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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1897-2-11, Page 3aseateneentwertawasseoaa- Ili NEB IN 1 NUTSHELL THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. 'Interesting Items About Our Own Gauntry. Great Britain, the United States, and Ail Parts 9f the Globe, Condensed and Assorted for Busy Reading. dANADA. The curfew, by-law will be enforced In Hamilton. Parliament has been called to meet on March 11. The strike at the Springhill, N. S. mines bas 'been settled. The Eastern portion of Lake Erie is reported to be frozen over. Mr.johnMcKergove was elected Pre- sident of the Montreal Board of Tra'de. The Hoolielaga Beak will inerease its c,apitad stock from. e800,000 to $1,000,- 000. Hon. J. L Tarte has completed ar- rangements for the survey of Fraser' River. A Chatham syndicate is reeorted to have struck a rush flow of oil at Both- well. The gontreel Petrie says it is ru- moured that there will soon be a Papal ablegato in Canada. A strike If garment workers in the wholesale erithing factories oi Hamit ton is threigened. 4It is consieered probable in Montreal that there well be an early dissolution of the Queliee Legislature. • Immigrants who argived .and, seteled iu Canada last year oemberee eteainst 25,471 in 1895. • The steamer State of Georgia, 34 days mit 'from Dautzie for Halifax, has beee given up for lost. Tisdale,. who lived fouxteen mileis north tee Pilot Mound Man was frozen to death lest week. The amount of money at present de - posted in the Dominion Post -Office and eagings Banks is e57,875,775. The Ottawa Electric Street Railway Company 'last year carriedmore than one millime and a hale passengers. Lord Aberdeen has presented ex - Mayor Borthwick, of Ottawa, with a silver inkstand, as a souvenir of his term. of office. Eva.ngelist II. Clarence Ramsey, of Toxonto, bas left for China, vhere he Ls to eugage in missionary work for maay years. 1•11001•111•11010•111•111100411., "ammomamma. poomolim. THE E ICE T E TirIVIE'f'S The usuei Jacobite deMonstretime • The whaler Nimiod has been sent took place in front of the statue, of Charles L in Trafalgar square, Lon- don on Saturday. Mr. T. P. O'Conuor has sold his Even- ing Su.n to a Tory syndicate, andhas beams parliamentary .skeeoh writer to the Daily Telegraph. The body of Isaac Pitman, the invent- or of the Pitman system of ehorthand, who died last Nyeek, was cremated at Woking on Thursday, e- lYfr. Joseph Arceethe leader .of the agricultural labor movement, is about to write his memoir, which will be'ed- ited by the Countess, of Warwick.. •• It has become evident that there will be no commutation of the eight months' imprisonment passed iipon Lady Scott for libelling her son-in-law, Earl Rus- sell. Lieut. -Governor Kirkpatrick,. who re- cently underwent an operation in London, privete hospital, 'continues to make. favourable progress towards re, covery. . • . . . It is understood that the Prince ot. Wales will attend one of the,series of farewell ,banquetsthat Ambassador, Bayard will give to his friends at the Embassy. ,, • - It is ru,mored thateCol. Cecil Rhodes has documentary•proof of the intrigues alleged to have•taken place. between President Krieger, of the Transvaal, and the Gertnan 'Government. The British and Foreign Arbitration Assoeiation has cabled. to Washington a petition. to the United States Senate in favor of the. ratification of the Anglo-A.merican arbitieti a teeter. , Irise affairs continue in the forefront of British. politics, but it is generally admitted that the party made, a tacti- cal mistake in withdrawing the amend- ment on Ireland's overtaxation to the address. Mr, Joseph Chamber -leen, in the Dense of Commons on Wednesday, said that he was not in a position to state what progress had been made towards an im- proved Canadian inail screed, 'explain- ing, that the Dominion Government is still considering the question. ' UN/TED STATES. Mr. Gladstone has gone to Cannes. The National Bank at Potsdam, N. Y., has closed its doors. Gilbert Bud, aged 25, was frozen to death at Spring Valley, Minn. Tee heavy ice in the Ohio leiver has, caused a total suspension of naviga- tion, - The steamer Cervic, five days over- due from Liverpool, has arrived at New York. . roue St. Johns', flee to search for the steamer State of Georgia, overdue from Dantzig, Prince Bismarck s reported unusual- ly strong and well, and in spite of the bad weather he takes long walks and drives daily. It is denied at Math id that negotie ations are 13ending for a new come niercial treaty between Spain and the United States, The officials of the 'Japanese Lega- tion in St. Petersbuig confirm the ree port that the plague has broken out in the Island of Formosa,. Tee proposed visit of the Czar and Czarina to Bernie and London at the end of April has been cancelled, owing to the health of their Majesties. Iu spite of official denials it is be- coming generally known that' the con- dition of the Czar's health is criticali, and that a Regency is probable. At a meeting of the Manitoba..Cabin- et on, Thursday it was definitely decided to call the /louse together on. the 18th of February. Mr. I. Ileaugrand,, ex -Mayor Of Monte reai, and proprietor of La Pattie, is slowly recovering, and is now quite out of danger.' • • The Donaldson line steamship War- wick. e,hieh ran on the Yellow Mule lodge, Nova Scotia, two weeks agoehtia' disappeared from -sight, The Springhill millers' strike is not settled, and the union has called out the men, who were figbting the fire in one slope of the mule. The Oltawa branch of the' Canadian Federation of Labour has declared for an Alien Labour law, end reciprocity in 'tabour with the United States. Bricklayers on the sewer works in London are • on strike because Foreman Smith refused to pay a fine of e25 im- posed, by the Toronto union. The, fourteen -year-old eon . of H •Mr. en- reeTrepeoe Ridgeway, Ont., was drown- ed. in the lake of Windmill Point last Wednesday while sleighing on the ice. The directors of the Central Canada Fair, Ottawa, intend enlarging the fair grounds and recouetructing !the main building during the coming sum - neer. Mr. james Mussels, a G.T.R. yard- man at Niagara Falls, was caught be- tween the draw -bars of two cars while coupling, and instantly killed. The profits on the silver and copper coiriage accruing -to the Dominion. Gov- erument during the past year amounted to seventy-six thousand dollars. Premier Laurier has declined an in- vitation to speak at the Washington birthday celebration in Chicago on Feb. 22, owing to pressure of business. A convict named Harrigan plunged a fork into the arm of a,convict nam- ed McDonald in Kingston Penitentiary on Wednesday. Horngan was sent to the prison of isolation. A shortage of about $40,-000 has been discovered in the funds of Brant County .and Township, of which the Treasurer was the late Mr. W. '5. Campbell. • Hon. Sidney Fisher announces that he has completed arrangements with shipping companies at Montreal for cold storage for agricultural rend dairy products. Capt. Collier of the London Salvation Arnie, in speaking of "Worldly Am- usements," condemned skating, but ad- mitted lie had never been in a skat- ing rink in his life. Premier Laurier has replied to the British Consul -General at Brazil. guar- anteeing the expenses of returning ele- ven more Canadian families, compris- ing forty persons from Brazil. Capt. McNeil:, of the Donaldion SS. Amarynthia has been condernued to pay to the wife of Dr. De Cow e700 for the contents of a trunk stolen •from his vessel in July, 1895. According to official -returns the pro- duction of pig iron in Canada mere than doubled during the last.fiscal- year, 84,- 607 tons 'having been produced, as - against 31,611: in the previous year. ' London is supplying food and cloth- ing to a band of 30 gypsies, men, wo- men and children, who are encamped outside the city, and who are unable to leave their horses having, etrayed,or been stolen. . • ; , James Mackie, station, agent at the G. T. R. junction, near 'Kinston, and for 30 years connected with that rail- way, and Robert Thompson, -of the freight department at Kingston, have been dismissed.. ., . • A fateer, mother and three children were frozen to death. pear Little Rock, Ark., yesterday. Buffaio is suffering from a water fa- mine, caused. be the intake being chok- ed with slush ice. • • The lumbeignen, or Tonawanda, N. Y.. are a unit in demanding ai protective policy on Canadian lumber entering the United States. A bill has been introdueed in the Texas Housethof Representatives prohi- biting e manufacture or irate of pistols in that State. • . • Capt. John Campbell., of • the barque British-Armerica, was frozen to death two miles out ot Alabama. oa Tuesday night. ' A. fire in Philadelphia, destroyed a million dollars' worth of property. Mr. John (Wananaakee's .store was one of the buildings daanaged. Sir Julian Pauiacefete and Secretary Olney on Saturday signed the con- vention for the definition by 'commis- sion of the Alaskan boundary line. According to siatistics .prepared in Albany, N,Y. the average .ot wages paid in New 'York 'tate to weirkitig- men is e4.36 a year, cordpared with §551 in Ontario. • • • • The betrothal ts announced in Lon- don of Miss Aliee Harper, daughter of the late Henry Harper of Philadelphia, to Captain Phillips, of London, for- merly of the 13th Hussars. ' Secretary Adarn, of the British Le- gation at Brussels, has been appointed to succeed Viscount Gough, secretary of the British .Embassy at Washington, recently appointed ieeretary of the Em- beiesy at Berlin. Ths new timber (ley dock and the largest iu the. Brooklyue N.Y., navy yard, is reported to be two feet shorter and four inches shallower than the specifications called for. It has already cost the Government ' $538,679. The United Rabe Senate Commit- tee on Foreign Relations ;has leveed to report favourably the Arbitration: treaty, with amendments, the most int - portant of which_ is striking ,out the clause appointing King. Oscar, of ,Swe- den. umpire. A leadrire report says that General Azcarraga, Minister of War, is to be appointed Governor-General of Cuba, and that Gen. Weyer is to be retained as no. mander-in-chief. The betrothal is announced of the Hereditary Prince of Saxe -Coburg, the eldest son of the Duke of Edinburgh, to Princess Fecidore of Saxe-Meiningere A battle is reported to eave taken place on Tuesday betweeu Brazilian troops and religious fanatics in the State of Bahia, Brazil. The loss on both sides was 25I) killed. Six Herbert Murray, Governor of Newfoundland, will leave St. John's on February 9 for Halifax. It is stated that he is coraing to Ottawa to discuss another proposal for confederation. Li.eut von Bruzwitz, the Gerrea,n offi- cer .evlio some time ago ran a laboring man through the back with a sword for knocking against his chair ba a. cafehas been sentenced to three years' impris- onment. Advices from A.gordat say thee the dervishes, who were believed to be ad- vancing on that. place, have abandoned their fortified ca.me Amideb and are retreating in the direction of Aimoasa, pursued by the friendly natives. THE DIAMOND JUBILEE, A VERY COMPLETE CHAIN COLO,NIAL PREMIERS INVITED TO VISIT LONDON. Mr. Wilfred Laurier Aceepte-A. rromme.41 'National Addrese Front Mayors of tante dam Cities. A despatch from London says:-Ite, plying Friday in the House of Com- mons to Sir George Baden-Powell, mem- ber of the Kirkdale division of Live erpool. the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, con- firmed the report that the Premier of Cape Colony, in common with all the other Premiers throughout the British Empire, had been invited to visit the Queen on the occasion of her diamond jubilee. Mr. Chamberlain added that the Premiers of Canada, Cape Colony, and Natal had already accepted. In each case the wife of the. Premier, his personal staff, and a detachment of troops from the colony he represents are ineluded in the invitation. • There is official authority for stat- ing that the Queen has, through' the Rt. Hon. Joseph Cherneerlain, Seore- tary of State for the Colonies,' invited Mr. W. Laurier, Premier of Canada, and the other colonial Premiers of the Empire to visit London this sum- mer as state guests, with their suites, and attend the diamond jubilee cele- brations on June '20, Tee Canadian Government ia also being asked. to sed detachments of the permeneat local forces to Engiand, including, if OF COLD STORAGE FACILITIES HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED. — • Space Will be Allotted en the Steamship ILtises-litegulur Serrices Will be Organ- ized Betweett Canada and Several Old Country Ports. The Minister of Agrioulture basnow almost completed agrangetnents ,for 'system of cold storage accoraodation ex- tending from the paint of produetion to the ports of entry In England and Scotland. The O.P.R. and G.T.R. will run a weekly or fortnightly serviee Ov- er their lines, thus providing ample fac- ilities for the exporters of dairy pro-, ducts and fruits. The Government have Pilotage commiegionerse at Halifax, St. John Sydney; Viotaria, and other ports have been asked to refund to the Government fees appropriated by them during 1896 which were not allowed under the statutes. GREAT BRITAIN. rr The formai, enthronement, of Dr. Creighton as Bishop of London took place on Saturday. The battleship Monarch was placed in commission at Chatham. on Tuesday. • She will go to South Africa. It is said. the Queen's daughters are to be made Duchesses in elude., own right to mark. Atha e die -Mond litbilee Sir Donald A. Smith, the Canadian High Commissioner, has donated the slim of five handred eounds to the In- dian famine land. It is semi -officially etated that nego- tiations for a treaty of general arbit- ration between France and the Unit- ed States were commenced aliblit a year ago, but were only resumed when; it was announced that the •Anglonemeri- can. treaty had been definitear.conclud- ear. ;i dee, e eer possible, a party of (he Nbrth-West 1.1ounted. Police, to take part in a military pageant of tee whole Em- pire. Proposals bave also been before the Government for a formal paa-ldrie- annic conferenee while the colonial Premiers are here, bat it ia doubtful whether suffieleat important questions are ripe for public discussion. The political eheraeter which the imperial prefereutial tariff question has assum- ed here raake.s it unsuitable for dis- cussion, even if the colonists were ,agreed, amongst themselves. A despatch from Ottawa says :-Mr. W. E, Gower, C.E., of Mentreal, who is the priine mover in the proposal to appoint a Canadian Executive Com- mittee of the Alayors of the• different Canadian cities to arrange for the pre- sentation of a national address to Der Majesty on the °evasion of her dia- mond jubilee was in the city on Fri- day. lie bad a conference with Mayor Bingham. Ile said that the Mayors of the leaclin,g cities were favorable to the proposal, and prepared to enter into it most heartily. They all were agree- able to meeting in the capital with one exception, the Mayor of Montreal. The first meeting will be held here in a few weeks. Mayor Bingham is de- cidedly in favor of the proposal. HAD BIS SKULL CRUSHED A TAECHER HIT WITH AN AXE IN THE HANDS OF A YOUTH. The Assailant Trits le escape Annie tbe iloofe Of lifouseseelow In Goat A despatch from Halifax, N. g., says: -Mr. E. Kaullbach, teacher of commer- cial law in Frazee and Whiston Bus- iness College, 'was found on the up- stairs floor of the college building on Tuesday morning with his skull crushed in, but still living. Fte had been at- tacked a short time before with an axe by a sou a the janitor of the building, a demented 'youth, who made his es- . Hanley took to the roof after corn - runtime, the assault, and it then de- veloped. that he carried a brace of re- volvers, which he could be seep from the street to be brandishing in a threatening manner, as though to frighten would-be pursuers. The p0 - live, however, did not attempt to catch him until he descended to the street through another building. He dis- carded an overcoat, and laid his pistols secured this service by giving the oom- panics a. small guarantee as to the amount of freight they will receive. At Montreal there is already ample cold storage accommodation provided by private enterprise, but Mr. Fisher has seen that the chain of coin.mimitation with the British markets is complete, by making arrangements with the vari- ous steamship companies for cold stor- age facilities on board of their •vessels. The cost of this work is limited by the Government, which assumes the re- sponsibility for one-half of the out -lay payable in the course of three; years. The Elder Dempster Company will pro- vide twenty thousand 'ciibic feet of cold storage space in each of five vessels running from Montreal to Bristol, giv- ing a weekly service. Tee Messrs. Al- lan and. Reford will provide ten 'thous- and cubic feet of spaee ini each of six vessels, giving a weekly service to Lon- don, and the Messrs. Allan will furnish one-half of a weekly service to Liver- pool,similarly equipped. A • weekly service, on a smaller, scale to Glasgow, will also probably be established as well as a line running from St. John. and Halifax to Liverpool. ' As there are now two hundred and fifty creameries in the Dominion, it is likely. now that this .cold storage sys- tem.is so complete, that the coming season will witness a great increaee in the butter' exports. • • " • The' cenditieri ofbusiness in ehe'tnit- ed geese, aecording, theelonienereeal reports: Of Messre...Bredetreet ane Dun, of New leerke eh'eev little or no nettle. change, ' There are traele,flucteetieek here, end. there, ante a tene, ef fair con- fidence ii the, futiire.appears to exit among,commereialmen. As a moe te,a8 is dull -and prices centinnenlow ; Ithe month is,pallecl a disappointing ore., fon the simple reason Qat-Q.:expectations as to the' amount of ,tract likely eahe dene, to the Amount .ee..erede to. 18 doneeet the. beginning ee, the year gun, too high. Some woollen hayenstop- Ped dueling the weak, bub .ilerger num, ber have started, and moreistilleere,pree paring ,,,eo start ; at, once., e'relle there is no actual ieePrOvemen't netradee;.the conditions Are senheas 18. inspire eustie fiabie ,confidenee. , e• • e • e. e • e GENERAL. The reported .illness . of the' Czar is again, denied, .1: '1 511101.. Eydeleaudf,llifq'sf'S,'pri;Vatp, Senor Oancivas del Castillo, the:Span, ish Premier, is slightly indisposed. The powers hav,e,presenteera d.raft of .the reforms eemeetieed ie,Tnekey to ,the ' „. Princess.Louise, • • BelgiuM • is nree poreee te' have eloped with. a,,militagy- officer".4 :',.• rr ' or. ;,,n; , • Italy • has' ordered ea eiattallens' of troops_ to be put'in, ereadlidees to start: for MesSeefah. ' The Obillio reeennent; is ,lee'etig nee. 000,000; liroug sMugglang. J,• A DECAYING -NATION. Startling Proposition Made by the French PreMier. • • • The National Alliance for the :In- crease of the. Population of Frande, founded by Dr. Bertillon, Chief' of the Municipal' Statistic Department, Of Pare is, in view of the alarming . state dI the population of Franc,e, shown by the recently published.. census, is dis- cussing a curious pxoposal from M. Me - line, the French Premier, with a view to coercing permits to increase their families. The plan proposes thee Gov- ernment scholarships in schools and. 'ac- ademies shall only be given In the case till families or not less than three lie- iiag children, and that all Governme.nt ,posts, unless requiring special qualifi- ;petioles, or favours,- like tobacco 'icons - concessions in the colonies, etc..., etc., shall be similarly elven. and that ,prometion and allowances be, regulat- ed according to ttie. number of ellil- eleen.e The proposal e is meethag With serious consideration. Dr. Bertillon, early- clueing the present month, said that the. result of the census, is simple appalling, and tiiOI wilcs. a rairaculous change for the -better takes, peace Franee will pen disappear as a great nation. • ' ' -' • Germany, ii. 1.§41, ,appea.rs, had ,about,the same population as France; „but fil-dak- she is •credited with having 1.4,00,900 of inhabitants more than Franae. 'Then; ,.againi 'Li:tiering the .last ,five years, the pqpulAtiorrt of Germany has increased by 3,000,00, while..thet'of France, in the saine period,' has only increased about 175.00,0. ',Final:V.., showii that i 1873 The laUmbee eoulig inen on • the hots. tog. militaTt eSeeice *as eleent the defile in Germenyeeend. ranee, whereas 'to -day the, number of. eeerrean conscripts is 450,000, „while the French. conscripts only number: 330,011e. AN ARMY ON PAPER. STANDARD OF THE WORLD. on the way down, se that when he got to tlie sidewalk he looked like a dif- ferOnt person from the heavily -clad man running across the high roofs. But he was quickly, recognized and arrested. There is no doubt that after Mr. Kaaelbach's rebuke Hanley deliberate- ly prepared to murder the teacher, as be entered his class -room ready for the attack, and gave his intended vic- tim no quarter, Mr. leaulliaeh escap- ed from the room, and took the stairs, but was struck down before he reach- ed the floor below. The victim is 45 years old, and belongs to Annapolis county. The would-be murderer's name is Joseph Hanley, and he is about 26 years old, It is unknown yet whe- ther the injured umn will die, but his wound is very serious. Hanley had been having a. quarrel with his ince trier, when Mr. Kaulbaeh called to him and asked hina to make less noise, Shortly. afterwards the teacher was found in the hallway with his head crushed in, while Hanley had disap- peered. Mr. Kaulbaoh recovered con- sciousness a sh,art time after being found, and made a deposition, stating that Hanley caused his injuries. Britain's tinlitary Farces and now Thor Are Scattered. The British army looks well on paper, says the London Court Journal. Accord- ing to the latest return, our army at home and abroad musters We very re- spectable total of 221,000, eerclusive of the Reserves. Of this .nureber nearly 106,000 are at home, a,baut 76,000 in In- dia, 4,000 in Egypt, the reineinder be- ing distributed over the Mediterranean garrisons and the c,o2onies. • At home m round numbers, there' are 26,000 troops in Ireland, 4,000 in Scotland and 76,000 in F.ngland and Wales. The Bengal command has the greatest share of the 76,000 men in India. This dis- trict takes up 24,000, the Puniaub, 20,- 000; Madras and. Burma, 14,0b0; Bom- bay, 16,000, the remainder being on passage. In South Africa there are about 6,000 anen. The garrisons at Gibraltar and Ma•Ita absorb over -14,- 000 men, the West Indies 'about 3,000, the West African colonies, 1,000; Hong Kong, nearly 3,000; the straits settle- ments, 1,500; Ceylon rather ' more; Mauritius, 1,000; Halifax, Nova Seatia, 1,500; Bermuda, 1,500; Cyprus, 150, and St. Helena., 300. ROYAL ARTILLERY BAND.' HOBOKEN'S FATAL FIRES SEVEN PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH ON SATURDAY NIGHT. Proposed to Smite the Famous Oratiulza tion 40 This Century. • ' e A petition is being. circulartedthrongb, out the Provinces of Ontario, 'Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia. New Brunswick, Quebec, Menitota, and Brit- ish Columbia, which will be forwarded to his Excellency, Lord Aberdeen, Gee- . ernox-General of Canada, asking that ha exert his influence withrthe Imperial One of the Pope Mfg. Co.'s five great factedea at Hartford, Conn. THE factories for xnalting- Colurabia and Hartford Bicycles have no equal any -where for size, completeness of equipment, or thoroughness of methods. They have been steadily growing for 18 years. Every detail of manufacture is based' upon accurate investigation of thescientific, Department of Tests, guided by a Council cf 21 Expert Engineers, and supplemented by the most rigid system of inspection. The result is certainty of quality. .0 COLUMBIA BICYCLES ARE IN A CLASS BY THE1VISELVES—Unequalled, Unapproached. Columbia Art Catalogue, telling fuer of Columbia, and of Hertford Myelin, tmetworthy machines a lower price, Is free front any Columbia agent; by :nail for two acent *temps. POPE MFG. CO: Hartford, Conn. We appoint but one selling agent In a town, and do not sell to jobbers or midalemen, If Coltunbliti are not properly represented 444 your vicinity, let us know. eeez•',..;;;e:.; 1'1'7; ;-i;-. 1111111110. Mrs. Schroeder aud.Five Children Perish in One -an ElghtNenr-Old Girl in the Other. A despatch from Hoboken, N.J., says: -This city was visited by two disastrous fires between 11.30 Satur- day night and. 3 o'clock Sunday morn- ing. Seven persons were burned to death and 30 families were made home- le,ss. The Saturday night fire started in the three-storey 1rame building. at 410 Newark. street. Here six persons lost their lives. They were Mrs. Nel- lie Schroeder, 40 years old, and her five children, Henry, aged. eleven; Maggie, seven; Kate, nine; John, years, and Willie, three months old. The father of the family, Charles Schroeder, was ill a nearby saloon playing cards while his wife and chil- dren were dying. The second fire started at 3 o'clock this morning in a five -storey, double -deck teneinent at 157 Fourteenth street. In this fire three tenements, Nos. 155, 157 and 159, were entirely wrecked and. No. 153 was damaged badly. One child was burn- ed to death on the fourth floor of No. 157. She was Mabel Mangles, eight years old The fire at 410 Newark street on started in a defective flue in Schaeffer's weeelwright shop on the ground floor of a three-storey frame building. Schaffer occupied the sec- ond floor as living apartments. The front rooms on the third floor were oc- cupied by Chas. Schroeder and his family, while James Blanchfield and family occupied the rooms in the rear. The Blanchfield family discovered the fire ,and barely. made their escape by way of the roofs of the adjacent build.- ings. It was impeesible to discover the fate of the Schroeder family until the fire had subsided, when the bodies of the mother and children were found. authorities to have her 1VIajesty's Ro- yal, frael'ele(ib 11Y.10, *wire Ofver C°re, It is announced that two million peo- ple are now, employed upon the re- lief worksritt the fauunino clistriets of Indiai.i., • • • re • , The e Grand' Duchess Xenia, meter of the Dear, and, wifel of ,tha Grand Duke Alaxander,Nfichaeloviteh, has given birth -4o a•,0011i • ; Advicee irons Havana says that thel conflict between the 'sugar planters and Wayler centlitues 'with Mere bitterness than ',Oar, ' triE.SUDGE APPRECIATES A. JOKE. e A Man was ma before a judge the 'other;iday.foreetealing epee. The rail- road Aetective' said that he alight' the fellow In' a coal car, but the man said that he was ouly:sleeping there because, his 'Wife had, looked .him out winkle had no Money to go to a betel. ',Preitty'hard bed, wasn't it, asked the Jitdge;', on„ no, site tie answered; it Was soft noal. , fArta the,judge Was iso strut* by the Joke that /se :let him go. Artillery band. make a tour of Canada and remain over in Toronto, so as to take part in the celebration of the sixtieth year of the Queen's reign. The peeiteen seates that. some years ego the bend of the Grenadier Guards were permitted. to, visit Bos- ton, Mass., and that as there was no objection raised on that occasion, there is no 'reason why the' Artillery band should not be allovteed to visit a British colony. 7 nous:ow ARE STARVING Awful Vale 01 Destitution Among the. ' Poor'of Chit:Ago.' ' 'A special ',from. Chicago says: --Chi- cago bee eiieht thousand families who are actuzl lly. starving te death. It has ten thousand wives lausbands ancl chil- dren 'begging for bread. -begging for a pittance of food to keep body and.soue together,huddling into single rooms and freezing in the blizzards that visit- ed the city on Thursday. The Bureau of Associated' Charities has; decided to tell the plain facts to the people. There was an emergency meeting of affiliated charities,: tailed by .the federation itt the Palmer House the other (lay. ' The appalling distress and suffering were reporbed, and the men present resolv- ed to appeal to the Mayor for futile, and to call a mass meeting to devise ,means for sating the unfortunate from death: ' WHICEI IS WORSE. „ p Rlia-Wilat worries 'you, dear/ Hee° yea made any bad investments 1 Ho -No. bit your father ,has. • new morning paper is shortly to .appear itt Montreal. It will be a four- pag.g. One -cent daily will he known as. the o n g pa , 'PIPET BY TEE SgOBE Area, By the Hundreds, Those Who Have Been Cured of Dire DiseL.se By South American Nervine. II Mil Wilasprealai lialvoral 1 1t%Ma% Vhere Other ledicines Have Failed and Doctors Have Pronounced the Cases Beyond Cure, This Great Discovery Has Proven a Genuine Elixir of Life. - , Vire Sams Verm iet Como'm From Old and Young, IdnIe rind Verna% Rich and Poor. and From. All Corners of the Dominion. , , If It is tho case that be who makes bottles of Nervine, and can truthfully two blades of graes grow where only say that I am a new roan." of the ra,ce, what is the position. to be has said : " The hand that rocas the A shrewd observer of human Wawa. one had grown before is a benefactor accorded that man who by his 1W' cradle moves the world." How Int - . ledge of the laws of. life and health portant it is, then, that heaath and i 1 , g-. weakness and anticipation of an men of Canada are rady b the mothers of this countrla The wo- uor, ey scores to streagth should be man./ the lot of 6 I yes energy and strength where laza I tell of the benefits that heel* 'come to early death had before prevailed? Is ; licee who have been down and are them through the use of South Amerie not he also e. public enefactor? Let b ' w up through the use of South Am- can Nervine. Mrs. R. axmittrong, 03 im an Nervine give their apinious on OrilliBible Society 01 that wife of the colporteute of the this subject. John Boyer, banker, ofhat town, suffered{ -- for six years from nervous prostratiOn. Medical assistance did not help, all," she says, "1 have taken 'xix. bottles of Nervine, and can. truthfully say this is the one medicine that- has effected a cure la my case." Mrs. John Da: - woody has been or 40 years .s. resident SHOT THE DEVIL DEAD. Carious Experience of TWO Utile Boys In ftermany. , There are too little boys in Germany who honestly believe they have rid th.e world of the devil. They live near Hunteburg, and are 8 a.nd 12 -years of age. The other day they were left by their mother at home to take care of: the house. A man with blackened face and black attire suddenly entered, and announced :-"I am the devil. Where do you keep your moneyt" Faith and fear alike induced them to believe the intruder. They insant- ly pointed to a ;trunk, where the mod- est wealth of their parents Was trea- sured. While the musky imposter was ransacking the chest the younger boy weispered to. his brother to go and fetch the gun a,ncl shoot the devil, dead. The brother jumped at the idea, Metaled the weapon, crept up to the =suspecting Clime and lodged the whole charge in his back. He fell dead. • KNEW HER PECULIARITIES. jack -Answered your aunt's letter yet Gus -go. Haveinei had time. IRetter do it soon or the old lady will et down an you, t Noshe won't; she'll blame the post- master. • DOUBLE GRIEVANCE. *It's the men, savagely,exolaimed Mrs. Gofrequently, that, do all the holdups. And when it comes to our hats. Wrathfully added Mrs. Muelis,bout it's the men that do all the pull - &Was. ' Fincardine. Ont, had made himself a hopeiess invalid through years of over- work. At least he felt his case was hopeless, for the beet physicians had flailed to do him good. He tried Her- e/Ina and these are his word*: "1 glad - am to -day as strong and weleae ever." of .,, ir Say it : Nervine cured me Mel I Plesherton, and has reached the ai faeneuel Zialt, of Meaford, was cur 3c1 of lyeetatered atroeeh-esrsreytty2ernarssunsntaclitiMena. ,Theercv: by three bottles of this medicine. Jas. ere shock through tba death of. a neuralgia of the stomach and bowels d Sherwood. of Windsor, at 70 years of alighShepteerrs'Neverienrvallynetrok° rlec)ramle 3.bottles 01 age s suffered from an attack of paraly- medicine, with the result that she is to. gave him back his natural strength. A de dr eabsi 000fdand womenwseumffkeernferaomnerves.irapoverpAiiii day again strong azid hearty. 17tme Ms. His life, at that age, was despair- ed of. But four bottles of Ner eine relearn 01 indigeetion, W. F. Bolger, of vitality," says Mrs. J. Vellie, of Itenfrevr, says: "Nervine -cured me Brampton, "seemed to have forsaken of my suffering, which seemed ineur- my system. I was unable 'to get re - able, and had baffled all fornfer me- lief from any source until I cornmerced thods and efforts," Peter lesson, of taking South American Nervine. The Paisley, lost . flesh and rarely rad a results are 4.ost satiefectory---greater good night's sleep, because of, stomach far than I could have hoped for." It trouble. He says; " Nervine stopped came within the way ef lvIrs. II. Step-. the agonizing pains in my stomach the leton, of Wingharn, to- treat under the erst day I used it. I have now taken best physicians; both in Canada. ana two bottles and I aeel entirely relieved ngland, for heart diseata and nem, and can sleep like a top." A repre- ous debility, but she failed to get e.na iventative farmer, of Western Ontario, relief. "1 was advised," she says, "to Is Mr. C. J. Curtis, residing near Wind- take South American Nervine, and eor. Ills health was seemingly nam- must say I do believe that if' I b.ad nletely destroyed through In grippe. not done so I would not' be alive tete No medicine did him any good. "To day." three bottles of Nervine," he srya '1 Newspaper seem is too valuable to attribute my restoration to health and peemit of further additions In these earnest words of testimony from those Who know just what they are talkStlit about. In the comMon language Ot the day, they have been there, and are speaking front the heart. The dozen or more witnesses that here speak leaf* medusa attendants said that 3 was their. counterparta .by the hundreds dying, but, thank God. I am not dead not only in the province of Ontari ret., Stain thelirst 'few doses / took but le every other section og the Do or Nervine I commenced to feel bet- ion Souta American Nervihe is &sea Ur and am to -day metered completely On a scientific principle that alma AO my usfiai health." A resident Of a cure a certainty, no.matterlgto•er,oest. the Maritime PrOaineek in the peas= aerate the caSf sewer- be; et „stfitket id a Jones, of Stmees, IC 13 , . says : "Pete at the norva centers teene ,, high nowt, twelve yessa 1 was a martyr to And.i.- the life bleed die the Wh 1,..systrn. eIt. y legation, conatipatton and headache.. le -Met 'a medicate ef ,P tve aboela, but The treatment of revere) pliyeicia,nri la cornplete ar0 ertqua; htiis,i,vadta. Orr Uri not Iola S. 1 have taken a fear application, ' ._ Dr. 'BergMarn, of Berlin hos been summoned to St. Petersburg to perform an operation On the Czar, who is suf- fering from the results of a blow re - edged in 1891 from a, Japanese fanatic, etrength," 'Neither man or woman oan.enjoy 141e when troubled with liver eognedaint. This wits the sentiment and reeling of W. J. Hill, the well- known bailiff a Bracebtadge. "I was so bad," says he, " that one of my O. LIJTZ Cole Wholesale and Retail Agent inc Elte.t,ft.,_ • • Tries. WICiener, Creclitoti tlyug .