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FORTY MEN IN A SEWER
All Would Have Been Drowned But For
Foreman's Coolness.
A despatch frim New York says:
Forty laborers ran, swain and fought
for their lives when the new sewer in
West 46th street ort; flooded on Tues-
day n'ght, and but for they ctoolnes
And deterl,tinatien .i( Foreman lien Con-
IKerS all must have perished. '1'ht1 men
vlero) w eking ut the tube, which i.,
4.4.911 feet in di:rrl:e'tcr, a block in length
and forty feet below the: surface. Sud-
denly a break occurred in (h4; old sewer
above thein, and the; c.,'.aping water
poured into the open end of the tubse.
'file only eXit wall at the opposite end.
where an air shaft !.'d to the surface.
A moment after a streams first trick-
led into the tube, the flood Caine, 111t4
when the nen turned to run the water
was at their knees and rapidly rising.
OEM
'Half way to the shaft the water was
a:
their welsh, and, lighting, the 111,11
wedge d theinsely CS into a tielplt'ss mass
until nunecu11d ntal;e progre. s, and
all vert? in imminent peril of drown-
ing Then Connors, who lett tho way
to the shaft, took a hand, and swinging
an ugly club, threatened to brain every
11.•11 of them if they diel not obey hint.
Then 1143 erkered Mists to forte four
abreast alt 1 march. Some Marched,
( gal stores vienl, as by that time the
V ;ttcr had reached the flecks of the
tattler, while those of lesser height had
t (431 swept from their feet. One by
send They gained the shaft and climbed
t►:e ladder to the street. Connors was
the last to leave the sewer, and %when be
aid lie rose from aix feet of water.
SENTENCE FOR 1:1111.D -KILLER.
Public Opinion in France itcnnanded
Capital Punishment.
A des paten from Paris says : In spite
of the fact that lila fee• of Thee guille)tint)
in Franco was suppressed 1\1•) ye'arl'.' ago
l:v tho refusal of Par 141111rnt 14) cc)I,lanue
the appropriation for a public exex;u-
licrxer, a jury in this city •:1► Tuesday
condemned to death a elan named
�oleiliant for the murder of a little girl
under atrt)cious circumstances. Atter
subjecting tho citikl h) ill-Ireatrit i,1,
Soleiilant plunged a knife into lied heart,
t,
and then completed ill, horrible \\ur1:
by wrapping tiro body in an old sack and
carrying it to a nearby railway station,
wlter,) he checked it in the cloak -risen.
The gruesome detail-; of the case have
boon tilling the papers; for months past,
.and havv caused such a dt'gese of pub -
11; indignation that Parliament post -
pence! final action on the bili to abolish
the death penalty in Fran:o. ilut. in
spite of leo circumstanoes of 1183 case,
Preside\nt Fathers'.;, in view of the fuel
that there is no public executioner,
Probably \will have to conunuto the ,e'tl-
tctloe to hard labor for life.
POLICE WERE NEGLIGENT.
Mrs. Beach's Action Against the City of
Montreal.
A dc,pat:'h from Montreal says : An
-action for $3,000 is to be taken against
-11)3 city by \Inca. Beach, whose son Rich-
ard died a few weeks ago in otle of lite
cells at Police headquarters. The elan
was st.ppeeeil by the polico 10 have been
drunks, but it aft er'tvards turned out that
l:e had been attacked by three men and
zUueiveetl a fracture of tie skull. Ile was
bleeding slightly tvtten taken to ilio sta-
tion, hitt no medical aid waus summoner{.
•The plaintiff's conte'nlien i1; that her son,
who was 36 years of age, was heyr sole
support, and that the 1►olico 11:11111g ne-
glected to call a tl►•'tor after hating
arrested slim, wave guilty of grow negli-
gence. The Coroner's jury in their ver
sliCt slated that the pence had shown
negligence in their treatment of the vic-
tim, while 1►e was connect' in tit, pulite)
station, but that there) were circum-
stances of an extenuating character.
t11:%STER OF TIIE MINT.
Newly .Appointed Official ilas Arrived
From England.
A dc=4)nlch from Ottawa says: Dr.
01/11145 Boner. of London. Eng., .he
newly apl►eeil►ted master of the Ottawa
branch of the Royal Mint. has arrived
in Ottawa. Dr. lienar is an apieninc'0
<f the Imperial Government. The 1111111
wilt 151 opened before 11►e close o1 111,3
)care 1)r. Bohn' will slxgnd as few
x:014:; here slaking 1Le n.eessnry ar-
talll:e'llh'nl5 for cari•yillg,► 4411 the \")1'l:
<.1)41 Will return for it time let IA.11tlon.
tie• [; it personal friend 4•f the British
Premier r anal is a 111;111 of line tit:hulaS-
Ito attainments.
Til AMPLE) (IN 1111: 11.%G.
ilritish Subject to Serle thirty Days in
Michi1lan Jail.
A despatch fr<ent Marquette. \1i4•hi-
gen, says : I tell.►wing his conviction for
tearing down the Un11ed `fates ling and
tureen trampling on it. Janie; Gant, a
Bri1is!' sohltx•t, twee brought her' (411
Wednesday to serve 30 days in jail. 1 k
\vasa 111.0) I1l1tv1 $10.
MILK M.1N REBUKED.
Recorded Ihtpuis Says Dirty l'ese els
Are Killing the Infants.
A despatch from •Montreal says:
"1 ook at tho poor children he and
ethers are sending io the cemetery,'
was file reproof employed by Mr. Ite-
e,i rder Dupuis on \\'ednesday, when
counsel for Louis Kulznlan, milkman,
.)f 216 St. George ..treed, asked for cle-
mency for his client, saying, ''this is a
hoot' 111111, your Honor." Kut7.illall
was charged, gedd, in the wards of the same
plaint, with selling milk, "tile vehicle
for contagion or infection. inasmuch as
tl*.0 mixer. cans ar:d measures employed
wore darty." \lr. Recorder 1)upius fur-
ther told Ktttztuan that he w8s letting
hint off easy. "Cases such as yours,"
he saiti, "will in future lx' dealt with
in such a way that the offenders wilt
suffer the utin.o t severity of the law..'
KL'Izlilan was !MLA $20 and costs or one
month In jail.
EXPECTS THREE-FOURTII CROP.
Farmers of Manitoba Ilat•e Nothing to
Grieve O\er.
A despatch front Ottawa says; Dr.
\\'nn. Sounders, Dir'e'ctor of Experimen-
ta: Farms, has returned from his tour
cf inspection of Mlaniteha and the \Vest.
Dr. Saunders docs not sharp the pessi-
mistic opinions recently published as to
the crop shortage. flu says the area. in
which partial failure is expocttd owing
to drought is a restrietetl one, and on tho
whole, after a cnreful review of the situ-
ation, he believes that there \rill bo a
three-fourths crop. With wheat at its
pre_ est price this will mean a larger
cash relurit to ilio farmer than he re-
ceived, for the crop of I.►e;t year. Even
should some of the late sown grain be-
come frosted it will fetch a price al-
most as high as was obtained for good
\ heat last season.
SEA SERPENT ON L.►ND.
(;real Water Python Terrorising Ne-
braska People.
A despatch from \'alien. Neb., says :
:\ great water python, forty feet long,
twelve) inches in diameter and with a
Bead the sizo of a 1.1151101 brisket, is ter-
rorizing the country around shout
Ages Lake,. several miles cast of here.
Joseph And»n son and W. Niglltingnle,
while walking through high grass near
►he lake on Tuesday, attempted to step
over what they thought was a largo log.
1l was the 511a11it'. \\'hi1t1 Anl1c'r-;011 had
a f•►:•t on either Md.) the great snake
Ilfkvl its healed, throning Andersson
twenty feet. The serpent then trade a
rue!' for Ilio lake, holding it.; 11cnd six
feel above filo ground. hissing like a
stearal engine. in ifs twiny it broke
branches of 1rt-e.i three+ and 111)11'
in (1i,1n1et.'t'. A big snake Ment is being
arranged.
WONDERFUL COAL BF:D.
Six Mites Long, 1,300 Feet Wide, Thirty
Feel in Thickness.
A despatch from Ilazellun, 1'a., toys:
The i..ehigh Valley Goal Company lids
eisenc(l tvilatt is believed to be the 'erg-
t'jI strapping in the world. 11 is 1oc111al
a' latttmer, anti the cereal i; in a solid
lied of 1,310 feet wide. 30 feet in thick.
Less and extends from I,alltitnter to Drif-
le.n, tit heist six stiles. It is estimated
that nwtt ' 114' .ti)ntpalny t•, take out :,till
lens dn:15 it \\'•,tile{ relltttte 250 years
le: exhaust the supply.
5i,110 01118 1.01 BY .11111all
Forty-one Labor, Disputes During
the Month of June
A d4'spntch from Ottawa says : 'file'
total number of trade disputes n'Iwerte'el
1: 1av0 been in exi.rle'►tt;e in 1 nrinelat
<hiring June, ttCIS 11, a dccrtense of eight.
C4)1Ilpalvvl %OOh Tho (8t'virn15 in4iltIt1,1111) but
an Increase of 11 compared 15i111 June.
1:416. lIsiut 262 esln1e11shtne'nt. 1111,1
5,721 employes were affected I ili•
(IP -(sites, whose beginning during the
1114 nth invol1"tv1 atnl►t 78 4 tlhb.hna.•n1:
and 3,7:3 employes.
The loss of lis` to elm lees three's,
trade disputes during; June \\,s; .11,1,,.„‘,.
/newly 11,70i ttterk111g da)s, l'4,r11le:lie41
with a► 111;4 41f S8,32:1 days In May. and
.1$.215 shays in June. 1:in6.
01 the lit di..putes in Cxiattllre during
1114• ►nr,nttt. °:i acre terminatetil, .'inter by
.tt'h1111c seIllrnl•'rlle ls'ing r'n.'h4'.I, or by
mn1111•I1(81 c•,m4llti.,ns (rasing 1., I„)
nf;.11,t11. 'IImi•Ie.•n di:l►uf.'4 won iernii-
tritest leo n.'g;.►ttutae)ns between the
I'11rL'e4 com,•,•111111. two tweet' 144tl.vl I)
eoneihntien. (,rte through 11ie friendly
eieil1,Ilion eef the IMi►nr118.e111 1,1 i.nl'r)r,
end 41111' tlu•14ugh the Bureau of rage -ilia -
nen .11 Queiere, nod eight disputes were
1, 1 unnoted t\ els out negotiations.
Im *'e1en disputes that 1w• re fermi -
tutted 111; e•It1g''.).,'t' were' :411.Y'4'tsflll, 1411
4114104 ill fat\('1' 111 the employes, eterie
promises \w. 1.' effected In threei cal•4'.._
;111,1 111 two !:e0 duller% w ei a partially
.t:.c•t'is:ul.
THE WORLD'S M'ARKETST SCOTCH TOWN SINKING
amitimai
IMPORTS FROM '11R LEADI42
Tlut 11 (ILN-11tEIL
Pikes el Cattle. Gnirk. Cltnsa en.
miter Paley Pis cs al Mar
and Abroad.
Toronto, July 30. -- Flour — Ontario
wheat 1)0 per cent. patents are $3.t0 1)141,
::-illi $3.51) asked in buyers' lacks, out-
side, for export. Manitoba lirtst patents,
$1.75 10 $5, .second patents, $1.25 to
$1.:40, and strong l,ake-rs', $1.211 to $1.30.
Wheat No. 1 \lnnitol:at hard, ice,
Who ports. No. 1 northern, 97c, lake
ports, and No. 2 northern, 913. e, tnl.o
perk ; Ontario No. 2 white, 87 to 884,
and No. 2 rt+c1 winter, 87 to 88C, outsidk'.
1tye'—.\o. 2 nominal, at 74) to 71c out -
bide.
Oats—No. 2 white aro quoted at 43 to
to 43%c outside, and at 46 to 46'4e herr'.
I'eas--No. 2 quoted at 78 to 79h; out-
side.
Barley—Prices purely nominal.
Corn—No. 2 American corn is quoted
at 61 to 61%c, Toronto, lake and rail.
Brun --The !market is weaker, with
brain guotetl at $16 to $16.5( ill bulk, out -
hide. Shorts are quokka at 819 to $19.50
outside.
COUNTI1Y PRODUCE.
I . ans—hand-picked quoted at $1.65 to
$1.70, and primes at $1.50 to $1.55.
Honey—Strained quoted at 11 to 12c
per }b, and comb 'Limey at 82 to $2.50
1'4 e dozen.
limy --No. 1 timothy is quoted nt $14
to $16 nen?, and No. 2 at $12 to 813.
Straw--Tlte market is unchangtxl at
$i to $7.50 a torr on track here.
Potatoes --Thee market is dull for old
stock, ono car lot being quoted ut 80c
to 85c per bag.
Poultry — Turkeys, alive, 11 to 12c •
ehickelts, siesMg, drra,..al, 13 to 14c Per
It ; fowl, 8 to 9c.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs in car lots aro nominal.
Bacon, long clean', 11 to 11%c per lb in
cast) lots; 1111 ;-;•5 pork, $21 to $21.50;
short cut, 822.50 to 823. •
Hams—Light to medium, 15 to 15'/.,c ;
de). heavy, 11 yc ; rolls, 11%e; shoul-
der s, 10'/, to l lc; backs, 10'/.,4 ; break-
fast bacon, 15Xc.
Lard — 'fiet•ces, 12c ; tubs, 12';- ;
pails, 12%c.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Rutter --Pound rolls are quoted at 18
to 19e; large rolls aro quoted at 17 to
17';c. Creamery prints sell at 21 to 22e,
and solids at 19 to 20c.
Egg, --C lots sell at 17% to 18c a
dozen.
Che aso — Largo quoted at 12c, and
twins nt 12,11c.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, July M.—Grain-111e local
market for oats continues quiet. ?darni.-
toba No. 2 white sold at 48% to 49c ;
Ontario No. 2 at 48 to 48yc ; No. 3 at
47 to •47 %c; and No. 4 at 46 l0 46%e per
bushel ('x storm. Flour—Choice spring
w heat patents. $5.10 to $5.20; choice
seconds, $(.50 to 84.60; winter wheat
patents, 81.65 to 81.75 ; straight rotten,
81.25 to 81.35; do, in bags, $1.95 to
82.10; extras, 81.65 to 81.75. Fred ----
Manitoba bran, in bag_,, 8I9 ; shorts,
$2.1 to $25 per ton ; Ontario bran, 1n
bags. $18.511 to $19; Mewls, $22 to
$12.54J; milled nlouitlie. 821 to 828 iw'r
ton, and straight grain, $30 to $:12.
Ptotisiuns—Ilnrrellti short cut chess, 822
le $22.50; half-lorrels, $11.25 to $1 1.75 ;
clear fat back, $23.54) to 821.50; long
cul heavy mess, *211450 to 821.50; t►alfi
barrels do, 810.75 to 811.50 ; dry fifi 1
lung clear bacon, 1113, to 11 y1e ; barrel.
plate beef, 814 to 816 ; half -I arrels do.
87.50 lo $8.25; barrels heavy tress beef,
8:0 ; half -barrels do, $5.50 ; cnnipounll
lard, 10X to 10%c; pure lard. 12X to
12%c ; kettle rendered, 13 to 13%e;
burns, 11 to 16c; breakfast bacon, 1 t! -
t) 15c ; \\'inds•tr bacon, 15% to 16c ,
fresh killed abattoir dr ?'.4' I hogs, $9.75
to $10; nliwe, $7.25 10 $7.10. Eggs --
Straight candled, 17c. fluter—Town-
ships. 20% to 20,',4 ; Quebec, s', 20 to
20;;c ; Ontario, 2(ts ; Western dairy, 171
1,. 18c. I:hese----\V4stern, 11 to 11y,c:
To\ nshil►s, 11 to 11%t: ; (jucbec, 10% to
11c
\f:\f1KET.
Toronto, July 30.- Expert trade was
Quolations are Hemline' at. $:►.:►.t
lee $:►.75 for lop quality. and $5 to $:►.2►;r'
fo: nte'eliunl. 111111s. $4.5(1 le) $1.75. '
( Joist 11) choke bitchor, were se111
kern Sleet to 85.10, nlciliurm from 81.25
to 81.70; chdlic4' cont•. mid 4)1)1)111)ry
butcher. fivan $3.75 to $1.15: c•nlmne)n
cows, $2.ee to S3; bulb. 12.51) 141 81.
F.eestt-te•1 of 1,0011 to 1.100 )'olrn.ts <01t1
from $1 11/ 81.25, twiitt medium weight
sleeker cattle front $:l.25 to $3.75. 1.ig;hl
4111114' of good dustily s..11I well, haat
there was no demand for imfe•rie,1' sI'Iff,
rind quotations wort) easy 111 82.54) 141 8a.
Mitt h Cows C0Iltnl11411 (11111, with 111114'
de rnl:lrnl. ant) ritioliniotti were a1 111
nelnlutal cit $:15 lei $50 foe choice and $241
to $30 for common.
\'call calves were enlist a1 4C to 6e per
! w' 111141.
Ewes were clouted 254' lower at 81.25 to
$:.541, with bucks and culls a1 $3 to
83.75. Lainba litd 5011; lower at 6!ie 10
7%e per pound.
The market fair hogs was steady nn4)
unchanged nt £+6.90 for sckc s. Offcr-
ings were heavier.
GREAT M11.i.S 5111T DOWN.
Thousands Thrown Out of 'Work in
Belfast.
• A despatch fr4)m Ilelfa;t, Ireland.
s:: rouble. 10 (e1•Inin coal as at eon-
. g11"nce of Ibe continued strike of the
decd: inbor,rs here, ono of the largest
:;pinning mills in Ihls city shut (Joel)
4e t
Thursday. Almost all the other
m I!; gat'.' notice Ilial they wile be forced
:0 (1. e•4) for the sane reason. Score's
of Bleu.5one's 4,f ine'n will ihen be with.
o of Wort:. The pa)i.e-e nre becoming dis-
a1lfref ed la-'nuse of the extra work en-
tailed by the strike and aro demand -
1).g ad41.11ortal pay.
mother --"Merry, child, how do you
ge i your hands so dirty? You never
sew mine ns dirty as that r Child—•
"No; but I guests grandma did!'
IN TUE CENTRE OF TIIE STEEL AM)
(:oA1tt INDUSTRIES.
Motherwell Resembles Scene et Earth-
quake—Ei citesnent Among
' Duellers.
The prosperous and busy town of
! 1othcrwell, centre of the steel .Ind coal
industries of Scotland, is in a 1 orlon
state of wreckago cawed by subsidences
as 1110 t'e'stllt of underground workings,
and the good people who have their
homes Ihero ure putting in a period of
great nervous tensions and mental and
physical tribulation. Great us is the
damage already caused by the collapse
of old mines underneath tate town, they
feel that they have no guarantee when
and where the constantly -recurring
wreckage of public and private) properly
wit cease, and to this extent they are
living in positive dread, not only of
household ruin, but of Lunger to life 11 -
self.
SCENES
ON PITIFUL CI IAII ACi'ER.
One day recently the tenants in the
building known as 'Macdonald's proper-
ty were terrified by a loud cracking
noise and a heaving of the building.
The houses seemed to be collapsing, and
the walls groaned and cracked, great
fissures appearing. The ceilings in
several !louses fell down, and doors and
windows were Twisted and "'decked out
of all shape. The inmates rustled out of
doors, and tradesmen were hurriedly
called to rrop up the tottering build-
ings. Stays were promptly erected
along the front of the tenement ; olher-
t\•ise, the face of the building would
have, in all probability, fallen into the
street. The unfortunate tenants expe-
diliouely removed their goods and chat-
tels, and a large number of 1110 hou.ses
in the sheet are now empty. Excite-
ment in the vicinity was intense, and
ninny cases of a pitiful character were
enacted as the alarmed men, women,
and children abandoned their homes,
PRIVATE HOUSE-O\VNEIIS RUINED.
Particularly regrettable are Ilse cases
of private !louse -owners tvho have sunk
their savings in a "hoose o' their ain,"
only to find thein attacked by the under-
ground subsidences and practically
ruined. 'this has happened to Mr. Ham-
ilton, a gentleman who recently built
himself a villa in Wilson Street. The
house is now uninhabitable, for huge
cracks gape all the way up the outside
walls ; the stairs aro literally a mns3 of
tvrecknge ; the windows are twisted and
broken, and tho "shoring;" props against
the .gable speak eloquently of the build-
ings total collapse. Mr. Hamilton hats
been coinpelled to rent a small roost
and kitchen house to accommodate him-
self and his family. i11 Wellington
Street the people e•annol get their furni-
ture removed on account of the datnasetl
doorways, and generally the conctiton
of affairs, so far as the tenants are con-
cerned, could not well be worse had an
earthquake slruck tho town.
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BEGGARS ON VESUVIUS.
Rich harvests Reaped From Tourists as
Result of Last t'ear's Eruption.
Since the list eruption of Mount Vesu-
vius tlto volcano ,has been extremely
profitable to the beggars that infest
Naples and its vicinity. They are fleec-
ing the visitors to Boseotrecasc and 01-
luiano, the two places laid we'd() by the
lava flow• last yt ar.
}fuddled in g;rortlp' which might diawo
boon posed by a skilful stage manager,
tho population 0f 13o5cotrecnse awaits
1,1e arrival of the strangers. Men, wo-
men mid children. shrieking and howl-
ing, begin to depict the terrors of Ole
catastrophe of 1906.
Emotional women are moved and im-
mediately contribute. Those who do riot
give freely are so 1►eese4 by the \vec'I:ing
rtntt complaining natives that 111cy are
finally convinced that it would be
l:csst) 1I: lho;e who he
sufferearll.d sonot deeplyi. Iicflieve -y (114) 1110 heavgg-
g ers stoke at highly profitable haul in
spite of Ii►o tact Ilial not on*) tllt'rn
ever 1154.1 clr twins nt Boscolrecasc of uulil
oiler the uption.
At Oltajerano 1Itt sante nppeal is made
441 the sympathies of the visitors and
often 1)y the Sallie imlx)stors. here the
(4 ggarss have made a sort of gypsy camp
where they cook beans in the hot lava
and lead seentinlenlal visitors to trill;
11111) a 4,1(1 1111111111;10(.1:
nas.
St'ntIl411 on a 1)10(•1: of la5n wiitt the
wind blowing through Ilia le,ng white
lt.'ks and beard, he Mares in front of
flint.
'"Phis stet rnen \yes very rich," says
Thr chief of the beggars. "1113 hoose,
Isis fields. his feel Ino eve under This
Inert. \\'ora of 1111 hi.; �uff,'riflgs two:
l.► r Itis wife swcl►t ollwe under the
flowing, lava."
At these wools all the beggars begin
le) howl anti weep. Maddy of the visitors
4(.nlrileite Itbertillw to Ih4' fund It:at soon
nccuntu181e: in the 111.1 111a11'8 011.'1 pn1111.
5.'.111.) relt.rn to Naples profoundly
teen. hed by the sight.
They would )sl consoled by the fact,
111 1 they but know it, that not a 1:ers411
was killed at 100 explosion last year
either in itl)50olrecast' or in Ottajnn.).
'The beggars are nevertheless earning a
fortune out of the sy'mpnthetie travel-
lers who journey there to tette the lava
fie bis.
IN AN ADVANCED STAGE.
Good Progress %Inde on the Commorclal
Treaty With France.
A despatch from Paris says: The
Feznrt ways the negt)tinlions cv)nnr'4'Ied
with the Frnnceeonndian commercial
treaty aro in nn nil\ nnced singe. The
11•Paty ensures advantages to 10' Freie h
old fishers off the 04ensts of Nen\ found!.
1111141 nmd Nova 5041111, while, on the
0ihe'r linnet, 1:a)n8dia0n commerce inl-
i1e rued into France will be the subject
of a special treaty.
It is strange 11)5V ctrlitoln n woman
er•i<es aas thole lines when )4)11 /110,1 ex.
tejee`t she is going to.
Marriage is sometimes a fnulnre, be.
Cause a men is unable to think of the
right excuse at Ito right lime.
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
UAPPENINGS FROM Al! OVER TE
GLOM
Te1rgraphl' OriielsYrotw Our Ow5 sae
Woe Countrka of Itec.a�l
IEven1L
CANADA.
Kellet idle win build a new ten thou-
sand dollar isolation hospital.
Buyers are offering $1.25 per barrel
at Belleville for apples.
One hundred and uglily children un -
del five years of age died in Montreal
last we. 1:.
The Ilritish Government will stor_'
ee a1 at E-eluitnalt for the Pacific fleet.
Hundreds of acre's of crops have 1)0011
(kvastatetl by hail in LJ Imus district,
111run:loba,
J Larne . f 'Doul all, Canada's ex -
Auditor -General, is in very poor health.
'1'114' Governor-Genet/al and Countess will spend eevcral weeks in Nova
.5c+otia,
James McKay, of Hamilton, flet many
yours ita.,pcctur of streets, is dead,
aged 90.
The Dominion (Government will sta-
tM11 a powerful launch off 'Toronto is-
land for life-saving purposes.
Twenty-one of the twenty-six school
leachers
of 1h•Ilet illi have had thrill
salluriej increased.
\liis 1I. Boyd, injured in the Crystal
Palace. disaster at L )radon, claims dam -
egos foam the city.
Large quantities s 4,f meat and fish
wen• se'ize'd at Montreal ia,t wee!: 115
unfit for human consumption.
1.045 Enfranchise, of Ottawa, 41105-
scngt'r leer successive Prime Ministers
since 1863, is (108(1, aged 85.
Report, show that rails are laid on
the '1'cuti-laming e; Northern Ontario
Railway to a point 208 stiles above North
!lay.
1'1Y,f. (Intl has Ia'en inti -ligating a
pest that iillacl:s the orchards in Dur-
ham aunty. Several lice's have been
111110d.
Constable Somers of the Winnipeg
police force is charged with having
rohhed a house on Itis Leat on Sunday
F. nig;ltt.
R. Smith. Saskatchewan Inspec-
t.r of Jlines, confirms the reports ih:tt
ceal has leen found in the Eagle Lake
district.
Quebec is to join twiitt Vermont and
New York in eelt•1)ratine the three
l:undl.d1ti 111niwel:,ary of the discovery
4'! Lake Champlain.
'1'o Jnallit' the report of 11o)1114al the
!:est ol► the c,)rntint•ttt, the Montreal
1larisir Commissioners have retained
?dr. it, C:. Dat id -on, of London, Eng -
1U1)41.
\\"Bile\ asleep on the ground near the
granary, the little ssin of Thos. Knight.
of (:yl,less River, \lane, was ruts over
t.v a load of wht at and killed.
,1:. 1'. 11, officials are considering the
removal of their steamship terminus
from Quebec to Three Rivers, o11 (IC -
(011711 of the 1)001' rucun1tt 0datiutl ob-
tainable at Quebec.
Pilgrims to .ate. Anne de fleaupre
I:v the G. T. R. Inst year ttetalled 200,-
0i), and by 'he C. 1'. 11. 11,14)1) and lei.:
wear 10 total will be much in excess
ref these figures.
'rho sterimt'r Ptarmigan was wreckett
oil the G►lun►hia► Diver. Lt lwee11 Golden
and \Vindtemere, II. C. There were s
1-undre4l passengers on board, all cf
whom were saved.
UNITED S'I'.1TES.
Commissioner ilinghann, of New York
c Iy, says European emigrants aro to
be blasted for the re cant 41114101ni0 of
(Aline in that city,
38,0(0 aeras of coal 18181 near Johns-
town, Pat., have been sold to the Soni'
cr•set Goal (:.empnny of Rulli►neere at an
average price elf 860 Per stere.
'fluster,,' 11 !:i184►us `t. Bernard dog.
who Inas saved 17 lives at I:oney Is -
'1 :11d. was recently sentenced Io be st►ol
for lilting a bey nt that place.
Elle':! Humphrey. 1)i years old, <I
Chicago, nlle'nlpled to jump from a
window of the juvenile court after be-
lie.; sentenced to al :erne refuge by Jllftg;e'
Tuthill. She was pi..•ve'lrted in her
suicidal attempt after a fierce struggle.
(;ltE.\'1' 111(11.\IN.
Canadian marksmen at llisley won
ower £3111) in prize. this year.
Lord i:uufnnl has severely criticized
what 113 terms the hugg,'r-tnug;g;er
tne�tltods 01 1110 British Colonial (Mice.,
In The Rriti:<I► House of 1:0tnln0ns Sir
Henry 1'almpbell•I1annerrnaln presented 11
Il•,\al message prtepe)seng; 11 ;special grant
of ,$2:10.000 to Lord 4 :tomer.
i)issuttShIChiOt with Thee poli^y of John
Redmond i, increasing 111 the Irish party.
and Tho Sinn Fein opposition is ggro\wimg;
stronger.
One of the most cx(eusere of women's
clone in i 41814)11. the Ladies' ('11r1:
tea; !neve,' into new 1'1'4'11iSCS and to flip.'
is 1.8lO1ldcn,
(,ENE:lt.\T..
hive hitnelre .l miners have peen este,'
by lin explosion 111 11 coal pit in Jai an.
Gipsy bands are numerous 111 illlrlgary
and aro committing wholesale depi,slll
Lions.
'1'Ite� polite in ;tussle are manifesting
11111- interest in the coming election of
dclt'gales to the third Donis.
The i:ongo is to become a 0010ny of
Ile'lg,�iurn andl will pass from King 1.40•
Ixdd's pers.lnal oontrol.
Forty ihousand workmen !whinging le
l'te cotton millsin the M1e)3con5 mid Vla-
dimir districts, Russia, ate on 5tr114',
A number of French many nllic,'rs are
resigning as n protest against 11►e Gov-
ernment's pt.licy of retrenchment.
A Danish woman dismissed f11111 1-4r
wise h11ng011 114'r (,w11 11114..' 4.1t11,11 411,
three of her employer's, and tinnily her -
Nett.
,1t. the Tonga ',lends, c.elll•nns of
mune, smoke and black 'Aware *4(4,110
Ia.' 11111.1011 into the air tt)ma 111'' sen.
A German military balloon tested nt
Berlin the' other day 1111•+.1''0: e1 her helm
perfel•ily and remained in the nir I11000
hours.
Tim cape Cnk►ny !louse 4,f 1,semh1y
has lin:-s.•41 a ree4n1111k n fay.,1 sag•, 11 0 .11.
fe"leralion of the South .African colorer's.
A ini.siseinry, an oliceer 1111.1 t1'ine 113 -
toles 111\0 been killed in the 1:renche
flEATII FOB SCALL CBITIES
A Legalized Reign of Terror In
Russia.
A despatch from St. Petersburg says:
Sevywhurb. ss s ii incnat
acid exente�-tutaoon Isothse► first1huff of
dithel1n835•
mode of military I►1'oCedure, \\-Mich has
inaugurated a legal is'ign of terror
throughout tho empire. Suspects are be-
ing hurrietil to their death by dr eves, and
lila notorious reign of the (hum -head
(\wls-martial, which we're abolnhe'tl
by the late Uienia, is being outdone in
vi:ieeis retaliation.
The sudden increase in executions
under tlto new rules has exceeded all
records. At Kiev, on Tuesday, five
mutinous *4))PI 'is w ere execute.!, and
• \\cdnesday another sapper was Setl-
tcIleed to death. Three peasants have
Leen esecute'cl at Moscow, 811018er at
Warsaw, and at Yekat rinaslaty three
workmen have been put to death under
dee'isiotls handed down by these new
courts.
EXE(U'l'E[) AT A G.11.i.011.
These victims DIV given the briefest
kind of a hearing—a hearings that is not
n; complete as that veeticltsafed a minor
offender brought into a British police
court. Yet on tho facts developed at this
hearing, the sit.spect is hurriedly judged,
se'nten:e pa seed, and scarce!)' before he
knows sviiat• iso is charged '1, ho is
01) his way to the place of • Meigs.
For the most rifling 01(0114 compar-
atively, sten are c:Jnde'11tned. At Itiga, a
young maul nanle51 Da nbe, for the theft
o: live dollars, was sentenced to death.
and Int••► girls, accomplices, aged twelve
and ttw,111) yearss, respectively, were ex-
ik-d.to harts labor for lift'. Also at Riga
it 111a111 named Berland went into a cloth-
ing More, selectecd an over Ce:x11 and then
shirt's) for the door without having paid
foi it. \\'Iten asked to settle his bill he
drew a revolver, covered the clerk and
succeeded in getting away. Later he
\vaas apprehended and sentenced to
death.
These rigorous imeasllrees of repression
have created a panic which, fats' from in-
suring the conditions among the dis-
contented for which they 1115, designed.
tire driving to a white heat the anger of
P1:) victims. The petty offender's err
suffering;, but the plots against the Gov-
ernm)ont go on a11.1 it is everywhere
predicted that the 't'error'ists will strike
beck shortly in a planner calculated to
match the terrors of the new ictws.
Dltl\'EN TO DE.1T[I iN DRO\'LS.
The innovation outer tvlrich the com-
mon 1'leeepltt are teeing driven to their
deaths like sheep shelrl011 1183 et►tire
(curse of the inquest and a trial of a
suspect, 11nd' the .seventy-two flouts al-
lowed between indictment and execution
include the appeal of the prisoner to the
Military C:uurt of Cas ation and the de-
cision of this court. When it is rrrtlenl.
belts' that the) former regulation w a11owe
ed only a fortnight for all of these for.
malities, the itt)n grip with which the
reactionaries have taken 11014 of affairs
will lx' appreciated.
These military antrls now pass sen-
tence 111)011 ace:11r;4ee1 DO -SOILS wit11011t
wailing fur (ho testimony of witnesses.
t14 Wever vital, though they may be de-
tained for reasons entireiy beyond their
eax)ufivl ; and they enjoy jurisdiction
over a wider area than ever the drum-
head courts-martial did, which only.
operated in tile) provinces that had l,x t .
plat -54 under a state of extraordinary.
defence.
Practically all of 'Wasia is now ad
judged to bo in a slate of extraordinary •
defences :with the Governnlent'cs hand
turned against ever -y one. Ail persons
placed under a1'Iz)st a tx) adjudged guilty,
ur:lil proven innocent, and the [x)ssibib
ity of proving innocence has been re-
duced to a nullity.
G.1I.LOWS \\'OMAN.
A despatch frrern Mo'ticow. says : with
the observance of the greatest privacy.
\ittdaino F r.iltikina, who, in \inrch last,
atteniptee.i to assassinate General Ithein-
lot, the ex -prefect of Police, and who in
\lay made an atteml•t 10 murder the in-
spector of the Political Prison hec'o,
wounding hila with a pistol which had
been mysteriously situggl'd into trace
eon, was hanged in 11115 city at sunrise
on Thursday. 'I'llo authorities made
every effort during the past fortnight to
persuade the woman to plead for the
mercy of the Elpperor, but this silo ob-
stinately refused to do. 1 ler parent*
interceded with the throne in 1141 be-
half, but their efforts were unavailing.
\ladanlu hrontkina was not chargod
with actual murder, but accuseed of nlak-
it'.gs several ineffectual ellemph; to kill
i)llicials. It is believed that. Iter mind
was unbalanced anti that silo st.ffetod
from hysteria. This Is the first Limo a
woman has been executed in Russia
since Anna Rel)odictova was put to
death at Cronstadt last (k'tober for Con)-
l►licily in a plot to blow up a public
building.
TO K11.1. THE C'Z.111.
A,dclspntch from St. Petersburg says:
The police lately unearthed a new plot
against the life of the Czar, in which an
engineer 11 11 111 4 51 tilk)t/.C1'k0Vetl, the sup-
l•c•se'il organizer- of the ceinspirney, 4+
imprisoned in the fortress of it. Peter
a.nd St. Pant. St;veral olhors hie been
arrested. The .Vide'nele partly consists
o; plans of the ilaltic Imperial liailway,
and of the Imperial yacht Akxuiidria,
which were found ill rho Course of ata
pc,lice raid on a private !House hero.
(:c►ngn, where the native soldiers are in
a stale of mutiny.
,111 earthquake shock occurred in Italy
Wednesday end in .several provincial
towns, where the l•euplo became Pani"
stricken. No damage, howevor, has been
reported.
Fifteen men. including swt'eral o111e4'1'S.
5501,' wo0nd..1 \\ evineeday night on
heard the Italian battleship sau•degua 111
Messina. Sicily, during a light between
sailers of the north and eout11.
Twenty in+lepenek'mt cigar nlanufnce
hirers, iheeugh out rho most imperials'
ones, at Havana have decided to raise
the price of c•ig;itis. charging .\stet i. t11
money instead of spanssh geld. This
slog, i, likely to be followed soot by ill.
DIG 1.055 IN LUMBER.
The New -Edinburgh Ser11on of Ottawa
Fire -Swept.
A de.oalch from 01111\V8 says: 'I he
New Edinburgh portion of the r•i1y,
\shish is al.ljatc0 (4)wnt ou�e
ar.d lying tri Ilse castrnt1teI Int•' (ticrndta0taaiitlniter
\• a..; visited 1y a 41i-;a.slrous lir•' 011
'1 11th', fay morning. '1'11(3 1.4111 less is
!;alt at $301,000. Of this amount Mout
esreu. PKI will hate to be 1.011t' by the
\\ . (:. Edward.; C nnpany, of whish
111711 `4'111814,0 Edwards is the heiel.
The \\'. C. Edwards Fish and door
factory. the planing mill, 1I:e library
end Ilureati of r:anada factory. in which
tee \\e r:. i:dwards (5rinp:Itty is largely
irlleresl, el. several pile: of valuable lam -
her, Blackburn .\ Russells mica W111'e-
11(1150.5. holey s hotel, Nn. G Fire Sta-
tion, C. J. Nontes' grt.r. ry store, 811.1
1114: stain building of %Ie Edwards (a)nt-
i any are all lorries' to the. ground!.
• vcral other building:, including the
1 it. residence of the I3lackburns, were
sce)rche.i. 'I'ht' \W, (:. F.Issii,.)s h Com-
pany's main lumber (mill hes 4a► The"
west side of rifle italeatr River, \11141)1 at
111's point 15 connected with n let ulge
over which the street cars run along
Stlouex sllti'ct 14) nti I from Wickliffe and
Escap4•.l•'. The luinls'r pips destrer)yel
v•ere principally li:1E41\54 4, ), Allogctt►er
about Iwo million feet of 10111141' was
burned.
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IN)1'KII()IU)l11 ' I'ILGIII%l t(;F:.
Tho Doren of Them .lrrikre al Portage
la Prairie, Manitoba.
A .14• -patch front I'deringe in Prairie
• 'I'lae pilgrim 11•,•Ikhtttw,rs nrrive*l
l;or,e from \Vesll►a)cirne at ab'•ut 5
(.'c:4,,:1; 4,11 \\•'elne,ilay. 'liter.) were
le et►ly-four to the party, nil garbed 'n
blue smocks rind heavy Coots, oilh
wide -1)t im:l:ell straw hats. They 11111'.1
top nt 540114! 4)f the principal points on
Clete avenue. and (shrink -41 war songs in -
r ielent to their cult, offer which Ila.'y
14 4,1; 111) n c ,114't I:all, 'Tticn 1110 Police
took n hand and Ilio pilgrims \\er.e cs•
torted o\•cr to the Agricliltural 110i1.
w•la•'rC they pns.e.i the night. and left
c;Ir:y Thur:d•ay morning en route to
1V:nnipeg.
HUNTING Itt'CK IN AFRICA.
tuners Shoot for the Pot and Oxen Aid
in the hunt.
Among many of the poor floors 'n
the '1'ranswant—among; whom all the
shooting that i5 done is intended (or the
pelt and not for sport—this system of
shooting with the assistance of oxen :s
noel" in vogue.
The plan is chiefly derived from the
kr,owvlc'dge that a steenbuck--Ito' most
c..mnann buck 110\5 in Soutu Africa—has
rt,) fear of cattle and will lie still even
►! Ih0y g;rltze right ftp to hint. There -
fere, the !nutter gets together a few
cattle and with his glen walks behind
therm in such a way that although he
drives the oxen before hint, 1►e cannot
1►c' seen (rum ilio front.
As he is very alert and sharp-eyed,
her generally espies a Mack very Soon.
ile slowly drives the cutfle in that direr.
Now occurs the most difficult part.
Great care has to 1)e exercised to drive
1'► • oxen so that they rla11)' seem to to
gala%1111.,' naturally. reel the hunter must
keep himself Midden behind ttr:n, and
yet be in such a peeiti4e11 that lie may
le able to shoot when a favorable op-
porluuily occurs, \\•ithoul having t-) ni-
ter his position. The slightest move-
ment is noticed by the Intl:k.
Generally, a few buck me sc'eur'd by
e
the hunter, for, with a hello luck and
foresight, this stratagem Li nearly in-
fallible.
This is net n systein that ninny of us
admire. and it is niost destructive to
the buck.
(;It %NT FOR 1.01ti) (:ROMFR.
i'roiosal Ite-fore Rriti.h (a►mnonf. (0
l'otc Jilin Quarter Million.
A despatch from London says: 111
flit [louse of (SoIlrnons on Wednesday
premier raiiiI1w l!,1;atnncrtnnn pre.sernt-
el! a 114eyal rift s;al;e proixrsing; 1
4t,ecinl grant 4,f .250,00)) to Lord Cromer,
VIP recen11y r'sigrief! !tie post of Brit.
ish Agfe111 anti (:nn4.11-1 1i110rll in Egy14.
in recnggnilu)n of his services to that
country. \\'rn. K. hktJi Bond. nrllion•
8:151, nn114)unced the intention of op-
p_•tiing the voting of this sunt.
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OTTAWA 15 (:ROWING.
Directory Estimates Total Population
at 80,731.
A d ‘spatell from Ottawa says: A sub-
51bllt.ial increase in population markt
flit ('14).;4) 4,f the y.lir in ()flaw's, accord -
:14; to the%light Dil'e.•lory figures. 1,8v•
e : ung; tilt+ multiple: from 3 to 2',, the
sailer a< taken in Toronto, the total 111
c-10int4r1 ,.t 80,731. The company has
in its latest book 29,3511 individual
name's, an increase of 1.568 over las/
year.
when 11 comes 10 rnpid transit a train
of thought aria ih• pasts.