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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-2-9, Page 61h Last o! P By -14E14 :.WItirt1.4... ors Bohi1 the Bas. .THE CORONER'S INQUEST:BEGUN A Chatham deepatoh of Wednesday says; the armed posses which had gone out into the township to track and capture Rankin's asseilants returned one by one, the Beet bringing vsith them eixprisoners whom they found no trouble in securing, no resistances whetever being offered by the suepects, Following are the names of the people arrested ; Jerry Freeman. aged 70; Omminda, hie wife, toted 70; Alexander )3triteman, aged 27 • 'William Henry Free - :man, aged 24; Itlietou Washington Free- man, aged 24; Lemuel Jess Freeman, aged ea. Alexander and William Henry are brothers, sons of Jerry and Lucinda, the other two young fellows are the sons of James Freeman. The first -named two young mien are aeclared to be the murderem ot Rankin, T. C. Dezelia wounded both of them severely in the encounter. He states that be witnessed them knook Rankin down with their axes, after which George Free- man seized a fence rail and dealt the helpless man the Moto on the head which finished him. Dazelia was himself slightly wounded, besides receiving a bullet through his coat and one on his belt buckle. Seven saaen attacked the three Chatham officers. Dazelia was the only one of his party who had a revolver, and his weapon became useless after discharging three shots. Thus at the mercy of their assailants there was nothing for ib but to retreat, The two managed it, bub poor Rankin was overtaken and killed, his body being allowed to lie where it fell for five hours. George Freeman, the prin- cipal actor in the murderous affray, who was well armed and kept up a fuelled° dur- ing the encounter, fled on the completion of his terrible work. But to -night he was 'brought to the police station by County Officer Travis and Warden Cameron, the :fugitive having decided to give himself up and stand his trial. He was ientrant of -Rankin's death, and even now does not maspear to appreciate the position in which lie is placed, and which may bring him and others to the gallows. George says he acted :only in self-defence, as do also the other 'prisoners. None of them will make any ,eicimission of guilt. A coroner's jury sat today to investigate the tragedt. The autopsy dieclosed the fact that Renkin's head had been crushed almost to a pulp on the top, evidently by mapeated blows of some hard, heavy instru- ment. The doctors who gave evidence de- clared death to have been due to the injury to the brain by the fractured skull. It is likely the inquest will last for a week, Dr. ,g3ray, the coroner, telling his jury that he mieant to leave nothing undone to bring out nil the facts so that the guilt may be fixed tem the right parties. The prisoners are a hard -looking set, if the old couple be excepted. Jerry Freeman Admits that his boys are bad ones. Many persons to -day visited the scene of the Raleigh tragedy. The spot is sur - mounded by a dense bush. It is said there are 500 acres of bush lend between ib and the lake. Bstram's stave and saw mill is in the near vicinity. The place is seven :miles from Charing Cross, five or six from ,South Buxton the famous freedman's settle- ment, eight miles from Fargo and four from Merlin. It is a rough, dreary spot, which one would not care to live in whose ambition was for the beautiful and cheerful in nature. The old man Freeman cultivated his land to advantage and is reputed to be well-off. CIIATHAM, Jan. 26.—To-day an important find was made in connection with the Raleigh murder case. While searching the premises of Jerry Freeman Officer Archie Skirving came across a blood-stained cord- wood stick two feet in length and three or four inches thick. A belief is enter - t ained that it was this stick with which Policeman Rankin was brutally killed. Skirving also found an axe and an axe handle on the premises, the latter hav- ing spots of blood on one end. No evidence was taken at the adjourned sitting of the coroner's jury to -night, for the ostensible reason that it would not be convenient to remove the prisoners from the jail at night. They were taken from the station cells this afternoon in the Garner 'bus in charge of Detective McKee and two local officers. George, the fugi- tive who surrendered last night, thinking it was safer to be behind prison bars than to endeavor to flee the country, sobbed as the conveyance rolled along the street, and 'William Henry, his next brother and com- panion in handcuffs, mingled his tears with those ot the elder man. The others re- mained stoicelly indifferent. All the prisoners, as it has been stated, declared their innocence, but the circumstance that George lays the crime on his brothers was not learned till this afternoon. The big fellow whom P. C. Dezelia charges with pounding the insensible Rankin's head to a jelly with what seemed to be a fence rail now says to the police that he i8 innocent, William Henry and Alexander being the murderers. To- morrow at 1 p. m. the remains of the murdered police- man will be interred in Maple Leaf Ceme- tery. The funeral will be attended by the County Council of Kent, now in session here, and by local Orders of which deemed was a member. Rev. Dr. Battisby, of St, Andrew s Church, will conduct the obse- quies. The police deps.itment have sent a floral tribute bearing the inscription, "For Day Well. Done. ' Chief Williams, of Inindon, gads condolences in the name of the Forest City force, The wild stories appearing in Associated Press despatches tie to the lynch law sentiment of the commun. ity are unfounded. There ig no talk of s. xesort to wild West justice, now that the prisoners are safe in jail, except on the part of persons who have more idle time than gamma common Sense. The neason Why. Somebody asks ; " Why do painters and „glaziers always pace a large daub of paint or whitening in the centre of a large pane of glass ?" Well, ib is to pteverit people walking through it. Many years ago a painter put iri a lame hew pane, and it lotikeel So clear Oat his mart walked straight through it, tint knowing thab it was there, That sort of thing might often oceur in a itteve beilding, if the fregh partee were not daubed. JIM iMeinatir Set Der Thinking. MM. Spight—Yes, ehe's always talking abeut her beighborS and saying the meatiest kind of things about theln, She hair no prineiple, and me for being a Clitietiab, she's) nothing bet a heathen, she has no ehatitY• Spightt—VVISII, my deem I'm glad yotere diffetent. Don't if pale handin breitar Wear' ring if* tho 1tt10&ger A GAY YOUNG NEWS AGENT, A Milton Boy Blows Over $700 in a Few Days, STOLE AN EXPRESS PACKAGE. Arrested at Niagara. reale Yesterday—Me Father'tatement, 4. Niagara Falls despatch says A. very important arrest was made here lest even- ing, the result of some clever work on the part of Chief Day and Assistant Bradley, of the Glued Trunk Railway. It seems that up till the 10th of this month a young man of about 17 eummers named Hyacinthe, alias Samuel Latremoilie, had been em- ployed as train news agent on the G. T. R. trains between Hamilton and Palmerston and lived with his fether, J. Latremoille, No. 101 Park street Hamilton. About the 20th of the month the agent of the Ontario Mutual Life Association at Chfford, not having received an acceptance from a pack- age containing $743 that he had expresaed to his company at Waterloo on the 10th Matt sent a query in search of the missing package, and, much to his surprise, was told the package had not yet reached Waterloo. Armed with his expres receipts from the Clifford express agent, he went to that <aerial, where he learned that the paakage had been duly sent on train No. 6, W., G. &. B. The matter was handed into the hands of De- tective Day only on Wednesday last). Tha official soon ferreted out the eupposed guilty one in the person of young Latremoille, who had access to the express car, where he had his news trunk, and is supposed to have sneaked the package along with the way bill, when the ineasenger8 attention was taken with something else, and the factthat he has not been seen in Hamilton since the 10th, having sent the keys of his chest to Manager Davey, of the News Company. The puzzling question in Detective Day's mind to solve was to locate the guilty one and secure the "swag" before he could get rid of it. So the Latremoille house in Ham- ilton was watched. and last evening as tae father of Latremoille wended his way to the Hamilton station he was closely shadowed. He purchased a ticket tor Suspension Bridge. The telegraph was brought into execution, and upon the arrival of the 7.10 p. m. train here Mr. Latremoille was shadowed closely until he entered a con- cert saloon of high art, known as "The Gem," on the American side. Detective Day and Mr. Allen, of the express com- pany, followed on the 8 p. m. train and with the assistance of Chief ofPolice of Suspension Bridge, entered the Gem, and there found their man. He was immedi- ately arrested, and consented to return to the Canadian side, where he was leaked up. Young Latremoille admitted his guilt, but claims he has not a cent of the money, having " blowed it all in" on wineing the footlight favorites in the town and frequent - lag a resort of questionable reputation known to the town sports as the "Y.' On the same day and car as the package of money was stolen, a valuable letter was missing from the baggage car but after- wards found.on the track, having been run over by the wheels, and the supposition is that Latremoille "swiped" the letter, but finding no money threw it down the basin in the can &met The fact that the messenger did not miss the package is plainly explained in that the way bill for the package was also stolen Latremoille will have a hearing Memorrove morning. Slightly niMerent. Mr. J. Latrirnouille, the lad's father, ar- rived home from the Fells this morning and was seen by a TIMES reporter at his real deuce on Park street, His story of the • case differs considerably from the above de- spatch. He was very indignant at the man- ner in which his name has been mixed up in the affair. He stated that on Thursday last he learned that his son had thrown up his situation and went down to the falls to bring him home. Arriving at the Bridge at 6p. m., he was directed to the theatre, but on ping there could see noth- Mg of kis boy. He returned to the Cana- dian side, and not wanting to mise his train returned to the city at 8 o'clock without having seen the lad. Yesterday morning he received a telegram informing him of his boy's arrest and left immediately for the Falls. As quickly as possible he secured an interview with the prisoner, who confessed to him that he had taken the money and had spent every cent of it on the American side of the river. " All the blame in this case does not rat with my boy," continued Mr. Latrimouille. " He tells me—and so far his story has not been contradicted— that he picked the package of money off the floor, where it had lain and been walked on for sometime. Of course he did wrong inkeeping it, and he trams very penitent now. Just the same, the express messenger muSrt have been very careless to leave valuable packages around the car in such a way, particularly when such a strong temptation was placed in the way of a young boy bite my eon." O. T. R. ECONOSIT. Huntlreds of leen Will Be 1brkriril 011it of Employmeat. A Niagara Falls despai ch to the Toronto World some: Amother result of the complaint of the English stockholders of the Grand Trunk against expenses has manifested itself. Hereafter no train of seven or less passenger coaches shall have: more than one trainman besides the conductor, passenger t • s • ht t I t t • T4113 0/ erg o eVPD cars wo rammen, and all over eleven three trainmen. This order will throw hundreds of men out of employment. Difficulty in Matching Teeth. Dentists say that the greatest difficulty they meet with in their work is the match- ingof false teeth with the natural teeth of their oustomers. The tooth factories Supply dentiste with rings upon which are strung thin metal bare, each carrying a tooth at its extremity. There are 25 of these trample teeth that run all the way freer, nearly 'white to aehade that in almost olive. Some of the 25 usually match the patient's teeth, and, at any rate, enable the dentist to match the teeth by application at the faototy. Direct COMmmulleatiolt. Morrison Essex—I'm going to let his wife know ef hie actione with the girls. Franklin Eurnise—Are you going to tell het? Morrisson Essex—No; I'm going to tell my Wifm—Puok. t • Any fool ban be happy while the sun shined, /6 taked a philosopher to Smile under a cloud, Anne—Why &I you refute Mn Speeio ? X, ant WM the presenta teed flowers he hat Went on show hien te be in love with you. Belie—et Well amid he had Spent all Of bit Money on Me already. DARING DAYLIGHT BURGLARS. Bela ft.ort to Rob the Home EaMing Loan 00., Toronto, THE, EOLTOE QUITE AT BEA. A Toronto report says: For the third time within a month the oity detective de- partment has iheen melted upon tie investi gate a most daring and deliberately planned burglary, operated in broad daylight and upon one of the principal businese thorough- fares, and for the third time the officers of the law have to admit that they are 0E10* lutely baffled and without the elighteet clue to the identity' of the marauders. About 4.20 yesterday afternoon two young men, apparently about 23 or 24 yours of age, entered the Home Savings & Loan Bank, Church street, just north of Court etreet. Stepping up to the teller's cage, which is midway up the office' one of the intruders thrust the barrels ofa braoe of revolvp through the screen and ordered the teller, Mr. Wellington -Wallace, to throw up his hands. Mr. Wallace was balancing hie cash for the day, and thinking it was is silly joke, made a jocular remark and went on with his work. The order was peremptor- ily repeated, and the official then realized it was no joking matter. He did not, how- ever, lose his head, but seizing a chair held it in front of him and promptly refused to comply. In the meantime the second visitor went up to the adjoining counter, where Mr. James C. Mason, &nephew of Major Mason, the manager, was busy, and without a word leaped over the railing, and, rushing past Mr. Mason, made a dash at the rear door of the teller's cage. This fortuuately was securely locked, and baffled any attempt to buret it in. Frus- trated in this, the desperado turned as if to enter the vault, bub whether from fear ot being shut in or realizing the situation was getting perilous, he did not carry out his apparent Intention. By this time Mr. Mason and Mr. R. B. Street, the accountant, who was also at his desk, had recovered their first surprise and made an attempt to seize the intruder, and a sharp tussle en- sued, in which Mr. Mason got a nasty clip from some sharp instrument over the eye, but he was une.Ine to say what it was that inflicted the wound. The struggle was very brief, for the would-be burglar, finding the odds against him, broke away and with his companion succeeded in making good his escape, both men bolting out of the bank and running north and east along Adelaide street. Two other employees of the bank were also in the building in a rear room, and one of therm, taking in the situation, ran up a back staircase tnto Messrs. Foys' solicitor's office and telephoned the operat or in police headquarters for assistance. Though only a few minutes had been consumed in the whole affair, the alarm had already reached the detective office, and Detective Cuddy shad started for the scene of the fray. Detective Slemin and Duncan followed upon his heels at the second alarm, but upon their arrival every trace of the marauders had disappeared save a 32 calibre cartridge which had fallen either from the weapon or pocket of one of them. So quickly had the whole affair been transaoted and so com- pletely surprised were the bank officials that not °ere of the five could give any in- telligent description of the men, although neither was disguised further than that the one who attacked Teller Wallace 1.d a scarf drawn over his mouth, and it is very doubtful if any of them could ideratilnheit visitors if confronted with them. Although the desperadoes were not suc- cessful on this occasion in securing any booty, this was in some respects by far the most audacious of the three raids made— all apparently by members of the same gang. On the first of the previous occasions there were three men engaged, and on the second five men took part in the raid, and both times there were only two persons in the store at the time of the attack. More- over the Home Savines &Loan building runs back to the police station and the windows of the two buildings over- look one another. That the raids are planned and carriectout by cool, nervy men, prepared to take all chances and carrying their lives in their hands, is evi- dent, and, notwithstanding the admitted efficiency of the city detective staff, they have been so far successful in baffling every effort to capture them, and Inspector Stark and his men confess they are absolutely without a &us. SWISS DART FARMING. Three Women Arrested for Numberless Infant Murders. A Berne cable says Elizabeth Henke, a widow, and her two daughters, respeotively 16 and 18 years ()fop, have been arrested in Burgdorf for baby farming. The three women have been disposing of the infants of unmarried women for the last three years. Most of the childrenwere suffocated in a kitchen oven, and were then buried under the kitchen floor. The remains of 26 skeletons have been found by the police already, although only part of the ground has been dug over. 'the operations of the family were betrayed to the police by the youngest daughter, 'who re ently wascon- verted to Christianity by the Salvation Army. The Bed Artistic. There are nowadays cleanly spring and hair mattresses piled high in place of the old feather beds, and as to stiff white bed covers, pillow elips and shamsfalee sheets and Valenciennes trimming, monogrammed and ruffled fineries, there ie a truce. They were so slippery, se troubleeome and so false withal tEat the beds that have known them shall know them no more forever. They had alweye to be unpinned and un- hooked before the sleeper could enter his bed, and they were the torment of the housemaid. They entailed a degree of washing and ironing that was endlese, and yet many a young housekeeper thought them indispersable. The idea has gone out completely. The bed now is made up with ite Meth linen sheets, its clean blankets and its Marseilles quilt, with square or long pil- lows, as the sleeper fanciee, with bolster in plain linen sheath. Then over the whole is thrown tr. light iace covet lined with liberty silk. This may be as expensive or as cheap as the owner wither,. Spreads of satin may be used, eovered with Chinese embroidery or with patchwork designs, One light and easily aired drapery succeeds the four or five pieces ef unmanageable linen, if the bed has a tester. and ()sureties of eilk or chintz, the bed covering should match in tint, and in a very pretty bedram the Walls theuld be covered with chintz or eilk— Fternishee am :Decorator, Ragg (the beggar) --After all, It pays ter be paeans, mate. Waage (another beggar)— got always. The *thee day Teas dontthe deaf and dumb lay, and when A gent, grave Me quattet I seys " ye, sir,' ard he had inc arrested. This milk Metes As if it tea Metered," Bald Mr. Bremen. "1 know it im papa," Said Tenney. MVO the cew taltia' dririk Myrielt BRITIS11 ROYALTY'S lloiNGs, Victoria's 64 Posf.s Plastiques Society Craze and the Why May Will Marry York—The Princess of Wales' Collection 0/ Old AeLICC- 11181T.Villg AgOS Or British Princesses— Curious Anomalies in l'oet's Titles -- Story of lonneshorough and Typhoid— No Toothsome Turtles For Royal Palates Thts rear—titieer Story of a Knighthood. Lotwort, Jan. --Queen Victoria has been doyen co the hereditary sovereigns of the world ever eines the death of the Emperor Pedro of Brazil, and she' heads the id by a long interval. The leJoud le tier attain and Imither-in-law, the Duke of Sax' dasourmGotlaa, who began to reign in 1344, seven years later than Her Majesty. The Prince of Waldeck, father of the Duchess of Albany and the Emperor of Austria, are the only two other menarche who wore a orown betore 1850. Queen Isabella, of Spain though coneiderably younger than Queen' Victoria, would be the senior sovereign were she still reigning, as she inherited the crown in 1833, at the age ithree. Queen Victoria is only sixth among sovereigns in point of age'her senior being the Pope, born 1810 ; thePrince of Schauer - burg -Lippe, and the King of Denmark, both born in 1817, and the Dukes of Saxe- Coburg-Gotha and Saxe -Weimar, who were born within three days of each other in June, 1818. There are four rulers under twenty years of age'the Khedive, the Kline of Servia. and Spain, and the Queen of the Netherlands. Queen Victoria has commanded that new dresses are to be pre- pared for her first Court in March, when she will receive the corps diplomatic and her Ministers. The Throne Room at Buckingham Palace is to be redecorated for the occasion and made to look as smart as poseible. The Princees Helena of Schleswig- Holstein, the Princess Louise of Lorne and the Princess Beatrice are to accompany Her Majesty. The Lord Chamberlain is to iSPRO all the invitations, and woe betide the unlucky wight who is not prepared with tip-top introductions and sponsors for both grammar and respectability. ROYAL POSES PLASTIQUES. The costly Indian Room at Oaborne, de- signed and run up in order to feast the German Emperor within its walls about once a year, turns out 10 be the one thing the British First Family has wanted for an age. With a little rearrangement, this banqueting hall becomes a capital Theatre Royal, and Princess Beatrice Henry sleeps sweetly now at nights, beholding herself in dreams as the star artiste of general all- round ability, not only dreesed up in beauteous gowns and bewigged in bewitch- ing style, but actually walking and talking in teacup comedies, just as a real actrees might. Prince Henry's great ambition is to sing "Tama ra-borradeay " in costume'but his august ma -in-law objects. Her Majesty has expressed herself delighted with the recent poses plastiguee in which all the members of her family at Osborne took part, and a fresh relay is in came of pre- paration. A LOVER OF LUGUBRIOUS SUBJECTS. It is a, curious but well -understood fact that Queen 'Victoria always selects the most lugubrious subjects. "Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead" was one in 1889, " The Death of Gelert" was another in 1891. "The Prisoners in the Tower," a dark and forbidding theme was given last week. It is this constant relish for melan- choly tableaux which upsets and unnerves Her Majesty's children. "The Death of Marmion" was a royal request, but was objected to by the Princess Louise, who takes on herself the management of theee affairs. AGE AT WHICH BRITISH ROYALTIES mann-. Princess Marie of Edinburgh was married youngest of all Queen Victoria. grand children. Born on October 29th, 1875, the Princess Ferdivand of Roumania is conse- quently only just turned 17. The nearest approach in point of youth to this wee the Empress Frederick, who, as Princess Royal, was married at the same age. The other daughters of the Queen married much later in life, from the Princess Alice, who had turned 19, to the Princgss Henry of Batten - berg, who was in her 29th year. Of mar- riageable grandchildren, Her Majesty has to -day, twenty, reckoning eeventeen for the granddaughters and twenty-one for the grandsons as the marriageable age. Of the six grandsons, only two are married, the Emperor Williern and his brother Prince Henry of Prussia ; of the fourteen grand- daughters nine are married, two are en- gaged, and the remaining three'the Princessess Victoria and Plaud of Wales and Princess Victoria of Schleswig- Holstein, all of whom are considerably past 19 (the average age at which Queen Victoria's granddaughters marry), are still in " maiden meditation, fancy free." A year ago many comments were made on the ill -fortune whieh attached itself to the titte Of the Duke of Clarence. Bob the title of the Duke (tf 'York is noblas unhappy in the records of the pact, Priam George is the twelfth Duke of York and there have been seven creations f this title, all in the Royal family. The title was created for the third time by Henry VII. in 1494 in favor of his tarred MTh, who efterwards reigned as lientw VIII., and ent it was again merged in the Crown. James 1. gave it in 1605 to his second non, Charles, axed it wag again Merged in the Crown when he as- cended the Throne as Chtitles J. Tho fifth oreetioa of a Duke if Morn teatime 1643, when the King's secend rem, who was after- wards the ill-fated James II , rersivecl the title as its eighth beaten George r., In 1716, bestowed it MI his ltrothett the Princomietrep of Ostaltorgle who died Whatnot Wee. 0000 1n, re- ereated it, in t760, in mem, of hie next brother, Prized Edwerd, who meg same commis, ooromander.inqibief awl the viertint . WHY MAY WILL MARRY YORK. The time is now approaching when York's engagement is to be publicly announeed. lucre is no speculation aa to who the lucky bride will be. It is 1,0O0 to 1 on Princese May of Teck. Albert Victor died on Jaen- ary 14th, & twelvemonth ago, and witirn a week or ten days the Princess' name will again be flashed all over the world. It has leaked out that in his last hours Albert Victor had constantly on his lips the rame of a lovely Princess, the daughter of exiled royalty residing in England, Melene d'Orleans, and this is the reason why May has so rapidly lost all sentiment of poignant grief, and calmly but surely traeriferred her affections to York. Tho projected marriage was after all one of ermvenance, for York was always attached to May, mid would surely have married her had not Queen Victoria destined her for her elder grander:en HISTORY OP YORK'S TITLE. of Mrs. Clerk. Ire also died 'without lea'- ing hisuip, twat petr,t Qnren Victeria Made the geventil creatiffit ia fiteor of, Prince George, Wh9 io the twelfth Om hem borne the title of Duke 0 York. WHY OF ALOOD AND minima Of hits eleven predecessors bur have been kinge of England—Edward IV., Henry Charles L and James II. Four have died violent deethe—the mooed and third Dukes, the young Prince in the Tower, Charles 1., Annie fI, (died in exile). Five died childless— the second Duke, the young oiurdered Prince, and the three Dukes of the Hanoverian family. 9.1lte first Duke a York was Edmund, fiftloson of King Edward IlE. This Prince died comparatively yourrg, and was imo- (Waded by his elder brother: Edward, who fell at Agincourt leaving no issue. The younger son, Riuhard, had already been executed by Ilenry,V., not, however, before he married Anne Mortimer, who presently became the heiress of Lionel, Duke of Clar- ence, second son of Edward III., and go brought the right to the crown to her descendants. leieharci, on of Richard and Ann, was the third Duke of York, and • tuidottlitedly the rightful heir to the throne, which was finallyacquired by his son, the fnurth Duke, afterwards King Edwaril IV. He renewed the title in his tieuend son, the younger of the two minces murdered in the Tower, and with him it became extinot. PRINCESS OF WALES AND IIER LACE. The Prtncees of Wales has lately been purchasing some old Honiton lace to add to her already numerous specimens of that beautilul fabric. Her Royal Highness' collection of lace is one of the most perfect in Europe. She has been engaged in its formation for many years, and seldom allows a twelmnionth to pass by without adding to her treasures. The King of the Belgians' wedding gift to the Princes WBS some Brussels lace to the value of £10,000. To this ehe has added until she has now characteristic bite from all countries'end some of considerable antiquity. The Prin- cess is particularly fortunate in her pier:moot old Spanish lace, and she takes particular pleueure in wearing that delicate product on suitable occasions, both public and pri- vate. :No ROYAL TURTLES THIS YEAR. Queen Victoria's simply of turtle this year iron the Ieland of Ascension has failed, and the vsarehip, the Wye, which is usually engaged in the important duty of transporting home from the Equator Her Majesty's annual provision of calipaeh and oalipee, has this winter reached home tur- Melees, The geographical or rather the administratme existence of Ascension Island is one of the strangest puzzles imaginable, since it is in no way under the jurisdiction of the British•Colonial Office, but ieattached to the Admiralty, and classes precisely as if it were a war -vessel, anchored out in ocean off the African coast. Officially, at the Admiralty, Ascension Islets& is known as " the tender to H. M. S. Flora." The dis- cipline of a rnan-o'-war is kept up on board the "tender," but the naval regulations are to this extent relaxed that ladies are per- mitted to remain in her. All lights, how- ever, are out by 10 p. m. A PHANTOM KNIGHTHOOD. The announcements of the honors con- ferred upon the " few chosen" of her duti- ful subjects by Queen Victoria, which is notified as a rule on New Year's Day, was this year several days late. People won- dered ! Was Her Majesty going to create a precedent, and for the first time during her reign turn no more Baronets, Compan- ions of theBath, Knights and otker curses of an hereditary monarchy, loose upon a long suffering community? At last the secret leaked out. It teems a gent" had been put down for a knighthood by Home Secretary Asquith, and this particular " gent " Her Most Gracious won't have ad- mitted to even this lowest grade of the select at any price. Her Majesty never forgets and never forgives, and Henry Labouchere, editor of Truth, was kept out of the Cabinet on account of a screed against Royalties which he wrote maim years ago and againet his Queen in particular. The Government had to do something for him and they made, or rather tried to make hirn a knight. Government proposes, however, and Queen Victoria dis- poses and pretty promptly She disposed of ‘• Henry ' by scratching her pen through his name. It is an awk- ward thing when an announce- ment has been sent through the post to a person that he is to be the recipient of a handle to his name to go back on the an- nouncement; yet it has been done in this case. If the aggrieved knight -elect has any ngal or coestitutional knowledge be can enter° his claim, quoting as precedent the Cloudesley case, in the reign of George I., when the Monarch refused to ratify the promises made on official paper, and was worsted in the legal conflict that ensued. TYPHOID TWENTY YEARS GERMINATING. Lord Londesborough is in a critical eon- dition. It was at his lordship's country residence in Yorkshire that the Prince of Wales contracted his typhoid fever twenty years ago, and the special euite of rooms occupied by His Royal Highness at the time was so infected by the typhoid germs that the nobleman who had occupied them just before the Prince, Lord Chesterfield, died of this fell disease, and a poor stable lad, who was often in them in the course of his duty in connection with the Prince, likewise died of typt old, Having escaped this disease when his house was a perfect nest of it twenty years ago, it is a very curious and unfortunate circumstance that Lord Londes- borough should fall a victim to it now. POPITLARITY Or LONDESBOROTTOIL Lord .Londesborough is a very 'wealthy and above all a very generous nobleman, as his nephew, the late Lord Dapplin, had very good reason to know. He has always been fond of the theatrical and " show ' world ; he helped Bouoicault in mounting "Baba and Bijou," and ran this piece for his friend at a dead loss for meny hundreds of dollers a week, merely because he had pledged his word that he would support this play for a certain length of time. It was also at Londesborough Lodge that "Joy " Bibb, the clown, made up the Prince of Wales' face as a clown, and that His Royal Highness went down to dinner in Maio curious ' get up. No more popular man exists in Loudon society than Lord Lorideshorough, not even exoepting his brother-in-law, the Duke of Beaufort, and it is universaliy hoped that the terrible disease which so straugely missed him over twenty years ago will to day deal lightly with him. Beady lo Cornpromiere,, " Yeur case," paid the police magistrate, "perplexes me. You are an old offender. You have been brought before this court demobs of timet for being drunk and dis- orderly, tend it doeen't teem to do any good either to fine you or Fetid you to the work- house, Yet you don't seem to be IN bad man at heart." "I'm not, Jedge," snivelled the emitrite old vagabond, (freeing the look of hit hand ect(as Ina floor, "and 1m to dlop ihSe perce.din's right now if 56u arms nOW—DO It010" .3Dat When yOtt biltt hoes Or elothe ing Don't yon go to the place (if y011, can find it youWa 1.1tliee eritehst ietoy yut oet_141. may wear the - and th,ein ` O0111;rbeuytto:edeamtti tiafiee?ds theY'll refuted the Money Wily not do the same when y0 Dr. Pterce's Golden Medical Discovery Is sold on that plan. It's the only bloode purifier so certain and effective that it, can be guaranteed to benefit or cure, in every case, or you have your money baeti"; It's at like the ordinary Spring In' Mile eines or sarsaparillas. All the year round, it cleanses, builds up, and invigorates the t system. If you're bilious, run-down, or dyspeptic, or have any blood -taints nothe ing can equal it SS a remedy. ELEVEN DIVORCES WANTED. Canadians Who Think Marriage is a Failure, There are in all 73 applications received so far for public and private bine. Of these nine are tor acts asking incorporation for railways and 29 for amenclnints to railway acts of incorporation. There are 21 appli- cations fa reiecellaneous bills and eight for • amendmentio acts of incorporation on mis- cellaneous subjects. There are 11 applications for divorce, which will come before the Senate. They are: Martha &Pante ne, of Seas bore, from her husband, Witham Ballantyne, laborer, for adultery and desertion ; James Balfour,. Hamilton, from his wife, Georgina Catherine' adultery and desertion ; James Freder ItDO/on, .Lt) chine, h cm his wife, Augusta Wood, Winnipeg, adultery and deseition ; Jane Carohee Downey Toronto, hem Donald Clandchoye Downey, Whitby, adultery and desert icn ; N. Joshuat - Filman, Flamboroa from Emma Matilda Filman, adultery and desertion ; Amette Marion Goff, Montreal, from Edward Robert Tache Rowena, Winnipeg, adultery and desertion • Edmund IL Reward, St. John's, lbervine, Quebec, from M sole - Louise Eines, of Chicago, adultery ; Robert Young Hebden, New York, from Edith Montagu, formerly of New Yerk ; John James Hardirg, London from Janet Hard— ing, Grand Rapids, Mich , adultery and desettion ; Raert Oliver Kir g, Brantford, from Jennie (tow)ine, adultery mad deser- tion ; John Francis Schwatter, Thorold, from Florence Schwatter, adultery and, desertion. ANOTHER MINE HORROR. One Hundred end Fifty Men Believed Mayo neen Killed. A Vienna cable says An explaion • from a cause still unascertained took place in a coal mine at Tokod, near Gra.u, this morning. Fire broke out immediately after the explosion, and is still burning. About 150 men were in the mine at the time of the explosion, The shaft was non impaired, and the cage' was sent down almost at once. The bodies of 19 men who had been killecl by the shock were found near the bottom of the shaft, and were brought up. The cage went &ern again, but returned innnediately, as the smoke was so dease that the rescue party were unable to remain below. • Two ot, the party were unconscious before they reached the top. About 130 men are still in the mine. Machinery was taken out from Gran to partially flood the mine, but as yet there are no eigne that the fire is abating. The whole population of Tokod is around the pit's mouth, but no effort hae been made since noon to send down a rescue - party. .A11 the miners are believed to be dead. As the work of rescue cannot be attempted for several hours, there is practically no hope that any of the men will be saved. Mouse Dogs. If any one wishes to keep a dog in the house, it is of much importance that the proper variety of dog should be selected. A dog of a highly nervous temperament, or large size, would be manifestly inappro- propriate. For this purpose the toy dogs are probably the most appropriate, as all of them have to be looked after as carefully as saoymoeunlgad baby.ie s lik e these tiny creatures very much, but usually there is too little dog about them to please children, who like a romp, or men, who prefer a dog to a comrade and associate rather than a, mere pampered pet. The dogs best suited, for the house, with the exception of the toy dogs, are the pug, the fox terrier and the French poodle The pug is valuable because of his amia— bility and the amount of confinement he can stand. The fox terrier wins the regard, of those with whom he lives by his very gentlemanlike habits and bis courage and affection. The French poodle wins hi g way by his intelligence, which approaches in- tellect, as he can be taught to do almost anything but speak. But all three of these dogs need regnlar exercise in the openair, the fox terrier and the poodle more than thdtme pug.* House dogs, of whatever kind, should be kept out of the kitchen and the dining. room. They should be fed not oftener than. twice a day, and at regular times. One or the other of the prepared dog biscuit is the best food that they can have. Scraps from the table aro very well if given judiciously, but in the long run the biscuits answer the purpose much better. A real dog kept in the house is placed in absolutely artificial surroundings, and those who are responsible for this semi -imprison- ment should tate paints that their pete do not suffer hem it or from overhinclnees of any kind.—Harper's Yoteng People.. z A Contrast. "That new brooch of yen re, Mrs. Minker ' said her candid friend, Mrs. Speakout, "11 you don't mind my seeing so, re the ugliest thing 1 ever "1 know it, ' replied the brave little. woman, cheerfully. "1 wear it because my hatband gave it to me for a Christmag pros - And Mr. linker, listening in the room, adjoinieg, remembered that he had given away to ohroeie loafers and office boreta, with slighting and contempteous rernaelts,, the box of cigars his wife had presentedhim Christmas deg • and he went out to tho coal shed and kicked himself. • We aslt for justice and what do we gat?' Litt /00 Daughter—There is only one thing more astonishing than the teadieeee with whicilli Ned gave up to) aced when we became en- gaged. Moiher—What is that thieg ? Ditorthter—The rapidity vsith whft ie he totik it up spin after We were itiatined, A eittresporidetife evritieg from fedi?, , Wastetottmd, tell you there's geed Muff ire ieye that eearly 2200,IliedrooS loat their that young man, Whyte ftmecatiticaliyitm evie hitt year in that eininity froin the bitte Y*1,1 was going hy, the .luir room just row, of imakes. end I saw him nut it ie.