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TRIBAY atooaRs ALRUstateer FOUND.
QuEBBs, Feb. — About 9.45 this morn.
ing the boiler in the Quebec. Worsted (tom.
pectin factory at Hare Point exploded,
oompletely demolishitig the engine house
and about half the factory, A large num.
ber of the hands were buried ha the ruins.
Anumber are doubtless killed. Mr. Styles
the engineer, ie the only name of those
'killed as far as known. The work of re.
moving bodies from the debris is now
Actively going on.
Later—Thirty hoaxes have been removed
..tep to the present.
A temene Accouse.
The works of the Qaelon Worsted Com.
pany, where this morning's fatal exPloeion
occurred, are attested at Hare Point, on
the northeastern outokirte of the city, and
cover a large area, and employ more hands
than any other nattnufmturing establish.
meta in the city. They had been clued
for two weeks while the boilers and
machinery were being overhauled and
erefitted. Operations were to have been
resumed this morning and about 300 of
the operativee were on hand; but owing to
'mine cane the ixiaohinery was not started
and they were dienaissed. Moet of them
fortunetely went back to their homes, but
many remained about the building, a
number keeping in the vicinity of the
engine room for the sake of the warmth.
About 9.45 there was a sudden exploeion,
'whiole completely wreeked the engine ana
• dye houses and damaged a large part of the
main building. A great crowd gathered
immediately and the work of rescue com-
menced. The fire brigade was called
,ont, but fortunately the horrors of
:fire were not added to the calamity.
THE nzan aim iNatnno.
B Battery hos been ordered down to
Assist the police to keep order and control
the enormous crowd of excited men and
women who block up " every avenue of
approach. In the great confusion it is not
possible to get at a reliable list of killed and
injured tintil the ruins are thoroughly
iexamined. It is impossible to give the
tonnaber of dead and injured. Several
persons reported among the dead
lave turned up, having left the
mill before the explosion. About twenty
dead have already been taken out, besides
as many badly injared. Among those
identified an: Win. Forest, dead; A.melie,
Cote, badly melded; Alex. Martineau,
dying; Mise Rosseetu, broken thigh and
fractured skull; John Morrison, fractured
skull; Timothy Enright, injuries about the
head; Pierre Person, melded and bruieed;
P. Moulin tinkled : Emetic, Bente, dying;
Mies Mercier, dead; Jdeeph Dufresne,
dead ; Henri Laliberte, dead; Jos. Matsui,
dead; 3. Styles, badly injured; H. Styles,
•badly scalded; John Lamontagne, dead;
Arthur Tweedle, dead.
There is a good force of doctors and
surgeons on hand and the wounded are
resosiving prompt attention. On account of
the large number of persons who left their
'homes to work in the building this norning
the number missing is probably much
exaggerated, for se already stated, the
greater proportion had left the building
lettere the explosion occurred. The cause
of the accident is not at present known.
it is thought some of the pipes may have
been frozen while the fires were out, and so
named a stoppage when steam was got up.
The body of the engineer (Francoeur) of
the works was found crushed out of all
thspe by the mass of debrio which covered
him. Mr. Stoyles, reported injured, has
since died. His son is thought to be
dying, Mre. Dion, foreman of the spinning
department has a broken arm and leg,
Emmanuel Filteatfinbroken arm, Caroline
Tiforrieette, bruised and soalded, C. Vel.
leneuve, dying, Ed. Morrison dying, Gus-
tave Blouin dead, Arthue Rosman dead,
Peter Clement deed, Pierre Girona dying,
T. Lemelin slight injuries, — Lee dead.
QuEsnc, Feb. — The marches were
,earried on till 12 o'clock last night for the
body of Pierre Clement, who is still buried
tinder the ruins of the Quebec wonted mills.
At 11 o'clock one of his legs wee found, but
there are yet no traces of hie body. Chas.
"Villenenve, joiner, died lost night from the
„severe injuries received by the explosion.
Another of the victims reported in our list
of the wounded yesterday, Alfred Pearson,
-aged 16, died at the Marine
Hospital at 9 o'clock this morning, his
'brother Pierre Peareon is lying in a
-enticed condition at Rotel Dien. We
visited the wounded victims' ward. The
,first on the right side of the entrance is
John inorrison. His head is terribly out
and he is unconscious, may not live till
ao.night. Next to him is Elz Couture, of
Halifax. He is badly braised about the
head and has broken legs, is doing pretty
fair. Next to him is Francis Blouin,
of Levis, fair condition. Young George
Morrieon, is the wont of them all; he is
'terribly disfigured by outs end end scalds
And will die. He ie the son of John Mani.
eon. Alex. Martineau is the next in order.
Be is the father of seven children. He
'etiffere tortures with ranch fortitude, and
may recover. Enaelie Beale, 14 years of age,
-has compound fractures of both lege and a
deep gaeh in the right groin. Drs. Ahren
and Catellier dressed her injuries this
morning. She may recover. The poor
ohild is suffering,intense pain. The other
injured have been carried home, and are
doing well.
Squads of men have been working all the
morning to get at the remains of Pierre
Clement, but unenoceesfully. Heavy
•machinery and piles of stone and briak are
•lying over them.
Coroner Belleau swore in a jury at 2
• p. m. Inunedieitely after the jury visited
the scene of the disaster.
A meeting of the directors will be held
tomorrow, when Coroner Belleau will
hove given onion that the rains may be
cleared by the proprietors. An estimate
of the damage will be given. It
is thought, however, that it will
Teach •576,000. It is doubtful
if the company will continue
• oPeratione in this oity. They contemplated
iraneferring their plant to Sherbrooke,
where thebninees could be ouried on more
efficiently on account of bettor situation.
The mill employed daily 200 rnen.
A. Qaebeo deepetth of Monday says: It
is atilt feared that young Hoyles, another
miotim of the boiler explosion, may die. He
wilt be the twetity.second viotina. All the
other saferers are improving. rrencois
Dion, one of the men who wee working at
the engine when the boiler exploded, says
they had commenced the not on Weigel.
May afternocin with 74 pounds of steam. hut
oonId not' get the engine to work, Next
•Merning they decided to increase the pres.
Imre, but suodeeded no better. Dien, etie-
.iing the boiler become red hot, eta fearing
aecident, threw hineeelf under the ele�r.
mous flywheel, weighing shoat 20,000
pounds. tie had hardly done thief when
he boiler blew tip, linkinga terrible report
Awed shaking the ground. The chimney
rose about three or four feet and mune
down in thowers of brielts, Width °melted
everything beneath them. Dion owed leis
safety to the wheel, which prevented the
debris from crushing him. He says the
pipe conveying the water to the boiler had
begomelfrezen,
Tun xemsese.
The inquest was continued to.day. Ben.
jernin Havey, engineer, deposed as fol.
lows: "On the morning of the fire I
arrived at the factory about six o'clock,
and &mended the fire hole to eee that the
boilers, were in order, as was my customary
habit. I found them in good order at that
• time. Fred. Henley wee engaged in firing
up. He had about 60 or 65 pounde of steam
on, I met Mr. Hoyles, who told me to put
steam on in the main building. I imme-
diately executed hie order and asked
Hanley if he had math water in his boiler.
He replied that there was as much as usual,
the gauge being three.quarters full. I then
went into the enginemoone, where Mr.
Tweddell was taking off the cover of the
etee,m cheat. He was aided by the men of
Mesers. Carrier, Laint d 0o. I helped
them until Mr. Lemelin, foreman of the
above firm, sent me to join the foot valve.
Arthur Pierson came with me.
When we were ourying out the
order Mr. Lemelin appeared, and
at that moment the explosion 000urred.
Ae we were etancling everything tumbled
about ue with an awful orath, and we heard
a general ory of distress. We were then
underneath the engine in a cellar eight or
nine feet high. It was where the con-
denser was. In making our way out
through the debris we heard moaning
underneath the cylinder where the low
pressure is, and there picked up Morrison
and his eon and another named Pierson.
We saw a good =thy corpses beneath the
cylinders. It was there that Mr. Tweddell
and Messrs. Carrier, Leine te COB. men
were found dead. About five minutes
before the explosion the steam gauge indi.
cated 40 pounds of steam. Of this I am
positive. The engine was under the care of
Mr. Tweddell and the men of Messre.
Carrier, Leine it Co. I was to be put in
charge immediately after it was repaired.
Deceased Hanley was attending to the
boilers. He was at his post at 6 o'clock in
the morning.
The inquest was further adjourned.
THE DOUR SUMMIT.
Serious Interference With Traffic —A Ship-
pers' Ultimatum.
A London cable says: The labor Baum
tion in England is most unsettled. No
sooner is the Scotch strike ended than the
smouldering discontent of the dockers has
broken out afresh in Cerdiff and London.
The ferment of the great dock strike has
never wholly ceased. Troubles have been
of weekly occurrence. The situation on
Thursday assumea unexpected and
important proportions, whiohlorced recog-
nition of the strikersarrangements. Both
here and at Cardiff an organized attempt is
being made by theme?' unions to control the
ehippieg interests. Over 4,000 men are out in
Cardiff alone. Should the strike extend to
the Dookere' Union and the minor unions
controlled by it, half a million men will be
thrown ant. A factor etrengtheningthe men
is the ill-concealedimpe.tienoe with whith
many firms maintain connection with the
shipping federation. Ship -owners are obliged
to pay thirty shilliogs weekly to board and
lodge nononion men, and many aro tired of
paying 3s. 6d. per ton for coaling when they
could hematite work done by union men for
le. 63.'per ton.
The Shipping Federation has issued an
ultimatum, which declares the dictation of
the unions is 'unbearable, and that the
federation will refuse to employ any man
unless he pledges himself to embark on any
vessel with which he signs articles, whether
the remainder of the crew be unionists or
not. The federation disavows any intention
to interfere with the unions or to reduoe
wages.
A CRIMINAL At LARGE.
The Whiskey Trust Dynamiter Jumps His
Bail and Escapes.
A Peoria, Ill., despatch says : It is the
general belief here that George J. Gibeces,
Secretary of the whiskey trust, is on bie
way to Europe, and aided by plenty of
money would escape. The only trust man
found who would talk said Gibson had
been gone since Thuraday night, and would
not return, adding that the bail bond of
$20,000 was & bagatelle. It was found
to -day that Gibson eight months ago pur-
chased fifty pounds of dynamite. About a
month ago he bought a quantity of bisul-
phide of carbon and phoephorus at a drug
store. He had learned the secret of the
compound from a chemist, and it is sup -
pond he componnded the mixture intended
for Dewar. Two special detectives arrived
here on Thursday, and have been shadow-
ing the tenet officers and distillers ever
since. It is suspected they are looking for
the maohinist who made tne rn whine sent
to Dewar.
A RUSSIAN ATROCITY.
Jewish Boy's Forehead Branded With the
Word " Thief " — His Sympathizers
33anished.
Sr. PnrEssnono, Feb. — The Rabbi
Marcus and a Jewish physician named
Chassanovitale, living in Grodno, have
been arrested and exiled from that
Province for two years for sending tothe
Government, in behalf of the Jewish com-
munity, a petition demanding redrese for
an outrage committed by a Russian Sweeter
named Granvoski, who was charged with
having branded the word " Thief" in
three languages on the forehead of a
Jewish boy who was mound of having
stolen a small quantity of fruit. The peti-
tion set forth that the case would excite
the indignation of the civilized world.
A Hundred Years to Come.
Wouldn't you like to live until the year
A. D. 2000 just to see the people and the
world generally? Who knows but you
might, if you observe the laws of health,
and keep the Stomach, Liver and Bowels
in full motion. The beet medioine known
for this is Dr. Pierce's Plea:trent Pellets.
They are small, sugarcoated granules, but
powerful to euro; produce no nausea or
griping; easy to take, and a sure nun for
billionsnees, constipationheadache, and
diseases produced by an inactive liver. A
convenient vest pocket remedy.
Risky Amusement.
A Donald, B, C., despatch toys: A tad
toboggan accident enured here last night
at 10 o'clock. There le a double slide
&dross the Colunebia, and while two tobog.
gang were running in an opposite direction
they • met with terrible force about the
middle o the slide, badly injaring five per.
sons. Min Len:wenn had a leg broken in
two places and eves injtired about the head
Mies May Evans, injured internally and in
the held; Thornag Taylor i leg broken;
Charles Camden, injured in the head and
ankle sprained; T. Henderson, injured
ab nt face and head.
A. local option by-law we camierin
omilata owitship yesterday.
JAOK TIE& RIPPER,
kt0f0 About tile WOMan round Murdered
Whiteehapel,
The Body Found in Swallows Gardens—
ho Head Almost Severed From the
Body:—IThe Victim a (mod -Looking
Youug Woman ot 25 Years of age-,-
" Carroty Nell" the Victim—An Arrest
Made.
Lorums, Feb. -- Further particulars in
regard to the woman who 'was found dead
in the Whiteolitapel dietriat this morning,
and who is supposed to heve been murdered
by Jack the Ripper," show that the is
about 25 years of age and quite gooddook.
ing, She was found lying on her back
with her head ne,arly severed from her
body. There was also a severe wound on
the back ot lier head, caused, is is thought,
by the fall she experienced whon her
assailant knocked her down. The scene of
this, possibly latest of the series of " Jack
the Ripper" orintes, ie a dark
narrow archway, known as "Swallows
Gardens" and leading from Little Mint
street to Chamber street. The archway
referred to is during the busy hums a
well.frequeated thoroughfare, especially
used by railway employees and stable-
men in peseing to end from their regimen
in and about that neighborhood to their
work. At all times of the night there are
people awake in the houses and pedestrians
passing about and through " Swellowe
Gardens," but nobody nexus to have heard
any ories of an alarming nature durifiebe
early hours this morning, when the armee
was committed.
The murdered woman, judging from
her appearance, belonged to the %handl:Med
clue of females, and was fairly well
dreseed. 1 hough her hair WB8 untidy, her
clothing had not been disarranged. The
police theory is that the woman was mur-
dered while in a standing position, that the
crime was probably the work'ibf
" Jack the Ripper," and that the
murderer was frightened away by
the approech of some pedestrian before he
had time to mutilate the body in. the
manner already described in the orimes
attributed to "Jack the RipperiThe
blood was still warm when the body
was found. There is no definite clue
to the murderer and no aneeste
have been made. A railroad em.
ployee seem he saw the murdered woman
talking to a man, apparently an1oreign
seaman, just previous to the tim*7be
murder is supposed to have been com-
mitted, and the police are now engaged in
narching all the vessels lying in the
Thames or in the many docks about the
port of London. The policeman who found
the woman meat have reaohed the spot
while the murderer was only a few yards
away, Inc the victim's lips were stifirtwiteh.
ing nervonely and her eyes were still
rolling when the officer bent over her.
LONDON, Feb. — It has been learned
that the victim of today's murder was a
woman of the pavements known as
" Carrotty Nell." A man has been arrested
on suapicion of having murdered her. He
is miserably oled, but of refined appear-
ance. No blood attains were found on him.
He is held for examination.
A London cable says: A woman has
identified the remains of the victim BS
those of a woman named Fromm% who was
one of the many aufortunates who hanntoci
Whitechapel district. The yvi. e'
she left the iltranon wane
morning in the company of • man
the appearance of a sailor. . This men
struck and insulted the witness on her ra.
fusing to except leis offer of a half orown to
acoompany him. She did not like hie looke,
and advised the Frances woman to have
nothing to do with hirn.
The man arrested yesterday on suspicion
of having murdered " Garroty Nell" is a
saddler. He has been absent from England
for eighteen months, or ebortr, the period
which has elapsed since the last Whiteohapel
murder. A woman detained as a witness
Deserts she saw the prisoner quarreiling
with the murdered woman early in the
evening before the crime wee committed.
A policeman who eves on daty on the
streets in the vicinity of the crime has
identified the prisoner as a mem he met
about a quarter of an hour alter the
murder. Tito policeman, noticing the man
had blood on his clothes, stopped hied' and
asked several questions regarding the
bloodeteme. The man replied that he had
been assaulted while passing through a
street in the neighborhood of the dooko.
The policeman not being aware that a
murder had been committed was satisfied
that the man was telling the truth and so
allowed him to pees. The prisoner's face
is bet:11y scretched as if by a woman's
finger•nails. When questioned the man
said he was ecratohed when he was
asesulted near the docks. The prisoner
stoutly denies having at any time met the
murdered woman.
THE PREVIOUS MURDERS.
The follow ng is a list of " Jack -the -
Ripper's " previous murders:
1. April 3, 188E1—Emma Elizabeth Smith, 45,
bad a stake or iron instrument thrust through
her body near Osborn street, Whitechapel.
2. Aug. 7, 1888.—Martha Tatham, 35, stabbed in
39 paces, George Yard Building, Commercial
street, Spitalfields.
3. Aug. 31, 1888,—Mary Ann Nicholls, 47, throat
cut and body mutilated, in Buck's Row, White-
chapel.
4, Sept. 8, 1888.—Annie Chapman, 47, throat
cut and body mutilated, Hanbury street, Spital-
fields.
5. Sept. 30, 1888,—Elizabeth Stride, throat cut,
Berner street, Whitechapel.
6. Sept. W, 1888 —Catharine Eddowes, 45,
throat cut and body mutilated, Mitre equate,
Aidgate.
7. Nov. 9, 1888.—Mary Jane Kelly, throat out
and body mutilated, in Miller's Court, Dorset
street.
8. July 7, 1889.—Woman, supposed to be Alice
McKenzie, from Peterborough, throat cut and,
body mutilated, in Castle alley, Whitechapel.''
9. Sept. 10, 1889.—Elizabeth Stride, found uoder
a railway arch in Pinehin street, Back Church
lane, Whitechapel.
'Fifteen before I surrender," woe what
the individual known as "Jack the Rip.
per" ()balked on a shutter near the spot of
one of his murders."
In addition to the abovementioned
crimes other murders of women have taken
place, the perpetrators of which have not
been brought to justice. Among them are:
(1) Oat. 2nd, 1888, mutilated remains of
woman found in new police buildings at the
Westminster end of the Viotoria Embank.
ment—nnidentified ; (2) Deo. 2Ist 1888,
Woman found strangled In Clerlse's yard,
High street, Poplar, ofterwarde recognized
as Maud Millett, 26 years of age; (3) June
4th, 1889, and subsequent days, mutilated
remaine of a women found in the Thames,
afterveards identified B8 the body of Eliza.
beth Jackson.
A London cable says: The !Meet dis-
covery made by the Metropolitan police in
connection with the Whiteohapel murder
of Friday morning lest, by whirl a woman
known as " Ciarroty Nell" loat her life, bids
fair to connect the man $3dIer 51OW in
custody with this " Jack the • Ripper"
crime.
A knife was traced to the posSeseiOn of
Sadler, who as maw Was a fireenan on
beard a ateamor Which arrived frdln
Tnekey. The pollee have no doubt that
Sadler Wal3 the murderer o " Clarrety
The prieonor Wes placed in the dook thie
afternoon, Sieben wee dirty and snatched.
He iseemed to be utterly oereless au to
what happened to him and is apparently en.
tirely oomposed. Ie kept hie /land in his
pooket and glanced oelnaly around him as if
he wag a diemterested party. During the
examination a men testified that he heitheen
Sadler in oompeny with the murdered girl
on Thursday night. At, the witneee was
making his statement the prisoner watched
him eharply, and exclaimed, addreesing the
man in the witness box, "Be care-
ful about what you are eaving."
Continuing, the witness described itt de.
teil the visit of Sadler to a smell coffee
shop Sadler, according to this witnets
sat in the coffee house with the murdered
girl and seemed to be quarrelling with her.
Sadler, the witness said, olaimed to have
been robbed. Finally Sadler and "Car-
roty Nell" lel 1 the coffee shop oeperately.
Upon the conclusion of the testimony the
prisoner was remanded until Feb. 241h.
Further details in regard to the blood-
stained knife itt poesasion of the police
show Sadler void the weapon to a niter on
Friday, the day of the murder. Opinions
differ as to whether Sadler is "Jack the
Ripper."
To avoid trouble the police transferred
Sadler to the police court during the night,
hoping thereby to avoid a vasi crowd of
people, mostly women. The women are
eager for a sight of the prisoner. Wild
threat° of lynching and tearing the prisoner
to pieces were uttered by the moat excited
of those females. When the man Was VO.
moved to the police court an immense
force of polioe wao employed, and every
precaution necessary was taken to prevent
the Whiteohapel mob from lynahing the
prisoner.
Tho witneso admitted the priecner's face
was scratched and bloody when he was 80011
in the coffee ehop. The prisoner was re-
manded until Feb. 24th.
DEVOURED BYWILDBEASTS.
Horrible Treatment of Immigrants to
Brazil.
They Are Scattered in the Forests and
Die of Hunger, Fever and Snake Bites
and Many are Eaten by Wild Animals
LONDON, Feb. — M. Dygasineki a cor-
respondent of the Warsaw Courier has just
returned from Brazil where he naade a tour
of the Provinces of San Paulo, Parana and
Santa Catharine. He declares the Brazilian
Government threw every obstacle in the
way of his eliciting the truth concerning
the Emigration question. He says the
Brazilian Government decided some time
ago to import teu million emigrants and
that the North German Lloyd Steamships
Compaq had already landed 140,000
emigrants, receiving 300 marks each
for them. The emigrants were not
allowed to found colonies, hat
were scattered in the forests in the interior
and left to their fate to die at hunger, fever
or snake bites, or to be devoured by wild
beasts. Unable to aommunicate with their
friends, a few who survived retraced their
steps to Rio Janeiro, begging suetenance of
the planters, who treated them like slaves
and exe.oted from them exorbitant" services
in return for scanty meals. At Rio Gronde
the correspondent found 700 emigrants in a
dying sten huddled in a wooden chapel,
while thousands were camping in the
streets of the oitiee through which he
passed or in the primeval forests. Dyges.
i Ingietestified on oath to the truth of
e etatemente before the Braaten images
inquiring into the scandal. Still the emi.
gration offices are doing a roaring bminess,
embarking emigrants even at night. The
editor of the Warsaw Courierh&8 opened a
repatrietion fund.
MR. BLAINE EXPLAINS.
--
He'll Talk Canadian Reciprocity After the
Sealing Sourenhie is Ended.
A Washington despatch eays : The
Britieh Minister had a protracted Con-
ference with Secretary Blaine to -day. It
is understood that it related to some very
importent matters, intending the Sayward
ease, now before the Supreme Court, and
the Behring Sea controversy. There waif
also some discussion concerning the pro-
pesed Canadian reciprocity schemes. The
Secretary explained to the Minister what
he meant by his letter to Representative
Baker, in which he denied that any nego-
tiations were pending looking to reciproael
trade with the Canadian provinces. It
appears that at that time nothing had been
done in that direction. The Secretary,
however, is aware that some of the Cana-
dian authorities are anxious to enter into
trade relations, but from some cause or
other the Secretary is not dispoeed to
entertain any propositions of that sort until
some definite eettlement is made of the
Behring Sea dispute.
The proposed arbitration of Lord Salis-
bury, and the propositions mentioned in
Mr. Blaine's letter, which are to be sub-
mitted for consideration, will, it is tinder.
atood, not be taken up until the pending
suit in the Supreme Court is ont of the
way.
A NOTED FORTUNE TELLER DEAD.
Demise of Mrs. Barnes, the Witch of Plum
KINGSTON, Feb. — Mrs. Barnes, the
witch of Plum Hollow, is dead. She lived
in a little log cabin four or five miles north-
west of the village of Athens, end in the
midst of a thickly populated farming com-
munity. Though upwards of 90 years of
age and generally conceded to possess won.
derful divining powers, she was a mild.
mannered, pleasant -voiced, and exceed-
ingly intelligent woman, who when she
had told your fortune from the cap, was
not averse to a quiet chat on Bleb nom.
monplacm topics as society or the state of
the crepe. She was also the possessor of a
charitable disposition, and though actively
engaged in fortune telling for upwards of
50 years, during which time she has earned
tho-asands and thousands of dollars, it is
currently reported thet none of the wealth
thus gained has been Denuded. She raised
quite a large family, the dint son, Mr.
Samuel Barnes, of Smith's Falls, being
well known in that section.
Widovir Sweetheart's Credit ITSed.
New Yong, Feb. -- Police messages
vibrate over the wine from ibis city ask.
ing : Where is Harman Miller, who went
to Nicholson Villege on the Lackawanna
Railroed, wooed andwon rich young Widovv
Randall, used her name to get credit on at
the store, borrowed several hundred dollars
more and her gold watch of her, and left
without a wedding ?" There ie no answer
to the messegew except from the widow.
She says " I'm tdad that snob, a thief
went away SO BOOM
It is understood that Sir Henry, Tyler,
Preeident of the Grand Trunk Railway
Company, will Shortly pay a visit to Clenada
for the purpose of establishing a Canadian
board 3f directors.
Petroleturi hoe been strnok in one of the
elle now being bored at Game
ANOTHLIA TOROIITO TBAGEDY.
Obristopher Magnin Suspected of °wooing
jam) Harding's Death.
A GLIMPSE or. DARKEST TORONTO.
A Toronto report flaye: The truth of the
soriptural lesson, "The wages of sin itt
death," was never more clearly illustrated
than in the ehoolting deetla of Jane Harding,
living itt No. 11 Ontario etreet, tst 10 ohdoelt
on Satueday night. The story of the im.
modiete crime, which there is no doubt
ended her life, can be told in a few word%
but the history of the lives ot the victim
and the culprit, Christopher DloGrain, who
id held on a preliminary charge of man.
slaughter, would, fill pages, On Saturday
morning about hali-pest 9 tbe pair,
wbo had been living ,together for some
months, bed a quarrel, it is alleged, over
the purchese of a quentity of whiskey. Mo.
Grain grabbed his mistral, by the throat
with one hand and clutched her wrist with
the other, and in "this manner forced her
, upstairs. When they reached the top of
the etairway he pushed her down the steps,
and grebbing an earthen vessel which was
at hand threw it with all Ids strength upon
theprostrate woman at the bottom of the
steers. An inmate of the house named
Annie Spring, alias Annie Wilson, heard
the cries of her landiedy and rushed to the
epot. The woman wa8 assieted to ts low
lounge in one of the two rootna downetair.
She wae uneble to receive any food, owing
to the swollen condition of her throat, and
at 10 o'clock in the evening; she died. It is
alleged that McGrain refused to go for a
physician until he saw his mistress
IN THE THROES OF DEATH,
and when Dr. Ghent reached the place the
yietim had expired. MaGrein was at onoe
arrested by P. C. Brown and taken to No.
4 police etetion, from which place he was
yesterday meriting transferred to the jail.
He had very little to oay in connection
with the crime, except that he was drunk
at the time. The girl, Annie Spring, who
has a most notorious reputation, was the
only person in the horiee except MoGrain
and Jane Harding at the tnne of the
affray, and her evidence will be of vital
importance. Her Rory is that the two
were quarrelieg about nine whiskey, when
MoGrain forced his paramour up stairs in
order to compel her to give laim some money
which Rio had demanded. Upon being stoutly
refused he pushed her viciously down the
steps, and seizing the vessel threw it with
all hie etrengila upon the unconscious
woman.
After the arrest of McGrain the police
netified Coroner Pickering, who went to the
house about 1 o'clook on Sunday morning.
He found deep indentures in the wornen'e
throat and wriet, evidently made by finger.
nails. As the clothing was not removed
Iran the body it Was impoesible to ascer-
tain to whet extent the woman hall been
injured by the earthen vessel with which
she was etruck.
The photograph of Jane Harding can be
found in elmost every rogues' gallery col.
leolion on the continent. She was married
25 yeare ego to John Harding, and from
that date up to the time of her death her
life wits one of infamy and crime. In 1874
she and her husband opened a dive on Cen-
tre street where toughs of tho oity con-
gregated, and where numerous crimes were
planned and executed. The piece was
closely watched by the police and not a
few of the present .penitentiary birds at
Kingston were traized in this iniquitous
den. Being compelled to leave Centre
street the Hardings 'removed to York street,
where they carried on a low whiskey dive.
The relationship between husband and wife
became somewhat streined about this time,
and one morning Harding was found dead
in kis bed. There were suspiaiono, but for
want of evidenCG the case was not investi-
gated. Mrs. Hardieg Inc tho next few
years lived with severe./ mon who bore the
hardiest order of ohmmeter. After the
murder of Bertha Robinson at 74 Victoria
lane, for which Tore Buckley was sentenced
to fifteen years at Kingston, Mrs. Harding
opened up in Buckler's old place, keeping
about laer a nanaber of
THE NOTORIOUS 0170REET GANG.
From Victoria lane she removed in com-
pany with hloGrain to the house on Ontario
street, where she met her death. Tey had
the reputedion of keeping the lowest dive in
that part of the city, and so notorious did
the piece beeernit that respectable people in
the neighborhood lived in coristantjeopardy.
Christopher lAcCtraici, the mon who will
probably have to stend before the bar of
juetice on it charge of murder, does not bear
a spotless reputation.
Charged with Murder.
TORONTO, Feb. — Christopher Mo -
Grain appeared in in the Polioe Court this
morning, charged with wilfully mnrdeting
his paramour, Jane Harding. He wore an
anxious look, but did not utter a word. He
was notasked to plead. Acting County
Ci own Attorney Johnson asked for an
investigation by the Magistrate, as a
coroner's jury was not always reliable.
The prisoner was remanded for a week,
pending the holding of an bequest.
A Bold Robbery.
A London cable says: A daring robbery
Wati committed here to -day. A styliehly
dressed man accosted, in the National Pro-
vincial Bonk of England, a clerk from the
London branch of the Benk of Scotland.
The clerk was etandbag at the public
counter of the National Provincial Bank
making a deposit. When spoken to by
the stranger the clerk turned towards him
and an accomplice matched the wallet,
containing bonds and cheques worth many
thousand pounds, and ran oat of the bank.
He has not been captured.
How a Beautiful Flower was Named.
An old legend tells of two lovers, walking
by the river Rhine. The lady begged her
suitor to pluck a little pale -blue flower,
growing on the bank. In doing 0, he fell
into the water, and was drowned; but,
while sinking, he threw the flower to her,
and cried: "Forget MO not ! " Thousands
of women will never forget what Dr.
Pierce'e Favorite Prescription hos done for
therm It is prepared specially to cure
thoee diseases from which they alone suffer,
and often in silence, rather than consult it
phyalcian—as periodical pains, weak back,
prolapens, and all uterine troubles. Pnrely
vegetable, and guaranteed to give satisfaction
in every case, or money refunded.
—Saturday afternoon the Windsor di
Sandwich Street Railway changed hared%
The consideration was 525,000, and the
purthaeors were James H. Clark, of
Toledo, Ohio, capitalist; Willis C. Tuner,
of Detroit, electrical engineer, and Edward
A. Gott, of Detroit, connoillor.at.law.
Miss Highmind—What did you think of
Signor Travello, the new tenor Mies
Giddygirl—Oh, I thought hie moustache
was eimply stunning!
Rebel, to Amy, returned from the
lihral7—Wh8t hook am you get 2 Amy—
" Shattered litoped." I thought you
ietended to get Broken Hearts 2' " "1
did; but the binding didn't &witch My
dress."
WHERE GOOD HORSES
WINTER,
A 'Visit to MI: Joh Oyment's Stock
Farm at Orlon:
The first horn to nivOle mention of in
Mr. John Dyment'e Oekney etablee is
King Bob, by impend liieg Ban, dam
by imported. Bonnie Scotland. He is the
picture of heelth, and hie owner intends
etanding him the comieg season. By the
look° of his otook at the °limey Stud
Farm, he ehould Aped ate oug the leading
pins of the couutry e,i DO distant day.
The next stall gives a glimpse of the gamest
of Provinoe bred metree, Lucy Lightfoot,
which dropped e beautiful foal on Sunday
lest, Feb. 8th, whiela is pot only the first
thoroughbred food dropped in the Dominion
this season, but the fleet foal ever entered
in a Canadian eteke race previous to
foaling. The colt le a cendidate for the
Stanley Produce Stake, to be run at
Toronto at the spring' meeting of 1894.
The next stall thrown open is ' Maggie
May le.,
Thi e mere ie in foal to King Bob.
Rousbelle, Allis D and Blaok Bird are all
in fine condition and all in fool to King
Bob. Bleck Bird is a fall sister to Luoy
Lightfoot. The next thoroughbred mare
shown is Fanny, by 085 King Tom, dam
Ada, also darn of William, a Queenie
Plate winner. The east etall has
the thoroughbred mere Olga, by Coles -
sus, dam by Retie, (no). dam full
sister to Vanden Olga is en foal to
King Bob, and the get will be another can -
date for the Stiteley Produce Stakes. The
fine mare Aunt Alice, full sister to William,
is next brought out. in another stable are
four thoroughbred yearlings looking the
picture of health, also a beautiful yearling
filly sired by Chief Justice dam Illalinda.
In another stable are six thoroughbred 2.
year.olde, all sired by Meg Bob. They
have all got stake me:pigments for 1892.
On going to the racing etable four 3.year.
olds are to be seen. The first is Volga,
oh. ft, sired by Enlaces L'
. dam Olga, ent
tend iu Breeden' Stakes, Toronto. Next
lea beautiful brown filly celled Annie D.,by
Terror, dam Roeabell, min entered in
Breeders' Stakes. The next stall contains
one of the most handsome fillies to be seen
anywhere in the country, the oh. 1. Arrow,
sired by Van Dorn, dare Aunt Alice, en-
tered in Montreal Derby. The next to
command attention is the b. o.
Gladstone, sired by Terror dam
Nettie, the darn of Lucy Lightfoot,
Dingy May, Flip Flop and others also
entered in Montreal Derby,a,nd if his looks
are not deceiving thie horse will be there
or thereabouts at tho fitneh. In a large'
and opeciouti box anti ie where the race
mare Flip Flop resides. She has grown
since her debut at Chiongo, and should in
the coming aeaeon be at her best. Going
over to another etable it was seen that the
farm was not exempt Irmo trotters. Here
are Chief Junior., mred by Confederate
Chief, the sire of cV:Iliam Arthur, record
2.194.) Cbief Justin stands 164 hands
high, and looks all over the beau ideal of a
trotter; Ada Paul, record 2 26. She has
been bred to Chita Joe time In the adjoin-
ing stall ie Little Molly, by Little Billy,
dam by Terror; Maid oi Beverly, eired by
Jupiter Abdallali, second dam, Lady
Almont, by Benedict, son of Almont third,
San Lady Rwidick, by Hembletonian, in
feel to Issaoher, son or Frit:mese is next.
Then Comes a fine three-) eer.old trotting
fitly, in foal by Chief Justice. In another
stable are two fine ozies i bay filly, regis.
tared by the name of Principle. She is
sired by Issechor, dam, Maid of Beverly.
The other one is it. twp .3,aarsold aheetput
stallion, by Leothard, teat of the Maid also.
Melinda, a handsome mitre, sired by a
trotting horse out of a thoroughbred mare,
and in foal to Chief Justice, is next to,
receive attention. Two geldinge, a four.
and & three-year-old, elm! by Big Ben, out.
of a thoroughbred: metre show remarkable
trotting action. The above is not a com-
plete list of the stock at. the Oreney Stud
Farm. There are forty-two animate in
all, fourteen of which en mares in foal,
and eleven will be in training this coming:
season to do battle for turf honors.
A BET ON AN 0. J. C. EVENT. "
A bet of $500 to 530 was me& in Toronto
on Saturday that Mr. Hendrie's Versatile
would not win the Wooestock Plate.
BURNED TO DEATH.
A Terrible Calamity IN hick Happened lis
Russell County.
OTTAWA, Feb. -- A. terrible calamity
occurred last night mar the village of St.
Albert, Cambridge townehip, Ruseell
county, which resumed in the less of three
lives. A family named Lafranoe lived in a,
small house about a mile from the village.
The family consisted of old Mr. and Mrs.
Lafranoe, their daughter, her husband,
Azarie Chartrand, and two children.
Chartranel and his wife left yesterday tce
visit Reeve LOUIS (Denier, of Cambridge,,
and were away over night. Daring the
night the house took Are, Mr. Lefrance
awakening to find himself eurrounded by
flames and smoke. He struggled to & win-
dow and jumped mit, injuring himself
severely. Mrs. Lafrance and the two
children were burned to deoth in the house.
The neighbors could:10 nothing to extinguish
the fire, which burned itself out, only the
remains being found. Mr. Leaman wae.
found in a shed almoet frozen to death. He.
has not been able to opeek, and there is lit.
tle hope of hie recovery.
BUSY BIRMINGHAM.
Otto Week's Work—in England's Great,
Manufacturing Centre.
Here is what the factories of Birming.
ham, England, produce each week, accord-
ing to the Manufacturer andInventor
Fourteen million pens, 6,000 bedsteads,
7,000 gun% 300,000,000 cue nail% 1,000,000,
buttons, 1,000 saddles, 5,000,000 oopper or
bronze coins, 20,000 epeotaclee, six tons oft
papierdinaohe wares, over *150,000 worth of
jewelry, 4,000 miles of iron and steel wirm
10 tone of pins, 5 tons of lasirpine and
hooks and eyes, 330,000 grins of eorews for
woodwork, 500 tons of nuts and ecrew.bolts.
and spikes, 50 tone of wrought -iron hinges,
350 miles length of wax for wets% 40 tons,
of refined metal, 40 tone of German silver,.
1,000 dozen of fender, 3,500 bellows and
800 tone of brese and copper wares.
All theee things, to say nothing of the
myriad other artiolite. such as pienoforteei
cylinder casting% pereanbulators, wheels,.
axles, Wee, looks, eta., eto.
Accounted Ver.
Norritiown tIerald : What's that awfui
nein in the next room?' Asked the early
guest at the banquet.
"Thal," replied the newspaper reporter,
who had already arrived with a sharp
pencil and a sharper appetite, 4. roust bo
the table groaning under all the deliottoies
of the eenon.",
• He—I hear you attend the Ciratorio
Societynt taerfornaenoes. Were you present
at the " Creation?" She (indignantly)—I
suppose yen Will next want to know if
Bailed in Noah's ark?
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