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CZABS SERYkTS IN PLOT
Bombs Conveyed Into the Palace
at Peterhoff.
The St. Petersburg correspondent of Ternpus publishes an interview with
tho London Express say.- that half a Count Tolstoi, who eat(' that t'oe
dozen employes of the imperial house- Cause of the trouble in Russia was
hold were involved in a plot to kill the absence of authority, but that of
Czar, including two further senates .,f Government, supported by armed f
the ox-Czurina ural an officer of the late and of free obedience of the citize
Gen. Trepo!g's staff. Gen. Trepo1fs the law. The only remedy was a
precautions at the palace battled the union. lid scoffed at the attemp
repeated attempts of the Terrorists un- the revolutionary politicians, sayi
til six weeks ago, when they gained "Let us have no foreign cunstitut
over a servant. Rapid progress was What sults England, where only 1
made when the precautions were re- cent. of the population are peas
lased after the Czar's departure, and will not salt Russia, where the pea
bombs were conveyed to the palace, number :^i) per cent. of the entire p
ready fur use after his -Majesty return- lation. let us cut out revolution
ed by the officer above referred to, who our own measurements and leave
has sinco committed suicide. He was chatterboxes of the Donna to d
en unpopular member of the household, learnedly constitutions made in
anit fearing dismissal after Gen. Tre- land, France, and Germany.
poll's death he accepted a largo bribe
from the Terrorists. The latter order -
el their agents to carry out the execu-
tion
tion of the Czar and Ministers at Gen.
Tropoft's funeral. Those who have
been arrested doubtless will be sum-
marily executed after a secret trial by
court-martial.
SHOT WRONG GENERAL.
LOSS UVES LOST IN TYPHOON.
t'Jskf Lose of Lilo Was Among Chinese
Water Duetlers.
A despatch uon trom i t '.In swept Hong
thiKong
po taw in
The typ
Tuesday, destroying a great number of
vessels and cawing much lass of llle,
was of a focal nature. It carne sudden•
ly and without warning. The observe•
tory had predicted moderate winds. Halt
an hour after the gun signal had been
tired (lie storm was at Its height. 11
lasted two hours. Most of the damage
'was wrought on the Kowloon Penins-
ula. Losses are
THE WORLD'S MARKETS
REPORTS !1t TLIADMNO
TRA MO artmiRd.
tom+
Grata. Chases er
roAree at Hems
Prices et Cattl
011e Dairy
Toronto, Sep 25.—Flour—New On.
ttrio wheat per cent. patents are
oted at 82.7J buyers' sacks outside
rt,ls
and
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A despatch from Warsaw says: Gen.
Nicholaleff, of the artillery, was assas-
sinated here on Wednesday. He was
walking on Wielka Street when ho was
surrounded by five revolutionists and
shot dead. The murderers escaped.
Gen. Nicholateff was erroneously
thought to bo a member of the field
court-martial.
TIIE ONLY REMEDY.
A despatch from Paris says: The
CANADA -MEXICO LiNE.
Bach Cove$ment Prondaes Subsidy
of 868,000 to Aid Venture.
A despatch from Ottawa says: Capt.
Worsnop, representing tho English
firm with which the Mexican Govern-
ment has signed a conditional contract
for the direct ateamship line to ply on
the Pacific between Canadian and Mex-
ican ports, has arrived in the city to
obtain tho signature of the Minister of
Trade and Commerce to the same con-
tract. The Government is already com-
milted to the arrangement, so that there
probably will be no delay in arranging
for the immediate inauguration of the
service. Tho terms of the contract are
that the Governments of Canada and
Mexico will each contribute an annual
subsidy of $68,000, In consideration of
which the company will maintain a
monthly service between tho Canadian
ports of Victoria and Vancouver and
the Mexican ports of Manzanillo, Aca-
pulco. and Selina Cruz. Meantime, the
subsidized Canada -Mexico lino on the
Atlantic is doing an excellent freight
business.
TERRORIST MANIFESTO.
A despatch from St. Petersburg s
A violent Terrorist manifesto has
issued, decreeing the removal of
Czar and all the cowardly murde
autocracy. It declares that these
the energies of the people and mus
mercilessly annihilated. The mans
was called forth by the execution o
Zenaide Konoplianikova, the girl who
assassinated Gen. Mien.
The manifesto follows:
"The die has been cast. One thing
remains—annihilate mercilessly all ene-
mies of the people. There must be lite
for life, death for death, cent for cent.
With the illuminating memory of Kono-
plianikuvo to guide them, all true Rus-
sians must strike terror to the hearts of
the executioners."
EXPRESS PACKAGE STOLEN.
Parcel Containing 81,600 Disappears
During Absence of Messenger.
WILL INVITE TENDERS.
National Transcontinental Commission
to Build 200 Miles of Railway.
A despatch from Ottawa says: The
National Transcontinental Railway
Commission will shortly invite tenders
lot the construction of 200 miles of road
running east and west from Lake Abit-
tihi. The contract for(nit as large illl
1 e let in limo to permit
part of the material as possible being
brought in through the winter from the
Lead of the Temiskam�n hai and Northehin rn
Ontario Beltway,
0
miles of 1.11•e Abittibt.
MOVED FALSE REPORTS.
President of Bank of Yarmouth Found
Guilty.
A despatch from Halifax, N. S., says:
Ilon. Senator l.ovitt, president of the
Bank of Yarmouth, who was charged
with signing monthly bank statements,
wilfully knowing them to be false, was
found guilty in the Supreme Court on
Wednesday. Mr. Pollen, K. C., moved
That sentence be postluned, pending an
appeal to the hill bench on the grounds
that the verdict was nal In accordance
with the evidence given. This motion
was granted by Justiee Longley.
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A despatch from Toronto says : An
express package conlhining 81,600, con-
signed by the C. P. R. Company from
Owen Sound to the Bank of Montreal at
Montreal, disappeared in a mysterious
manner from the safe in the express -car
on ttie C.P.R. at Cardwell Junction on
Wednesday morning. The package was
placed in the safe by the messenger at
Owen Sound. At Cardwell Junction he
had occasion to leave the car to speak
to the messenger, on an upbound train.
Mr. Kelly, produce dealer, of Parkdale,
who was riding on the express car. lied
previously alighted from the train when
it stopped. The messenger was not
gone moro than three or four minutes.
Mr. Kelly reaching the car first While
the train was backing out on to the
main line the messenger discovered that
the package and money were gone. Ile
signaled the train to stop, and reported
the loss to the conductor, but no trace
of the money has been discovered. Mr.
Kelly, In view of all the circumstances,
insisted on being searched.
LATER.
A despatch from London says:
Matthew Nathan, Governor of H
Kong, has sent the following cable
to the Colonial Office :—"There is str
evidence that Bishop Hoare of 11
Kong was drowned. The loss of
among the Chinese will probably arno
to about seven thousand."
FLOODS IN NEW MEXICO.
Fifty Persons Drowned and Five 0
dred are Homeless.
THREE MEN KILLED.
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at
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CANADA'S RAIN AND SNOW
lNIQI•E COMPILATION BY MR. HL'GU
A'. PAYNE.
Shows the Annual Precipitation in the
Several Pro%incea of the
Dominion.
Hugh V. Payne. climatologist of the
Dominion Observatory, has compiled a
work on the Bain and Snow Fall of
Canada, the first of Its kind ever pub-
lished in the Dominion. Mr. Payne has
been connected with the department for
31 years and has been for about four
years engaged upon the work just is
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OYER TU4g
GLOBS.
Telegraphh briefs From Our Own and
Other Countries of Recent
Otearrence.
CANADA.
A purchasing agent is to Le appointed
for lite '1'emiskatning & Northern Ontario
Railway.
V. 1'. Hartman, et Montreal, has been
appointed purchasing agent of the
Tentiskaming Railway.
ed by the Department of Marine fhe Hydro -electric !'ower Commission
72c under the direction of Chief Stupnrt. halo received applications for 45,000
red The work is a mass of figurtis and a horse power from western Ontario.
T2c. I faithful doily record of over 6O years. There Is a rumor that the Canadian
at lite following is a brief statement as to Northern purpose, I thatg its car shun
the dtstnbulion of precipitation over the at .merest instead of \\snnipeg.
Domigion, Mr. Leslie of Kingston is making pre -
BRITISH COLUMBIA. pnratlons to raise the Allan Liner
Bvaria
British Columbia is a territory with Quebec.►r, sunk on Wye rock, below
eedpronounced geographic features,
very Sarnia with over 4u and Woodstock
lolly chains of mowtlains parol. with 33 nines lead all Ontario towns in
leling the coast from the extreme north the possession of grnnolilhic sidewalks.
to the most southerly boundary. Along The Methodist General Conference
the exposed western coast the precipita- voted down the notion to admit women
lion is somewhere between 110 and 136 to the Church courts.
47c
inches, and eastward over Vancouver Mrs. Barbara Cochrane of Dundas was
Island and the mainland the western killed by a fall from her bedroom win-
ell- slopes of the various ranges each claim
dow while walking in her sleep.
a much larger percentage of moisture The Postmaster -General will meet a
from the Pacific winds than do the vat- deputation of country postmasters next
lays and interior plateaus. Near the month to discuss the question of pay.
1.75 more eastern shores of Vancouver Captain John Graham of the 7th Fusi-
n_ Island, the annual precipitation ranges tiers, London, has been given (ho colo -
between 35 and 50 inches, while across nial auxiliary forces' long service decor -
the Straits of Georgia in the valley of ation.
the lower Fraser, it is very generally Me. W. B. Anderson, M.A., of Aber -
over 60 and less than 80 inches. East- deen and Cambridge Universities, has
ward of the coast ranges the climate of been appointed professor of Latin '.t
Yale, Kamloops and Okanagan Dis- Queen's University.
tract is decidedly drier and an annual Brandon win probably have a union
precipitation ranging from about seven railway station, the C.P.R. having Ion-
to to eighteen inches, according to oro- senled to allow tate Great Northern ac -
graphic situation, is an approximate cess to their properly.
valuation. Approaching the Selkirk Regiments from Toronto, Hamilton,
range the precipitation increases, and at Brantford and St. Catharines may take
the higher altitudes is very kr^st, chiefly part In a sham light in Toronto on
owing to a heavy snowfall between Thanksgiving Day.
October and April. The sales of bi►,der twine to Canadian
A feature of very pronou•-cec farmers, says J. L. Haycock. binder
lmpor- fa
21 lance in connection with
o precipitation twine inspector, totalled 84.000,000, over
over the northwest provinces of eCan-at., 8500,000 above last year's sales.
ado. is that in tllanitoba 50 per cent., Tho C.P.R. has put an end to the tax -
and further west more than 62 per cent. alien dispute at Winnipeg by agreeing
'c of the lolul for the year tally between to pay 88,500 a year in a lump sum for
May and August, and June Is the month its new hotel, in lieu of taxes.
or of heaviest rainfall, just the very period in the vicinity of Barrie, thirteen
when moisture is required for the grow. well-equipped cheese factories that were
ing crops. in operation four or five years ago are
rtIn Manitoba the rainfall is greater now closed up.
than in ...e Northwest Provinces. The North Bay will enter into a contract
normal annual precipitation over the to supply the 1'. & N. 0. Railway with
province is approximately 22 inches, water at six cents per thousand gallons
and the May to August rainfall is 1115 for five years. the government road to
inches; drought Is therefore not much to make the connections and supply meter.
bo feared here, but westward the dan- Sir Wilfrid Laurier has sent out Inv'.
. ger increases. From Regina westward talions to the Premiers of the respective
' to Medicine Het and northward to Sask. Provinces to attend the conference to bo
atoon there are very few rainfall re- held in Ottawa on October 8.
cords of over a few years, but there is Miss Sheppard, formerly auperinten•
fair evidence that the average annual dent of the Guelph General Hospital, is
precipitation over this area nowhere ex- to bo lady superintendent of the Berlin -
t. coeds 15 inches, and at many points is Waterloo Hospital.
less than that amount, but extremes may Other efforts proving ineffectual -to
e vary from 9 Inches at Medicine Hat to stop Sunday funerals at Hamilton, the
2 22 inches at Qu'Appelle. By reference to governors of the cemetery4111 be asked
to the tables It will be seen that the re- to consider the question of giving double
n cords of 20 years indicate an average pay to attendants required to officiate
to rainfall of 11 inches In Saskatchewan at Sunday burials.
; and 12 inches in Alberta, which with a
; snowfall of about 55 inches, gives a
in total annual precipitation of 16 or 17
to Inches over the larger part of Saskat-
chewan and 17 or 18 inches in Alberta.
n, But it is to be remembered that the sett.'
to sonal precipitation In the far west is
er very variable. At Calgary in 1892 the
total precipitation of the year was but
s, 7.91 inches, while In 1902 it was 34
i0; inches.
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A despatch from Guadalajara, N
Mexico, on Wednesday, states that
correspondent of tho Jalisco Times
Mezatlan wired his paper as follows
"Fifty -ono persons were drowned in t
recent floods in Santiago, lxciunt
and adjacent districts, in the territo
of Tepi. The bodies, it is staled. w
taken from the river. During the flo
many persons took refuge in trees,
mining mere until boats were sent
their rescue. it is reported that 500 pe
sons ate homeless. Widespread dame
has resulted from the Inundation
Sinalo. Several river towns have U
portly destroyed, thousands of ca
drowned and crops In many secti
destroyed."
An Explosion of Dynamite Near Fort
William.
DIED WITH SONG ON LIPS.
Pathetic Ending of a Little Girt
Was Fatally Injured in Fall.
A despatch from Montreal sn
Singing the song of the Breton p
Batrel, "La Paimpolafse," the song
fisherman who died in sight of land
the outstretched arms of his joy
wife, little Fabiola f.ajolo passed a
on Wednesday. Tho little throe -y
old girl was playing on Tuesday at h
and fell 50 feet to the pavement, bu
awning broke her fall, and the doc
A despatch from Fort William says: found no externalinjurieents.
pShed e a
Another dLsastrous explosion of dyna- the cot In no her brothers and sl
mile occurred on the G.T.P. right -of- tho song
way near Fingmark, on Thursday. early Wednesday morning. Then c
Three Finlanders were blown to pieces a sudden change. a few sharp cri.
and eight others •injured, one of them anguish, and it was all over.
fatally. Foreman C. I1. Hilton had his
arm blown off. The Injured men were TIIE ALL-CONQUERING.taken to the hospital at Kaministiquia
and the bodies brought here for burial.91� O'clock Dinners Are Taboos
At the limo of the accident the men were Ottawa.
engaged In tunneling work. They re- etch trdan Ottawa says:
turned from cover too soon, as it is said A deep
one charge went off which was followed servant girl prou.em is becoming n
in a few minutes by another, and the In Ottawa. Several boarding -.h0
men hearing the first report came from have ttawa.11n Se 6 o'clock dinners
under cover and were caugj)it by a account of the objection raised by
second charge, winch
The did not explode domestics, who say they wish to
with the first. The dead are :—Peter their evenings out and that evening
Vonlilimen, Henry t'nrviance and Nestor ners prevent them from realizing
Johnston. object. Rather than lose their help
boarding -housekeepers have cha
the dinner hour to noon.
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ROBBER MADE RICH HAUL.
Secured $3,71* From Branch of Bank of
Commerce at Kinesto.
A despatch from Kinesto, Saskatche•
wan, says: At 6 o'clock on Tuesday
evening the Bank of Commerce was
robbed in the absence of the manager.
The assistant, Mr. Hickman, thought' e
heard noise
down
stairs, a d
making for the to. came (Immediately
he was fired upon, by a man in the
shadow. Hickman mate a plunge to
grab the assailant, but received an-
other shot, just grazing his lett temple.
The robber then made his escape, se-
curing about 33,700.
JURY BLANKS AIR BR\KE.
CUSTOMS DOCKS DESTROYED.
A Pre Loss of 81.2119,000 at Buenos
Ayres.
A despatch from Buenos Ayres says :
The Customs dock, which was destroyed
by fire on Wednesday, contained 30.00o
tons of merchandise, mainly of German
origin. The losses aro estimated at
81,200,000. The origin of the conflagra-
tion Ls not known. Five clerks and
seventy workmen have been arrested.
Five firemen were injured. The dock
and storehouses, erected by the Govern-
ment at a cost of 8(00.000. wero com-
pletely destroyed.
ONTARIO GRAIN (:ROP.
Railway Estimates Place It at 107,000,-
SOO Bushels.
Arilda Wreck Due to no Caree'sness of
Crew.
A despatch from Sudbury says: En-
gineers John Morris, W. Boucher, and
John Death(' bone been examined before
the coroner's jury, and their evidence
corroborates Engineer Thuriow that
tl•re,was plenty of time in which to
slop the train at Amide had the Mr
brakes been working right. The jury's
ver btrl is as follows:
"Thal Thomas Puddicombe and oth-
ers came to their death near the east
awdlch at Azllda station. on the C. P. R.,
t,v lain No. 1 going west and train No.
2 going east colliding at diet point;
that the cnlliatnn was due to a defective
air brake service Cin No. 2 train, the
defect being a rinsed angle -rock on the
rear end of the mall car. We find that
the train crew took the usual precautions
to handling their train."
A despatch from Toronto says: The
grain crop of Ontario this year is still
retaining its high reputation as being
the premier producing province of vari-
eirs cles,es of grain In the Dominion
of Canada. The grain, which is chiefly
exported to other countries, will aggre-
gate this year. according to the esti-
uinles of the G. 1'. 11. end C. P. H.,
about 1o7ds10.1ain bushels. This has
been one of the heaviest years in On-
tario's history.
ROBBED DEAD BODY.
Woman Arrested for Theft of B0,
Diamonds.
A despatch from los Angeles,
nays: Detective W. W. Freeman
Tuesday, at Stockton. arrested
of
E
Howard, ging
monds valued at more Khan 85.E
the Brigs. of Pasaddnady of he1'heeof robberyl
Briggs.
place Aug. 20, and up to the time o
arrest it was kept secret. The Ho
women, It Is said, had not succeed
disposing of the jewels.
DEATH AT THE FEAST.
Cooked Meat on Copper and Nineteen
Were Poisoned.
A despatch received from Tomaszow.
Russian Poland. says that ',n persona
there vete poisoned at n cnnllrmnlion
feslh•ily from eating meat which had
been cooked In a copper kettle eontan honker+ because of the recent mo
Ing verdigris. Nineteen persons have al- ( stringency hare.
ready diel.
ONTARIO'S RANGE.
The precipitation in the older portions
of Ontario ranges very generally be-
tween 30 and 40 inches. but something
less Than the lower value obtains north
of l.ake Superior and an excess of the
latter vn ate Ls found on the western
slopes of the counties lying to the east-
ward of Lake Huron and the Georgian
Bay.
GREAT BRI'T'AIN.
That the United Slates will annex
Cuba is the impression in Great Britain.
The Carmania sailed from Liverpool
for New York on Wednesday with $10,-
000,000 in gold.
A slenmship service from Belfast to
Canada was Inaugurated on Tuesday by
the C.P.R. liner Lnke Erie.
The British Government Is said to
contemplate the handing over of the old
Parliament House, Dublin, to the new
Irish Council.
UNITED STATES.
A party passed through the new Penn-
sylvania tunnel from New York to Jer-
sey City on Wednesday.
Henry K. Wampole, manufacturing
chemist, committed suicide at New York
'WAY DOWN EAST. 011 Friday.
InQuebec the Charles Roycker Confessed to murder
precipitation ranges In his sleep at Sibley, Ia., and was sen-
beltceen 30 and 45 inches; in New fenced to fife Imprisonment.
Brunswick and Prince Edward Island 1'he United Slates tug Potomac has
between 35 and 47 inches and In Nova sailed for Newfoundland to prosecute an
Scotia from 42 to 50 inches, inquheries.e illness of his
Despondentiry into the through th
wife, V. 3. Southall, formerly of Len-
in
iiORSI..S ARE SC:48(:E. don, Ont., committed suicide at Detroit,
on Saturday.
•Ili- British Remount Officers (Got Less Than Three workmen were killed al Rush-
ville. Indiana, on Wednesday, by corn•
ts, ing in contact with a barbed wise fence
A despatch from Montreal says : It that had been charged with electricity
to seems that 170 horses were the most that from the plant of Ike Indianapolis &
Col. Bridge end Captain Martin, ro- Cincinnati Traction Company.
1
mount officers. have been able to get in General 11. i1. Norman, Adjutant -
o. c:nnada for shipment to South Africa. General of Tennessee under Governor
,l0 These horses will bo shipped next week Buchanan, died suddenly at \Vodbury,
55c; on the Elder -Dempster steamship Cnn- Cannon county, Tenn., on Wednesday.
sh ada Cape, and will be used for Trooping General Norman had Ju.si concluded an
end gun carriages. More than n hum- address at a re -union of Confederate
dred of them are bronchos that were soldiers, expiring while in the act of re -
selected nt Calgary. Prices paid are sinning Iris seat.
said to range from 8175 to 8200. and, as Announcement was made at New
ore the horses had In pass a rigid inspec- Orleans, on Thursday, that •Miss Flor-
a)? tion, it is no wonder that more were encs Elston was married on a tugboat
ow- not secured, especially as horses in nt sea last Saturday lo Eugene f)urabh.
the Cnnnda now are selling nt unusually' in marrying \fr. Durabb Miss Elston
esad prices. Two hundred dollars in defied her grandmother's a ill cutting
the West is not an unusual price for her off from inheriting one of the finest
even 'noleralely good militia's.
BUY LANDS FOR STATE.
Victoria Government Will Purchase
Million Acres.
A despatch from Melbourne, Vict
says : 11 is slated, that the Govern
proposes to purchase 1.000.000 ser
Ilia western district of Victoria
closer settlement. The (louse of it
benlntives on \\'e,lnesdey passed a
authorizing an amendment
tl to the
old
stitution for the p y
pensions from special Customs dull
TEN MILLION IN •GOLD.
Steamship Carmania Brings Big
slgnment of Precious Metal.
A despatch from New York sa
The Cunard steamer (entwine, wt
arrived in port on \\'eolnesday. 1
well 1n called n golden ship. in
strong l,os" if the stenrni'rt1re s
enrols of gold nggn•g ibng;
'Ms gold was import,'rl by banks
at
.75
to
to
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25;
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to
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orange groves in Louisiana if she mar-
ried \h•. Durabb.
110\V OLD IS THAT EGO? GENERAL.
to method of finding Further earthqunlce sleeks have been
A sim
p L nut the experienced in Chile.
age of an egg is by means of the air 1 Sever:rl Wren were killed in a mutiny
space. which in situated towards 11re on n Turkish troopship near fort Said.
broad end of the shell. If the egg is 1Vith polilic:il end.a in view the Ger-
held up between the hands before n man Emperor is said to be ranking nn
light in a dark room. the air space can ally of the \'oilcan.
ho easily discerned. In a perfectly fresh fly the collapse of n hotel n1 Chihua-
egg the air space Is very small, but as hum, Mexico. four were killed and many
age increases it extends, until. when the injured.
egg is three weeks old, the air spare is Prince henry of Prussia will be Coin-
ntxnut a sixth of the entire egg•spnre. mender -in -Chief of ell German active
With prncllce the age can be told to Ser ice ..Iuadrons.
within twenty-four hours.
Turkey has called the attention of the
powers to the wurlil: • preparations in
Imogene.
Only nn inlplbrtual women cat ,;sett intereel is being mnnifr.leil in
spread a stsplodder so 111111 11 w„n t 111.- \ .� % aiaud land (rn a,.,ne. which
collapse rind leave her clinging In tin. 1.1 d es a limit on the holdings of land -
lop shelf of a closet. eWuy17/.
DOCTORS WITH RECORDS
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SOME ASTONI.IIING FI: 1714 PI$.
FUIWEI) B1' TIII:Y,
Instances Where Surgeons Have Oper.
ated In Remarkably Qukk
Time.
Four amputations in twenty -live min-
utes must be something very like an
absolute record in surgery. I'he credit
if this feat lies with two doctors on the
staff of tate (lull Royal Infirmary. A
roan was brought in shockingly mang-
led as the result of an accident in the
Albert Docks, London, and downs found
necessary to take of( sihuitlaneously
both legs and both fore -arms. Il was
barely half an hour from the time -Vial'
he was brought in Wore it was all
finished and he was hi -bed. Wonderful
to tell, his pulse was stronger at the
end than at the commencement of the
operation.
An even more astonishing feat was
performed a fee months ago by the head
of ono the great London hospitals. The
incident e a< whited to the contributor
by one of the attendant surgeons. A
girl was brought in with one leg so ter-
ribly ufferti•d by tuberculosis that it had
to be taken off. But when the child
was examined her heart was found to
to so weak that the assistant declared
that (Ivo minutes would bo the utmost
iength of filo that she could be safely
kept under an anesthetic. The great
surgeon's lips tightened; "1 will do it,"
he said. And within four minutes from
the moment that the first incision was
made all was
SUCCESSFULLY FINISIIED.
About three years ago.a case of small-
pox was discovered in the King's Coun-
ty (New York) Ilospilal for the Insane.
In the doctor's opinion the only thing
to do was to at once vaccinate every
patient in the place. There were 2,500
lunatics and a resident medical staff ef
only five physicians. They set to work
at once, and, keeping at it practically
day and night, with only short pauses
for food, succeeded in completing their
formidable task in just under forty-
eight hours.
But the hero of the most treniendous
feat of long -continued medical toil is an
Englishman, Dr. Collingridge, medical
officer of health for the City of London.
Dr. Collingridge is only about fifty years
old, but his appearance is that of a
much older man. His looks are due to
the terrific strain which lie incurred in
1892. In that year he was medical of-
ficer of the Port of I.Qndnn, when chol-
era broke out in several European ports,
notably in Hamburg.
Dr. Collingridge, knowing that in such
a case prevention was better than cure,
went straight to Gravesend, and for
three weeks - boarded every vessel com-
ing from the infected ports, and person-
ally inspected every man, woman, nal
child on board. For twenty-one days,
consecutively lie obtained an ave:aga
of one hour's sleep in tweets -four. Hd
saved England from
TIIE TERRIBLE EPIDEMIC,
but was himself ill for years afterwards.
There has recently (lied in -Darn a
surgeon -dentist, a monk who practised
free of charge, and of whore it may bo
said without fear of contradiction (het
he certainly pulled more teeth than any
man alive, and probably more than
any who over lived. Ile kept caret it
record of all the operations which he
performed. and at his death was able
to boast that he had drawn 2,000,611
teeth. Ile used no instrunents except
his thumb and forefinger, and yet pers.
formed his work rapidly, and perhaps
with less pain to his patients, as even
the most skilled wielder of the forceps.
There are several cases on record of
surgical operations being performed in
trains, but there is only one account of
an operation of a difficult and risky na-
ture being done In a motor -car whir!•
ing along at lop speed. The hero (1
this episode is Dr. Sinsseer, a New
York surgeon. Ile was called in to
bee a roan who was suffering from e
pnin 111 the throat, and a glance showed
Trim that the case was most serious.
Ills motor was at the door. Ile burred
the roan info it, and told the driver to
go at hill speed to the hospital. Half-
way the patient began to choke. The
doctor whipped out his case of instru-
ments, and then and there performed
the operation known as tracheolome in.
senting a silver tube In the ttsciiit so
that the poor man could breathe. The
operation was successful, but long
ness had so weakened the patient's
heart that he died shortly afterwards
from heart failure.
Speaking M operations, Dr. Fyffe,
house -surgeon of the hospital at Bidde-
ford. a small town in Maine, recently
removed n malignant growth under ab-
solutely
UNIQUE CIRCUMSTANCES.
Fire broke out overhead just after the
operation Irnd begun. 'i'o move the
patient would have ntrnnl his death.
rhe surgeon therefore vent oil and
cornpleled the excision. Before the op•
er•ation was over, w•nler w•as ponringt
through the ceiling and muses had 10
hold umbrellas over the patient. Nit
nil went well, and the sufferer was safe-
ly removed Lr another part of the build.
jpg. No 0110 was the worse for Iie;dr
50 very literally under lire.
Medical meet sornelintes make curious
tests of their own pet 1reseriptions. I)r.
C J. Iinrris. of Killo•rn, England, the
great ail or:,le of vegetarianism, lure
put his prineipl•s info prectire for n
grail number sof year, in the summer
ef 1901. he being then over eighty years
of age, he rode from London to Edin-
burgh and back upon n 1rieyele. doing
the double Journey in ,urea weeks, The
w hole time he live) on green food such
as Ielluree and only ,frank milk and
water and tea.
Thal fasting is Ih: cure for dy'pep ie
is the argument of Ur. \Wilkinson, of
Augusta, Georgia, and lie. like I)r. Ilir-
ris, has given prneliral proof of I1,/
n Irtue, of hi.s prescription toy himself
abstaining from food for forty-five days.
All flim bine he drank only water, and
attended to !gas ordinary professional
dtltipc. Al the end he was quite well
again. t, rinmly nr, other doctor cell
boast of so long a fast.