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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1897-2-25, Page 7IHE NM IN A NUM fliE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. interesting items About Our. Own Country. Great Britain, the United States, and All Parte of the Globe, Condensed and Assorted ler Easy Reaching. CANADA. St. Catharines has voted 8200 to the India famine fund. • They have a ghost scare at King- ston Penitentiary. Hamilton has given work to 400 of the 700 unemployed. The new directory gives Hamilton .a population of 50,000. Peterson, Tait & Co,c have purohas- .red the Beaver Line of steamships. The bronzes for the Macdonald statue have arrived at Kingston. The entire force of workmen at the Lringhill mines, N.S.; is out on strike. Mr. Mc,Eachran reports that hog cholera in Essex is thoroughly stamp- ed out. . The Dominion Type Foundry Com- pany of Montreal has gone into liqui- dation, The Hamilton Cattle Company has se- cured incorporation, with a capital of .24,000. Mrs. Western, of Hamilton, has in- vented and patented a bicycle tire that { will not slip. Dr, Thompson and Mr. Ferris have been unseated from the Niagara ]falls S'k South Council. The Ottawa Board of Trade is dis- cussing a resolution in favor of an alias iabor law. The Winnipeg Public School Board has asked the Council for 123,256 for the current year. Rev. Dr. O Meara has been appointed. Dean of Rupperl's Land, succeeding the Bishop of Qu'Appelle. A Montreal despatch says that the Quebec Provincial elections will be held on the 29th of next month. Brantfard's fire loss last year was only $1,528.50. In the last six years the losses were only $20,3551. Mr. George Roach, a Hamilton team- ster, was killed near Burlington by a load of furniture falling on him. The national India famine fund now amounts to $40,000, and a draft for 100, 000 rupees has been forwarded to India. An epidemic of grippe is being experi- e e' nced in Ottawa, Sir James Grant says he never knew the disease to be so pre- valent. Barrington & Sons, trunk and bele lows manufacturers, of Montreal, have assigned. The liabilities are about $75,- 000. An increase of 810,000 in the Hamil- ton Board of Education estimates will a required this year, mostly for teach- ers' salaries. Iron. Dr. Borden, Minister of Militia, who was injured in the railway acc).- y'i dent near Doncaster, N.B., two weeks ago, is at Halifax. Rev, Ira Smith, of London, called the attention of his congregation to their duty as citizens to clean the slusb off their sidewalks. The amount of cash contributed in To- ronto to the Indian Famine fund from various sources has passed the twelve thousand dollar mark Governor Murray of Newfoundland, who it was reported was about to visit Ottawa on annexation business, has gone to England. Rene Dabin and Fred Corier, two Frenchmen, who had a piggery two e milts from Port Arthur, Ont., were burned to death on Wednesday night. The C.P.R. has declared dividends of 2 per cent, on the preference stock and 1 per cent. for the common stock for the half year ending December 31st. News of a discovery of an enormous- ly rich deposit or copper and gold on both .sides of the Canadian boundary line has been reported at Spokane. Charcoal, the Indian condemned to be } hanged for the murder of Sergeant Wilde, it is reported at Winnipeg, may not live till the date of his execution. The Hamilton Board of Education has a deficit 0f $20,000, with h a prospect of 810,000 or $15,000 more when the Collegiate Institute building is com- pleted. The governors of the Hamilton Gen- eral Hospital propose ro o se to build a new residence for the nurses and use the present nurses' apartments for pati- ents.. It is calculated that it will cost about three hundred thousand dollars to re - pais' the damage done to the western wing of the Parliament buildings in Ot- tawa by the recent fire. It is intimated that the Dominion Government intends to abolish the of- fice of Deputy Commissioner of Pa- tents, made vacant by the recent death of Mr. Richard Pope. An investigation of the accounts of Cashier• Forsythe of the C. P. R. freight department in London reveals a shortage of $250. Mr. Forsythe has noosing ssing ar a week., Of the fifteen Maxim gone in the pos- session of the Dominion Militia De- - partment, some nix or seven will be 1 kept on hand for emergencies, and the others will be handed over to the city battalions. The various Dominion Government departments have been asked to push forward the preparation of the esti- mates, so tbiat the Government can sub- mit the estimates early, and ask sup- plies while the tariff is being prepared. Dr. Selwyn states that he wasmis- represented at the meeting of the min - Ing engineers in Montreal. He is a be- liever in the gold fields of British Col- umbia, and called attention to their good prospects in 1885. Secretary Charles Drinkwater of the C. P. R. was attacked by four foot- pads at Montreal on Tuesday night on his wayhome.g He fought the. men as long as he could, but they got away with h •s a gold watch a ch and chain. Mr. Drinkwater received some injuries in the encounter. GREAT BRITAIN. The Mansion House fundfor the suf- ferers in India will. likely reach the $5,000,000 mark. One horse and 450 sheepfrom the have wrecked steamer Angloman safely landed,. g been The Imperial roper al Government is expected to use the closure freely inssin Education bill.: g, the Prof.. Crookes, the eminent n English scientist boldly announces his belief in telepathic phenomena. The half -yearly statement of the Grand Trunk Railway, issued in Lon- don, shows a surplus, of £39;000. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, the Secre- tary of State for the Colonies, is suffer- ing from a severe attack of gout. The steamer Anglonaan, reported at London o n to be ashore on Eker t s' Is- land,will probably be a total hies. . Mr.. Thomas Sextan, anti Parnel lii te who resigned his seat in the House of Commons last year, refuses to re-enter Parliament. An immense amount of money is be- ing subscribed, in London for the differ- ent charitable schemes to mark the dia- mond jubilee. Mr. Cecil Rhodes is said to have in his possession one of .the letters that passed between President Kruger and Emperor William, The death is announced of Mr.Frank May, who for twenty years previous to November, 1893, was chief cashier of the Bank of England. Colonial and American bishops will be invited to preach at Oxford Uni- versity this year, during the sitting of the Lambeth Conference. Through the collapse of a viaduct on a railroad at Cornwall on T'ue'sday 12 men fell a distance of one hundred and fifty feet, and were killed. Lieut -Governor Kirkpatrick, while not yet able to leave the hospital in London, where an operation was recent- ly performed on him, is progressing fav- orably., London n at present isbeing flooded with such vast hordes ofundesirable Germane, Poles, and Italians, that Eng- land may be forced to pass an Exclu- sion Act. Returns issued by the British Board of Trade for January show an increase in imports of 87,500,000, and a decrease in exports of 86,900,000, as compared with January 1896. In the British House of Commons on Wednesday Mr. Samuel Smith's mo- tion for the disestablishment and dis- endowment of the Church of England was rejected by a vote of 204 to 86. John Chandler, of London, England, who confessed having forged bills of exchange on Messrs. S. E. leIclLinnon and Company of Toronto, was on Tues- day sentenced to five years' penal servitude. Mr. Balfour stated on Thursday that the Government intended to make a public holiday for the occasion of the Queens diamond jubilee, but it was not proposed to make the day a perm- anent holiday. Ltl'.r. Curzon stated in the British Commons that the reported massacres at Crete were unfounded. There had been some small disturbances. A re- port from Canea says 200 buildings were burned, and 5,000 Christian re- fugees from the city have been taken on board the British and Greek war- ships in the harbor. UNITED STATES. Mr. Richard Croker is the probable Tammany candidate for Mayor of New York. The Ohio river at Cincinnati is fast verging on the danger line, which is 45 feet. Charles Christy, the last of the famous (Christy minstrels, died at the Kansas City Hospital, aged 68 years. William Waldorf Astor owns 4,000 houses in New York city, and has au income of more than $6,000,000 a year. There is very little hope of the arbi- tration treaty being signed by the United States Senate during the pre- sent Congress. It is stated that after the inaugura- tion of President McKinley, Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland will start on a. tour around the world. Warren W. Linney, after reading Hamlet's soliloquy, thrust adagger through his heart in his mother's home in Chicago, on Wednesday. The United States Senate on Satur- day voted. funds to enable the Secre- tary of the Navy to charter a vessel to take supplies to India. Capt. McGiffin, who commanded the Chinese warship Chen Yuen in the bat- tle of the Yalu River, committed sui- cide at New York, on Thursday. Two armed robbers in Chicago on Tuesday night held up and robbed An- toine Boenert in his steamship ticket office in La Salle street. They got $2,000. A mail clerk on a Santa Fe train near Los Angeles, Cal., on Tuesday shot one burglar and wounded another. They had attempted to "hold up" the train. The cattle dealers of Buffalo and vi- cinity t are jubilant lant av r the abrogationa tion of thequarantine of Canadian cattle, and large importations are being made. The Michigan lumbermen are op- posed to the proposed two dollars duty on the whitepine,as intheeventof its imposition thy ear Canadian retalia- tion. Albert Hess of Ipswich, Mass., dis- appeared suddenly with $7,000 of other people's :money. He sent his wife word to return to her parents in To- ronto. Armand Castlemary, an actor, fell dead at the close of the final scene of the opera "Martha" at the Metropoli- tan Opera House, New, York, on Wed- nesday night. Mrs. G. W. Baldwin, nee the Hon. Lady Carey, granddaughter of the late Duke of Brunswick, has filed suit for divorce at Houston, Texas. Her husband is a wealthy citizen of Houston. Business during the week has been a little more favorable; prices are :more steady and there is a better demand for labor ; in the Eaatern and Middle States particularly works are reported to be opening up. A demand for pig iron at Pittsburg is also noted. Hemlock and leather are more active, with an ad- vance in values. While a lower range of prices is reported for a few articles, the general return quotes figures as being mostly firm and in many lines as higher and advancing. GENERAL. It is considered possible that Dr. Nan - sen will soon start on an Antarctic expedition. The death of Sir John Bates Thurs- ton, Governor of the Fiji Islands, is announced at the age of 61. Two men were killed and nineteen seriously wounded in a strikers' riot at Hamburg. Galileo Ferraris, member of the Ital- ian Senate and a well-known electric- ian is dead at Roane. It is reported that there is a re- vived feeling in Hawaii in favour of annexation to the United States. It is said that Dr. Nansen, the Nor- wegian explorer, is much annoyed when he sees himself referred toms a Swede. A British troopship has been de- spatched from Malta with a fortnight's food for twelve hundred Cretan refu- gees. Wm. Donna, the Atmerican• artist, it is reported in Paris, will be promoted to be an officer . of the (Legion' of (Hon- our. Emperor William is still working bard to bring about the fulfilment of his dream of Germany as powerful on sea as on land. An extensive forgery of Bank of Eng- land twenty -pound otes is taking place on the Continent of Europe'. The im- itation is excellent. • THE EXETER TIMES It is officially stated that 2,750;000 persons are now employed famine relief workindistricts the different lis rr s of India where famine prevails. T,he distress in the Jubbulpoor dis- triot of India is appalling, About 120,- 000 are now receiving Government aid, and by the month of May (the number will be doubled. Archduke Otto of Austria, nephew of Emperor Francis Joseph, and heir pre- sumptive to the throne of Austria, is at present visiting Emperor William in Berlin. Tbie German Government has ordered the prosecution of several university professors who recently signed a de- claration in favor of the striking dock labourers of Hamburg. The building of the trans -Siberian railway will give the 'convicts of Sib- eria such facilities of escaping that they will likely be transferred to the Island of Saghalien. It is now stated that the recent dis- turbances in Crete were stirred up by Greek agitators, that the Christians were the aggressors, and that war be- tween Turkey and Greece is very pro- bable. It is expected that the Japanese Gov- ernment will introduce at the present session of the Imperial Diet measures standard, at the ratio of one to thirty - for the establishment of, the gold two. The despatch of the torpedo flotilla from Greece, under command of Prince George, has caused the greatest en- thusiasm among the populace, and a feeling of grave alarm among the Euro- pean powers. Prince Bismarok,when asked to give an academic opinion on arbitration treaties said that he did not believe nations would slake their existence on the decision of an arbitration court, that in questions of vital importance Which had no means of enforcing its judgment. FIGHTING THE SAVAGES. Brilliant Work or the Niger Expedition Against. Nupe. A despatch from Bida gives addi- tional details concerning the advance of the columns of the Royal. Niger Company's expedition against the Emir of Nupe. The fighting in the vicinity of Bida, the Foulah capital, which was stopped by darkness on the evening of January 26, was resumed, at clay - light on the morning of January 27. Half of the British forces, which con- sisted of 500 troops, six Maxims, 26 mounted officers, and 900 carriers, were ordered to crossridge a ravine near the rt ego on which the troops of the Royal Niger's Company's expedition had been stationed during the night. As they oro.ssed the ravine it was noticed that the Foulab scouts were watching. The troops accordingly formed in a half square, the guns following. The rear half of the force then closed on the front half, forming a complete square. The British forces advanced steadily, halting every 200 yards, for the purpose of allowing the guns to keep pace. The -die uoos Stumm aria. to soave; passeut peared, even covering the sugar slopes, constituting a.splendid pano- rnma in their semi -barbarous cos- tumes. The square of the Royal Niger Companys forces was soon complete- ly surrounded by 30,000 cavalry and footmen. The reduction from the es- timate of 30,000 made on January 26 was due to the death of two of the important Princes, rulers of the Mos- lem States, allies of the Mohamme- dan Emir of Nupe, and vassals like the Emir of Nupe dependent on the great Mohammedan Empire of Sokolo. When these two Princes and rulers were killed by the shells of the Bri- ish their forces withdrew from the army of the Emir of Nupe. The Royal Niger troops continued to advance slowly until they reached a ridge commanding Bida. They then took up a strong position on the re- verse of the slope, and continued to reconnoitre throughout the day, Their forces were constantly harassed by the Foulah sharpshooters, who daring- ly advanced to within a hundred yards of the square. Swarms of the enemies' cavalary charged on the Royal Niger forces, but the • were badlyshattered, sh ered, owing to the effective use of the Maxim guns. At 10.30 the artillery bombarded the town, six Maxim guns playing on the gradually retiring mass- es of the enemy. At noon the ad- vance company of the troops entered Bida, which is a town three miles square. Bombarding of a portion of the town was resumed, however, last- ing until 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when one-half of the Hbussa troops took possession of the town. Only 15 of the Houma troops were wounded. The losses of the Foulah forces were enormous. The brother of the Emir of Nupe and many of the Princes were severely wounded by a shell which exploded among the members of the staff of the Emir, killing two men who were sanding within a foot of him at the time. All the Foulah Princes fled in the direction of Siakolo. TRIUMPH OF BEER. Sunday Closing Rejected By the British Parliament. By a vote of 206 to 149 the British House of Commons on Wednesday re- jected the bill of Mr. Charles H., Wil- son, Liberal member tor West Hull, providing for the entire closing of pub- lic -houses throughout Sunday. They are at present allowed to be open for a short period during the middle of Sunday and on Sunday evenings. The licensing laws at present permit public -houses outside of the Metro- politan area to open on Sundays from twelve noon, till two p. ., and from six p.m. to eleven p n the Metro- politan area the hours are from twelve, noon, till two p.m., and from six p.m. till after midnight. The local justices may slightly vary those hours outside of London. The. partial Sunday dos- ing of public -houses in England be- came law e-came-law in August, 1872. CURE FOR SLEEPLESSNESS. A Sweedish servant Maid, finding) that her mistress was troubled with sleeplessness, told her of a practice of the people of her country who are sima ilarly afflicted. It was to take a nape kin, dip it in ice-cold water, wring slightly, and lay it across her eyes. Thq plan was followed,and it worked likes a charm. The first night the lady slept four hours without waking— something akin —something she had not done before for several Months. At the end of that time the napkin had become dry. By wetting it again she at once went to sleep, and it required considerable force to rouse her in the : morning. 11HED aREf l OI THE TRAIN SHOCKING CRIME ON A LONDON SUBURBAN RAILWAY. The Young Woman's Body round Under u Seat—No Clue to the Assassin—The +notive of the Crime a Mystery. Nothing since the Jack -the -Ripper murders has so aroused London and all England as the tragedy in a suburban train on the South -Western railway on •Thursday evening. The strain froth Hounslow reached London terminus at 8.30 o'clock. After the passengers left a car cleaner, inspecting the carriages, found the mutilated body of a young woman partially concealed beneath a seat in a second-class compartment, The body which was still waren was dragged out with difficulty, for .the upper part of the body had been forc- ed under the seat with great violence. It was found that the skull had been crushed in by a couple of heavy blows. There was evidence of a severe strug- gle before the victim succumbed. There was no trace whatever of the murderer. The most astonishing fea- ture of the crime was the fact that the train's longest run between sta- tions was only five minutes, and no- body had seen or heard anything to excite suspicion, THE YOUNG WOMAN was immediately identified by her fi- ance, who was waiting at the station to meet, her. She was Miss Elizabeth Kemp, who was manager of a small hotel at Walworth, She bad been spending the afternoon with relatives in the l fouuslow suburban district, six or seven miles from the centro of the city, The fact which chiefly arouses public interest is that such a crime could be committed in a, railway com- partment in London itself, and the per- petrator escape without exciting sus- picion. .England still slings to the compartment system of railway travel for the very reason which cost this young woman her life. It is the object of every Englishman and woman to secure an unoccupied compartment, if possible, for a railway journey, long or shorte The danger iron thieves, ruf- Pians, and maniacs is suppueed to exist only on lung runs. It is impossible thus far to assign even a motive for this tra- gedy, Nothing has been found con- nected with the murderer except his weapon, which was a chemist's heavy pestle. This was discovered near the line at Putney about three miles out. It was covered with blood, and adher- ing to it were . one or tee o hairs from .the girl's head. The victim's clothing was badly torn and SALE ARE le le MI IILOCI), but it is hardly possible that. the mur- derer attempted an outrage i'or, with the time at his disposal it mut have been necessary actually to kill the wo- man on leaving one station in order to crowd the uody under the seat in time to leave the train at the next. It is not considered possilie that the murderer remained in the carriage while the train stopped at any way station, for passengers were likely to enter at any moment. It is not known positively whether robbery was com- mitted, for, although the woman's purse was empty near the body, and no valu- ables were found in her )locket, her dia- mond brooch reuia:ned taetened at the throat. It is supposed she had quite a sum of money, but this is only con- jecture. The police thus far are quite nonplussed, although they are active- ly following a variety of clues connect- ing passengers who left the train at way stations with the crime, One the- ory is that an escaped female lunatic from Putney killed the girl. Although experience has shown that the con- struction of English rai:iway carriages is especially favourable to the commit- ting Of crimes of this kind, still there was no appliance in the compartment to enable any one attached to com, municate with the guard. The Eng- lish newspapers are clamouring for the adoption of the American style of rail- way carriage as the surest preventive of such crimes. CATTLE QUARANTINE. Its Abrogation a i:eneilt to the United States. A despatch from Buffalo says:—The cat - Buffalo and vicinity dealers of L,u n are jubilant over the abrogation of the quarantine of Canadian cattle, which went into effect February 1st. The Act passed by Congress a year ago re- quiring all importations of cattle to be held in quarantine 90 days proved de- trimental to the live stock interests of Buffalo. Canadian consignments be- came very few. A member of the firm of Waltz, Ilughes, Swope, and i3ensted, said:—" Last Monday we received 40 cars of horned cattle from Canada, the largest shipment that has been receiv- ed here under the new law. The ma- ior part of this shipment was for stocking purposes, and 20 carloads i T have been shipped as far West as Wil- mington, Ohio, something never before heard of. Ail this goes to show that the live stock market of the United States is at present very low. Ameri- ean breeders have told me that if they could secure cattle they could fatten them with but little expense, as they now have on hand hundreds of bushels of corn going to waste for the want of cattle to feed. " At the East Buffalo yards business is brisk, as buyers are coming -here from all parts of the country, and the new regulations will not only prove a benefit to the shippers and consignees, but to the consumers as well." A GREAT PROPOSITION. Sever Large Volumes Delivered on Payment of Only One Dollar. It would be difficult to conceive a more attractive proposition than the one now briefly offered by the Canadian 'News- paper Syndicate, in connection with that truly great work the Encyclopaedic Dic- tionary. This unequalled reference library which was seventeen years in preparation ;- which claimed . the attention of such editors as Professors Huxley and Proctor and other educators hardly less renowned, which cost over $750,000 to produce, may now be had on terms placing it easily within the reach of all. On payment of only one dollar the seven large volumes of over 5,000 superbly illus- trated pages are delivered at once and the balance se arranged in small monthly amounts. 1 The confidence of the Syndicate, that the work will be gladly received, thorough- ly appreciated and cheerfully paid for is shown by sending a valuable' set of books (regular price $42) on an advance payment of only one dollar. The address of the Syndicate is 218 at. James Street, Montreal THE DIAMOND JUBILEE. Raising Money for Charitable T,'nirposefi—.t. Shilling Fund—Will Lord Salislury Became a Duke.' A London special says: -'Many un- official forecasts of the ,programme for jubilee week have been published, and hundreds of projects are eagerly discussed in connection with the com- memoration of the longest reign. A vigorous plea is made for the comple- tion of the South Kensington Museum, and patrons of every languishing in- stitution and charity consider this an acceptable time for urging thein own plans as the best possible form of nae tional memorial. The picturesque ele- ments of the celebration are neglect•• ed; nothing is yet suggested as a town show except a long, open-air drive in semi -state by the Queen, which would enable the swarms of London sight- seers to gaze at her. The Spectator, reviving a suggesion of the last jubi- lee, cries aloud for bonfires on all the hills of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Another London despatch says:—To celebrate the Queen's diamond jubilee, the teetotallers here propose to secure amillion additional signers of the ,pledge. On a selected day, every home in England will be visited by their canvassers. The Queen is a patroness) of the movement. The Prince of Wales' diamond jubilee scheme, to ex- tinguish the annual deficit of the Lon- don hospitals, ba.s been taken up with enthusiasm by the press, and The Daily Telegraph's shilling fund, started on Monday, now amounts to 100,000 shill- ings, and is increasing daily by about 5,000 shillings. All the other papers are also receiving contributions. Lt is true that Lord Salisbury can have a Dukedom 1.1 he wishes this year. The Queen made to him the same. offer in the jubilee year in 1887, but he refused to accept the honor_ Prob- ably be will no,, care to refuse twice. Moreover, duri`,ig the past ten years, has record in public life would make the promotion natural. But personal- ly, there is no man in the country who cares less for the outer pomp and cir- oumsta nces of his position. It is with great difficulty that he can be got to attend any crowded society function, or being there, keep up a semblance of interest in his surroundings. In pri- vate life he is silent, and likes to be alae, but is very even tempered and generally cheerful. His chief friend in the Cabinet. is Lord Hal,sbury, who is a man very much after his own tem- per. As Lady Sal:.s>bury has no social ambition, there will be no domestic pressure for him to accept a Dukedom., She is not in very strong health, and. bus always been somewhat of a re- cluse. Moreover, she has a positive dislike far some of the present lead- ers of society. THE OTTAWA FIRE. Small Army of Ilea Clearing- Away the is c•bi•ls. A 'lespatch from Ottawa says:—A: small army of men are engaged by the Public Works Department in the Western block. The fire has therefore been quite a boom to the unemployed of Ottawa. At present the men are stationed on the roof, throwing the debris of the fire on the lawn below, This is no small undertaking. For the last two days every available carter in the city has been engaged remov- ing office effects to the naw ,quarters for the departments that have been turned> out of doors. Sir Richard Cart- wright has quartered. Himself in the House of Commons, and has secured rooms for his deputy and"the rest of his. staff in the Senate. Mr. Tarte has the Slater block, a new building on Sparks street, near Bank street, for, his department. The Cust oms Depart- ment and part of the Militia Depart- ments are housed in two buildings ,lust west! of the Rideau Club. on Welling-' ton street. The Marine Department is in the Slater block. The Mounted Poe Hoe staff bus been tiecommodated in/ the Langevin block. The Cabinet is considering the ad- visability of removing some of the most precious public documents in the East block garret, which is another' fire trap, to the Langevin block, which is reasonably fireproof. 'Additional percautions have been taken against fire in all the old build- ings, and it is altogether likely that. Mr. Tarte will have the hydrants pro- perly examined in cold weather, so as to 'guard against them being frozen. > MURDER WILL GUT. A Convict it Kingston says g 1le Iill^ d Alums McLeod, o£ *tapanee. A despatch from Kingston says:— The old adage that "murder will ,out" received startling • confirmation on Thursday, when a convict in the peni- tentiary named Troy made a voluntary confession, that he, in September, 1893, shot and killed Angus McLeod, of Nap- anee. Government Detective Rogers, who had charge of the .investigation into the murder, and who a few months ago visited the penitentiary here in connection with the case, came down from Toronto yesterday, and took, down, the convict's confession, which is said to be most circumstantial. Troy was sent down from the West two years ago to serve a 20 -years' sen- tence for shooting a railway conductor. Angus McLeod, it will be remembered, was shot in his own house white he attempted to grapple with a burglar, whose movements his wife lead heard. Mr. McLeod rushed out into the hall a.nd as he advanced the man fired, and the shot took effect. The murderer fled, leaving a brown fedora hat be- hind. It is said that Troy was run down through the headgear. Mr. Mc- Leod was a titnsmitthand a former Kingatonian. Troy is a tramp, who, while stealing a ride on a train from St. Catharines, was noticed by the con- ductor, whoattempted to put him off. duator who attempted to, put him. off. Trioy pulled a revolver and fired three bullets into the conductor, none of which bad fatal effect. ' The convict comes from the western portion tof the (,.province. He made his confession vol- untarily, and is the presence of Ward- en Metcalfe. ' Should the confession show sufficiently strew; evidence of be- ing genuine. 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Columbia Art Catalogue tells of all Columbias and Hartfords; free from any Columbia agent, or by mail for two 2 -cent stamps. .0 at Jr. .i POPE MFG. CO., Hartford, Conn. We appoint but one selling agent in a town, and do not sell to jobbers or middlemen. If Columbias are not properly represented in your vicinity let us know. URy . i. THE SYS,hP, -yam I.F,�.. -•L� A w•. iftke v liEv.JQltli w.Ei E LL, S.D. `iIRE''IILTON,ONT. _.- f. s ili� rt, a:„.,rei` 4/" `_ _ James A. Bell, of Beaverton, Ont., brother of the Rev. John Wesley 13e11, B.D., prostrated by nervous- headaches A victim of the trouble for several years. South American Nervine effected a complete ,cure. In their own particular field few men are beter knowu than the Rev. John '{Wesley Bell, B.D., and his brother Mr. James A. Bell The former win oe re- cognized by his thousands of friends all over the country as the popular and able missionary superintendent of the Royal Tempters of Temperance. Among the 20,000 members of this order in Ontario his counsel is sought on all sorts of oc- casions. On the public platform he is one of the strong men of the day, cathing against the evils of intemperance. Equally well known.is Mr. Bell in other provinces of the Dominion, having been for years a member of the Manitoba Methodist Conference and part of thin time was stationed in Winnipeg. His brother, Mr. James A. Bell, is a highly respected resident of .Beaserton, where his influence, though perhaps more cir- cumscribed than that of his eminent brother, is none the less effective and productive of good. Of recent years,hs'w- ever, the working ability of Mr. James A. hell has been sadly marred by severe att clic_ of net -tons head_aehe, accom- ti 4 b indigestion. Who can do fit i4 7 g this trouble -takes hold f O w n 0 O weir h Jfir1ES A. BELL, DE CI V1=itl° ,ONT. them and especially when it becolae@s chronic, as was, seemingly, the ease with Mr. Bell? The trouble reached such in- tensity that last June he was complete. ly-prostrated. In this condition a friend recommended South American N'lrvine. Ready to try anything and everytnii}g, though he thought he had covered th list of proprietary medicines, he securer, a bottle of this great discovery. A second bottle of the medicine was taken and the work was done. Employing Itis own language: Two bottles of South , American Nervine immediately relieved' my headaches and have buoy up my system in a wonderful manner." -bet us not deprecate the good our clergymen , and social reformers are doing in the world, but how ill -fitted they would ba for their work were it not the relief that South American Nervine brings to - them when physical ills ovettake them, and when the system, as a re. sult of hard, earnest and •continuous. work, breaks down, Nervine treats the system as the wise reformer treats thII evils he is battling against. It stripes at the root of the trorbke. All lis. ease comes from disorganization of this. nerve centers. This is a scientific fact. Nervine at once works on these nerve centers; gives to them health and sig• or; and, then there courses throughihe system strong, Healthy, 111e-irnai.itainikis blood andus ryovert. n o trout e . s of variety are *Magi of the pair C. LtTZ 'Sole Wholesale and Retail Agent for Exeter. W IC{ETr, Crediton Drug Stora, Agenii 1