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NEWS ITEMS! 6 6IIANGMAN" PAYLOFF 3lltflIN MERRY OLD ENGLAND
1'11011 ALL O%4:11 1111:
GLOBE.
I•' Brlefa from Aar O„n
Oilier Couulrles of Recent
CANADA.
'Nt'w Brunswick had 45 business fail-
ures in terse
Talo Grund 'I conk wilt build a new
slalion and hotel Lit Ottawa.
Mrs. Patriot: Clint died at Kingston,
or. Saturday, in her hundredth year.
The Deeu(nion Government have de-
cided to regulate the export of electric
power.
Mr. Lawt)ira Mulock has given W.-
GOO
10:GW to the Toronto Deepital for Sick
Children.
A new steam yacht costing sixty thou-
sand dollars is being built for Dr. Orua•
yah'kha at Picton.
The surplus earnings of Praultord's
waterworks, owned by the town, total
$29,342.
The balance duo the Government from
the purchasers of the bed of Cobalt Lake,
Sa76e.00, has been paid.
Louts flolyea was killed at Belleville,
r on Saturday, by brick falling from the
ruins of the ilotel Quinto.
Tho Provincial Government is consi-
dering the advisability of estublishin.
two more agricultural schools.
Ilainlllon customs collections for 1900
total $1,GS9.591.57, an increase of $301:
tie6.68 over the previous year.
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The United States Steel corporation ►s
said to be about to build u plant lit
Sandwich to employ 5,000 men.
The Dominion Iron & Steel Company
aro buying coal cocas, with the inten-
tion of producing their own coal.
Humid Illaclanore, a young English-
man, stepped in front of a train at Stur•
geen Falls, on Saturday, and was killed.
The grain crop of the three prairie
provinces totalled 201,020.145 bushels,
and to date 53,720,100 bushels have been
marketed.
Michael Kaminsky, a Galician, was
, murdered at Roslhern, Sask., and his
Idead body stood up against a fence In
front of a dwelling.
A. G. Hamel, formerly of the Montreal
City Treasurer's staff, who was sen-
tenced to seven years in St. Vincent do
Paul, has been released on ticket of
leave.
The Berlin and Waterloo Street (rail-
way has been valued by nrbilrotots at
$75,200, and this the. Berlin council will
pay for the plant if the company will
sell.
The Lands, Forests and Alines Depart-
ment Is advertising for tenders for the
right to cul pulpwood (,n an area of
talo square mites in tho Nipissilig dis-
trict.
Mr. Fre,lr'rick Dane, of Toronto, hes
Leen app titled to the vacancy on the
Teneskanling & Northern Ontario Bail -
way Commission, succeeding Mr. C. 13.
Smith.
At Halifax 36 Turks bound to the
United Slates, are being detained by the
U. S. nflletals, who fear their being token
to the 1=end of the free in violation of the
alien labor law.
Tho report of the International Water-
ways Commission recommends That a
mew survey be outdo of the Lake Erie
Luundery line and that the Chicago
drainage canal's supply of water bo Iln-
ile•1 In 10,000 cubic feet a second.
The bill vvitich is to be Introduced by
Mr. Otter to amend the Dominion
Lands Act. proposes lo IIiruw open for
settlement Iho cdd numbered sections of
western lands with the right to the set-
tlers to purchase 160 acre adjoining
their homestead of a similar acreage.
GREAT BRl'1'.\iN.
British Insurance companies have re-
pudiated all liebililies arising out of fho
Valparaiso earthquake.
William O'Brien's paper, The Irish
People, 13 deinan(hng on investigation of
the way the Itedmondites Wive spent tho
money subscribed for home rule.
'I tie London Daily Melt quotes an in-
timate friend of the late Lady Iturdetl-
(',,utts ns shying it Ls unlikely that her
will contains targe bequests to charity
and !hat the hulk of her fortune will go
to her hnst►nnd, William Lehman Mb -
plead Itnrtlett•Ilurdett'Cou113, who iS a
son of the Tato Ellis Bartlett of 1'ly
mouth, Mass.
UNITED S1'ATE.S.
A tholsnrd dnnlage suits for car
short agte are threatened ngaine% the
Northern t'aeitic and Great ,Northern
Railroads.
Application has been mode to have
the New York (Allton Exchange denied
the use of the melts on account of al-
leged fraudulent prncticcs.
\Vitt one b1o:v of his flst, Cherlcs
Smith Tuesday night killed D. F. Myers
on the street in East St. Louis. Mrs.
Snaith told her husband that Vx urs had
attempted to flirt with her. Smith struck
Myers a swinging blow on the jaw, and
Myers' neck was broken.
Seven Bullets Fired Into the fro -
curator's Body.
A degpalch from SI. Petersburg en):s :
Lieut. -Gen. Vladimir 1'aviolf, alto Mili-
Iary Procurator, sir Advocate -Ge neral,
generally known :Alice the late Parlia-
ment as "Hangman" Pavlof!. (tont 1(to
epithet constantly applied to him by the
Radical depute_,, was shut and killed ul
1') o'clock on Wedmwelny morning while
walking in the garden of the chief mili-
tary court building, near the Moika
renal. The as elssin, who, apparently,
\was disguised a, a workman, was cap-
tured after 11 lung chase through the
crowded city Mavis, during which he
fired about forty shuts from two revol-
vers which ho carried, killing a police-
nuul and accidentally wounding a boy.
MMUR1)lil% C.ltEFULLY PLANNED.
The crime showed evidence of 1110
saute careful preparation which was
characteristic of the nturderets of Gen-
eral Alexis Ignalieft and Von der Latin -
its, net was undeubledly curried out by
1110 5111110 organization which has Sen-
tenced Emperor Nicholas and several of
the Minister, to death. The a_asassin,
who wore alto uniform of a military
clerk attached to the court, obtained an
entrance in the garden under the pretext
of submitting a report to the Military
1'rocurator.
USED BAPiD-FIRE PISTOL.
Ile approached the unsuspecting Gen-
eral within nn arm's length, drew n pis-
tol and fired the whole toad, seven
:dol.:, into l'avh,1l , body. Every shot
wits well aimed, and two of them lord a
gaping wound in his breast. The Gen-
eral expired while being carried to his
apartments in the same building. From
the nature of the. wound., it appeared
that the steel -jacketed bullets were flat-
tened in order that Utey might inflict
111010 serious wounds.
ASSASSIN'S RACE FOR LIFE.
(tastily slipping another "clip" of car-
tridges into his revolver and drawing a
Eait'I.Oe1l) IN 111-ItUN.
Seventeen f:epfn)(es of (:a. %loll,. 1n-
jured. Several 1'))11111 .
A despalcll from 1)01,1n stow \ 1
n.lrous explosion occurred 111 a •• e.
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if the Alliance Gas ('nnipany un 'TIM
ay, Seventeen of the employes vv.le
emelt. .,Mlle' of ihem so severely (11:st
•w are not . \peeled to live. The canoe
1110 c\i.t.'., ,n 1111, the fusing; of an
rlers 5q clrie wire 111141,' I""
ga. N‘"' 141"n.(erred hoot 1he whirl, hou-e In the
1!:•. in outer. The purifier was bluwu up.
1 $1.10 to
F higher.
wet* wry re
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new of
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second weapon, the assassin ran nems:
the garden to 11(0 curr:ago entrance.
Threatening the porter with his pistols
and dashed down Gtittka Street, post
the Imperial Opera 1inu.'e, with a crowd
of thirty house pollees and court at-
taches in close pursuit. A policeman
sta:iuned in front of the opera hou'e at-
tempted to seize 1110 11ss1eL-ill, cut was
S1101 down by the latter, who also
wounded a boy. The terrorist then re-
sumed his flight, firing at the police
officers and house porters who attempted
to bur lois way. His ammunition be-
c.e110 exhausted e'1d he was intercepted
and captured when he reached l.untern
Lune.
\Vheen taken to the police station
General 1'nwloffs slayer was in high
spirits and answered the °ulcers' ques-
tions with laughing je=sts.
A 111.001/41 MISTY OFF1(:EIl.
The entire career of General Pavlof(,
who was 115 year.; old. married, and had
two children, was spent in the judicial
department of the army. After ser1'111g
sevorol years as n military Judge he
was appointed Judge Advucute-General
of the \\'lit' Ministry, and later Procura-
tor of the Supreme Military (:ourt.
General Pavlof, was delegated by \Var
elinister Rudiger to answer tho Interpel-
Ial ions of the Government in the lower
House Of l'urlianlent in regard to the
Baltic Provinces and In Poland. The
Milder? I'recurutor justified these nets
with such cold-bloodedness and (lit!•c-
gard of the sentiments of the nu=mbers
lIiat it aroused tho indignation of al-
most the entire Iloilo:, and he was
driven from the rostrum with cries 01
"murderer," "hangman." "as;t..;hl." Ile
was not allowed to speuk again.
The murdered general wits It large land-
owner. After tho dissolution of Parlia-
ment he organized the 1'rotective
tical Leugue to combat Itadi,•al plojevls
fur the expropriation of landed c.lales.
Di5(.It.ACE TO THE COUNTRY.
Cattle Are Dying on the Prairies From
Lack of Food.
A despatch from Calgary says : S. G.
Manns 11114 S. Beveridge, ranchers from
Splingbank, have returned from a visit
to Brooks. about 150 guiles east. They
say the cattle siluution is a disgrace to
the country. Manns found a bunch of
cattle in a corral sturving lo death and
hundreds lying around in the same con-
dition. Ile and Beveridge assisted in un-
loading and giving Them a car of feed,
1 ul ninny cattle were so weak from star-
vation they look no notice and appeared
dozed. From inquiries ho believes Min-
dreds, probably thousands, aro lying
dead on the prairie for fitly milers west
of Brooks. end lite cause is the neglect
or owners to put up feed. Timentire aro
principally the native breed.
itOAD PAVING WEI.1..
The Net Earnings for Ten \twill's Were
81,9,071.
A d•:spatch from Toronto says: The
Provinces! Government has received a
return irons tho'i'e►niskaming and North-
ern Ontario Railway, showing the net
earnings of that railway from Jan. 1st,
1906, to the end of October, of the same
year. to be $1:59,071. For tho ono:tlh ..1
Ot'tober alone the gross earnings
amounted to 85:,818, with oi►erating ex-
pelu0•s of $3:,168, leaving the net , a111-
inga al 811,5611. For tho correpeoedingg
month of 1935 the gross comings
annulled 10 $.12,623, with operating :x-
pcns,'s amounting to $16,056.
TIt'I\6 TO tCIII-:('K IlO1'('.OTT.
Viceroy Ilas Ordered Arrest of Leaders
of alovenlent.
• A despatch ft'otn Hong Kong says:
Tho Viceroy of Canton has ordered the
arrest of Ile, leudere of the proposed
anti-American boycott meetings. 1'la-
corda on the subject ere being; destrny-
ed, and n w•spapers are prohibited from
mentioning the topic.
w ilk
Ike
N \� it lit\ 1 loaf t:t►1►1.
loath of nu \•1"d 11:sn 1.1n -
hoed in n fewer \list.
Ilneb o rs g•,.l.
eady to firm.
hs are a oil•
m. Grain•
re al;(:; t r
heaveA.
-le 11• t,, , ' .1!n, 1.11..
1111 1,.•• I 111:111, 011101 I
nn1i1':I yelp tine Paper \1,11
illerritee death on '1'hitroday.
11 Bunte rete... n chitin ol-
lengrappling iron caught in
awltjhe letek into ti's leg and
Ininu, from its socket and
•dy. Ile died in a te•.v
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.. BY BitIBING 11I.tIN CREWS.
An Effective Way to Get Grain Cars in
the West.
A despatch from Moosontin, Sask..
says: The Royal Grain Commission,
which resumed its session here on
l'uew•lay, brought out rather startling
evidence. Several wllnesscs swvl►'o pea•
lively that train crews had token an
under) udeanlage of reported shortage
el curs, using this as an excuse for a
delib :rate hold-up of shippers. They
declared Mitt flu' only way some of the
dealers could obtain a car was to bribe
crews to sidetrack o car for Meth, and
they invariably found there WAS 11
plentiful supply nt $b) npic'ce, and sev-
eral
eweral conduclors had found this a most
lucrative means of adding to Meir in-
come.
NEWS BY MUL AfIOL'T 1011N OEM
AND 1113 I'EOI'Wt.
Occurrenros In the 1.111141 [hal Reigns
buprewe In Ole Commercial
World.
A woman of sewt'nty-three, living at
S1ain►•ridge, Essex, who has been a
widow twenty ye urs, %vias married to a
man aged sixty -live.
The King purchased twe West high•
land heifers at the Birmingham te'
Stock !oh)w. The receipts of the sh
were £1,227,,2J2 as against £1fur
year.
Marred In 1816, tt Toperott, Norfolk,
Mr. and Mrs. John Gardener have re-
sided ever since in the sand house,
where they have now celebrated their
diamond wedding.
So urgent aro tho orders from the
United Staten for S;olch iron that iron
nter'chunls at Glosgew are placed in the
enviable position of being able to name
their own prices.
At a poll at King's Lynn to decide
whether a new school should be puilt,
only 6:15 voters out of 3,600 Iruubled to
record their opinion. 'Twenty-three were
ne favor and 612 against.
The new teinature rifle designed by
tho War Oflice for use by rifle clubs
and schools gave excellent results at
the miniature itisley held under the au -
Spices of the National Rifle Association.
A Chiswick woman complained that
her husband had not paid her under a
maintenance order. Ile trust go to
prison,' said the 1ingislrate. "Thank
you, sir," returned the woman. "God
bless you."
The Ipswich gu ns, who have
been paying I%d gallon for milk,
have deckled to purchase cow's, at an
expenditure of £1,500. so as to ensure
a pure milk supplp to the inmates .1
the workhouse. .
'1'o the thirty-two widows caused by
the explosion at \\'alstown Colliery.
Rhondda, in July, W05, 1110 owners have
awarded £7.000 in excess of the sums
payable tender the Compensation Act,
see a total amount of £510 each.
At a fat stock show held at \Vadhurst.
near Tunbridge Wells, a competition
was organized among the formers to
guess the weight of the largest bullock.
Two of the competitors estimated 1110
exact weight, namely, 85 stone .61
pounds.
Waller Marsh. the ex -soldier, sent-
enced to death at Derbyshire Assizes
for the murder of his wife at Chester-
field, has expressly instructed his soli-
citor to slake no effort to obtain a re-
prieve, as he is prepared to die, death
i ving no terrors for him.
finder the pillow of a woman named
Catherine Gale, who calls burnt to death
a: Torque), (Devon) in her bedroom, wos
found a bank deposit note for 5150, a
savings bank book stewing £50 deposit,
three £5 notes, a will, and a gold
watch.
To furnish eat rtninment for the pa
Ishioners in .alto winter evenings, a
1:: augment a fund for n new organ, 777777www.
series of penny readings were orrnng-
ell et Handley (Dorset), but no one came
1! Il:e gird entertainment except 11►o per-
f,'rIncra.
\Villiam Turner. a toolmaker "in the
hondsown line," (lectured 10 the (:lerk-
('nlvell County Cont that he had earned
nothing for .throe months. "Now -a -days,"
he said, "people buy ready-made boots
and Mho's, instead of Leine: measured."
Tw•o years age. Joseph Knowles, an
other,' servant, obininet' £10 by falso
pretences al Gravesend. and went In
Atner:cn. "Troubled by conscience," a+
Ito explains, he has now returned, and
surrendered to the police. At Gravee
end ho was ordered six months' hard
In: or.
C. P. It. TO ADD '1'0 FLIN=T.
(lead of I)rparneen1 Will (10 lute (hies.
lion in ):n!)I:old.
A despatch from Niunti\'al says: \1r.
P,cr,, head at the C. 1'. It. steamship
d''parlmo;nt, left for England on Friday
nn business, and expects to be on the
other side a considerable time. Ile
admitted that one of tho mutters which
he is going In look into is that of en-
larging the company's fleet. Matter.-
have
atti-have not yet gad far enough for an au-
thoritative anlrnrnCOntent to be endo nt
tho company's plans.
\I(iN1•Iti:•ll, FIRE 111•:PAIVII111:N'f,
Underwriters Not Satisfied With its
Mannpgement--Nay increase Rates.
A despatch from Montreal says: The
('.alt,d.nn Fire CliderWriteri. A35,1C4111'111
have writleu to the Mayor, calling div
attention to the need of an in)oJig:I-
tion tied remedy for 0143 present lurk
of fire protections. The I1Ssocialiun
Ihlealon to rake the rales or else reduce
the amount fit Insurance they ore car-
rying in lite biesineso disci t is. ci n•
sidernl►1e dLssatiafaelion 13 exprresed
with the tnanagemcnt of the Ore depart.
meat.
SHOWERFD B'� MO�IEN ME1
Fiery Stream s=lowed Four Feet Deep
in Pittsburg Foundry.
A de'.palch from Pitt -1.4400. I'n., she.:
As a ri•snit of an •eel... el of n furnace
et the Eliza furnaces of the Jones &
Laughlin :tee: works on Wednesday
night Iltree at.' known In I.e dread.:s't'em
are 111 n ho.pital with fatal burns and
in)ut i.'a, and 21 are missing.
Ill\ alt OF (ICON.
11„' a elo.i.,n wos eau 1 le an nc•
cumulation of e':1' at ths t -e of 11.,'
turmice. tlr,,ein'I 1%teeh 3., •
workitlg. Of till these but 1441• 74.,11 e. -
caped injury. \\ 11110111 wilrnine end 411
with a near like artillery, tune of meth ti a1'
11,011)1 were pan', d u\ or 111e workmen. sit
14o( n teurtsr 1 in Ito' tnnzs of steel, and
Ihr 1 ,11nIed.
\1 '...r ,,'J ,•.!, 1, r,•.,.,In corn.' rl
ria.• :m 11 ('! • I I'• I ,
11::, h fin: eh•71. ..., .11 .1
'r. •' . thirty feel ' •. .
!: r:,gur(5l, Ile v1 .I „ ! , hoyni:el.
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and ter n space of thirty feel of".ut 111.'
(nt•m• . II..' te'IaI r:ul. 11,010 lig ei volt
vete to a depth of lour or live t' • 1.
Ill'I11EI1 IN ' 11'.1'1. 1„
1'wn 0lorms of lire 'At 1e nci• 1
%Met 111, and alt 111,' 1111)1.111:4)19', -
rtty were iiiksI. S,"•n 111.. ,. w, ls ee:s
wane able to eeeng"' (rem tee lie! '11x1.1► t'
with their livres were taken t•, het 1
but all the missing. it Is 1. iNe
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111e 110.. .1 A1001
!., the 11,1,11.!.e are :1•M'.
tole 1111' iuI!Il Ilfflcla
1 .'r that not nil 1::.
a..,
roweled, rette'I,g
,. n. In IIS oleos
n ::. I.1 1., 'Med mg,
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COI.. ANUIIII:FF SHOT.
A de•putch from leets., Iter -sire Po-
land, says: Colonel Pelki, Andriefl chief
a( the gendarmes of the Lodz district,
10805 Sliol nal killed on Thnrsrtay morn -
mg on 1'olndmiowa street. A passing
infantry patrol tired a volley el the as.
sessln, but only wounded several inno-
cent en'onker's. 'tete: assassin escaped.
P..htdin•,wa street vitas VisrCd by troops
end the police began making a strict
search of all tho houses fronting upon
It
noCI).1SSOFF \V tltNI:D.
A despatch fr'on! St. Pelersl.i:rg snys:
Vice -Admiral 1),)Itrrsnif, t I'. \ rnor•
General of 51 ,:47.:10, and at I r1,•et a
nlenlber of the C'.11nei1 of 1110 Empire,
has re •e wed 11 91111 nli'um 111111 meatier
ot'empt upon his lie! old be mode.
-
Itus,la 10(11 sh•,rlly un:l.'r•llke Iherrt!-
organ':zation of her navy.
Input will insist on having Rttsela -
,pen the Sumgnu i River to 09mi:tierce.
The bus• Iso Premier has Itskrd for n
ndditional S(5,l11kl,(Jtlt for famine t•etief.
The Amir of Afgawmistnn bins cros,.1d
the Indian frontier on his visit to the
\'teeny.
1'he I'oli.sli National Lcamie Is fictively
agitating for the indepcudenee of 1:::
country.
` s1\ veer- !'1i!,'d In 1111 (-n^0)111•
11.t 11•:.11 tit.. lo...:' a :7t an Itnailthorized
Ineeh,)g hs Ilrntil.
Foreign merchants In Manchuria claim
IW+OO they are divcrimin.tleJ against in
Itie olio: on Ow Mnni'h,:.11:; pathway.
(;,,•i!a 1•. -t , I,- leo! o, 1 that the
Chine.;.' 111 1 Jap u,.. • v. O he
become nlas'0t5 of Ito. '.• heti nations.
A diel w:ih army rev,•ia is took place
en \V' ilnos,tay rear Tar:- i et ween Iwo
youni! FI enol! n!fllrers.
Premier Clemeneen ha* ordsred Non
expallnlon 01 the Belgian Syndicale 1
os•••'..•ia•n of Ilse goring tn8les t
Torg ('111145.
Presm'rs' S.lotypin act n nunllx'r
Conservative trendier.; of the n
r,,binet 11'110 received leper•: erring
terns lerrn1'k' .
'1'110 German (:hnneellnr dna nnnnuneej
!hal the It•'icltalag( vwna disulho'1 ill
ohlet to f1•ce 1110. Government Irnm de•
ixnden:e tin the etericali and to
strengthen the Lila(`rnls.
1 A t:II to prevent n:t toef,ir ewroier•
cine dis"rinlinalion and 1• .•t.pu•tatiote
.e. deet is unit 'rsbo ,'I 10 hr /heel,
a4sirst the standard Oil Company,
1 c^n (fled in the Mal soclluse113
bar.