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TIIE EXETER ADVOCATE.
TITURSDAY, JUL Y 19, 194„
Week's Cowmen -14 Sumanaky.
The great railroad striee at present
conepletely demoreliziug commeree and
trafttc. in the United States is already
haying a dope -easing; effect in Castada,
espesially in the border towns. 'We
question the real advantage of strikes, as
of wars, to aey party—labor or capital.
Every suepeusion of business inflects
numerous hardships and eaueee forced
ecouomy, which 'Teets upon: the whole
trading comeramity. The present trouble
may have the exteeet of ascertaining
whether any hotly or men, however im-
portant, has a right to plunge the country
into general perneysie. The daniage to
perishable geode will be simply inc.alculs
able, and partieularly reprehensible in
view of the busiuess depreeelun aireredy
prevailing, and also in view of the fact,
that a very large proportion of the strik-
ers haw no personal grievance arid no
remedial cure to seek. The inter -de-
pendence of all branches of trade is so
complicated and so far reaching that an
interraption uf the diffusion of commerce,
and eepeeially transportation
must so far reduce margins of stored up
saved products as to inereaee the cost to
millione and unbalance the conditions
most natural to trade. In the past enough
of the ',redact of our own locality had. to
be stored tor tho year's supply ; but now
the -whole world is our field of 1,n...dilution,
and Mortfore it is important that the
means of transportation ehould l.oplaced
beyeeed the whim or mprioe of a few or
even many labor bosses.or as many
capitalists.
Sir Charing Tupper, Canadian High
Commissioner, heads a pretest paper pre-
sented to Pernament, signed by all the
repreemetativee of the l'Sietieli coleales,
against the levying of an estate duty on
pereoital pinerty situated in the celoalee
of a pereon 4u.auaciled, within the United
Kingdom.
The number of failures in the Derain -
ion the past week, m Provinces, as cone -
pared with previous weeks, is as follows:
N.S., N.B. Man. 33.c.
June 2. 2o $ 2 3 2 35
aline 21. 5 2 2 1 2 21
JIM,' It. Vt la 4 z n
Junt T.. 13 1.4 2 ..
May za, 13. 1 2.. 2 2 t7
Thee() was .egain aa inerense Le tee
nustioer of Lusieees holt:ries rhirme• the:
pat week, the nuta bee being thirty-five,
against twenty -fuer the week hefere and
twenty -a -even in the sante iveele of leee.
The ttifeeage of liabilities has also in-
crecteed, bue the total liabilities cannot
yet be fully ascertained. The erincipal
iuerease is in Ontario, where the number
was twenty, against eine the week before,
and, the meet important oi these are John
Ott, oeBranteme ; Mei:rick and Huriburt,
of Toronto ,Tnnetion, mei M. Dwane ot
Toronto. In Quebec thexe were but nine
failures, one of which were ot great im-
portance. There were three in elanitoba,
and two in Biltish Columbia fur the
week.
Dan's Review of the week says : "The
great etrike of coal miners has ended at
most points, but another threatens to in-
terrapt business more seriously fel- a
time, thonah the number of hands is
comparatively small. Travel and traffic
are well nigh arrested ore about twenty
western roads already. and s:rikee are
threatened an all roads which use Pull -
mail cars. As the public:, and the rail-
road's lousing the cars have no power to
say what was shall be paid at the Mill-
man shops, and the receipts of that com-
pany enna the railroads do not Jepend
ore the reauiag ot leaeed rn7, it le diffi-
cult t., how long ee 14(esulier
strike mey ?net, or het,: fl..e 01,4,
teller chay,.. dttlitigIL
weee havo keen for the 'het"er. enemy
ma,•,,itaeterieg csta7Ai1th.1t..2,
tI oil v; ant of fuel have meanie
ed. The Jimetteen tie tlu treeeery re-
serve leis been eheeked by the vela:a-
taxy de: ann.,” oS geld by New York banks.
Eeeerm et :nee aa ve almeet, eceeed. Crop
proeeeete nem': letter as the harvest
draws resteme The reenseptien of ilnnk
at mine has made good pro-
grcl,s, bat the demand for anal acts is ae
yet smeller anet :tee urgent than. was or-
peene Boyere apringeetly wait for lew-
er -prima kt iron Bed esseg pemeesae,
enema ma ie.:gut-drive aye slew to give, in
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vises 4" eeereesed eve,: of materials
aud tacelemen. After ;1., eneneneioa
he' f elm werieleg fee ce) eer mem than a
teetaii, it ega expeeme that, orders; fer
. e ts..,iee "a, veay 3 eree. but in etea
the e gemafeorap aim uf auliness and
narre emmeed, and prices of Bessemer
pig e4 ehilebed forms are a little
wseema. inmugh he wo.Ching force
7ien.eieteci, etmeral eetablish-
enema C meted fee WAIit orders,
cr beateene regardieg ware
fer the 4.-e-ieleg year has yet eeeete regain.
e.l. The demand lor cheaper :sonde con-
tiatne fairer large, and in some tradee
arc larger t A year ago, lr.:71, ttt hqher
priee,4 ptr41:; the business is si remark-
aely etietets. Speeulation has texided to-
wards lower priees in produnte and stocks.
Wheat hee eeelizeid two cents, the ye6r.
cleeing int inaigailicant experts, fee
few weeke of .1 'no ozily '2,ttenmeo bushels
from A Mantic pert,e, against 9,917454
last year, while wesetva receipts have
been 5,e2eigee) for the same weeks.
ageing, 8,ie1rate12, last year, a minth same
-
ler deertnee. No or:greet statmesam
failures for June or tem laili -eat' is yet
pamilett, but oar weekly returas show
geatifyieg inverovemeet over list year.
in Jima, the failures: have been hout 050,
and. in the hnif yeer ahotei 7.1.1e), The
aggregate ae mernmereial liebitielee only,
with nart :of jinn) lacking, Leg teem 1el3,-
1.88,41e5, against 81.13,515,7fio in May, $8, -
in April, area lee4fee8ee itt the
half year. This week thee failures have
beer 214 in the United States, against'
807• last year, and /35 in Canada, againet
27 lest year. Of late the manlier and
import:goo of failures have increased
little, as ie usual near the close el a half
year.
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A Geed Reason Fier rt.
"I just, detest thet•Mr. Bloomfield," said
Mies Bellevue to her pazthadar.friend.
NEWSY CANADIAN ITEMS.
THE WEEKS' HAPPENINGS,
intereettng items and eneidents, Import -
eat and Instructive, Gathered front
the Various Provinces from the At-
lautic to the
Wheat cutting has commeuced in Wen -
The Northwest Assembly will meet
August ;and,
Milton. has "several oases of virmlbut
scarlet fever.
Caxiada had twenty-three busiaess fail-
ures Mite week.
The etrike at the Jogging, NS., mines
hes been settled.
Four robberiee were committed at Chat-
ham on Thmeday.
ruiluenza prevails among the horses
about Mt, Forest.
Adjutaut-General Powell resumed his
deities on Monday.
Frank - Tierney, of Trenton, has been
dreamed at Minden. -
Tramps are breaking into houses in the
country about Guelph,
A Port Peery man lies fined 81 and costs
for defacing a iiehery notice.
Mr. Stattoe, of Sutton, recently had
seven pigs killed by leghtnie g.
Victor Thotaties, 0330 of Winnipeg's best,
known pioneersdied on Monday.
Chatham Board of Health has decided
to make vaecination compulsory.
Owen Sound Council has prohibited
biesseliets riding on the sidewalks.
Charles Tod, a well-known baker of
Bo emanville died suddenly Friday.
There w ae a slight frost about the Wel-
land district last Wednesday night.
Guelph merchent; are being petitioned
give a half holiday every Friday.
Strati's-ix:: Tato is twenty-one mills on
.la) dollar. It has no frontage rate.
The new "[whip in "bleeder& will be
reedy for traffic about the 15th July.
The Canadian Electrical Association
reeet in the latter part of September.
The Britannia beat the Vigilant for the
1 fourth time on. Tuesday on the Clyde.
1 T. J. L. Orme will build a large busi-
ness black at Port Stanley ha the fall,
The Bay of Quinte exhibition this year
1 • will eraprese that of any pi eesdirg year.
The pavement by-law was passed by
- the ilaialltou City Council on Saturday.
Frank J. Currae, sun ef the Solicitor -
General, has been admitted to the Quebec
bar.
The eldest son of Mr. Francis Doupe,
Ftgremortt, was killed by lightning Mon-
day.
Waiter Dawson, of Guelph Township,
captured a burglar m his house Monday
night.
Mr. J. Burnett, president of the Mon-
treal letock Exchange, died on Sunday.
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aged 52,
A mill at Cedar Springs. Ont., was de-
stroyee by fire Friday night at a loss of
810,000.
Thos. Heagerty, aged 85, was droweed
at Algoma, 'Ont., on Sunday. He leaves
a welow. •
The Ccleatiel Telegraph & Telephone
Co., of Niagara Falls, are seckieg in-
come-vatic:4n.
Ar drew EASS011. jun.. of Stratford, had
hie
err nearly torn eff hy being thrown
Erna a yeletele.
SenaodGlezier died at the Grar d Union
hotel a e Ottawa, on Saturday, He was al -
meat ee yenrs cad.
Mr, Wm. Thompsen has donated a
hem der le e stere drinkir g feuntain to the
eitlealit ..e Orilla.
Ex -Mayer Duniest, of Belleville, left an
I esteem ealeed
at 67'1,000. and his life was
1 lawn e d fer. *40.000.
i The poliee magietrate of London will
i lave ta tete himself for vielatien of the
weterwerhe by-law.
A barn was strack by lightning invieg
the strrun cm Sunday near Bond Head and
barnee to the groend.
Aline:eel flee brigade has been supplied
witl: e mew truck and ladders by the cor-
prentien ef that town,
A child named Clark, aged. 4 years, fell
off the doelc at Owen Sound Tuesday ev-
ening atel wee drowned. .
Heuer McDonald, an old. resident of
,Lf71/1471 On. VAS killed iu a runaway acci-
dent in 'Woodstock. Saturday.
Kennedy & Sons, Of Oven Sound, have
thimod e10,0e0 wcrthof machinery for
IL; Leek gates at Sault S'te Marie.
Thomas M. Tebbs, chief clerk in the
Peterbero' post-effice, has been sentenced
to pcniteutiegy for rubbing the mails.
William Loiselle, at Quebec, was given
life imprisonment for ineendiarism at
Drummondville, which endangered life.
Mantreal City Council has .decided to
"borrow Seek:0,000 and to vote 525,000 for
1 the fv,tteldigliment of a military school in
c ty.
tleptity Commissioner of Agriculture
Gigeult, of Quebec, has gone to Europe
on larieess itt conneetiou with the de -
mi rtment.
T. C. ThUmpson, aged 7 years, was
fatally kicked by a • colt near Glencoe,
°rite Sunday, while trying to catch a
home •ia a field.
Edward. Brunt, the boat builder, of
Hatnilton, said to have been drowned
inence months; ago, is now said to have
been recogeieed in Chicago.
William Philips, of Midland,. eshile at
work on the Smerling pinning factory re-
cently. had big fingers altruist severed
fr..m the hand 1.y a rtp saw.
Major-C.41m. Tferbert is reported to have
sent in his regignation of the position of
coPaita.pri.arit.oi the Canadian militia,
oadzig to the Powell incident.
Barrie Town Connell eontempletes pier-
eletelne; thewaterworks system ef that
tows', which is nt present controlledby.e
nom:Any hitho United States,
The Colonial Con fe.rOTICO at Ottawa
dis-
ouse,1 the trade question en Saturday
aml heard Mr, Hudrlart itt reference to
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the proposed feet Atlantic: service. ,
The cannier's jury at Londonreturned
a verdict Mint 13ella, MeKechnie, like her
lover. H. 11. Thomson, 'causedher own
death. -I-Ter request to he buried with
hire will not he complied with, .
Mr. Stevenson, of the Montreal Ex-
position Company,' lens staggested to Hon.
lereckenzie Bewell" that a series of ex-
hibibions be held in Canada, Australia
' 'and A frina to shot/ the prodnets and. re-
sources of the oelonies, •
The cetble steemase Faraday molested
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of 'Cape Callao, N,13,,,Wedrieedey, having
"I overheard Mr. giland telling hire I
wes to be married soon, tend what do you
gappoee the wretch replied?"
"1 euppom he said he envied the bride-
groom -elect."
"Indeed, he didn't, say anything of the
kind."
"What did. he Fay?"
"Tie said: 'Who is Mee victier: ?) "
Uompleted, tho tlrixd.Atlantle. cable for the
Ocinnierciel Cable Compauy. The Fara-
day. was .eugaged only twenty days in
leying•the entire calm
In the raee ter the Queen's cup on Sat,
urday the Prince of Wades' yiteht Breton -
bent the United States yacht Vigilant
in a • very olose contest; The Britannia
again. came in first On Monday, leading
the Vigilant about two minutes. • Briton. -
Ma rulesthe wave 1
reeleNer ninteratene OesatOriee
Four boys between the age of 10 and. 18
years -were weight Tuesday night While
trying to enter a Brantford store by
means of a skylight, They had the nerve
to make the attempt at 9 o'olook in the
evening, and one of the proprietors, who
hempen.ed to he inside at the time, men -
aged to catch imp of them. He gave the
names of his companions, and they will
be arrested. The same establishment
WAS entered a sheet while ago and $7
taken,
NO DETDOTIVB ST0R41118 WAATDD.
MaeWherreill's confinement in Bramp-
ton jail is very irksome to him. In a
letter to a friend in Toronto he -says that
he continues to eet regularly and sleep
well. He would like tome literature to
pats the time away. But, he Says, "send.
inc anything but detective stories, be it
religious or no, I have- had enough of
detectives, peid besides they won't allow
that kind to be brought into the jail."
MYSTERIOUS DROWNING OASD.
A somewhat inysterioOs drowning ac-
cident occurred. at Algoma about 7,20
Saturday evening. A little boy while
crossing the river bridge near the railway
station observed a :nen named Thomas
Haggerty strugg'ing itt the water below,
but before he could render auy assistance
the man had sunk. The body has been
recovered and an inquest will be held.
Haggerty was about thirty-five years of
age, and leaves a wife to mourn his loss.
PROM ma,NisuPEG.
Sidney '
Rollinson a well-known young
farmer living near Carman, attempted to
insert a cartridge that was too tight lute
his rifle. An explosionresulted, and
Rollinson Neill lose his eyesight __Peti-
tions -are being circulated in Winnipeg
itt favor uf Sunday ears. The City
Council will shortly be asked to sanctisn
them.... Winnipeg's School Board liar
lately been indulging in the extravagaece
of costly buildings and egeipments for
so-called higher education, with the era
sal t that they now ask for so ranch money
that the City Council cannot see how to
keep oleic taxation within 2 per cent.,
which is the maximum legal rate.
DRINK AND TROUBLE.
Stephen. Mediand, a Brookliu farmer,
visited Oshawa.,,Sate rclay,to purchase seed
bnckwheat. wed in the course of the da,y
is said to have drunk enough spirits to
intexicaee him. While in this condition
he fell in with three young men—Cite/Mee
Wade, R. Peate and a num who has been
aciting as; a hoetler at the Queen's Hotel.
He eliargee that they robbed him of aliont
$25 at the hotel sheds and then skipped.
Constable Holman succeeded in • captur-
ing Peate, who was lecked up but releree-
ed Sunday morning, ex-s-eld. McCaw be -
leg his bondsman. The others are still
at large.
PLICNED TO TIIE FLOOR.
COLONIAL CONVERENOE,
The Preferential Trade Idea Adopted by
liesOlution—Row the Vote Stood.
liealq.y all the colonial delegates are
away from Ottawa.
The following is tho text of the princi-
pal resolution adopted by the conference
On Motion of Hou. G. E. Poster, second-
ed by Sir Henry Wrixon:
" Whereae, the stebility, and progress
of the British Empire can be best assured
by drawing continually closer the bonds
that unite the oolonies wit h the Mother
Connery, and by the eoutinamus growth
of a practical sympathy Alia co-operation
in all that pertains to the common wel-
fare ;
" A.nd whereas, thie co-operation and
unity ean in no way be more effectually
promoted than by the cultivation aticl ex-
tension of the mutual and profitable in-
terchange of their products;
" Therefore resolved, that this confer-
011CG reeords its belief in. the advisability
of 0 customs arrangement between Great
Britain and her colonies by which trade
within the empire may bo placed on a
more favorable footing than that which
is carried on with foreign countries;
"Furth.er resolved, that until the
Mother Country can see her way to enter
into a oustoms arrangement with her
colonies, it is desirable that, when em-
powered to do so, the colonies of Great
Britain, 'or such of them as may be dis-
posed to accede to this view, take steps to
place eaoh other'e products, in whole or
in part, on a more favored mete= basis
than is accorded. to the like products of
foreign eountries ;
"Further resolved, that f or the purposes
of this resolution. the South African cus-
toms union be considered as part of the
territory capable of beieg brought within
the scope of the contemplatetl trade ar-
railgegiz:itrtook
place ou the first reso-
lution, which resulted as follows:
Yeas — Canada, Tasmania, Caro of
Good Hope, South Australia, Victoria
Nays—New South Wales, New Zea-
land, Queensland -8.
John Halford, a wellskelown farmer he
Maidstone Township, was loading hay in
his barn Tuesday -when he nee with -n
serious Accident. A large travelling hay-
fork, betegused. to lift the hay, became
loose' from its fastenings while at the
top (1 the loft. The fcrtypoundeof steel
fell to the door, the prongs striking Mr.
Halford on the right sicle, passing through
the groin and pinnirg him to the floor.
Mesa working with MT. Fral.fOld 1111nried
to 133.$ aseistance. One started for Wind-
sor, while others removed the steel prongs
from the bleediag form. Dr. Ccegram
drove to the scene. The injuries were at
first thou.ghe ti be fatal, isut the deeter
said Wedeeselay moraieg he believed
Mr. Raiford would recover.
me COMET"' NOT, SHE SAID,
te parte, ef very pretty and very angry
;tour;g Relies weito gathered at the Union
Station. Toronto, on Saturday morning
before the train. for New YUrk left the
City. Themewere stage-struck girls, And
•caine with face e full Of expeetieucy and a
strong gap on their satchels, Each one
had th.e intention of becoming a Marie
Tempest or a Lillian. Russell when she
entered the station. Pethaps seine of
them still cherish the enibition, but their
hopes certainly -were dameened to some
extent by the defection of the eerson who
was to oren the door to fame. They had
been engaged for the shorts of a comic
opera company and wen to have depart-
ed on Saturday f or Now York. The per-
son who had engaged them they doecrib-
ed as a "dark eeentleman." As train
time drew near they *became anxious and
began to make inquiries of the porters
of the various city hotels as to the where-
abouts of the dank gentleman who was
to he there with them tickets. 73ut in-
quiry brought them no enlightenment on
the subject of the said brunette person.
As the train went ont the stage -streak
maidens turned sadly away, balkeci at
the very outset of the march toward
fame. Some could scarcely repress their
tears.; others said that the dark person
was a "mean thing," while all agreed
that. "ntagentlemen would do a thing
like that," It said that Sumo of the
glide ha,d paid the alleged manager their
savings as a guarantee of good faith.
DANGEROUS GAMBLERS,
The gang Of gamblers who are travel-
ling with Cook & 'Whitby's circus reaped
a rich harvest et Walkerton. They eaid
it was the richest, town they heal streak
in Canada. Notwithstanding repeated
warnings in the press, they succeeded in
beating a number of unwary individuals
out of about $1,500. Two women, who
had lost respectively5$5 and 515, anneal-
ed to Constable Pat. Heffernan to get
betels their money. • .Pat, ,being Inish,
went -to their Atd. and arrested the (thief
gambler. ilo' was instantly kn.oeked
down by the., man's coefeeleretes and
badly kieked in the head Mal body; Bee,
he held auto his men eed landed him in,
jail. The fellow, who gave his name .ae
George B'own, from London. England,
wast treed Wecluesdey "before Magietrat es
eleNain.are, and Robb and fined itt tho
aggregate. 8101„e0. The ".11.110S were
promptly paid. i‘CJol." Boynton, chief
of the gang, who also-, under• the gentle'
persuasion of Heffernan, returned smite
8700 to the victims of the gang. The
circus proper took in between $(3,000 and
87,000, and all the side-shows' reaped a
rich harvest. An interesting feature of
the occasion was the abiendence of money
that the "poor farmers't of this. section
seemed able to invest in the ems/sentient.
The gembiere tent was constantly erowels
with farmer's, young and old, eager to
bet from 85. to $100 that they' could toIl.
evhielt -shell the pee was tendert
Intereoionial Delegates Entertained.
The delegates to the Intercolonial Cous
greets having concluded their delibera-
tions visitedePoronto on Wednesday and
were enterteinecl by the Board of Trade.
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The party took the beat for the Falle in
the morning and wore entertained at e
banquet in the evening. Speeches were
made by Hon. Mr. Bowell, Hoe. F. B.
Sutton, New South Vales; Hon. Nicho-
las Fitzgerald. M.L.C., Tasmania; Sir
Henry De Villiers., K C.G.M„ Cape Col-
ony; Hon, Thomas Playford, South Aus-
tralia; Hon. Albert Lee -Smith, New
Zealand; Sir Henry leezixon, K.() ,G.M.,
Victoria; Hon. Simon Fraser, Victoria.
Atli made excellent speeches, and stated
that during their stay in Canada they
had noticed. the feelings and sentiments
of the people were almost unanimous in
favor of cloeer trade relations, both po-
litical and commereiril, between the dif-
ferent parte; of the empire. All spoke of
the prosperity of Canada. The delegates
and their ladies were showed the many
points of interest in the city on Thms-
day and it ride on. the bay in the after -
neon,
TIIE GREAT STRIKE.
STRIRERS ARRESTED:
Robert O'Keif and J. B. Rogers, both
leaders among the strikers, were arrested
Wednesday al Blue Leland for making
threats. Olecif resisted and severely
pounded Deputy Meaehal Kohl, but was
overpowered and lccked up. A large
erameer of arrests were nide and the
strikers were much ineensed at the whole-
sale locking up of their leaders.
COAL AND MEAT gancera.
Dalaueue, Iowa, is threatenedwith a
coal auel meat famine, There is less than
a week's supply on hand, and. unless coal
is received scan factories will have to
suspend, thus adding thousands to the
idle men itow there.
ATTEMPT TO WRECIC A TRAIN,
An attempt was made on Tuesday
eight:to wreck a train on the Pan Handle
read at Marion, Ind., but the obstruction
was removed before any damage was
dote.
DIMS ARRESTED.
Debs was arrested by a U. S. marshal
on Tuesday afternoon, the grand jury
having found an indictment againsthim.
KNIGUTS CALLED OUT,
Grand. Master Workman Sovereign's
order was issued on T.:lee:clay calling out
tho Knights of Labor. How general his
orders will be obeyed. is problematical. To
a good extent their effect Ims been al-
ready discounted by the stagnation of
business, and it is known tliateseme of
the longest headed. of the labor leaders
themselves believe that aotion has been
postponed too long to be effective.
STRUMS ARMING,
At Sacramento it is reported that the
strikers are arming themselves to visit
the troops It is said that the strikers
have 1,400 rifles.
ATTEMPT TO KILL MR, WICKES'
An attempt was made M xiday after-
noon to kill Vice -President Wickes, of
the Pullman Company, with an infernal
machine. A. man entered the buildieg
carrying a small bundle under his arm.
He asked to see Mr. Wickes, and. was con-
dueted to his office, where the special of-
ficers who guard trio building quietly
took his buudle away. It was found to
be a glass bottle with a fuse attached and
fined with cartridges, iron serap and
other substances, uuknown to the officers.
The bottle was confiscated and the man.
taken out of the Imildimg. An analysis
of the botMe was maxim and it was found
to contain a daest„gerovis compound which
would explode with great violence upon
the application or a gentle heat.
Therm DID NOT STRIRE.
Telegrams stating that the Knights of
Labor have not struels in response to
eVlaster 'WorkmanSovereigen's orders have
been received by the Associated Press
from St. Joseph, St. Louis end K.ensas
City, Mo.; Fort Wayne and Indianapolis',
Ind.; Detroit, Mich.; Columbus and To -
halo, Ohio; Oneahtt, Neb.; Topeka, Kan-
sas; Minneapolis, St. Peul and Duluth,
Minn,1 Denver, Cola Memphis, Tenn.,
and Pittsburg. .
iritg, LATEST.
In enemy plum the strikers have re-
turned to work, and on most of the roads
passenger treins aro running regalarly.
In the etiltirgement of women's sphere
ib is singular that the territory of the
electioneer has not been invaded by the
fair sex, The streagth of the auctioneer
lies in his eonversetionel powers.
TRANSATLANTIC DOINGS,
4%.I4L ABOIJKI) TICE GLOBE.
Pointed Paragraphs Practically Put for
Busy Beings to Obtain an Intelligent
Idea of Voreign. Facts.
Prince Bismarck enjoys an annual irt
cone) of ahont $100,000.
Victoria, Australia., had a gold output
of about $15,000,C00 last year.
During the intensely hot summer in
'India apoplexy is alraost unknown.
There have been twenty deaths from
cholera ia St. Petersburg since Sunday.
Clark Russell, the brilliant writer of
seestories, is in a very delicate state of
health.
• Two Swedisli ladies have received hon-
orable mention at the Paris salon for
soulpture.
In most countries diphtheria has nearly
doubled the member of its victims in
twenty years.
Scots livieg in London say that Robert
Buchanan is not treated fairly by the
English prose.
It is estimated that 8,000,000,000 oys-
ters are consumed in the United Kiegdem
annually.
Sometimes the crop from an acre of
°ramp trees in Ne Zealaed amounts to
200,
There are as many dialects spolcen in
the Floweey leingdene as theie are in all
Europe.
Lcrd Dunravcn has exonerated his
crew frem all blame for the disaster to the
ValkYrie
ltisproposed that the French army
shall carry light altuninum shields cap-
able of turning a bullet.
The oldest railway in France runs be-
tween Paris and Hawes It was built
more than half a century ago.
A. vein of mineral wax, Which resem-
bles pure butter, has been discovered. by
peat diggers in Ireland.
"Gen." Booth, commander-in-chief of
the Salvation Army, says that he never
reads the newspapers.
Deboniezky Debeniei ze, a member of
the House of Magnates. committed sui-
cide at Beda-Pee MI Sunday.
Rosa Youeg. a direct descendant of one
of the Pitcairn mutineers, is writing a
history of the Pitcairn coleity.
It is said that Mascagni has given him-
self up to gambling and has lost a large
part of his fortune in Monte Carlo.
. Emigration to Canada throrgh British
ports declieed. 04 per cent in,Tune aecom.
pared with. the same mu th last year.
Emperor 'William of G.ermany -will be
the guest of the Queen at Buckingham
Palace at the 'enci of the present month,
The Plenum of Wales and Miss An-
nie Paterson, of Dublin, are the only
honorary Musical doctcrs in the United
Kingdom.
Lenbaele, the fannies portrait painter
of Germany, has painted mere portraits
of Bismarck than. perhaps all his brother
artists.
Dr. Warre'the heed master of Eton,
has given orders that in the future the
college musettra is to be opened on San -
day afternoon.
The three richest men in Brussels are
a manufacturer in Dortmund, name not
given; 77,rupp and Rothschilds, of Frank-
fort-om the -Main.
Tho Bulgarian authorities have decid-
ed to indict ex -Premier Stanhulotf for An
alleged abuse of the power entrusted to
him.
A stained glass window ip memory of
Charles Kingley has been placed in the
parish church of his native place, Heine,
Devon.
Royal Gorman Chamberlain. Von Kolze,
receutly arrested for writing indecent
letters to various high personages, will be
released.
Glad.stone, at the age of eighty-four, is
making an attempt to learn. the Basque
language, a dialect that has long beext a
puzzle to philologists.
Mrs. Wayne MacVeagh is so youthful
in appearance that the Roine eorresponcl-
oats recently spoke uf her as the embas-
settler's danghter.
Railway employes in England are now
instructed to the first aid to the injured
under the auspices of the St. John's Am-
bulance Association.
It is about thirty miles across town in
London, awl for that eetire dietetic°
there in said to be an unbroken line of
residences and stores.
T, L. Molboy, the song writer, is an
English barrister, who divides his time
between his profession'and music, which
he considers recreation.
The most notable attractiori in a
mosque at Delhi is a single red. hair,
which is said to have been plucked from
the mustache of Mehemet.
• Miss Peel, a granddaughter of tho great
Sir Robert Peel, has recently published
an addition to arctic literature in a eel-
-time entitled "Polar Gleams."
A company has been formed in New
Zealand to establish a whaling station on
the Kermacec islands, in the Pacific
ocean, northwest of New Zealand.
Rubenstein is giving his services either
for charitable purposes or for purely invi-
tation affairs,itt which ease students of
conservatories are the beneficiaries.
The renting of portions of the side-
walks in Paris to proprietors of cedes,
who see out tables there, bring in a rented
to the city of 900,000 francs a year.
A popular uprising is reported Iron
Quito Ecuador,. caused by the action of
the donate in. expeliieng non-Catholics
elected to membership 1tt that body.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has ex-
tended an invitation to American clergy-
men and laymen to attend the .e.nglican.
Missionary Conference in Londee (luring
the Bummer. •,
Vireathe, of the German army,
is aboub to form, a peculiar colony on
some idyllic South Sea island, Its mem-
bers must all promise to eat no meat and
wear no °lathes.
Authorities ex pea the Austealian wheat
yield will be the heaviest itt the history
of thrtletcolonet. They antioipate there
will surplus available for export-, of
11,785,000 bushels.
The large, white Yorkshire pig has be-
came the favorite brood with Danish bile
con factories, and Iterg:e numbers of them
are imported yearly from England for
breeding purposee.
The Grand Duchess Xenia, the Czar's
eldest daughter, who is to be merried in
Auguet, tuid. her brother the Czerrwi tele,
who are to be married in October, ere
extremely amiable •and Unassuming and
immensely popular.
Orders for 250 loemnotives and several
thonsand railway carriages have been.
Given by the Russian Government to
Austrian and Belgian firms, for the tram -
Siberian railway..
Parisians are intensely fonetoe canaries -
'and other pet birds, 11 10 estimated that
there are fully 100,000 pet birds in the "
eib,y, or oue to every twentieth individual,
inelucling babies.
Australia mined 4,087,299 tor s of coal:,
last year. The supply is apparently in-
eitheustible, end is oo•untect an important
factor in the future industrial develop-
ment of the country. •
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu seys that.
Oirca,ssian women who are capable of
blushing invariably feteh a higher price
in the seraglio of the Sultan than the leso.
susceptible of their sex.
• Belijamin Kidd, whose -volume, " Soci a/
Evolution," has recently attracted much
attention and praise in England, is in the
British civil service and holds an appoint-
ment at Somereet House.
• Theatrical managers in Runlet are re-
quired by law to deposit with the Gov -
eminent sufficient money to pay the rail-
way fares of the company hack lame
when the troupe is on the road.
The late Dr, Biganclot, Roman Catholic
Bishop.of Rani:tether, in Southern Bur -
mak, one of the most liberal -minded ec-
clesiastics in India, was one of the most
learned Buddhist schclars
Two thousand five hundred weddings
were celebrated in St. Petersburg during
the first week after the Russian Easter.
This week is especially chosen fur niers
riage by 'Russiart of the orthodex Greek
,faith.
Italiangrape culturists are new mak-
ing a eery elee illuminating oil from
grape seeds, from which they get a pro-
duct of from 10 to 15 percent. itis elear,
colorless and incaloroue and burns with-
out smoke!
A Scottish minister made the following
announcement from the pulpit: " Weel,
friends, the kirk is urgently in eeed of
siller, and as we have failed to get money
honestly we will have tosee what a bazaar
cau do for us."
Ex-Esrpress Eugene, who was not loeg•
ago a guest at dinner with Queen Victo-
ria. has now only careworn lint,. and n
sad, dullish expression of the fnee, whose
beauty was the admiration of Europe.
It is said. that so much farm land. in
Evgla.nd has lately been allowed to lapse-
frcnn cultivation that wibi anim als whi ch
ten years ago were in daeger of extinc-
tion are now ficaniehieg and increasing.
HE'S A PATRIOT.
On This Particular Occasion. He Met the
• Wrong Man, llowever.
'Sir." he began to one of the clerks in
the water office, as he waxed a notice in
his hand, here is a notice that if I don't
pay my' water. tax before the day is out
the water will be shut off at he house."
" Yes, sir."
"1 call it an arbitrary notice, sir! It
smacks of tyranny, sir ! I don't propose
to allow no corporation to bulldoze me
"No. sir," replied the clerk, as he kept
on writing.
" It isn't Canadian, sir 1 The Czar of
Russia sends around such notices, but the
Ozar of Russia,doe.sn't run Toronto. The
idea, of hopping on to a Canadian citizen
itt a,ny such way!
't Yes, sir," humbly repliefi the clerk.
" It has aroused me and I Nvon't pay—
no, sir, won't pay if you shut the water
off from the whole town! More than
that, sir, and I want to give you noticn
right, now, that the hyena who comes up
to shut that water off will never live to,
do it! I'll slay bine sir—slay him in
cold. blood !"
" Yes, ear," was the quiet response.
" Sem had sent a man to notify me
that the tax was past due I eb.ould have
given hire the cash at mice, but when
thie water board resorts to bulldozing
tactics with me, you have etruck the
wrong man ! Yes, sir, the wrong
" Yes, sir."
"Wo talk about thef el geedoni the
* '
Canadian:people !" continued the Man,
as ho paced up and down, bat -Where is
it ? Thiele a sample of it—this orbit:lax y
notice I must put up or shut up. Here
we are, living between two great lakes,
and. a bay pouring millions el gallons of
water paslt our cuors every day in the
year, and yet I must pay for water ! Not
only that, but I must be threatened and
bulldozed and walked on !"
"Tot, sir," said the clerk- with a nod.
"Bt I'll never do it—never 1 I'll die
in the le.et ditch! I'll show this. water
board that the spirit of British liberty
still Hyatt, and. thatethere ie ono man itt
this town who can't be walked on 1"
Yea sir."
The British patriot paced. to the door
and back. No one looked at him. Busi-
ness continued right along as usual. He .
waited fully five minutes for some awful
calamity to occur, and then walked up
to the same window and. the Fame clerk:,
laiclalmsee the notice and. a 510 bill, and
very quietly said :
"'Meant to come itt yesterday', but for-
got it. Take her out.'
• "Yes, sir," replied the clerk, as he
handed over the receipt mid the change.
" Hot weather, this ?" •
"Yes, very hot; good-bye !"
Largest singget Ev.,ex. Found,
One of tho ia,rgeet nuggets ea the hiss
tory of mining has been hoisted out of
the Smeggler mine at Aspen, Cole and
for size sure aeses anything on record, and
for Holiness is certainly the meet remark-
able ever brought to the notice of the
public, The find, it, is believed, has no
equel itt the history of mining. Recently
the workmeri encountered ohuge body of
ore, and in digging around it aecerlamod
that 11 wa.s a :monster nugget, the like of
whichlias not been ICI 01V11 in any camp,
After considerable work they sneceeded,
1.n hoisting it to the surface intaet, The
chunk weighed. 8 800 pounds and con-
tained. silver to ihe value of $25,000. It
is the largest silver nugget ever known,
and, what, is most peenliar, it is almost
puree This beets bhe reeord made itt. trie
Gibson a few years ago; when e nugget
weighing 800 pounds WaS removed, and
it was looked upon as upproaching the
wildest dream,
'When Baby was sisk, we gays her Castoria.
When oho was a Child, aho cried for Castor's.. ,
When slit became Miss, sho clung to Clastorien
When nee haiIChlldren, shogave them Castoria,
There is no surer sign of ill -brooding
• them rudeness towards dependents,
•