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t*ws1 'engineer in 'chargea 'the -
.10041, was institetly killod1 **td .1t
Crawford,. Ottawas firemen '• Mail
--Clitele-lihireelt; • Fagineer Nagle,
• Smith'it Vella, -anti W. 0, Rothe
• beggegemen auffered slight inj,tir-
ies. The bit'ggage ear of the pas -
(tenger train was badly damaged,
but none of the' pa.ssengiprs were
rturt. Both %rain and engine were
travelling at high speed and met
on a ,curve. Both engines were
badly Wrecked. The engine e were
almost on each other before the
danger was noticed. Engineer
Rowe reversed inireediately, an I in
doingso warned Fireman Crawford
j ,
who jumped, nerd eaceped with it
"iret;:- •
err 0 °
were 1 .burned
nom° pattonic
:engine* *iss going to, jump 'whenr he
was hurled .out of the window and
down the bank, sustaining a nuMe
her of bruitese. Engineer Nagle got
•tegglit at the tender by the coal,
which Was piletleour- Knee Ifet_was
quickly released by the wee pas-
sengers and wax able to wellt to
the ;station, sis he had only s num.
ber of bruises and his leg scalded.
The light engine ehould have
stopped at Granges Station, about
ten miles east of here. " Instead an
effort was made to reach Pembroke
and the fatal eollision wa* the re-
sult. The engineer's watch had
stopped, which misled him as to the
time he liarl to make Pembroke.
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A despatch from Sault Ste Marie,
- says: The steel plant of the Lake
Superior Corporation elosed down
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PNDENSED NEWS ITEMS
I'iMN1S FROM ALL OVVil
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.hoiewe grOetrii 01)0.4 ir
TrOveateat in'itusiness and an e•
eouraging.outlook. ,
° 4 conduetor and an engineer were
slismbeexel by.. the C.P.A., following
en inquiry into the Bethany wreck
. Lee/4 option bysla,iiis ere to be
eubmitteki-fir-Wimuletesek arial3ratit;
ford, and, St. Catherine!, ratepay-
ers will vote on license reduction.
The Quebec Liceneed Vietuallere
are strengthening their association
for the struggle to retain the trade,
which is in (Imager from the pro-
hibition movement in tile Province.
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GREAT BRITAIN,
Harry Barnet°, the wealthiest
untitled man in England is dead.
E. G. Pretyxuan, Conservative,
W8,8 successful ifl the b
ic
A despatch from Monteial say:
Official figures issued on Wednes-
day show that from the o eningof
..iesisseme - se, =mg
cording to -the statement of Genera
-Manager Franz, -from -lack Word
ors. Rolling for the last order o
,the Transcontinental Railway, was
finished on Wednesday morning.
-1,The management annoupees that
-the plant will re open on January
1 ¶he blast furnaces and other
induetries will continue operating
in full force. Last month is An-
nounced to have been the best
month in the history of the blast
'furnaces. In spite of this the steel
plant bas had to purchase Bes.
settler pig iron from outside points
during the past two months.
die
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announces
oliatt .
. UNITED SPATES..
South Dakota'a old out ut for
5,411721. err..
ber-o ocean esseis that 'roadie
Volt:was 739, or
f previous year. Inc tonnage, haw -
over, ohowe a feir increase, there
being 1 958 604 tons compared with
• JP
1,924,475 last season, giving an in-
crease of 34,129 tons. The number
of vessels arriving this year is the
(smallest for many years, ie00, with
787, being the previous best. The
total has not been so small since
1903. It is also remarked that no
eathng vessels of the sea -going type
have •come to Montreal, while in
1903 the tonnage of that class was
11,304. The total revenue of Ole
season frons all sources amounted
• to $333,123, as against $330,250 a
year ago, • an increase of $2,860.
The totals on imports show fall-
ing 00. The mount 'WAS 1195,500,
as compared with $21(3,000 0, year
ago. _A Rein is reported in exports,
the figures being 190,000, against
474,500,
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CHARRED DON'ES FOUND.
'Thought to Be Remains of Woma
Who Disappeared Tears Ago.
A despatch from Brockville, says:
,Crown Attorney OVA% WAS com-
municated with on 'Wednesday by
tho reeve of the Township of
Augusts, as to the advisebility of
bolding' inquest on a charred
v:igo
skeleton und in the woods by
James sout, near Algonquin. Many
years ago Mrs.' 0. Dolton, an eld-
•erly resident of North Augusta,
mysteriously disappeared from her'
home, and, though diligent search
was, made, no trace of her Could
,he found. The story goes that she
was last seen in the vicinity of
Void's weeds, which she is suppoa-
ed to have entered and died from
exhaustion, having then travelled
trimly miles. The portions of the
skeleton found have been accepted
by relatives as those of Mrs. Bolton,
and they were buried on Wednes-
day in the fatnily plot at North
Augusta. .
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FIRST GOLD COINAGE.
TEE SELKIRK SETTLERS.
Miss rfathesons "Who Was Bornson
Voyage Out, -Still Survives..
A d, espateh from Winnipeg says:
While john MocHay, who died on
Wednesday in Toronto, lAtitS the laa
of the Selkirk' settlers' actually
born on Scottish soil, there still re-
mains one who was among the last
party landed on the shores of Bud
son's Bay. This pioneer of the
west is Miss Matheson, aunt of the
Archbishop of Rupert's Land, who
was born On the voyage across the
Atlantic in 1815, then a four months'
trip. She is still hale and hearty,
in the enjoyment of all her facul-
ties, and resides near St. Andrew's,
Man.
EARLY ES JANUARY:
iNtnt!lint at Ottawa -Will Start on
Larder -Lake Gold.
A despatch form Ottawa, says:
'The first Canadian gold to be min -
•ed at the Mint here will be from
a half dozen small gold bricks, ag-
.g,regating'70 euneee, brought to the
Mint on "'Wednesday from the Dr:
Reddiek Larder Lake gold mines
There being no Canadian gold reins.
'authorized at present, the gob-Lys/11_
be made into English isovereigns.
Permission to mint thew .was grant-
ed .to thcOttawa branch �f the
Royal Mint last year.
p Wag of Pad anii-eFiC Will Tak
Place Next Month.
A despatch from Ottawa, says:
It is probable that Parliament will
be called to meet on January 13th.
The exatt date for the opening of
tho session has not yet beeri fixed,
but it is the Government's desire
to make it as ikarly as possible, in
January, and if the Auditor -Gener-
al's report and other matters of
detail can be got ready in time the
opening of the House will not be
later thanothe Vth,_and_may pos-
sibly be in the first Week in Jae-
iary.•
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PRE
ort au Pritio is Iri t
loWrgent
de ch from Pert au Prieee,
i, aye: President Nord
Ah.xz his been depbsed end Port
au Priam is in the hands of the
revolutionists.' The deposed Presi-
dent is now safe on board the
•,7reue rain ng E p liugutty
Voir*, General Antoine Sitoon,,the
leader of the insurgepta, is march-
' fry( upon the peninsula • with an
mono 6,0o0, and amend tegitime
has been proclaimed the new Prost..
dent.
At th? last moment Ikresident-
Ale$is yirelded to the urging thoce
*bout dm and decided to, take re,
tufo Jaboard the Frorich warship.
At 5 0%40* on Wednesefity etiltite
1 t1ite tiAt
pa1ter4cuit -
bat( and eque
of tax' drow,dn
attds of
to the w I, ed in carriage
with the FrenchMinister and /with
the French tri -color over his shout-
dera, the crowis arMed men and
women about heaped curses on the
head of the aged man. When at
last the landing stme was reached
t mo ost' all restraint and 'the
set46 became tragic and shameful.
Infuriated women broke through
the cordon of troops and shrieked
the. coarsest insults into the very
face of the President, who strove
bravely to appear undismayed,
They tried to hurtthemselves upott
him arid fought with handi and feet
egainst.the sobliers,,aho found dif-
ficulty in foreing them bite
weiman did , tweeted ,
ref t *4 to Walt
settieip, fit-
Ottderotnt o but th* b
hart.
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4.1er-was-
The ° International Tuberenlosis-
Lriliibition is Ring lheld in the
Museum of Natural History, New
York City.
Mrs. Caroline, Layer, sixty-four
years old, was killed by an automo-
bile in New York City, the driver
of which sped away before the num-
ber or ownership of the car could
be obtained. -
John C. Sparks, of New York,
told the Society of Refrigeration
Engineers that ignorant, unsani-
tary conduct of artifieiatice making
plantis_wdm turning pure water in.
to dangerously infected ice.
Several burglaries env° been car-
ried out in New York City of late
by the use of chloroform. There is
talk in the neighborhood of the
crimes of forming a vigilance coin -
mitt%) to hunt down the robbers.
GENERAL.
A Britiet. (squadron, wider eom-
mand of Sir Percy Scott, is now ate
Rio Janerio.
Thirty-five Japanese fishing boats
wee° wrecked in a typhoon, and 300
aro reported drowned.
Ismail Pasha, the former aide de
camp of the Sultan of Turkey,
was; assinated at Stamboul.
President Castro of Venezuela,
who id now on his way tp. Europe,
wilt not be allowed t� visit Paris.
Martial law has been proclaimed
111 ,Prague, owing to the rioting be-
tween Czechs and Germans.
Over twelve million cubic yards
of material wae excavated on the
Panama Canal during the last year.
Pu Yi, the baby Emperor of
China, ascended the throne on
Tuesday. • Ile will be known as Em-
peror Ilsuan Tung.
Thef,eevised French tariff, to be
submitted to Perliement in Jan-
uarys, increases the 1110,xiintimi rates
'tworitry per cent.
• Enperiments in 'Germany have
proven that -it is altuost impossible
for airships to escape the fire of
rifles and cannon on the ground.
The Chinese at Hong Kong• ma,y
boycott British merchants on ac-
eount of the Government's strin-
ent measures for the protection of
the Japanece.
A Dutch exploring party has din.
colyerdd
it strange tribe of neglect)
in. Guiana who speak 'a language
whit+ is a mixture of Dutch, Eng-
lish and Portnguese.
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TRAGEDY AT NIAGAItAsON..
• LIKE. •'
Ire Front, Pipe, Ignited Red Ana
,Aged Smoker Was Molted.
A despatch frora; Niagara -on -the -
Lake„, Ont., says: The' habit of
crooking in bed cost,Williauf Elliott
los life atan early hour on Thurs-
day
morning,, when hie home on
Shaeoe Street, 10041 burned
td\ the ground.. Elliott wail.% eviirs'
old and was utiikhle ta **cape when
fire from his pipe, igriited the bead.
ing. 'When the,fircmen arrived the
,fiatnes were beyond control. About
10 o'clock the charred remains of
the unfortunate man were found
buried beneath *pile of debris', •A
few feet awar was the ineinerated
skeletoit his dog. Elliott was it.veter#0 the,Fenian Reido servin
with No.11, ,Minpanys, 19th
ment. Iris wife hat present,111 in
£Detroit hospital.
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EVENTY
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VON*iletett Olt Slianating.
oloet. Japan,
or4 aired
yet' GI
grkaci:
thbr.4111h. ,•7•••1161614
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&to,', IM.8'nt*rjo-wheat.
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`In*ber,1.4 / 490,34 •to E00
northern, 01*0334to .04 On
lake mortes ..
',0400---Outarie No 2 white' 9c.
to to 40e, outside; .Pl'o_.; 2 mixed, 37e.
to---38er.---0utSiaii: Maniteba No. " 2.
westein Canada, 436. to 43Yse. on
traek, lake parts; extra Na. 1 feed,
4IA*0.; No. i feed, 41c., on track,
lakIllitreyeertske. 2, beXe. to We.; No.
3 extra, 54e to 55o.; NO. 3, 4313. to
04e. ,
-Corn-Olci, 74*. to 75e. To-
ronto freights, for No. 2 or 3 yellow;
new wo. 3 yellow, 700. to 703510.•
Toronto freights.
,Millfeed-Bran, $20 to $21 per
n in bales,. outside ; eliorialis
Ito
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Flour-Manitolet, first patents,
$5.80, seconds $6.30; strong bilk-
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Ors $5.10; Ontario winter wheat
_patents,--for-ex
p: 11.1••• I • 07. I
outside'. - -
COUNT.RY PRODU"-CE.
Poultry -Wholesaler prices aro:-
Chickens, dressed, choice) eice to
1k.; chickens, dressed, ee. to 10c.,
fowl, Se. to 0e.; turkeys, 12e. t
14e.; ducks, 10e. to 114.; geese, 90.
to 10e.
Butter -Loma wholesale quota' -
tions: -Creamery, choice pound,
27e. to Mo. ; dairy priuts, choice,
215o. to 20c.; dairy atom prints and
large rolls, 22c. to 24o.; dairy, ie-
ferior, 20e. to 21c.
Oheese-Largo, 13*. to 13c.;
1334e. to 13*. •
Eggs -Strictly new -laid, 31e. to
m
32o. ;, farers' 240. to *Sc.; stor-
age, 22e. to 21e. per dozen in case
lots.
Apples -1151.75 to $3.25 per barrel,
ite'cording to variety and quality.
Potatoes -Car -lot prieea are 600.
to 03e. per bag on traik, Toronto.
• PROVISIONS.
Pork Short cut, $22.50 to $23
per barrel; loess, $19- to $19.50.
Lard tierces, 12c.; tubs, 12,(60.;
pails, 13c.
Smoked and Dry Salted Moats -
Long clear bacon,. 11Ric. to 1134c.,
tons end eases; hams, large, 12%e.
to M., small, 14e. to 14*. ; backs,
170. to 1734c.; shoulders, 10e. to
10%e.; rolls,. ele. to 11,34. ; break-
ast bacon, 14Ne. to • 15e. ; green
meats out of pickle, leless than
moked.
BUSINESS AT /40NT1tEAL.
Montreal Dec. 8.-Grain-Cana-
ian Western, No. 2, white oats are
oiling at 404o,, No. 3 at 43*., ex-
ra No. I feed oats el 45c., and No.
feed at 45c.; Ontario No. 2 white
t 45o., No. 3 ais 44c. and No. 4 tit
3 0. eersbnehel,sex. stores...Meet
-Manitoba spring wheat patents4
ts at Se; seconds at 45.50; Win-
er wheat at $4,60 to $4.10; do., in
ape $2.15 to $2.25; extras, '$1.75
o $1.65. Peed -There is no change'
n millfeed, for which, the demand
ontinues fairly good. Manitoba,
ran at $21;esshorte, $24; Ontario
ran, $21 to $21.00; middlings,
21.50 to $25.60; ishots,. $24.50 to
25 per ton, including bags; pure
rain tnouillie, 30 to $32; milled
rades, $25 to $23 per ton. Cheese.
The local market continuesteady.
ith westerns quoted at 12%e. to
Ilutter-The-market is firm,
nest creamery beingquoted at
7c. in round lots, and e73e4e. to 28e.
n a jobbing way. Eggs -There,
ere no knew developments in the'
oeal egg tittration* prieee being
teady, tintli,r it, fair demand for
eni consiimptum. ,New.laftl, 20e.
to 30c.; seleeted *took at'25e. to
51,4e.; NO.,1 stock, 22e. to 23e., and
Sioqk at 113l;c. 'per dozen.
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NITED STATES MARKETS.
tilwatikee 8.---Whent No.
nottliern, '$1.10 tts $1.11; No. 2
northern, ' $1.0S ' to - $1,09; May,
*1.10% toked. Rye -No.. 1, 76e,
Corn -May, 02ne. bid, Dark*
litlindard, C40.; samploa Miesto
43114%Itneneapo1is, Dee-
1)ecember, $1.01% to •
1.12; cash No. 1 bar
No. 1 northern, $1.11
northern, #1.00N to $1.00.
FloerseFirst, petit t
.68 to second paten
.40 to $$. t Ocoee $4
.$0; vittond dears $340r to $
, 14,
Toron , .,
t*ltii* for tha beat
' 'tattle via fro* *C. ,
, , cwt. (lood loads et etteers
lifeoli,44reiworth 414 to $CISO
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u .co
finatorder, approi
u .004. '400) con
sea. e aturo explinging the
sdvantage of the system as guar
-
*tate against in Old . age
and detailing its itivestinerit „fee..
Wes has been tent .out for distri-
bution -be. 1)0st:wasters. throughout
a.
•••1•••••
C. •
the entioe e omeinteetli
e V:7 4
wit1tby n'
ef Biritityttis04;i‘;‘ 4*(ahi 1:1'.
ie thc4 'OtkettiO, Will 1101d public met
Inge in elistrieta ad&
IRA the winter. Dr. Sarepsog uf
Windsor, Ont., will be at the 'Iliad
of ,ithe lecturing staff, and will he,
Fin SOries, of Meetings in.Ontario
AU a few days,
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cwt. Medium cattle (veld apt $3.00
to $4 per cwt., agd COMMOU ones at
$3 to 13.50. As high as $4 per cwt.
was obtained for choice cows.
Common to niedium cows were Bold
at $2 to $3.23 per cwt. Light and
rough stockers olive still sold at it
discount. Milch tows were easier.
Prices. for lambs fanged up to $5
per cwt. Ewes were steady at $3.25
$3.60 per cwt. Select hop con-
tinued to sell *Nile per cwt. fed and
se
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Wonderful Escape of the Halifax
Express Traiu.
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says ; TIMM the-lralitax exprese
_wait _nearing et.beeeity-on -Thieved
night sit it thirty -mile speed tho
engine struck' a belf-open switch
and immediately broke from the
train and loft the rails, running
more than a hundred yards be-
side the track. It was practically
retiuced to scrap iron, and the
driver and fireman • had a mirag
ulaus escape. The baggage and
mail car were badly broketi up,
but the paseengere escaped with it
severe shaking up. Two tramps
riding on the blind, baggage were
badly injured and taken to the hos-
pital.
INDIANS AND TUBEROULOSIS
Falling Off la Population Attribut.
, ed to This Disease.
A despatch form Ottawa sasys:
Ravages'of tubereolosis among the
Indians of Canada is indicated in
the annual report of the Depart-
ment of Indian Affairs, winch has
been just issued. During the fiseal
year ending fast March the Indian
population numbered 110,000, a de-
crease of 40. The preteding year
showed an increase of 169. To tub-
ercolosis alone is the falling off
that at-
tributed. The report notes at the
Indians are becoming more self-re-
liant. The expenditure for destitu-
tion which ten years ago was
$374000, is now $143,000.
frqtS. NATION IN GLASGOW.
Th, SaloonsWreeker Beginning
Canipalgn Betalu.
A despatch from Glasgow says:
Invited by English and Scotch pro-
bibition societies, Mrs. Carrie Na-
tion bite taken up quarters ,in it
modest -hotel -hem,
it campaign of "meshing the rink
evil" in the prineipal cake of the
United Kingdom. She says she has
left her hatchet at home, having
male up her mind to strike at the
root of the *ink evil, and not at
its.mere outward semblance, She
expects. to make * systeniatie cyan-
peign, fieginning with the cities of
Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen,
and embracing Edinburgh and Lon
don. The police lute° warned Mi'.
Nation'e Mends that she will not
be allowed to 'offer any violenee to
saloon -Property or customers.
BARRING INFERIOR
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Specia) Instructions to Customs.
Collectors Ike West.
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A ilespatelt from Ottawa Nays:
The Deputtnent of ettiltOmslois is-
ued tireular to, -cblblettirs itt
Brandon, Emmerson an
ther,ppints in the Watt 0%11111K -4i
tention :to theriumker of fatal ac
eidenti ikently from explosions of
coal .oil, and enjoining them to
exereise the utmost vigilance that
no t:limited nil is permitted .to en
-
tor Canada unless it coMplies with
the totals a the Petroleum, In.,
spection Act.
,ifee
ALFONSO
ay sig ti vevory
af °mimic
Dax anc
itt an enquiry fsboin
8jsnish authoritio
'dis. ,iery of a letter
Ipsliish Anarchist.
deo ,preposi
e if
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The I t iStillOtte Pith
°eel itssin
owin af ornhs est the r,'Marw aI are likely
aflnounee,
:made
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GALE AND SNOW COST 17 LIVES .
Teu Fiehing Vessels Wrecked on
Newfoundland Coast. -
A despatch from St. John's, Nfld.!
says: Seventeen persons perished
in it storm which has -hushed the
Newfoundland out for forty-eight
hours. all, ten fishing vessel* •
have gone • ashore, most ' of them,
breaking into fragments on the
siookiesesTliteevisitiunresexts
ii..„. p „4,:c:uu,",..,' ° :,, ;A zitg I: ",,, il`
ing villag0;:j7;11; fri.*::::::‘1,' e'g':ii'd''*''''''
Tuesday evening, and developed
into a blizzard. A northerly gale
caught many small schooners and
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f r hailer before the blast many
01--tIre-e'rew-1ost-their bearingiln-
the thick muesseitorres
fres-Le.'
ARE THESE DIAMONDSf
Mr. Fred. Dane .Iirings Preelotte
Stone e From North.
A despatch from Toronto, says:
Will Ontario's big clay bolt devel-
op into a diamond field That is
tit° question somo people are ask-
ing, since Mr. Fred. Dane, T. &
N. O. Comniissiorer, returned from
the north with a few atones that
Ilook like diamonds. These stone*
have been submitted, to an expert,
who declines to express any defin-
ite opinion as yet. They were found
east of the re: town of Cochrane.
Peculiar as it may seem, some few
yeti's" ago it geologirt reported that
the blue clay of that particular re-
gion closely resembled that in tho
vicinity of Bloemfontein, in the
diamond fields of South Africa. It
is said there is sAready some ex-
citement- in the north country over
'the find.
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FOUR MEN SHOT FS CAROUSE.
One Will Die as the Result of the
Brawl -at lienora.
• A despatch from Kersorte seers: •
Four_ men were woutidcd on W
nesday night in a shooting
Which took place at Dryden, One
A party of men were drin'eing in a
house on the outskirts of the town,
when one of the party, Joseph
rey, suddenly jumped up and field
five shots from an automatic revolve
or. Forte idiots.' took effeet. ',1111
wounded are: Richard Penna. of
London, Eng. shot_ _41?
inea;--v411-41i0L,Danic1-144yr-t100-10---
neck and right side. A. Steelton', -
shot in knee. Wirt. Slierpe'shot -
in thigh. Wat3 arre4ted and
brotiglit, to.Kenora. Ile will* be •
tried next Saturday.
'DOG SAVED. THE FAMILY.
h..
Almost Asphyxiated When
Aroused ilither.
A despatch from Ottawa!
Mr, Dominque Poiret and so
father-in4stivi and two pont,tsw
resident at 74 Friel Streek„ ow*
their lives tie'the berkiint of it pet
dog belopgitig bend
to the y, which
aroused i
them n time to save thou.&
from being' asphyxiated .by gas on
Thurcday night. Mrs'. Porter was
uneoneeious when foUnd. A defec-
tive eoal' titove was responsible for
filling:the' house With gas. '
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TIN IDENL
CID ,Nir
onyd Kipling has, of course,
tk,ne more to familiarize the world
with India t! -an any one else. Here
is AU incident which Mr, Kipling
tells as an actual event, whit+ has
'somehow eEctlp,td finding its way .
info any .,of los books. A feW years
ago the native statlon mater of an
Indian railway station merry miles
from any city- was attacked by *
tsger made bold by hunger. His
istant instantly took refuge in
Act, barricadeil the ,doors And
witeti for instructions to the near.
own. Imagine the sonszonent
f 4he operator attire other ,old
me to recpive 'the following de
h: -----"Tiger on platform eat.
sflstation :master. PleasS"'wim
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