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In the
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Virginia
rleslown, West
were 91 men in
art Mine,Fayette County,
an explosion occurred on Twa-
y after -no nit. It Ls not believed any of
3 men will be taken out alive, the
-ce of the explosion being so terrific as
wreck the entire inner workings. So
• the cage In the mine has been low -
:d 300 feet, or within 150 feet of the
(torn. nepairing will have to be done
fore the cage can be let entirely down.
e Stuart Colliery Company has al-
ldy received 00 coffin; and has ordered
more. It is thought that the mine is
• fire, but this cannot be determined
til later. Tho heat from the shaft Is
ense and the men could not be
ached for a day or so even 1f the shaft
s in working order.
SIIOT TITLED WIFE DEAD.
!al Accident In Shooting Party at a
Castle in England.
despatch from London says : Lady
roll'y Cuthbert, the wife of Capt.
Iles Harold Cuthbert, of Beaufort
die. Norlhumberinnd, was accident-
( shot while pheasant shooting on
rrsday. She was standing two yards
n her husband when his gun went
and the charge of shot struck her in
head. killing her instantly. Lady
o by Cuthbert was I.ady Dorolhy
•g when she was married to (:apt.
hbert in 1903. She was the third
glhler of the Earl of Strafford.
SHOCKS IN ILLINOIS.
ere Earth Tremors Fcll Lasting Five
Seconds.
despatch ;rom SI. Louis tint's : Spe-
d frront Ilii;tland and Grenville, 111.,
n led set, re earthquake shocks at
11 o'clock on Wednesday night. Thu
aliens seemed to be from Past to
I turd continued about flvo seconds.
TOMS RI i:NCI: HI'OVANT. ..
Seven Months (her SLAW,.
ry's Gain :35:11.571.
O'Inwa says: The
r the seven months
anlonited to 830.3t4, -
of 31.052.513. For the
wiry only the total recclpts
,!"til, n gain of 5331.571.
Murdered London,Merehant Had an
Imposing Funeral.
A despatch from London says : Un•
usual public interest In the tragic death
of William Whiteley, who was shot and
kilted in his great department store, Jan.
24, by Horace George Raynor, was
shown by the scenes at the funeral of the
merchant an \Vcdnesduy morning. Long
before the hour for the ceremony thou-
sands of persons gathered about the
Whiteley residence and dense masses
lined the streets leading to the church.
Most of the shops in the Westbourne
Grove distu•ict kept their shutters up end
over a hundred cnrriuges followed the
hearse Willa cemetery. Four of these
were laden with Iteral wreaths.
Accord-
ing to the newspapers, Mr. Whiteley be-
queathed $5,000,i,j0 10 provide alms-
houses and homes for the aged and de-
serving poor.
INVADED BV CONSUMPTIVES.
Calgary Wants a Sanitarium for Eastern
Insalids.
A despatch from Calgary says ; Cal-
gary has been burdened in a most
alarming manner during tho last few
years, and particularly during the last
few months, with a Targe number of
consumptives conning hero from eastern
Canada. They come here usually with a
small amount of money and are unable
to work. The result is that they are soon
on the hands of the city. They also find
great difficulty in getting accommoda-
tion. Many heartrending cases are re-
ported every day. At a meeting of the
Calgary Board of Trade on Tuesday
night a resolution was passed calling
upon the Dominion Government to es-
tablish a :;anitarimn some place in the
mountains where a cure can bo effected
le tho best form.
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UP TO CHIMNEYS IN SNOW.
Terrible Sufferings in Austria Through
Lack of Fuel.
A despatch from Vienne says : There
have been immense falls of snow
throughout Austria. Many persons are
suffering severe privations. There Is a
coal famine in sumo places owing lo the
raihwnys being blocked. Tho meeting of
the Gala:Ian Diet at Lemberg had to be
i•ostponed owing to the hick of fuel to
heat the Diet huil,ling. hi some districts
to Galicia houses are snowed under to
the chimneys.
ON GOVERNOR KILLED
the Revolutionists for 111-
ating Prisoners.
it1SM.
u,
street of the island on \Vedneeday and
died almost immedintety.
The nsstee in, who was a ,;011111 of 18,
dressed as a workman, emerged from a
len house as M. Guidenra was passing on
his way home. and shot him twice in the
nisch. The Theorist also shot and
IIy wounded n prison wnrden who
nied \I. Guelenia, and who pur-
ssin. The latter disappeared
have been unable to fluid
as the population of
sympathize with
(kat prison
e time.
litcal
W
- Ontario
quoted ut
sacks outside
patents. $4.50;
d strong bakers',
nitoba t:ard L, !tome
rts; No. 1 northern at
northern at 81c.
1 is nominal at 51c out -
3 extra al 4111; outside.
0. 3 American yellow nominal
track, Toronto. Canadian corn
at 43 to 41e, Chathem.
r lots of bran outside in bulk
bominal at $18.50 to $10, and shorts
19.50 to $20.
Wheat -No. 2 white offered at Tic
Ida, with 70%c bid. No. 2 red win-
, 71c bid ou'side, without sellers. No.
2 mixed offered lit 70%c outside, with
70c bid.
Barley -No. 3 extra offered at 50c out-
side, and 49c bid for 5,000 bushels.
Pees- No. 2 offered al 810 outside,
wllhout bids.
Oats No. 2 white offered at 38c out-
side, with 37c bid.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples-Gool to choice winter stock,
$2.25 to 83.25 per bbl.
Beans -Hand-picked selling at $1.53 to
$i.60, and primes at $1.t0.
Honey-Sirained quoted at 11 to 12c
per lb, and combs at 12 to $2.50 per
dozen.
(lops -New quoted at 18 to 21c.
Hay -No. 1 timothy is quoted at 111.50
to 313.50 on track here, and No. 2
quoted at $8.50 to 89.
Straw -Steady at $6.50 to $7 a ton on
track here.
Potatoes -Ontario, 65 per bag on track,
and New Brunswick, 75 to 80c per bag.
Poultry -Turkeys, fresh killed, 12 to
14c; chickens, dressed, 9 to 10c; alive, 7
to 8c per lb; fowl, alive, 5 to 6c; ducks,
dressed, 0 to IOc; alive, 7 to 8c per lb;
geese, 10 to 110 per Ib.
TIIE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -Pound rolls are quoted at 22
t > 23c; tubs, 20 to 22'; large rolls, 20 to
22o. Creamery prints sell at 26 to 27c.
and solids at 23 to 21'.
Eggs --Storage, 23 to 24o per dozen;
selections, 25 to 27c; lined, 22c; new
laid, nominal, 28 to 20c.
Cheese --Large cheese, 13 to 1354e,
and twins, 14 to 14%e.
11OG PRODUCE.
Dressed hogs in car lots are un-
changed, with prices quoted at 88.40 to
$8.65 here. Bacon, long clear, 11 t5 11%c
per !b in case lots; niess pork, 821; short
cut, $23 to $23.30.
Hams -Light to medium, 15Xc; do,
heavy, 14 to 14%c; rolls, 11%c; shoulders,
11c; backs, 16 to 16%c; breakfast bacon,
15 to 15Xc.
Lard -Tierces, 12c; tubs, 12Xc; palls,
12X,c.
BUSINESS IN MONTREAL.
Montreal. Feb. 5. -Grain -The tone of
lite market for spot supplies of oats is
tlrrn, with sales of Ontario No. 2 while
at 423;c; Nu. 3 at 413.'c, and No. 4 at
40) c per bushel, ex store. Flour -
Spring and winter wheat grades for
local country and export account at flan
prices. Choice spring wheal patents,
11.50 to 81.60; seconds, 84; winter wheat
patents, $t to 84.15; straight rollers,
8.1.55 to $3.65; do, in bage, $1.4.0 10 $1.70;
extras, $1.15 to 61.55. Feed -Manitoba
bran, in bags, 321; shorts, $22 per ton;
-Ontario bran, in bags, 121 to 321.50;
shorts, 822 to 322.50; milled mouillie, 821
lo 8.25 per ton, and straight grain, $28 to
330. Provisions-RarreL' short cut mess,
822 to $23.50; half -barrels, 811.75 to
$12.50; clear fat backs, $21 to $24.50;
long cut heavy mess. 820.50 to $22; half -
barrels do, 810.75 to 811.50; dry salt long
clear bacon, 12 to 12%c; barrels plate
beef, 311 to 312.50; half -barrels do, $6 to
30.50; barrels heavy mess beef, $8.50;
half -barrels do, 8175; compound lard,
see to 10c; pure lard, 11% to 13c; kettle -
rendered, 13 to 13j1,c; harps, 13 to 1•Sy<,c:
breakfast bacon, 15 to 16e; fresh -!tilled
abattoir dressed hugs, 810; alive, 87 to
87.25. Eggs --Selects. 27c; No. 1 candled,
21. to 23e. Cheese--October-made, white,
13Xc; colored, 13';e. Rutter ---Choicest
creamery. 25y., to 25%c; medium grades,
23X, to Mc.
l'NiTI:D SPATES MAIIKI:'rS.
Sl. Louis, Feb. 5.--Wheal-Cash, 76c ;
May. 77;;c; July, 76•/.c.
Minneapolis, Feb. 5.- Wheat -May.
WIN to $0 c; July, 813 to 81',e; Sep-
tember, 781; to 79e; No. 1 hard. 8:,c: No.
1 northern, 83 4c; No. 2 northern. Al lo
s1%c; No. 3 northern, 79 to 79'/,c.
Flour -First patents, 8130 to 1140;
second patents, 81.15 to 84.20; first
clears, 33.25 to 83.35; second cleave,
82.50 to $2.40. Bran -816 to 816.75.
Milwaukee. Feb. 5. -Wheat -No. 1
nnrlhern. 82 to 83e; No. 2 northern, 78
to 81e; May. 781; to 78%c bid. itye-No.
1, 68 to Co t5,;t5. hurley -No. 2, 58c; sam-
ple. 47 1.1 57c. Corn -No. 3 cash, 42%c;
May. 40% lo 46%c asked.
Duluth, Feb. 5. -Wheat -No. 1 hard,
(tic; No. i. northern, 82%c, No. 2 north-
ern. 80;;e; May, 8I%c; July, 81X0; Sep-
tember, i Xc.
LIVE STOCK MARKET,
Toronto, Feb. 5. -Despite the rather
heavy supply, prices held their own
f;,irly well.
Export cattle were in gond demand
,d generally firm prices; the exporters
offered were not of top quality.
llntchers' cattle were steady in firm
foe gond stork, but conlmnn sluff was
off. Choke cattle were herd to get and
anything extra was bought up early.
Stockers and feeders Wert' mullets -
lively quid. but qut:tat,ions ere firm.
One bunch of choice feeders sold el
84.15, but This was praclicnlly all the
iness there was doing In t1►is grade.
Cows ore firmer for choice stock,
scarce; common milkers show
e.
The market is very Meetly and
unchanged. •
are very steady. with no
chanit,.+ In prices. but lambs tare en.y
and slightly tower.
Russ --Pries are unchange.!, but mil
nrerket has a firmer lone.
tENINGS 1'ItO11 ALL 011:11 'I Hu
GI.oftX.
T1•legrsphte. Briefs Front Our Oats and
Other Countries of Recent
Events.
CANADA.
Ex -Mayor EIILa has been
City 'Treasurer of Ottawa.
Senator John Dobson, of Lindsay, died
at, Saturday after a lung illness.
'The C.l'.lt. hate purchuso1 the Sl.
Lawrence !full properly at Montreal.
The C.P.Il. will be double -tracked bo'
tween Smith's Falls and Montreal.
Hamilton's share of the militia bill fur
the strike riots totals 13,048.
The County Council of Wentworth
have decided to build a house of refuge.
Now cur works are to be built at
Montreal that will be the targost lir
Canada.
The \Lintreat Board of Trade will peU-
tiun for the removal of the tax on Chi -
The Toronto City Council voted 55,000
for the i•ellet of the Kingston, Jamaioe,
earthquake sufferers.
It is stated all C.P.B. Atlantic liner*
will be equipped with wireless telegraph
apparatus.
Winnipeg carpmlers are demanding a
nino-hour day and a minimum wage of
15 cents an hour. to take effect June lust.
Tho main thoroughfares of Kintyston,
Jamaica, have been cicartel of debris,
but at least's year will be required before
ail is cleared up.
Debenture bonds of tho city of Toronto
that matured In 1888 and had never been
presented for redemption, turned up in
the City Treasurer's office on Friday.
The Government have decided to make
a grant of 650,000 towards the erection
of a hygienio institute in Ute city of
London.
Julien Cormier, stableman, and a
troy named Douglas lost their In
a flre that destroyed a stable at West -
mount, on Saturday.
Tire time for receiving designs in com-
petition for the new department block at
Ottawa has been further extended from
March 15 until July 1.
Mr. J. 0. Bury is to be appointed As•
blatant General Manager of the C.I'.R.'s
western lines, with headquarters at
Winnipeg.
Harry wallet, aged fifteen years, was
killed at St. Catharines, on Saturday,
by a heavy box fulling off a load That his
father was driving up a hill.
•1 -he, late Col. Pinault, Deputy Minister
of Militia. left an ertato valued at 8,11,966,
alt of which goes to his widow save
which consists of b boasts.
Hamilton Street Railway Employes'
Union refuse to interfere In the case of
two members dismissed by the company
because they were ;,en 11 a s
moon
"Three hundred andII y n iihn o tt rail-
way
r ai 1
way will be built lin the west next season
by the C.P.11.," sed William Whyte at
Montreal, atter a conference with Sir
Thos. Shaughnessy.
II. C. McMullen, of Calgary, live stock
agent of the C.P.U., hos visited Medicine
Hat, Maple Creek, Crane Lake, Gull
Luke and Swift Currant, and reports that
the cattle masts are exaggerated.
Donald Walker, the bellboy of the
Windsor Hotel at Itegina. who rished his
life in arousing the guests during the
fire, Is dead from Injuries received h
jumping from a window. Ile was a
son of Angus Walker of Orillla.
GREAT BRITAIN.
appointed
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Verd:ct o Co.•r d t; _,•'s .Jury for Death
v:- (uL pie
A dtmo'ch fr •
bass : '•N.• .. ,.
to his Heath it ...
sure. ibis . ,
1:u0t. huu.t, N':o
`eel (1`.:111 �u-.t.•t-.
proIecb:d I:. n, •
.nlcLeed
not s•.;:du,i. .
tli'1•leal 0. tie- ,I,
Boal 1"!. 1,,,•
rtesuay 111„n1 ::,•
death 01
ui toe sit Ariel
wrecked ea11y ;it
Harbor, 0110 tt 1.
pilin 1.'0011 in:
11111'.1,01, 44 Wil c„ 1'. . .,
0110' count.
r:ap.urns Jo-.,.:.
Burr, of the . •
urid Joseph
tYa1.0 ...se... 0..
dill i.l;u,. .1„
had wen ce.'..t ., .,.
ILIAD file It e
1 h
The Awful Coad:a U. o ;
(1) Ellin. -,r.
Washington. Jo
(WS •:. Ilse+; .t one... ale
Chinese Moen • di t it -
ale aid is .01.1h..
Stale 1)e u:hu : ., •
ere of daily cc ,
W 1ea,-ed by le 4
oonccntrat oe ca. ,
in the :outs of 1 h:u ,,
of refugees live -
Estimates haw.• . to • .1 •
cost 120,000 did y f •
persons wh., a:0 .:r ,...
told of one fain y--.;. •,..
and two ch.ldle u.
home on it ricer&:. fie I.-. e
cher, ttespairin
chi dren iota Le t • r. I',
turne1, and, :001 ne, w .
pened, drowned 11 met. r
slrtcken father 1.1 uwtxl. 7' 1' 41 ..
merit is se.l;ng gia:•e and sa.t. 0-: •
can. In I isu 1 hoe Fu n
three or four wor'•en w.•e.• .•
death In lh-• me : r•u• t •-
price of vegetal es .ass
coal and coke cost mere ri,<1,•
f(re.
McGEE'S !VINs V11"; IS?
C.olln Campbell, the F'nrl.i. see lee •:I
to Assign.
A despatch fro.. Mo..lree. -...., i
Attorney-Gentrat at the 1 r••... • ,,
Leen asked to bitervcli
William J. McGee of 11,, i •e . ', \i,1: ..1
..y- for the sending of relief to
liner the we're. They said
: tilos overt sent up earlier than
u.,,• it would nut have prevented
n1 Icing frozen as they were.
. 1 ru.•uh, of M;chtpicolan, said
t.r•, McLeod af.er tie or-
a.w....c, ;cu, the evening the
su.lon, who Tied !Axil with
Wert' left out in the cold.
. .uiu:livered to go out and get
,:.;u .1e mate loud trim ho had made
•01:41,8. 11144114.
eieli.ws. an Indian, told of be -
,:.0 . y tna runic lu go out for the
z, euy . lit iuhuuhg thein, and
e:j tui, ►( 10 the hospital at
:,uua olid Engineer Andrews,
,N•t h auuwiuued at Huuallon
. „bee ::i, u..l out appear to give
1.iewe Attorney McFadden
uec.dul to give the case to
.v,uluul hearing their.
PEl1- )NAL POINTERS.
.1 e• In Oiesip About Some Prom-
inent People.
..e :., entertaining visitors,
l ul er..•. y lakes his meals
tau :• co•islsls principally of
are brought to the
n i s l'. r saucepans. The
-:rule 1 by the head chief
+• ••1%.• Ghee kitchen, in order
er ill of their contents he-
,: r •: .wit . tri the journey, the
.wered by the high of-
. d y .1 is to see thnl when
- • lir h.. c..d before Abdul Ha-
y are as hey should be.
%hie rel. lel., an arousing story
• ••. 0 t. 1 ng a degrees. A sweep
i n resi.1 of in lite suburbs ct
for debt. The presiding
I d :he swcen to give evidence,
firs: q•testion he asked him was,
; 1- your name " "Jamie Gtr•
. v. I.:. 1) , see' "What! Doctor of
i.:. :' •\lid •vt. re on earth did you get
.) .• n tient" "Twos a fellow fru'
•t:: A .•i i tui university, an' 1 sweopt
'hr,.e hers. '1 cunna pay
%e cast. 1u.nie Gregory, he says, but
1 u isek:' ye en i L.D., an' we'll ca'
. u
q
\r l he did!'
•.r. Lewes-Janles, the leading bari-
tone u. the Moody -Manners Opera
(--nee, y, ens had an intereeling fes-
ter,. II • wa- been in Aberdare, South
ee+„r, and wen: to work in a coal -pit
: 11 11• t. a: twelve years old. Ile
sire 1n I•.. -al concerts and the compe-
t:lto,'s Wit ell are popular among the
%eel 11 end eve•htually achieved such
1e .1 11 his house neighl.urhood that
• to ::- u, ge•1 to s•udy music seriously.
1 :1 'u• d d fcr Ivo years, while eon-
n;
on-
n . b s work as a coal -miner. Then
he far. Ito a 1:1.epany vLsited Cardiff,
d Mr. James sang privately for the
eeee . who en .i. ea him at once for
ye^r,, u:.d afterwards he joined
\l..n .y -Manners Company.
Bu1Idm Sot. ely and s t.,:1
and tar -reach ng in., s l)1 I •,n •11 „ , I
place. 1'11e tt •t' terror. - 4.
,
n are (lies;': M •Gee will not 1.,. s n ,- r
or the m re peen of ,
Every detail of lhls rime le -tri , . f
crimes will be inve sl 1;a e • ;:i flue xi-
torney-General's repr.sen:a' v.-. r•-•h-
obly a score of warrants w I1 1.r• i>st• .1
agninst McGee. Four men a:•vne •rt
known to have lost $15,.41) each. Cohn
Campbell, the florist, will lose $1U.II10.
and as a result of the losses has been
compelled to assign. Twenty other men
will lose about 81.0(x) each. Twn hun-
dred people will lose Monts ranging
from 8100 to 1I,50u. Hence due: crit
even know, in many cases, which sig-
natures are forgeries and which al
genuine. It is believed OW his 1, _s,.'
will total n quer'er of n milli.,, dollar-.
The investigation shows thr1 only 1e
stroll part of the money has been spent,
7'ho question now is, Where Is the
money?
Mr. Joseph Chamberlain expects to be
back In Parliament next session.
The injuries to H.M.S. Dominion aro
so serious that she will never be fit for
active service again,
Governor Sw•ettenham has been cen-
sured for not organizing relief and re-
construction wark at Kingston.
The iligtlt Hon. Augustine Barrell will
succeed Mr. Bryce es Irish Secretary.
Mr. Ileginald McKenna will become
President of the Board of Education.
King Edward will re -open the !British
Parliament In stale on Feb. 121h.
The British Labor Congress, in ses-
sion at Belfast, on Saturday passed a
resolution in favor of woman suffrage.
it is reported that Mr. G. B. Girdle-
stone of llristol, Luglapd, will be ap-
pointed engineer of the Montreal harbor.
UNITED STATES.
.Four boys were burned In death on
Saturday In a fire 111 a cotton mill at
Dover, N. II.
Geneva' Russel A. Alger, former
United Singe, Secrettiry of War, is dead.
Three distinct enrlhquake shocks were
felt near Utica, N.Y., on Tl'i sdny.
A number of United Slates army tents
from Cuba have been forwarded to
Jamaica.
W. C. Ashwelf, once a partner of
Cecil ithodes. was kilted by a street car
in New fork the olher day.
President Rocievelt hes slated that he
Intends to pay no hoed to the Swetten-
ham-Davis incident.
The United Slates Joint Postal Com-
mission has recommended that all per-
iodicals consisting wholly or subslnnli-
ally of fiction be denied second-class
rates.
GENERAL.
The French Government has approved
of the constitution of a new National
Church.
Governor Swettcnham has told the
people of Kingston lhnt no tax will be
levied on Ihetn for fifteen months.
Ice racks drilling over the Newfound-
land Grand Brinks threnten to obstruct
the pas -age of the great ocean liners.
An unknown vessel has foundered In
the Illnck Sea, carrying down her crew
and sixty pnssengers,
linty, Britain :.:1 the united Stales
will support a 11:011:0 nl the npproach-
ing Pence Conference In limit the size
of future battleships to 16.000 tons.
Negroes In Immo' regard the disaster
as a "white man's earthquake," and re-
fuse to interfere with the acts of 1'rovi-
dence by working.
A company with a enpilnl of len mil-
lions has been organized to carry on n
g:ganlic meatpacking business In Mex•
Ica.
The f..Inl h.irse-power of the world's
steanh engines Ls reck.une.l at about 75
The Queen of Spain Is to hate her
ewe doe'e•r. will will rereits R1.mlru n
sear, an nl yewenee• for r.nt. Re for ca"Ir
els-t, end the 'lye' le • private prec-
ut,,
o j.
C.VITLE DYING FAST.
Packs of Ilunfgry Wolves Follow the
Ilerds of Wornout Animals.
A despntch from Medicine Hat, Alta.,
says: The cattle sihuilion Is desperate.
Stany have diet( in the streets of the
city after drifting In along the trails
from the prairie.
A despatch from MacLeod says: Tee
outlook on the range.e Is becoming daily
more desperate and the cattle are dying
thick and fast. The animals are skin
poor, and if the cold writhe!' continues
the mnjorlty of them will be food for
the packs of wolves and coyotes now
engerly haunting the trails of the flan.
(shed and fired out herds. The great
drove of cattle which invaded the town
this week carne from Little Bow, and
other northern points.
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SPANISH Itn1:.1D TROUBLE..
Proposed to Establish bakeries as It
Popular Tnist.
A despatch from Madrid, Spain. says :
The propose! is unofficially made and
influentially eupporled 111 the press nn.l
elsewhere, to eliminate tho everlasting
breed trouble by establishing the baker -
lee ns a popular (rust, with Individual
pnrlicipation at lis low n price as a peseta
monthly, the bread being Fold at Col
price. It is claimed That Ilils would pre -
'eel the consumer from constn•It Fleece
Ing by the middleman, and slop the per-
petual quarrels ie:tween the employers
and employed.
OTTA1W 1 NI Inst: KILLED,
Miss \inrg:tret (ratan fells From Nin -
dont al Water Street Hospital.
A d'spat, h from O:lawa : ,. --
e! ('nvnn, rigid 21. n nurse in the. V.tiler
Street ilnsp.tal, fen from n window of
lt;at )uiipilal al 5.30 on Thursday even•
Mg and was taken from the slol^walti
(!diol. 11 was a Fren. h window Ihr.,ugh
w'hieh she deseel'letl. She hail b..-, i'I
with gripe.' ler it .lav or Iwo. 1.:11 .I
ler., had net e'len.le,I her. \I'-. 104 n
was, a native of Thurso, Q1.o,
1 SMOKER'S MATCH.
Cruscit the Great Explosion in Saar -
bracken aline.
•ie,putch (runt Saar•brucken, Rhein-
,. ish Prussia, says : 'I he search of the gal-
' Imes of the Iteden mine al SI. Johann-
-un -Saar. where an explosion occurred
1rm,lur•v 28, s ill continues. More bodies
were broug:hl up on Wednesday, and
identified 1u being among the list of
those already go -en up for dead. The
fire has been extinguished, end the en-
glee:rs affirm that !hero is no danger of
tiny further explosion. 'Therefore the
work of clearing the encumbered galler-
ies is proceeding. Prince Frederick
Leopold of Prussia on \Vcdnesduy look
purl in the funerals of the victims. Min-
ister of Commerce 1►elbrveck says 62
!Kid es and 26 injured mere have been re-
moved Irvin the nine, and 86 others aro
eds.-dile The explosion probably ro•
stilled from carelessness by a pipe
smoker.
WILT, RET .11N 11IIIPPING POST.
Delaware I.ejisl Mire (trfuses In Abolish
11 --Good Effect on Crooks.
A despatch (runt Dever, Del., says:
•the Delaware Is.g.slalure on 'Tuesday
voted to continue the whipping post and
public floggings fur prisoners convicted
of theft, felonious assault, house -break-
ing and mayhem. The Senate committee
reporting on lite bill abolishing the
whipping post said :-"\\'e do nut say
that the public whipping post is not an
extreme punishment, particularly in
winter time, but we do say !tint the
whipping poet is it fearful thing to
gentleman crooks, robbers, and hake
blowers, for they puss Delaware by so
long as she lay, the cat upun the cul-
prits' backs."
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FIWt: NIEN KII.i.I:D.
fonder Exploded In an Illinois Goal
Mine.
A despatch from Mr:rion. 111., s0ys
It: nn esph.,:on of pe:vder in the John•
s•.n (City and Ilig; Muddy coal mine at
ioluis,n (11y on Tutselay five men were
killed and eleven hurt.
PL1G1 t: IN 11:& rlt11.11.
Eleven (tars of (tullonir Scourge at
S)dirir'y.
A despatch from Si dney. N. S. W.,
mos : 'I hero is a rei l u t, :mace here of
pie Loin".tee plague. which broke out
firet in I ;.emery, 1'4•5. and reeppenred
11 March. 191,17. Lletrn cases, Iwo of
1114'l+ 14 ,ti, fa'ni, 1.,‘r been reported
aitiCe Januar) 2J,
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MONARCHS AS VISITORS
111lMOROl ti 1\( IDI:\"IS OF FOREIGN
GI.LS1S IN ENGLAND.
Shah of i'ersia "i'ut Ills foot In 11"-•
Queen of Sandtilt•h Islands 0t
Diamond Jubilee.
Among the many foreign monarchs
who have visited our shores within .im-
peratively recent )Cars,' says London
'fit -flits, one of the most amiable and
popular was Go lute King of I'oi tugal,
of whom the following stcvy is told :
His Majesty, like his successor, was an
enlh«siastic lover of art, and one of his
chief pleasures during his visit to Eng-
land '.vas to snake the acquaintance of
our great painters. milli whose names
and tame he was familiar. When Sir
Edwin (then Mr.) Landscer was intro-
duced to him lits delight was unbounded.
"Ali! Mr. Ldndseer," he exclaimed, as
he advanced to greet the famous animal
painter, "1 am charmed to slake your
acquaintance. 1 ala so very fond of
beasts."
Equally well meaning and unfortunate
was the late Shah of Persia, who, in
spite of his gnat amiability, rarely
"opened his mouth without pulling his
foot in IL" Once, when the Duchess of
Westminster was presented to hire, he
greeted hor 1110
AN OLD AND DEAR FRIEND.
"Ah 1" he said, with a charming how,
"I have often beard of you. Your fame
has reached even 'Teheran." "Good
gracious 1" exclaimed the lady, aside,
L) a friend, "the man thinks 1 am West-
minster Abbey." And so he did.
I1 was this same monarch who, when
sitting at a table one day, between a
nobleman and a lady of high rank, hor-
rified them both by first wiping his
hands on the nobleman's coat and then
on the ludy's skirts, as if heir mission
in life was to play the role of animated
table napkins. If ho was unconven-
tional. at least no fault could be found
with his piety, for he would suddenly
break off an interview, or vanish in the
middle of a garden party, with the an-
nouncement, "Now I urn going to pray,"
Another interesting sovereign who
was among our many royal guests al
the lime of the Diamond Jubilee was the
sable Queen of the Sandwich Islands.
Never did a queen exact more rigid re-
gard for her dignity. While other mon-
archs were only too glad to escape cere-
monial as far as possible, her dusky
Majesty declined to leave her npnrt-
teen's without a sovereign's escort of
Life Guards; while she declined to tread
n measure unless she had at least one of
our Queen's sons for partner.
Once she started to pay a visit to Lord
C n '
T n son at his home in the Isle of
Wight accompanied by a retinue nt at-
tendants. (lour after hour passed and
still Lord Tennyson caught no glimpse
of his royal guest, for whom he had
prepared
A SUMPTUOUS THRONE.
At last, when hope had fled and the
hands of the clock pointed to the witch•
ing hour of night, the Queen arrived,
weary and bedraggled, without a single
attendant and without n scrap of lug-
gage. She had lost ttlern all on the
way!
Mr. Frith. the v'elernn artist, tells el
amusing story of the Kaiser's first visit
to England. Tho young Prussian
Prince, then a mischievous boy of four,
was vastly Interested in the picture of
his uncle's, the Prince of Wales's, wed-
ding, which Mr. Fritu was then painting
at \Windsor, and nothing would please
him but that he too should have a hand
In U. To gratify the child the artist gave
him n brush and some colors and el -
lowed him to daub away at will at the
bottom of the canvas.
After the juvenile artist had been rg
work a few minutes Mr. Frith discover
to his horror that Hauch of the pnlnl
which should have been on the canvas
hnd found its way to the young Prince's
face, which exhibited must of the colors
of the rainbow. Seizing n rug and dip-
ping it In turpentine, Mr. Frith began to
scrub nwny at the bednubed face, while
,�
owner, resenting the process,set to
Ila � g
work on his cleaner with feel and fists,
howling the while al the top of his
voice. At this critical stage the door
was opened end in walked the Crown
Prince and Princess. at sight of whom
the boy darted under a table, from
which refuge neither threats nor entrea-
ties could draw him.
I'LTER THE GREAT OF 11USSiA.
But certainly the most remarkable of
all our royal visitors was l'eler the
Great of Russia, who spent sonic months
in England about two centuries ago.
Newer. surely, was there n monarch
quite so unconventional os this "Czar of
Muscovy," of whom Evelyn tells lis,
At Snyes Court, where n residence was
found for him near the dock -yards, ho
led the most unroyal of lives. "Ise
dines at 10 o'clock and 0 et night;'
Evelyn records, "is very seldom at horse
it whole day, very bftcn In the King's
yard, or by water, dressed 111 several
dresses."
A favorite exercise was to trundle a
wheelbarrow in the grounds of Soyes
Court; he spent much of his lime work-
ing in the dock -yard or rowing on the
Thames in o dock -yard boat, and when
the day's work was done he and his
cronies used to reseal to a public hoarse
In Great Tower Street to smoke their
pipes and drink their bier end brnndy.
On one occasion hie Majesty forsook the
snug bar parlor and. dressed as a but-
cher. attended a masked ball in the
Temple.
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NO MARRIAGE SI:RVI:i•:S TIIERE,
in the Island of Banguey, which Ilei
in the China Sell, the 11atit es pt rfur:n
a very curious marriage ceremony. The •
bride and bridegroom are led quietly
may into the forest, an.1 there, in the
presence of the two fa'nilies. are trade
one. 7 the process 1+ simplicity tlsell. A
cut Ls made In the fle,hy part of the
wou'd-he husbands leg with the help (f
a woo len knife, nn.l n drop of his blo;d
is traruferre•t to a similar incision 'n
the women's leg. Then the rile is cute.
plcte. It is n quart, uno,lentatiuus per.
m:rab'y. Al.er the n:anlage the couple
proceed to the bride's Iv.me, where Ibe
h(•n►yrnoon is spent, end where, sl i
rule, they make their fixed abode.
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