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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-3-30, Page 3OliTARIO LEGISLATURE, liOt°$ Of l'PheeedingS in the LOOM. Pantie,Meat. EXPERIMENTAL VA.B,M, The anneal report of the Ontario AgrieultaYal College and ExPeriMental Farm, was presented to the itegisla- tare,• The attendance was the largest the history of the college, with 038 tra the roll -223 in the regular couree, and. 110 in the dairy courrse. Of those 41 the regular couree 87 Per Gent we're from Ontario, 7 1-4 pee cent.frona the other provinces, and 5 3-4 pea cent. from other countries, Thar ages • ranged from 10 to 81 years, ,and aver- aged 20. The dairy studente were some- • what older. increased dormitory ace consmodation was needed, and also two -es hew imildings, one for a physical lab- oratory a.nd the other to embrace the library, reading -room, and a medium- sized hall for meetings. The whole would cast about *20,000. Anoth•er 0,000 was needed towards maiatenance expenditure. The college expenditure minted to 443,395, and the receipts 8471, leaving the cost at $34,924. • farm expenditures were :—Farm pro- per 0,822; experimental plots and feed- ing, th7,636; experimental dairy, 111.5,156; dairy school, $7,012; poultry, a1,184; horticulture, 0,17.1; mechanical de- partment, 01,493. Revenues 'kere • Farm proper, $6,345; experimental plots and feeding, 1,587;0dairy, 42,- 189 ; dairy school, a3,828; poultry, §:Se; horticultural department, $70; me- obanical department, $172. The total net .expenditure was 056,961: epprkoil May also by byelaw alloev a discount for the payment of swab taxes ar any aura Or of any itietaltnent thereof on or before a day er days named and may impose an additioual Percentage charge for non-payenent of such taxes or of Any instalment thereof by a day or days named, pro- vided that no greater percentage charge than five per cent. shall be imposed on any instalment of taxes or or the aggregate amount of Oates; and such additional percentage charge seal' be added •to such unpaid tax or assessment rent or eate or iestah- telent thereof and shall be collected by the collector or otherwise, as if the same nad been originally imposed and formed part of suchanpaid tax or as- sessment, rent or rate, or instalment thereof. , THE LICENSE BILL. • IIILL' ABOUT PAST1JR1NG. A bill which reads as follows has been introduced by T. .1). Hodgins, litieteke, for East Middlesex --Every person up- on wlaose lauds horses, cattle, sheep • or other animals are placed for the purpose of pasturage, shall have a lien upon such horses, cattle, sheep or other animals for the amount due in respect of such pasturage supplied, and in ad- dition to all other remedies provided by law shall have the right in case • any part of such amount remains un- paid for the space of two weeks to sell by public auction such horses, cattle, sheep, or other animals on giving two published in said municipality, in a newspaper, published in the municipal- ity in which the said lands. are situ - /hate, or, in case_there is no newspaper firpubilshed in said municipaltiy, in a newspaper whose place a publication Is nearest to said lands, of the intend- ed sale, stating, 11 known, the name ts of the person or persons, who placed e.• such horses, cattle, sheep or other ani- mals on the said. lands, the ailment of the indebtedness and the name of the auctioneer, and giving so far as pos- sible a description of the horses, cat- tle, sheep, or other animals, and after Another change has been made in the Licease bill. Tire amount of rev- enue which the distillers of the prov- ince will pass into the provincial treas- ury has been altered. By the change aistillers with $50,000 or less will Pay a tax of §1,000, which is the same as the former bill. Three thousand dol- lars will be paid by the distilleries hav- ing invested $50,000. to *125,000. Pre- viously it was $3,000 from $80,000 to §100,0110. In the new bill, distilleries from §125,000 to 4200,000 will contribute $4,000. It was formerly $4,000 from §100,000 to §150,000. Five thoueand dollars will be tbe amount collected of distilleries having invested 0200,000 to 3500,000, .and from 4500,000 upwards the tax will be $6,500, Before they were to pay a6,500 from 3100,000 up- wards, and et5,000 from $150,000 to $400,000, , • Cities having a population of less than 40,000 were to pay a fee for tav- ern and shop licenses of $200. NOVSI the class has been so divided that in Oilie$ of 20,tr0J population and less than 40,1)00 thee:Will be called upon to pay $180. SCHOOL ARBITRATIONS. W. J. Hill's bill amending the Pub- lic Schools Act provides that in case of an arbitration between school sec- tions, each section may name an ar- bitrator and the inspector will be„ the third. By the present law each sec- tion names an arbitrator and the in- spector the third. EXHIBIT OF POULTRY. The Deeartment of Agriculture have decided that tnere shall be a large exhibit of poultry at the next hat Stock Show. haring the past two year e poultry bus been dropped en- tirely. .Now ruure than elollo in prizes will be given tor dressed fowl. There will also be poultry prepared for ex- port. These wed be trona the Espera mental Farm at Ottawa. There will be men interested in the trade present to disease the question of eepurt. REPORT ON 1MDLIGRATIO.e.i. The immigration report has just been issued. There was a decrease na the number a steerage paseengers settling in Canada last year. The to- tal number was ehilo, againet 8,718 in lehr. Both in mechanics and la- bourers there . was a decrease. The numoer ot immigrants settled tin the free lands now is et1,51.6. -During the tha'" said ate had no ()biotin to maletng the le.W clear tie to ma Oventaars eight 10 shoot his ow a deers He Would not, hewever, cernmit blearself to tae are. posal to reMeve the (Jamie which, inahea the amused a conapellaisie witeees againet himself in breaehes of the gear° law. a.`Ite Government had a bill in hand dealing with the game laws, and he therefore suggeeted tba.t it, in cora- patty with M. Ilaid'e bill to pernall the shooting of cleer in the water, be re- ferred to the Legal Committee. Teis suggestion was adopted. STARTING SEPARATE SCHOOLS. Hon. G. "W. Bose introduced a bill relating eo Separate same's, to pro- vide that in unorganized dietriete Separate schools shall be on the same footing as Public Schools, as regards organization: At preseot teepasate school cannot be started unlit the dis- trict has been organized tnunicipelly, while a Public school may be etarted by ten heads of households. the sale the owner of the said lands past; year 599 ceitdren were brought ma, apply the proceeds thereof 111 1 out of this number 423 were under the direction a Dr. Barnardo. The cost per head was $2.11: - THE DRAINAGE ACT. MRS, PLACE EXECUTED. The First woman to ene 111 an metric El13111'. A despatch from Sing Sing, N. Y., says:—Mrs, Place, the first woman electrocuted, died at 11.01 on Monday morning, , She mane no scene. The payment of the amount due him m respect of pasturage supplied and the cost of such advertisement and sale, et shall pay over the surplus, if any, to the person entitled thereto on ap- plication being made by him therefor. REGISTRATION OF LEASES. With regard to the registration of leases, 3. R.. Stratton has a bill. 13y it it does not become necessary to register the lease in full, but simply to enter it in the regular book kept at the registry office. Registration this way shall have the same effect as if the wbole lease was copied. Under this new system the fee payable for regis- tration of any lease not including more than foua distinct parcels of land hav- ing separate heading in the abstract index shall be erne dollar, and for each made under separate heading in tbe additional lot requiring entry to be abstract index five cents. After the registration of any lease the registrar upon the application of any person ciainaing to be interested in the de- mised. tends and upon payment of the fees provided less tbe amount already paid for registration, shall cause such lease to be copied out in full in the book kept for that purpose in the regis- he try office. The registrar shall indicate r in the abstract index in the case of the registration of every lease here- after whether the same has or has not been registered in full by •marking opposite the same in the abstract in- dex the words "registered in full" or be raieed by rate levied upon the pro- • perty liable to assessment in such police village. first shook lasted four seconds. The voltage was 1,760. Mrs. Place went calmly to the chair, leaning on Warden Sage's arm. Her eyes were closed, and she seemed nei- ther to see nor hear. She murmured a prayer. Two women attended her, one a prison attendant, the other a phya- clan. Mrs. Place was onlna beyond ex- pectation. No one hats walked into the death chamber as serenely as she. Death came with less struggle than was ever witnessed here before. Death was instantaneous. • A bill Introduced by Mr. McKay seeks to havethethe eectiun relating to the notice to hersons aesessed the Municipal Drainage Act repealed and a clause added se that upon the filing a the engineer's report with the meek of the muletematity, the clerk shall, by letter or postal card, many the par- ties aseessed seen asseinent and the ainount Leered, In case more Man 0110 mumeipatity is interested in tee pro - bused work, the clerk of such other municipality or municipalities shall forthwith, upon the ming a a copy of the engineer's report in their alice, notify the partial aseessed of such as- sessment and the amount thereof. TREE PLA.N.CING LAW. J. A. Auld, tor South Essex, has introutteed a • bill amending the untario Tree Planting Act. According to the present law iecorporated viil- ages have power to grant bonuses for tree planting. Ms. Auld protases that this shalt extend to police villages, when not less than. 30 electors peti- tion tor it. • Tile pulice trustees of such village shall appoint' the inspector of trees provided Lor by by-law of • the lownship Count:II, and the amount re- quired tor the payment of bonuses for tree, planting under ,such by-law, and the remuneration of the inspector shall' IDE NC NIMBI THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER, Interesting teems About Our Owo Country, agent Britain, the United States, and Ail Pares 01 the Globe, Condensed at tt Assorted for Easy Reading, 04NADA. The medical etaff of the St. Cathar- ines Ilospitoa lattve resigned. Mayor Raymond of Brantford bas appointed Postmaster, The Iftso,otha bonus to the new smelter carried almost uuanimously at Mid- land. Dr. L. B. Clemens, a well-known praaioner at Berlin, Ont., died verY suddenly. Serga-Major Morgans, of Kingston, has been appointed orderly to the Gov- ernor-General. Premier Marchand of Quebec denies the oft -repeated stories that he is about to resign. The Brantford oil and gas syndicate is boring for gas near the old rifle range in Guelph. William Taylor was struck by a • Michigan Central train at Gaanworth and instantly killed. The 48th Separate Company, an Os- wego battalion, may spend Queen's birthday in Kingston. • Sing Fung , a Winnipeg Chinamen, has been arrested for selling Cbinese whiskey at his laundry. • A farmer residing about 25 mites • from Kingston has captueed over 100 foxes since the first of the year. Mr. Tames Ronald of Listowel got a verdict against his son Robert at the Stratford Assizes for 400 for slander. The crime fax which Mrs. Place died was committed on Ifebraary 7111, 1898, and was the outcome of jealousy. She was first naarried to a man named Say- acool, but the union proved very un- happy. and they were finally divorced, after a son hied been born. Mrs. Place was obliged to become a servant, and entered the family of William W. Place a wisiower, with a little daughter, lda Mildred. She afterward married Place, and her treatment of the child, to whom she had previously been kind, changed. The girl grew up, and her father frequently went riding with her. Mrs. Place became jealous, and quarrels became frequent. On the day of the murder there -was a quarrel of unusual bitterness. Place left the house in anger, and after he had gone the woman discharged the servant, and then proceeded to the room of the girl, who was just sixteen years of age, threw acid in her fare, and afterwards choked her to death. She then lay in wait for her husband, and when he returned met him in the hallway and struck him twice with an axe. He escaped, however, and inform- ed the police, who broke into the house in time to prevent her taking her own life by aspbyxiating herself with tbe fumes of illuminating gas. ARE LYNCHING THE NEGROES. not registered in full as the case may be. In this act the word "lessee" shall include the assignee of a lessee, and the word "lease" shall include the assignment of the. lease. ANOTHER AMENDMENT. . F. F.'Pardee, M.P.P., fax West Lamb - ton, has a bill amending the Ditches and Watercourses Act. It gives the following definition of an owner "An owner shafl mean and include the owner or possessor of any real or substantial interest in lands whether held in fee simple, fee tail for one or more life (olives or for a term of years not less than ten, the executor or ex- ecutors of an owner, the guardian of an infant owner, any person entitled to sell and convey the land, an agent un- der a general power of attorney au- thorizing the appointee to manage and lease the lands, and a municipal cor- potation as regards any highways un- der its jurisdiction.'' The act is fur- ther to apply to the drainage of all lands required to be drained, whether for agricultural, minihg, manufactur- and for other purposes. PAYMENT OF TAXES. ,The Asseesment At is known well by J. R. Stratton, M.P.P., and as a re- sult he has offered an important arnendement. He has •11OW a bill winch will require in,cities, towns.and • -villages, the payment of taxes, includ- • ing local itaproveraenc assessments, sewer rents and rates, and of other tante or roles payable as taxes, to be made into the offide of the treasurer or collector by any day or days to be • earned therein, in bulk or by instal- ments, end may provide that on the • punctual payment of any instalment the time for payment of, the remein- ing bastalment er inetalments shall be extended to a day or days to be teamed or relay provide i hat in default of pay- ment of any inetalment by the day tanned fax paynleet thereof, the sub- eequent lestahnent or inetalfrients shall forthwith became payable. Tbe SCHOOL ELECTIONS ACT. Col. Leys, M.P.P., for London, in- troduced a bill to amend the bill respecting municipal school elections. It provides that every person proposed for an °dice, tbe holder of which is re- quired to have a property qualifica- tion, shall on the day of the nomina- tion or on the following day, or when such last named day is a holiday, then on the succeeding day, file in the of- fice of the clerk of the municipality not later than five o'clock in the after- noon a statutory declaration tbat he possesses the necessary qualification, and in default of so doing, such person sball be deemed to have retired and his name shall be removed from the list of candidates and Shall not be printed on the ballot papers. SUCCESSION DUTIES ACT. By Mr. Ilarcourt's bill Ito amend the Succeseiou Duties Act the Government will be able to recover any sum that is due them in court. Such an action may be brought for the payment of duty under any of the sections of the old act. A clause is added whereby the Gov- ernment will be enabled to allied the tax on property which htte previous to the death of the person who owns the estate, been transferred. The court may direct the person to whom the property was conveyed or transferred by deceased persons to pay the amount of the duty to whic,ih' such property Woeld belie been subject. These provisions will be retroactive in their action. No stock or shares shall be transferred Milli the duty is peal o11 them, and any corporation allowing a transfer of any stooks or shares eoetrary to this section shall be liable to pay the duty payable in respect thereof. GAME LAW AMENDMENTS. With regard to Mr. Charlton's bill to emend the natne laws, Mr, Gibson A Race War in Little 'liver County, Ark - :mete. <4 A despatch from Texarkana, Ark., says:—A race war is on in Little Rie er CO., and during the last 48 hours an indefinite number of negroes have met death at the hands of the white population. Seven are known to have been lynched, and the work is not yet done. The bodies et victims of the mob's vengeance are hanging Lo the broke Railway, and will conunence mining ore at once. limbs of trees in various parts of the A prosecution of an Indian for polyg- county. amy, was instituted at McLeod, Alber- The country is in a state of the ta, and it is said to be the Govern - most intenee excitement. White men ment's intention to put down the prae- are collecting in mobs, heavily armed tice among the northwest Indians. and determined, and the negroes are It is said that hotel rates in Ottawa fleeing for their lives. may advance before long. There is It was not until Tuesday that the an agitation on toot among some of trouble assumed a serious aspect. it the leading hotels proprietors to form then developed that carefully -laid a combine and fix a standard of rates. plans had been made by a number of At St. John, N. B., Prof. Hesse, a negroes to precipitate a race war, and . many white men had been marked for victinas. It is learned that 23 negro - es were implicated in this plot, and the whites are now bent on meting out summary punishment to the conspir- tors. Isellh White -Ridley, Wife of Sir at thewSeeretary 04.Stete tor the Melee DePartneettt, Atld daleghe ter a the Met TWeedtneuth, le dead, The J'aprineee battleship Aertupi was leueehed loan the 0IYdebeek shipyard Monday. Site ie 425 feetionga of 15,200 tons displaeement, end 15,000 indicated horse -power, and is to develop a PPeed of 19 itnets. Discussing the neVal eat/invitee, 'Henry Laboue,here argued that the Government was "playing the game of beggar my neighbor" agaitett the whole world, and declared it "foolish swagger to boast abilliat to build more ships than any other country." Great 13xitain, he asserted, was not richer than the United States nor than Fratme and Ruseia oombined. UNITED STATES. Smallpox is steadily iintreasing in North Carolina, being prevalent in 17 counties. Frence hes given an oraer for ten 4 1000MOtiVe$ to the )3aldwin Works, at Philadelphia.. The Duluth, South Shore and Atlan- tic railway is covered with ice for a distance df 80 miles near St. Ignace, Mi eh. The Pennsylvania Tube Company employing several thouserin, has ad- vanced the wages of all em.ployes ten per cent. A newly organized brewery company at St, Louis, Mo., purposes using elec- tric refrigerator street cars instead of hauling heavy waggons. The United States War Department has decided to muster oat and bring home all the volunteers now in Cube, with the exception of the volunteer engineers anu immunes. It is said at Washington that nego- tiations for reciprocity treaties with Germany and France have been resum- ed, also with Great Britain, eovering the British West Indies. Fortier's cigar factory at Montreal will be removed to St. Therese, Que., wbich has offered a bonus of $4'7,000. It is alleged that a scheme is being broached in Ottawa for the exchange of the Leeward Islands for an Alaskan strip. It is being suggested at Ottawa that the Government erect a tablet in the Parliament buildings to the memory of Lord Herschel]. It has been decided to make a general advance in marine insurance rates on the St. Lawrence as soon as the season of navigation opens. Active operations will be commenced shortly towards developing the peat lands near Brockville, owned by the Brockville Peat & Power Co, Mr. W. B. Ferguson of Toronto has been appointed City Engineer of Vic- toria oat of a list of,twenty-five appli- cants from all parts of the Dominion. G Limprecht, Clerk of the munici- pality of Rhineland, Man., shot him- self when about to be arrested for a shortage in his accounts. He may die. A special cable announces that a large Finnish immigration into Canada may result from the recent Russian at- tack upon the ancient rights of Fin- land. Sohn Wilson has received a verdict for poo against the Lincoln Paper Mills Companyfor the death of his son • who fell down an open elevator shaft in the mills. The Winnipeg Grain Exchange has passed resolutions condemning the mix- ing of wheat at Feat William, and ask- ing the Government to put a stop to the practice. Tee Hamilton Furance Company have °Jose(' a lease for iron ore mines on- the ine of the Kingston & Pem- arry Eckley, the Pennsylvania rail- road telegraph operator, has been held by the coroner's jury at Altoona, Pa., criminally responsible fax the recent collision near that place. Mrs Henrietta Schmidt, a profes- sional beggar, was found dead in her apartment in New York on Wednes- day. In her room the police subse- quently found her bank book, show- ing that she had, 320,000. IIARIBTS OF THE WORLDI Nemesia erieeS01 the brealie4 ,aPlanto.tlivie,arCtsile!Se, e 1 • Tarento, adal'ell 24,—We had a fAir market bere thia Morning, for a day on whiel there supported to be no ,utarhet, All told aboat forty load§ og stuff eame here, inclutliah &wee twelve /metered hogs, 350 yearliage and Sheep, and 4 few calves and Milkers, * Practiailly there was no change ]):1 anythinn, and vthile teade appeared a trifle eLow, aleneet everythiag here spat, only two or three loads bang held fax to-moreow's maeket. 51111, for enything but the beet hradess of shippers andbuteher cattle the tend- ency was for easier quotations. Shippers of tile best quality are worth from 4 3-4 to 50, and for extra, oltolee selections a shade more will be paid. Light .enippers are worth trene 4,1.-8 to 4 I -2e per pouted. Butater eattle sells at from 3 3-e to 4n for loads of choice stuff, with 4 1-4a paid for selections; good mediuna but- cher cattle eell at arouad •3 1-2e, and inferior down to 3c per pound ; and fax very poor stuff a little less, We had a light supply of etockers in to -day, and prices were it little bet- ter at from 33.60 to 33.90 per ewt, More would nave sold. There A no ebange in export bulls, feeders or milkers, A few good milk- ers are wanted, Here are some 'of the (thief sales to- day:— One load of butcher cattle, average 1,000 lbs., sold at 41-40 per pound. A load of shippers, average 1,250 lbs., sold at 31,85 per cwt. . , Twenty-four cattle, average 1,025 lbs., sold at 4 leee per pound, Twenty-two (tattle, average 1,100 lbs., sold at 34.60 per ewt. ; Twenty-four butther cattle, average 1,025 lbs., sold at 33..85 per cwt. Fourteen export cattle, average 1,- 125 lbs., sold at 424c per pound. Good yearlings are wanted, and were a little stronger to -day at from 4 1-2 to 5c fax choice. Sheep are imam nged at 3 1-4 to 31.4c per pound. Becks are worth from 213-4 to 30 per pound. Hogs are quotably unthanged at from 4 1-1 to 41-20 per pound for "sing- ers" but it must be clearly under- stood that 41-20 is quite the top figure and is only likely to be paid fax the best eeleetions ; if this is made clear it may save disappointment On ar- riving here. Other quotations are 4 to 4 1-8e fax light hogs; 3 1.4 to 3 7-8e per lb for fat heavy stuff; &i for sows, and 2c for stags. Store hogs are not wanted, i Following is the range of current quotations:— Cattle. Shipping, per cwt. . . .34.25 35.00 Butcher, choitae, do, . . 3.75 4.25 13utcher, med. to good. 3.25 3.60 Butcaer, inferior. . . 2.87 1-2 3.12 1-2 Sheep and Lambs. Ewesh per cwt. . . . . 3.00 3.50 Yearbegs, per cwt... 4.50 5.00 Bucks, per cwt. . . . 2.50 2.75 Milkers and Calves. Cows, each. . . .25.00 45.00 Calves, eaele . . ;. . 2.00 10.00 Hogs. Choice hogs, per cwt. . 4.25 4.50 Light hogs, per cwt. 4.00 . 4121-2 Heavy hogs, per cwt. . 3.00 3.87 1-2 Buffalo, March 24.—Spring wheat— Dull, but sellers firm; No. 1 Northern, ,77o. Winter wheat—Steady; No. 2 red, 74e; No. I white, 74e; No. 2, extra red, 72e; No. 8 red, 71 1-2c. Corn— Strong; No. 2 yellow, 37 3-4e; No. 3 yellow, 37 1-20; No. 4 yellow, 36 3-4 to 87o; No. 2 corn, 37e; No. 3 corn, 36 1-2 to 36 3-1e; No. 4 corn, 35 1-2 to 36e. Oats—Strong; good demand ; No. 2 white, 33e; No. 3 white, 32 1-4c; No. 4 white, 31 1-2o; No. 2 mixed, 30 1-2e; No. 3 mixed, 28 1-2e. Barley—Held too high for buyers; nothing doing. Rye— Quiet; No. 2, on track, offered. at 63e. Flour—Weak and lower; best patent spring, 34.25; bakers' straight spring, 34; bakers' clear spring, 33.15 to 33.50; low grade spring, 31.75 to $2.25; pat- ent winter, el; best family winter, 33.50 to 33.75; Graham best, 33.50. Detroit, March 2C—Wheat—Closed-- No. 1 white, cash, 70e; No. 2 red, cash, 70 1-20; May, 71 le8c ; July, 68 1-2e. Toledo, Marcia al.—Wheat—Cash, 70 1-20; May, 70 6-8e. Rye—No. 2 cash, )3 1-2e. Cloverseed—Prime cash, old, 33,30; new, 'attsh, May and April, $3.50. • Milwo.ukee: March 24.—Wheat—No. 1, Northern, 67 1-4 to 67 3-4e; No. 2 Northern, 65 1-4 to 66e. Rye—No. 1 53 1-2c. Barley—No. 2, 46 to 47o; sam- ple. 39 to 460. Minneapolis, March 24.—Wheat — March, 66 1-4o; May, 66 1-4e; July, 67 1-1c, on track; No. 1. hard, 67c; No. 1 Northern, 66,3; No. 2 Northern, 641-2o. Flour—First patents, $3.69hha 33.80; see- oenild.50p.a.tents, 33.40 to 33.50; first clears, 32.40 to 32.60. Bran, in bulk—$11 to Duluth, March 24.--Wheat--No. 1 hard, cash, 67 5-8e; March, 67 5-8e; May, 698-80; July, 70 1-8e ; No. 1 Northern, cash, 65 5-8c; No. 2 Northern, 62 14o. The New York State Senate has be- fore it a bill providing fax the incor- poration of the Salvation Army. It vesta in the incorporated body the right to establish homes, hospitals, shelters, colonies, etc. Rev. Dr. Rainsford, of St. George's Church, New York, has follciwed the example of Bishop Potter, and come out straight against prohibition. Its principles, he says, are false, and its practice and policy rotten. At St. Louis an unknown woman called at the residence of Mrs. M. F. Mcarea.n, a widow, and threw vitriol in the latter's face, blinding her and causing burns that will result fatal- ly. Several weeks ago Mrs. MeV-6am received a box of poisoned candy through the mails, sent, she thought, by a young woman who was jeal- ous. At Palmetto, Ga., a mob of masked men stormed the little house doing service as a jail and shot down nine negroes. Four were killed outright and the otber five badly wounded. The negroes have been held for the burn- ing of the town, three fires since January 1 having almost entirely de- stroyed it. GENERAL. Spain proposes to reconstruct her navy. The United States authorities will take a census of Cuba. The Queen -Regent of Spain has sign- ed the peace treaty. Both the Czar and Czarina are well, reports to the contrary notwithstand- ing. Princess Kaiulani, at one time heir apparent to the throne of Hawaii, died on March 6 at Honolulu. France lailitaire reaffirms that the recent magazine explosion at Toulon was not an accident, but an atrocity Lucchini, the murderer of the Era - music teacner, sues the Street - press of Austria has broken down way fax 3100,000, fax the loss of a foot under the strain of solitary imprison - in an accident in which a trolley jump- mutt. ed the track. He says his occupation The Italian Government has re - LORD KITCHENER'S DEFENCE. OMIOMMO Replies to the Charges Made of Useless Slaughter of DervIeltes. A despatch fram London says—The despatch of Lard Cronaer, British dip- lomatic agent in Egypt, embodying the reply of the Sirdar, Gen. Lord Kitchen- er, of Khartoum,- to questions regard- ing the alleged mutilation and useless slaughtes of dervishes in the battle of Omdurman, has been laid, before Par- liament. .The Sirdar says that the only wounded dervishes killed by his troops were those who feigned death in order to obtain opportunity tor kill- ing "Whatever was done," he con- tinues, "was done with all possible considerations of humanity." The Sirdaa juetifies the destruction of the tomb of the Mahdi and the dispose' of the prophet's remains, on the ground that, if the mausoleum bad been left intart and unprofaned, it would have become the centre of fanatical pilgrim- age, causing endless trouble. He says be hienself ordered the deraolition. Lord Cromer endorses the statements of Gen Kitchener. TRAIN BURIED IN SNOW. gig Slede Oil the Intereolontal, Near Levis. A despatch from Quebec says :—Mon- day afternoon as an 1.0.R. freight train, consisting of an engine and sev- eral ears, was passieg Hadlovv, Levis, about the spot where the great aval- anche of last year occurred, an im- mense seowslide took plo,ce and com- pletely buried it in. A fordo of 100 men were at once Set to wOrk to dig it out, and while they were eo engaged a second and small- er avalanche occurred awl buried twenty of the men, One Man. Leta- lier, was under the snow- for an hour and a half, and whet rescued was in ari unconscious condition, trete which as organ* has gone, because of the last foot. 111 order to avoid such disgraceful scenes as took place recently at Ste. Soholastique, a hill will be introduc- ed at the coming session of Parlia- ment to make hangings private. Only officers of the law and newspaper re- porters will be admitted. ceived warning that Anarchists con- template blowing up the parliament buildings. The Japanese Government is consid- ering the wholesale Christianizing of Japan, making Christianity the offi- cial religion. President Kruger, while retaining The Inverness & Richmond Railway, the dynamite monopole, has lowered running through the coal region on the the qualificatioes for full burgership west coast of Cape Breton, bas been from fourteen to nine years' residence. purchased by Mackenzie, Mann & Co. Spain may appeal to the powers and Peter Ryan of Toronto. The new against Admiral Dewey's orders pro - syndicate have purchased and bond- hibiting the Spanish agents from pay- ed nearly all the coal areas, with the tag the Filipinos a ransom for Spanish View of working them on an extensive prisoners. Dewey tainks the ransom 'scale. The London Retail Grocers' and Retail Clerks' Associations are making a combined move for early closing, and are soliciting the co-op- eration of the general public. It is proposed. .to make 6 p. M. the latest hour fax taking orders each night, ex- cept Saturday and the nights before holidays. Upon the latter the hour to. be 9 p; in. The hour for closing stores it is proposed to make 6.30, with the exception of Saturday and days before holidays, when it will be 10 o'elock. •00 GREAT BRITAIN. The Women's International Council will hold their eongress in London, Eng., next.June. "Willie," brother of Oscar Wilde, is dead at London. It will be remembered that he married 'Virg. Frank Leslie, of New York. The Right Han. Horaeti. Phinkeitt, M. Pe fax the South Division, of Dub- lin County, has broken his thigh in a bioyele aedident. The British C4overritnent has decided not to grant e Roman Catholie univer- sity fax Ireland. Liverpool will erect a naemorial sta- tue ot Gladstone as the foremost Eng- lishman, natihe of that city. Over 315,- 000 has already been subsceibed. Sir Jailing Vogel, K. th. M. G. for- tnerly Premier of New Zealaea, is dead, Ile led the Government that etarted a Mail service to Ss e Fran - he did not reeover fro Several hours. 01800. Itis reported that a contract has been concieded between the German Government and Mr. Cecil B.hodes fax the construction of telegraph lines through German East Africa. It is also reported that a railway contract ie on the point of conclusion. 'hhe Paris Matin says that the trans- formatiofl of the French artillery has been completed. "Thanks to the new arrangement and the powerful guns which have been procared," the paper says, "the Freneh artillery is nOW unrivalled in tbe world." would supply the natives with funds. r,yspepsta indiatistion common diseases, but 'hard. to core with ordinary remedies, yield readily to lyilu2.1"9.)::4 Celery,Nerve Compounci. w. Bacalagtrain, ap6 ging ht. Hest, Hatniltoo Ont., 5eyst—"1 was troubled with DesPepele and Ineigestion tor a long time, end hatted get 40 relief until I tried IVianiey'sCeleryvbierve COMPeteltio Which cured Me, sad I cannot speak too bight), hi its pratse.ip BROKE HIS NECK. vett FM rown a May ow to the Barn Eloor A despatch frona Gore Bay, aanitone Ho, saye:—Lindsey Sawyer, aged 1.8,, employed on the farm ef George Weh- gerfield, near Lake arlindemoya, in the township of Carnarvon, bad gone nes the ladder to the scaffold ia the barn. to throw down some straw whieb cov- ered the poles upon which he stepped. The poles gave way and Sawyer fell a dietance of 14 fea, strilting the bolster of a waggon and 'then the floor, and was instantly killed. AN EYE TO BUSINESS, Bigsbee is a terribly naelodramatie fellow, isn't he? He said he'd dram his heart's blood fax the woman he loved, Do you think lie meant it? ' Why, I guess so. Bigebee is agent or a drain and sewer pipe concern. SIGNIFICANT APPOINTMENT. Britain to Enforce it Settlement of New- foundland letstatng Disputes, A wlestetteb from St. John's, Nfld., sayse—Speeial significanee attaches to the appointment of Commodore Gif- ford to command the British squadron in Newfoundland writers durieg the coming haling season. No °Meer so fax advanced iri the British navy list NVOS ever before appointed to this cern- . mend., he being the senior of tvery of- ficer in 1 he British North Ameriean fleet except Admiral Fisher. His se- lection is regarded as indieatieg ft determine tion an the part of Great Britain to enforee a settlement of dis- puted questiote it this gearter by strengthening the squadron. PROSTRATED, EXHAUSTED. 1.0.11,•••••••••••• NO SLEEP—NO REST. LL do not appreciatei the words of John (4. Saxe, who sang, "God bless the man who, first invented sleep:" But appreciation is not wanting to those who have suffered as • .ere- Mrs. "White, of Mara Towaship Ont., who hecame so 111 watt nervous troubles that, to quote her bro- ther, Mr. Donald McRae, a well-knovvri re- sident of that illustrious section of North Ontarfo: "My elster had not Meet a night for over three months. She could not have stood title much longer, and It was only when death seemed -imminent that Smith American Nervine became the good phy-- stolen. After taking the first dose of the Nervine she slept all might, and gained M flesh until perfectly well. and has now ao sign of 'nervousness." This Is a wonder. tut medicine In the ireverent eases of ner- vousness, and the greatest flesh -builder to to found anywhere in the world. -25. ANOTHER FRENCH EXPLOSION.' Sold by C. Lutz, Exeter. LaboralOry Attacked to Ike War Depart - MOM 1114111 11 lip. A despatch from Paris says :—The series of explosions in Government am- muoition depots winch commenced with the terrible disaster at ta Goubran, near Toulon, followed on Saterday with explosioos at Bourges and Marseilles was continued on Tuesday evening when an alarming explosion occurred in the • laboratory of explosives at- tached to the War Department, where experiments were being made .with a new kind of gun -powder. • Chief Engineer Viet, Assistant En- gineer ',D'Ouville, and a third official were injured. All the windows in the neighborhood were sniashed aed coe- sidereble other damage wee done. Although it is not believed that the explearni was the vestIlt of foul play, great excitement followed. It is rumored that the Emperor of Austria will illa,1,11 Prineees Marie [511 - belle de Eranee, sieter of the Due de Orleans. King Cecile of. Sweden has just Ilea his Hie insered in the Swedish Com- panyarden. The premiere is $7,236 yeat. K K. 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