is very well. Mr. Cleveland is despondent. Mr. Cleveland is exuberant. Mai Clevelana will' not allow the me of his name for raeleotion, Mr. Cleveland will be nominated for re- election without opposition. P. S.—Having given both sides of this impotent question the Globe•Democrat simply wishes to add, of its own notion, that Mr. Cleveland will not bo the next President of the United Stateo. Mao. Patti will build a synagogue at Craigannoo, ber reaiderice in Wale0a President Carnet will pardont many of the Froneh workmen who were imprisoned Inc taking part in the riotous demonotra- Mons in connection with the strikes some time ago. The temperance convention at Amherst has nominated G. C. Teuton and S. Arabi. bald to contest Pictou county at the next Federal election. J. T. Buttner refund to be nominate. James Hanna committed suicide by hanging yesterday at Miami, Manitoba. He had been deepondent of late, owing to bed health, Demaired was aged 35, and was unmade& James Egan, wheelie:non on the car ferryboat International WWI drowned yea- terday morning at 2 o'clock la the boat wag going into the slip at Point Edward. He fell off the boat. There are 82,390 a:inanimate in New York, not counting the better class of flats r 3400,000 bureau bainge live in them. Of these, 142,50 are children under 6 yearsa