The Exeter Times, 1892-6-9, Page 577',friP7
Established
B, S. CYNEXL,
BANKER,
EXETER, - ONT
1877.
Traioraots a generalbankingbuslness.
Receives the temente of mereleants and
°there orf favorable terms.
Offers everyit000mmodation consistent with
safe end eeneervative benking principle.
Interestallowed on deposits.
Draft' issued payable s,t auy ofilee a the
MerehantsBank.
NOTES DISCOUNTED, & MONEY TO
LOAN ON NOTES AND MORTGAGES
.4111.1.12111111/111,1181•1MOSIIMMINII.
OXIDttr
ratiRsDAY, JUNE Oth, 1892,
NOTE$ AND COMMENTS.
The Seaforth Ilispositor says that the
Verity Plow Works in Exeter has been
gebbled tqi by the Massey -Harris Co,
l'hfsewrong. The Verity Co. simply
go into parteerehip with a coeple of
members of the Matisey-fiarria Co. for
the manufacture of plows, and the firm
will be known as the VerityPlow Works
Co. Verity's atilt retaiumg their in-
dividuality.
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Last yea: Newfoundland purchased
$1,800,000 worth of Canadian produce,
Of this total nearly half a million repre-
sented purchases of flour and over a
quarter of a million the velue of animals
and, their products sent to the Ancient
Colony. The recent rupture of com-
mercial relations between the Dominion
and the Island threatened to destroy
this trade altogether. The news that
the tariff war is at an end, is, therefore.
cause for eatisfaction.
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In the States of N▪ ew York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania, with a total
population of 12,700,800, two and three-
quarter millions are of foreign birth,
The proportion of foreigners to native.
born citizens has been ateadily inereaaing
too, even since 1850. In Pennsylvania
the foreign element has increased from
13 to 16 per cent. of the whole; in New
Jersey from 12i to 222,and in New York
from 21 to 26. Over 36 per cent. of the
population in these three sta tea are unable
to speak English.
General Booth announces a great need
of funds to carryon the Salvation Army.
lie recalls his announcement that the
8500,000 given for his "Darkest Eng-
land." scheme svould require 8150,000
annually for maintenance,as W11310,000
of thee had been furnished so far. So
the scheme is almost at a stanastill.
The "spiritual" fund is also exhausted.
To parry on this "spiritual side of the
war 'into the self-denial week in October
will require $401000, and the money is
needed immediately.
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The Dominion Government, through
the Dairy Commissioner, Professor Rob-
ertson, are issuing to femora and dairy-
meni15tes on cheese making in monthly
bulletins. They are .brimful of sound
practical information pertaining to this
department of farm knowledge; and
every faotoryman andfarniershould read
them. The Department of Agriculture,
Ottawa, will cheerfully forward these
excellent bulletins teeny person desirous
of obtaining them by applying to the
Dairy Commissioner, Central Experi-
mental Farm, Ottawa.
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Following were the prices for barley
in Buffalo last week, as given by the
Express : "Barley—Good Canada is
held ab 85 to 90 cents; good weatern is
firm at 55 to 68 cents, and No. 3 Michi-
gan is held at 60 to — cents in store.
In Oawego No. 2 Canada remains at 83
to 87 cents and in Albany No. 2 and No.
8 state is nominal at 54 to 60 cents, and
Canaan No. 2 at 87 to 92 cents." It
will be observed that good Canada is
quoted at 22 to 30 cents per bushel
more than good western --the extreme
range being 35 cents, the difference in
the latter case being more than the
whole amount of duty.
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An article by David N. Holway in the
Arena for June shows tile enormous
progress that has been made in the mat-
ter of life insurance during the lest
thirty years. In 1861 the total insur-
. Owe in force amountedto$1,195,000,000
'41which $850,000,000 was held by Brit-
ish companies and $177,000,000 by
American. Since then the total has
increased to nearly elevenbillion dollars,
of which $3,218,000,000 is held by com-
panies in Britain (including Canada and
Anstralia),and $4,477,000,000 by Amer-
ican. Since the organisation of life in-
" nuance isehemes,cornpanies in the Unit-
ed States alone have paid six hundred
and thirty-three million dollars to the
half million families of decreased policy
holders, arid have also distributed one
hundred and twenty-five 'pillions in
matured endowments, One of the most
• beneficial institutions of the nineteenth
century is the life insurance company or
• association, and it is well that the bene-
fits offered are being so largely taken
• advantage of.
'No Womenn.--Why should it be so often
repeated that it is the surest, peomptest.
best remedy, when doctors are eurprieed et
effecte,—Lawretee, Kane., U. S. A,
'George Pattenton fell from a second story
window striking a fence. I found him us-
ing St. Jacobs Oil. He used it fseely all
over big hurts, and I saw him net morning
at werk. AU the blue spots finally disapear-
'ed, leaving neither pain, sear, nel swelling.
C. X. Net:MAIM, W D.
Mr. T. A. Stephan, lately manager of the
Bank of Commerce at Galt, has been ap-
pointed manager of the agencies at Parkhill
and Ailsa Craig.
emonomessi
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.0n tario WUI derive as muck benefit
front the Workl's Fair as any State in
the Union: Our mineral interests, par.
ticularly, in.ust receive immense benefit
fromthe advertising .that the resources
of the province will receive at Chicago.
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One of the most important of Cana,
akin industries i that of chem making,
It was developed from almost nothing
twenty-two years ago unfil in 1891 the
total vim, of cheese expprted was nine
and a belf million dolls or within a
quarter of a million of t aunt represen-
ted by the export of Tery products.
Ontario is the center ill this industry.
The Maritime and Western Provinces
have comparatively little to do with it,
and Quebec has but 618 factories against
802 in this province(
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Britain and Canada have more reason
than the United States will have to ro.
joice in the appoititment of Sir John
Thompson and Hon. Chas, IL Tupper
to places of great responsibility in the
arbitration upon the Behring Sea dis-
pute. Cenadiandiploinacyhasoutwitted
Yenisei, skill every time the two heve
been matched in the settlement of great
international questions. Canadien busi-
ness has boon well done when her own
sons have attended to it. 'Neither the
trained diplomats of Britain nor the
United States will outclass Sir John
Thompson and Charles II. Tupper. As
arbitrator and eouneel they are to appear
in an arena where every act will be
watched with interest and rewarde1 with
the admiration of a united Canada.
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To appeal to the Imperial Plirliament
to set aside the Gerrymander Bill would
be of a piece with the conduct of those
who cried aloud for British regunents to
come over and put down the ;Northwest
rising in 1883. In adopting eueli a
course we would, indeed be doing the
baby act, and acknowledge our unlitness
for responsibilities deliberately assumed.
Our predecessors fought and atrugeled
for a generation for the right to govern
themselves—for the right to conduct
their own local affairs without interior -
once from the Imperial authorities—and
now certaiti degenerate CtinadiiiIII 44 the
present day announce, by the proposal
to ask the Imperial Government to legis-
late in a matter that concerns <slily the
Dominion at Canada, a readinees to
surrender all that has been gained. at so
great a Mt. W6 do not believe the
people of Canada ere so debased by party
apint as that; we have faith in the poo -
lo, and because of this fath and belief
we deem it our duty to denounce in the
strongest possible language the foolish
and dangerous proposal Viet the imperial
Parliameat :should be petitioned to over-
ride an not of our own Legislature in a
matter that coucerns only ourselves.
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The mother country is not only in-
oreaaing very largely her purchases of
our grain, cheese,barley.eggs and cattle,
but is becoming an extensive purchaser
of Canadian horses. According to tbe
Montreal Star, there were hist year
about 1,000 Canadian horses abipped
from Montreal to Glasgow and other
points. This season it is expected that
the total export will amount to 4,000.
The Canadian horse trade with Britain
has commenced to develop itself in
earnest There are at present no leas
than seven British buyera of horses in
Canada and they are shipping consign -
meats from Montreal every week to
Glasgow. They are ding their' buying
principally throughout Ontario, but
make Montreal their head -quarters. The
horses being exported are mostly heavy,
single drivers and fast carriage. The
sales are held at Glasgow and are attend
ed by buyers from. London and other
parts of England and Scotland. The
Canadian horse evidently finds favor in
the British market, judging from the
healthy demand for them. The average
profit to the sellers is 25 per cent. That
pays, and that is why the British buyers
on this side are at present assiduously
cultivating the trade.
The Dairy.
Denmark now produces 100,000,000
pounds of butter yearly for export, almost
the whole of which goes to England.
The Danish laws require Government
inspectors of all butter factories, who
can, at any time, enter dairies, factories
or warehouses and take away samples
for analysis. Should oleomargarine or
any other adherent be found, the maker
is tined $27. The result is really first-
class butter of uniform character, due
to this Government supervision and the
careful treatment of the milk till it can
be made into butter. A retail dealer in
any part of England who orders 50 tubs
of Danish butter knows exactly what he
will get. It must be the same with
Canadian butter if we are to have the
bi ado.
Esmilton, April 20, 1892.
I wax doctoring for years with physicians
for a Neely and 'scurvy afflettien of the scalp,
they told me it was eczema, but gave me
no permanent relief. I was also troubled
with excessive dandruff, which would drop
from my bead like snow fiakee. Hearing
of Anti -Dandruff I uged it, and Irmo the
thirdeppliestion felt more relieved than for
•years; when half the bottle was used the
eczema and scaly eruptions disappeared
and have not returned sines; dandruff was
thoroughly removed,:the itching of thesoalp
stopped, and for an elegem*, clean and use-
ful hair dressing Anti -Dandruff has no
equal. .
J. O. GRAHAM,
Mgr. Hamilton Branch Kemp, Jones ck
Peek, Manufaeturers of Cider, Toronto.
• After a residenoe of three years in Mite -
hell, the Itev. Messrs. Nugent and Mills
will leaye town with the close of the present
month, aeoorditig to the rulee of the Mothce
diet ohnroh.
TAP, GENERAL ELECTION.
MR, GLADSTONE IS CeUITE CeON Ft-
• DENT.
So Ara the Ltheral-Dolontsts—rrish ra,v.
tton rigiit—Davitt Bas a Bandaged
Head—The Ozer Win Visit the Ger-
man Emperor,
Mr, G. W. Smalley telegraphs to The
New York Tribune:
Urinate, June 6.—That the dissolution
of this long Parliament vrill take place at
the end of June is now an article of faith
with both parties, The understanding be -
ween Mr. Balfour and Mr, Gladstone is
busiuese pui•posea pretty complete.
here is for parliamentary purposes a
I'ruchee.
Tboldness, if not the gener• al turmoil
of a general election, has already begun.
Agents and candidates are hard at work.
The Whitsuntide holidays will be no
dart to men whose political fortuuee are at,
lotto. Speculations on the result, esti-
mates, conjectures, calculations and cal-
culated exaggerations abound. Tempera-
ment has as much to do with the matter
as figures. Mn Gladetone, more sanguine
in age than other men in youth, believes
his majority in the next House will be
a majority of three figures, Gla,dstonien
journallata of more prosaic minds, with
good information and of careful judgment,
give him 50. The Gladstonian whips, who
by no means wear their hearts on their
sleeves, are understood to expect about 30,
The Tory whips, equally discreet, are not,
thought to dissent very widely from this
estimate, The authorities among those
Liberal -Unionists whose political extinction
has been daily predicted Lor years are more
confident than their Tory colleagues.
Mr, Gladstone le expected to come back
with a majority, but a majority too small
to enable him to carry Home Rule, or such
Home Rule as he wishes; too small to
overawe the House of Lords; too ninon for
permanent power. He will be obliged to
produce some more of the Home Rule bill;
he will fail to carry it, and another general
election will follow at no very long inter-
val. Such is the theoryof prudent poli-
ticians, but to put it into the form of a
positive prophecy is what no prudent per-
son will do.
The war of words at Dublin lies been fel-
lowed by blows at Name An anti-Parnell-
ite convention was held there on Wednee.
day to turn out the toreeeut Parnellito
members for County Meath. It eras the
first note of hostilities betweeu the two
Nationtiliet whip. Mr. Devitt, Alr.O'Brien
and other loading anti-Parnellitee led the
invasion. The priests took charge of tho
proceedings and the convention mot in the
Roman Catholic Seminary. Mr. Devitt was
nominated against Mr. Pierce Maliony, the
preseut member, and. an unknown man
against hie colleague, Mr. Shell. Then a
publio meeting was hold. The crowd collect-
ed outside mid when the delegates emerged
front the seminary they were mobbed, Mud,
not rhetorical only, but real mud, was
thrown; then stones. Mr. Devitt was hit,
ILA at Waterford, and blood flowed. Others
wuro hit. Mr. Davitt was looked after by
a doctor and delimited for Dublin with a
bantleged head. Cries follovrod him, "We
will have no traitors Imre."
Ono of the wishes of the German
peror is about to bo gratified. The Czar
has promised to pay blin a visit at Kiel to
last belf an hour. To Berlin he will not
go, but this rather casual and extremely
brief meeting is eupposed to be auflicient to
soothe the long-zuffering seneibilittee of the
German Emperor. There is A emitor of re-
conciliation between the Emperor and
Prince Bismarck, improbable in Itself and
resting on no ascertained authority.
Guards Murdered Dy Npanisli ConvititS.
Mennzu, Juno 6.—In the Valencia pri-
son yestonlay 274 convicts revolted as they
were being marched to dinner. They
killed throe of the guards and put the rest
to flight. The military as marched into
the prison and the convicts were taken
back to their quarters. The ringleaders
will be shot.
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Recovering tne Buried Bliners,
PRAGUE, June 6.—It will be two weeks
before all the bodies are recovered front
tho Birkenberg silver mine aua fully one
month before the shafts can be recon-
structed and the mine made safe by re-
placing the timbers that have been de-
stroyed by the fire.
Io the meantime the miners will be with-
out work and much suffering will result.
The fragments of bodies that were intact
so far as the limbs are concerned were
greatly swollen.
Only 13 of the rescued survived, while 27
of the men who volunteered for the work of
rescue were killed by falling timbers or
suffocated. The loss is 1,800,000 florins.
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Ablation Peasants Emigrating.
LONDON, June 6.—.&n enormous increase
is reported in emigration from upper Al-
sace to America, caused, it is said, by the
operation of the Zollveroin treaty.
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An basalt to B4taiu,
CARTAGENA, Colombia, June 6.—News
has been received here from La Guayra. that
President Palacio has seized elle breakwater
works at that place belonging to British
corporations.
An fmmense Failure.
PARIS, Tune 6. —It is stated to -day that
the liabilities of Blonclel & Garnier, the
bankers, whose failure was announced yes-
terday, amount to 6,000,000 francs. Their
Beets are absolutely nothing. The failure
especially affects Lyons and Geneva.
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Cholera in Persia.
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 6.—According to
advices received here from Meshed, Persia,
the ravages of cholera in that city show no
signs of abatement. The number of deaths
fluctuate daily. • The highest .number yet
recorded in 24 hours was 51.
This was me Tuesday. On Wednesday
the deathe fell to 23, but on Thursday tli"e
record jumped to 48. Ie is not believed
that the disease will spread westward.
A BIG SCHEME.
English money to —111111.1 the Line Prom
Winnipeg to'Ivert
W./Lummox, June 6.—It is asserted here
that the money has been found in England
for building a railway from Winnipeg to
Pert Churchill no Hudson's Bay to connect
with a line of steamers running to England.
This is Hugh &ashore:mere scheme,which the
Government is disposed to encourage by a
bon us.
An Einbrella Combine.
ALBANY, June"6. —What appears to be a
combination of unibrella manufacturers was
theorperated under tile isiime of The
T..lmbrella Co. witla a capital of 68,000,000.
The directors are mostly residents tef New
York,
THE STORM BURST.
railway leroperty Demolished—A. Church
In Ruins—Fifty C111.141tou Maimed.
OMAHA, Neb., JUDO O.—McCook, Neb.,
was visited yesterday by a, terrible cyclone.
AA the huge funnel -shaped cloud passed
over the Burlington and 'Missouri shops and
roundhouse it seemed to suddenly drop to
the ground, first striking the business
building owned by H. W. Cole, and with
awful power raised. the metal roof
clear off the two parts in the
rear, and whirling it around :brought
it down -with terrible force in almost its
former position upon the heads of the cigar -
makers who were at work there. AR
camped except one, who was severely in-
jured. The storm mitre seemed to raise
up in the air and again drop to the
ground about three blocks away. In
a moment the air was filled with flying
debris, and the cry was raised that the
Congregational Church was in ruins and
hundrads of children buried is the ruins.
The children of tlao city were rehearsing
for the children's day at the Cangrega-
tional Church, and that edifice was necked
to its utmost capacity with the little, folks.
But two minutes before the cyclone
struck the balding about two hundred
of the ainaller children had finished the ex-
ercises and gone home. The oherch was
milted from its foundation and daubed down
in one mese of ruins, burying about 60
children together with the pester of the
church and several teaohers. Many of the
children who wore leaving were hurt by fly-
ing thnbers but so far as is known none
seriously. ;iVith willing hands the fallen
timbers were raised from the ruins and
soon all were released from their imprison-
ment. Timbers, in falling, had formed an
arch over the heads of those who wore in
the church. Several of the children are
xo in:dowdy injured that it is feared
they cannot live but a fewhours. Manyof the
injured children have legs and arm$ broken,
and gill others seem to be hurt internally.
The list of the injured is about 50, and as
many were carried home at once it is Mmes.
Bible at this hour to get the exact number.
Had the cyclone struck the church five
minutes earlier at least 250 would have been
buried in the ruins.
THE ATTEMPT FAILED.
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Three Hundred Convicts Sfahe a isrenic
for Liberty.
IrAtreons, June' 6.—Much excitement
was created here by the revolt of a large
number of convicts yesterday. The Beene
of the trouble was the San Augustin
prison. Three hundred prisoners ecnifined
there made a break for liberty. Gov. Sal -
vied° appeared on the scone and fired a
revolver at the mites of excited mon, at the
tante thne aunouncIng that he would shoot
down the Bret man who attempted to pass
him. The Gorernor held the malcontents
at bay until a body of military had, been
summoned to the prison. The eoldiers
soon had the unruly prisoners under sub-
jeetion, and the latter quietly allowed
themdelvee to be placed securely in their
cells.
A !Lomb iu it Pennsylvania.Town.
Prrrsnunn, Pa„ Juno 6.—About 1 o'clock
yesterday an explosion of dynamite oc-
curred et Kensington, Pa., in the house of
3, K. Turner, a jeweler.
Mn Turner and Miss Emma Scheffer of
Eraleton. Pc,, were instantly killed. Mrs.
Turner and two of the children were badly
injursd.
It is believed the house was blown up
deliberately,as Mr. Turner was never known
to have dynamite in his dwelling or store,
The explosion was of great force, breaking
windows and doors at some distance. Tho
authorities are trying to find it clue ,to the
fieud who caused the explosion.
THE RAILWAY OUTRAGE.
Trails Isenberg TA1C411 aSlloo of Poor Los
Money.
GUTHRIE, 0.T., june 6.—It is declared
positively that it was the Dalton gang
which hold up the Santa Pe express at
Red Rock, LT., on Wednesday, and that
the robbers wined from the Wells -Fargo
safe $50,000, which was being forwarded
from the Treasury Department at Washing-
ton to the agent of the Sac and Fox In-
dians in part payment of lands recently
nurchased by the Government. Deputy
United States Marshal Porter and a pone
of 11 men are in pursuit of the robbers, and
a fight is expected. when they are over-
taken. United States troops will co-
operate with the officers in their attempt to
capture the gang and obtain the money.
snowstorm in June.
ST. Pane, June 6.—Despatches received
here last evening say that a great snow-
storm is raging west of the Missouri River
in South Dakota. At Deadwood snow has
been failing fiercely for 10 hours, and lies
on the ground to the depth of 10 inches.
Traffic is almost suspended and the tem-
perature has fallen below the freezing
point. Nothing of the sort has ever before
occurred in June in the Northwest in the
history of the signal service.
Hiram A. Calvin Gets the Conservative
Nomination.
KINGSTON, June 6.—At the Conservative
convention of the electors of the County of
Frontenae held Saturday to nominate a can-
didate for the seat in the Dominion Parlia-
ment made vacant by the appointment of
Hon. G. A. Kirkpatrick as Lieutenant -
Governor of Ontario, Hiram A. Calvin of
Garden Island was the unanimous choice
and accepted the nomination.
Was lie Murdered?
Wrrinson, Ont., Jane 6.—The body of
an unknown man was found iloatino in the
river at Sandwich last night. Behind the
left ear was a hole evidently made by it
blunt inetrument or bullet. The body,
wtich had evidenely been in the river for
some time,
is that of a. man about 5 feet 10
inches talland about 35 years of age.
Struck Dead by Lightning.
Gamesmen, Ga., June 6 —James Sweat.
man, with his three sons, Reeves, Tilman
and Walter, and Zech Sweatman, his
brother, were fishing in the Chattagoochie
River yesterday when it etorin came up, and
they took shelter under a tree. While
there lightning struck the tree, killing
Walter and the two elder wien, and stunning
Reeves and Tilman.
A. Government Candidate Elected.
HALIFAX, N.S. June 6.—In tho bye -
election in Attempt:lie Couney yesterday for
the House of Assembly Mr. Munroe, the
Government candidate, was elected by a
large majority over Mr. Crosskull. Both
were Liberals. The rtmservatives largely
refrained from voting.
A. Million Dollar Eire,
Dureen, June 6. —The business part of
JimtoWn, Credo, was destroyed by fire yes-
terday: Loss,$1,000,000. A great rnany
A TERRIBLE CA LAI41-11T.
THE FLOOD AND FIRE CARRY OFT-
• HUNDREDS.
Lightning Flhe Flees toi it. meeriee Great
Destruction -slim Jobtodown lhorror:
Recalled—Fearful 4.0 MOS.-. ?hree, lieu
drod and rirty Persons Perish,
Pinstunto Pa., June 6.—The oil regina
Was visited by a141121 disaster of hood
and fire yesterday early, ,A cloud burst
at Titusville end another at Oil City.
Both eitiee, aro inundated and the people
have fled to the MRS, men, woince arid
children being On the housetops 3weying1,0
be rescued. To add to the horror eeveral re-
fineries :were struck by 1 igli (adage nil property
not destroyed by netties i* being consumed
by fire. At 3 o'elock yesterday half
the city of Titusville is reported in games,
and at Oil City it is feared the (naive town
ni doomed to desteucteoii,
l'elegraphie connnunieation is badly in.
terrnmed. The Western Uoion wires are
dawn, and for a time Oil City was emu-
pletely cut off.
At Titusrille four of the lnigest refineries
are on fire and a. stretch of at lepest. one-half
mile in length is now burning.
The flood appeere to hey* been general
throughout N °ahem PE n tisyl Vat ma. A
telegram from Meedyille says the &mega
there cannot be now Tho
gorge which formed in a deep ravine north
of the town, forming a lake three acres and
20 feet deep, broke and sevept half the city.
The New York, PemievIvenia toul Ohio
Railway ease of Alea.dville is dameged be-
yond. estimate. The loes of preperty ie
frighthal.
At 4,30 this afternoon v. telegram Was
received from Titusville piecing loss of
life at 150 in that towo.
The water same up auddenly from Oil
Creek, and formed it lake neerly half a
mile. in width and about two-thirds of it
mile in length.
A short three after the Acnie Oil Re-
finery was struck by lightning, and tire
added terror to the sone. The flames
spread with rapidity, Ana soon five blocks
were laid waste. A half-dozen of the larg-
est ail refineries vrere buruecl. The only
buildings said to be now. standing in the
district utentioned aro the Titusville Iron
Werke and the depot of the W.N. Y. and
P.R.R.
A large number of bodies have been re-
covered -and the work is still going on.
PITTSBURG., June 6.—A despatch from
Oil City says the lees of life there will
probably reach 200.
Einlenton, another oil town, between Oil
City and Titusville, is also reported to have
suffered greatly from the flood.
OIL CITI".—Later.—A terrific explosion
rent the air and the eutire ereek and for
hundreds of feet on each side seemed one
mass of flame and smoke. The panic-
stricken crowd shrieked madly in their
efforts to eactipe. Women and children
were trampled under foot.
About half it mile northerard from the
postofflee, on the 'Western New York and
Pennsylvania Railroad, a tank filled with
gaeoline was standing on a siding. Some
young men noticed that the teak was leak-
ing and seeing a shifting engine approach
ran up the side of the hill, where they turn-
ed, and looking down as the engine passed
witnessed a fearful sight. A flutes of
!lame shot a hundred feet into the air, The
engineer and fireman were seen jumping
from the cab and it is supposed they were
burned o death or killed by the force of
the explosion.
The flames swept madly over the entire
upper part of the city. Men, women and
ohildreu who were moving from their
houees were caught by the deadly flames,
and if not, burned to death were drowned in
the raging torrent.
Far miles up . the crook on both sides
avere-thing 28 in ruins and hundreds of
.families have bean rendered homeless.
About 100 dwellings have been rlostroy
ed by fire.
The loss of property Is estimated at
$11000,000.
At 'Titusville the loss is estimeted at
$1,500,000; Oil City, $1,500,000; Corry,
$60,000; Meadville, $150,000, and surround-
ing couney probv.bly it million more.
Pound Little Willie's BOTIOS.
REGINA, June 6.—Some Indians a few
days ago while bunting for buffalo hones near
Alarieton came across the bones of little
Willie McMillan, mho was lot three years
ago in the winter while attempting to walk
from his home to it neighbor's, eight miles
saltily. The snow was deep on the ground
and the poor little fellow lost the road,
walked pest his destination and was never
seen again, notwithstanding that it most
careful aearch of the surreunding couutry
was made by tho people there, assisted by
the Mounted Police. Curry McMillan,
'uncle of the boy, heti his feet frozen during
the search, having walked across Long
Lake with his brother James, Willie's
father, the vain search for the wenderete
The bones were disco:ered about three
miles north of the house which 'Willie had
started out to reach, so that he had walked
11 miles through the deep snow before lying
down to die. The bones will be gathered
up and given a Chrietiau burial.
A Week's Failures.
NEW Youx, June 6,—The business
failures during the week number for the
United States .175 and for Canada 32, or a
total or 207, as compared with the totals of
198 last week and 192 the week previous
to the last. For the corresponding week of
last year the figures were 224, representing
211 failure's in the United States and 13 in
Canada.
A Boy Murderer.
NEW YORK, ,Tiine 6. — Robert Alden
Fates, the boy who murdered Thomas Boy-
den, the messcinger and bookkeeper for P4ter's streethat factory, was yesterday found
guilty of the murder in the first degree.
MeElwalite Was, A cqui tted.
• UTICA, June 6.—The tiritd of E. K. Me-
Rlwaine, ex -Deputy United States Marshal,
indicted for aiding and abetting the escape
of Thomas O'Brien, the pribee of bunco
steerers, ended to.night in it verdict of ate
quittal.
Acquitted On the Capital Charge.
DETROIT, June '6. Airs. Charles 17.
Ayers has been acqiiitted of the charge of
Murdering her husband on the night IJI
March 4. last.
Beinforee °TIM!' 242.01TI 1+2ngtand
HALTFA.X, N.B., Jane• 6. —The Beaver
Line stea,mer Lake Superior, it ErIghlu,i,
arrived early See urd ay NV 2; it
diers to fill vacancies in the mili taty eorps
in this garrison.
people are homeless,
Ittioarcee .Lilinnelit n the Bet.
119 tIlli
That is the motto at J. P.
Clarke's, Step by step oue
goes a long way.
Last week rewarded our Labors in. the
best sales of the year. If sticking hard
and close to business means success then
we will win. If keeping first-class goods
and selling, them on their merits ensur-
es the best of customers, then we are
getting it share of them
These are not sensational statements
but fads. Sound reasons underlie
everyrnovement. We have no excited
rush of trade, but it steady onward
march.
There are 17 pairs of those job line of
Ladies' Slippers anel Shoes loft in the
following sizes : 1 pr No. 2?e, 3 Pr as 4
pr 4, 5 pr 4}, 3 pr 5, and 1 pr 54- ; dm.
will be sold at 75c per pr.
For Prints, Lawns, Striped Muslins,
Embroidery Skirting and Black Lace
Flouncing; for Bleached Cottons, Grey
Cotton.% Towelling. Tablings, aud
Zap Damasks, wide or colored'for
Flannelettes in white, grey, striped or
cheated ; scrim curtains a 12dic and 14c
per re.rd. lieSateen Curtninettes in choice
patterns.
Notwithstanding the probability of
the great American Wall Peper Trust or
Combine, nay stock is template and
prices right, and they tell the story.
I will not be undersold. Comparison
of prices and designs invited. I am
prepared to challenge and meet
Bargain day for Prints will be Friday
of this week aud Tuesday of 'text.
Ladies come and be convince d.
Yours truly,
J. P. CLARKE,
EXBTnEt.
r.Jarnett Thelgins Writes to the Pontis*
Advance fiout rSliiiitoba,, says; I am now
going to give you my honest opinion, and
you, Mr. Editor. aria those who know me
in Pontiac, know what my testimony is
worth; that if Mr. Frank Ross, or the P
P. J. R. would put the ,;law in three and
sell out one half of the people of Pontiac,
and that thee people thus sold out could
bring sufficient influence to bear oa the
vovernment to pay their fare out west as
far as Melita and advance, if 'required, on
security, what would feed them three or
four months, tt would be doing raore for
those people than all the Governinent of
the Dominion can do for them and keep
them in Pontitte. Thew are sound facts.
I meet men every day who tell me they
arrived here with only $10 In their pockets,
DOW own whole sections -6i° acree—can
sell any day for 810,000; whereas in Pon-
tiac: you can hardly soil thse implements
and bestow the laud for nothing.
St. Mary's lrterosse team desalts' the
kiitehell team an Wednesday of lea t we
Stol in a 'eery short epees of time,
0. C. liwneenst`.'
Gents, --I spraieed my leg SO belly that
1 had to be driven home in it eitrriage. I
immfdietely aopliud. MINARD'S LINI-
SIENT freely and in 48 hours liquid use
my leg again as well as ever.
Jositue. We:Litman
Bridgewater, N. S.
That sting on your finger mean* "Bring
home a bottle of MINARD'S LINIMENT,"
Alines -Ws Liniment oures La Grippe.
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Rey. Wifliame
Of Sparta, N. J., voluntarily says:
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"Unasked I deem it my duty to a suffering
humanity whose bodies and souls I 'would
have healthy, to tell there Of the, value of
Hood's Sarsaparilla. While living in. Ohio
one of my children was greatly
Afflicted With Bolls
having 30 on her limbs, and being unable to
walk. I had heard of floods Sarsaparilla,
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tirely. Two years after, another Child was
afflicted as badly. I used the other half
bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla with like re-
sults. About four years after, the childerst
afflicted was again tormented like Job, and I
bought it bottle (on Sunday at that) and
again a cure. I gave 80105 01 themedieine to
a poor woman and two childreit; they were
helped as were mine. Through a testimo-
nial sent to C. I, Hood & Co., inquiries came
froni all the country, asking le itwas 0 'belie
lide' testimonial, and of course I wrote all
• that it was, and have the knowledge of
Scores and Scores
Of persons helped or cured by Hood's Sarsa-
patina. Mild cases of rheumatism have
' yielded to it. Biliousness and bad liver have
been Corrected in My own family. This is
the only patent medicine I have felt like
praising. I speak not for C. I. Hood, but for
the Jobs who are impatient and aro tor-
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of will cleanse the blood, stimulate the liver,
or clean the stomach so perfectly as
Hoods Sarsaparilla
• Any person wishing kr know more, enclosing
a stamp will be beformed. Yours! for the
health, happiness and virtue of humanity."
Wazeast llonmersnen, pastor of Presby-
terian church, Sparta, N. 3.
Heed's PHIS cum habitual constipation.