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"When I was a Boy,"
Writes Postmaster J. C. WOODSON,
Forest Hill, W. Va., "X had a Bron-
chial trouble of such a persistent
and stubborn character, that the
ped i incurable
doctor pronoun t with
ordinary medicines, and advised
Inc to try Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.
X did so, and one bottle cured me.
For the last fifteen years, Z have
used this preparation with good
tiffeot whenever 1 take
A 13ad Cold,
and I know of numbers of people
who keep it in the house all the time.
not considering it safe to be with-
out it."
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Pectoral in my family for 30 years, with
the roost satisfactory results, and oda
cheerfully recommend it as being espe-
cially adapted to all pulmonary com-
plaints. I have, for many years, made
pulmonary and other medicines a special
seedy, and I have come to the conclusion
that Ayer's Cherry Pectoral occupies a
position pre-eminent over other media
eines of the class."—Chas. Davenport,
sDover, N. J.
Ayer's Cherry Pectorai
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Promptto act, sureto cure
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ior of the Sun.
The ancient historians mention several
instances of the sun "going out," or failing
to shine and give forth its usual amount of
heat and light for periods of time varying
in length from three hours to several
months. According to Plutarch the year
44 B. C. was one in which the sun was
"weak and pale" for a period approximat-
ing 11 months.
The Portuguese historians record several
months of diminished sunlight in the year
934 A. D., and, according to Humboldt,
this uncanny period ended with "strange
and startling sky phenomena, such as loud
atmospheric explosions, rifts in the vaulted
canopy of blue above and in divers other
rare and unaccountuble freaks." In the
year 1091, on September 29 (see Humboldt's
" Cosmos"), the sun turned suddenly
blank, and remained so for three hours, and
did not regain its normal condition for
several days.
According to the noted Helmuth's "Solar
Energy," the days of seeming in activity
on the part of the sun (the days following
the sudden blackening of the groat orb)
were noted for a peculiar greenish tinge,
and are marked in old Spanish, French and
Italian records as "the days of the green
sun." February, 1106 A. D., is noted in
the annals of marvellous phenomena as a
month in which they were several days
that "the sun appeared dead and black,
like a great circular cinder floating in the
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On the last day of February,. 1206,"
says Cortevza, an old Spanish writer on
astronomy, astrology and kindred subjects,
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causing a darknesa over the country for
about six hours." In 1241 the European
countries need a g
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supernatural darkness, which the super-
stitious writers of that time attributed to
God's disploasure over the result of the
great battle of Loignitz,
Ottawa City Counoil hat refused to reduce
the number of licensee.
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CANAD4.
Regina Exhibition opens July 29.
Soap grease has been planed on the free
list
Morden lost two hotels and a numl'er of
stores by fire.
Notice is gazetted of the incorporation
of the Bank of Winnipeg,
Mr. Adam McGowan,a highly respected
resident of Tweed village, is dead.
Mr. Richard Jary, a well-known citizen
of Melrose, Ont., dropped dead on Tues.
day,
The report that ex -Detective Fahey is
to be released from penitentiary is without
foundation.
The date of the general election will
probably be between the 2nd and 6th
April.
The Lake Erie & Detroit River Railroad
Station at Merlin was burned, with two
freight cars.
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The Lower Laurentian Railway has been
sold to the. Quebec & Lake St. Johh Rail-
way Company.
Mrs. James Thompson, of Camille, was
fatally hurt by a bullet from a rifle in the
hands of the hired man.
Mr. Thomas Gordon, of Strathroy, drank
a liniment in mistake for oough mixture on
Saturday and died on Sunday.
The papal brief appointing Father Lan-
gevin to the Archbishopric of St. Boniface,
Man., arrived in Winnipeg on Friday.
The voters' lists are pouring in upon the
Clerk of the Crown -in -Chancery from all
parts of the Dominion at present.
The yearly contract for supplying coal to
the Grand Trunk has been awarded to
Shipman of Detroit and the Erie R. R. Co.
It is understood that Mr. Theodore
Davie, the Premier of British Columbia,
will soon be appointed Chief Justine of
that Province.
The Toronto Granites won the Governor -
General's. prize for 1894 by defeating Dun-
dee 3 shots in a ourliug match at Galt on
Friday.
Surgeon -Major Perry of the Madras
Presidency and Capt. T. A. Houghton
of the First Bombay Grenadiers are in
Ottawa.
Four convicts attempted to escape from
the Kingston Penitentiary on Monday.
They were oaught before their plans were
matured.
Premier Greenway, of Manitoba, is suf-
fering from a severe attack of erysipelas in
the head. The doctors do not apprehend
serious results.
The Dominion Line SS. Labrador, from
Liverpool, arrived at Halifax at 4 o'clook
Friday afternoon, making the quickest pas-
sage ever made to that port.
Mr. L. 0. David, the Montreal City
Clerk, who has been president of the St.
Jean Baptiste Sooiety for many years, is
expected shortly to retire.
Rev. Robert Johnston of Lindsay will
receive a call to the vacancy in St.
Andrew's Presbyterian Church, London,
caused by the death of Rev. ,T. A. Mur-
ray.
The Canadian Pacific Reilwar Company
on Monday took back to work in the Mon-
treall000motive shops a number of employes
who had been laid off owing to the depres-
sion in business.
At a funeral in Quebec the hearse got
stuck in the snow and could not be moved.
The herses were unhitched and the hearse
with the.body therein left standing in the
road until next morning.
There is every inclination that an ice
bridge will soon be formed at Niagara Falls.
Ice is coming over the falls in great quan-
tities, and it may become stationary at any
moment in the narrow gorge.
Major Harrison, for twelve years an
officer of the Royal Grenadiers, Canadian
militia, and well and popularly known in
the service, died at his residence at Toronto
on Thursday morning.
It is expected that Mr. Samuel Wilmot,
Dominion Superintendent of Fish Culture,
and Mr. Samuel Pierre Bausel, chief clerk
of the Department of Marine and Fisheries,
will be shortly superannuated.
Mr. Samuel Lenore, of Russell County,
became impaled while chopping in the
woods. He lifted himself by a branch
above his head, but after walking home in
dreadful agony died from his injuries.
Mr. F. E. Kilvert, collector of customs
at Hamilton, has gone to Ottawa to take
the plane of Mr. T. J. Watters, who was
arrested the other day on charges of mis-
appropriating money belonging to the
Government.
J. E. W . Macfarlane, manager of the
British Columbia Iron Works Society,
Vancouver, B. C., was arrested on Thurs.
day on the charge of attempting to bribe
Ald. McCraney in order to secure the
contract for the city's electric light plant.
With regard to the proposed Atlantic
and Lake Superior railway, Mr. Foster,
Minister of Finance, stated the other day
that the Government had simply agreed
to give the company three per cent. on
such money as they might deposit for
the purpose of paying interest on their
bonds. •
The Rev. Wm. Booth, General of the
Salvation Army, waited upon Sir Mackenzie
Bowell on Thursday, atToronto, and asked
for the support of the Government for the
projected Salvation Army colony in the
Territories. The Premier said that the
matured scheme would receive oareful con-
sideration when submitted.
Mr. J. W, Tyrrell, C.E„ of Hamilton,
Ont., has been asked to take charge of an
expedition to explore Ellesmereland, and to
look for the two Swedish explorers, Bjorl-
ing and Kollstenius, who are supposed to
be lost in that region. The expedition is
being organized by an Amerioan society,
and is to leave in the spring.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Ex -Empress Frederick is at Osborne.
The traffio of small vessels is greatly en-
dangered by heavy ice packs at the mouth
of the Thames.
The cold weather continues in England,
and in some places the thermometer
registered twelve below zero on Satur-
day. day.
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H. M. 9. Rair
b o will be added to the
North American squadron year. this She
is a third-classg upbeat.
Prof. Reginald Stuart Toole, late keeper
of coins in the British Museum, is dead.
He was sixty-three years of age,
Ten men, all the crew of the British brig
Nelson Rice, were drowned on Saturday by
of the vessel on the rocks
thewrecking off
Douglas, Isle of Man.
Tho fourth seteit n of the thirteenth
Parliament of Great Britain of the present
trio 13ZET14B, TU ES
reign was opened on Wednesday by the
Queen's speeeh,
Municipal authorities of Stockton•on-Taos,
Englaud, propose to erect a statue to John
Wacker, whom they claim to be the inven-
tor of luoifer matches.
The Duke of York has been elected pre.
sideut• of the Benevolent Sooiety of St.
Patrick, which holds its one hundred and
twelfth anniversary this. year.
It is .said that the Prince of Wales will
visit Rome in the spring, with a view to
arranging a marriage between the Princess
Maud and the Prince of Naples.
The fishing amaok Verena has landed at
Lowestoft the body of Frederick Ernst,
of Magdeburg, Prussia, one of the drowned
passengers of the Elbe, and some mail bags.
Mr. W. R. Cremor, M. P., has returned
to London from Washington. He says
that the proposed arbitration treaty was
very favorably entertained by President
Cleveland.
The effects of the cold weather and
blizzard in Great Britain havebeen severely
felt- Many deaths are reported in the
midlands, and livest o and
game of all
kinds haveP erished in numbers.
The Princess of Wales arrived in London
on Thursday from Russia, where she has
been in constant attendance upon her sister,
the widow of the Czar of Russia. She was
given a very hearty welcome.
The mouth of the River Mersey is block-
ed by a mass of ice half a mile long and
several hundred yards wide. The ice has
blocked access to the landing stage and
compelled the stoppage of the ferries.
The Queen is considering the creation of
a literary order of three grades, the ,first
to consist of 24 members, the second of 100
members, and the third of 250. All the
members of the order are to be titled and
pensioned.
An amendment by Mr. Jeffreys calling
upon the Gm, ernment to take some action
regarding the prevailing industrial distress
was voted down in the British House of
Commons by twelve votes, the Government
majority without the Parnellites.
Railways in Scotland are still blocked
with snow. Snowploughs, which have been
sent out to clear the lines, have themselves
been imbedded in snow -banks, and the men
operating them have suffered severely from.
the intense cold.
Sir William Harcourt has announced
that the' Government would immediately
appoint a committee to inquire into the
condition of the unemployed and seek means
to mitigate their situation. The inquiry,
he said, would extend to the provinces.
In the House of Commons on Friday
evening, on Mr. Jeffery's amendment cen-
suring the Government for ignoring the
claims of the agricultural classes, the
Ministerial majority was reduced to two.
The Parnellites voted against the Govern-
ment.
Capt. Gordon,of the Crathie, which ran
into the Elbe, says that after the collision
the big steamer lay to for some time, and
then proceeded in the direction of London.
Capt. Gordon says, notwithstanding the
disabled condition of the Crathie, he re-
mained in the vicinity until daybreak.
In the House of Commons on Thursday,
Sir William Harcourt, in reply to Mr. John
H. Johnston, as to whether it was the in-
tention of the Government to make provi-
sion for Lady Thompson, said that he had
reason to believe that the people of Canada
would make provision for the family of the
late Canadian Premier.
The amendment which Mr. Joseph
Chamberlain will make to the address in
reply to the speech from the throne has
been approved by the Unionist leaders. It
will deprecate the discussion of measures
which the Government admits have no
prospect of becoming law while proposals
involving great constitutional changes have
been announced, on which the judgment of
Parliament ought to be taken without de-
lay
eINITED STATES.
Fifty per cent. of the orange crop in
Florida has been killed by the recent cold.
Secretary Carlisle expects that the
United States this year will have a surplus
of twenty-two million dollars, instead of a
deficit.
The Etruria, whioh arrived at Queens-
town on Saturday, reports that she saw no
sign of the overdue French line steamer La
Gascogne.
Orange trees in Florida are probably
destroyed, also all' vegetable crops and
half a million quarts of strawberries just
beginning to ripen.
Mayor Schieren of Brooklyn has vetoed
the resolution of the Board of Aldermen
providing for a revocation of the charters
of trolley companies.
Two American citizens at Hawaii are
under sentence of death for complicity in
the recent rebellion. The Administration
is corresponding on the subject.
Nine mining prospectors in the Rainy
River district have been frozen to death,
with the exception of James Cummings.
The thermometer marked 42 below zero.
By the decisive vote of thirty.six to
twenty-five the United States Senate on
Saturday voted to inaugurate the projeob
of laying a cable from the Pacific coast to
Hawaii.
The man arrested in Cleveland a few
weeks ago, charged with murder, and giv-
ing the uame of Johnson, has been identi.
fled as en ex -policeman of Windsor named
Maike.
Mise A'ina Gould, the youngest sister of
George Gould, is engaged to Count de Cast-
ellano of Paris, and the wedding will take
place it New 'York some time in the
spring.
The contract for the construction of the
largest toy barge ever constructed on the
lakes, if nos in the world, has been taken
by the Chicago Ship Building Co. The
boat will carry four thousand five hundred
tons.
Mr. W. T. Baker, President of the Chia
cage Board of Trade, presented his resig-
nation as the result of the adverse vote on
the amendment to the rules of the board
by which traders in "puts" and "calls"
were to be disciplined.
Superiptendent Warren, of the Barber
Asphalt Company, Buffalo, has been con-
victed of employing alaborer upon city
works who was not a citizen of the United
States,and sentenced to One year in the
penitentiary.
enitentiar .
Owing to the motorman's carelessness
a
trolley oar
ran off an open drawbridge in
Milwaukee on Monday and three people
were killed. The car fell to the fee below,
which gave way under it, and still pre.
vented it from sinking in the deep river.
At San Francisco an attempt was made
to kill I. W. Hellman, President of the
Nevada Bank, William Holland fired two
shots at the banker near his residence on
Children Cry for Pitcher" Castoff
California street and thenshot himself, He I
is mortally wounded, The shots fired at
Mr. Hellman went.wide of the mark.
At Pittsburg an electric oar became un-
manageable while deaoending the Wood's
Run Hill, The motorman and conductor
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jumped from the oar, leaving the oaanpants
to their fate, The oar planed down the
steep grade, jumpsd the track, and struck
against the end of the bridge which spans
Wood's Run, 150 feet below, Three of
the passengers were badly injured.
The Brooklyn Grand Jury handed in a
batch of indictments against men who out
thetrolley wires, obstructed traoks, threw
bricks and coir mitted other acts to inter-
fere with the running of oars. The (barge
against them is malicious interference with
the running of oars. This is felony. Miss
May McDonald, eighteen years old, the
leader of a mob on Fifth avenue, was also
indicted,
Arrangements have been made by Presi-
dent Clevelandfor the issue of a 4 per
cent, "coin" bond, to run 30 years, at a
premium which would make the aotual
interest 3 S-4 per cont., but coupled with
the condition that if a 3 per cent. gold bond
were authorized by Congress ress within ten
days they would be substituted for the 4
per cent. bonds, thus saving $539,155 in
annual interest, and saving $16,174,770 in
interest for the full term of 30 years.
Commercial reports from the United
States are only negatively satisfactory.
They do not report trade as improved, but
say there are "some pointe of encourage-
ment." Prices of farm produce are no
better all round, though there have been,
of course, fluctuations. Iron and steel have
declined a little; some grades of cotton
goods are lower. In woollens there bas
been more doing, but prices are weak.
Salop of foreign wool in the States are not
noticeably larger, with the duty off, than
they were for the corresponding week last
year. Receipts of corn have been limited,
and values are a shade higher.
GENERAL.
Gen. Anniballe Ferrero has been appoint-
ed Italian Ambasador to London in succes-
sion to Count di Vergano.
By an exptobron at the St. Eugiene col-
liery in France on Tuesday, between 20
and 30 lives were lost, and a number of
miners injured.
Madame Joniaux, the Belgian lady con-
demned to death for poisoning her relatives
to obtain life ineurance, has appealed from
the sentence.
The remains of Gen. Boulanger, who
committed suicide on the grave of his mis-
tress in Bruesels in 1891, are to be taken to
Paris for reinterment.
New Zealand has set apart two islands
for the preservation of its remarkable wild
birds and other animals. All hunting
and trapping are forbidden thereon.
Sheikh El Bakri, the chief among living
descendants of the prophet Mohammed
and head of the religious communities in
Egypt, has resigned all his public offices.
The notorious bandit Areaki and nine of
his followers have been condemned at
Algiers, to death. Five other members of
the band have been sentenced to terms of
penal servitude.
An attack of Anglophobia has broken
out in the Berlin press, and the wreok of
the Elbe by the British steamer Carthie is
the text upon which they are hanging many
sermons on British brutality and selfishness.
During the trial of Anarchists at Liege it
was shown that the notorious " Baron
Sternberg " was a Russian Nihilist agent
paid to organize and incite dynamite out.
rages in various European capitals.
TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL BURN-
ED.
Explosion of a Lamp Causes an $80,000
Fire at bort Hope—The (toys AU Safe.
A despatch from Port Hope says :—
Trinity College School was burned Satur-
day night. The alarm was sounded a few
minutes before 12. A terrifio gale was
blowing from the west and it was some
time before help arrived.
The fire, which originated in the tower
in,, the west wing, is supposed to have been
caused by the explosion of a lamp, and the
flames, fanned by the high wind, swept
completely through the building. The
firemen were very much handicapped,
as one of the pipes of the waterworks
had burst during the severe frost of the
last few days. Lines of men were formed
and buckets of water handed along. Every.
thing was done to save the building, but
without success. In a few minutes the fire
had spread from the west wing to the
centre, and the men were forced to retire,
leaving the flames to continue the work of
devastation towards the chapel, and soon
nothing but the walls were left standing.
Very little of the contents of the build-
ing were saved; the teachers and the pupils,
numbering 145, alike lost more than half of
their belongings, some of them saving
nothing but the garments they are now
wearing.
The gymnasium and the principal's house
were not injured in the beast, although for
some time it was thought Do Bethune's
house would take fire, as the flames were
blowing directly towards it. The pupils
are quartered in private houses and at the
hotels.
School will not be disbanded, as the
'principal has made arrangements to use
the St. Lawrence Hotel for that purpose,
until the Easter holidays, at least, or until
further arrangements are made.
The principal, Rev. Dr. Bethune, Bent
the following telegram to the parents and
guardians of the several pupils : "Boys
comfortably quartered with their friends;
arrangements are made to carry on school
immediately."
As tar as can be learned the loss is fully
covered by an insurance of $80,000 in
various companies, and it is understood the
school is to be rebuilt at once.
Too Mueh to Stand.
Little Johnny—"I prayed for good skat-
ing, and we got plenty of ice, but it has
snowed just enough to spoil it."
Little Ethel—"That's too bad."
Little Johnny—" It's a outrage. I'm
goin' over to the coaetin' hill to lick the
boy that prayed for snow."
In the Slums.
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Street Gamin—"I live in a tenement
house."
What sort of a house is that Y"
" Well it's a house where poor folks
beeps the dishes that they expets to nee
if they ever have anything to cook,"
Willie Dazzle—Weally, Miss Black, I
dawnced so vigowously in that last waltz
that my head Mole dwedfully light. Miss
B, —That's startling. I supposed that seaa
cation was so common with you that you
had long since ceased to be annoyed by it,
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TWO TORONTO BROKERS ARREST-
ED FOR KILLING AN EMPLOYEE.
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is Their Aile; e4L `icttm-9.-Tivo Years
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Dallas T. Hyams and Harry P. Hyams,,
brokers, of Toronto, were arras ted in that city
on Wednesday on a charge of murder, and
if the charge can bo substantiated in the wit.
noes box the trial of the accused men will dis-
close as strange and terrible a story of care.
fully planned and heartless crime as has
ever been written in the criminal annals
of Canada.
On the 16th January, 1893, William C.
Wells, a young Englishman, 22 years of
age, employed as a bookkeeper by the
Hyams Bros,, storage agents and brokers,
Colborne street, Toronto, wasfound lying
dead at the bottom of the elevator shaft in
the warehouse. Harry Hyaena diaoovered
the body and gave the alarm, and when
the remains were examined it was
found that the left side of the
head was crushed in, causing in.
stent death. The explanation given of
the affair at the time was that Wells was
making some repairs at the foot of the old-
fashioned freight -hoist shaft, that the
weight whiohbalanoee the hoist, and which
weighed 500 pounds, had become unhooked
and fallen from the third storey directly
upon the head of the young man in the
cellar. Coroner Aikins was notified and
made an investigation, but was satisfied by
the representations made to him, and con-
cluded that an inquest was not necessary.
When the affairs of the dead youth came
to be settled up it was found that there
was $36,000 insurance on his life,
$31,000 of which was carried by the Mutual
Life Insurance Co. of New York, and the
balance in theMutunl Accident Aseooiation.
The policies were payable to deceased's
sister Martha, who was engaged to be
married to Harry Hyams. They had only
been issued a couple of months previously,
and but one premium had been paid on
each. These facts led the New York com-
pany to investigate the case on their own
account, but nothing could be diaoovered to
justify any suspicions or foul play, and the
money was paid to Miss Wells and nothing
further was heard of the case at that time.
In May last Harry Hyams and Martha
Wells were married and shortly afterwards
moved to Montreal. Two weeks ago they
returned to Toronto, and have been stay-
ing at 57 Gould street, where the brothers
were found by the deteotivee and arrested
on Wednesday evening.
THE PRISONERS' CAREERS
Harry Hyams was interviewed by a
reporter on Friday last, and made the
following statement to him :—" We were
born in New Orleans, where our father
practised medicine. At an early age my
brother and I were sent to Germany to
school, where we spent four years. We
afterwards returned to New Orleans. After
our father died we oame to Kingston,
Canada, where we engaged in manufactur-
ing kid gloves. This was nine years ago.
Seven years ago we closed out our business
in Kingston and came to Toronto and en-
gaged in general brokerage and loaning
business. About five years ago we met
Will Wells and his sister Martha, who is
now my wife. Will Wella had about
$1,200, which he gave ne to invest. We
put part of the money in chattel mortgages
and lost it. The security taken, however,
was approved of by Wella. My brother
and I were taking out some life insur-
ance on the endowment plan as an in.
vestment, and we advised Wells to do the
same. He arranged for a policy in the
New York Life for $30,000. I paid the
first premium, $384, out of the money
Wells had given us. Shortly before this
we engaged Welbe to work for us, as we
had taken a warehouse in Colborne street,
and were parrying on a general auction and
storage business. It was while engaged
in his work in the warehouse young Wella
met his death. I oannot say any more
about the accident than your paper already
knows, My brother and I felt keenly the
suspioioue oircumstancee. We did all we
could. We notified Coroner Aikins, who
made an investigation on the premises.
The life insurance companies also investi-
gated the matter, and I am told the city
detectives also made an investigation. All
I know about these investigations is that
Dr. Aikins did not consider au inquest
necessary. The insurance companies paid
the policies, and I have heard nothing from
the detectives."
MORE ABOUT THE TRAGEDY.
Further investigation of the case led to a
revival in the interest therein, and the
whole of the circumstances connected with
the death of young Wells in Hyams' ware-
house have been canvassed and discussed.
There were several matters ss hich gave rise
to suspicion at the time of the tragedy : (1)
Wells was but 22 years of age, yet his life
was insured for $36,000, of which $30,000
was in the New York Life, and but one
premium had been paid; (2) the premium in
the New York Life, which amounted to
$384, was paid by Hyams; (3) at the time of
the tragedy Hyams was the only person in
the warehouse his brother was at the bar-
bers; his clerk, Mr, Aylesworth, had been
sent to transact some business at North
Toronto, and the typewriter, a young
woman, had not yet arrived at the office,
having been given letters to deliver person-
ally on Monday morning before reporting
for duty.
ANOTHER INSURANCE SOREME.
Another series of circumstances in con-
nection with an attempt to place insurance
to the amount of 8300,000 upon the life of
Mre. Harry Hyams, sister of the dead man,
and wife of the younger prisoner, has e.
significant interest in the light of last
night's arrest. Very reoantly, in fact not
more than two weeks ago, when Mr, and
Mrs. H. P. Hyams returned from Montreal,
applications were made •to various life
insurance companies for insurance upon the
lady's life. Among them were the follow-
ing :—Equitable
ollow-ing:—Equitable Life Insurance, $80,000;
Mutual Life of New York, $50,000;
Sun Life, 820,000; Standard of Edin-
burgh, '10 00
0 Standard of Edinburgh,
h,
additional application,
875,000 ; United
States Life , 0
2000
; Mutual Reserve Fund
Life,$10,000, a
2 00 ' Confederation
0$
$ ,
a in
total of $290,000. Theppligations oath
instance were described as Mrs, Martha
Wells, Hyaline of Montreal, born on March
11, 1870, at Somareetehire, England. The
applioation further stated that the father
of the applicant died at the age of 45, and
her mother at the age of 32, and one broth.
er was killed at the age of 22. She had no
living brother, and was married in May
last.
Several of these applications were
provisionally accepted, but afterwards
Mrs. Hyams became alarmed, and deolar.
ing that she had been missed, had no idea
that she had applied for anything like so
large an amount, sought, through her soli -
4
oitore to cancel the1 0
e a ca i n. The
r
1 1
s uestwas grantedl b the by al but Mutual
Life, who held the applioation for $50,000,
and legal steps were taken to compel them
to cancel it, the matter being still in ,,bey.
anoe.
TICE ARREST.
The Crown has been deliberating for the
past day or two upon the new evidence
adduced in this strange case, and it was
only at 5 o'clock on Wednesday evening,
after a lengthy consultation between Crown
Attorney Curry, Coroner Aikins and In-
spector Stark, tbab Detective Cuddy was
instructed to swear out a warrant before
Mr, Hugh Miller, J. P. The information
charged that the accused, "on January 16,
1893, did, feloniously, wilfully and with
malice aforethought, kill and murder
William C. Wells."
Detectives Cuddy and Davis immediately
set out in quest of their men and found
them as already described. Tho prisoners
were taken over to Agnes street polxoe sta-
tion, and after a brief detention were senb
to the gaol. They appeared at the Police
Court on Thursday morning, but the pro-
ceedings were
raceedingswere of a formal character and a
remand granted for a week.
THE EASTERN WAR.
The .Yapancse Are Still Having Everq-
thin g Their Own WaY 1n the War
Against China.
Little as we hear about it, the war be-
tween Japan and China still drags its slow
length along. The metaphor that has been
applied to the Yellow Empire—that of an
old whale spouting blood as the active hat.
pooners plunge their spears into its back
—seems to hold good. It hardly even bel-
lows or lashes with its tail, but takes its
wounds in silence. No man of power
comes to the front to summon the nation
to arms. The Chinese soldiers seem dis-
posed to run away when the time of trial
comes. There has been no great skirmish
won by the defenders, and no stubbornly
fought field to impart confidence to the
better Chinese soldiers and to destroy the
Japanese contempt for their enemies,
WEI-HAI-WEI HAS SUCCUMBED
to the Japanese advance in the same manner
that Port Arthur did. With this fortified
port in their hands the Japanese have eon.
trol of the entrances to the Pe -Chi -Li gulf,
and in the spring, if the war be not brought
to a close before that time, they can advance
upon Tien -Tern or Pekin whenever they
choose. The Chinese apparently pursued
in this instance the same tactioe that were
followed in their defence of Port Arthur.
They retired behind their fortifications at
the firet assault, and when the final onset
was made they beat a hasty retreat. If
the Japanese disgrace themselves and their
cause by allowing their barbaric instincts
to break through the coating of civilization
they have are med during the past 25 or 30
years it will not only discredit their cause,
but it will tend to arouse
A WESTERN ANTAGONISM.
On the score of prudence the Japanese can-
not afford to have arrayed against them the
indignant feelings of all civilized nations.
There is already a questioning spirit
abroad as to what will be the result if
Japan masters China, and with its know-
ledge of Western methods begins to admin.
Teter the immense resources of that great
Empire. With their fatalism and passive
endurance of what is, it would seem not an
impossible thing that the Chinese should
submit to the conquerers and endure their
rule, not only with Eastern patience, but
with a readiness to respond to the demands
of a firm Government such as would raise
them to theosition of a vast competitive
power. If Japanphas done what she has
with her population of 40,000,000, what
could she not do with an obedient, well.
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