HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1892-3-24, Page 2TO B0011 COAL VRICES, Over 400,000 Nines 'Quit Work to Reduce the Supply, WATER FAxima IN DUBE= A Lenaon cable :nye ; The great coal rminers' strilre was ipaugurated yesterday in •accordeuee with the plea a the Miners' :Federetion, which in its manifesto issue a few days ago cleelared that the holida the men proposed to take wait tor th purpose of clearing the markete of the surplus coal, and foe restricting the output, hi order to prevent the masters from umng the low prices as an excuse fer lowering wages. At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon the men employed in the mime in Lance - alike, Cheshire andYorkshire stopped work, tend the ponies were removed from the pits. The only men now at work are the surface men, pumpers, ventilatera, attendants, etc., whom the Federation have not called out. in Durham mining work has also com- pletely stopped. It was hoped, until yester- day, that some sort of a compromise would be arrived at, but no agreemenb could be reached, and the strange spectacle presented iteelf of the employees anitting work in the masters' intereat, for it eseanot be denied that if any advautege is to be derived from higher prices the mine -owners, as compared with the miners, will reap the greater por- tion. Belgian shippers are sending coal to the Tyne and Thema, but they refuse to give any information as to the quantity they have shipped. The oli, colliers carry- ing these consignraente are exrteated to ar- rive to -morrow. The coal porters will attempt to prevent the discharge of these cargoes, and it ia feared this will lead to a renewal of the dock trouble. Twenty thousand miners in Nottingham quit work at noon yesterday.• When they came out afire pits they brought their toole with them. The coal stocks in the Bristol district are already nearly exhausted. The miners there have also stopped work, and as a result the price of coal has gone up four shillings per ton. Many manufacturers refuse to pay the price demanded and have closed their fac- tories. In this reepect the action of the miners is working greatly to the harm of the operatives employed in other industries. One of the results of the etrike that has occurred among the Nettle Wales miners is that the men working in Flintshire will not go on strike, but will work no more than five days a week. Wooden barricades are being built around the mouths of the various pits in Durham and none of the miners will be allowed within these enclosures. It is believed that at the conference to be held on Wednesday next by the Miners' Federation it will be decided to limit the holiday to a week, and to restrict the output during the summer. Many of the large industrial establish- ments in Leeds and Manchester and on the Tee -side and Tyne -side and other places in' the vicinity of the collieries dampened their fires when the operatives left their work yesterday isfternoon'e This means that work will not be resumed to -morrow, the manu- facturers refusing to pay the extraordinary prices now demanded fot coal. The Miners' Federation will pay the men strike wages during the period of idleness. The only exceptions to this, so far as at present known, are the Durham miners, who will not receive pay. It will require a very large sum of money to pier the 4003000 -men who, it is said, have left work, even though they receive strike wages. To re- coup the drain the treasury of the Federa- tion will be subjected to a levy, which will be made upon the men as soon as they return to work. The weather yesterday was stormy, and snow lies several inches deepin the villages about the collieries. Yesterday afternoon delegates from all the collieries in Durham met and finally decided that they would submit to no re- duction in their. wages. Durham and Northumberland miners are not members of the Miners' Federation, but have an organ- ization of their own, the National Union. The membership of the Federation is enor- mous. It comprises about 280,000 miners, of whom 200,000 are bottom workers. The remaining 80,030 are employed on the sur- face. The Federation delegates, who met some time ago at the Manchester confer- ence, represented 175,000 working miners. The conference to be held on 'Wednesday next will take place in London. Hitherto most of the water used by the miners and their families in household and other duties has been obtained from the mines. The • pumps there furnished them with an abund- • ant simply. It is now feared that a water -- famine will follow the cessation of the work. The women and children are procuring water from every available source and stor- ing it in all manner and kind of receptacles in their houses. The miners have plenty of coal, as the masters have allowed them to provide them- selves with liberal supplies. A. BURGLAR STOPPED. A Bullet Thron,v.h the Head Put an End to His Business. A Philadelphia despatch says : A man supposed to be William H. Brooks, a burglar, was shot and fatally injured by Policeman Boolan at 12 30 o'clock yesterday • morning at Eighth and Arch streets kat as he had smashed the window of Hart's bicycle store on Arch street. Just as the officer rushed on the window -smasher the • latter raised a brick to hurl at him, when Boolan closed with him, and in the excite- ment- his finger pressed the trigger and the mat fell, shot through the top of the head, and never uttered a sound. The man was taken to a hospital accompanied by the officer. The officer said he had not the edightest intention of shooting the man, but merely wanted to frighten him. A Murder Witness Silended. A Little Rock, Ark., despatch says: Itt- teno excitement prevails in Ashley county, and a double lynching 18 not at all improb- able. The cause of the trouble is the poisohing of Mrs. Sallie Hannible, who died in terrible agony on Wednesday night at her home at Parkdale. Omer and Dan Carpenter, brothers, are accused of the ter- rible crime. The poisoning is thought to have been the work of the Carpenter boys in order to get out of the way the only wit. nese against them in the shooeing of the woman's husband last fall, A posse is searching for the Carpentere. Hydrophobia's Arial AgonY. A Crawfordsville, Ind., despatch says : John Skewer& e farmer residing near here, Las ant died a horrible death: Some time ago his pet dog showed signs of rabies. The dog wail looked up and Boon died, In bury. ing hire Steward allowed some froth from the heast's month to penetrate a wound on Itis hand. Theitand lbegan to se/ell at once, and soon the whole arra from the shoulder wee frightfullyswollen and Steward became teeing Mad. S tit was tied up and suffered the meet exeimeiteting pain until Wednes- slay night, wheix he died. • Augustin Daly lure accepted it play by Jerain MeCarthy. TWO HUNDRED DEAD Heartrenaing SeeneS at the rated, Belgian 001liery, BRAVE EITO.RTS AT RESCUE. A Brussele cable says : Later particular regarding the explosion in, the Auderluis bow that it occurred in a gallery below the sarfams. Here were mg 270 men. Of this number 40 aped by means of it second shaft and 16 others were rescued in a terribly and it is believed fatally injured condition. It is feared that of the men in the mine 200 have been killed. The explosion occurred at 8 o'clock yesterday morning. It was very heavy, and the shock caused by it resembled an earth- quake. Almost before the tremblings caused by the mighty explosion had died entirely away the in- habitauts began to rush from their dwellings, and crowds of excited men, women and children, the faces of all blanched with the horror which possessed them, flocked to the mouth of the fatal pit, down which but a few hours before miners had been lowered to begin their dreary and laborious work in the bowels of the earth. The scene around thepit soon laecisrae one of great excitement and anguish. Piteous shrieks and cries reaounded on every side, as it was at first thought that every one in the mine had been killed. A willing band of hundreds of brave men volunteered te descend into the abyss and commence the work of rescuing those of their companions, if any, who might have survived the dis- aster, or bearing the blaokened and torn bodies of the killed to the surface. There was a long interval of waiting and suspense before a signal was received from below by watchers at the mouth of the pit that the rescuers had reached some of the miners and were ready to have them hoisted up. The cries, prayers and shrieks of the anguished crowd were redoubled as the men at the windlasses at length completed their work and the limp and black forma of from 30 to 40 of the poor men were dis- closed to the straining eyes of the weeping multitude. All the victims were either dead or badly injured, and the face of each was fearfully disfigured. Their counten- ances were smeared with blood and were completely black from the volumes of :smoke and dust which followed the explosion and were swollen out of all proportions. Kind bands bore the victims from the place. The wounded men, groaning pitifully at every step taken by their carriers, and followed by their sorrowing friends, were . tenderly conveyed to the infirmary, which had been got in readiness for the reception of the large number of patients which it was known would soon tax all the resources of the in- stitution. A large staff of doctors and nurses had already arrived. The latest official estimate places the number of dead at 200. The Ministers of Husbandry and Public Works are at the scene of the dis- aster, and are personally directing the operations of the rescuers. A LIVING TORCH. A Lambeth Man Pours 011 on Himself and Applies a Match. A London despatch says: Mahlon A. Swartz, who lived about two miles south- west of Lambeth, met an awful death at his own hands yesterday afternoon. He had been subject to fits of melancholy owing to financial losses, and had twice within the past year made unsuccessful attempts on his life, and was therefore carefully watched over by his wife and son. But yesterday he eluded their vigilance and made a final effort that was only too successful. Ile had been but a few minutes out ot his wife's sight, and was engaged piling wood in the wood- shed, when she saw him run out of the door enveloped in flames. She ran to him with blankets to wrap round him to smother the fire, buthe fought her off determinedly. She then ran screaming to the house of Mr. Sifton, a neighbor, but a few rods distant, and gave the alarm, and help was soon at hand, but not until life was almost extinct, and the unfortunate man was burnedalmost to a crisp. In the woodshed was a half - emptied coal oil can, the floor being scat- tered over with oil, and a half -burned match. The desperate man had literally saturated himself with about half a gallon of coal oil and then lighted it with his own hand. A few years ago the deceiteed was a prominent and well-to-do farmer living near Aylmer, but the loss of all his property was followed by sickness and fits of depression that re- sulted in this awful end. He leaves it widow and two children. Al HORRIBLE DEATH. A Young Woman Deserted, Suicides by • Strychnine on a A New Albany, Ind. despatch says: Kate Smith committed. stheide m a sensa- tional manner on a train at 12.30 this morn- ing. She boarded the train at Louisville last night, and while en route to this city asked the conductor for a glass of water for the purpose of wetting her handkerchief, saying that she had a headache. A moment latter she emptied a white powder into the glass and drank the contents. Ten minutes later she was writhing, in horrible agony on the floor of the coach, and it required the strength of three men to hold her. When she reached this city she was frothing at the mouth from the effects of the strychnine, and died at 3 o'clock. Kate Smith was at one time considered the handsomest woman in Southern Indiana. Two years ago she eloped with a Cincinnati travelling man, who deserted her. Feeble Revolutionary Movement. A Houston, Tex., despatch says : A letter to it gentleman in this city from it friend on the frontier, who is conversant with the state of affairs there, says the Mexican people on the Lower Rio Grande complain bitterly of the manner in which they were treated by the United States troops during the Garza fiasco. The same letter says that a day or two ago a sergeant in the Mexican Army issued a prOnueeM- mento in which he violently assailed the Diaz Government and called for troops to rally to his standard. Only seven respon- ded, and when he Bounded his war cry he found he had to tackle 800 men in the Neuvo Laredo garrison. He and his fol- lowers beat a hasty retreat. One of the revolutionists was killed but the sergeant and the other six nuoceed in reaching this side of the river in safety. A Thrifty Editor. An Augusta furniture dealer, in e recent acivertieenient, offered it hendsome bedroom Mite to the first couple ' that would marry in his display windove. Cpl. .A. M. Car- penter, the thrifty editor of the Lincointnn gems, wrote that if the dealer would furniah the bride arid pay his expenses to Aurpleta, he would bay the licetme and pay the preacher. The dealer accepted the offer, and the lady is seed to be'yottegs handsome and finely educated. Carpenter, is a little dazed by MS good luck; butt will be Mihail& -Columbus (Oen) Sun. • Professional humorist, -Did you know I had a filthily tree ?I ;lite de chestinik I hear, A NOBL WOMAN'S PLEA. rS. EargreaveS malt Fa Nis. Osborne. -- FREET.;Y FORGIVES GREAT WRONGS. A London cable says: Mrs, Florence Ethel Osborne, who stole Mrs. Hargreaves' pearls from that lady's residence while there on a visit, and who, when accused of the theft, inetituted a libel suit against Mrs. Hargreaves, was found guilty to -day in the Old Bailey of larceny and perjury and was sentenced to nine menthe' imprisonment at hard labor. The saddest feature of the whole case is that Mr. Osborne is to become, a mother in June. Her husband, Captain Osborne, who married her believing her guiltless of the larceny, is bowed down with grief. Sir Cbarles Russell, who arose as her counsel in the libel auit and declared his client guilty., made a plea to -day for mercy on the ground of insanity. At this point Mrs. Hargreaves rose from her seat at the solicitors side, and, speak- ing with great emotion, said: "My Lord, as I and my husband are the chief sufferers The judge interposed, saying: "1 don't think I can listen to you." Mrs. Hargreaves, however, was not daunted by this releuff. She persisted in finishing what she had to say, and, con- tinuing, she said "1 am going to plead for mercy for the accused. I am convinced that bin. Osborne was not in her right mind When she took the jewels. I beg of you to deal aa leniently as possible with her. I have known and loved the prisoner all her life." • During Mrs. Hargreaves' remarks Mrs. Osborne showed the deepest emotion. She wept bitterly and her sobs were audible, in every part of the court room. It was thought that she would faint and another female warder stepped quietly to her side to help support her should she fall. Everybody in the court was much affected. Many of the women were crying. Even the court attendants were visibly affected by the utter misery of Mrs. Os- borne, which seemed to be added to by the noble appeal for mercy in her behalf made by the woman she had wronged. The painful scene was added to whea the clerk of the court, turning to the prisoner, asked: "Florence Ethel Osborne, have you anything to say why the court should not mum judgment upon you?" • Mrs. Osborne, sobbing violently, replied in a whisper, "Nothing." The judge spoke in severe terms of Mrs. Osborne's conduct, and said in conclusion: "The maximum punishment for your crime is seven years -this remark caused a sensa- tion in the court room -but I am not going to pass such a sentence on you. I am taking all the circumstances of your case into con- sideration, notably the appeal just made for you by Mrs. Hargreaves, and decide that you be imprisoned at such hard labor as your condition and frail health permits for nine months. In prison you will be attended by doctors." Mrs. Osborne was seated in the dock while the Judge was sentencing herr, and upon the conclusion of his remarks she would have fallen from her seat but for the warders, who raised her gently, each of them taking her by an arm, and led her away to a cell. Captain Osborne had an interview with his wife after sentence had been imposed. He then retired to bis house, completely crushed at his wife's position. The house presents an appearance of mourning. .A11 the blinds are closely drawn. His friends express high praise for his warm and unwavering devotion to his erring, yet unfortunate, wife. • Many think that in view of her delicate condition the sentence ought to have been still lighter. .Lormorr, March. - Mrs. Osborne, after her sentence on Thursday, developed hysteric catalepsy so seriously that her condition became critical and her husband was per- mitted to visit her. Friends hope to obtain a medical certificate to the effect that p. pro- longed imprisonment is certain to cause the death of Mrs. Osborne. • The birth of her child is expected in June. FELL ME STORIES. Perilous Escapes at a Fire -A Child Drops to Death. A New York despatch says: At 12.30 p. in. to -day a fire broke out on the fourth floor et the fifth story tenement house, No. 236 Twenty-ninth street. A family named Knobloch live on the top floor. Katie Knob - loch, 18 years old, was in charge of two children when the fire broke aut. The smoke rendered escape by the stairway im- possible. Katie was panic-stricken. She held one child out of the window until weakness compelled her to let it fall. The child fell five stories to the sidewalk, and died soon afterwards. Katie held the other child out of the window and let it fall into the arms of Peter Clancy. This child was only slightly injured. Katie climbed out of the windrw herself, and after hanging sus- pended from the sill for two minutes let go and dropped. Clancy got several other men around him, and as the girl fell they caught her in their arms, thus saving her life. The fire was soon extinguished. A BRAVE WOMAN Risks Her Own Neck to Save a Somnainbn • listic Lodger. el. Plainfield, Conn., despatch s3,ys : Mrs. Nellie Tisanes, a lodging-houre keeper in the village of Glen Fails, proved a heroine on Tuesday night. A lodger, who is a somnambulist, had climbed In las sleep out of a dormer window, and, sliding down the eaves, sat with his feet overhanging the sidewalk three stories below, gesticulating at the circle around the moon. Mr. Haines declined to crawl down the roof to restue the MOD, but his wife was equal to the emergency. She called to her sister : "You hold me and I'll go." Then she clambered oet of the window and carefully lowered herself until she had the imper- illed man within reach. She clinched firmly, and clung to him with desperation until both were hauled safely back inside the vvindow. A tong, Sound Sleep. A Valparaiso,,Ind, despatch Say& Mrs. Mary Robinson, an inmate of the Starke county poorhouse, has been asleep eighteen months. The reghlar pulsations of the heart alone indicate that she is alive. When her eyelids are pried openher eyes stare into space'with gleans of intelligence in them. A. sound rap on the head or a pin thrust into the flesh causes no movement. Milk, her only nourishment, is given her through a rubber tube inserted in her nose. The sleeper is placed in a rocking -chair dur- ing the day and at night is carried to her bed near by. Why, you use it common clam pipe, said little Emily, in surprise, to her Uncle, who had juilt returned from a long voyage. ", Yes s .why not?" asked Miele George. " I thought sailors always smoked a, horn- -The sale of the average novel does riot exceed 1,000 copieth lrEsIVEDD109 1118 OUSE WIFE After filte Married 'fare° ether Ifuelemada- As Woman '0110 GrOWS Wears! of Old *tomes and Loves New Melt. A &mentor), Pa., despatch Says : The sequel to a remarkable story of a woman of this neighborhood who had been four times married and as many times divorced turns out to be a re -marriage to her first hushand and the lover of her girlhood days. la the summer of 1875 Miss Kate Landis, a rosy-oheeked Penneylvarria girl, of German origin, kept house for "eaten D. Sperry. Albert Belmook was the farm hand, and iu the fall he and Miss Landis were married. He rented a farm the next spring, but he did trot get along as well as his wife thought i he ought to, and n 1877 she left him and got a divorce. Seven months aterwards Mrs. Babcock married James Starkweather, a Carbon county farmer. Starkweather was a widower with two children, and he owned a small place. His wife did not like the neighborhood, and he sold out and moved to Cameron county, In 1880 Mrs. Stark - weather got a divorce from her husband in another county. In 1882 she moved to McKean county and married a middleaged farmer,Azro Fel- lows. He had been married twice before, but he had no children, and they lived together until 1885, when Mrs. Fellows went to the western part of the State and got it divorce. In 1887 she married II. 14 Phelan, a farmer of Washington county. He was a well-to:do widower, with a large family of girls, and Mrs. Phelan lived with him until June, 1890, when she went away, got a diaorce and began to work again. Meanwhile Babcock, her first husband, stayed in Colley township, this county, worked hard, and accumulated considerable property. Last fall his for mer wife re- turned to Colley township: Babcock began to court her again. A week ago Thursday she gave up her place, and said she was going to Washing- ton county. Babcock went away the same day and on Wednesday last they returned together. • They were married in Buffalo. THE GARDEN MILL TRAGEDY. The Jury *Tail That McCann .Was Shot by Forsyth. , A Port Hope despatch says: The posts mortem examination on the body of John McCann was held yesterday by Dr. Corbett, of thie town and Dr. Niddery, of Mill- brook. Uniformed that deceased had come to his death by a gunshot in his left thigh, which had shattered the thigh bone, sever- ing the arteries of the leg, and, scattering, had penetrated the bowels, causing a fatal hemorrhage. The inquest was held in the town hall, Baillieboroa yesterday, Dr. Gray, coroner, presiding. Dm Corbett and Nid- dery testified the deceased came to his death from the effect of a gunshot, which had caused a fatal hemorrhage. Thomas McCann was examined. He admitted being drunk, and that he caused a disturbance at his father's house. He said he went to Mr. Forsyth to question him about an evil report he had circulated about him. Forsyth was abusive, and they had hot words. Mr. Rowe came in and they had a little fracas, which was put a stop to by his brother John, who came and persuaded him to go home. They were going home when Forsyth rushed out and shot John. Rowe and he then attempted to take the gun away from Forsyth, who beat them with the gun -stock. Rowe gave evidence to the same effect. Forsyth's de- fence is that he fired only in self-defence. No other evidence was submitted by witnesses. A verdict was returned finding Must the deceased had come to his death by a shot from a gun in the hands of Thomas Forsyth. The evidence waSsubmitted to the Crown Attorney, who will take proceedings against Forsyth at the next Assizes. It is unlikely that the latter will be confined injail during that interval. TO HASTEN ITS DEATH. Parents Place a child victim or Diphtheria in a Cold Room to Die. A Buffalo despatch says: A story of the inhuman treatment of a little child reached Coroner Tucker early this morning. Some months ago a family named Cavan or Carver came to the village of Springbrook, in this county, from Car acla, and went on a farm, which they worked on shares. Last -week the three or four -year -red child of the Cairene took to his bed with a sore throat, which rapidly became worse. No physi- cian was summoned, but instead a local midwife was called. She diagnosed the case as contagious diphtheria, attended it three days, and then gave thecase tip. She oriered her patient to be secluded in a room without a tire, as she said, it is reported, it would die easily there, and the endwonld come more quickly. Accordingly the child was put in a room where there WM 710 fire, and the midwife ordered them to open all the windows and doors, so that the little one could have the full benefit of the freezing atmosphere, while she and the heartless and ignorant father and mother sat in another apartment hug- ging the stove and listening to the plaintive cries of the child, who, displaying sur- prising vitality, lingered instil last night. The coroner, the post-mortera examiner, and a representative of the District Attor- ney's office started .for Springbrook this afternoon, and will make a rigid examina- tion of the facts in the case. SHOULD STRETCH HEMP. Horrible Assault by an ex -Convict Upon a Little Girl. A Huntington, Pa., despatch says: On their return home from market here on Wednesday, Farmer Wilbur Strait and wife, of Juniata township, found their little daughter Ruth lying on the kitchen floor unconscious, with her face and body shock- ingly lacerated and bruised and her clothing torn into shreds. • Suspicions of being the author of the outrage fell up') F.Imer Corbin, of Philadelphia, who tvas recently discharged frona the Huntington reforma- tory and engaged by Mr. Strait as a farm hand. Corbin, who is 23 years old, and over six feet tall, had fled, but was captured yesterday morning and lodged in jail. • The little girl identified him as her assailant. She is not expected to recover. Her father endeavored Waft to shoot Corbin on hie way to jail, but hie revolver failed to discharge Decolts Sententiol. A London cable . says: The celebrated Deceit chief who styles himself the Min - lam*, Prince, the leader of the revolt against the British, neat Arrakan, who, with hie father and two of his followers, was recently eaptured by the military pOlice near Kirdoung, aas beets condemned to death for leading the revolt of the prisoners in the Akyab jail, where he is confined, ih which the warden of the prison was killed. Five others who took pert in the remelt have also been condemned to death. The father of the Deceit chief hail been sen- tenced to penal servitude for life Inc his share in the revolt,. Would you be just? Please do hot punish a child for a fault learned from yoerself. FIRE ADDS ITS HORRORS. Awful Stones at the Anderluis Oolliery in Belgium. TgE 'LONG DEATH ROLL. A Brussels cable says; There has been little if any abatement in the excitement in and about Charleroi, near which place the appalling explosion occurred on Friday morn- ing in the Anderluis colliery. • The bodies that have been recovered were covered with a thick, bleat dust, which in some instances had been blown deep in the skin. As they were taken into the office they were placed upon straw that had been spread on the floor, and their fates were then cleaned as far as possible to allow of identi- fication. Many of the faces' ' however were entirely unrecognizable. The factthat some, if not all, of the women employed in the mine met their death by the explosion will afford an' almosb unanswerable argu- ment for those who oppose female labor in underground employments. Among the bodies recovered is that of a 14 -year- old girl. That she suffered indescribable agony is shown by the young face, which is 130 110Tribly distorted that it cannot be recognized. The black forms are swollen almost beyond all semblance of humanity. It has been ascertained that 270 per- sons were working in the mine at the time • of the explosion. Most of them were at work in the two galleries where the greatest damage was done. One of these galleries is 450 and the other 550 yards below the surface. Mining experts :acquainted with the Anderhus workings say that every person who was working in the lower gallery must be dead, and few are expected to be reached alive from the upper gallery, which is filled with deadly gas. Altogether forty-three bodies have been recovered. The fire in the mine grew fiercer and fiercer early yesterday morning, and the heat became so intense that it was impossi- ble for the rescuing parties to remain in the pits They were consequently compelled to abandon all efforts to reach the galleries. • The mine -owners and engineers decided that as there was not the slightest doubt that everybody in the mine was dead, the only course, if they hoped to recover the bodies, was to flood the mine. Preparations were being made to carry out this plan, but before any water couldbe pumped in cries of "lire" were heard on all sides, and flames ascended to the pit's mouth and sparks were scattered in every direction. A few minutes later an immense column of flame shot through the ventilator shaft, piercing the thick clouds of smoke that were overhang- ing the shaft. For agreat distance around the country was illuminated to almost the brightness of day by the vast column of fire pouring out of the mine. The engine -house and other build- ings near by were destroyed. Water was thrown into theburning pit, but before it had descended any distance it was converted into steam, and escaped with a tremendous roaring noise, which added to the horror of the situation. The scene has seldom, if ever, been equalled in the milling districts of Belgium. All the heavy machinery at the mouth of the pit was destroyed and fhll crashing down the shaft. This acted as a damper against the flames ascending the abaft to the sur- face, and thereafter only a little fire could be seen, but it could be heard roaring and seeth- ing through the galleries far below the um face. • lire total number of the dead colliers is 251. Of this number it is estimated 170 were burned alive. The calamity has crushed the entire Char- leroi district. haeordflig to 0, report Qn the Anclerlius mine disaSter 68 persons were Unhurt, 241 injured and 153 were killed. Twenty thousand persons to.day attended the funeral of 31 of the victims. • WILIA.T BECAME OF HIM ? A Lewiston Man Visits the 'Whirlpool Rapids and Does Not Return. A Suspension Bridge dispatch says: Lothrop Couke'of Lewiston, came to this village at 10.30 o'clock on Tuesday morning and spent the day here. Several other resi- dents of Lewiston were on the same train and afterwards saw him on the Atreet. Be- tween 4 and 5 o'clock in th&afternoon he went down to the Rapids View elevator between the bridges, and, paying the regular fee of 50 cents, descended in the car to the water's edge and walked north on the plat- form and docks as far as he could go. Two employees at the foot of the elevator, who were acquainted with him, spoke with him as he passed by and waited for him to return, intending to as- cend the incline together. Two other strangers who came down shortly after he did saw him at the extreme end of the path under the river bank. That was the last time he was seen. After waiting a rea- sonable time for his return, Messrs. Miller and Bedford, who are connected with the elevator, instituted a search which proved fruitless. , All indications point to his hav- ing fallen into the river or committed 1311i- oide. Many incline to the latter theory, as he had fits ot despondency, and acted strangely that day. He had been down the eleintor many times before, and was not in the habit of paying for the privilege. The fact that he dici so in this instance, and had often seen the rapids, leads to the theory of suicide. Mr. Cooke was a bachelor about 45 years old, and mado his home with his brother, ex -Supervisor W. J. Cook, of Lewiston. Three Kinds of -Fakirs. Toronto News: Toronto is a great town for fakirs, and these fakirs always take advantage of it -when they know it, and by this time they all do. It does not matter whether they are of the religious build, who manage to get into respectable pulpits or reformed temperance cranks, •who think they have a holy missionto perform and a commission to stuff their pockets with Can- adian bills ; or pugs, , who do most of their fighting with their mouths and through the so-called sporting columns of some news- papers. These three classes make a strange medley, but they're all the same, and some more might be added --such as street corner corn doctors and pullers of teeth. -Will it pay to advertise in family papers? It will pay if you do a legitimate, clean, square -cut business ; because family papers go directly into people's homes -are read by all the family -are read all through by people who believe in them more than in any other papers they reed and are, there- fore, more unIttencecl by advertisements seen in them. It is said that old ladies like to talk to young folks. Perhaps that is the reason some chores girls are fond of chatting with the chippiest , The minister's study ---How to make both ends meet. Digby ebt months ago offered $100 for the beet topical song, and it took him until last week to read all of the matter submit- ted hr him There were nearly 3,000 con- testairts. TELEGRAPH SUMMARY, Numerous incendiary fires are occurring in Detroit. The West Northumberland bye -election takes place to -day. A petition has been presented to Paella- ineilbass.tasking that Lake Simcoe etocked• with A by-law to raise $15,000 for dredging , the Collingwood harbor was carried in that town yesterday by 321 to 7. There milted iu Montreal yesterday on, their way to Manitoba and the Northwest 120 immigrants of it superior class. Hugh McDonald, who earried on business. in Kingston during the war of 1812, died yinears,itzroy township on Saturday, aged 103. The Canadian Pacific Railway authorities Sony the statement that the company in- tended building a line from St. Paul to Regina. The French barque Achille has been sunk in collision with, an unknown ateamer in the English Channel.v.:1, Five of the barque's crew were drowned. Mr. Boyle, Conservative, was elected to the Commons in Monck 011 Saturday by a majority of 323 over 111r.. John Brown, Reformer. There is a rumor •* London that the Government intends to bring in a Labor Bill as it substitute for the Irish Local Gov- ernment measure. Five mysterious murders have taken places recently in Vienna, and the fear is enter- tained that the ,city harbor's a madman. with homicidal mania. Edwatd McKeown, a Toronto dry goodm merchant, was arrested on Saturday after- noon on a warrant from Montreal charging: hint with embezzlement. Mr. H. P. Dwight's appointment as Presi- dent of the Great- Northwestern Telegraph Company has given general satisfaction in. telegraphic and business circles. T. L. Asher, a well-known resident or Whitesburg, Ky., and a Mr Polly, fought a duel at Bristol on Friday.. Forty shots, were exchanged. A bullet fired by Pollt. was arrested. On and after Tuesday, the 15th inst., Herrandschwa, struck Asher and he died instantly. There has been a murder case at Pincher Creek, Alberta. Two Nes Perces Indians got into a Ifispute, and one chopped the other to pieces with an axe. The murderer civil service employees will have to pay postage on private correspendence, and persons sending letters to members of the. service must also pay. The Canadian Institute on Saturday adopted a petition to the Dominion Govern- ment asking that a law be passed requiring all peach trees imported to be accom- panied by a clear bill of health. with the Canadian press in Toronto and and died yesterday on North Brother es1the people of Campbellford, Ont., yester. day, and after a hard. battle at the polls was defeated by eleven votes. Fred. 3. Hamilton, at one time connected! Montreal, contracted typhus fever in New York recently while visitinginfected houses, A local option bY-law was submitted to- the Berlin master sweep, to- day cut the throat of his 13-year•o14 son and then abet himself dead. The injured boy is in the hospital, and may recover. Sudden insanity is supposed to have led to, the tragedy. The rumour is revived that the Marquis of Ailesbury intends carrying out his threat. before the close of the present session of Parliament of driving up to the House of Lords in a donkey -cart and taking his geat in his favorite 'Costume of a water - monger. While Ukiah Berberich, Berlin, was re --- turning from a masked ball last night, escorting his betrothed to her home, he was stabbed in the backby anunknown assassin, and died a few moments later in the arms of his distracted companion. Jealousy is supposed to have,inspired the murder. In the Imperial House of Commons yes- terday the Financial Secretary of the War Office stated that he had reason to believe. that the Canadian Minister of Militia was. interesting himself in the question of the defences of Bequimalt, and that the Govern- ment was confident that the woik would ha. carried out. • In the House of Commons. yesterday Mie Broderick, Financial Secretary of the War Office, stated that he had reason to believe - that the Canadian Minisrer of Militia watt interesting himself in the question of the. defences of Esquimalt, and that the Govern.• ment was confident that the work word& now be carried out. While Bishop Gasparitsch was celebrating:. mass yesterday in the cathedral at Agranm Austria, he was struck with paralysis and' fell senseless before the altar. .A cable says the physicians in attendance pronounce the case to be hopeless. Eaton the prisoner who violently as- saulted Baton, Downey, of Brockville, a few days ago, was sentenced on Satuiday by Judge McDonald to four years in Peni- tentiary. Downey, the turnkey, is out of danger and doing well. Countess Russell, who recently unsuccess- fully sued for a writ of judicial separation, has appealed. 'Judgment is reserved. Coun- tess Russell claims that she has not the money necessary to pay .the costs and soli- citorw fees, and asks that her husband be compelled to pay them. An explosion took place on Friday in the. house occupied by M. Benoit, the Parisian magistrate,who ordered the inquiry into the recent robbery of dynamite cartridges. A. valet was slightly injured. Damage to the extent of 40,0001. was done. [tis now con- sidered certain that the explosion was the work of the Anarchists. A duel with swords was fought on, Friday between M. Isaac, formerly sub - prefect of Fourmies, and M. Cuboie, a mem- ber 'of the staff of the Istranageant. The duel grew out of articles written by M. Dubois in which M. Isaac was violently at- tacked,for the part he had taken in the May Deer troubles. M. Isaac proved himself the better svvordemareand inflicted it serious wound in M. Dubois' abdomen. Warden Brown, of the New York State • Prison, is preparing for the execution by electricity of James E. Minnaugh, con- victed of the murder of Edward Moran on December 21st, 1800. The execution, it is expected, will be carried out on Monday next, the first day of the week set by Recorder Smythe, of New York, for Min- naugh.to die. The Spanish steamer Navarro, from Bos. ton, Feb. 17th, for London, on board of ' which, on the first night out, 14 cattlemen went to bed in the forecastle after having lighted a fire in the Stove, and of which humber the next morning seven were dia. eovered to have been 811ff0 eated, has arrived at Gravesend. The seven men who lost their lives were buried at tea. Tbe other seven men had nearly been killed bythe goo from the stove, and it wait :Mine days before they recovered.