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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1898-11-17, Page 3'I' EXIIITMIR THE NEWS IN fl ti1111111. ME VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. loittrestIng items About Our Own Country, Greet aritan, the Urkited states, and An Pato ok the Globe, Condensed end Assorted for Easy aeudieg. CANADA. 3., B. Tyrrell has resigned. Ilie Posi- tion on the Geologioal staff at Ottawa. Leaden hopes for the establishment „s0aStette1ass works shortly by expert • gam . The Me -arena Coen Exchange fa - tame tbe retention a tolls on the Welland canal. •• A party of• seven, Californians is re- ported at Victoria to have been lost La the Yukon, Navigation has closed on the Upper Canaaitin "Soo" require ell lades go- ing th tbe Americate elide tre be Weigb- ed- oft the offete.1 scales before gaiag and again exa ,returnitig. Aid. Campbell, Chairman, of the Cita ageinet the trade ea Slave girls, that Some friendly Catinese et San Fran - clew hone warned flee, jr. Garner, ie- terpreter a the Chiraeee bureau, Wb() ie making tsn aggressive ealepaign tawa Wates.works CoMmittee, states tame Waterworks Comstittee, Matee eitizens for payments • of water rates end not mallieg rettiene a the ettotieye lalal was Prevalent amongst the offl- oads of the dePartraent. The onnual report of the Aeadia Su- . Oar Refinery Company, of Halifax, N. S,e laows a profit on the yeax's opex•-• ations of S1149,249, of weicb a89,436 waa used to provide for the deficit of the Year before. A. dividena ef three per cent, on the endearea share a is to be declared. Hoe. X. C. Patterson has atancenaced ilea he will donate to the Upper Can- ada College, the sword, Vittoria, Cates, and other inerbas of the late Col. Dunn, ot the e3rd Regiment, wile died '11Abyseinirk, An oil painting of the colonel accompeuies the gift. Col. Dune at one tinae attended I ho college. Ykon, and, all river steamers have gone into winter quarters. • It is reperted that ten feet of ship- ping ore has been ancoverecl in the Nevelty mine of Roseland. Major General Hutton is favourable to the establishment of a provisional raillitary school at Belleville, D, Ring & Co., of. Toronto, ere, about: to start as new shoe factory at Levis, to employ 50 to 100 hands. Fre& Newnaen, of Winnipeg, has heal appointed divisional. superintend- ent oi the Crow's Nest; Pass Railway. A report is in circulation. in Toronto that the Governtnent is looking around for a site on which to build a new post office, A dozen river steamers are reported to be, frozen on the sandbars in the Yukon river. All will likely be -wreck- ed. • Cuetome collections foe October for the Dominion, total $1,998, 27J, as com- • pared with $1,74.4,127 for October of last year. Montreal authorities are leaking e determined fight against lotteries, shieb are said Lo be inalting two nal• - fen and. a, half dollars yearly. Wolves are reported. plentiful in the Township of Raglan and Radcliffe, North Renfrew County, About four bundled sheep have oeen killed - The Municipal Council of Levis has rejected a proposal to consLruet wa- terworks on the ground that the town's debt is already too heavy. As in former years, the Toronto mi - Ram will have a share fight on Thanksgiving. Day, in which the 13th • Battalion of Hamilton, will participate. The returns of cattle exported froxa Toronto for 1898 up to the end of Oc- tober show a total of 124,225, as cone - pared with 120,807 for the same pealed last year. • The Ciestoms Department has seven vessels wider seizure down on the Nova. Seale and Cape Breton coast for smuggling tobaceo and whiskey. The Canadian Askeident Assurance • Conapany will ask neat session for an amexteament to their- charter to per- ' ritt theh-raesngagleig in insurance , , against sickness. Mr. Thomas Toy, was knocked down in front of this own residence at St: Catharines, Ont., on .9.aturday night by two men and. robbed of his .watch and $30. When found he was unconscious. dle the gram. Saye:-Enmerar ,is neu x-anayor Fleming, of Toronto, h5 received a letter from a vvindow glass bower of 1ta,usait. Belgium, sitykng GENF:11AL. that a number -of his fellow wor me would like to ettraigrete to Canada, ITh suggesie that capitalists interest them- selves in the matter +tett open a fac- tory. The workmen, he rays, will guar- antee n six per cent. dividend. , It is stated in Ottawa that the lite, assurance companies doing Imeinese fl •Ceirala have come to an agreement tint they will not take any more risks on the lives of married wonaen, exeellf Perhaps, in v-efy exceptional cases, where the husband is incapacitated from work, and the wife /3 the bread- winner of the family. This action is said to have been caused by the Katie Toegh and other cases where there was strong suspicions that the tvife was got out of the way for the purpose of the husband getting the insurance tn.oney. GREAT BRITAIN. The condition of Sir Henry Irving is critical, reports to the ,contrary not- withstanding. A Frenchman hie been arrested et! Th' Imperial Satanical Office kkf Gee - Dover for attempting to enter the big many iris issued tables regarding the gun turret on the Admith y .p there. The appointment as Governor.' of Khartoum of Col. Kitchener, brother of the Shafer, General Lord Kitchener, is announced. Strong tides restrict the work of sal- vage on the Atlantio Transport steam- on her entely-ninth year. nue er Mohegan, wrecked on the Lizard the Frau Charlotte Erabden, a hale some days ago. Only a few bales of and hearty old lad.yeeho still retaius mer handise lase been saved so far. perfect, rierht, hearing and memory. The Pacific cable question is as un- The St Petersburg Novoe Vremyra, ex - settled The proportion of cost pressed jealously of the facilities grant - wee to be: Australasia Lour -ninths ed to English companies now working and Britain and Canada together five- in the oil fields of the Commis. It nintbs. No progress basbeen made suggests that the American Standard • since these proportions were fixed. Oil Comeany "may be buying Russian. . . • ' STATES. The Lotus Club of New York gave a dinner to Lord Fferschell on Saturday evening. • lem to insolve in Cuba. The xnaur- the alighbiedere beve' decided to take his life oet tie fleet opportuoity if be . . persists in Me crusade, Sapreine Court, judgment delivered at Washington gives Is right to insurs ed people tie freedent et' travel. Tao case in point was that of the Keigate Templar end Muerte' Life Intlexpeaty Com.pany against E. Converse. Pays anent was resisted on the grisuad that death had resulted. while tbe insured was traveling outside the limits allow- ed by the policy, The Cleveland, Ohio, City Connell re- dentiY Passed ordinance imposing a four scent fare on the big and little consolidated Ftref,it raileray system. .13oth companies have enteved suit in the Vatted States Circuit. Court oak- ing• for an injunekton preventing the city from carrying the ordiance into effect. The ground taken by the com- panies is that the action ef the City Council amounts to an attempt to ar- bitrarily seize elevate property, TIMES TIIN PREMIER'S SPEE0111 • Salvador, Nicaragua, and atondurrie will hereafter lie knowe as the 'United Statee. of Central Amman... A terrine hailstone: visited athetone France, itIonetty, The stoues were of immenee sise. Tae olive, end lemon erops hive been i•uined as a conses que nee. LORD SA.L1SBURY SAYS ,JitouBLE MAY COME SUDDENLY, Dopes Nothinz Arise to Modify Reltatit's Wien, bill he Neat et. Deady For all Eventata itteq. A desPatels "'from London says Lord Salisbury, at the Lord lafayor'e baequet cre Wedneedey night, dwelt upon the guesses that have been, made as to the purpose .of taval activity in Exighi nd, including the eonjeeture that the Goverment intended to de- clare a protectorate over Egypt, the latter allusion being loudly eberet, Iie said in corknection with this sub- ject:- , " I am sorry I cannot rise to •the heiglit of the fespiratioxis indioated by the cbeeeine of the audience. If we are forced by others into a position we do uot now occupy I do not venture to propheey whet will take place, but, theugh, I do not say that we are en - Ureter verafortable, wk.t are quite suffi- Mont ly satisfied with the state of things as they at ereeent exist,. "The position causes oceaMonal fries titen ; but taking the ettuation as a whole, and considering the feelings of oilier people as well as our own, we ean reasonably rest for the present with the existing state of affairs. I must not be understood as meaniug the( Greet Britain's position in Egypt is the same new as it was before the fall of Omdurman- " I do not think tis re is any cause at prerere to modify, ; nd earnestly h nailing will arae to necessitate 0. modifteseion. of oar position in Egypt for I' tun cone inced but the world ceula not got on as peacefully' as now if such a necessity were imposed on ue." In the Cape Coloey Assembly Hon. W. P. Seh ci nee t Premi er, ce tIveketi a bill proposing an annuali con- tritmliori by the colony of a3a,000 to the aritish navy. bare in Serinagir, one tit the Capitals of Crisliniere, destroyed all the Duane builclinge and many residences. One man was killed., The damage is es - mated at half a million dollars. The Spanish newspapers are venting their spleen on tbe Americans by pub- lishing flattens to the effeet that the United States solitary officces Ci - ban ineisted. uport Hark embarkation of dying Spanish soldiers. German. trade tor the first nine menthe of the present yea', ttiftell ahqW 107 Lai increase in exports ef neerly $14,- 604,750 no cerepared with t807. The okay sister of the great German pot Heinierh Heine, who is familiarly known .as eLotichee," entered tm Sun - competitors at Baku behind. an hnglisb Mask." The United States noes hes u snob- . /he gents object to lay down their ai.ras, John F. Phillips, treasurer of • kaul about 2000 of that are cal/touring Chicago, Rock island and Pacific Rat - road, is dead. Many deaths from typhoid and small- • for office. The majority of I em. ar now living from hand to mouth, ond the Unitee States will only serve ra- pox are reported among the in e tions to these tebo anwann themselves States troops in the Philippinep. ed what; the Cabietas et Duane had beeri seeable to do. I have etatietiM•ca thekaght *Hag if the Cabitets were ail diemiested. and adruirele were in.stalled ia taeir places, Europe woutd get on better.t READINESS OF TUE FORCES), Teere were about 850 guests present at the banenet, ineludieg members of the Diplomatic, Corps, Cabinet Minis- ters, and other dletieguisnea peePle and their wives, After the formal Pataan- tion in the Meaty, there was the tiseat prooessioa te the greatt served as the banquetting place. The twists of the Navy and Army kwere honoured, Admiral Sir Wm. Keneetly and General Lord Wolseley responding. They deseribe,d the respeetive foreea as being In a perthet 49.0.te of prepared - 11888 to meet any power disputing Great Britain's just elaiMe.. The brevity of the speeches Slowed thet everyone realized there was general anxiety to hear the Moguls Selisbux.y, who, on rising to respond th the toast of "Her Majesty's Ministers," was greeted with Prolonged cheers. SOUDAN CONQUEST COMPLETE. A post:al treaty acranging for a par- se li.AISER IS •MUCH DISPLEASED. cel post betvveen the United States and Trinidad was signed at Washington on — Saturday. • Tea Vatican and the Freud' Move Annoyed There is a scarcity of grain cars at asinnaliarrang nicitionat 0 r the Trir 0 many Kansas pointe, and it seems im- Jerusalem. A. despatch from Beyrotxt, Pereia, possible to secure enough cars to hat- ' ch .f g laSENTeek" STEAD TALKED W1 • TI Dominion Cotton 3fills Compeny ,are willing to proceed with their part 91 Ilea agreement with the city .-of Kingston regarding exemption from taxation at once. The annual meeting of Vas Consum- • ers' Gas Company, cif Toronto, was held an Monday.. The receipts were 0628,416.03, the expenditure $373,547.52. There was $170,000 paid in dividends. CZAR'S DISARMAMENT PROPOSAL. TORONTO MARKETS. Holders Asking MOre for Whom— Farmer'S 'Produce in Rol Demand. Toronto, Nov. 11, - Wheat - Local detnend was aather better to -day. There was e rather eetter derailed., but holders asked more. Red and white, north and west, 68e lad; goose wheta, 71e; aftanitobatx rather better at, 82e asked the No. 1 hard, and at 78e esked for No. /. Northern, and No. 2, hard. 031,Plloatuto• -6-3,1Q5u:at- !Straight salter, in wood, north and west, was quoted at Oatmeal -Steady, Cer lets of rolled obabts,anind iiinagbsboisn, 81.1•33.500k here, 0.40 per maltida,1:nBe de -San ceea hearried at $19anOd de, lots, and slimes $1e, Bran is quoted. ili Ciaili.,10rat dal !9f,r5e0i,gahntd.s.shorts at $13•50 we•'Pset4,se-olEdnis,Ya:clayCnart 58tion•ts' 1111°tIl ":"1 • Oats -Quiet and. easy. Car lots of lavabyi,teax,socildatAtv20.0oe,ansto.rth and west, to-, quatto:tel:ya-1755irom. lo. 1 sold at 52a in- terior points, Same, at lake ports, is Cote -Quiet No 2 yellow, Amara. caa, • track, Toronto, is offered by local dealers at 10 1-2c, and mixed at 39 1-2c, ultio,uciiincreeaastt--S40toecdy, Car lots, west, • • Bye -Firm, Car, tote, north and west, were sold to-dey 49c, and east at 50c. pggs-Vatues steady and. market in goo .1 condition. \Quotations are: -New laid., 18 th 190; cold storage, 14 to 15c; and limed., 14 to 15e. Potatoes - Unchanged. Steady de- mand. Car lots choice ()ataxia stock, ons traek, are quoted at about 50 to 55e, tind dealers sell out of store at 60 to 70e; same priees for farmer's loads. Poultry -Deliveries far and. good exerag.e demand. Prices not firtn. quotaiions are:-Chiekens, per pair, 25 to 50e; clucks, 40 to 60c; geese, per 5 to 6e; • turkeys, per lb., 6 to 8c. Beans -Unchanged. Choice hand- picked beans sell at $1 to $1.10, and common at 70 to 70e, per bush. Dried apples-Demana limited. Deal- ers pay 3 1-2 to 4c. for dried stock, delivered here, aud small lots resell here ,at 4 1-2 to 5c.; evaporated, 8 to 8 1-4c. for small lots. Honey -Ma rket unchanged. Round lots of choice, delivered here, will bring about 5 1-2 to 6ce dealers quote from 6 to 7c, per lb. for 10 to 60 -lb. tins; and in comb at around $1.25 to 1.50 per dozen se•ctions. Baled hay -Not much moving. Striot- ly choice car lots, is quoted at 06.50 e7,50 per ton; and No. 2, at $6. Straw-1VLerket holding its own. Car lots are quoted et $4 to 04.50 on track. Hops -Firm and likely to go bigher. Dealers here quote °helve Ontarios nt 17 to 18e., according to quality, deliv- ered. here. ,Ifolders are asking some- what better, about 20e. and are very firm in their ideae, Choice 1897's, round lots, are quoted at 10 to 12e. • Teemito dealers are quoting the fol- lowing prices on hides, skins and wool: Hides -Choice steers, 9c.; No. 1 cows, 8. 1-2c.; No. 2, 7 -12, No. 3 6 1-20. Cured. sell at 3-4e. advance on the forego- ing. , ' Lambskins and Sheep Pelts -75e. Calfskins-Choice No. 1, 10c.; and No. 2,8c. Wool -Unwashed, 10c; fleece, 15e, for small lots, delivered; pulled, 18 1-2c, for supers, and 20. to 2Ie. for extras. Tallow -Local dealers buy barrel tal- low at to 3 1-4c. fos rendered, and resell at 81-2 to 83-4o. • Wholes:tie Surrender or the Clvilarer itoportcd. A despatcb tr0111 Cairo says :-After Colonel Collinson arrived. at Geearef, the last stronghold of the derviebes, Ahmed Fedit attacked the Egyptian position at night, He seas easily re- pulsed, only two men of the, lath Bat- talion being wounded. The next morning Colonel Parsons discovered Fedil moving towards (:he Blue Nile, greatly impeded by his • wounded. Five hundred, Jeliedieh, with 100 rif- les, under annals Abekr Wade', have left Ahmed Fedil and eome over to Colonel Parsons. The greater part of Ahmed Fedil's force is going back to- wards Geaaref to ask pardon and to surrender. The dervish leader hitaself, tvith his Baggaras and a small number of other followers. is retiring to the south-east. His retreat: to the Blue Nile will be cue off by Major-General Rundle's force. The Prime alinister expressed sym- pathy with the. Czar's disarmaxnent proposal, and, paid a tribute to the mo- tives that pram/sled the eescript, but he said, white earnestly concurring with - his Majesty's views, he thought until hie aspirations were crowned with. •ewe.% the Government must continee to take precauseons to meet the ditagers which the present Mate of the world. everywhere revealed. A GRA.VB AND SERIOUS EVENT. Ole added: - 'in some respeets the era of this great propoation, which I think -will be. an epoch in the history of man, has been marked by uuhappy omens. It is the first year in (which the mighty force of the American Republic has been introduced among the nations. I am not refusing sympathy to the citi- zens of the Republic. in the difficul- ties throuela which they have passed, but nobody will deny that their ap- peal -Linea among the factors .of Asiatic, and' possibly. Europea,n, diplomacy ma not conduee to he interests of peace, the .tetaahle effeet of dust and 1 terms if rain does /sot soon fall grave and serione event, wilich may thounh I 'think it is likely tote:re:ace to the intereste of Great Beriaten." TROUBLE MAY ARISE/al: .A.NY MO - THE DROUGHT IN AUSTRALIA. Crops SaTer3tur Severely as a Desalt ot lIs Absence or non. A despatch from Vancouver, B. C., says: -The steamer Aortingi aeleieee state that there is much distress in New South Wales among labouring retie. Several deputations bare call- ed. upon members of the Government, but can get no relief. In Sydney alone 3,738 children are being cared for ba the State. Lalsour bureaus are asking the Govermnent if it is waiting for death by starvation before doing anything In Melbourne William Paget has diea of starvation. He had been live ing for months fram. mill barrels. On Sunday Island an the grass lies tvith- ered from drought, and. many animals are dea,d. The people are suffering from famine. Throughout New South Wales dust storms arid draught' are blighting the. 'crops. From twenty- five farming Mations word comes of oak of rein. The results will be very rheas- . W TH THE A shortage of §57,000 has been discov- leased over everal 'eerie incidents • ered in the books of tee late Jahn W., -, • , . • - casts trip to Jerusalom. The reply of • -- Alderman, cashier of the First Nation- The concluding paesage of Lord Sal- Isbury's speech re tit d h • e &epee elision Testifies that the 3foilareli 14 very clever - al Bank of Hanover, Pa. Vatica.n to his notification of rights CZAR. • *stens acquired at; Mount Zion ia considered that troubles were Leeely to arise with soneere freer lassaresamewa a ex te t mely cuet; while on all import. great suddenness in toy direction, for A company ca Chicago and ea • G Bra. capitaliste is being formed with railwa.ys theoughout Japan. ant occasions the French Consul -Gen- „levee -testa eral at tended in order to ake,seeav reveleeteeler defet-Sive precautions. ' capital of 610,000,000 to buile. electric The Spanish °miser Infanta Maria France's anandianelliP featantaitaa7....0)---ase -Yr-Sat what has been impressed upon i d h t e A merateetkee s ti eee e ...,.. ,-,..y.- places. • . The Dominion Alliance Provincial T ea whiall was Iatsea - ' settoreta4r,'it: aP174aPiintilifia the Sultan is. terribly prevalent on all sides. We u,s is that the subject_ matter of war Executive says that gra,ve ansleexene, tost 'ssaas at §taa"..'Lt/41-411eas"*-1."' irin towed to the United States. see nations decaying wbose Govern - Mee frauds were perneteseseataltacon- ealiffe Bang c nt t. Louis, Mo., people are agitating ecent is. so bad that it can neitber ,-..aagt in the re a S .--aesese=as insant-2 ontreal and other Que- for a warld's fair irk 1903, le hoiaour et maintain the power of tself-defence nar which Imes= eest,„ ate ec practically took favedul possession of the land he presented to Emperor Wil- liam, the owner objecting Le sell eo- clesiastical property. The authorities here tried •to alear the harbour of all shipping yesterday hg cities. the anniver,sary of tbe purchase of the retain the affection of its subjects; eked 'when this occars there are always R. G. McConnell, of the Geological Louisiana territory by the United . . neighbors impelled. by some motive - Survey, has arrived in Vancouver States in view of the arrival of their German it may be the latethe.st philanthropy, or portion of the Yukon, and will make of Warwickshire, and Bliss Mabel Goes Mess'agemes Maritimes, the Prenea piee-to contest as to who shall be an extended report to the Department don, daughter of Gen. Wm. W. Gordon, Steamshill Company, refused to leave, heir to the falling hation; and that is at Ottawa. were married at Savannah, Ga., on the cau.se of war." i Mrs. Coltaximun, wife of the Mayor of Tuesday. • BURGLAR FIRED AT THE BOY. Lord Snaisinuw then alluded to the Hamilton, and. Miss Colquhoutt were Tim Board of Control of the Joint an IL & D. ear and their carriage. The solve the organization on account of - samisen at Vancouver. ear jumped the track and crashed into the decision of the United States Su- , . sea. aefenees to. weaken her whole Era- tbeir vehicle. • A despatch from Vancouver, B.C., pire would come clattering. to the The ratepayers of Acton have preme Court. aoted Gideon W. Marsh, the fugitive pre_ says: -Attempted murder is the crinae ground. It is therefore impossible, in from the Klondike. He traveled a good RowlandLeigh, sten of Lord Leigh, Majesties! but the steamers a the tt may be the nature/ desire of em- -- rapidity and unexpeetedness with alert in e collision, on Friday, between Traffic Association have decided to dis- An Attempt to- Merkur tho Son of' Major which wars break out, and said: -"If Great Britain should ever permit her in fever of a municipal lighting plant. staent of the Keystone National Bank, which an unknown bee-glar has added the Present state and temper of tbe Annie O'Keefe, seed to 'be a trained returned to Pbiladelphia. after an ab- to his list of other misdeeds. The taurse from London, attempted to corn- Bence of seven years and surrendered tary precautions." mit suicide at. Detroit on Friday bY to his bondsmen. re.sidence of Major Lacey R. aohrison, Ins concluded by repudiating "all ' , • world, to interatit our nava,' and mill - taking morphine. master meeIt erne of th eCanadian P a- suggestion that our preparations mean 'The fishing season for Gloaeester, cific railway, was entered Tuesday that the country is animated by the Engineers investigating the cause of Mass. schooners is about at an end, the reeent collapse of the New York night. Young &fleet Johnson hap- lest of couquest or a love of war," de- .& Ottawa Railway b,ridge at Cornwall Fourteen vessels have been lost this pened to "go into a dark passage when daring ;that arat Britain. was wily year and. 82 men were drowned. The eeport that the pier seas built on hard- monetary loss approeimates about a shot was heard. The boy cried, "I "resolved to maintain the Empire am shot!" and the next minute a re- Britons have. received from their fore - pan of insufficient strength to stand 8100,000, the huge weight. volver was crushed in his face. For- fathers, and to support the peace Lambert Wilt, the alleged ebscond- tunately thie was the only injury the ssiaieh is the gioey and sustenance of Marion Brown, the one -legged tramp, bag teller, of a savings bank at Jung-. boy• received, as the ehot passed our Empire." to stand ais trial at the January A.s- The Premier said a succession of wife have leen stopping at the Rozier sizes oo a charge of murdering Po- abroad bad occasioned grave Hotel: was tornaally come:lifted by Police Ma- hunziau, Bolaeraia, was arrested at, St. through his coat. The burglar got TO Bi,OT OUT, A.NARCHY. gistrate Parke at London on Friday Louis. Mo., on Monday. He and bis away. fireman Tothey, . The o una n on r ng --- He alluded to tile tinerder of the Em - production of white, black and mat glazed stoneware in the United States retersaltta OttFers Sal' the ElOPflatt press of Austria, for Ube double pur- have fornaed a trust along the lines of lluesttou Must be Settled Congreks pose of expressing the universal regret the nail trust. Twenty-six concerns orthearowort. experienced. on eccount of the crime, are interested. The polies in Canadian cities have been erainested to look out for Sainuel Levy and Isadore 13erkenfeld, who are eharged. with swindling the CO tain- ental National laireau of Chicago out of eums of money gniri to aggregate $28,650. John Dilicni at New York on Sunda closed up a, folding bed on which his infant eephesv wtts seeping not- nate- ing lam. When the mother returned and asked where the baby was the man tore open the folding bed only to find the les by dead. Ile hag been arrested, Become three coloured. volunteers of the Unitert State e intently maimed at Chickamauga Park Were ejected from the ladies' cat, en Abe Caattanooga Ra- pid Transit Compolya line,* they ooliected several hithdred at their WM- potions and stoned all teethe On that RUSSIANS ARE IRRITATED. anxiety to the llainistee for a year past. ' Th o ral to e t th The Chaterto arcleologicat Museum at Toronto bas just been made the re- clean of a collectioe of upwa,rds of Iwo thoasand Indian relics, presented by George E. Latdlaw, of "the Fart," Balsam Lake, Victoria County, Elzar Malin was sentenced on Fri- day to be hanged at Montreal, on De- cember 16 -tor the muadet of his moth- gw-in-law. The jury in the ease was --limited up all night Iliad in the naorniag returned a verdiet of guilty. Tlionme Morris, a Guelph boy, had. his clothing set on fire by a San of beneine expiodieg. He was in danger of burning to death when ene Frank Cote canes to the rescue and extin- guisher' the flemes with his own coat, Burglars tamed Samuel Hare's re- eidenee at St. Ocaluteines, Ont., en Sutalay niorhiug, and. stole theta dea- lers from alr. Hare's pants pookets. They also secured seine money out of a ebilaa batik, and had a good meal before deixtetiag. Since flee Hamilton Oity Ceti/let] de - to great partial exemptioli from tetatioa to the two park faCtoelee fi the cityr it is said various teratufac- turees in other anes will hove to be treated shaliarly or there will be ihrettte of removal. A piper peblieleui across the border entre that as a preen ation againet anneelitta t.ko cust•cans officers at the • The Iteited iSlatcs Post Office De- partment has ordered an innovation it the postal service by the experitnental establishment of a 'post Office on wheeler% to operate in the vicinity of Wesiminster. MarylefIa. If the e.tcperi- Meet is seeteestin, It be extended generally. t.fs A. despatth tam St, Petersburg and for ennonneing that Great Britain says: -The St. Petersburg newspapers had aeeeated an invitation to take part Ishow, great irritation at Engiand over in a conference which would be called deteemine upon' the measures whical tee settlement of the Faehotla affeirk it is possible to take in Order to blot and agree in declaring that her con- out anarchy. The Marquis of Sails - duet will arouse the powers interested bury adclea tbat et the same time he in the free navigation of the Suez was bound to say he had no great hope canal to a warm discussion of the that legialation would abate "this hor- best mains of preventing:the final es- rible, monstrotts afflic•tion of huinen- tablishtnent oil England in Egypt,ity. t k 0 I • The Novosti says that mem the THE CRETAN AFFAIR,. ' Egyptian question is purely of an in- terietattetal character, a meet be sales After fathering in a Iamb -Lora man- ed by a congress of the powers, v re. s h' h nee to the 13rilisli campaiges in India caIi proelairn the perpetual neatralitY 'atonat hein cthroeutSnriouclutttiobn6 Premierandthcteuerellert, of L'gypt under the preteetorate ef all of Europe, tie said he was afraid that the powers, the proceedings of the concert were not , telways edeared. At the same tinack, he TO BE RECRUITED IN CANADA, pointed out, patient application, coma A deepatth trout Ottawa, Ont, sayie bined with the motel strength of En- --tntormatiot has been reeeived that rope, had et last euteteea ed. ixi fulfllflng the British War Officer lake orderea the Prenal°e given to tile °rat"a of ivi b many ' the 100th Been:mut, Royal Canadians, tag inntf,. toterhe4lhu. ltan, tinder the enee- to be recruited in Canada, and that re- Continuing, tho Premier reMarked mailing offices Will ehartlY be opened "The eolution of this most difficult Ottewe, Toronto, Montreal, Hali- fax, ana other cities, The recruits vrill he sent down to Halifax at tbe ex. pollee of the Brh Government, problem has tvitnessed displays of splendid anti unexpected qualities and diplomacy upon Cho paxt of the admix, - his, who liars s ftifty aceomplishs areittIssWea*tialitins& Modesty! w.,....,..._,..., lizolo.thousanat of women eutfor in isilenee, realer thee tell their troubles to anyone, To sulk Belton Woman's Bebe is a poke 1 fect boon. It cares all wornlo traubles corrode mord/lay irregu- larities, eboliebes the agokiiee a Nchild -birth, Makes weak women a strong, and reudeee life worth et , living. estsfalkiktWeitataWs«Sasaftins,kallset MANY VILLAGES DESTROYED. 101111ton PeOpie Threatened ill China. A despatch from Lontloilk set's: - despatch from the Baptist Mission in the Province of Sban-Tung, China, an - flounces that a flood of the floang-Hee in that provtuee, has destroyed hune deeds of villages, and threatens emit. lion people with famine. OFFERTORY BUTTONa, The wife of an Englieh clergyman has made a, c.ollection of all the buts tons placed in the offertory bags dur- ing the last two or three years, and has fastened. them to cardboard in var- ious cunning shapes of animals, birds and flowers. .As a laazaar es shortly to take place in connection with the church she bad these button pictures photographed, and copies will be on sale at the exbibition. Hi RE PI G AWL! G ST1 GING Dressed hog market firm and deliver- ies free. On track car lots sold to -day A deepatekh from. I,ondon says :-,vv et a5..a5 aa.aa, es to nealitat row- . to , — 'maw 6oliooi re -r 1 "- fcri . S ST-;;;;; from Sebastopol, after baying had an interview with the Czar at Livadia, re- iterates his conviction of the earnest- ness and sinoerity of the Czar's pur- pose in proposing disarmament. le. Stead says it is impossible to repeat the conversation, but he adds: "But• my opinion is' summed up in 'a remark witch I made to a princess of the court, who, meeting me as I was leaving, asked me: ' Well, vibe!: is your pinioni' "I replied, simply: '3. thank God for him. If he is spared to Russia, that young mat will go far." Mr. Stead adds tbat he found the Czar passesset3 of exce.ptional rapidity of perception, united with a remarkable memory, and a very wide grasp of an immense range of facts. LAVA BURIES FIVE VILLAGES. Mier • Twenty Tears' Slienec Mt, topic Mints into Destructive Activity, A despatela froze Victoria, 13.C., says: -The steamer Asaangi brings advices that another volcanic initiation has oc- cured in New Herbeidee, being more a-la•rming then its predecessors. Volcano Lopier atter remain- ing quiescent for 20 years, broke out, and the burnig lava being thrown. up could be seen for twelv-e miles, Five villages were huddled at the base of the volcano ,ancl tfhe houses were buried deep in scoriae, at the 'first out- break. The sea for miles around boil- ed at terrific rate, and jets of Wathr leaped high in t,he air. Fortunately none of the inhabitants of the five destroyed villeges were buried under the molten mass. Afew days after the outbreak the heathens went up to the top of the still smoking volcan, each carrying a bunch of eta- coanuts, which they offered up as a Beatifies to "make the firs dead." BRINGING RUSSIA TO TIME, Ciriiiii For 'Regal capture or onach,n seating schooners. A despatch, frata Ottawa, nye: - In- etructions have been issued by Sir Louis Davies' to ColleMor Millie at Vic- toria, B.C., to prepare claim% against the Ileseian Ottvernment for the Hiegel capture of the sealing either:aims Car- melite, Maria, Vancouver. Selb, and Rosa Oleen, which were seized near the CoMmandeet Islands by a &Imam crua Mat in 1892. The tars% tirstammed ves- Seek have been rottaxos en the beaeh at Peteopeulovska Giberia, ever sinee. PAW& has already peid dantges for steizare of two Caen/Alen Vessels. ers' loads-alsiiiieed hands on the street at $5.80 to $5.50. Provisions steady and unchanged. Quotatinns are as follows: -Dry salt- ed shloulders, 8e; long clear bacon, ear lote, 8c; ton lots and case lots, 8 1-4c.; backs, 9e. Smoked meats -Hams, heavy, 101-2c; medium, 11c; light, 11 1-2e; breakfast. bacon, 11 to 12o; rolls, 9o; backs, 11 to 11 1-20; picnic hems, 8 1-2'to 8 3-4e. A.I1 meats out of piekle lo less than prices quoted for smoked. meats. • Lard --Tierces, 70; tubs, 71-2 to 73-40; pails, 73-4 to 8c; compound, 6 to 61-2e. • Butter. -Steady movement and prices unchanged. Receipts continue fair. All poor andraedium stock hard to sell. Quotations are as follows: -Dairy, tubs, poor to medium, 11 to 12c; choice, 15 to 16e; s,mall dairy, lb. prints, about 10 te 17e; creamery, tubs and boxes, 18 to 19e; pounds, 20 to 210. Cheese -Holding firm, Early makes are selling at 9 to 9 1-4e; and late makes at 91-4 to 9 1-2e. DIREAdife BELEM/ED BY ONE AIN FLICAVION OF Dr. Agnew's Ointment, 35 CENTS. Mr. James Gaston, machaneWiikesbarre, Pa., writes :--Por nine years I have been disfigured with tetter on hands and face. But at last I have fottnd n cure in Dr. Agnew's Ointment. My skin is now SMOOth and soft and free from every blew, The first application gave rellef.---40. Sold by C. Lutz, Exeter. MURDER AND SUICIDE. Montreal Widower Shoots a 17 Tear Old 'htJdirlio Defused to ilrarry 11 m, and then 00111111ll4fed sue:ale. A despatch from Montreal says: -A double tragedy attended by the raost • ehoeking circumstances, occurred. be- tween 3 and 4 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon in a small house, • No. 94 Berri street, facing the new 'Place \Tiger hotel. X, Crot eau, a 'fyoung French-Canedian, 35 years old, shot and killed Matilda Lavigueur aged 17, and then killed himself. The house where the tragedy occurred is te small two-storey wooderk structure, and was occupied by Win, Lavigueur, a eooper, hie wife, and daughter. Oroteau, sybo was a tviclower, had been plying atten- tion to the girl for some time, but she declined to marry hina, .This after- noon lie. visited her awl repealed his offor, and on her refusal he pulled out a 32 calibre revolver and ebot her through the heart. He than turned the weapon en himself and cheated the It/legman by puttieg a bullet through hes body. 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