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TOTAL LOSS IS X5,000,000
First Statement of the Actual Damage By
the Great Fire in British Columbia.
A despatch from Fernio, B. C.,
says : Asked for a statement of fire
losses, President Lindsey, of the
Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company,
has given out the following official
statement :
"Fire area -Valley of Elk River
coal mining district in Kootenay,
B. C. ; is approximately 30 miles
long and two to ten miles broad.
"In this area are situated the
City of Fernie and the Towns of
Homer and Michel, all mining
camps. There is a largo raining
plant at Coal Creek, near Fernie,
whence comes the largest output of
coal. Although the fire has been
within two miles of Coal Creek, the
town may be said to be safe, and
although the fire is all around
Michel there is no grave apprehen-
sion as to it.
"Homer has escaped with little
loss on its mining side, but Fornix
has been completely obliterated,
only 23 houses and three business
houses being loft. On both banks
of the Elk River are a large num-
ber of sawmills, all of which, with
one exception, have ben swept out
of existence, and probably a large
number of men have lost their
lives in the woods. The bodies re-
covered so far number 16, and there
will be more, but in the woods
only.
"The loss of the Crow's Nest
Pass Company, owning mines at
Coal Creek and Fernie and Michel,
will be $200,000; the C. P. R. will
lose $200,000; the Great Northern
Railway will lose about $250,000,
and the lumber companies not less
than a million. The loss of timber
to the (.'row's Nest Pass Coal Com-
pany will be not less than a mil-
lion.
"The loss to the City of Fernie
will be not less than two million.
There is no rain in sight, and the
fire continues slowly up the moun-
tainside, but nothing but a very
high wind would do much damage,
as the valley along its lower por-
tions is swept clean of everything
combustible. Relief in the form of
money, supplies and bedding have
come in with great freedom and
everyone is now under canvas at
Fernie. There are about 3,000 wo-
men and children at Cranbrook, to
the west of Fernie, and about 1,500
of Lethbridge, to the east, but they
are being slowly brought back to
''.4Phcrnie, where tent accommodation
can be provided for them."
TRAGIC INCIDENTS OF FIRE.
One of the most tragic fatalities
of the fire, and one which shows
the extremes to which people were
driven to escape the heat, was the
finding of the bodies of a family of
Jour in a well, a miner, his wife
and children. where they had tried
to get relief from the terrific heat.
The head of the man, whose name
was William Ford, was badly burn-
ed, while his wife and children, a
l:oy of 2 years, and a girl of 8 years,
all died of suffocation. There was
little water in the well, which was
curbed with wood, and after climb-
ing into it he and his family were
evidently unable to get out again,
and the curbing burned down al-
most to the water's edge, suffocat-
ing them.
Even more pathetic is the awful
manner in which Mrs. Addie Tur-
ner, an aged invalid woman, who
lived with her son in Fornie annex,
met death. When it was seen that
the house was going to be ignited
by flying embers in the gale, Mr.
Turner, a trainer, prepared his wife
and children for flight. The aged
woman could not walk, and she
pleaded with them to leave her
and save themselves, but finally,
when the house was caught by the
flames, Mr. Turner wrapped the old
woman in a wet blanket, carried
her out of the house, and laid her
on the grotind. He then seized his
wife and children and fled. Nothing
but the blackened bones of the old
woman were found by the search-
ing party. Mr. Turner and his
family escaped.
PEOPLE FLOCKING BACK.
Every day scores of people aro
returning to Fernio, and before ten
days have passed it is expected that
the majority will have returned.
There are no new developments
except that donations of supplies
and money continue to pour in from
alt direct'ons. Food is plentiful at
present, and sleeping quarters ade-
quate. The sanitary conditions aro
being very carefully watched, and
there is no fear of danger from that
quarter.
Cranbrook has dono marvels to-
ward alleviating the suffering thou-
sands of Fernio refugees. Tho mo-
ment word was received that Fernio
was burned the citizens began to or-
ganize committees to receive and
care for the people, public subscrip-
tions opened, tents erected on va-
cant lots, and citizens began to ga-
ther blankets and clothing and va-
cant stores on the main thorough-
fares were opened, to bo used as
distributing bureaus for clothes and
blankets. Provisions were donated,
a corps of cooks got busy, and ev-
erything was in shape to receive
and handle the refugees almost be-
fore they arrived. The big rink
was fitted up as an eating hall and
sleeping place. At each meal fully
1,500 people are fed, and every
night 750 sleep within the walls.
• FIREBUG CAUGHT.
Started a Number of Blazes in
Moncton, New Brunswick.
A despatch from Moncton, N.B.,
says : After leaving a trail of incen-
diary fires behind, Frank Williams,
aged twenty-eight, and believed to
be mentally unbalanced, was ar-
rested by the police early Wednes-
day morning, and is in jail await-
ing trial. While staking his rounds
about 1 o'clock Wednesday morn-
ing Watchman Cowan of the Iluild-
t rs' Woodworking Company saw
flames coming from a lumber pile.
As he approached it a ratan sprang
from behind the pile and fled. An
alarm was given and the fire ex-
tinguished with little damage. The
ratan fled towards Humphrey's Mills,
and a few hours later a barn owned
by Mrs. Joseph Stultz burst into
flames. and was burned with all its
contents. the loss amounting to
$400. While the barn was burning
a fire broke out among the big pile
tinguished after destroying two
hundred ties. Tho police had been
notified of the firebug's disastrous
work, and a patrol was sent from
the city. Williams was captured.
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PIGSKIN GRAFTED ON 1101'.
Successful Operation Performed in
St. John Hospital.
A despatch from fit. John, N.B.,
says: Two months ago Eugene Mc-
Auliffe, the 14 -year-old son of Jere
McAuliffe, the actor, fell under a
train and his left leg had to be am-
putated close to the trunk. Tues-
day evening eight physicians per-
formed a skin grafting operation
Some days ago a boy friend gave a
largo section of skin, which was
successfully grafted. On Tuesday
a young pig was chloroformed and
skin taken from it to cover a grr.at
raw wound on McAuliffe's body
The pigskin has completely taken
ti ties along the I. C. B. tracks. hold and McAuliffe will recover
The men employed on the work This is the first operation of the
were summoned, and the fire ex- kind ever attempted in Canada.
1Y[ACHINE A TOTAL WRECK
Zeppelin's Great Airship Was Struck By
Lightening and Burned.
A despatch from Stuttgart, Get-
-litany, says : The great flight of the
Zeppelin airship, which looked like
placing the practicability of aerial
navigation for war purposes beyond
all doubt. had an unfortunate con-
clusion on Wednesday. The airship
left the Enke of Constance on Tues-
day morning for a trip to Mayence
and return. The machine respond-
ed absolutely to the control of its
pilots and was navigated over the
Lake ..f Constance down the Valley
of the Rhine. over Atreshnrg and
several other cities, and was ex-
pected back at Friedrichehafen, the
starting point, on Wednesday
morning. Owing to • defect in one
of the motors. however, a descent
had to bo made on •Jilateau Ave
miles from Stuttgart. Preparations
were being made to have the defect
prepared when a thunderstorm
arose, and to the dismay of the
crowd of bystanders the giant air-
ship broke from its moorings, ex-
ploded and burst into flames.
The storm blew up unexpectedly.
A tierce gust of wind tore the bal-
loon from its anchorage and drove
it in a southwesterly direction for
fifty yards. Here the rear end of
the great fabric drooped and smoke
and flames burst mit frotn one end
to another. In a few seconds cane
an explosion and a great column of
fire shot upward into the air. This
was followed by the crashing down
C. tie earth of the motors and
frames tbat had been attached to
the underside of the airship. Sever -
•i bystanders were Injured.
THE WORLD'S MARKETS
REPORTS FROM THE LEADING
TIRADE CENTILES.
Prices of Cattle. Grain, Cheese and
Other Dairy Produce at
Home and Abroad.
IIREADSTUFFS.
Toronto, Aug. 11 -Ontario Wheat
-Old fall wheat quoted at 84c to
85e outside; new at 84c to 85c out-
side.
Manitoba Wheat -Quotations at
Georgian Bay ports; No. 1 north-
ern, $1.11%; No. 2 Northern, $1.-
09; No. 3 northern, $1.08.
Barley -No. 2, 58c to 60c, out-
side; No. 3 X, 56c to 57c.
Bran -Quoted at $16 to $18 per
ton in bulk outside; in bags, $2
more.
Corn -No. 2 yellow, nominal at
86c t.► 86%c, Toronto freights ; kiln -
dried, 84c to 84 4e.
Oats -Ontario No. 2 white, nom-
inal, 44c to 46c outside ; Manitoba,
No. 2, 48%c, lake ports; No. 3,
46%c; rejects, 45c.
Shorts -Quoted at $20 to $21 in
bulk outside; in bags $2 more.
Flour -Manitoba, first patents,
$0; seconds, $5.40; strong bakers'.
$5.30; Ontario winter wheat pat-
ents, $3.30 to $3.35.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Buttar-Steady and a little quiet-
er. Wholesale prices are: -
Creamery, prints .... .. 25c to 26c
do solids .. . .... .... 23c to 240
Dairy prints, choice 23c to 24c
do ordinary .... 2lc to 22c
Dairy, tubs .... .... 21c to 22c
Inferior .... .. .. 17c to 18e
Poultry -Wholesale prices, live
weight: Spring chickens, 14c to 15c;
fewl, 100 to Ile; ducks, 8%c to 9c;
dressed, about 2c higher.
Eggs -20c to 21c per dozen in case
lcts.
Cheese -Large, 12%c to 13c,
twins 13c to 13c.
Honey -8% to IOc per pound.
Beans -$2 to $2.10 for primes
and $2.10 to $2.20 for (rand -picked.
Potatoes-Ontarios, 80c to 90c per
bushel in farmers' waggons; Ameri-
cans, $3.35 to $3.65 per barrel in
car lots on track hero.
PROVISIONS.
Pork -Short cut, $23.50 per bar-
rel ; mess, $19 to $19.50.
Lard -Tierces, 120; tubs, 12%e;
pails, 12%c.
Smoked and Dry Salted Meats -
Long clear bacon, 114c to 11%c,
tons and cases; hams, medium and
light, 14%e to 15c; hams, largo,
12%c to 13c; backs, 17%c to 18c;
shoulders, 10c to 11c; rolls, 10'/,c
to Ile; breakfast bacon, 15c to
15%c ; green meats, out of pickle,
lc teas than smoked.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, Aug. 11. -Grain -The
market for oats is firm, with a fair
demand; Manitoba No. 2 white,
48e; No. 3, 47c; rejected, 46e per
bushel in car lots, ex store. Flour
- Choice Spring wheat patents,
86.10; seconds, $5.50; Winter wheat
patents, $5; straight rollers, $4.30
to $4.50; do., in bags, $1.90 to 82.-
10; extras, $1.65 to $1.75. Feed -
Manitoba bran, $22 to $23; shorts,
$25; Ontario bran, $20 to $20.50;
middlings. $24 to $25; shorts, $21.-
5C to $25 per ton, including bags;
pure grain mouille, 830 to 832;
milled grades, 825 to $28 per ton.
Cheese -The market continues firm,
with westerns quoted at 12% to
12'/,c, and easterns at 12 to 12%e.
Butter - Finest creamery being
quoted at 23% to 24c in round lots,
and 24%c in a jobbing way. Eggs
-Sales of selected stock worn made
at 23c; No. 1, 20c, and No. 2, lac
per dozen.
UNITED STATED NI 11tKETS.
Detroit, Aug. 11. -Wheat -No. 1
white, cash, 95%c; No. 2 red, cash,
96%e; Sept., 98c; Dee., $1.00%.
Toledo, Ohio, Aug. 11. -Wheat -
Cash, 96%c; Sept., 97%c; Dec.,
81.69. Corn -Cash, 82e; Sept.,
82c; Dec.. 601Ac. Oats -Cash,
50%e; Sept., 48%c; Dec., 48'ec.
St. Loris, Mo., Aug. 11 -Wheat -
Cash, 94e; Sept., 95%c; Dec.,
97%c.
LIVE STOCK MARKET.
Toronto. Aug. 11. -Only a very
limited number of gond export cat-
tle were on sale. Their prices were
quoted at $5 to $5.50 per cwt. Some
light and medium animals sold at
around $5 per cwt.
Good loads of butchers' cattle,
*4.50 to $4.95; medium, $3.75 to
$4.35; comm•.n, $2.50 to $3.50;
choice Cows. 83.5') to $4.25; tom•
mon cows, e2 to $3; canners, 75e
to $2 per cwt.
There was a goad enquiry for
choice and fair mtt.ch cows and
springers at *40 to *00 each.
Some of the calves brought for-
ward were of poor quality, and sold
at easy prices. Quetatinns were
2'/ to 5',c per pound.
Lambs were 25e higher. while
ewes were steady. Prices were :-
Export ewes. 83 75 to *4.40; bucks,
$3 to $3.25; lambs, $5.50 to $6.25
per cwt.
Select hogs went down to *6.75.
fed and watered. Light4 and fats
were soiling at Ste 5o per cat.
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER
'I'IIE GLOBE.
Telegraphic Briefs From Our Owu
and Other ('ouutriea of
Recent Events.
CANADA.
One hundred and four children
died at Montreal last week. •
Men idle in western cities refuse
to work at the harvest.
Gainsboro', Sask., suffered a $30,-
000 fire loss on Thursday.
The 0. P. It. asks for 25,000 bar-
s est hands for the prairie harvest.
Several towns in Saskatchewan
are gutting telephone service at $2
a month and under.
The July output from the collier-
ies of the N. S. Steel & Coal Co.
was 59,318 tons.
Tho C. P. R. aro said to be pre-
paring to make Montreal the sum-
mer port for their Atlantic steam-
ers.
London's customs returns for
July were $65,935.78, an increase of
$10,469.13 over Juno.
The examination of school chil-
dren's teeth is advocated by tho Ca-
nadian Dental Association.
The C. P. R. are said to bo im-
porting men from Chicago to tako
the places of the striking mechanics.
The estimate of Ontario receipts
from succession duties for this year
has already been exceeded by $188,-
000.
The Ontario Government has ap-
pointed M. J. N Hare, an agricul-
tural export, to assist the farmers
of Ontario county
Canadian private yachts not en-
gaged in commercial enterprise can
enter U. S. porta without going to
a customs' house.
A prospector returned with $3,-
000 gold dust from behind the Gol-
den Ear Mountains, and a rush has
begun from Port Haney, B. C.
A carload of speckled trout from
Osceola, Wis., has been placed in
lakes near Kenora, and the fish
will be protected for ten years.
J. A. D. Poitras, former Treasur-
er of the Lachine, Quebec, School
Board, was sentenced to three years
in penitentiary for stealing $2,000
of the board's funds.
The Railway Commission has is-
sued an order to all railways for
the protection of trestles by watch-
men and fire alarm devices from
May to October inclusive.
GREAT BRITAIN.
An Irish company proposes to
generate electricity from peat.
Only two of the twelve measures
forshadowed in the King's speech
wore passed by the British Parlia-
ment.
\Vm. Burke, a motor mechanic,
was thrown from an auto at the
Brooklands '.rack, England, and
died of his injuries.
UNITED STATES.
The fruit crop of Illinois- is a
failure.
The Yaqui Indians have killed
thirteen persons in Texas.
Senator W. B. Allison, the well-
known United States statesman, is
dead.
In South Dakota the dreaded
black rust is ruining the wheat crop.
In the streets of New York City
1,030 people aro killed every ;,ear.
Driven crazy by the heat, two
sten committed suicide at Brooklyn
on Thursday.
Two men were killed and three
others wounded in a fight over a
school election at Layman, Ken-
tucky.
Food experts, gathered for con-
vention at Mackinac, declared cold
storage poisons fish and milk.
:\ nurse said to belong to Toronto
is accused of the theft of a dia-
mond ring from a patient at New
York.
The mills of the International
Paper Co. in New England are
closed on account of a threatened
strike, and 20,000 men are idle.
Nineteen out of every one hun-
dred Chicago babies under one year
old died in the first 22 days of
July. This is about one-fourth the
quoted death rate of the city.
GENERAL.
A military dictatorship
ted in Turkey.
A revolutionary outbreak is
threatened in Colombia.
Gertnanv intends to construct
'Another Zeppelin airship.
Japan is said to be contemplating
the construction of sixteen new
warships.
There has been further fighting
between the Royalists and anti -
Royalists in Persia.
An earthquake destroyed much
property in Algeria, and many
lives were lost.
Erichsen, the Danish explorer.
and two companions have perished
in Greenland. ' A CUR:!..
Seventy per cent. of the mulberry
trees were destroyed by the Hong Little Joe. aged three, whose eyes
Kong typhoon.were sore, was vet y much troubled,
Miss Steele, a lady missionary. on arising every day. to find them
has been brutally attacked by Hin- glued together. One morning, after
due in the Poona district of India. waking up, he said, "s1 ell, if raw
Considerable dainties has been eyes hare to stick tip clic way. i'11
done and a number of lives lust by des do to sleep to -night wid e n
an earthquake in Algeria. wide ol.en."
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SOUDAN GROWN COTTON
Iii' LONDON AND SOUTH AFRI-
CAN CAPITALISTS.
!eidab Estate Requires Much Water
From Nile Syndicate -
Works 13,000 Acres.
Sento four years ago Mr. Leigh
Hunt, an American, came into the
Soudan with the ingenious project
of taking up a concession of cot-
ton -growing land from the Gov-
ernment, and importing American
negroos from the southern States to
work it, conceiving, I suppose, that
it would bo equally beneficial to
the one country to acquire these
colored gentlemen and for the other
to get rid of them, writes Seth Low
ie London Standard. He took the
great Zeidab estate, but the ven-
ture was not very successful, and
Mr. Hunt made over his concession
to an association called tho Sou-
dan Plantations Syndicate, which
has a good deal of London and
South African capital invested in
it.
The original concession was for
an arca of no less than 30,000 fed -
dans (or Egyptian acres), but the
syndicate is for the present only
dealing with about 13,000. They
have to pay the land tax on all the
land they are bringing into culti-
vation, and they do not see their
way to do this until their water
supply can be increased. Isere, of
course, wo aro in a rainless dis-
trict; the grower is absolutely de-
pendent upon the Nilo irrigation.
FLOOD TIDE OF NILE.
The Nilo rolls past the lands of
Zeidab, turbidly rushing up the
banks and over then in flood time,
and flowing in ample volume dur-
ing the remainder of the year. But
that great store must be tapped
sparingly and under due restriction
by the riparian tenants. Egypt has
the first claim upon the liquid trea-
sure, and will not allow the sup-
ply to bo attenuated before it reach-
er her own fields. During the
flood there is more water than is
wanted, and anybody is free to take
as much as ho requires. This open
time lasts from the middle of July
to the end of January, and in those
months, technically of flood, though
the flood has gone by well before
they end, the Soudan as well as
Egypt has unlimited access to the
fertilizing fluid. Quito lately, in
fact since my visit to Zeidab the
open timo has been extended for
ono month. This is a very welcome
indulgence and will be greatly ap-
preciated by the cultivators of the
dry lands of Upper Egypt, Nubia
and the Soudan.
ESTATE HAS 40 PER CENT.
After the "flood" season is over
at the end of January (or now Fob-
ruary), the farmer is left to tho
"perennial" water of the Nile"
which by this time has lost most of
the rich mud brought down from
the Abyssinian hills. This peren-
nial water is carefully guarded lest
the amount should run short before
the next flood; and for the whole
of the immense Soudan there is al-
lotted no more than the quantity
sufficient to water a bagatelle of
10,000 feddans. How little this is
will be seen from the fact that the
Zeidab estate alone takes 40 per
cent. of the total, having 4,000 acres
under cotton, for which its tenants
need, or at least prefer to get, the
perennial water. Tho remainder of
their land they must keep under
crops which do not require irriga-
tion before the middle of July, and
can, therefore, bo left to the flood
water when it conies down.
SETTLED PROSPERITY.
Determining to visit Ziedab, as
the largest concern of its kind in
the Soudan, I found that the place
had an air of settled and establish-
ed prosperity ; one might have sup-
posed oneself in sone old planta-
tion in Madras, or even in Louis-
iana, rather than in a district
which five years before that was a
ravaged wilderness. The house in
which the managing director lives
is a substantially built, whitewash-
ed brick building, rather remind-
ing one, with its thick walls, two -
storeyed verandahs, and lofty
rooms, of those solid bungalos
which the old-time merchants and
officials used to build in a Madras
compound of blossoming trees and
flower gardens round it. Leading
up to the mansion is a whole street
of stables, store -houses, residences
for the engineer, manager. doctor,
surveyor. and other officials, a nice
wide white street, with young trees
planted along it. The fellahs and
cultivating tenants live all over the
estate and about it ; sena iu mud•
walled villages built by the syndi-
cate itself, with as much attention
to regularity and sanitation as the
conditions allow ; some in the half -
deserted hamlets dotted over this
country. Outside one of the thatch-
ed huts or tukuls were some full
bags of the owner's cotton which I
was assured were worth not less
than .£20 as they lay.
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CROP CONDITIONS PERFECT
Cool Weather Has Followed the Scorching
Heat in the West.
A despatch from Winnipeg says:
Crop conditions in Manitoba and in
W estern provinces could not be bet-
ter. The weather has been cool the
last couple of days, and is a relief
from the scorching heat, which in
some districts threatened to cause
a decrease in the yield.
"We want harvest hands," is
now the cry from almost every sec-
tion of the West. Barley cutting
is now general throughout Manito-
ba, while wheat cutting has start-
ed in several places and will be
general in a couplo of weeks.
Tho Provincial Department of
Agriculture reports a demand for
help from many sections of the
country, but as the harvest excur-
sions from Ontario have not started
there are few men of the desired
class available.
ARRESTED IN ITALY.
Alleged Murderer of Black Hand
Chief at Montreal.
A despatch from Montreal says:
A letter received on Thursday by
the parents of Vincenzo Marino,
who was shot to death a couplo of
months ago, tells of the arrest of
the alleged murdered Francisco
Alagna, alias Cecilagtia, alias Car-
lo Tortto, in his native Calabrian
village, Perlizzi, on July 20.
Through correspondence, the au-
thorities of the town were made
aware of the facts of the murder,
and when Alagna, who disappeared
from Montreal immediately after
the murder, made his appearance,
he was immediately arrested by the
gendarmes, and is now being held
awaiting action by the Canadian
Government. Marino, the dead
man, was generally credited with
being the leader of the Black Hand
Society in Montreal. He had, it is
alleged, collected $200 from Alagna,
and it was the latter's refusal to
return the money when demanded
that brought death to him on the
spot. Alagna shot him in the sto-
mach, and then disappeared.
QUEBEC'S RICII DEPOSITS
Engineer to Examine the Chibou-
gaman District.
A despatch from Montreal says:
It was announced on Thursday
that the Provincial Government
had decided to send at once a com-
petent mining engineer to the Chi-
bcugaman district to investigate
and examine the properties which
aro reported to contain large cop-
per, gold and asbestos deposits,
opened by Mr. Peter McKenzie,
and also to examine others that
have been discovered more recent-
ly. One of Mr. McKenzie's sons,
who has just returned from that
district, located several important
discoveries of copper and asbestos.
He found a twelve -foot vein of blue
quartz, very rich in fine gold, and
reports several other important dis-
coveries by prospectors in the vi-
cinity.
A BANKER'S SUICIDE.
A. II. Ridout, of Port Elgin, Takes
His Own Life.
A despatch from Port Elgin says:
After a trying illness of a year and
n half from nervous prostration
Mr. A. H. Ridout in a fit of insan-
ity took his life on Wednesday. He
had been connected with the Bank
of Hamilton for thirty years, and
for the past seventeen years was
agent of the bank here. A prolong-
ed stay in a sanitarium and a Eu-
ropean trip last year served to stay
the progress of the disease but
slightly. The deceased leaves a
widow and three children.
BOTH LEGS Cl'T OFF.
Man Killed at London Returning
Froin Picnic.
A despatch from London, Ont.,
says: William Mullins, a young man
from Dorchester, fell from the steps
o` a Pere Marquette train on Thurs-
day night while returning from the
Irishmen's picnic at Port Stanley
and had both legs cut off below the
knee, from the effects of which he
later expired in Victoria Hospital.
GERMAN TOWN BURNED.
Six Persons Lost Their Lives in
Fire in Baden Province.
A despatch from Berlin says : The
greater portion of the Town of Don-
aueschingen, Baden. has been de-
stroyed by fire. Six persons lost
their lives.
LYNCHED 11 E 111 OF POLICE
Ile Was the Most (fated Man In all
Turkey.
A despatch from Constantinople
says: The notorious Fehim Pasha,
formerly 1 e id of the secret police,
has been lynched at Yenishir, in
the Vilayet of Broussa. Fohim was
one of the most hated of the palace
favorites. He was among the most
tinacrupulnus persecutors and plan•
c1erers of the public. Ile became
involved in a Tow with Germany
nl.ont 18 months ago. and it result -
CHOLERA IN INDIA.
Baptist Mission Board at St. John
Receives Rad News.
A despatch from St. John, N.B..
says : At the monthly meeting of
tht. United Baptist Foreign Mission
Board for the Maritime Provinces
en Wednesday, it was announced
that word has been received that
cholera is raging at the mission sta-
tions in India. No missionaries
have died, but at one station in tho
Madras presidency the natives aro
said to be dying at the rate of eighb
or ten a day.
TRAGEDY AT BUFFALO.
A Woman Shoots Her Husband in
a Quarrel.
A despatch from Buffalo says t
Mrs. Alexander Sutherland, whoso
husband was shot and fatally in-
jured early on Tuesday morning at
their home on Niagara street, on
Wednesday admitted that she had
shot her husband. Mrs. Sutherland
claims that there had been many
family quarrels, that her husband
had been very jealous, and that atm
had finally detertnined to commit
suicide. Going to her husband's
room, she started to inform him of
her purpose, and in the scuffle which
ensued she accidentally shot him..
COAT OF JAIL SAVED S1'LTAN
Would-be .Assassin Had Large Suut
of Gold When Arrested.
A despatch from Geneva, Swit-
zerland, says: The Sultan of Tur-
key was stabbed in the breast on
Monday night by a minor palace
official. Tho coat of mail which the
Sultan always wears deflected the
blow. The would -bo assassin was
arrested. Apparently he had been
bribed to commit the act, as he had
a large sum of gold in his pockets,
and his baggage was packed ready
lot flight.
KRUPP HAS AiR 'I'ORPEi►O.
Projectile May be Used Both on
Land and at Sea.
A despatch from Essen, Germany,
says: Notwithstanding frequent de-
nials, the Krupp works have appar-
ently acquired the rights to the air
torpedo invented by Colonel Ungo
i f the Swedish army, tinder condi-
tions giving the Swedish Govern-
ment use of the device. The parti-
culars of the weapon are a great
secret, but it is understood that the
Krupps paid a largo stun for the in-
vention after prolonged tests, so it
is assumed that the projectile is
really effective. Reports say it can
bo used on land as well as at sea.
PRISON -MADE GOODS BARRED
New Zealand's New Law Prohibits
importation.
A despatch from Ottawa says!
The Department of Trade and Com-
merce has received a cable from the
New Zealand Government stating
that the importation into New Zea-
land of all prison -made goods has
been absolutely prohibited. Hither-
to there has been a surtax of 211
per cent. ad valorum on all prison -
made goods going into New Zea-
land.
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L.Al'GIiFI► .1T AS DRF;.\M.
Cape to ('Hiro Railroad Now Built
2.00( Miles North.
No longer than ten years ago the
Cape to Cairo railroad project of
('ecru Rhodes was laughed at as a
dream, but the present moment
finds it extended 2,000 miles north-
ward from the ('ape, and prospects
of the immediate further extension
of this southern section are bright.
There is only a little engineering
dispute as to the more desirable of
two proposed routes.t The first step
in the construction of the northern
section is the building of the great
steel bridge which is now being
thrown over the Blue Nile 1.000
miles south of Cairo. This bridge
will greatly simplify the transpor-
tation troubles to and from Khar-
tum and will open up a rich coun-
try which has been inaccessible to
ed in his banishment. He had late- tl:is time. The bridge is 1,700 feet
lv been threatened 1v some of his long and rests nn 14 stone piers.
many victims. and was fleeing when 1t will carry railroad tracks, wag,
captured and killed. gon road and foot path.