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TIIE NEYi IS OPENED
Silver and Copper Coins were
Struck Off.
A despatch from Ottawa says: Tho
fret Canadian coins t., be minted in
to •, , were turned out at 3
i':ur day afternoon at the
r. oieh c•f Iho 'loyal Mint,
•ally opened by hie Ex-
. :, ey in the presence of
c • m1. - Government, pronlin-
• :,t ull; ..- cote a11d it large crowd
• r (maw,' eeepie wo were invited to
w:etneee the formal opening. '!:hero
tarts no spec...II-making in connection
tw'ith the opening, hs Excellency mere-
ly .ec•Inrirg the \lint lo be formally
< '1•
)dl(J, anal starring the machinery
which wince the first silver fiifty-cent
p!e:.•. The st aanpin:; machinery for the
copper cent pieces was Martel sirnul-
lano.u.*ly, and a souvenir copper coin
tyros presented to each person pre.senl,
after a tour of the building had been
made. and 1110 venous processes ex-
p:airseI by the officials in charge. The
Melt will be kept in daily operation
from now on. and will furnish a ready
market for the product of Canadian cop-
rcr and silver mines.
It is the intention of the Government
to build a refinery 1n connection with
the Mint in order to insure 111a1 gold
and copper which le brought in for
minting will r degree of
,n
r,
p aly for coinage. The cost of the re -
'leery wilt ho about fifteen thousand
dol:altC.
C.P.R. WRECK (:
_NEAR 'i:\IH.I:.tt'.
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1Jnd..ay Lady Killed and
People Injured.
.\ (1091..10h from Montreal says: An
tether fa td eeeck on the 6.P.I1. look
place eel i Friday morning
hell[ way
between l:hapleau and Cartier. A bio -
80 -11). rail caused eaasa ound express
Ne 2 to leave the (rack. A baggage car
end coach were derailed. and turned on
(heir siders, and Mrs. 11. ~lower, of Lind
say. Ont., was Lilted. Tho following
peeeeng.:rs were h►jut•e:d :-Alex. Ross
Ilundurn, Sask., lost right hand ; \\'
1:(•ynelds, elontreal, head cut; Duncan
Livingston, Dluana, Ont., 'shoulder
bniked; Lewi: Iloilo, 11ek,raino, Man.,
llrraad cul; E. E. Perkins, Port. Arthur,Peter, \IeN.•nn Black, cut on head;
David Lind- av, Inndon, cut on head •
I. ?stiletto., Paynter, Sask., head
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and hand cut; Dan McDougall, SL Al -
mem Ont.. cid on head; flohert Met -
thew.,, Moose Jaw, back injurer]; A. Gil-
chriet, Glennanan, Ont., scalp • wound.
in addition to these passengers, Jas. Hale
and James Stanley, employe% of Ute
C.P.R. at Chaplain, went also injured.
The accident happened on the L
division
Su-
perior divi,6the hoadquiater.; of
t:hich aro at North Bey, of which J. F.
Brady is general superintendent.. The
acciilent occurred at a point abut 114
'blies east of North Bey, anthe trails
wwas running east.
A VI1-St'ICIDE BI'IU \1'S.
Resin of the First Year\ \\ ark Re-
ported.
A de,patch frau 1',radon says: Twelve
rn ntlo ago Gen. Booth of the Salve -
tea: eons stetted anti -suicide bureaus
u1 I e• •• ,, .• t:.• of Iho world, and he
1:.w hoe: is-•,.cJ a rev;eww of the year's
\work. Altogether 1,1.5 men and !10
women sought the assistance. • of the
London Lurelu le save Idem from selt-
dcslruclio whip' at least nn equal
number ul • :• I at the bulcan; in other
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c !.•<. It :,p; ears feint ,tl:e review that
the eeee rs for help belonged mainly
In the middle cla s. Moro than half
. f It:. n, ear:heed the desire to end
their 1 • financial embarrassment. r ..• i.,e••••n From the small
r,o:na1 , r .,1 ,1. n applicants lien.
1' ••!h dcdu •. Ihnt They are better able
I. 1 ear up ml.I r eernsws and trials
1, ,en men. Ile thinks it safe to say
licit 75% of the applicants have been
di.werfed from contemplated suicide and
I. e...1 to surmount their diflcultics.
Score, of
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NEGLECTED (:IIII.DIIEN.
The foltoning extract from the On-
1:.rio C1111dreni, Prete-ellen Act will be
of interest lo niagistrate:4 and philan-
thropic worker± : -Scc. 31. Any Court
(+r Magistrate bt lieu of committing le
prison any child under the age of 1t
years convicted before him of any
offence against the laws of this Province
may hand over such child to the charge
of any horse for destitute and neglected
clail.lren or industrial school or chil-
drerex Did snc•iely and the managers of
torch home or school or society inay per-
mit it% adoption ly a suilnele person,
and may apprentice it to any suitable
le
el.,. calling or service. and Ila' trans.
1, oine be ns we. lief ns If the managers
tw'ro parents of such child. The parents
e.: such child shall hay.• no right In re-
move or interfere will' the salt child so
cddnplel or apprenticed except by the
repress permisslon In writing of the
Minister."
FED TiiROI:GII A I'IP1:.
I'hrt'e \Icn Far Below Crawnd in n
Nevada Mine.
A dospalch from Ely, Nevada, says:
'teem, wo progressing C
rk fs.lowly on
the Alpha shaft of tete Giroux Consoli-
dated Mines Company, where throe
miners, A. D. Bailey, Peter McDonald
and Fred Brown, have been entotn1e,l
since Dec. t. 'Through a six-inch pipe
food, air and water have since been
sent, and a few days after the acct•
dent enough canvas was sent down to
enable the men, wife' the help of tome
timbers and iron which Ihcy found on
the 1,0:))-folt level, to make three cots.
It will take at least three weeks more
to reach the men Communication can
be had with them by telephone, and
they aro patiently waiting to be liber-
ated.
STARRED BY AN ITALIAN.
Young "surveyor Named Bedard Badly
Wounded.
A despatch from Quebec says: Eying
i t a bed in the Jeffery Ilale llospitnl, suf-
fering from a number of knife wwot,ndLs
inflicted by an Italian, a young roan
mm�ecl llenl•1 ltedlard, a surveyor of Cap
Ire uge, k in a serious condition. An
Italian, who gives his mune as Stephan
Sloan, is now an instate of a cell in the
Central Police Station, charged with the
culla,. The slabbing occurred in the
d.ap Rouge omnibus about 5 o'clock on
Tuesday evening. while the vehicle, lead.
c:l with passengers, was on its way out
of the SI. IMuis rood• and when it was
at•out opposite the Plains of Abraham
Spann 01141 Bedard, who are both em -
propel by Contractor Davie nt Cap
1ira,g*e, goad Kiln an argument, and
`al•anu. it i a.,te'd, drewv n knife and
stabl:•'.1 Doter! some four or five lines.
\\'hen Spnno we.: 0rrdstrd he appeared
to be under 111•' .1211tlence of liquor.
'11111:11 To IUL1_r111:N Si It IDED.
British Officer Ends Life Under Peru -
Bar Circumstances.
A despatch from London says : Major
Coates Phillips, an tepee' wile. distill-
gui,hed hinas,'lf in the South African
War. committed suielde here on 'Tuesday
night under sensational circumstance .
The \fajta' had been divorced. Some
lime lige he made an attempt to hill him-
self in the residence of leis former wife,
tut was restrained. Thesday night he j
returned to Iho home of \Irs. Coates 1
Phillips and reveal an entrance. Ills
former wife. her mother and •n solicitor t
were in the house, but when they nnW
11 ., excited nom break in they fled. Tho t
Maier opened fin• with Ills revolver,
Hanning at everyone he could see, and
Then blew out his ernes. The snlieitor
and the mother of Mi s. Cooks Phillips
twerp wounded, but not seriously.
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LEADING 111AIIKETSicoNIENSED NEWS ITEMS
I111:4DS1•UlFs.
Toronto, Jan 7. --Manitoba Wheat. -
No. 1 northern, c,b,til nominal at 81.20;
N. 2 not teens, 81.15; No 3 remittent,
t41.11; feud veile.tt, 6k; No. 2 Iced, 51c.
lake torts.
Ontario Wheat -No. 2 white, Of,c to
97c; Nu. 8 red, t)5,: t, 960; No, 2 Mixed,
95c.
Ilarley-No. 2, 71e to 720, outside;
No. 3 extra, O9, to 70e.
Flour -Winter wheat patents for ex-
tent, selling al $3.70; Maniooba patents,
e;,ecial brand, $5.80 to $6; seconds,
1'5.20; strong bakers', $5.10.
Peas -R;1);^ outsid0.
Bye --No. 2, 80::.
Cern-Old Nu. 2 yellow American,
lac, 'Toronto (eights; new, No. 3 yel-
low, 65c to 65)Se; mixed, kiln -dried,
64yc.
Oals--No. 2 white, 45).,0, oulsile; mlx-
e 1, 41yc outside, 48c to 48X0 track
'Nervine,.
Buckwheat -620 outside.
Bran -19 in bulk outside.; shorts, $21.
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COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Young turkeys, extra choice. 14et015;
ale eh •Ire l lc to 13c
eoaulg csc .... 9c1,a 10c
Y..ung decks .... .. .... ... 9c to If,
(:h: -kens, cho:ce , , .. , , , .. , 8c 1010e.
Old fowl .................5e10 7c
Inferior chicks and tow!, .. 4c to Sc
Butter -The market is steady, with
t
prices unchanged.
C:r•eanlery prints .... , , . , , . 28e to 29c
do sa1:ds ... .... .. ...... 26; to 27c
Dairy prints .... .... .... .. 23c to'4c
do solidi .... .... .... .... 22c to 23c
Inferior .... .... .. 20c to 2Ic
Eggs Storage, 2ec to 21c per dozen
ire case lots; selects, 25c; strictly new -
laid nominal at 30e.
Potateeo--700 to 75c per bag in car
lets on track here.
11e911s-$1.70 to $1.73 (..r i•rimes and
$1.80 to $1.85 for Irani -picked.
iloney-.Straincd steady at Ile to 12c
per found for 60 -pound .pails, and 12c
to 13a for 5 to to -pound pails. Combs
111. 81.75 to $2.50 per dozen.
Baled Slraw-Quiet at 89.50 to 810.511
per Mu on track here.
Baled flay -Timothy is worth from
$16.50 to $17 in car lots on track Here.
PROVISIONS.
Smoked ane. Dry Salted Meats -Long
Greer bacon, 10, to 10)40 for tons and
cases; Karns, large. naed:uin and Tight,
14c l0 15e; hams, 12),c to 13e; bacls,
16),c to 17e; shoulders, 10e; rolls, 1Oc
to !Ogee breakfast bac- n, 15c to 1534c;
green meals out of pickle, lc Ieze than
smoked.
Pork -Shore cut. 522.75 to $23 ,per Lar -
rel; mess. 818 to $19.
Lord -Tierces, Wee; tubs, 12c; pails,
12'/,c.
IIIUFF:AI.O MARKET.
Buffalo, Jan. 7 -Wheat -Spring high
cr; No. 1 Northern. $1.17% carloae
Winter firm. N... 2 red. $1.05. Corn -
Firm; Ni. 2 yellow, Ole; No. 2 white
604c, Oats --Steady; No. 2 white, 51e
No. 2 mixed. 49',0. Ilarley-98c to
81.10. Rye -90c, No. 1, on track.
NE\V YORK WHEAT \1. tlNF.T.
New York, Jan. 7. -Wheal -Spot,
him; No. 2 red. 81.06)4 elevator and
81.07X f.o.h., nlalnl; No. 1 northern.
Duluth. $1.23X. f.o.b. afield; No. 2
hard winter, $1.17), f.o.b. afloat.
BUSINESS AT \IONTIU:.\L.
Montreal, Jan. 7. -Grain -Car kits On-
larin No 2 white al 50 to 50Xe; No. 3 at
43 to 49) r; No. 4 at 47 Io 47)he. and re-
echo' al 4fy to 45e per bushel ex store.
-armor-Cla(rl•o spring wheat patenL4,
861.10; seconds, 55.50; winter wheal pa-
ei;t&. $5.50; straight rollers. 5:0 1•, $5.25;
do. in bags, $2.25 In $2.50; extra, 41.30
0 81.1n). Feed -Manitoba bran, 823;
shorts, 825; Ontario bran. 822.50 le 523;
middlings, 825; sfiorl.s, 823 lo 824 per
Ion, including hags; trilled needier, $28
4t $30, and puro grain moraine. 434 to
$3C per ton. Previsions-itorrels short
cul mese, $33.50 to 523; half ba•rele dM,
811.75 to 812.2:; clear tat backs, 823.50
la 824.50: long cut heavy twee, 821 to
521; half barrels do, 810.50 to $11.25;
airy salt long clever l.rueks, 10); to 11 ,c;
barrels pinto beef, $1:1.50 to 815' half
harrels do, 87.25 to 87.75: barrels heavy
Mega beef. 810 10 811; half barrels do,
85.50 tea $6; compound lard, 10 to He ;
ire lord, 121 to 130; kettle rendered,
2), to 130; hares. 12 10 13)4c; breakfast
aeon, 11 10 15c; Windsor bacon, 14; to
5 4e; fresh killed abattoir dressed hogs;,
las.75 to $9: alive, $6.25 to $60.50. 13u1-
er--sepl., 28 lo 29c; fresh receipts, 26 to
7c; dairy, 33 to 25c. Cheese -13 to 13)40.
II.tf''I:NIN(;. rim ALl. O\ -..; 1111
W.o111:.
telegraph Briefs Front Our Oen nut
Other Countries of Recent
Etyma.
eats.
CANADA.
London's fire loses for 1907 total
$30,000.
Whitby's council was elected by ac-
clamation.
The Bell memorial fund at Brantford
540,603.
Betiding operations in Montreal last
year beat 5334)3,129.
Bank clearings for 1907 in Toronto
amounted t, $1,228,9e5,517.
A new jail is needed at Woodstock.
the present building being overcrowded.
Judge Eruuttinger, of St. 'Thomas,
holds that fishermen are not seamen.
Permits to erect buildings \\1014th
:2,758,540 were issued in Ilunlilton i11
1t 07.
The Crown Bank of Canada is to bo
amalgamated with the Northern of Win-
nipeg.
Jo':n Bird was fatally injured at Paris
by being crushed 111 an elevator, on
Saturday.
Teterboro' will promote a bill 1•etore
t
the Legislature
i
o c loci its A Aldermen
every two years.
Customs duties collected in Toronto
last year were $11,611,262.23, an increase
(I 81.561,976.58.
lion. J. 11. Cameron has been formal-
!; proclaimed Justice of Iho Kings
fiend' in \tnnitoba.
The C. 1'. 1t. is laking off trains in
the west. owing to a falling off in pas-
senger erratic.
11.
W. \\ a!ker, general auditor of the
G T. 11., has reared after over 50
year: sel'wicP.
Canada's total cuslomv revenue for
December was $4,09:I,066, a decrease,
and the first in years.
The C. P. R. will issue over twenty-
four millions of new stock to the pre-
sent shareholders at par.
Miss Margaret McBride of Sl. Tho-
mas ,.ommitted suicide. by taking car-
bolic acid on Saturday.
Dominion Government wireless sta.
lions are doing business regularly be-
tween Victoria ane Pathetic.
Geerge Kelly was killed in the Teethe -
way mine at Cobalt on 'Thursday, by a
Mickel dropping down tho shaft.
IL ha, been decide) to keen Brock-
ville schools closed on account of the
smallpox outbreak. Twelve patient, aro
it the hospital.
John 'Pinson was run over by a
freight (rain at Hamilton. on Wednes-
day. One leg had to be amputated and
the other is broken.
An explosion of gasoline at the es-
Inhlishment of the James Dye Works.
Tomato, hlew out a side of the build-
ing. on Thursday.
• The Manitoba Government have
Men \\'ah Resolver (Rohs n hiintr. tee
Grocery Store.
A despatch from Winnipeg says : A
daring te)141-up wits molly and sue:tes.
fully carried oil here on Salim/lay even-
ing. ellen n stranga'a• walked! into Fran-
cis' grocery s1010 in North Winnipeg
aleeit 6 p.na., when them wales only one lfl
clerk on duly. He poked a revolver 1
under the clerks nose and compelled
hint to hanel over Ih.' cash in the 1111,
nninunling in all In 57e. Ile made good 2
KIS .•-.: a e.
HARDSHIPS BY SH1PYIIEO
Ten Men Cast Away on an Island Off
Cape Horn,
A despatch from Boston says: A kilo
of sltipwreck off Cape Horn, with its de-
lnils of terrible sufferings from coal,
hunger and exposure, was related on
\\ etneeday morning by Herman llorke,
on erri\al hero on the steamer ilorten-
slue from South American port`. Ilarke
was n nl.'mt.er of the rreww• of the Amen -
cite barque Premia, which was wrecked
o:1 Staten Island, Cape Horn, on June
1d, while on a voyage from Norfolk, \'a.,
M fort Townsend, Washington. The
vessel struck a rock and in an endeavor
to reach land four of the crew were
droene.l while ('apt. Andrew Johnson
wwas s., weakened by exposure that ho
died the day atter. and len aurs-Ivors
reached the barren island.
"1 lived a lifetime in terse few weeks
when we were cast nwway nn that desert
hit of rock,' Hnrke said. "it was bitterly
cr.l.l. (:apt. Johnson stile trying In make
Nee ' eaee Island light. The wind in-
Cresed to such frightful velocity that
the barque el; a:horc and n wreck he.
fore anyone realized where we were.
She broke up at once. and everyone of
lie jumped overboard. Eleven of the
talrleei reached n jagged nock, where
there was a bit of haul, white sand and
overhanging cliff.
"Al dawn Sabah, the Japenose cook,
and Harry Hammond. a sailor were
missing. They may have been crushed
\where the ship went asunder or per-
haps were drowned in trying to mach
the rock. \Wo were almost frozen.
"The strip of sand was about 300 feet
long. and we 51w the ledge that over.
feting our p4citiun wwas completely im•
r(,asahle. ?l00 re was no escape. (:apt.
J(•hnsen was suffering from an injury.
We shielded him as best we might by
forming a circle about him. Ile seemed
Lt freeze stiff almost before the last
Breath had belt his body. We menages!
• bury him to the send. Wo collected a
little driftwood for a tire and oonstru:ted
a rough shelter."
LiVE STOCK el.1f1KET.
Tort11110, Jan. 7. -Prices of butcher
callle got within touching distance n( &i,
(.001 to choice sold al 81 10 $1.60,
medium to good al $3.50 to $4. and com-
mon horn $2.25 up to around 83. ("owe
were scarce and higher. choice selling
from 83.25 to $3.e5: medium. 82.50 to $3,
and common, 81.50 10 83; canners, 75c
t•. 81,
'Then' is a fair market for the right
class of slockers. Prices lingo from
Si.73 to 83.50. but cattle worth from 52.85
10 $3 are the r.l.wst hi ()emend.
Milkers are steady, with pricea show-
ing no material chnnqc'. Choice, 810 to
s 5; malium, $25 10 835.
The run of calses was very sn1n11, 3c
to 6c per Ib still ruling.
Choke lames sold from 85.25 In 570;0.
with common grading down to 81.50.
Sheep were flrrn, but quotations were un-
changed, export ewes selling from $:1.75
t' $4.23, with bucks and culls al $2.50
to &1.
The hog market was steady. The top
figure paid was 85.70, with ,n diem at
$3.15. Rough hogs were quoted about
5'Y below selects.
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The enemies of Count \W:11', the t•,rm-
rr F(tlssian Prtete \linfater, ere trying to
recce the resronsfhtlity for the ltsasters
of the Rtraso-Japane--o war on hts shout•
d enc
11 was Mattel at the Novae! court-
martini
oart-
marttnl that at the time of the capitula-
tion, the troops In Peri Arthur were tits -
spirited and sick almost to a marl with
scurvy.
height the Bell Telephone system in
the Province, the price reported being
$3.300,000.
The customs receipts at Montreal for
1907 total 816.876,465, 0n increase of
82.732.819 over the previous year.
Engineer John 1. Walker was killed
and J. Merrily. braakenlan, had his kg
ern off in a coll.slon at Tilsonburg, on
i hureday.
Hon. J. D. Cameron. former AIJor-
neyGeneral of Manitoba, has been ap-
pointed a justice of the King's Itench.
In a fight on Friday night in the lleli-
nn quarter of Montreal one man was
shot dead and another was stabbed and
shot. and will harlly recover.
Alex. Green, colnrel. irnplicnted in the
C P. i). station robbery at Woodstock,
was senleneed to five years in King-
ston Penitentiary, on Thar-elny.
\layer Cleve( of Port Arthur tins been
presented with 1111 illuminated address,
a picture of the Council and it gold
wwahlt out hes retirement from the chair.
The latest victim of small -pox in Win.
nipeg held n large reception before con-
sulting a doctor and the health au.
therilin% nro agitated.
In Mennonite dititri••ts in \lanllohn
the t'nlon Jack is not flown ns pre-
scribed by 111e government and tete pro -
metal grants are threatene.l.
On Snlnr.lay (awe firemen were thrown
into a burning Mere nt Montreal by
the ninsonry on which they were slane-
ing giving away. All were rescued)
without seriou., injury.
GIWAT BIIITAIN.
Lord Kelvin bequeathed his eslale of
f5.1100.ne0 to his wife. .
Countess Loupe Giussn, wife of a lead-
ing Italian banker. was nriest.d for
shoplifting in London, on Saturday.
London proposes to provide f(•r its
future water supply by creating n rest r-
ye it where the Thome.' enters the city.
The flag taken from Ile United `hates
frigate Ctlesepenke In battle with the
Shannon in 1813 is to be seed at au•' -
lion.
It is Anted lhnt Cir Ilenry Cnmpbell-
flannerman, who is not yet restored Un
health, may shortly resign the British
Premiership.
John E. itedmond has Wcsuel a Male.
rreent In the effete lint nn reeonclltalion
has ret been brought about tectween
V. illiam O'Brien and the Irish party,
lord Stralhcona grove a big ball on
New Year's eve at Knebwworth ilall for
the rnnling nig of his granddaughter,
Mess France; flowery'.
UNITED STATES.
Thera are said to be 125,000 persons
our of work In New fork.
T\wo women were killed at Rochester
Ly an explosion in a fireworks factory
on Thurelsy.
Twenty-one new boats will go into
eemmis=l.,n 011 Iho great lakes when
navigation opens.
Irving linker. of Kingston. N.Y.. killed
his wife and !mireear-old son enol then
committed suteide on Thursday.
Two inn are treader arrest at R.+rlles.
tel on a charge of stealing the Street
Beltway Company's stremetox from a
cat.
George A. Fisher, city builder inF.pee-
pr at Namark, N. J., we. mortally
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A DELUGE OF HOT
VtCTAL
Rushed Into Pit in Steel Converter at
Pittsburg.
A despatch from Pittsburg, Penn.,
says : Two men were killed and the -
teen others seriously Injured by en ex-
plosion in converter No. 3 of the F• ignr
Thomson plant of the United staters
Sled Corporation al North Bradd.,ck,
about seven miles coast of heed, on Wed-
eesday.
The two men killed were foreigners.
six of the injured were Americans, and
the other's Slays. All were removed to a
hospital in this city, where it wwas said
their injuries were not serious.
No official State'nme'nt of the cause of
n,
lt„ explosion has been i -:noel, but old
converter quill men say the cause could
i:ardly be other than tea! some of the
molten metal sifted thr ..1, h the, soap•
ci. nc lining of tate cxon\titer arid! 001110
in nonlact with the steel sheathing which
perhaps was damp.
\\•hen the e\pl•tsion occurred the bot -
10111 of the cones rater dropped out. throw -
1111; 15 tons (•1 ueolk'n metal int,, the pit
where 15 1000 Wove woi king at the
'idles.. 'There Wars no expk.,uur when
the hot mass of steel struck Ute bottom
of the pit, but instead flames of burning
gas were. sent up which burned the leen
,n the pit. The two 1)1er1 who were
killed d had been working 1 n.
r n r
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under the 00
u
eerier, and their bodies were terribly
mangled.
wounded by a burglar that enteral KILLED IN BUFFALO.
he: use.
N
ev, Vork:s dog deleetives are to be
used in Ma search for the slayer of the
risen, N.J.
Al. 11. Spink, editor of the Daily
World. of St. Louis, was shot and per-
haps fatally injured byVictorGroves,
an employe.
Miss Mollie Desmond, who swallowed
lit rescues eighteen months ago in an
attempt to commit suicide, died on Mon-
day at New York.
A jury at Boise Cily, on Friday, ac-
quitted Pettibone of the murder of ex -
Governor Steunenburg. The ruse
against eloyer was dLsmiseed.
A bomb, believed to be a Black (land
atrocity, wrecked the lower floor of a
fh:e-storey tenement house in New York.
In a paper before the convention of
the American Ethical Societies, Dr. Emil
Ilnsch co►nplalneXt that Jews were be-
ing persecuted in the United States.
After a month's idleness, curtailing
production, the woollen milk at Saxon-
ville, Muss., resumed operations on full
time. About 500 hands are employed.
The prohibit:on law in Iho State of
Oklahunia has eerie into force, and on
Tuesday night 2,300 barrels of beer were
retired into the s, vers in Oklahoma
city.
The grand jury ri luriled four indict-
ments for alleged embezzlement against
officials of the California Safe Deposit
and Trust Company. Walter J. Ilarl-
nett, J. I)alrell Brown and James Tread-
well were the officials accusal, all of
San Francisco.
A bundle of lepers, registered peek -
ages, etc., were stolen from the mail
trucks at Temple, Texas. About 515.000
wt•crl1 of cheques, money orders, and
/liofts were found in a pile where the
letters had been torn open. but all regis•
teret packages and money had been
taken.
GF.NERAf.,
Blount Vesuvins is again in eruption.
Maxinlillen Ilarden, cditer of 'fele
Berlin %ukunft, has been sentenced le
four months in prison for libelling
Count Kuno Von Moltke.
Harden, the Berlin editor nate on IrlaI
kr libel, received his information about
the Court camarilla front the Knisc•r',±
sister.
British and Japanese interests in
northern China have come into conflict
ver the extension of the Hein Min Tun
Railroad.
Itobroff, chief of the provincial
gcndnrnaerie•oa, was shot and killed in a
crded strecl al Samara, Russia, on
'l'hursd.
t►1. Deay4caigne, the late French efIn-
isler of Justice, was refused a church
burial because of his connection with
the Free Masons,
Japan hers !sued a memorandum in
reply to the suggeaticn a on the restric-
lien of emigration offered by the United
States Government.
Cnptnin Van Goebert, a distinguLehed
German artillery officer, has confessed to
to the ilunierer of Major Von Schoen-
beck, a brother officer.
TWO 11111)1111:IPs KILLED.
\ Charge 411 Iay n:candle Expended I nnes•
p ectedly.
A despatch from Kcnor•a say.: in a
dynamite fatality on Thursday even-
ing on the Transoontinentnl Railway
c •nslru•:11,11 works at Hawk, some roll.'
east of here. John and Joseph Do v. r
kst their li%'et4. The then, who are
brothers. had a contract for. blasting,
and white engaged - In 11111ng a bele
That had been recently sprung;, the
Chairgee unexpectedly exploded, killing
both almost instantly. The iodiee (.1
the victims arrived !aero on Friday, 011
route fur fort Arthur, sstiere their re.•
!her. Wok Dwyer. a flnr st, melee
Terrible Death of Licul.-Col. John C.
Cantley. -
A despatch from Buffalo says: After
passing through several campaigns in
India, the Soudanuda
n and `hulAfrica,
without suffering a Sing!la w•uwid, fate
reserved a horrible dea111 for Lieuten-
ant-Colonel John C. Cantley, retired,
whorl winter headquarter:~ were at the
(.rand Union 11ote1 111 T01,011t0. As he
stepped off a !Shin street car in this
city on Sunday afternoon at Bryant
street on his way to wide his two daugh-
ters, ho was struck by u car travelling
in an eppesil0 direction. and hes mang-
led• body carried for 130 feel Lefora the
mo:ormai brought the car to a stop.
The accident 00cu►1.•1 in front of the
Frontier Hospital. Surgeons from this
institlat:on carried the dead colonel into
the hospeal. and after the body had
teen reviewed by \ledieol Examiner
Howland it was removed to the home
of Attorney Jotut M. Provost. No. 2,420
homed avenue, where liLs two daugh-
ters are stopping. Both girls, who at-
tend fhe Technical Iligh School here,
were prostratod by the sight of their
mutilated father. The us -dal which he
\esu,.• was found crushed against his
heart. The body will be shipped le a
Mother in Baltimore for burial. Lieu-
tenant-Colonel C.nalley had belonged to
the Royal We -.1 Kent Regiment. He
had seen servo.) in India, in the Gor-
don relief expedition, rind at Mujuba
Hill, retiring from the array in 1831.
Ile leaves a wife ant seri in England.
i
GOOD 1'013 (:.A'rTLF\1':N.
Mild \V oler etas 'leen Easy on Feed in
the West.
A despatch from Winnipeg says:
\llld weather and the abseneo of snow
have been a Lt...' ing; lo the prtjlle who
have cattle in these districts where it
\w:,.5 impossible to put up sullieient hay
la.t fall for winter fodder. 1:p to Iho
present time cattle have been browsing on
1!.e. prairies and it has emit unne,•es:nor
lc give them any extra feed. 'Thus far-
mers and stockmen have effected an
inmton ' . awing on their hay supplies.
Some stockmen killed off or sold 14)
dealers a considerable proporllon of
11ieia• herds, and others secured a supply
of straw, to help out in ease of pressure,
find it is ltoww felt that the winter will bo
paired without iuse.
EDWtRD 11AM.1\ I.; MAD.
Famous Oarsman fiurr h, to \hark of
Pneumonia
A despatch from Toronto says : 1'.41•
award Harlan, former champion oarsmen
of the world. diel at iris residence, 18')
Beverley street, /silently before 1 o'clo:k
on Saturday morning front pneumonia.
1'e ihad been ill for nhnul len dogs, and
his physician, Dr. 'T. F. M.:\lalrnn, gave
up lope early in the week. The patient
was unconscious for several days, with
orrasienal rallies, nnd he recognized hie)
wife for the last time on Friday morn-
ing. Mr. Hanlan was horn on 'Temente
Island (Iffy -Iwo years ngo, and was el.
ways a r'%!,lent of this city.
S17(:11W ON 111s RIiITIID.AY.
Ness Itruns\\irk 111,11 Ilan.gc.' Himself in
Hie Rant.
e decp.•Ii'h from Chatham. N.13...says:
Jolu► pully. n well-known resident cif
l '.t.gloslotwn, wwa nn \t'ednevlay found
l:nngpng to a beam in the Karn of Mrs.
John (bnue'lly, of that town. It was het
611h bfrtteley. When he 1ef1 the Imus.,
ILaI rent ning he wee apparently in wiry
g(od health. Ahont 13 minules after ho
went nut he one found hanging to the
Leant Joel.
OLIUE FOUGHT IN ARMOII
A Four -Hour Battle Took Place in St.
Petersburg.
\ despatch from SI. Peter -berg says :
E,rept for the discharge u1 lit'='arm+, the
eenOtcl which was 1n.ght t.elww., a :•one
Ilevolulionlats and the potter in 111 old
s:reel in Riga the other .1:1) !tight have
been taken for an e.uaull in the clays of
Peter the, (,n'al, for the 4Nevernment
forces elllere•l the nitnck wearing steel
treastp•lates and helmets. The r•etol•a-
Isnniste ncrnpi•..l the lop rooms nt n hwe-
Mnre). heaves. The d'rar wee haroesele.l,
neat toren the pollee demanded 211104.
swop a women of lifly-Morn, named
(;reit Tnmeen, rep tlel. "We shall not
surr'n•l"r wltheet a light."
At the earn(' 1n•fen( a volley acs f!rrsl
through the door by the inmates, tiro
built -4e ratil.ng against the armor of It,e
men! !)llttil4e, ore, of whom ea.: slightly
Menne, d. The [notice then enl"re.l an
ardjoining Mee. 1nee ahl••h the re•a,141-
1ionisls .'ould 1'e mete r•en.lily attacked,
and for heir heeirr a re,nlini.•,Is lire \wry
(el -ivied Ihmugh 110' v,:at'<. (u•adnutly
the replica 01 the revolu,e,nist4 lwcan,)
leas fregnu'nl. aid Iinn!t) ,P01"1,
1'11.' polite* then broker inle the epnrt•
remits and tonne (aiir deer. !•.eluding( ilio
w• men To►ns+,n, lying: en ihr floor.
Thais erre 111,0 01.4 11) 11 nine Iwo girl,
w:c utelee. ?hey lend fired abeul seven
Modred %huts and were none) with a
\envier 1 : Ile and terve i lrvwvn: ng
\Ras. •