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CANADA.
i Ottawa claims a population of 56,000.
There are 40 eases a typhoid fever
In the hospitals at Ottawa.
Mrs. Weist o Weissenberg drowa-
hd herself in the soft water barrel.
Iron ore ie being shipped from. Mar -
Vette, Miele, to Deseronto, Canada.
IsIngston's population has inereased
208, according to the assessors' returns.
A seheme is on the tapis for the es-
tablishment of large cotton niljs at
Chieoutimi,
Kr. W. A4:. Davis, Town ,Engineer of
• Woodstock, has been appointed to a
strailer position in Berlin.
Fort William mercliants almost to a
Man will adept a strictly cash system
with customers this; month,
Centenary Church congregation of
Hamiltoa has cleeided in favor of in-
dividual communion cups,
Mr. Justice Robertson refused the
Crown's application for a change of
venue in the Ponton case.
Nothiag has yet been heard of the
whgreabouts a Rev, John Smith, of
Halifax, who left for Pembroke a
raonth ago.
An order -in -Council has been passed
appointing Thursday, Nov. 24th, the
last Thursday in the month, Thanks-
giving Day.
Mr. Archibald Blue, of the 'Ontario
Bureau of Mines, reports that the cor-
undura deposits in Hastings and Ren.:
frew counties are very rich.
W. A. Parks, B.A., and W. E. h. Car-
ter returned to Toronto on Saturday
from a trip to Moose Faetory, Hudson
. Bay. They travelled over 1,500 miles in
a fifteen foot eenoe.
Mr. A. E. Forget, Indian Commis-
sioner at Winnipeg, has been appointed.
Lieutenant -Governor a the Northwest
Territories. Mr. Forget will be suc-
ceeded as Indian Commissioner by Hon:
David Laird of Prince Edward Island.
A. farraeiSs son, about eighteen years
of age, named Ellert, employed at a
eider mill at St. Agatha, was struck
by the bursting of the flywheel and
instantly killed.
For stealing three cigars a boy nam-
ed Thomas was sentenced by Police
Magistrate Spencer of Owen Sound to
the Reformatory at Penetanguishene
for three years.
Mr. W. H. P. Clement, barrister, of
Toronto, has been appointed member
of the Yukon Council and legal ad-
viser to the Commissioner, in succes-
sion to Mr. P. 0. Wade,
John C. Kaar, a lad of about fifteen
hyears, was instantly killed at Browns -
by being caught in a belt and
wound round the shaft, which severed
his head from the body..
Mrs. Boomer, the lady member of
the London School Board, has succeed-
ed in having aresolution passed en-
dorsing the proposal to teach domes-
tic science in the Public Schools,
Mr. P. Ryan, of New York, has been
he Ottawa instructing the Tammany
Protective Society of that eity in
the government and methods of the
femous organization that controls
New York,
Mr. E. H. Morse, of Blenheim, was
examining an aeetylene gas generator
with alighted matoh when an explos-
ion took place. He was terribly burn-
ed, and it is feared may lose his eye -
tight, or even his life.
School conauissioners of Outremont,
near Montreal, have caused the ar-
rest of Dominion Veterinary Inspector
Dr. AlnEachran, alleging that the doc-
tor's establishment for treating ani-
mals for tuberculosis is a menace to
the health of the school.
GREAT BRITAIN.
A ruffian under arrest stabbed a
policeman to death in London, Eag.,
yesterday.
The steaeaship Milwaukee which ran
on the rocks near Liverpool, has been
out in ttvo and one half of the vase'
towed to that port.
UNITED STATES.
3Efiram Maxim, the inventor of rapid
fire guns, is under arrest at New York
on a charge of bigamy.
At Adrien, Miele, Mary Service, a
widow, 87 years old, committed suicide
Saturday rather than die of cancer.
Gigantic frauds, it is said, have been
discovered in New York's asphalt pav-
ing contracts.. There will be another
civic scandal coniraittee.
Samuel Green Wood, president of the
Coritsville, Pa., National Bank, was rob-
bed of a valise on Sunday at Philadel-
phia which contained $10,000 in bonds.
Snow and rain have checked the pro-
gress of the forest fires in Colorado,
and it is now (:bought that further de-
struction of the timber will be prevent-
ed,
Captain Brady, of the United States
Signal Service, has been ordered to be-
gin the construetion of an overland
telegraph line from Quantanamo,
Cuba, to Santiago and Manzanillo,
Senator Hanna, believed by many to
be President McKinleya chief advis-
er, deelares for the United States hold-
ing the Philippines. He is decidedly
opposed to any proposition to pay
Spain $400,o0o,000 for there,
John Hollingworth and his friends
fired an Party of five man who went
to his place in Cannon County, Kansas,
on Saturday to execute a, judgmeet.
Four of the men were killed outright
and the fifth Cannot recover.
Four trailers were burned to death
in the Midvale slope of the Lehigh Val-
ley Cal Company at Midvale, Pa., on
Saturday. A fire lirake out in the
slope about tow). At the time there
were 460 men in the mine. A.11 wore
gotteu out but four.
A P. reskt deal of damage has been
done in the State of Wisconein by foe -
eat Ara, In the oltv or Cumberland
the lets Amounts to *P5,000. !rho time
in the aortherti part of he State have
Nee tamed -mil by a heavy downhill of
rain. Several +loathe .are reported,
On Saturday at Pittsburg Bertha
Beilstein killed her mother and. Put
four bullets hato her body, from the
()Meta of vvtieli she °alma recover,
Frederick Belistein, the tether of the
family, was one of the best known re-
sidents of Allegheny. He died sud-
denly in Deeenaber last from apoplexy,
daensdontsninuceethen the daughter ha b"Y•1
Hugh Meldon, of Taeoma, Wash., has
brought suit against the Grand Court
of Washington, Ancient Order of For-
esters, for 015,000 damages for injuries
alleged, to have been• received
while being initiated into the order.
Heldou alleges that he was oomPek
led to ride an electric goat, resulting
in iihttiriee to his spine, from which his
physiotan says he will never. recover.
lArrangements are being made to
bring to the United States for inter-
ment the bodies of all the soldiers of
the American army whot died in Cuba,
Porto moo or the Philippines. Con-
gress made an appropriation of poomoo
for this purpose, and the execution of
the law has been placed in the hands
of the quartermaster -general of the
arm3rorp
wielxitiennssteroctions to spare ef-
fortReports from the flooded distriets of
Georgia state that a hundred lives
have been lost.
Senator Quay and his son are being
tried at Philadelphia on a charge of
using State funds in the People'eBank
for their own speculations.
A battle took place between United
States regulars under Gen, Bacon at
13ear Island, Minn., Indians, in which
four soldiers were killed and nine
wounded. How many Indians were
killed is not at present known.
GENERAL
There are 20,000 Spaniards in Porto
• sRpiacein. who desire to be returned to
Smallpox and typhoid are reported
to be afflicting the American force at
Manilla.
It is the opinion of the medical staff
of the American army in Porto Rico
that the condition of the volunteer
forces necessitates their • removal
north.
The British ateanser Ganges, which
sailed from Montreal a few days ago,
is reported ashore at Ferrole, on the
French shore of Newfoundland. She
is said to be full of water and will,be
a total wreck.
Three laborers, named 1VIussik, Hart-
man and Koracks, of Budapest, con-
victed of plotting against the Emper-
or's life, were sentenced, Mussik to
five years penal servitude for conspir-
ing to commit high treason, and Hart-
mann and Koracks to two years each.
Senor Sagasba, the Spanish Premier,
believes that Russia is working for
the formation of a new triple alliance
comprising Russia, France and Ger-
many, which would leave japan as
England's only ally in the fax east.
2nd Edition
Admiral Cervera has accepted the
invitation of the constituency of Fer-
rol to represent them in the Cortes,
and that he has promised his sup -
.porters that he will reveal the whole
truth about the mismanagement of
naval affairs by the Madrid Govern-
ment, which resulted in the disaster
to his squadron at Santiago.
The British Royal Commission _ap-
pointed to investigate the French
treaty rights ila Newfoundland, has
completed its tour of the treaty coast,
and will return to St. John's to com-
plete the evidence concer ning the dif-
ficulties between French and British
subjects over the lobster, cod and her-
ring fisheries by studying the colonial
•archives. This is expected to occupy
a couple of weeks, after which the
commissioners will negotiate with the
Colonial Ministry for a basis of set-
tlement with France.
SLAYERS OF MISSIONARIES.
Sierra, Leone Native Chtefs Convicted of
inturder—The Illfassacro Grew Out of the
Mut Tax.
A despatch from Sierra Leone, West
Africa. says:—Native chiefs to the
numbee of one hundred have been ar-
rested and are awaiting trial at Free-
town, capital of the British oolony of
Sierra Leone, for the murder of Ameri-
can and other missionaries at Kwellu
in May last. A number of the chiefs
implicated have already been convicted.
The rebellion in Kay, 1898, Ivhich led
to the massacre of the missionaries of
the West Coast of Africa, grew out of
the dissatisfaction of the natives with
the imposition of the hut tax, and
spread through the Sherbe districts,
where the headquarters of the Ameri-
can missionaries, members of the Unit-
ed Brotherhood of Christ, were located.
The insurgents burned the mission -
houses and murdered a number of the
American missionaries, inducting Mr.
and 1V1rs. Cain and the Misses Archer, c
Hatfield, and Schenck. Other of the
missionaries, Mr. and Mrs. Burtner,
1VI.r. and Mrs. Minehell, and the Misses t
Muller and Ward, succeeded in escap- c
ing to Freetown. 1 T
Terrible experiences were recounted t
by these who escaped. For three days b
there was awful bloodshed, while the i
natives were engaged in the work of
massacre and destruction. A hos.t's
crew from a British warehip just Yeach- b
ed a mission -house in time to rescue
Miss Muller. A number of the natives
frightfully besmeared with the blood c
of earlier victims, had already sur-
rounded the building when the sailors x.
a•ppeared, on, the scene and rescued the r
wotn.en. a
A. British expedition was sabsequent-
ly despatched tcv the scene a .the up-
rising, and the cremated bodies of the
m
murdered misonaries were recovered.
The Britieh then severely punished the
rebellious natives, but the seareh for
Mrs. Cain, who fled to the bush at the
time oe the massacre, proved fruitless,
and if WeS concluded she was killed.
TENKILLED IAY INJURED
TREY WERE RECEIVED WITH A
RAIL OF BULLETS.
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A Despereie seseenater 1013400M Mrilkilig
C9,111 litluerh Mieil Imparted
Negro labourers.
A desPetoli frbm Virden, EL, says;
—The trouble whieh it was anticipated.
would signalize t the arrival of tire col-
oured miners imported from Alabama
by the Chicago -Virden Coal Company
to work the, idle minea in this district
occurred on Wednesday. When the
train having on board the negroes pull-
ed up in front of the Coal Company's
stockades, it Was met by 1 500 armed
raiaers, lined up on each side of the
track. Stories conflict as to whether
the first shots were fired by the strik-
ing miners or by the special police of
the Coal Company, who were guarding
the stockades in which other non-un-
ion miners were housed.
Up to 10 o'clock on Wednesday the
list is 10 dead and 35 wounded.
For the past two weeks; rumours:
have reached Virden daily that a train
having on board negroes from Ala-
bama would reach the city, and the
Chicago and Alton depot luta been sur-
rounded day and night by vigilant
miners awaiting their arrival. Wednes-
day the Chicago and. Alton limited, due
topass here at 10 o'clock, passed dis-
• playing flags in the rear, indicating
• that a special was following, Imme-
diately the word spread, and a dense
crowd of miners lined the station plat-
form, while another crowd colleeted at
the entrance to the stockade hall, a
mile, north of the station. D. B. Kel-
ley, a Chicago and Alton detective,
stood guard at a switch at the south
end of 'the station platform to see that
it was 3Iot tampered with.
• 'At 1:1.40 the special train passed the
station, and signal shots were fired
from the south end of the train on
the special's arrival. Immediately
shots• were fired from the moving
train, and. outside the battle began.
A few moments after the train passed
the switch where Kelley was stationed
and while he was talking to two citi-
zens, he threw up his hands and drop-
ped dead with a bullet through his
brace. He was the first man killed.
• DESPERATE FIRING. _
The train continued to the stockade,
the miners firing into it all along the
route, and the negro passengers re-
turning the fire.
• The moment the train passed the
stockade the miners opened a desper-
ate fire with Winchesters, and fire-
arms of all kinds. The negroes on the
train answered with a. steady fire.
The miners and the train were envel-
oped in la cloud of smoke, and the
shooting sounded like a continuous
Engineer Burt Tiger received a bul-
let in his.arm, and dropped. from his
seat. His fireman seized. the throttle,
pulled it open with a, jerk. and the
train was under speed carrying a
load of wounded negro passengers to
Springfield. How many were wounded
is /rot known.
FIGHT, AT THE STOCKADE.
The train stopped at the stockade
but two minutes. Its departure did not
cause the firing to cease. The tower
of the stockade was filled with sharp-
shooters,armed with Winchesters, and
they kept a steady fire into the crowd
of union miners. Eye witnesses say
that the dead miners were killed
after the train departed.
INSIDE THE STOCKADE.
A reporter secured admitta.nce to
the stockade late Wednesday night. He
found one man, A. W. Morgan, of Chi-
cago, dead, and seven seriously wound-
ed. There were about 35 men sta-
tioned inside the stockade last night,
each keeping watch through a loop-
hole. Manager Luken.s remained at
his desk in the office inside the stock-
ade all night issuing orders to his men.
Manager Lukens said.; "The blood of
every man shed here is on the Govern-
or's head. He is absolutely outside the
law, and has no justification whatever
in refusing to send troops to protect
the men brought here by us. His
statement that a miner had the same
right to fight fox his property, which
was his labor, as the mine owner had
o protect his property, inspired these
men to the action which they took to-
day in firing Upon this train as soon as
it came into our town."
A detail of militia at 10.15 o'clock
Wednesday night shot and killed ex -
Lieut. of Police Tone Preston, of Chi -
ago, at the stockade. He was stand -
ng outside the stockade as guard.
The militia. gave by -standing miners
he coramand to halt, and Preston con-
ontinued walking back, to the gate,
be militia fired, and he was shot in
he stomaeh: Battery "I)," of Gales-
urg, under Captain Craig, number -
ng 160 inen, arrived Thursday night.
WHAT LED TO THE TROUBLE.
The trotible aniong the miners has
een breWitig for some time. The pro-
rietors of the principal mines in the
istrict, which are operated by the C/hi-
a go-Virden•Coel Company, declined to
rant; the 40 -cent scale, and the strike
esulted. After allowing the mines to
ernain idle for one weeks, they made
n offer to pay 28 cents a ten, and to
employ 40 or 50 of the old miners if
they desired to resume work, This
was declined, The company then de-
cided to import negro miners from Ala.
bania,, and asked Governor Tanner to
send troops to protect their arrival.
This the Governor deelined to no, char-
acterizing the imported men as ox -
convict. The company on Tuesday at.
terrloon, sent this ultimatum to the
Governor
"We again give you notie,e tbat we
are going to operate oar minea, sod
we absolutely decline tie ltaeurne any
of the responsibility that the laws of
Minnie place upon the Executive. The
raob of armed men ari Virden is await -
the arrival of the mien Who are
e;oing to •work there, with the avowed
intention of assault and utit defence.
Our employes are not going to Virden
tiesatilt anyone-, • but are going to
work. And ha going, they are made
£iI aoquainted with 'tho condi-
PAST ATLANTIC SERVICE.
A despatch from Quebec says
Allan, of Montreal, was in the
eity to day arid had a conferanoe with
Sir Richard Cartwright in tea:trove
atearaship matter:4. Tenderer for the
twet yeas mail serviee, commencing
l'elay 1st next, are net due until the
211412.' inst., and when the tontract bee
beet awarded the Govan:meet will lose
no three in endeavouring to arrange
for a fast sereice .to be inaugtxrated
by May 1st, 1901,
BXIIITER TIMES
.1.r.t.tnotnientnetriSeStnnt,
• toaa existing there, and, if the
are• assaulted eapect to eXerci
though it may he, /that: was fereed once
upon
it time, if history tells the (rut
upoa the gentleman now In the Ramo.-
tive'$ chein at Springfield. This coin-
Pany and its employes are within the
taw, atzla shall etay within the law,
anci We shall expect every right guar.,
aliteed by law. We are dealing with
an st existing condition that ju%tow
will net admit of the dismission, of
ctUetitiOnS a sentiment as to trades
unions, aor the cerameialal fortunes of
oenapetttors, nor the political fortunes
of any individual. The responsibility
of blooctslied Will not be placed upon
us. ,
The Chicago -Virden Coal Co.,
"T. C. LOUCKS, Presideat."
Sheriff Da•ven.port on Tuesday issued
a card, which explained his attitude,
and lined him up with the Governor.
1 -le sayea•
-
"I have no protection for foreign
coloured miners who may come iato
my county. There is not one out
af twenty of the best eitieens but
thinks it wrong to bring this kind
of labor into the country, And they
cannot be blamed. further state
that if it were possible for me to
get men to go to Virden to make a
fight to bring negro miners into the
mines, and to see tome of our white
inerabers shot down like dogs for
this kind of labour, I would prefer
to resign. I have done and will do
my duty as sheriff, as I understand
it, but protect imported miners I
will not."
hiSTRIKE GROWS SERIOUS
t„, ALARMING STATE OF AFFAIRS IN
It about' SitRusEttoCIIITHICee7..'sAyrnRriitii owing
to the Sympatbles of the, axi,lacing*
11 III *heeonic—Ferth Thousana /41°111
A despatch from, Parts says :--Paris
slowler taking on Ihe appearance of 4
huge maw. Troops are to be seen ev-
erywhere. Detachments of infantry Or
cavalry are on. guard et every spot
where a building is being conetrueted
or demolished. Monday about eleven
thousand soldiers of different arms of
the service were brought in from var-
ious points te reinforce the military
garrisoa of the city. There was no
disorder, it is true; but the Govern-
stereperisee.ese not beamed to be taken by
•
There is it growing spirit of opposi-
tion among the strikers. They resent
as an attack upon their chief* strengtle
the abstention of any department of
the building trades frorn their strike,
Where persuasion has failed to induce
hesibating workmen to join them, a
mild sort of violence has been tried.
Some stonecutters WorkiAg upon some
sculpture that will make the Champs
Elysees hotel a remarkably fine strue-
ture were disagreeably surprised the
other day to find a group of strikers
•ealmly sawing through the tall poles
supporting the scaffolding on which
they were working. Naturally enough
they hastened to get • down 'to solid
earth as quiekly as possible, vvhere
they were cooly informed they must
put on their coats and, join the strik-
ers in the name of the solidarity of
labour.
th Satne prerogetive, •distasteful
WELCOME TO THE GUARDS,
Not So much Enthusiasm Showu since
toe crimen.
A despatch from London, says:—The
enthusiasm displayed in welcoming
home the First Battalion of
the Grenadier Guards from the Sou-
dan exceeded any previous demon-
stration of a like nature since the re-
turn of the British troops from
the Crimean war. The streets from
Waterloo station to Wellingon bah
-
racks were black with people. There
was a brilliant gathering of military
chiefs and relatives of officers at the
station; but there was such an evi-
dent desire to repress anything like
exuberance of feeling that their wel-
conae seemed cold, "How are you, old
chap?" being generally the most af-
fectionate greeting heard. One lady
ran up to an officer as he emerged
from the train, threw her arms around
his neck, and kissed. him. He sub-
mitted, but rather shamefacedly, a
though it was altogether a too de
monstrative proceeding for a Brit-
ish soldier 41 be guilty of.
It was when the battalion emerged
rom the police -guarded station that
the enthusiasm broke out in the dense
masses of people gathered to weleome
the soldiers home, and their march
from the station to their barracks was
in the nature of a triumphal progress
On arriving at the barracks, the
war -stained Grenadiers received a
splendid welcome from the other bat.-
a ions of Guards, whose massed band
played "The British Grenadiers," and
The Return of the Guards."
There were many pathetic) scenes
Tho men looked guant and weary, in-
stead a the strapping fellows, who
left London, and. there wehe hundreds
of tonching reunions of the men with
their wivas or sweethearts. The -Sec-
ond Battalion of Grenadier Guards
entertained their comrades at dinner,
and, as may be expected, there were
.
e y scenes about the barracks until
late that night. Many- of the return-
ing soldiers brought with them inter-
esting relics of the campaign, in the
shape of dervish swords, spears, or
shields.
The recent British military opera-
tions have had a most satisfactory in-
fluence lately upon the recruiting of
the army, especially in the case of the
Ouards, and the Twenty-first Lancers,
who distinguished themselves by mak
Ing a brilliant charge through the
dervish army at the battle of Om-
durman.
Much interest has been evoked by
the German military attache's report
of the battle of Omdurman. • He says
he was particularly struck by all the
operations, except, the charge of the
Lancers, which he claims was absurd.
On the other hand, the German offic-
er says the handling of the artillery
was absolutely unequalled, and he as-
serts that the endurance and spirits
of the troops were • beyond all
praise.
PROTECTED BY TROOPS.
This is the kind of coereion the Gov-
ernment has determined to stop, and
that is why so many troops are now
quartered in Paris.
' RAILROAD MEN ORDERED OUT.
In consequence of the Railroad Men's
Union deciding on Thursday in favor
of a general strike, and sending in-
structions to the provincial branches
to cease worte, with, a reminder of the
secret measures agreed upon at the
Railroad Men's congress for the hin-
drance of traffic in the event of a
strike, the police in the afternoon raid-
s ect the offices of the committee and
- seized all the papers found there.
In consequ.ence of afalsei report that
the police intended to close the La-
bor Exchange there Ives considerable
excitement among the strikers, who
gathered in large 1:Lumbers around. the
building, remaining until dispersed by
• the police . The troops have been or-
dered to remain in barracks.
Owing to the threatened strike of
• railway men the stations at Grenoble,
Aarris, Bethune, Lone, and other points
have been occupied by soldiers.
GOVERN,t,IENT WILL NOT
INTERVENE. 1
The efforts of the Municipal Council
., and the General Cbuneil of the Seine
• to procure the intervention of -the Gov-
• ernment in behalf of the strikers have
failed. Interviews with Prime Minis-
ter Brisson, M. Meenejouls, Minister
, of Commerce, and M. Godin, Minister
, of Public Works, had negative results.
I All the, railway stations in Paris are
occupied by the military. The ,com-
pantos have engaged extra men and
taken other precautions for possible,
but unexpected, defections.
• The builders at this meeting in the
, Labor Exchange voted in favor of a'
general strike.
Every heap of stonehides a sentry,
and. miniature eamps, formed of half
a dozen pioupious, with stacked rifles,
add a picturesque touch of color to
the streets. All along the Cours de le,
Renee, the Champ de Mars, and Champs
lElysers groups of cuirassiers may be
seen riding about slowly, leading their
mounts by bridle and smoking to
while away the tinee.
It must be admitted that the soldiers
cause no fear in the people. Even the
, strikers hail them with cries of "Viva
l'Arrneel" At some places where work
is still going on, spell as the Exposi-
tion buildings, recalcitrate workinen
hob -nob, chat, joke, and argue politics
I with the very troops 'who are there to
see they do not molest the non -strik-
ers, or renegades, as they are Qalled by
their former cchnra.des, who have re-
fused to carry bricks, make locks, build
walls, or, paint windows because the
navvies have denianded an increase of
pay.
As for the Parieiaas in general, they
seem to look upon the troors as form-
ing part of a spectacle specially ar-
ranged fax their benefit. They are in-
corrigible sightshirs. There is nothing
they like' better than voir parser les
soldals. Every family has brothers or
sons in the array. Consequently there
is a deep and sincere affection linking
the people and the military together.
NUMBER OF MEN ON STRIKE.
There are at this moment on strike
8,000 navvies, 2,000 laborers, 500 cart-
ers, 1,000 wharfingeis, 5,000 locksmiths,
5,000 masons, 2,500 stonecutters, 3;500
house painters • 2,500 plumbers, 2,500
carpenters, 2000,mechanics, and 5,500
cabinet-makers. In all, slime forty
thousand strong men are idle in
Paris to -day. Thee numbers in be
enormously inceet Sed. Isint only
have various participating trades de-
cid.ed to continue the strike, but strong-
ly worded appeals have been sant out
to those :unions that have not yet joie -
ed. Among these is the railway union.
It is feared, liovvever, that the strike
may soon spread to, this important as-
sociation. Already, with a view of
meeting sueh a measure, the Govern-
ment is preparing to utilize a branch
of the military, while, should the bikers join the ranks off the disaffeeted,
bread may have to be tue..d.e in the
forts around Paris. This, at any rite,
is a report. What is certain is that
the GovernMent has taken steps to pro-
tect such men as choose to continue
their work, The Temps stile that if
their right to strike is riot disputed
their right be Work Is equally undetii-
able.
POL10E ARE POWERLESS.
It is inditiputable that the Matter heti
APPLE SHIPMENTS.
°Marto Ilvporters Are Rushing Them
Forward.
A despatch from Montreal says :—
Montreal is just now shipping more
apples` to Europe than all the other
cities on the Atlantic coast, put togeth-
er. Ontario exporters are rushing
them forward, and every effortas• be-
ing made to take advantage of the fav-
orable markets on the other side. The
apple shippers are looking forward to
a profitable fall this year, for there
is not likely to be any surplus on hand.
The shipments from points east of Tor-
onto have been and will continue to
be light, but west and north ship-
ments have been fully up to the aver-
age. From Kent, Resex, Grey, and
Bruce large consignounits have gone
forv'eard. •
Some shippers in Ohtario are not
content with the erop but are making
enquiries in Nova Scotia to pick 'up
some of the fruit in the Annapolie val-
ley. Mr. S. Nesbitt, of Brighton, re-
cently 8m:urea 20,000 barrels in the
neighborhood of Canning and Kemp-
ville, in Nova &cattle. `The apples from
Nova Scotia will be exported via
Montreal, for it is said that during the
stImiller season no suitable steamer
tun from Halifax, while railroad rates
from Nova Scala to Montreal are just
about the same as from Weston Ons
Carte to Montreal. The transactions in
Nova Scotia, of ootiree, mach extend
the operations of 's..tarto shippers.
The steamship eortitstualea, on ace
eount Of the rush of business, have In-
creased the freight rate on apples from
Montreal to Liverpool from la. 0d,, to
end it: is antidiptited that another
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grown to its present dimenetons
through the numerieal weakness, of the
pollee and their conSequent inability to
cope with large bodies of men, whose
only work jest now is going about id:y-
Mg to preveot others ft•orn earning
their bread, With the presence of se
many armed troope in Paris this state
of things shoolci be •cheoged, but will
This is the question PeePle are ask-
ing themselves, There is some doubt
about it. Certainly the Municipal
Ociencil, after htiving encoureged the
strikes in it oertain meaeure for elee-
torel reasons, eeeins to be trying to
back water. All contraets for the eity
work will be annulted and taken over
for completion by the municipal au-
thorities. This wise decision, however,
seems a little late, as the navvies,
whose claims will receive satisfaction,
now refuse to begin work until the
Other traden that have formulated
grievances have also won their cause,
A CRITICAL SITIRATON.
This, then, is the situation: More
than forty thousand workmen are idle,
and their renks are constantly in -
increasing. To control them there is
an array which hoe not ooly empathy
for the people, but has a seeret griev-
ance—namely, the attacks made upon
it by the Dreyreists. 'What will be
the result if the • people and army
stould come in conflict? Paris — in
fact, France—seems to be on the edge
oft a volcano, and, the worst of the sit-
uation, said a close observer, is that
there is not a statesman in the Gov-
ernment, or we should, not be in the
position we are lo day
Caren d' Aohe's cartoon in the Fig-
aro has sinister weight. It represents
the blind Republic turning into the
twenty-eighth years of her existence.
Awaiting her in the road, are a Med-
usa -headed hag holding brief tags of
the Dreyfus affair, a sturdy workman
standing idle with folded. arms, Brit-
anna withe a trident and shield bear-
ing the motto, "Fa.shoda," the Due
d'Orleans and the Prince LouietWapole-
on, both ready to enter, into possession
of France; a scowling Arab and a long
perspective of other enemies. And
right into their midst Is walking the
blind Phrygian bormetted figure.
Philosophy here truly joins hands
with caricature. Is the Frencla Re-
public really at a turning point in her
history? •
MARINES PROTECT
THE LEGATIONS,
FOREIGN TROOPS NOW STATIONED
• AT PEKIN.
Chinese Foreign omee et rtrst tweeted
to Thetr Coming,. lint They Mad to
Give way.
A. despatch from Pekin says :—A de-
tachment of 66 Russiaa soldiers with
two seven -pounders, 25 British mar-
ines, and 30 German marines, arrived
here to -day and marched through the
city to the quarters assigned to them.
They will protect the Legations of Rus-
sia, Great. Britain and Germany.
Large crowds Viritnessed the arrival
of the European reinforcements, but
there was no extraordinary incident.
The Chinese appeared to be cowed.
PERMANENT RUSSIA.N ESCORT.
The Pekin correspondent of the Times
says :—There is good reason to tear
that the Russian Cossacks who have
arrived here to protect the Russian
Legation will be retained as a perm-
anent escort. •
"Chen -Pao -Chen, Governor of the
Province of Hu -Nan, who is the most
enlightened • Governor in China, and
has been active in introducing foreign
improvements, has just been cashierK
ed."
TSUNG-LI-YAMEN OBJECTS.
The Russian Cossacks and British
marines which were summoned to pro-
tect their respective Legations arriv-
ed at Tien-Tsin yesterday, but Vice-
roy Yuen refused to allow them to pro-
ceed to Pekin without orders from. the
Tsung-Ii-Yamen. The British and Rus-
sian officers, acting under instructions
from their Ministers, did not attempt
to force their way to their destination,
but awaited fu.rther orders.
Meanwhile a body of German marines
arrived. During the day three prom-
inent members of the Tsung-li-Yamen
visited the Legations and tried to in-
duce the Ministers to cancel their or-
ders for troops. The foreign repre-
sentatives met in the evening and re-
solved to demand the withdrawal of
the difficulties placed in the way of
the troops, and also to demand that
every facility be ftirtished for their
journey, including spedial trains. Simi-
lar facilitie,s must be provided. for the
other contingents when they arrive.
' Further opposition is not expected,
but unless the Tsung-li-Yamen moves
promptly the troops will probably be
moved without its consent.
The Tsung-li-Yamen's appeal to the
Legations took the form of an entreaty
to spare China the humiliation of
bringing foreign eseorts to the capi-
tal. Finding the appeal in valea the
Taung-ii-Yarnen has acquiesced and
promised a special train for to -mor-
row.
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CLERGYMAN WAS SWINDLED.
Rev Mr '41tort of Ithigston [e' ay5 $300
For Banding Society Steck.
A despatch from Kingston, Ont.,
sa.e.s:—At neon on Monday it mat nam-
ed.C. R. Horn was arrested on a charge
of obtaining' money under false pre-
tences, Last Thursday he called on
Rev. Mr. Short and etated that he was
a representative of the Cauadian Loan
and .Building ASsociatiOn, and solicited
stock. After some talk Mr. Short dis-
missed the man, saying he would
think the matter over. Horn sem Arg,
Short egaitin, and ,the deal was chased.
The clergyman gave the stranger,
whom he had never seen a note for
250, and $50 cash. This as in pay-
ment fax ton shares of stock. Later
Mr, Short found Horn under the in-
fluenoe of liquor, and thist caused Mr.
Short to lose corifideoce. Te telegraph-
ed to the headquartere a the eompany
asking it Mr. Horn was an atithoristed
agent, and retelved the resply that he
was not. Then listr. Short dedded to
have him arrested for having colleeted
money under false pretences. The po-
lice got $280. ,
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