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C.A.NADA.
The wheat mop of Manitoba is now
estimated to be n000,000 bushels.
Dr. Ryan is a candidate for the May-
oralty of Kingston for 1899.
The estate of Sir 3. A.dolphe Chap -
Lieu has been probated at $225,000.
(Hamilton's assessment returns are
expected to show an increase of 1,000
In population. •
Wolves are destroying sheep in large
nurabere in the Plevna district, Ad-
dington County.
The Department of Fisheries will
stock with black bass er, number of
lakes along the Paratr Sound Railway.
The town of West Selkirk, Man., pro-
poses to consolidate its indebtedness
by a new issue of debentures.
An English syndicate have leased eft
•James Mispicel's mine at Aatinalite,
Ont., and will operate it for arsenic).
Mr. 0. Knox of Calgary has been ap-
pointed stook inspector of the North-
west Government, with headquarters.
at Winnipeg.
.Toseph McShane, a youth, may lose
bis eyesight as a result of placing a fog
signal on the track at Hamilton to let
a train run over. it.
Convict Murphy, an inmate of the
insane department of the Kingston
Penitentiary, attacked and seriously
injured Guard Hennessy.
There is said to Ile a movement on
foot to invite the Marquis of Dufferin
to come to Canada to unveil the Mac-
kenzie monument at Ottawa on the
conapletion thereof.
A rich find. of molibdonite has been
made on the Grand Calumet mining
property, near Fort Coulogne, Que.
Molibdonite is used in hardening steel
and also in shol ting silk.
R is reported at Halifax that the
Dominion Steamship Line has secured
the subsidy for carrying the English
mails between Canada and England for
the season of 1898-99.
The Toronto city CouneSI has decid-
ed to petition the Ontario Government
to appoint a: royal coraraission to in-
• vestigate the charges of Mr. E. A.
Maedortald as to the manner in which
• the Toronto Street Railway Company
obtained its charter.
Mr. A. A. Clarke, of London, Eng.,
who secured a charter from the Fed-
eral Parliament for a tramway along
Miles Canyon, has floated a scheme,
and is now in Ottawa on the way to
the Pacific coast. The line is now in
operation and is doing a good business.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Sir George Grey, former Lieutenant -
Governor of South Australia, is dead
at London.
McDougall's flour mill ana other
warehouses on Millwall dock, London,
have been destroyed by fire. Loss,
75.000.
Mr, George N. Curzon, the new Vice-
roy of India, has been elevated to the
Peerage as Baron Curzon of Kedles-
ton,.
The British steamer Milwaukee, from.
the Tyne for New Orleans, stranded at
Portes Roll, Scotland, is likely to be
a total wreck.
The unexpected return of Dr. Jame-
son to England from the Cape gives
rise to a rumour that he has quarrelled
with Cecil Rhodes.
.A telegram has been received by the
British Foreign Office stating that
Capt. Cooke has been shot dead in East
Africa. He was a graduate of the
Royal Military College, Kingston.
A gas explosioa took place on Fri-
day in a raine at Brownsville, Pa. Fif-
ty-four men were entombed, of whom
27 found their way out by an opening
on the river. Eight dead bodies have
been recovered, and it is thought the
other miners will be suffocated.
UNITED STATES.
Sir Julian Paimeeforte, British Am-
bassador at Washington, has had his
terrn extended to April next.
Governor Pingree, of Michigan, bas
been re -nominated by acclamation by
the Republican State convention.
Forty thousand United States sol-
diers ere to be sent to Cuba to do
garrison duty, in addition to those now
at Santiago under General Lawton.
Andrew Casemate was strangled to
death by three burglars in New York
on Tuesday raorning after he had
been robbed of e500, all his savings.
A number of workmen were injured,
some perhaps fatally, by an attempt
of non-union men to enter the Am-
erican Wire Company's works at Cle-
'alined, 0., on Monday morning.
Nearly one-tenth of the entire po-
pulation of Plainwell, a little village
an Allegan County, Mich., is ill from
eating canned pressed beef at a church
social. Fifty-five persons were pois-
oned, twenty are dangerously ill and
four are expected to dee.
A cable message from Dr. Kranz, ofr
the European Union ot Astronomers
to Messrs. Chandler and Ritchie, oti
.Eloston, announces the diseovery of a.
star -like condensation in the centre a
xrebulea of Andromeda by Seraphin
of Pulkowa. If this indieates change
in the condition of the well known ob-
ject, the diseovery will be of °import-
ance.
GENERAL.
' The Queen Regent of Spain has
promised to send a delegate to the
.Czar's peace eoriventioxi.
Abotit 2,000 of the, United States sol -
niers in Porto Pico ere officially re-
ported to be sick.
The Governor o/ Bade. Pest has re-
tegyee to expel ele A nerehists, who
are hot eititens of Hungary.
Late despatches from Pekii say the
• Freeperor of Chine is in danger of his
life from a atrong coespiracy,
The French wheat erop is estimated
at 123.000,000 hectoietres, the largest
since 1874, when the yield was 136,-
000,000 hectoletres.
Twelve hundred women aed child-
ren arid one thousand • sick walleye
Whet from Havana tor Spain oft Wed-
heedey.
• The commissiariat and supply de
partments of both the army and neve.
of the Argentine Republic are being
actively re -organized.
The Government of Corea has been
compelled to dismiss the Europeans
engaged as an Iraperial guard iu eon
serpience of e protest from Russia.
A destructive hurricane swept
over southern Spain, doing great dam-
age in the Provinces of Seville and
Granada. Many persons were killed.
The Berlin National Zeiting says on
the highest authority that the person-
ae estate of Prince Bismarck does riot
represent as ro.uch as 2,500,000 marks,
about $500,000,
It is stated that the Rothschilds
will loan Spain 4,000,000 or a5,000,000
on the security of Almada quick sil-
ver mines, when the treaty of Peace
shall have bean signed.
The Japanese Government has re-
plied to the circular of Count Murae
vieff, the Russian Foreign Minister,
suggesting internalional disarmament
Tbe reply supports the Czar's propos-
als.
The Berlin police authorities have
prohibited the holding of five preject-
ed Socialist meetings in Hamburg,
called for the purpose of discussing
Emperor William's recent speeoh re-
garding the imprisoning of the pro-
voker e of strikes.
Typboons on the japanese coast, ac-
cording to the latest advioes, have
done great damage. Many ports and
towns have bean totally devastated,
and in the Tamsul district, where the
great ruin is evident, over one hun-
red lives are said to have been lost.
The diplomatic representatives of
Russia, France, Belgium, Spain and
Holland, at Pekin, have called upon
Li Hung Chang to coadole with him
upon his dimissal from the Chinese
Foreign Office. Much comment has
been excited by the action of these
Ministers.
The American soldiers in Honolulu
are causing the good people of that
once-peaeeful community much worry.
Acts of vandalism are becoming fre-
quent, and General King has issued
orders for a court of enquiry to inves-
tigate alleged. lawless acts committed
by eoleiers, and to assess the amount
of damage caused.
• It is stated in St. Petersburg that
Luchoei the assassin of the Empress of
Austria, belongs to an Anarchist gang
which went to North America, two
years and a halt ago, leaving a few of
their cemracies in Europe. The gang
issued orders from Americ.a, where the
present plot was hatched. The mem-
bers have now returned.to Europe,
but the chiefs remain in New York.
QUEEN LOUISE IS DEAD.
Passed Away at nopeutiagen After a tong
A despatch from Copenhagen says:
-Queen Louise of Denmark died on
Thursday morning.
The Queen had been dangerously ill
for several months, but an effort had
been made to keep the condition of the
royal sufferer from the public. Her
daughter, the Princess of Wales, was
summoned to Denmark in haste a few
weeks ago. •
The end of the Queen of Dennaark
was peaceful. At her bedside were
the King of Denmark, the Dowager
Empress of Russia, the King and Queen
of Greece, the Princess of Wales, the
Duke and Duchess a Cumberland, the
Crown Prince and Crvecn Princess of
Denmark, and all the other members
of the royal family.
SOMETHING OF HER LIFE.
Queen Louise of Denmark was born
on 'September 7, 1817. She was a daugh-
ter of La,ndgrave Wilhelm, of Hesse -
Cassel, and was married on May 26th,
1842, to Christian, fourth son of the late
Duke Wilhelm of 'Schleswig-Holstein-
Sonderburg-Glucksburg. Christian was
ieppointed to the succession of the
Crown of Denmark by the treaty of
London of alty 8, 1852, and by the Dan-
ish law of succession of July 51, 1853.
Be succeeded to the throne as Chris-
tian II. on the death of King Frederick
VII., on November 15, 1863.
For the last thirty years of her life
the Queen exercised such influence on
the politics of Europe that she was
sometimes called the mother-in-law of
the Continent. Another title which was
sometimes given her was the "Royal
matehenaker."
The children of King •Christian and
Queen Louise are Pri ace Frederick, the
heir -apparent, born June 3, 1843, who
married Princess Luisa, daughter of
King Carl VI. of Sweden and Norway;
Princess Alexandre, born December 1,
1844, who was naarried March 10, 1863,
to the Prince of Wales; Prince Wil -
heli, born December 24, 1845, elected
King of the Renews, under the title of
George I., by the Greek National As-
sembly in 1863, and who married Olga
Constantinowna, Grand Duchess of
Russia in 1867; Princess Marie Dag -
Mar ?Empress Maria Feodorovna),
born November 26, 1847; she was mar -
tied November 9, 1866 to Alexander
III., the late Emperor ot Russia; Prin-
cess Thyra, born Sept. 29, 1853, who
was married December 21, 1878, to
Prince Ernest August, Duke of Cum-
berland, anti Prince Waldemar, born
October 276, 1853, who married in 1885
the Princess Marie d'Orleans, eldest
daughter of the Durc de Chartres.
13ERESFORD ON THE EAST.
Waterways Should be Developed Ender
• Military Protection.
A despatch from Singapore says :-
Rear -Admiral Lord Charles Beresford,
who is en route to China as the repre-
sentative of the British Associated
Climbers. of Commeree, has arrived
here. It a. speech made by him on
Monday before the Chamber of Com -
referee end the Straits Settlerrietit As
tion, be urged that c,ornmercial
treaties between Great Britain, Ger-
-Many, the United States and japan,
woulki insure peace.
He deelared that the waterways of
China should loe developed under the
proteotion of military police, and then
railroads would folloW. Tii cow:111810n,
Lord Charles urged Greete Britain to
take a firmer and more definite etti-
hide in regard to China.
FAVOURS PROITIBITION,
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ALL THE PROVINCES HAVE DE-
CLARED IN ITS FAVOUR.
Except Quebec and Perla taps NADA Cantu
bla-Great Change of Sentinient In
Ontario.
The returns of the vote cast in the
plebiscite taken on Thursday last
throughout Canad.a, are still incom-
plete, but it would appeer that every
province in the Dominion has pronounc-
ed in favor of prohibition with the ex-
ception of Quebec, and, perhaps, Bri-
tish, Coluralbia. In Quebec the senti-
ment was overwhelmingly adverse to
the principle, the large majority oi 30,-
000 being recorded against it, British
Columbia also seems to have spoken
against probibitian.
For. .Agt.
Ontario . 0 14,2e0
Quebec . 40,872
Nova Scotia . 17,679 ,
.
New 13xemserlok . 12,540
Prince+. Edward - . . 0,160
Manitoba . 8,000
N. W. T.
British Columbia, . . 202
Total Majority for Prohibition in Doe
minion 17,929 -many Returns still in-
complete.
The Maritime Provinces are true to
their record ixi voting for the abolition
of the liquor traffic. They have al-.
ways favored restrictive legislation,
and it was a foregone conclusion that
they would give majorities for prohibi-
tion. Ontaxio has also declared against
the importation, manufacture, and sale
of intoxicating liquor. The, sentiment
wes strongest in the rural districts, in
the laxge centres of population the
feeling was not favourable to prohibi-
tion, every oity in Ontario giving a
majority against it excepting Brant-
ford. Manitoba followed in the same
course as Ontario and the Lower Pro-
vinces, and endorsed the proposition.
The vote in Toronto shows a re-
markable change in sentiment. In
January, 1894, when the provincial
plebiscite was taken Toronto gave a
majority of 2,500 in support of prohibi-
tion. On. Thursday the vote was en-
tirely reversed, and the people pro-
nounced against the principle by a ma-
jority of 3,700, the aggregate vote be-
ing larger than on the previous OEM -
Elora, In other cities throughout the
province a similar reversal of opinion
took place.
Thursday was the first time a vote
on prohibition was taken in the Pro-
vinces of Quebec and New Brunswick.
The former province spoke with no
uncertain sound, the city of Montreal
contributing an adverse majority of
over 12,000. It is noteworthy that in
every province where a plebiscite had
prevadusly been -taken the majority for
prohibition was reduced. The vote in
Ontario was very close, evidencing that
since 1894 there has been a most ere -
markable change in popular feeling.
The smallness of Tharsday's vote for
prohibition in Ontario is attributed by
some to the fact that women did not
vote, while at the plebiseite in 1894,
which was held, at the same time
as the municipal elections, they were
allowed to poll their ballots. The ab-
sence of women from the polls does not
however, furnish a satisfactory explan-
ation of the reduced prohibition ma-
jority, as the total nuraber of the
votes polled by women in 1894 was but
a very small proportion o.falttst2h4eicwevithyo.,1e.
ONTARIO.
Foe Againet.
Addington. .
Algoma. . . . 165
Brant, South. . . .
.28
Brockville. . - . 634
Bothwell. .
Bruce, North. .
Bruce, Eat.
Bruce, 'West.
. . 812
• • 281
. . 6-0
Cardwell. . . . . . 404
Carleton. . . . . 204
Cornwall and Stormont . 825
Dundee. . . . . 97t
Durham, Eest. . . . . 400
Durham, West. . . . . 671
Essex, North. . . . 1,610
Essex, South. . . 384
Elgin, East. . • . 53
2488609°1
Glengarry. . . 09 688
Elgin, Wes,t. .
•
Frontenac.
Grey, East. . .
Grey, North. .
Grenville. . . 48
Grey, South. . . . . 250
Halton. . . . 538
Hastings, East, . . • 125
Hastings, North. . . . 314
Hastings, West. . . . . 78
Huren, least. . . . 164.
lealdimand-Monek ... 50
Hamilton ape
Huron, South- ... 400
Huron, West- ... 780
131
Kingston 417
Larabten, &et. ... 863
Lanark, North... ... ...... 413
Leeds -Grenville, N. 700-
Le,rabton, ... 420
Lanark, South... ... 80
Lennox- ..e... 178
Lincoln..., 323
Leeds, South... ... 700
Landon ... 985
Middlesex, East. 227
Muskoka., e. ... . ... 000
Middlesex, North- .. 189
Middlesex, West.. a. 227
.Nipissing.„ 29
Noefolk, North-, 1,000
Norfolk, South- 294
Northumberland, E, 826
Online°, North .., 530
Ontario South ...
Ottawa city,. .. ... 707
Ontario, 'West. 540
Oxford, North... ... ... 100
Oxford, Speth ... 475
11440 ,.• 6
Perth, North to. 4. 1 0•• 057,
Perth, South... 247
Peterborough, E ..• ,.. 276
Peterborough, W ... 400
Prescott... 834
Prince Edward... ... -1,104
Renfrew, North. .. 064
Itenfrevit, South. ..... . I11
Russell. 288
Simeoe, . .. 811
Simeas, North. .. ... 412
Sanwa South. Ab1 8041
Toronto. .. 3,170
Victoria, North. .. 335 ,
Victoria. South. . ... 509
Waterloo, North-, 1,701
Waterloo, South., ... 2,00
Wellington, Centre. .. •540
Welland. .. e, 300
Weeliagton, North. .. ..., 605
Wellington, South. „ „ 115
Weetwortii, North.. .. a 19
Wentworth. South. .. .. 93
York, Bast., e /159
York, North. .. . 105
York, West.. .. ... 'e37 -
CITIES
For .A.gainst
Brantford' . .
TOrOntOt 00 00 • 0 •
Ottawa,. .. 14 •• •1•
Chatham.
Kingston,. .
St. Thomas.
London. .
Guelph . . .
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Belleville. ..
S tratford.
St Catharines..
W indsor. •
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440
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rae
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346
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649
SIRDAR BACK FROM FASHODA.
Alllureband Declined to Retire, and Mitch.
• inter Left ilint There.
A despatch from Cairo says :-Gen-
eral Kitchener, commanding, the Anglo-
Egyptian expedition, has returned to
Omdurman, having established posts
at Fashoda and on the Sebat river.
The teeops did. no fighting except with
a dervish steamer on the way south,
which was captured.
MARCHAND DECLINED TO LEAVE.
The London Daily Telegraph's Cairo
correspondent, telegraphing on Mon-
day says: -"General Kitchener found
the French at Fashoda. He notified
Major Marchand that he had express
instructions that the territory was
British, and that the French must re-
tire, and offexed them passage to
Cairo. Major Marchand absolutely de-
clined to retire unless ordered to do
so by his Government. No fighting
occurred. Major Marchand was given
clearly to understand that the Brit-
ish insisted upon their claims, and the
rest has been left to be settled by
diplomacy between the respective Gov-
ernments.
HOISTED THE UNION TACK.
"General Kitchener sent a long offi-
cial despatch to London, hoisted the.
Union jack and Egyptian ensign, ad
left as a ' garrison the 11,th and 15th
Soudanese Battalions and the Cameron
Highlanders to protect the British
flag. Colonel Jackson oomnaands the
garrison."
DERVISH REMNANT DEFEATED.
A despatch from Suakita, says: -The
only organizect remnant of the dervish
army was deieated and. its last strong-
hold, Gedaref, captured on September
22nd, after ,three hours' hard. fighting,
when an Egyptian force, the Kassala
garrison, with a camel. corps., number-
ing 1,800, under command of Col.
Parsons, routed 3,000 dervishes, of
whore 500 were killed.
Three Egyptian officers were wound-
ed and 37 Egyptian soldiers killed and
59 wounded.
Th,. dervish tones at Gedaref was
under. Ahmed Fedil, a. cousin of the
Ktalifa. It formed no part of the
arms that was defeated at Onadarmen,
and had always been a separate com-
mand.
Gedaref hes about 100 miles to the
south of Kassala, between the River
Atbaxa and the River Rahaud, a tribu-
tary of the Blue Nile.
Ahmed Fedil succeeded to the com-
mand of the Gedaref army after the
defeat of the Dervishes under Ahmed
Wad Ali, who was killed at Agordat
by the Italians in November, 1985.
HEROES OF OMDURMAN.
A despatch from London, says: -It
is reported that the War Office has
granted to the Twenty-first Lancers a
short furlough in recognition of its
bravery at Omdurman. Otherwise the
regiment would have gone direct from
Egypt to India. for b two years' stay.
According to report it has now been
arranged that the regiment shall first
come to London, and march with full
equipment from the docks to the
Knightsbridge barracks, receiving an
ovation throughout the march. A com-
mittee composed of all branches of the
military service is making arrange-
ments to present the regiment with a
gold shield commemorative of the fe-
males Charge at Omdurman.
HUNDREDS KILLED.
China and Japan /flailed by Terrible
Storms.
A. despatch from Vancouver, B.C.,
says: -Advices from the Orient by the
steamer Empress of India, state that
China and Japan have been visited by
thunderstorms and disastrous floods in
which many hundreds oe people have
lost their live. The region north of
the An Shang mountains' has been in-
undated for hundreds of miles by the
Yellow river. Several hundred thou-
sand persons have been plunged into
the deepest distress, and many info
absolute penury, which local anthort-
ties are unable to alleviate.
WILL LOSE HIS ARIVI.
Surprise Por 5 Man Who Twisted a Lion's
Tall.
despatch from St. Louis, Mo., says:-
-Wm. lecelker, a G8rnaam iron -worker,
twisted a lion's tail on Tuesday at
East St. Louis, and will lose hie left
arm. ;Hummel's circus was to give an
exhibition. The animal waggens were
lined up, preparatory to the parade.
Among the weirdoes were a pair of
African lions. The male was lying at
the front of tlae cage with one ef
paws and his tail hanging outside the
bars,. Aoelker begare stroking the paw
with his left hand. The lion watched
Itoelker's procedure. Theothe iron-
worker grebbed the tail With his right
hand, giving it a sharp twist. Thee*
wee a roar, and, one Of the ilion's paws
eaught Roeliter by the left shoulder
and stripped off the fletila of the term
doWn to the hand, two fingers of
wwere tortt o
• ,
THE KIIALIFA'S TREASURE,
FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS FOUND IN
THE DESER'r.
Ben. 'Kitchener to lietire-fiegstrds 1114
Work. as Completed and. Will Return to
The Cairo correspopdent of the Lon-
don Daily Telegraph says :-"It is stat-
ed on good aathority that General Kite
obener intends to retire from the
Egyptian service, He regards his
work as completed, and will return to
England with the middle of October.
It is rumoured that his eyesight is af-
fected,
"Upon axriving at Fashoda the Sir-
dar shook hands with Major Mar-
chand, and they dined together the
same evening. Major Marchand lack-
ed supplies. A story is current that he
has left Fashoda. Ile received help
from a local cbief who is now our ad -
TT -TR KHALlEA'S TREASURE.
"It is stated. that the Khalifa's
'treasure £10,000,000 in value, which
was hidden in the desert, has been
found, and .forwarded here, Lord Ed-
ward Cecil will take Fashoda des-
patches to London.
" The British Government has offer-
ed 412 sterling to each reserve or
time -expired man who is willing to re-
engage with the expedition."
SIRDAR'S REPORT INTERESTING.
A despatch from London says :-The
newspapers of the country are clam-
orously demanding tbat the Government
take the public into confidence in re-
gard to the Fashoda eiftair, having been
informed that General Kitchener's re-
port has reaohed the Foreign Office,
teed that it shows interesting develop-
ments, They appear to be deeply dis-
appointed that diplonaatists are to have
the settlement of the question.
The Foreign Office has issued a for-
mal refusal to make public ane fur-
ther details of the affair, some of
which, however, are leaking out.
• The Birder, according to these, after
Major Marchand refused to furl the
French flag, formally announced that
he had come to raise the Egyptian flag,
but before doing so, desired to know'
whether Major Marchand wished to
enter a protest. The Frenchman re-
plied in the negative, and the Sirdar
then planted the Egyptian flag alone -
not the Egyptian and British, as at
first reported -500 raetres from the
French flagstaff.
Negotiations relative to the matter
were begun at Paris on Wednesday, the
British Ambassador, Right Hon. Sir
Edmund J. Monson, calling upon M.
Delcasse, the French Foreign Minister.
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FIVE KILLED IN A WRECK,
TERRIBLE DISASTER ON THE IN-
TERCOLONIAL RAILWAY.
A Special and a Coal Train Collide on the
Pleton Branch This Morning -Mimes of
the Dead -A 'Number Injured.
A. despatch from Stellerton, N. S.,
says: -A collision occurred near there
on the Pictou branch of the Intercol-
onia,1 railway on Wednesday morning,
five men being killed.
The disaster was caused by a mis-
understanding of orders, which has not
yet been explained. A special from
Tataraagonche under Conductor A. R.
McLeod, met a coal train in charge
of Conductor W. Gordon, at a point
between Westville and Stellaxton,
known as Adam's cut.
The killed include one passenger who
was on the speoial, ancl the engineers
•
and firemen on each train. They are:
Jas. Sproul, engineer; Michael O'Brien
engineer; W. G. Henderson, fireman; 3.
R. McKenzie, fireman, and a passen-
ger named Cameron, from Scotch Hill.
TWO PASSENGERS.
were seriously injured and a number
slightly injuxed. One of the tevobad-
ly hurt is John McMillan, of Pictou.
The special was an excursion train
of seven oars, erowded with people
bound for Ha.lifae to the Provincial
Fair. The other train was going to
Westville with about sixty miners, who
were on their way to work the Acadia
Colliery. The collision occurred at a
sharp curve, and, the two trains, which
were running at high speed, came to-
gether without warning. The four men
on • the locomotives were killed out-
right, and their badly mangled bodies
were found in the 'debris. Martin Mc-
Donald, of Lyons Brook, a passenger,
who was on the ear next to the en-
gine of • the special, was also killed.
The front beef of 'this ear was com-
pletely demolished. One of the miners
had his jaw broken. Wrecking trains
and doctors are at the scene.
IT WAS MIRACULOUS
that there were not more killed, as the
accident occurred in one of the most
dangerousplaces on the Pictou branch.
i
The men n the eabs had probably no
time to jump to save their lives, and
if they did, they were instantly buried
in the, wreckage, %vbich piled laigh by
the sides of the fatal blind curve. Their
bodies were found among the debris of
the wreak, mangled and lacerated al -
mot beyond recognition, The news of
the terrible accident was., soon com-
municated to Stellarton, and thence
spreed quickly to the other towns and
surrounding country. r
People flocked to the scene in thou-
sands, eager to render assistance. Doc-
tors were speedily summoned, and they
axe working vigorously to alleviate the
suffering of the wounded Passengers
and trainmen.
TO HONOUR KITCHENER.
Erection], et the City of London to be
Con ferreti4
A de,spetob from London, says: -M
a Meeting of the Common ()owlet of
London at the Guildhall it was resolv-
ed to confer the freedom of the city
upari Major-General Sir Herbert leit-
ohetterand also te preseht hint with
• Owee'd of hotoxv.
LIIS CHIEF WIFE CAPTURED
OMDURMAN WILL ROBABLy BE
LEVELLED TLTHROUND.
urade F011()%0'N the Vieg-SeereS of Traders
rizitelklizzitiodismolf. Tons of Merchandise
A despatoh from Oneduxmara,
The Camel corps which accompanied
the expedition to fetch the Khalifees
camels captured Abdullah's pririciPaa
mffwri nioatembe ' 6°i theitdthicilia. adnaYo;hb, eoirfs o0P )19'sr hettlini eirteylaanbe des tfc advise
°evil:,a
e her
It is to be hoped that the remnants
of the Baggaxa nowin Omdurman will
ibiodetn
deported in
d iv,bithhaeintatnit'see.x
st s ofthe
prm
theemore
t
ttoheseexezraopirseoiobateesia
,r
gequivalent to pulling down the •walls
of Broadmoor. In any case, both pol-
e:r7ons st me.rneed forwversatile
yearsdab
le r
Bslti
wickedness, to rem
icy and health cry aloud for the utter
demolition of Omdurman, doomed by
its limestone subsoil to perpetual arid
infertility, and for the transfer of the
town to Khartoum.
So confident was the Khalifa of vic-
tory that a. few days before the fight
he ordered a qu.antity of red bricks to
bo
build °huginahset lfacemnses-wflp'oamlacKe.hartoum to
ASTONISHING RECOVERIES.
SOMe of the most astonishing 113„00V -
arias front wounds which would kill
any European within an hour have
taken place among the dervishes. • On
the battlefield, three days after the
fight, was a gray -headed dervish with
a shattered leg, who when first re-
lieved drank six quarts of water and
ate biscuits heartily, and is now doing
well.
A strange siglat was seen in the Sou-
danese camp the day after the victory.
Some thousands or the dervish prison-
ers were sitting in rows on the ground
• waiting their turn to be examined by
the doctor as to their fitness to serve
in the Egyptian army. About 40 per
icyisenetn.iwetieadfound sound, and inanaediate-
.
SIRDAR'S LETTER TO TeRALIFA.
It is deeply interesting to know that
in the cause of humanity the Birder
sent a letter to the Khalifa three days
before the bombardment, advising him
to withdraw all the women and chil-
dren from Omdurman to a place of
safety. Apparently the Khalifa was
SO confident of success that he treated
the message with scorn.
No sympathy tenet be felt for these
fiends inearnate. Dervish wanderers
about the battlefield have already dis-
interred and mutilated our dead. If
of
at all it is on the si
td'e
TRADE FOLLOWS THE FLAG.
Although so far from the usual run
of civilization, Khartoum already pre-
sents a somewhat different appearance
to that which greeted the victors on
their entry into the city. Three well-
known English, two German, two Bel-
gian, and one Frence trader are al-
ready well near to the front ,with a
total of over 300 tons of merchandise,
The English houses are represented by
two well-known European and one Aus-
tralian travellers, who have instruc-
• tions to wire for anything they may re-
quire from their Alexandria or Cairo
houses. One gentlemati bas strict in-
stractions to keep a sharp lookout for
every point favourable to an advertiser,
so that, ere Tommy Atkins returns, he
will be able to gaze OD all the well-
known placards, and if he stays long
enough, not only ,will he be able to buy
British goods, but he will at the same
time be in the position of being served
by his fellow-countryrtten.
'ABYSSINIANS WITH MARCHAND,
despatch to the Cologne Gazette
from St. Petersburg says it is regard-
ed as possible, in the light of recent
information, that not only the French
expedition under Marchand, but a force
of Abyssinian troops, is at Fashoda.
It is expected that King Merfelek will
refuse. to relinquish his old claim, to
the Nile border of his erapire, and. ac-
cordingly may plant his flag and as-
semble a considerable force opposite
Faslaoda.
THREATENS PEKIN.
rareat Britain's Pormidable Squadron Pttis
A despatch froltiSNIVIlei-Flai-Wei, says:
The battlesbip Centurion, flagship of
Vice -Admiral Sir Edward H. Seymour,
the coramander of the British fleet in
Chinese waters, sailed suddenly Fri-
day under sealed orders accompanied
from Cbe-Foo by the battleship Victor-
-lolls, the first-class cruiser Nerds -
sus, the second-class cruiser Hermione,
the torpeecaboat destroyer Fame, the,
torpedo-boat destroyer Hart, and the
deepatch-boat Alacrity.
It ia supposed the destination ef the
fleet is Ta -Ku, at the entrance of the
river leading to Tien-Ssin, the Port of
Pekin, for the purpose of making a na-
val demonstration there.
MAY LAND FORCES. e
A despatch from Sharighel, says :-It
is reported that Keingeletwei, the Can-
toneee retell/ler, who is accused by the
Dowager, Empress of being iniplicated
in designs on the Eniperor's life, and
who recently fled from Pekin, arrived
at Woo -Sung, near here, Saturday, and
too refuge on board a British gunboat.
The British Consul has entered a pro-
test against the action of the Chin-
ese offieials in stopping the steamer
Eldorado and eierixching her for lang.
It is reported that Admiral Seyrnour,
the Britieh naval commareler, tent:ern-
plates landing a party of sailors and
marines at Ta -Ku, The Taotai, gov-
ernor, hae asked the assietaoce of the
Britieh Corisul in capturing Kang,
whOlit he described as a degraded
crienbial. If he r8 tItteSted. he Will no
doubt be executed.
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Fird7s737
www
Makes thousands of women stiffer
in silence, rather than tell tkeir
troubles to, anyone. To eiceli
Indian Woman's Bolin is a per,
feet boon. It owes all Womb
troubles, corrode monthly irregu-
larities, abolishes the agonies of
child -birth, makes weak women
strong, and rendere life worth
a living. e
41,1111
THE
EXETER &
TIMES rai
OF MIY,
• EXPECTED A DISASTER.
captain et' Ltt Bourgogne Said to Have Had
Delusions.
A despatch from New York, says:
-Several damage suits, arising out
of the Bourgogne disaster, have been
filed in this city. Among them ione
which oontains somewhat novel state-
ments. In the suit brought by Ad-
rien Raymond for damages to the am-
ount of $30,000 for the loss of his wife,
A.dele Raymond, the statement is made
that Captain Deloncle, of the Bur-.
gogne, wes of unsound mind al the
time of the collision. It, Is asserted in
the petition that Captain Deloncle's
mind wee filled with delusions, which
fact was known to his employers.
The captain expeoted that the Bour-
gogne was going to meet just such a
disaster as finally suttee to • her, and ,
that he would be lost with his ship,
being utterly unable to render assist-
ance to his passengers. Of this, it is ,
said, captain Deloncle often wrote to
his friends, and it came to be smatter
tnstantly-
of general knowledge among his i;r1-
imates that he was copecting a disaster. The loss of • his
son had further unbalanced his mind,
it is asserted. •
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
The tat-
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DREYFUS CASE TO BE REVISED.
--
French Cabinet So Decide After a Long
Discussion.
A des:patcb from Paris, says: -- All
ing of the Cabinet on Monday morning,
of the Cabinet on Monday morning,
when the question of the Dre0ai Za-se'"
was taken up. The meeting was pro-
longed and animeted, but finally a de-
cision was taken in favour of a revis-
ion of the trial of former Captain'
Dreyfus, and the documents in the
case will be sent to the Court of Cas-
eation.
The letinfeter of Agricueture, M. -
Vigor, is reported to have bitterly op-
posed a revision, and it is rumoured
he will resign. InstrucsCions were is-
sued to prosecute anyone attacking the
army.
The city is excited, and. the Bourse
ID in a disturbed condition. Conserva-
tive papers, however, counsel the
people to remain calm.
Tct-
Mane
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THE MATTER OF AN ALLOWANCE.
My dean whispered the young man,
as we a.re so soon to be married, we
should take a practical view of life,
and profit by the mistakes of others.
For instance, there is the subject of a,
regular .allowa.nce every week for
spending -money, you know.
• Oh, I've thought of that, she re-
plied sweetly.
Have you ?
Yes, indeed. Hundreds and lien-
dreds of times, and lately I haven't '
thouabt of much else. ,
Eh 1 •1
Yes. Your income is goo, isn't it?
Yes, and I want it bag° as far as
possible toward your Sappiness.
01, course. •Well. T've talked it over
with mamma and she thinks an allow -
aims of one dollar one weak will be
plenty.
Indeed?
Oh, yes. You can walk to the of-
fice, you know, and °eery your lunch,
you know, and so you can use the
avhole dollar for cigars, and necktiee
a,nd things.
•
The fae-
dmilo
eferrataie 44( e' cr.
of ter., Teener.
DECLINE IN VALTJE.
Mand -1 thought Ethel would die of W
grief when ibe young duke refused to
marry SerIfecau_s....e slim:only five
million doliars.
Eva -Poor girl! Dia she die?
coMtachiaraida-nNo; sbe ran off with her
EIE SAW THE MONKEY.
Sandy Macgregor, efte.,r five -and -
twenty yeers' steady work, took a
fOrtiught'S holiday arid welt to Lon-
don. At the foot of the eine, where
Sandy was lodging two or three young
fellows gathered every morning round
o barber's shop door, and wheri Sandy
pasted backwe,rds and forwards frota
seeing the sights they began to no-
tice him, and resolved to have a lark
out of the meld Scot. One morning, cn
einerging from his lodgings, Sends'
was accosted by the barer himself
with the Words: 'Ere, old fellow,
aye you.seeh a lorry passing this 'ere
avay loaded with inorikeys teem Bailey%
thew?" "No, ma meanie," saki Sanity.
"I didnae lee it; but, pair chieT, lute ye
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