HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-1-8, Page 6DEAD JAMESON'S DIARY,.
It Lets in Some Light 05 '1110 Conduct of the
Famous Expelitiou.
OHARGES AGAINST STANLEY.
A London oable says : Jameson's diary
Will les published tomorrow Mrs. Jameson
and the dead man'e brother in a preface to
the work bitterly attack Steuley for
sneaking Jae:amen the ectepegoat for all the
troubles whioh occurred and claiming they
were due to Stanley's own bad judgment
and neglect. They also suggest tiled Stan-
ley and Bonney etre not telline the truth.
The cannibal episode as it appears in the
diary is eubetantially Mouthed with the
account of it contained in the letter to the
Brain Committee, Jameson aade to his
3taternent of the facts, "1 would never have
been such a beast as to have witnessed the
act or eannibalism, but was unable until the
last raoment to bring rayeelt to believe that
it was anything save a ruse to get money
out of inc."
In his diary under date of April 10th,
1887, Jameson complains thet Stanley
rejeots his advice to give the'siok a period
of rest, and compete them to continue the
numb, "with the result," he adds, "that
the camp regards roe as a brute, and
li3tanle.y as a eert of guardian angel." The
diary is a record of the daily program end
adventures of the expedition, interspersed
with disputes between Stenley and his
followers. For inetance, he says : "While
marching to Nktelama, after ordering a
hundred lashes to be given a man for losing
a bee of ammunition, Stanley accused me of
losing three boxes, and said, 'If this hap.
penis again we must pert.' If this continues
and Stanley reproaches me before the men
I shall not be sorry when we do part."
The diary records that Stanley degraded
three uhiefs, the beet men Jameson had
ever seen among the natives, and only
released them from their obains on
the intercession of Tippoo Tib. In
a letter to his wife Jameson corn
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plains that he has no time for
the pursuits a a naturalist. He
declares his whole time is employed
"in beating and loading niggers."
While at Leopoidsville, he writes, they all
had disagreeable moments with Stanley,
but they think they are ended for the
present. "1 cannot held admiring him
immensely," he says, " for the great
strength of will power in overcoming
difficulties, but there are some points in
bie character which is impossible to
-admire. Again, when Stanley discards
his reserve he is moat agre.eeble and full of
information." Later he describes " the
seaost disgraceful row I ever hcara between
Stanley, Jephson, and Stairs in reference
to the complaint of the Zenziberie, whose
word Stanley takes in preference to that of
his officers. Jameson also Gaye 44 On
June 6th, having by his own mistake lost
the camera while steaming to Aanwhimi,
Stanley said if he had failed to find the
steamers he world have treated Its all as
deeerters. He used hard and unfair words,
and appeared to distrust us if a yard from
him. Yet, except myself, who wed seedy,
the officers breve worked the hardest in the
most horrible swamps to procure wood.
This distrust sickens us, and is frightfully
disheartening."
Being encamped at Yambuya Jameson
again writes to his wife : " 1 ce.nnot get
over the disappointment of being left alone
with Battelot. Stanley left us 76 of the
very worst men under one worthlees chief.
The camp is pitched in a frightfully damp
place."
In numerous entries Jameson expressed
dislike to the necessary flogging of sentriee
caught asleep, and sets forth the difficulty
of suppressing mutiny among the natives,
who were wetery of waiting for Stanley.
tie describes stirring adventures on the
journey to Rassonga.
On May 8th, 1888, he records the =mi.
hal incident as already published. In the
final chapter he expresses deep sorrow at
the death of Barttelot, and says, "The
closest friendship existed between tie. He
was a straightforward, honest gentleman,
his only fault being a hasty temper. He
loved plain, straightforward dealing far
too much ever to get on well with the
.Arabs. He hated their crafty, round-
about manner, and showed it, and was
disliked in turn. Ho was far too good a
man to lose his life in this misermble way.
God knows what I will do without '
In a subsequent letter Jameson says:
"Little did I think when I spoke
to you of my feelings of duty that
I should ever he placed in such
a position es new, where all I feel for you
and our little ones mieg out against what I
easemet do se an officer of this expedition.
With one word, or even ashowof weaknees
on my part, I could stop the whole expedi-
tion, which memo fated to meet nothing
but reverses, andemeturn to you, but God
knows such a thhught has never entered my
/mart, although I could eaelly defend such
a course."
Later he writes : "Asead's stories are a
tissue of falsehoods. It is awful that suoh
a scoundrel is allowed to traduce one be.
hind one's bock when there is no chance of
defending oneeelf."
Ward, in describing Jameson's' death,
says : "The drums were eonndbeg to cease
the day's work. He opened his eyes,
started, and clutched my hands, saying
huskily, 'Ward, Ward; they are coming!
Listen! Now, let's stand together.' " Ward
explains that Jameson was thinking of the
drums calling the savages to fight while
they were drifting on tbe river.
A Disastrous Season on the Lakes.
A Detroit despatch elms : The past
season has been unusually disastrous to
hipping on the great lakes. Sixteen
steamere, whose total tonnage was 5,915
tons and whose value was $356,500, were
lost. Twenty-seven schooners and barges,
veined at 5278,000 and with a tonnage of
8,585 tons, were also lost, as well as 12
tugs, valued at 579,000 and 520 tons bur-
den, making the total number of vessels
lost 55, with an aggregete tonnage of 15,020
toes and the financial loss of $713,000.
Disgraceful.
Proctor (determined to be severe)—What!
Do you mean to deny that yen have been
playing poker? Here are the chips, three
colors, and there is the basket to hold them.
What do you claim to be playing?
'94 (in chorns)a-Ticiciledy Wink.
A Willing Parent.
Woel—What 515 year father-in-law say
when be gave year bride away?
Vein Pelt—He quoted from the Bible, but
1 cen't remember it exactly.
Wool—That's funny.
Van Pert—Oh, yes; he said eoenething
about it being 44 more blessed to give than
to receive."
Vilutt He Can't Do#
Drake's Magazine : Man le a power in
the land, but After all, he can'eget married
without a Womennmoonsent.
De Maschs--Shall you go South for
the winter? St. Agedore—Nn ; X can
get all the winter X Want right here.
A HORRIELB CHILD 311:111DEItt
Farticulars of the Fiendish Crime of the
Indian Marl*.
THE =Tam% THREATENED.
A Kingston despatoh eays : Thi e MOT.
ing two constable e brought to the eity from
Sherbet Lake an Tudian prisoner, Peter
Sharbott, who was committed by dueler:is
of the Pew Shibley and Avery on a charge
of having murdered a child. It appears
fm the information at hand that the
prieoner only reoently married the woman
who bore the child •that was killed, and
that she haa before being married to the
Indien been living with another man. On
the 24th of September Sharbott got on a
epree, and in his drunken frenzy tramped
912 the child arid then struck it its death-
blow with a pair el tenge. A short time
afterwards the Indium, in the company of
his wife, buried the child in a swamp near
Sherbet Lake. The prisoner partly
admitted his crime Ude morning and said
he was so drunk he iiid not know what he
was doing. The name of the ohild was
Mat. Jaen The prieoner is about 30 years
of age and a son of. the late Chief Sharbott,
after whom Shembot Lake Wait called.
A. Kingston deemetoh ems : The full
&Anne of the child murder at Sherbet Lake
have been neared by the reporters. It
appears that on the 20th September last a
young woman named Sarah, of the White
Duck tribe, Calabogie, married Peter
Sherbet. The maple were both Roman
Catholics, but were united according to the
Methodiet Mine). Preview to this time it
seems that the virtue of the White Dnok
woman had not been altogether untarnished,
and ehe had with her when married an
illegitimate child, which, however, she pro-
vided for by making it a condition of the
merrie.ge that the infant, then a year and
four months of age, !should be provided
and cared for by Peter. Sherbet, in order
to win his spouse,
agreed, but after the
marriage he began to dislike the youngster,
so much so thee on the 22n5 of September
it became necessary for his wife to beg of
him not to ill -rise it, as he was slepping
it on the face and beating it very badly.
He desisted at the time, but hate for
the helpless infant rankled in his heart,
and his quick temper was several times
vented on it during next day or so. Then
on the fourth day after hie marriage (Sept.
24th), about the middle of the afternoon,
the otimex came. Something put Sharbot
in a, terrible passion, and he proceeded to
put an end to the life of the child. No one
was preeent except hie wife.
THE DIABOLICAL DEED.
Walking up to the child playing on the
floor of the shanty kitchen he grasped it
by the threat and choked it into nnoon-
scionenese, till the blood ran from Ms
mouth and nose. The helpless strugglings
and muffled peps of the little one appeared
only to excite him more, and to make his
worle sure and certain he kicked it around
the floor. His eyes lighting upon a heavy
pair of pinchers (of the kind need by black-
smiths for pulling off horeesheee), he picked
the.m up, and with a. few blows of the
dreadful weapon effectually completed one
of the most cowardly and brutal murders
known in the annals of crime. Throwing
the dead body on the floor with an exclam-
ation of hate, he coolly walked out of the
house. His wife, who had pleaded up to
the last to spare the (mild, fell to the floor
in a deathdike Mine, caused by the dread -
f ul nem she had witnessed, and did
not recover for some time. Sherbet re-
turned, and after restoring his wife picked
up the body of the child and told her to
follow him. He led her to a swamp some
short distance from the house, and taking
a spade he was carrying, dug et hole in the
ground, threw his victim in, filled the
cavity up, and returned to the house.
Sherbet then told his wife that if anybody
asked her where the child was she was to
say that it had been given to a mem and
taken away, and also that she did not
know where it had been taken to or any-
thing about it, and moreover that if she ever
told anyone the true facts of the case he
world make an end of her too.
THE WIFE DIVULGES Ties SECRET.
The rtightened woman could do no more
than consent to this, and said no word to
anyone about it for some time. But the
crime haunted her, and she availed herselt
of an opportunity in the absence of her
hueband to consult relatives, with the
result of the arrest of Sherbet. He was
brought to Kingston jail. He took matters
after the arrest in the sullen indifferent
way newel with Indians, and maid no word
to anyone except that he would "die like a
mien if he had to."
AT PRISONER'S HOME.
Vieiting the home of Sherbet, his mother
was met. She said, '41 don't think he
killed the baby; he told .me he gave. it
tway. I hope they won't hang my bay, S•I
world rather he went to the penitentiary
than that. Then I would know Where
he was." The sons also affirmed that Peter
had given the child away, and stated
that they did not think he would harm
anyone,
Mrs. Peter Sherbet, in giving her evi.
dence, stated that she would know the
burial place again, and also that she was of
opinion that an arm was broken by the
blows from the iron pinchers. It is likely
that the authorities, acting on the lest
statement, will have the body exhumed end
an exe.mination made.
Peter Sherbet is one of five sons of the
late Francois Sherbet or" Chief Sherbet."
He is about 30 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches.
tall, strongly built, and as wiry and agile
as 8 deer. He usually worked in the lum-
ber mills in Bummer, in the woods, in
winter, and in spring was known as oneraf
the most nervy and active river -drivers to
be found anywhere. He was DS a Mile
quiet and respeotful, except when hemould
get liquor, which he sometimes did through
a third party, as it wonld be refused him at
thelotela. When under its influence he
was riotone and dangerous.
Dr. Mundell, coroner, has gone to Blear -
bot Lake to hold an ingneet, it being um,
&Mood that the body has been found.
Fatal Sausage -Boller Explosion.
A Cincinnati deepatch says : A boiler
explosion occurred tmday on tlae premises
of Gus. Loenwenstein, butcher and mann.
fact/leer of sensages, at 9th and John
streets. There was a terrifies upheaval in
the vicinity, and no leset than seven
buildings occupied as dwelling houses were
wrecked and torn so that they will have to
be taken down. Bertha Gray, aged one
and a half yeses, was killed, being found
under the debris of one of the berme. Mrs.
Loenwenetein had her beak broken and
cadatiot live. Mee Baum, her derighter, is
badly cut and bruised, and William Hig-
gins had his ribs broken and is badly
braised.
The Pope yesterday received the con.
grettilettiOne of the Cardinals upon the
fifty.third anniversary of hie first abbrs.
tion of MEM. He hut fully recovered from
hie recent oold.
A cove hal; two horns; many men can
diecotint a cote in tbie respect every day, of
their livers,
THE PARNELLITE ROUT.
'raja ne1/6 Uncrowned King Loses
His Kindom,
KILKENNY WANTS NONE OF HIM.
Healy's Tantalizing Tongue Gets Bina Into
Trouble--Partiell to Continue the
Fight—The Election to be Proteeted--
Devitt Gives the Leader Another
Scoring.
A last (Tuesday) night's Kilkenny cable
says : If North Kilkenny is to decide who
shall be the leader ot the Nationalist
party, Mr. Parnell is out of the running.
A more decisive defeat than hie nominee,
Mr. Scully, received, it would be difuonit
to imagine. Ont of 3,892 vote, Sir John
Pope Hennessy received a majority of
1,162. Up to Monday morning Mr. Par-
nell's followers ridiculed Hennessy 's
candidature, put Scully's majority from
a thousand to Moen hundred, laughed at
the idea of the electors keeping their
promises to the prieets, the letter would
find to their cost how dangerous it was to
tamper with the subjects of the uncrowned
king—well, the bubble is burst. The power
of the priests has not been. broken, the
people have kept their promises, Mr. Devitt
will not be obliged to shun Irish politics on
the ground that the Irish people are liars;
Mr. Healy will have a further opportunity
of striking that dagger he carries in his
month into his enemies, and Mr. Dillon
and his oomrades in America will take
heart of grace. Mr. Parnell is not rumen-
quereble. Nay, more, he outs a sorry figure,
and whatever stroke of fortune or misfor-
tune he may be able to withstand, once let
him appear ridiculous and his power is gone.
In such guise he has appeared several times
lately, hut his admirers are purblind and
fanatical. Parnell hae enemies wbo never
forgive, and they appear to be more numer-
ous than his friends.
Kilkenny wore a military air this morn-
ing. Hundreds of conetabulary marched
hither and thither in small bodies. Later
in the day the counting of the voted 'took
place at the Court House. It was terribly
slow work. It began at 9 and ended jest
before 3. As the hours passed Mr. Par.
nell's supporters grew more gloomy. In
the room where the counting was done sat
Ur. Parnell and his immediate followers.
On the other side sat Messrs. Devitt, Healy
and others. There were also a few priests,
while in the corridors of the buildings there
were priests by the dozen. Gradually a
crowd gathered in front of the Court
House, composed mostly of young
men, boys and girls. It numbered
five hundred when the largest. G -roans
went up from the crowd when it was
announced that Sir John Pope Hennessy
Was elected. The announcement was mild°
by the sheriff. At fifteen minutes to three
the sheriff proclaimed that Henneesy was
duly elected member for North Kilkenny.
Sir John moved a vote of thanks to the
sheriff and the election ,afficers, seconded
by Mr. Scully. There were cheers for
Hennessy from his supporters and groans
from hie opponents. Then everybody
turned and walked out. As he made
move, Mr. Parnell said "1 suppeee the
figures are all right ?" Mr. William Red-
mond nodded. Sir John Pope Hennessy
shook hands with Mr. Parnell and left the
room. Sir John drove to his hotel at once,
and left the town soon afterwards mma via'
to Arobbiehop Croke. The ruiner that a
petition would be presented spinet-- the
return of Hennessy is unfounded.
When Mr. Parnell appeared on the bel.
cony of the court house there was tremen-
dous cheering. On the balcony and
throughout the court house many police
were scattered. The crowd was boieterons.
Mr. Parnell faced the crowd bareheaded,
but in the white silk bandage which has
done etch great service. When he got a
hearinobhe seed "Though we have beet
the first of 86 contests we are undaunted."
There were shouts, yells and cheers. He
continued "We will go to the people of
Ireland."
At this point e. voice called oat : "You
have gone to the people of Ireland and
have been whipped. The voice belonged
to Mr. Healy. The words oreated
a volcanio eruption of rage. The
people on the balcony were supposed
to represent the best elements of the
'sooiety of the city and vicinity. I stood in
front of Mr. Healy, touching him. The
fame of those who glowered at him were
oonvulsed with rage. Stioke and arms
were raised on all sides. I begged him to
get out of eight. He refused. Nobody
need say Healy was not plucky. He faced
the pack of snarling wolves with smiles,
but if the police had not surrounded him he
would have been greatly injured, if not
killed. The priests *who supported Mr.
Parnell suggested that Healy shonld be
thrown over the balcony. He was taken
away by a private route and went to Dub-
lin later. The windows of the railway car-
riage Fere broken. At Carlow he received
is rough reception.
' Mr. Parnell left Kilkenny for Dublin at
7 o'olook. He made several speeches on
the way. The people either adore or hate
Parnell. He apparently makes the mistake
ef thinking beetuse his adorers make more
noise they are more numerone. He am
counted for his `defeat by clerical dictation,
'though he did not put it in so many
'words. He arrived in Dublin at 11.30.
There was a great crowd to give him the
Mae' hurrah at the station, but the men
who were not received with hurrahs, but
with hoots, are far happier to -night. Mr.
Parnell goes to Avondale tomaorrow. It is
his present intention to go to Paris on
Thursday. The fear here among the anti-
Parnellites is that Mr. O'Brien may cam.
• /eternise them in his desire to patch up a
truce. Truce seemed out of the question a
few deys ago, North Kilkenny has made it
go. To. the viotore bebongtb apoils in Ire-
land as well as in Canada. -
I3111TRIMIR On iiiVICIVE?
A Ghastly Discovery in a Barn near Lin-
wood, Michigan.
A. Bay City despeetch Fume : The village
i
of Linwood, n Freezer township, aim
county, near whieh place Jude Smith WM
murdered by hie brother a short time ago,
was thrown into a great state of exalte.
went yesterday by a ghastly discovery in a
barn one mile from the railroad etetion,
Sheriff Conklin, Prosecuting Attorney
Pierce and Deputy Sheriff Tenney went to
Linwood in response to a telegram to snake
an investigation. Upon their arrived they
were extorted through the woods to a
deserted clearing a mile east towards Simi -
naw Bay. Here is an old log shanty that
has not been used for years, and near by is
an old log barn eight feet high, the roof
thatched with straw. T.Jpon opening the
broken door an awful sight met the eyes of
the officers. Hanging from a rafter by the
neck was the body of a woodsman with the
throat cut nearly from ear to ear. The
rope was sunk deeply into the gash and the
features were horribly distorted. The
body was frozen stiff, and the
blood on the face made a horrible epee.
temle. The rope was covered with blood
and there were frozen pools in the fstrew
and hay here and there. At the side of the
body was a bag commonly called a " tur-
key, ' containing old clothes, needles,
thread, to. The knife with which the
wetting was done was lying upon the bag
and was covered by the man's cap. The
blade is two and one-half inches long. His
coat had been taken off and placed over a
beam in the barn. There was nothing on
the body by which to identify it. There
wae a memorandum book showing that
deceased may have worked in McKeon,
Glover & Sage's camp No. 4. Deceased
was about 40 years old. There are two
theories: One that the man was a woods-
man with his winter's earnings in his
pocket, was enticed to the barn and robbed,
his throat out, and, to divert suspicion, the
body hung to the beam. The other is that
the deceased first tried to commit suicide
by cutting his throat, but, failing, made a
noose with a rope, tied it to the beam, get
upon a box and kicked it from under his
feet.
Brutal Warder of a Watchman.
A Norfolk, Va., despatch says Early
this morning J. E. Brady, a fireman, ere.
pipped by the Cotton Compress AM:100in,
tion, applied to C. J. Colcutt, a private
watchman of the wharf, to arrest a man in
the street who had been offensive to him.
Cole:tit refused, saying he had no authority
to do en. Brady left, but returned jest as
Colcutt wise eating his Ain:inert whiele had
been brought to bine by hie' wife and two
little grendohildren, and in their presence
pulled a revolver and shot Colcutt through
the head, killing him inetantly. greedy wee
arrested. The police with difficulty Flee -
vented the crowd from lynching him.
A Certain Tet.
"I'm going to have Nevereleep read the
manuscript of my new novel to see if he
can discover the plot."
"Is he a critic?'
No, but he's a deteotive, and if he can
discover it everybody can,"
Sir john Pope Henaesay, who is ZIOW
playing an prominent a part in Irish peli-
ties, is the original of Antheny Trollope'n
character of 4' Phineite Finn," the Milt
member.
LYIING.:A.RoUT MRS. BlECHALL.
--
Tho Tarn that Elie is to Marry Leetham
Flatly Contradicted.
"The highest authority " is given by a
recent cable denpatch from London for the
announcement that Mrs. Birchen will soon
be wedded privately to Mr. Arthur
Leetham, of Montreal, her late husband's
college friend. The same despatch, which
has been published far and wide, states
that Mr. Stevenson, Mrs. Birchall's father,
who for many yeare has occupied a promi-
nent position in the management of the
London et Northwestern Railway, has been
forced to resign from the company's sem
vice by the disagreeable notoriety the mum
der trial at Woodetook has given him. A
gentleman in Toronto, who received aletter
recently from Mrs. Birchen, denies both
statements. He states that the rumor
about Mrs. Birchall'e marriage is met by
an unqualified contradiction in the letter,
in whieh she writes at Borne length
about her plans for the future.
Before her departure from this
country Mrs. Birchen received
many proposals of marriage by letter,
all of whioh she disregarded. Her father's
resignation was not due in any way to the
unpleasant notoriety resulting from the
murder trial. Mr. Stevenson ie almost 70
years old, and was superannuated a short
time before Benwell'e murder. He its in
receipt oi a yearly allowance of 5600 till his
death from the London & Northwestern
Railway Company.
A VERT CLUMSY SMUGGLER
--
Bulks Himself Up With Cotton ried Loses
Many Valuable Diamonds.
A New York despatch says: The ill -
proportioned appearance of Albert Nieder-
mann as he walked down the gang -plank
from the Bremen steamer Labe in Hoboken
attracted the attention of the customs
officere, and he was watched. Inspectors
Donohue and Brown followed him up to
River street, and when they saw him
removing something from his pocket they
arrested him. He was taken back to the
pier snd seerehed. Sewed in the seat and
legs of leis trousers between layers of cotton
were found two pairs of diamond earrings,
a diem:lend br000h, two diamond finger
rings, a watch with diamonds set in the
case, a diamond bracelet, a dozen jewelled
garters, 31 gold watches, and other jewel-
lery, valued in all at several thousand
dollars. He oried bitterly while he
was being searched. United States Com-
missioner Muirheid committed him for
examination in default of $2,500 bail. The
prisoner says he lives in Philadelphia, and
it is suspected that he is an agent for a
jewelry firm there. He refuses to make
any statement.
LOST PliCNSION AND FARM,
But He Was Probably Not a Harrison and
Blaine Supporter.
A Milwaukee despatch ems: In April,
1888, Joseph La Lone, Dodge County, who
served through the civil war, win granted
a pension with $5,268 back pay. La Lone
was a sufferer from ague when he returned
in 1865, and a few yeare later was stricken
with paralysis. After the pension was
granted the Government officials learned
that before La Lone was paralysed he had
met with a severe accident. When the
man received his pension money he trans-
ferred it to his wife. Afterwards all but
$1,500 was drawn ont of the bank to num
chase a farm in Dodge County. The Gov-
ernment brought snit againet La Lone and
his wife to recover the money and made
the bank a party to the suit. The testi-
mony showed paralysis followed the acci-
dent. Now the Government is $1,500 and
a farm ahead.
Robbed and Cremated.
A Holden, Mo., despatch says: Samna
Malone's house was burned here this morn-
ing. When the firemen arrived one side of
the house fell out, and they saw Malone
e,nd John Bich, his brothemin.law, crawl-
ing towards a door in theit bedmoom
atterepting to escape. Then the roof fell
in, and the mon were hidden from eight.
Their charred reneteins were found in the
mins. Malone was an old eoldier drawing a
pension, and elwaye kept more or leen
money in hie home. 11 18 believed he and
Make were drtgged, the home robbed and
then set on fire.
t—eTilleT1
An Ann Arbor, Mich., despatch nye: H.
A. Macey, a Mnior mediate' student, diod
yesterday afternoon from the result of
injuries received while coasting Friday
night, He was all ready to leave for home,
sterted for the train, and accepted an
tation io ride down the hill. The ded
became unmanageable and he fell off. In
florae way the pled °truck him in the
abdomen. He wets teller% to the University
Hoepital, where be died in the afternoon of
peritonitis resulting from his injuries.
--London Truth expecte to give tors to
22,000 Ohildeen.
TIM SCOTCH BAHAWAT STRIKE -
Attempts to Wreck Trains ---Probabilities
of the Result.
A Glasgow oable ams: A railway chair
we found fastened to the tracks! on the line
between thie city end )iiibride, but the
obstruction was discovered just in time to
prevent an Resident. The purpose was to
derail the night train, and etrikers are
mond of the fiendieh act. Numbers of
the Aberdeen strikers are resuming work,
There are prospects that the etrikers in
Glaisgow and Edinburgh will cement to
arbitration.
The Caledonian Company claims an im-
provement in the working of the' road, and
gives out that it is more determined than
ever not to yield to the strikere.
It is now estimated that about 9,000
men are out on arils° on the various rail-
ways in Scotland. Traffio on the North
British Beltway has almost ceased. The
company will euepend the operations of
its steamers on Loch Lomond and the
Clyde in order to obtain employees to
work on the reilwey. Two engineers who
refused to quit work were pelted with
stones by a number of strikers mar Glas-
gow and were seriously iejured. Many
minor aesaults by strikers are reported.
The employees of the Caledonian Railway
Co. are gradually joining the etrikers. The
Glasgow docks are closed. The gas supply
at Perth is threatened with exhaustion
owing to the inability of the companies to
obtain coal.
The English and Irish railway societies
have Maned a joist manifesto asking rail-
way hands generally to abstain from help.
ing the Scotch railway companies at this
juncture. They nre asked to remain
neutral, and if the employere bring pres-
sure to bear on them to assist the °rip-
pled companies they are told they must
strike.
One thousand railway men at Hell have
struck for an increase in wages and ehorter
home.
Owing to the railroad strike several sugar
refineries in Greenock hsve been compelled
to suspend operations.
The Canadian Cattle Trade with Britain
Threatened with Extinction.
An Ottawa despatch of last night says:
The cattle trade between Canada
and Britain is now threatened with
what may prove its extinetion if
no speedy remedy is brought about. This
means very much mere than most people
at first sight imagine. From the Minister
of Agriculture your correspondent learned
that the trade had grown apace, and this
year it will amount to nearly $10,000,000.
One of the pioneers in the trade was Ald.
Frankland, of Toronto. The difficulty
which now threatens it is the motion of
Mr. Plimsoll, of England, who in the
interests of humanity protests ageinet the
enmity to which the animate are exposed
on the sea voyage, and who he,s a bill
before the Britieh.Parlisinent to remedy
the evil. He is backed by the British
formers to a man, ostensibly as humani-
tarians, but really actuated by the sole
motive of killing off a trade which has
reduced the price of beef in the old
country. Already several veesels have been
debarred from carrying cattle between
Montreal and Liverpool, and it is feared
that this may go on until the whole craft
has been declared unfit for this treas.
To.day a delegation will arrive from Mon-
treal to interview the Ministers of Marine
and Agriculture in regard to the matter.
The Minister of Agriculture has 'charge of
the health of the animals, while the Minis-
ter of Marine is supposed to look after the
housing and loading of the cattle on the
boats. As far as the shipment of cattle
having contagious diseases, there are no
real grounds for complaint, although ship-
pers nave been annoyed with unnecessary
detention to the shipments on the other
side, caused by the veterinary surgeons
there. When the cattle were examined, it
turned out that they were perfectly free
from pleuro -pneumonia. As to the vessels
need for this trade, I am informed by the
Marine Department that many of them are
what may be called " tramp " steamers.
All the serious losses have occurred on
these boats, as was shown the other day
that on one of them 160 head of (mettle were
washed overboard out of a total of 600
By the regular lines the loss has
been less than half of 1 per eent.
It is to the interest of the cattle shippers
to belie the best possible accommodation
provided for their cattle, while the ship-
owners who have placed all their old boats
and erected hurricane decks on them for
that traffic, will naturally object to
any material °hang, and it is here where
the trouble will arise when both parties
come before the Government. The Gov-
ernment, however, has been advised by
competent authorities that if they desire to
continue this trade it is hotter for them to
take action on the matter than permit the
Imperial Parliament, as the latter, not
being conversant with the necessities of the
trade, is sure to pass legislation much more
stringent on shippers and ship -owners. It
would show a desire on our part to remedy
an evil which exists to a certain extent.
am informed on good authority that the
Government will suggest that a proper in-
spection be made as to the sea -worthiness
of the veseel, the amount of deck load,
the description of building, and the hous-
ing of the eattle. Temporary building and
deck loads, they say, ought to be taken off
alter the first of September, as experience
has shown that after that date the weather
is too severe for temporary buildings. I may
else say that the Government have been in
receipt of communications from the lead-
ing importers of cattle from the Old
Country, that if the trade is to be preserved
speedy improvements ought 13 be effeeted.
The United States people were alive to this
and building new and improved steamere
for the truffle,
He Organlz Ed a "Joint Stock" Concern.
.A Council Bluffs, Is., despatch says :
Some time ago C. D. Covill, claiming to
represent a Boston electrie company,
opened np an establishment here. He said
electricity wag generated with the nee of
chemicals and not with dynamos; that
lights could be pet in large Mores for 5100
per annnm, and that there would be $90 of
that sum profit. After remaining several
months he organized it stook company,
inducing a number of capitalists to invest
money in it. He has been atrested. No
one seems to know where he came from,
but it has been learned that his batteries
wore charged at the electric light station at
Sioux City, Ia.
Tier Hat -Pin Pierced *Ter Brain.
A New York despatch says: An un.
known woman, apparently about 60 years
old, fell on the sidewalk at the corner al
Eleventh avenue and Fifty-fourth street
toolsy. Passers-by hurried to assist her,
and an ambulance wee °ailed. When it
arrived the woman was dead. The woman
in falling had °truck on the back of her
head, and had driven it long hat.pin through
the skull into her brain,
, Wooden-- Slinks is such a retiring
fellow, isn't he? Sharpe—Yes, I have
known him to retire from nevelt different
hotels in ono !Summer, becanee they wanted
him to pay hie bill.
MURDERED BY HE LOVER.
Brutal Butchery of a Young Girl by a Low
Island Wax Maker,
LYNOHING TfIREATENED.
A Stmville, L. I., despatch saye : A
brutal murder was eommitted on Friday
night at 1ohemia, a smell village about
three miles rmetla of hero, The victim was
Winnie Croup, a oiger maker, aged 21, the,
ruurderer being FerinkKreiits, aged 26, also
a cigar maker. The murder wee first made
known by Keane laimeelf mon after its
perpetration. About 9.e0 in the evening
limns walked ipto the oftioe of Constable
Sansnak and laid on the tale a human,
finger, at the same lime Ruing : ',I have
killed Winnie Croupa and rye brought you
one of her fingers to prove it."
• The constable, when he had recovered
from his surprise, said: "What do you.
mean by fooling like this ?"
Krulis then said : " I mean what I say.
I've killed Winnie Kronpa. She told lies
about me in the village. She said I had
run away from Riverhead to escape arrest
and that; it constable was coming after me,.
so I concluded to kill her. I met her on
the road and out her throat. She fell
down in the snow and never spoke it word.
I wanted to meke sure that she would
never epeak again, so I out her belly open
and placed her bowels over her face. Them
I cut off her fieger for you."
Krulis led the constable and four other
men to the scene of the murder. On a.
narrow and secluded road about a quarter
of a mile from the metre of tbe village the
party saw the body ot the girl. Krulis
said: "There she is. You see, I told you
the truth." A horrible sight met the gaze
cf the party. The body lay in a frame of
blood -red snow. The clothing was torn
from it, tend a hole the eize of a sugar bowl,
wee seen in the abdomen. The entrails lay
over the breast, neck and face, hiding the
fatal gash in the throat. The right ear
and the indt Urger of the right hand were
out off.- A guard was left in chimp of the
body, and the aonetable returned to the
village with the murderer. There they were
met by an excited crowd of men and women,
who were bent on lynching the naurderer.
The men howled and yelled, and shrieked
in Bohemian and broken English, "Kill
him! Hang hint! Shoot him!" And but
for the courage of the constable and the
wise words of a leading Mail of the place
the mob would have made short work of
Brun's. Sasnak got his prieener into a
waggon and drove up to Justice O'Brien's,
house here. The justice ordered Knells to
be taken to the viilage leckup. Tbe prisoner
was arreigned yesterday end committed to,
the county jail to aweit the action of the
grand jury. When searched in court the
ear miming frcm Croup/de body was found
in Krulie pocket. He told ,Thetice O'Brien
that he bad brought it for biro. He also
handed the judge a large ciouble.bladed
jack-knife covered with dried blood, with
which he said he killed Croup,. Erulis
conducted himself in the most unconcerned
manner, revelling apperently in the
thought of what he had dene. It is
believed jealousy oC CroupEns attention to a
young woman was ore of the motives for
the mime. Before limns went to Con-
stable Sasnak he entered Wise' s saloon and
put the finger on the bar and told him he
had killed Groupe. Wise, however, thought
be was joking and told him to leave.
Bohemia is a village of about 500 inhabi-
tants, all of whom are Bohemians. They
are a peaoeable and orderly people.
SHOT HIS WIFE FATALLY,
Tried to Shoot His Daughters, Stabbed His.
Son and Suicided.
A Fergus Falls, Minn., despatch says a
A horrible tragedy oconrred lest night in
the house of Henry Reber, who lived fifteen
miles west of ,Fergns Falls. Reber came
home about 9 &clock from Elizabeth, where
he had a shoe shop, and, after some,
pleasantry about Christmas presents, draw
a self -cocking revolver and' began shooting
at his wife, eon and daughters. He hit his
son evrice in the arm and stabbed him in
the back with a carving knife as he was
Trying to escape from the house. The light
went out in the midet of the shooting, and
the three daughters got outside and hid
themselves, one of them with a
bullet wound in her left shoulder.
Then Reher turned on his wife and
stabbed her repeatedly with the
knife. Afterwaed be went in march of his
daughters, and not finding them came back
to the house. His wife had crawled away, -
but he followed her and stabbed her again
and again. Finally he returned to the
house, and hanged himself to a beam'at
the same time putting a ballet into his
head. The son managed to get to a neigh-
bor's house and gave the alarm. When his
neighbors arrived they found Reher dead,
the wife just dying and the three daughters
still hiding. Henry Reber, the son, will
probably die from his wonnds and lose of
blood. The son has served a term in State
prison for horse stealing, and the girls do
not bear an enviable reputation. The
family had numerous quarrels, and Reber
went away a few weeks ago with the in-
tention of not coming bade. He was per-
fectly sober at the time of the murder,
and nobody can tell what was the object,
unless it was simply a fit of desperation,
or frenzy.
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A Windsor Woman Objects to Taking it.
Second Place.
A Flint, Mich., despatch says: Deputy
Sheriff William A. Miner arrested Norman,
Ellsworth at Middleville, Barry County, on,
a charge of bigamy. The complaint was,
made by Wilma Munroe, who claims that,
he married her at Windsor, Ont., on the.
27th of November, 1888, while he had a
wife living whom he had married in 1882:
The first wife was a Mies Varich. The,
papers have been in the officer's hands
since Sept. 131h last, but Ellsworthni
whereabouts were not known. Recently i1.
was learned that he was practising lam in
Barry county, and he was arrested as,
stated. Ellsworth, during his residence in
Flint, was deputy county clerk and a non-
commissioned officer of the Blues. Hebei&
just been admitted to the bar when.; the,
charge was brought agahmt him. He was,
arraigned, and thenexamination is fixed for
next Tuesday morning.
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