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BI BARBIAGE IN LIVERPOOL.
A London cable nys : A man named Wil-
liam wee recently arrested at Melbeurne
for murdering a woman. Inveetigation
'dosed the faot that Williams had com-
mitted a horrible crime in Liverpool before
going to A.uttralia, The bodies of a -woman
and, her two children, whom the Man had
murdered, were found to -day buried under
the hearthstone of the house in which they
had lived. The murderer had endeavored
to destroy all evidences of his crime by cov-
ering the body with quicklime, but he was
not entirely successful.
The house in which the bodies were found
was once occupied by 'Williams. The bodies
first found were wrapped in oilcloth and
Turkish towelling. After the three bodiee
were taken out the police continued their
digging, it being rumored that the bodies of
other women or girls who had visited Wil-
h'anis were missing. The excitement caused
by the discovery of the first three bodies
was great, but it reached fever heat when
the bodies of two other children were found
to have been buried under the. house. The
first of the children's bodies was that of a
girl a 12 years, who had been strangled ;
the second was that of a girl of 7, the third
that of a boy of 5, and the fourth that of te•
baby about a year old. The throats of the
last three victims had been out.
JACK THE RIPPER SUSPECTED.
A plausible theory has sprung up from
the discoveries of the bodies, and the
further the, affair is investigated the
stronger grows the belief that Williams is
none other than the world -known "Jack
the Ripper." Williams, while a resident of
Liverpool, made frequent visits to London.
The police have traced his movements be.
tween the two places, and it has been found
that his visits to London corresponded with
the times that the unfortunate women in
Whitechapel district were found with their
throats cut and their bodies mutilated in the
shocking manner that characterized the
crimes ot the "Ripper." The question who
Williams really is and how he lived remaiue
a mystery. On his first appearance at Rain -
hill he stayed at a hotel, where he led a
rollicking life, being a man with free man-
ners with a general style of wealth. He
'drank plentifully, but not excessively,
and was always ready for champagne
treats. He was fond of society, was a good
story -teller, having travelled much, and was
always willing to spin a yarn but when
asked about himself he immediAely became
taciturn. He never gave an inkling of his
personal history He took photographs
from acquaintances, but never had himself
photographed. A Liverpool newspaper, on
the occasion of his marriage to Les
Mather, whom he murdered in Melbourne,
tried to get a sketch of his career, but Wil-
liams refused to give any information re-
garding himself. Williams often left
the hotel in the morning and would not
return till evening. His clothing and person
used to be covered with dirt and his hands
were much blistered. He explained his
untidy appearance by saying that he had
engaged in putting down new floors in a
house.
DISAPPEARANCE OF WOmEN.
A laborer has been found who deposes
that this statement was true. He says that
Williams called upon him to assist in the
work of taking up the floors of a kitchen
and two other rooms, and hireda plasterer
to relay them in cement. These preparations
had been completed when the victims came
on the scene, and\ the murders mut have
'been effected without delay. Williams left
the hotel to occupy the villa, but in a few
days he returned, saying that he could not
sleep there, that his sister and the children
had gone to Port Said and thatelais plans
were unsettled. He afterward. returned to
the villa, but filially came Detain back
to the hotel. He hurried again
mar-
riage with Miss Mather. In fact he
went to stay at her mother's three weeks
prior to the ceremony. The mother was
eager for the marriage, as Williams made
lavish displays of bank notes, nuggets of
gold and diamond rings. In appearance the
man was not prepossessing. His age was
entered on the marriage register as 34, but
he looked 44. He had a sallow complexion,
and his gait was awkward. He did not
take his bride to the villa. He caused a lot
of heavy boxes to be left there, which were
afterwards to be removed to a place un-
known. He left at the hotel two travelling
bags. These are now being closely exam-
ined. There are blood stains inside. The
police are tracing the makers of the bags
left by Williams.
FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS.
The kitchen was only searched to -day.
The ground under the other rooms will be
excavated to -morrow. The body of the
woman found to -day was fully dressed, ex-
cept that a boot and stocking were missing.
The clothes were of fine quality. The
woman had a dark complexion and short
black hair, suggestive of a half caste. She
wore a wedding ring and a keeper. The
rope with which she had been strangled
was around the neck and the throat was
out besides. The eldest girl's skull was
crushed in and the head was nearly severed
from the body.
The brutality of the murder suggests the
ferocity of "Jack -the -Ripper." The work
of concealing the bodies was carried out
carefully. After a deep hole had been
dug the bodies of the woman and two of
the children were thrown in, and cement
was poured upon them. Then the bodies
of the two elder children were thrown in,
and more cement was poured into the hole.
Next the flagstones were laid over the top
of the hole, and finally over all was applied
a layer of six inches of cement extending
over the entire kitchen.
The discovery of the murders has caused
ntense excitement.
A Baby Killed by a liat.
LONDON, March -- At Bow, London,
yesterday an inquest was held on the body
•of Alfred Birch, three week e old. Mrs.
Birch deposed that on Monday last she
plated the child in the cradle and afterward
heard it shriek. On going into the room
she found a rat with he teeth fastened in
the child's nose The baby' e face was
• smothered in tlood and the child, becoming
very weak, died on Wednesday. The rae
was found behind a box and killed. A ver-
dict of "Accidental death" was retairned.
• Diphtheria in Port Arthur.
Pon Aneittat, IVIeroh. — Tho public
schools are closed to -day owing to the spread
of diphtheria. This melionant disease hae
been more or leo prevalent all winter and
Is spreading. There have been several
deaths and a good many cases, When it
tret started it might easily have been
tamped outt bet the rigid quarantining
titles laid down by the Governmeat were
wholly weheeded,
—Clabberty at the chub—glad to see you
back in thdolub, old Man. 'You resigned
about es year ago on accohnt of your engages
inept, I believe. What's the trouble broken
off? I Iankingeon—Oh, no, I got married,
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gTBIKE OBDBRED ON TIE
Railway Iirahemen and Conductors After
More Money.
A dovetail trona, Montreal says : The
Brotherhood of Brakemen and the Order of
Conductors are negotiating with the Grand
Trunk authorities for en adveno in wages.
The passenger concluders want $3 a day,
and the brakemen $1,7,; the train beggage,
men, $1.90, end the freight conductors,
$2.50. Delegates from the two societies
have interviewed Mr. Wainwright on the
matter, and he has promised to consider the
ease. It is believed that there will be an
amicable settlement.
About 150 men employed in the Grand
Trunk shops in Montreel have been dis-
charged, owing to the slackness of work,
but it is expected that in a few months
there will be plenty of work. All rumors
of strike and trouble are without any
foundation.
The Winnipeg Trouble.
A Winnipeg despatch says For several
months the conductors and brakesmen of
the Western division of the Canadian
Pacific railway have been in negotiation
with the company for a readjustment of
their wages The conferences have ceased,
and the tine' answer of the company being
unsatiefectory, a general strike was ordered
at midnight. The division covers a dis-
tance of fifteen hundred miles, from Fort
William, at the head of Lake Superior, to
Donald in the Rocky Mountains, passing
through Manitoba, where there are a num-
ber of branch lines, and the Canadian
Northwest Territories. The Order of the
Railroad Conductors and the Brotherhood
of Trainmen, 600 in number, are involved.
The general superintendent was notified in
the eveningof the action decided on by the
i
men, also ntimation was given that all
passenger trains would proceed to their
destination and the others to the terminal
station. No train will be left between
terminal points.
The trainmen demand the reinstatement
of over 100 men discharged within the past
few days, and the concession on the part of
the company of the compromised schedule
presented on Monday last. The company
claims there are only two points in dispute
and the men say there are many, and the
latter declare the strike was forced on them
by the arbitrary course of the officials, who
called the conductors and brakesmen into
their office and asked them to sign a docu-
ment not to go on strike and to withdraw
from their organizations. On their refusal
they werseinstantly discharged.
Mr. Garretson, senior conductor, and Mr.
Williamson, Grand Master, Winnipeg, are
directing the affairs of the men.
THE LIVERPOOL KORROR,
Post Alort m Examination and Burial of
tine Bodies of tine Victims.
A Liverpool cable says: The post mortem
examinations of the woman and children
murdered by Deming took lace to -day.
The operations were visible through the
windows to a large crowd around the house.
The coroner's inquest, having been formally
opened, was adjourned after the relatives of
the victims had identified the bodies. The
funerals then took place. A vast crowd fol-
lowed the hearses to the parish cemetery,
where the interments took place.
The boxes shipped by Deming have been
found at Plymouth. They contain a quantity
of women's and children's clothing covered
with blood.
Miners Resume Work.
LONDON, March. — In accordance with
the decision • of the Miners' Federation
nearly all the coal miners who quit work on
the 12th inst., with the exception of the
Durham miners, who are not members of
the federation, resumed work this morning.
In a few cases the miners are still idle. The
mine Owners insist the men shall remove
without payment the falls of earth that
have occurred daring the week of their self-
imposed idleness. This the men refuse to do.
In other collieries there is some friction in
consequence of the federation's decision to
limit work to five days a week. The
strikers in Durham who quit work, not
with any idea of causing an advance in the
price of coal, but with the intention of
resisting a threatened reduction in wages,
number 92,000. The newspapers predict
that in this district there will be a pro-
tracted strugele between the men and teeie
employers. A large number of the miners
are immigrating to other mining countries,
and many of them are going to America,
Several of the mines in 'Durham are likely
to be seriously damaged by the continued
inflow of watere the owners 'being unable to
obtain a sufficient number of men to prop-
erly work the pumps. .
All the Nottingham miners, numbering
23,000, resumed work quietly at the usual
hour this morning. As a result of the
resumption of mining operations the price
of coal in the district declined 35. per ton.
A Consummate Villain.
ADELAIDE, March. — Ever since the
arrest of Frederick Deeming, alias Wil-
liams, and perhaps a dozen other names,
evidence has been comingto light in various
parts of the world that he is one of the
most consummate villains that the annals of
crime have furnished. It appears probable
the man has been guilty of crime in every
place in which he has ever lived of recent
years. The police of this city have identi.
hed him as the author of a robbery that
was committed here in 1888. At that time
he was living in Adelaide under the alias
of Ward. The day after the robbery was
committed Deeming, aocompanied by his
wife and children, sailed for St Helena en
route to Capetown. At the time of his
flight his wife was in a delicate condition,
and she was confined before she reaceeed
Capetown.
1111Thun Not at All Well..
NEW YORE, March. — The Herald's
Paris despateh says e The situation in
Germany is still ominous and continues to
be the alibied of conversation in the official
circles of Europe. It is stated ou unques-
tionable authority that in epite of all state-
rnent's to the contrary? the Emperor is really
very ill. He is suffering, not from catarrh,
but from an abscess in hie eat—the worst
which he has ever had. His physicians
heve been very uneasy and have prescribed
for him aboolute repose. In repiy to a
question from Queen Vitoria the Prussian
court has explained that such repose was
necessary on account of "very intense cere-
bral anaemia, followed by pain." It can be
readily understood that the word cerebral
has given riot to many comments.
• Iiiin ieter Fatally iturnedd
MANNING, Its., March, — The explosion
of a gasolinestove'in
to heat water inj
the baptiemal: folitn a church here, yester-
day wrecked the font and set Mlit to the
clothing of the minister, Rev. Mr. Bolles,
burning him fatally.
At Tifam, Ohio yesterdaer Walter A.
Snyder, defidential eletk in 1 M. Neylor
Go're hardware store, shot two of hie em-
ployers, Edward. J. Naylet and Burton W.
Grobaugh, and T, W. Downey, a fellow.
clerk, an e killed hirnself.
HUNG ON A MOE,
The Vienna Servant Girl Murderer Im-
paled Alive,
Horrible Scone at Selmeider's Execution --
0 juve mercy, My God, Will T0114111,"
Ete Sbricked—But Ills Cries Were
Smothered by tine Executioner.
VIENNA, March, — Frank Schneider,
the murderer of servant girls, was executed
here to -day. The scene on the scaffold was
most horrible. Schneider's Ballow face
looked almost green as he was lecl to death.
A priest attended him, and he had to be
almost lifted to the, scaffold. Schneider
shrieked out, as the executioner took hold
of him, "Have nkercy I My God, I will tell
all." The priest urged the wretched man
to think of heaven. The execntioner taking
a tight hold of Schneider raised him three
steps to a spike that was fixed to a stake.
The spike carne to a sharp point after the
manner of the Turks in impaling criminals.
The executioner and his assistant lifted up
the miserable being, while he kept up his
shrieks for mercy. They held his limbs
apart and impaled him living on the spike.
They pressed him down until the epike had
entered six inches. While Sohneider was
undergoing this horrible torture, one assist-
ant of the executioner held his legs and
another his arms. The ohief executioner
pressed his arms around Schneider's nionth
and nostrils, smethering his shrieks, and
the wretch died after about four minutes
of agony. A crowd of witnesses were pres-
ent in the jail yard, and were horrified at
the horrible spectacle.
TRIPPED ON A SPENSTER.
A Matrimonial Sharper, Whose Specialty
Was Widows. Captured in New York.
A Pittsburg despatch says: P. Denton,
who married Mrs. M. Walker, of Mansfield,
in Pittsburg on Oct. 21st last, and ran away
a day later after getting $300 from her, is
under arrest in New York for a similar
matrimonial venture.
Denton, who is under arrest as James
Taylor, won his Pittsburg bride with stories
of his wealth. He said he was a rich Cali-
fornian and induced her to sell her little
property to go west with him. The couple
vent a nishe at the St. James Hotel and in
the morning Denton took $300 belonging to
his wife and went out to buy tickets. He
never returned.
On November 21st, 1891, under the name
of James Taylor, he married Henrietta
Coste, a French woman, 38 years old, who
owns a hair•dressing establishment at 51
East Twenty-first street, New York. He
told her that he owned a large orange grove
at Taylorsville, Cal., and that he was very
rich. Being, as she thought, a shrewd
woman, and seeing a good chance to step
into a position of wealth she was married
to him by Ald. Flynn, after a few dye'
acquaintance, and they went to Niagara
Falls on their wedding tour. On their way
he contrived to get possessionof $850, which
she had drawn from the bank before leaving
New York, at hie instigation, and two dia-
mond rings.
Denton gave the woman the slip at
Niagara Falls, but she put detectives on his
track and he was captured in New York
Friday night. He had $650 of his wife's
money and the two diamond rings left.
From papers on his person it appeared that
he was about to marry Mrs. Julia E. John-
son, it widow with considerable property,
and had also been corresponding with' two
other women.
Taylor has only one arm and tells numer-
ous stories about how he lost the other. He
was married in Chicago a year ago Wilder
the name of Tume to a widow, whom he
fleeced out of $2,000.
Spring Assizes. 1892.
HOME CIRCUIT, FALCONBRIDGE, C. J.
Orangeville, Tuesday, 1st March.
St. Catharines, Monday, 7th March.
Milton, Monday, 14th March.
Brampton, Thursday, 17th March.
Toronto, Criminal Court': Monday, 21st
March.
Toronto, Civil Court, Monday, 28th
March.
NOR,THWESTERN CIRCUIT, ARMOUR, C. J.
Woodstock, Wednesday, 2nd March.
Stratford, Monday, 7th March.
Goderich, Monday, 14th March.
Walkerton, Monday, 21st March.
Guelph, Monday, 28th March.
Berlin, Tuesday, 5th April:
Brantford, Monday, llth April.
Owen Sound, Tuesday, 19thAmril.
[MIDLAND CIRCUIT, ROSE, C. J.
Barrie, Tuesday, 1st March.
Hamilton, Wednesday, Oth March.
Belleville, Monday, 21st March.
Pieton, Monday, 4th April.
Whitby, Tuesday, 12th April.
Lindsay, Monday, 18th Amil.
Peterboro', Monday, 25th April.
Cobourg, Monday, 2nd May.
ASTERN CIRCUIT, MACMAUON,J.
Cornwall, Tuesday, 8th March.
Brockville, Monday, 14th March.
Napanee, Monday, 21et March.
Kingston, Thursday, 24th March.
Perth, Monday, 4th April.
Pembroke, Thursday, 7th April.
L'Orignal, Wednesday, 13th April.
Ottawa, Monday, 18th April.
SOUTHWESTERN CIRCUIT, STREET, J.
Welland, Monday, 21st March.
St. Thomas, Monday, 28th March.
Simcoe, Monday, 4th April.
Cayuga, Thursday, 7th April.
Sandwich, Monday, llth April.
Sarnia, Monday, 18th April.
Chatham, Monday, 25th April.
London, Wednesday, 4th May.
Quarrelled Over a Girl.
GRAND 'RAPIDS, Mich., March. — John
Wilson and C. Miller, two young men,
quarrelled over a. girl at a dance last week,
and Miller got the worst of it. Last night
they met at it saloon, and Miller stabbed
Wilson in the thigh, inflicting a wound that
may provelatal. Miller is still at large.
Bismarck is Sick.
BERLIN, March. — Prince Bismarck is
suffering from it sudden attack of illness.
it was hie intention to proceed to Ratsen-
berg to -morrow to attend a meeting of the
District Assembly there, but his inmost has
compelled the abandonment of that inten-
then,
Three at a Birth.
Cruramsearma, March. — Mrs. Wm.
Sharpe, living about five mile e from Chelten-
ham gave birth to three boys, on March
20th, all doing well.
—" Shall yen go to the party, to -night ?"
shed Miss ,Peme"rson of her friend, Mies
Bleeeker. You bet yam meet life," Was
the reply, "But isn't it rather reprehen-
sible to wager one's eaccharine vitality ?"
"He seenks very sober tonight. Did he
apologile to you for being dein& at your
ball " Yee, he said he itaderetood it wet
to be a fariey dress affair and he came afr
Ganibritlue'' *
THE G T R. TRAINMEN.
What They Are Demauding of
the Company.
THE HIGHEST umbras Olq THE SITUATION
A special despatch from Montreal to the
Globe says; "The Grand Trunk Railway
Company is more than half threatened with
a strike, and for day e members of the
Brotherhood of Trainmen and Order of Con-
ductors representingvarioue sections of
the rei
ed have been n session. The dele-
gates, about 30 in all, had several important
conferences with the higher officials of
the road and formulated a series of demands
to which the management found themselves
unable to accede, Their two leading
demands were first an increase of pay for
all classes of trainmen, which would
bring the pay of passenger conductors
up to $3 per day, of freight conductors
to $2.50, of baggagomen to $1.90 and of
brakemen to $1.75. These days, of course,
mean " trip days," which varies accord-.
ing to the district in which the run is
performed and the class of work done. In
the case of passenger conductors the " day "
means a run of 150 miles, while in the case
of freight men it is based upon a run of ten
hours. The second demand was that in
future the trip should be based upon a run
of eight hours instead of ten, and the
third and most important was to
the effect that the present system
of grading each olass of employees from the
novice to the expert should be abolished
and that in future every employee in oath
class be placed upon one and the same
footing as regards pay and allowances.
The Globe correspondent to -day interviewed
the highest officials of the •company and
learned that the reply to the men wasthat in
the present condition of businessanyadvance
in wages was out of the question. At the
last half -yearly meeting of the sharehold-
ers the dividend on several classes of securi-
ties had to be passed, and as during the pre-
sent six months the receipts of the road had
rather diminished than increased, it was
naanifestly impossible to suggest any addi-
tion to the running expenses The com-
pany were, however, willing to grant a
small increase to the passenger conductors
and to correct certain inequalities in the
measurement of runs which the delegates
had brought under their notice. To the
second demand of the men the managers
replied that they could not see their way
clear as yet to accept an eight-hour day, as
it was merely another form of dernandingan
increase of pay. To count overtime for
trainmen from eight hours, instead of from
ten, would mean an increase of 25 per cent.
in wages, which the road in the present
condition of traffic could not afford.
Their third demand, involving, as it
did, the. reversal of the principles
upon which the Grand Trunk has been run
num its inception, was also impossib e of
concessiou. To admit the principle that
merits of every employee in each separate
class were precisely similar'is opposed to
the traditions of the road. The custom has
always been to place new and untried men
in the lowest grade of theirclass and to pro-
mote them gradually to the higher grades
in proportion to their efficiency. In every
branch of railtoading there are certain men
whose natural capabilities renders" them
especially valuable to the' road. To drag
these men down to the level of their less
efficient brethren wouldbemanifestly unfair,
while to elevate the latter to their
class would be abemrd. These replies, said
the interviewed, will be laid by the dele-
gates before the members of their respec-
tive districts, and from the courteous tone
of both the parties to the discussion it is
evident that there is not the slightest
prospect of any friction between the men
and their employers and that any rumors
as to a possible strike are utterly without
foundation. The employees of the Grand
Trunk are well treated, and, although their
wages appear small compared with the
American standard, they are as well paid
as any class of skilled labor in Canada. The
trouble is that the men contrast the wages
they receive with those paid to similar em-
ployees in the United States without taking
into consideration the difference in the 'cost
of living on the two sides of the line and
this makes them fancy themselves under-
paid, when the fact is they are practically
receiving fully as much as their American
brethren. However, the management be-
lieve that they are too loyal to the road to
cause any trouble, but nevertheless the ac-
tions of the various district assemblies upon
the reporte submitted by their delegates will
be awaited with some degree of anxiety by
all interested in railroad matters.
Mrs. Osborne May Die.
LONDON, March. -- The friends of Mrs.
Florence Ethel Osborne. whose sentence was
a term of nine months' imprisonment for
perjury in connection with thegreat pearl
case, have good grounds for their fears that
she will not live to serve out her sentence.
Her condition has been such that before her
trial and after her condemnation she was
confined in the infirmary attached to the
Holloway model jail. She is in a delicate
condition and the disgrace she has brought
upon herself and her family has proven
greater than she can bear. To -day it is
announced from the prison that she is in a
comatose condition.
A British Reverse.
LONDON, March. — Advices from Free-
town, Sierra Leone, state that the British
expedition to Timbo, in Samadee, West
Africa, has met with a severe repulse. It is
reported Captain Robinson, of Gov. Hay's
staff, and a private were killed and that all
the officers of the expedition and thirteen of
the men were wounded.
Bismarck's Scolling Remark.
HARIMEG, March. — Prince Bismarck
yesterday, in the course of a dinner at the
Burgomaster's, where he was a guest, re-
marked " You see, the Emperor is still his
own Chancellor."
Tinplate Works Shut Down.
LONDON, March. — The Abercarne Tin-
plate Works in Monmouth have been closed.
At the Aberteilery Works the operatives
have received a month's notice cethe close
of contracts. Three thousand hands will
thus be thrown out of employment.
Killed ftt Chicago.
Gaieaeo, March. ---- Nicholas Btolest
Was instantly killed, Peter Becker fatally
injured, and Frank 'Schilling, Michael
Schwierath mid Chas. Venk were badly hurt
by the falling of a building yesterday.
But ono citizen to every square mile of
territory in Idaho makes it hard on the leap
ear gitl
Tennyson allows nothing to interfere with
the laxelry of smoking, of -which he ie ex-
tremely fond. Ifis piles is rarely away from
his
.A little bird told nie that you had
been naughty,to-day' • ,
m
, said. Tomie s
father. It tenet have been that pattd
next door," answered Tommie, bat I
don't know how he found out."
BURN THE BURGOMASTER.
I.••••••••••",
Hungayian •Peasants Confine Him and Ma
Family in the House,
ATTEMPT TO HUN THEM ALIVE.
BUDA PESTI", March. These da
spatohes helve frequently reported the dis-
tress prevailing • in Northern Hungary
among the peasant, and the situation con-
tinues to grow tilde critical. The Govern-
ment hes teken measures totted the sufferers,
hut despite the help extended by the autho-
rities there aro many expressions of discon-
tent. This discontent has more than once
resulted in acts of lawlessness. The latest
instance of riotous conduct comes from
Oreche; in Northern Hungary, • where is
number of pea,sants thought they had been
badly treated in the distribution of relief.
They determined to take revenge on the
burgomaster for their fancied wrongs.
They went in a body to the house of the
burgomaster, which is on a farm a little
distance from the town, and noiselessly
barricaded the doors and windows so as to
prevent any one from getting out of the
place. Then the peasants set fire to
the house, their avowed intention
being to burn the burgomaster and his
fainily to death. They would have suc-
ceeded in their nefarious designs had it not
been for the fact that the fire was seen by a
number of farmers, who hastened to the
scene. They were surprised to see a large
body of peasants standing idly about and
making no attempt to fight the fire, but
they soon gained information of the peas-
ants' intention. They were thunderstruck
at the cold-blooded brutality displayed,
ancl at once attempted to rescue the impris-
oned burgomaster and the members of his
family. The peasants, however, were
not disposed to let the farmers do
anything and a desperate fight occurred be-
fore the latter could overcome the resistance
offered to their work of rescue. The fire
was gaining in strength every minute and
the farmers fought with desperation, know-
ing well if they were defeated those in the
burning building would be consumed. The
peasants were finally put to flight. The
barricades were hastily removed and every-
body in the house was rescued. In the
meantiine the flames had gained such head-
way that it was impossible to save the
house. The peasants who took part in the
affaif are known and will be severely
punished.
What is a Jury For, Any Way?
New Yonx, March. — Mr. , Henry
George, of anti -poverty fame, was summoned
this month for the first time ire his life to
act as a julOr. He served in the Superior
Court, and got along all right until to -day.
A tailor had sued a brewer for damages
caused by tripping over a rope on the side -
eve& and falling into a ce lar, into which
the brewer was lowering casks of ale.
Judge Freedman, alten hearing the plaintiff's
testimony, directed a verdict for the de-
fendant, saying there was no case, When
the clerk read the statutory formula, begin-
ning "By direction of the court you find
for the defendant," etc., Mr. George jumped
to his feet and exclaimed, "I don't.' The
clerk repeated the formula and Mr. George
reiterated, "No. I don't." Judge Freed-
man turned to Mr. George and said, "Yes
you do, Mr. George. I take the responsi-
bility in, this matter." Then turning to the
clerk he said, "Mr. Kane, discharge efr.
George fr'om further service this term."
Caprivi Has Not Besigned.
LONDON, March. — The Berlin corres-
pondent of the Times telegraphs as follows :
"Count Von Sedlitz has refused to withdraw
his resignation. Chancellor Von Caprivi has
not resigned, but has placed himself at the
Emperor's orders. Nothing will be settled
in regard to the trouble arising from the
Primary Education Bill until Emperor
William returns from Huburtstock at the
end of the week. The general opinion ex-
pressed in official circles in reference to the
matter is that there will be no alteration in
Chancellor Von Caprivi's position, nor is it
believed that thePrussia,n Diet will be dis-
solved."
Planning a Russian Campaign.
LONDON, March. — The Chronicle's
Vienna correspondent says : Gen. Gourko
visited St. Petersburg to confer with the
Czar on a plan of action in the event of war
with Austria and Germany. At a confer-
ence of five hours' duration,Grand Duke
Vladimir, Grand Duke Alexis, the Uinister
of War, the chief of staff and other military
experts being present, it was decided that
Gee Gourko should assume the offensive on
the Austro -German frontier and that Gen.
Schouvaloff should command the defensive
army corps. The Jecent movements of
Russian troops have caused serious alarm
here.
William's Bad Ear.
LONDON, March. — The Telegraph's
Berlin correspondent says : "Dr. Bergmann
proposed a slight operation to, relieve
Emperor William of his aural affection, but
His Majesty's physicians declined to con-
sent,ibelieving the operation would only re-
sult n transferring the locality of the malady
which is now quiet. It is not true that
there is anything serious the matter with
the Emperor's health."
Tired of Reigning.
LONDON, March. -- The Vienna corres-
pondent of the Daily News says : "The
King of Greece lately desired to abdicate,
but was dissuaded by his mother and the
Prince of Wales, who represented that the
Royal Prince V70.8 too young to succeed to
the throne and might endanger European
peace"
Bodies Yet in the Pit.
BRUSSELS, March. -- The fire which
followed the explosion in the Anderluis
colliery has been extinguished. The efforts
to rescue the bodies of those who lost their
lives in the mine have been resumed. There
are yet 122 bodies in the pit.
Raided by Brigands.
ST, PETERSBURG, March. — Large bands
of brigands are raiding the towns and vil-
lages in the Caucasian Provinces of Ken-
taro. Gendarmes have been ordered to
guard the railway treins, and troops hare
been despatched in pursuit of the plunder-
ing bands.
• To Build Gunbtunts.
LONDON, March. — The Admiralty has
given an order for two gunboats to be built
for speeial service on Lake IsTyassa, to assist
in suppressing the Biome traffic.
A. Socialist Threat.
lelmwenfeeme, Wipe, Mardi. — At it
ineetileg of Milwaukee Socialists last night,
Robert Steiner, a Chicago denouneed the
action of the Oblong° pollee, and declared
that Chief of .PoLice Nieelaughey's time
would soon come.
One-quarter of ' the people die before the
age �f 6 one-half before 16.
THEY SEND THE $111011,
---p.
The Kind or imuligTh
roots at Coale YATES. ;
NEW Youx, 1Vlarch. — Among the ;
twenty-one desperadoes who reached
America from Italy on the steamshit
Ohandernapr, on Sunday morning, were a.
murderer and it man who had Attempted I
murder. The other 19 were gelity of Mere
misdemeanors, sueh as fighting (without
knives), stealing wood frozxa public land, and
being out after 11 o'elock astnight. The 19'
were permitted to leave Ellis Island and
find their way to Mulberry Bend, in this
city. The other two will be emit back, to
Italy. They are Francine° Maurillo, who
killed his father -in -1w and served • nine
years in prison for it, and Nicolo Espoeite
who stabbed his rival and served a year for
it. Curiously enough this pair were the
least bloodthirsty -looking of ihe gang. The
officials say, -privately, that these were only -
samples of the lot that every country in the
world is sending to Arneries, &tiler. Italy
the worst offender. Murderers and thieves
from there arrive every (lay. All that is
possible to stop is stopped and sent back,
but a great many get through.
• .
WHAT FLOWEits EXPRESS. •
_
Their Language as Interpreted by thew
Dearest Minder rs.
The language of flowers is a study at once
interesting and innocent, euleivating, as it
does, a taste for the works of neture, filliiag
the soul with the sweetest emotions and
presenting to view one of the most en-
chanting phases of a beautiful world, full of
wondltsW
Foing, says an exchange, are a few of
the besteknown floaters and the sentiments
which they represent:
Sweet alyssum, worth beyond beauty ;
apple blossom, preference ; bachelor's but-
ton, single and selfish balm, sympathy ;
barberry, sourness ; candy tuft, indiffer-
ence ; carnation pink, women's love ; Chi- al,
nese chrysanthemum, cheerfulness under
misfortune ; clematis, mental beauty ; col-
umbine, folly ; red clover'industry.
Dahlia, dignity ; white daisy, innocence;
faded leaves, melancholy ; forget-me-not,
remembrance ; jonquil, affection returned ;
lily of the valley, return of happiness;
myrtle, love irk absence; menu, you occupy
my thoughts '• moss rose, superior rnerit ;-
red rose, beauty ; white rose, I am worthy
of love ; sun flower, haughtiness ; yellow
nose, infidelity.
A Mau Never Surprised.
Lord Hartington—we are quoting from,
one who knows him well awl has worked.
with him—is by no meane so conservative
as he often appears, says the Pall Mall'
Budget. The bent of his mied is rapidly. -
critical and slowly conseructive. When
any subject is brought before him, he sees
first all that can be said against it, and
not until he has weighed in the balance
of a free, calm and critical judgment its
disadvantages and drawbacks does not take•
into consideration the gain which might
accrue from the change Hence at first
sight Lord Hartington is coeservative, but
his second thoughts arc liberal. This also
gives him an appearance of vacillation, of
Which he is not guilty.
One of his colleagues, who perhaps- had
done his fair share in bringiug startling pro-
positions before the Cabinet, he noted with
undisguised admiration that, no matter
what proposal is put before Lord Harting.
ton, he never shies at it on account of its,
novelty,absurdity,or extravagance. He aeons •
to have a constitutional incapacity to be sur-
prised or shocked. No proposition, how-
ever wild and revolutionary, ever seems to.'
disturb his equanimity. He considers it,
weighs it, and argues against it as if it were •
a moderate or ordinary reform. That solid
reasonableness of his is perhaps his distin-
guishing characteristic. He thinks' things •
out carefully and solidly, and, as a Minister
once remarked, "He may be wrong, but he
always hits the nail on the head, and never
fails to present you with au awkward nut to
crack."
Don't Want Amendments.
A deputation from the Ai (Areal Council:.
waiteduponMr. Mowat and Mr. Roes yester-
day afternoon protesting against any amend.
ments to the Medical Act of lase session in:
relation to the repeal of the clause providing •
that a practitioner's name shallbe struck oif
the roll in Case of nonpayment of he annual
registration fee. They say that all that has•
ever been necessary to do- is to write one
notice, and the fee is forthcoming. They
also objected to it proposal to increase the
Membership of the council from 12 to 21, on
the ground that it weuld also increase the
expenses, which they said they would be
unable to bear. Amongst the medical
men present were Drs. Preston, Gilmour,
Meacham and McKay (Oxford), M. P. P's.,
and Drs. Geikie, Pyne, Thorburn and Bergin
representing the Council. The Attorney.
General promised to carefully consider the
matter.
What Money liVon't Do.
Money is a powerful factor nowadays—
It will buy a wife—but it can't buy a
woman's love.
It will buy the good things of life—but it
can't by the ppetite to enjoy tbem.
It will buy superb clothes—but it can't,
negotiate for the proper kuack in wearing
them.
It will buy a position in the world—but
it can't buy the breeding necessary to the
upholding of that position.
PROHIBITIONXSTS will be pained to learn
that there is a movement in Maine in the
direction of a resubmission of the prohibi-
tory law to the popular vote, on the ground
that the statute is detrimental to the busi-
ness, social and moral interests of the, State
and an injury to the cane° of temperance.
Were Maine to go back to the license,
system, prohibition would receive a blow.
which would cripple it for it long time.
Among the witty definitions that have
been credited to eminent men the following
by Ingersoll is particularly neat : " A
politician is a man Who wants the people to.
do something for him ; a statesman is a.
man who wants to do something for the
people."
Disraeli had no rival in the arePf making
,gracefultomplienents. When the Chinese-
-Ambassador once conveyed to him throng&
an interpreter his regret that he could not -
speak Englisb, Disraeli relied: Pray/
tell His Excellency that / hope he willere-
main ha this country until I can speak.
Chinese "
Charles Horner, of Philadelphia, invented
is flying rimtchine. Lase week he tested it.
from the roof of is building 40 fed high,
with the usual result; es they say Of a Man
who hunts for it gas leak with a lighted!
match. Horner had his left leg broken b.nct,
bit right arm sprained And the problem
of air navigation is still unsolved,
The population of Bogota, the eapital of'
the Visited States of Colombia, deereased
884 during 18914 There were 2,405 births
and 3,159 deaths in the city during the year;
Emigration and immigration are not factota
in the °Hy's economy.
There is an immenSe garden in Chinn
that embraced an area, of nearly MVO.
Square miles. It is ail meadow land, and
Ailed with lakes, ponds and °minas.
Altogether it is as large as the State of Netr
York and Pennsylvania eonibined.