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CANADA.. ,
The employees or the London Street
Railway are to have their grievances
submitted to arbitration.
Capt. W. Lesslie, of the sta,ff of the
Royal Military College at Kingston,
leaves for belie, in August.
Doab1e. tracking on the Canadian Pa-
cific Railway between Fort William
and Winnipeg is progressing briskly.
Rohn Elrkby, a farmer livieg alone
near Gainsborough, NeW.T„ was kill-
ed by part of his &Able falling on
The voters' lists of Winnipeg, whiela
are being prepared for the coming
election, show an inorease from 7,000
names to 11,000.
Frank Brown, a French-Canadian,
Port .earthux's oldest resident, died
Friday. He was the first settler, and
was 100 years old.
Mr. jas. Ross, the, Montreci•1 million-
aire, says that when hard times come
the, big trusts now forming still fall
nf their own weight.
It is said at Montreal that Axche
bishop Braohesi will likely be chosen
'cardinal to sacceed the late Cardinal
Taschereau, of Quebec.
Precautions of a most unusal clear -
meter are being taken to secure the
Brantford banks from attacks of or-
ganizetl. gangs of burglare.
freight (rare will be establiseed at
Cbioago.
New York City Council will "issue
bonds" fc?r 0150,000 far the gitertein-
Ment of Adrairal Dewey,
it ie expeeted that u a °Duple of
months the last of the volnnteere will
have been sent busk to the United
States front Manila..
The United States Supreme Court
has decided that the Feenot steamer
Wynne Rodriguez, the first of the
naval. prize cases, should be returned
to the Ireench Government.
Judge Rook's, af the United States
Ciroult Court, nos deolded in favor of
the Clevehnad street railwayin their
a.pneal against a civic, ordinance, ee-
quiring them to give four-eent tickets
and universal transfers.
The British survey ship Egeria has
arrived at Vancouver, and is provis-
ioning for an immediate start in sur-
veying the Pacific cable route.
It is being suggested at Ottawa that
the militia of Canada erect a memorial
to the late Senator Boulton on account
of his services to the conntry.
The Grand Trunk have decided to
build a second. large bridge over th.e
Niagara River. The new structure will
connect Buffalo with Fort Erie.
A rumor from Winnipeg says that
T. Eaton & Co., of Toronto. are ne-
gotiating for tlae purchase of a block
of land to build a. store there.
At the annual meeting of the Mont-
real Y. M. C. A. a silver tea service pire.
was presented to the secretary, Mr. The, alleged conspirators ox Johannes -
D. A. Budge. who has held office for burg are, with two exceptions, former
26 years- noa-commissione d of/leers of. the Bell Isla
A large party of German settlers army.
DOWN A CREVICE.
Matey ;serene Adventure -Besotted. After a
Mound a mon by the Swiss Guides,
A despatch from Buffalo, N. W. T.,
eayst---Bishop Toret and five Frenela
clergymieu, bound from Hong Keug
to 1tcnna, wilt) SOUght tO break their
journey across the oteatinent, after
landing at Vancouver a fewdays ago
by spending a oouple of days in the
Canadian National Park at this point,
were reseued on Wednesday from a
perilious position in a mountain (nav-
ies. On Tuesday morning at 7 o'clock
they started, withoat guides, to make
the asoent of Sulphur Mountain, and
Mr. 'Donald MeLean, ,•railroad, con- lost their way. Thursday they owe their
structor and, promoted', died in Chicago lives to the sagacity and experience
on Sunday from. Injuries received by
falling from the fourth storey of a
hotel to the balcony below, a distance
of about 40 feet.
A. oyclone strack Akron, Ohie,
Tuesday afternoon, A. circus was in
progress, and the tent was clecoaolished
and the spectators panic-striekeu. A missed flora their hotel until 10 o'clock-
sclrool house was blows). down and Tuesday night and the matter 'laving
nixie pupils injured.
The strike situ.ation in Buffalo is
serious. On Alonday the docks were
ee, clunterns and Alpenetooks, the guides
tied completely up. Nat onW
ly the i departed. on their mission. After a
the gain shovellers out, but also i nlght of tedious tramping among the
freight handlers, coal heavers, the
tho mountain sides, they were
men who load the ores, the time- .13I113s °It
I
man or boy am- 1 1 e ward. d by hearieg tie ir eenceng eain
keepers and every a anewerecl flora a slight crevice in the
played n any capaeity on the dooks rozakinto which a false step had pre -
or in or about the elevators or freight, `,
sheds. tipitated the party. Though the crev-
of Swiss guides, recently introduced by
ths autho.iti.3s to look after the welfare
02 traveller's and hunt ing parties visit-
ing the Canadian rookies.
The. Bishop and his party were not
been reported to the Superintendent,
the latter ordered the Alpine guidee to
at once make a seareh. Armed: with
me was but twenty feet deep, the
G-ENEStAL. clergymen ioand themselves unable to
1.A. Norwegian expedition is about ko gain the ledge from which they had Choice hogs, per cwt.. 4 75 5 00
stare to find Andree. . sliePed. Ropes were lowered by the Light hcgs, per cwt. • 4 37 1-2 4 50
1
Floe girls were killed in, the burns guides, and the rescue from, the peril- Healey laogs, per cwt.. 4 12 1-2 4 37 1-2
Ger- ous position was quickly made. The MONTREAT.a.
Brunswiok,
TIMES
TIARKET8 OF THE WORLD.
Prieee of Grant], Cattle, OheeSeA 84e
In the Leading MAAS.
;Toronto, May 26. --We had to -day a
light run of stuff, light etteadenee of
buyers, and a Liget trade. Only 24
loads came to the yards, ineluding be-
tween. sixty and. seventy sheep, year-
lings, and. lambs; 30 tointers, and a few
calves. "There was scareely any buy-
ing, most of the offerings basing Jett
over until t'he regular market to-
morrow. Cattle is not quotably
edeemanagneda bat price, Good calves are in
Hogs were in light supply to day
but priees are steady and unchanged.
For choice seleetiens (sealing from 160
)bs. to 200 lbs) 5e per patina. was paid;
for light fat hogs the price is 41-2ol
panoudndthick fat hogs fetch 3-50 Per
pows fetch 30 per pound.
Stags sell at 2t per pound,
; Store hog e will not sell,
'• quotations:
g_ is the range of cnrrent
Cattle.
Shipping, per cwt. .$ § 5 00
Butcher, choice, do. . 4 00 4 50
Butcher, med.to good 3 30 3 80
Butcher, inferior. 3 30 3 50
Sheep and Ltnrbs.
Ewes, per owe . 3 50 4 00
Yearlings, per cwt. . 5 00 5 50
Bucks, per cwt. . 3 00 3 25,
Spring lambs, each.. . 2 00 4 75
Milkers and. Calves
Cows, each. . . . 25 00 45 Cae
Calves, each. . . 00 6 00
Hogs.
many. previous afternoon andnight had been
The New Zealand Agricultural
De_ spent in the crevice, 1,900 feet trona the
partnaent wilt inspect all raeat ex-
ported.
Rudolph Riese, banker and em -
Montreal, May. 26. -There were about
tv-hich is 7,000 feet, and clothed. with a
of 500 bead of butchers' cattle, 400 calves,
600 sheep and lambs, 70 store hogs, and
foot of the mountain, the height
pine, forest. 200 small pigs offered for strle at the
to-dayThe butch
Bishop Moret toe° has travelled east end abattoir . , -•
ers were out in full force, and trade
was fair, with slightly lower preces all
round for cattle, the decline being
greatest in coramon and inferior stock;
prime beeves sold at from 4 3-4 to 51-4c,
per lb; pretty good, stock at from; 33-4
to 4 5-8c; and common dry cows and.
half -fatted animals, at from 2 1-2 to 3
1-2c, per lb. There were more than the
usual number of bulls on the market to-
Accordirtg to statistics, France con- 41-'13', and these sold at from 24-4 to 1
1-4c pee lb. Calves sold at from $1.50
bezzler of Berlin has committed sui-
much, declared that he and his party
Gide. had almost aba.ndoned all hope of
Twenty-nine inhabitants of Taiko, rescue.
Formosa, have been massacred by
savages.
Aimenians in Russia refuse to re -
tura to Turkey, which tb.ey left to es-
cape Turkish atrocities.
The Russian (overnment has deoreed
that henceforth the _Finnish 1)181 mast
meet at four -year -intervals,
The Chinese Government has issued.
a decree recognizin.g the Roman
Catholic religion throughout the em -
from the Huttensche Society, Xie
Yankton, South Dakota, have left
there to found. a colony in Manitoba
near Dominion City.
Dr. Petersot, principal tie McGill
University, will leave shortly on a
trip to England with a view to filling
tbe vacancies on the staffs of the
faculties of applied science and medi-
cine.
A. big sale of timber lands was ef-
fected at Fredericton, N.B., when Alex.
Gibson bought all the lands owned in
the province by the New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia Land Co., a total of
26,500 acres.
Charles Wagner, of Edwardslaurg,
near Cornwall, undertook to tease a
goat by tickling its nose with a $10
bill, but the goat secured the bill and
swallowed. it. Wagner then killed the
goat to recover his bill.
Owing to the enormous height of the
inciting to murder and incencharism,
new locoraotives constructed by the
Grand Trunk Railway and the
lowness The verdict was followed by fierce riot -
a the tubular span over the river alog at Grenoble anti at Algiers.t .
Baron Horrnshein, merabee of the
Reichstag, has given $750,000 towards
the consumptive asylum movement in
Berlin.
President Kruger has proposed to les-
sen the period of probation for aliens
wishing to become Transvaal citizens
to nine years.
Count , Radeni, the formed- Prime
Minister at Austria, recently tried to
commit suicide on account: of losses
sustained on the race course.
Gen. Funston, the hero of the figete
ing near Manila has been appointed
to command the brigade hitherto
under Gen. Wheaton.
The Russian Government, under the
Czar's leadership, is csensidering the ad-
visability at stopping the transporta-
tion of prisoners to Siberia.
Max Regis, the notorious Jew -bailer,
has been acquitted of the charge of
Ste. Anne's, the company is unable, 10
use the engines on that section.
Major J. L. Biggar, 15th Battalion,
Belleville, has been appointed to or-
ganize the transport department of
the Canadian army. He will take a
coarse at Aldershot to become pro-
ficient in this branch of the service.
The number of homestead. entries
d.uring the past year was 4,848; the
largest sixtee 1893, according to the
report of the Department of the In-
terior. Over 47,186 ages were sold,
being double the sales of the previous
year.
Reports from the fruit farms in the
Niagara district are to the effect that
a great many young peach, pear and
plum. trees have died from the effects
<A the severe frost of last February,
having come out in leaf and, blossom
first, however.
At the trial at Montreal following
the raid upon the Jean Baptiste Club,
Arthur Ware, an expert in cards, tes-
tified. that seven out 07 nine peeks
of cards found on the premises were
so marked. that anyone familiar with
them could tell at a glance what cards
the other players held..
johezin Steparacki, of the Kesenlik
district, known as "the Valley of
Roses," Bulgaria, has succeeded, it is
declared in producing a rase of azure
blue. Steparacki, while denying that
the color is the result of chemical
treatment, declines to reveal the
secret of cultivation.
At Paris, Mme. Paul Resal, whose
husband died in the Bourgogne disas-
ter, has broeght suit in her awn name
and that of her children against the
Compagnie Generale Trans -Atlan-
tique, alleging that as her husband,
was the sole support of the family,
the loss and prejudice to the children
cannot be compensated for less than
$40,000.
A man named Henry Meyer has
been sentenced in Marseilles to .,five
yearspenal servitude for attempting
to extract a sum ef d18,000 from an
Austrian countess. The lady had, writ-
ten him the most passionate love -
letters, and when a rupture occurred
Meyer threatened to print the cor-
;respondence unless she bought his
silence for Z18,000.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Sir Henry Irving is recovering from
his recent SlIness.
London, England, talks of having a
municipal opera. house.
The will of the late Lord Herschell
disposes of an. estate of $765,000.
It is denied that the Prince of Wales
intend s visiting Ireland in August.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie has subscribed
£1,000 to the Gladstone raemorial fund.
Rev. Daniel Moore, champion -in -ord-
inary to the Queen since 1870, is dead
at London.
Lady Henry Somerset has been re-
. elected President of the British Wo-
tnen's Temperance Union.
Bringhara University has got the
k.,30.,000 for which lir. Carnegie stipu-
lated when 'he made his girt of £50,000.
The Daily Mail or Londahr England,
announces tlntt the pubbeation of a
Sunday edition of the paper will be
suspended.
It is Said at London that the joint
Ilige Commission will re -assemble
during the coming summer or early in
the lath At Washington, it is said,
the Aiaskaer, boundary question will
be submitted to arbitration indepen-
dent of. the other issues.
Sir Michael Plitaks-13eaoh, Chancellor
of tbe Excheq,uet, is sant to be re-
sponsible for the niggardly financial
eupnort offered by the Imperial Gov-
ernment to the Pacific table project.
Lord Sratheona and Mr. Chamberlain
will urge the, Government to cartels
bete a portion of the eanital required,
tmirrED sTATsg,
r the coestraetion of eted
DRINKS OF NATIONS.
Vrance Leads the World in the Con-
sumpt on of Alcohol.
A. REAL HERO.
A Wom• an Ablaze In the Presence of a
Prattc-StrIchen Crowd --Fatal Vire in
New Bork.
A despatch from. New York, says: -
At a tenement house fire in Rivington
sunres far more alcohol pee head. of
population than any other nation in
the world. The aleoholic strength of
beer has been taken at 6, on wine at
25 and of spirits at 50 of pure alcohol.
The strength of each of these bever-
ages varies greatly, but it is thought
the above avora,ges form a fair esti-
mate. The figures, given in English
imperial gallons, work out as follows:
Gallons.
Franoe . . .
Switzerland . . 8.606
Wurtm
eberg
Bavaria • .
Belgium .
Baden .
German trarere .
United Kingdom . . . . . 2.417
The figures for the United. King-
dom, United States, Belgium and
France are those for 1897, and for other
ocruntries those for 1896. The con-
sumption of spirits, wine and beer re-
spectively per head. of population is
largest in the following countries,
namely, spirits, Die,nmark 3.3 gallons;
wine, France 21 gallons; and beer, Bel-
gium 40.3 gallons. The largest quan-
tities consumed in a year are -spirits,
R•usge. 131,047,000 gallons, wine, France
920,106,000 gallons ; beer, Germany 1,-
220,142,000 gallons.
street on Thursday morning an aged
woman ran into the street with her
scanty clothing all ablaze and was fat-
ally burned before the panic-stricken
crowd could extinguish the flames.
So rapidly did the fire spread that had
it not been for the heroism of a crip-
pled boy who lived, in the house, many
of the tenants would have been burned
in their beds, He limped through the
hoase from floor to floor arousing the
sleepers, When he reachecl the top
floor he found john Roatliberg, 75
years old, end his wife, IV.Eary, who is
84s beside them:selves with fear. "loathtierg ran for the roof scuttle,. but his
aged wife darted. 9ptet him down the
Stairs. She ran through the flames
that were roaring, and managed to
reach thts front door, She staggered
down the front stairs, with; her night
clothes ablaze, wiling for help. Sev-
eral met went to het assistance and
with their coats sueceeded. in putting
out the flames that eireircled. her. She
was taken to Governeur Hospital fat-
ally burned. ,
ONE MORE CHANCE
Miss Passe -They say that marriages
are made in heaven
Sense Pert --Ah then you have one
• more chance,
to $10 each,. Shippers are paying 4.0
per lb for good. large sheep, the but-
chers pay from. 31-8 to 41-1c per lb.
Lambs sold. at front 00.50 to §5 each;
only very choice lambs bring over
$1.50. Fat hogs sold. in straight lots,
just off the cars, at from. $1.50 to $1.80
per 100 lbs; and a few selects sold up
to $4.90 per hundeed lbs; araong the
store nogs to -day there were about a
dozen sows, each having from 8 to 12
small pigs from 2 to 4 weeks old.; some
of these. were sold, at from $1.0 to $14
for the sow and her litter; the other
. 5.449 store hogs sold. at from 0 to $8 each.
. 4.686 and the small pigs at from $1 to $2.50
.. 3.969 each.
. 3.815
. 2.674 I Milwaukee, May 28. -Wheat -Firer;
. . 2.620 No. 1, Northern, 75 to 751-2; No. 2 do'
731-2c. Rye -No. 1, 61 1-2 to 61 3-4.
Barley -No. 2, Ile; sample, 37 to 10e.
Toledo, May 26. -Wheat -No. 2, cash,
and May, 751-4c ; September, 75 1-2c.
Core. -No. 2 mixed, 31c. Oats -No. 2
mixed, cash, and July, 30c. Rye -No.
2, cash, 60e. Cloverseed-Prime, new,
cash, and May, $3.72 1-2; October, $4.52
1-2 bid. Oil -Unchanged. •
• Buffalo, May 26. -Spring wheat ---
Little doing, prices held too high for
buyers; No. 1 Northern spot, 813-8; No. 2
Northern, spot, 78 3-8e. Winter wheat
- -Firmly held; No. 2 red, 78c; No. 1
white, 77e. Cora -Firm, good enquiry;
No. 2 yellow, 39c; No. 3 yellow, 38 1-4c;
No. 4 yellow, 36e; No. 2 corn, 88e; No. 3
corn, e6 1-2 to 370. i Oats -Firm; No.2
white, 33e; No. 3 white, 31 1-2 to 313-4e;
No. 4. white, 31c; No. 2 mixed, 30e; No.
3 mixed, 29c. Barley -Nominally 45
to 47c, in store. Rye -Scarce, seine
enquiry for spot; No. 2 eominally 676,
on track, Canal freights - Steady;
wheat, 2 1-2c; corn, 2 1-80; oats, 1 3-80;
to New York Flour - Quiet but
steady.
Detroit, May 26. -Wheat closed; -
No. 1, white, cash, 75 1-2c; No. 2 red,
cash, and May, 761-10; July, 757-8c.
Minneapolis, May 26.- Close -No. 1
Northern, May, 71 1-1c; July, 72c; Sep-
tember, 70 7-8c. On track -No. 1 hard,
73e; No. 1 Northern, 720; No. 2 North-
ern, 703-1c. Flour -Heavy business
doing; patents, 5c. higher; first pa-
tents, 0.80 to 03.00; second patents,
$3.60 to 0.70; first clears, $2.80 to
2.90. 1Bran-En bulk, 0 to $9.25.
Duluth, May 26. -Wheat -No. 1,
hard, cash, 763-4c; May, '763-4c; July,
77140; No. 1 Northern, 733-4c; NO. 2
Northern, 691-4.c.
A LAW AGAINST USURY,
tfioneveCkarland Thinks It 0 Tone Ono
Was Passed. '
A. despatch from Montreal, says:-
justice Chas:land on Tuesday, in eerie
tiering judgment in a ease of Darling
v. Dufort, took the opportunity te
strongly advocate the passing ot some
Jaw against usury such as Senator
Durand has now iatrodueed in the Sen-
ate. The adieu unaer consideration
had been brought on a note for $150,
beariag interest at the rate of 130 per
cent per annum. The learned judge
said thet the .1.avv left him no elterna-
tive. The rate of interest was fixed
on the toese of the note, and he had to
give judgment as prayed for. At the
sarae time, he eould not help express-
ing. his strong condemnation of a sys-
tem which tolerated such abuse. The
people who charged spa a rate of in-
terest would no doubt never dare to
call themselves usurers. They would
very likely sue for damages anyone
who would call them usurers. The
fact remained that usury had free
scope in the Peovince of Quebec,
and it was time something was done
to check it.
ing of a factory ill
STORIES OF THE IRON DUKE.
els Strict Sense of Duty -A. Sick Girls'
Curiosity Satisfied.
What you say about the difficulty of
preventing peculation in the army re-
minds me of an anenclote I have heard
mer mother telt of the Duke of Wel-
lington, says a writer. A friend. of
my mother had, a contract to supply
blankets for the army. When they
were delivered the deka desired that.
every blanket Should be unrolled and
shown to him. When the gentleman,
who was as proud; of his honor as a
manufacturer as any soldier could be
of his honor, remonstrated. against
what seemed an aspersion on his in-
tegrity, the duke only said : It is my
duty to see that the soldiers have pro-
per blankets." I do not know the tune
or the circumstanees, beyond, the bare
fact as I have heard my mother re-
late it.
Perhaps you will allow me to tell an-
otherstory I have heard from my mo-
ther of the great duke, He was stay-
ing in some town -it may have been
Chelteneam-where was a girl who
longed, intensely to see him. She was
111 tind could not leave her bedroom.
Some one told the duke of her wish,
and he came and walked for some time
in front of ber window, that. she might
see hian. •
OLDEST OLD MAID DEAD.
Aunt Pettey Smiley 'Wm 112 and Had Smolt
ed a l'Ipe 104 Tears,
A despatch from. Huntington, Ind.,
says; -Aunt Peggy Bailey, the oldest
old maid in the 'United States, died at
her home near here on Saturday. She
was born in Kentucky, and was 112
years old last March. She had been
ill but once, mid that was when she
was between. 20 and 30 years old. She
had steed tobaceo and so:inked a pipe
slime she was 8 years old.. She re-
tained ell her faculties until about
two months ago, when, she beeame
suddenly deaf, dumb, and blind, and
partly insane,
HOT SPOT.
One of the hottest spots on the globe
is the region around. the Dead Sea, The
sea is said to lose at least J,000,000 OAS
est Seatet'
it day by evaporation.
AN APPRECIABLE 'ITEM -
IThe etigiees of a first -lass man -of
war coSt about $600,000.
MUNICIPAL STATISTICS.
ontarto's Assessed Wealth Upwards of
Eight ilundred
Part five of the annual report of
the Ontario Bureau. of Industries, cOra-
prising municipal statistics of the pro-
vince for 1897, has been issued. The
population was 1 990,977, and the total
assessinent $803,625,377; the taxes im-
posed thereon were 412,206,325, the rate
being 6.13 per capita, or 15.19 mills
on the dollar.
The population is distributed as fol-
lows: -Townships, 1,113,530; towns, 312,-
917; villages, 133,560; cities, 430,940; and
the assessed property as follows; -
Townships, $1ee,722,478; towns,' P1,-
498,546; villages, 00,497,707; and cities,
286,966,646.
NEW FORT FOR HALIFAX.
CATERPILLAR PEST.
The Provincial. Government Asked to As-
sist in Exteratittattng Thema.
A. despatch from Toronto, says: -The
Provincial Government has been
urged to take some action towards rid-
ding the country of the tent caterpil-
lar, which has become a pest in many
sections of the province and has great -
damaged property, especially fruit
and shade trees.
In several localities grants have
been made by munieipalitie.s to assist
in exterminating the. caterpillars. Dr.
Brodie is now engaged making an
examination, and will report to the au-
thorities on the best means to deal
with the pest.
The Imperial Go verant.mt to Build a
Strong, New stracittre There.
,A despatch fa om Rilifax, N.S, says: -
The Imperial authorities have decided
to construct a new fortress here. It
vvill be looated at a point near Her-
ring Cove Read south of York redoubt,
facing the sea, '
The new fort will contain quick -
firing batteries, with the latest type of
armament.
It has been aecid.ed to remodel a
large portion of the Interior of York
redoubt for new batteries, to be
placed there. The old 18 and 12 ton
guns will be shipped to Quebec for de-
fense purposes. ,
INDIANTOWN, A NORTHERN SU-
, HURE, NEARLY WIPED OUT.
Two Oundren Batudings hestroyed, Nearer
One Thousand Peopte etendered Home-
less, end Two renames -Area at ewe
Square ntre•Sweed.
Third Edition
• A despateh from St. john, N.B., says;
e -The Eorthern end, of St. John city
was badly devasted by fire Thursday
afternoon, and. eVerting. The flames
broke out 131 a warehouse near the
river bo.nk at Indiantown, and, fan-
. 6
eed. by a stiff southerly gale, spread
with great rapidity, first wiping out
the large stares and. warehouses near
the wharves, arid then attacking the
adjacent district, where reside the peo-
ple employed in the nearby saw mills
and. others in hairline walks of life.'
Most of their residences were small
wooden buildings, but all were from,
fortably furnished.. The loss to these
people is very great; dn many cases
the fire swept away all their wordly
goods, On Bridge street elone one
hundred dwellings warn burned,
TPortunately the fire did not extend
• any great distance on Main street, be -
in,, stopped below the street car shed
but 6/1: nevertheless wiped. out
SOME FINE RESII)ENCES.
The stores and, warehouses of Messrs.
Nos, Frorneastle, Capt. Keast, the J.
W. McAllary Co., and other general
dealers, who do a big trade along the
St. John river, were consum.ed, with
all their valuable stocks. All the
steamship lines log their warehouses,
. .
containing more or less freight.
It was all the whole city fire de-
pa,rinaent could. do, after six hours
hard fighting, to stop the advance of,
ths flaines, which swept over an area
or about one mile square.
Over two hundred buildings were
burned, and the property loss is well
up to it million dollars. It is estimat-
ed that six- hundred to one thousand
people are homeless.
One aged tvoman refused to leave
her house and perished in the flames.
Another lady, who was in ill health,
cdaieuht
dgofrus
. the shock befoe her hoe
BURNED CUT OF THEIR HOMES.
AMUSEMEN'T OF A FIEND.
A tittle Child Branded Intik Red Hot Irons
kin New York City.
A despath from New York, says: -
Five-year-old Morris Beal suffered
agonies by being branded. on the body
with a red. hot iron on Monday after-
noon by William Masterson, who is
employed as a horseshoer at 323 De-
laney street. Magistrate Kudlich
Agent Weithing, of the Gerry Society,
examined the bo, and found telAt five
letters he'd been branded into the
child's flesh, but only two were legible,
J. and A.,. the others being blurred.
Masterson was arrested and taken to
court, where, Agent Weithing said that
from what he had been able to learn,
Masterson had committed the outrage
for the. am.usement of some bystand-
ers.
"This is one of the! most fiendish
and dastardly crimes that has ever
been brought to my notice," ectid
Magistrate Kudlich, and Masterson
was held in 1000 bail for examination.
_A. CONFIDENT DOCTOR.
Mrs. Ankshus--Doctor, how ie my
husband this morning.
Dr. Nonuthying, impressiveiy-He
is a very sick mom.
Oh, doctor, yoo don't think ---
Rest a,seureci, my dear madame, that
my treatment will straighten him out
in lees than it week.
vioonots LANGTJAG E.
I tell yott, said Sammy Seaggs, that
mat talked straight from the shoal -
der,
Samuel, said xr, Stieggs, severely,
you shrialti not use Wang%
Ilut, father this wee it deaf arid
demi man, and be used the elan, lan-
guage
CAUGHT IN A FROG.
Shocking Spectacle 331 31 Staten Island. Ball -
way Yard 'Yesterday.
A despatch from New York says: -
In the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
yard in St. George; Si, on Monday,
twenty men saw james 11IoNamee, a
switchman, pinned fast to the rails
while six heavily' loadeci cars moved
down swiftly upon him. 1VIoNo.rase
had. stepped across the tracks to
throw the switch, and caught his right
foot in a frog directly in front of the
ears. The locomotive was not attach-
ed to the moving cars and there was
no possible way of stopping them in
tinae. Finding that his foot was
cang-ht hard andfast1VIcNainee stooped
and began to unfasten the shoe lace.
Another second's, time and he would
have drawn his foot out of the shoe
and escaped. The locomotive came and
pulled the cars away, and then the
shoe was cut away and the mangled
body of the switehrwan was taken to
the infirmary. Re may recover,,but
will always be horribly deformed.
;YUKON'S PROGRESS.
Dyspepsia arid I pdigestion,
common diseases, but bard to
ko
cure with ordinary- remedies,
yield readily to Manley's
Celery -Nerve Compouml.
W. H. Buckingham, 396 King St.
East, Hamilton, Ont., says te-"It
was troubled with Dyspepsia end
indigestion for a long tittle, lind
O,could get no relief until I tried
Manley's Celery Nerve Compound,
which cured me, and I cannot,
speak too highly In its praiss."
OR.DEB, THE AUTHORITY.
At a station on tee main line of the
East Indie. Railway a train from Delhi
had stopped, and one of the travelers
-an officer of the royal engineers -
began to quiz from the carriage win-
dow a "tester" who was going his
rounds, striking the wheels with his
hammer. Why do you beat the wheels
like that? was the first question, it
is the order of the authority, replied,
the imperturable native, But what in
the u5o of striking the wheels? God -
knows. I have been doing this for
thirty- years It is the ordee of the
authority.
Many fanailies of moderate raeans
lived in, the large tenements and small
wooden buildings along Bridge street,
and. the scene on the water front was
a pathetic one. As the fire worked its
way down each side of the steeet, men,
women, and children burried out of
the houses like hens fecm their nests,
each bearing armsful of 'household ef-
fects. These were deposited in the
streets, on the wharves, or on board
boats. The fire ate on and on, house
after house smouldered, burst in
flames, blazed furiously, and crumbled
to a mass of red embers.
The wind blew the flames away from
the water's edge, bat as the embers
accumulated intense heat was gener-
ated, and soon fire attacked the house-
hold effects piled on the piers.
Then the ferry -house and the Star
line warehouse burst into flaraes, fol-
lowed by the river steamer May
Queea's warehouse, 200 feet away.
These were entirely burned, but the
fire got no further in this direction.
Bridge street, however, which runs
parallel with the water, was burned on
both sides froin end to end.
Modern Conveniences of Travelin the
niondtlice Gold Fields.
A despatch from St. Louis, Mo., says:
-R.. P. Elliot, a mine owner of Dawson
city, has returned 1,0 the United. States
after an absence of nearly a year and
a hall, in the gold fields of the XIon-
dike. He is full of enthusiasm over the
new country.
He said; "The 'Yukon and, White
Pans Railway is now cOmpleted from
Skagway to, the summit of the pass,
a distance of about 18 miles, and for
a dietance of about 12 miles fa1 ther. the
roadbed is ready for tile rails.
"By July 1t11 the management ex-
peete to have trains running between
Skitgwey and Bennett, where the pas-
sengers eau take a steamer to White
Horse. Rapids, thence by the teara-
way grounti the rapids, About four
miles in letigth, to the other Side,
where he can take a steal:Set direct to
Dawson. When these eonteetions are
made the trip front Seattle to Davie
egi can be made in from 10 to 13
days."
ONLY THREE HOUSES REMAIN.
There were three blocks of buildings
between the north side of Mein street
and. the open oountry. These were all
of dry Irmo& and as the flames devour-
ed. them, people fled with whatever
they could save to the rocks and hills,
orbeyond into the wet, marshy valley.
Thursday night the scene is aweird
one. Several acres of ground are aglow
with burning embers. Shelter has been
provided for those who were burned out,
but ntapy grief-stricken people are
wandering among the ruins.
• The fire broke out shortly after one
o'clock in a,evouse owned. by John Por-
ter, on Bridge street, Indiantown, ad-
joining the hardware house of Naz &
Son. The warehouse soon caught, and
both were blazing fiercely when the
alarm hadsummoned. the fire depart-
ment. Alt the available apparatus in
the city was hurried. to; the scene, but
it vvas. inadequate to cope with the
raging demon, Which soon had posses-
goia of the Whole blocks of buildings.
The aistriot with hardly an exception
contained. wooden buildings. The wind
increased. in violence. Driven by- this
tb,e flames fairly rughed up Indian -
town. The firemen were backed from
house to house, block after bleek.
Only once before has there been such
a fire in St. John, and. then, in 1877, the
whole city was ted.ped, out.
BOTH ENDS USEFUL.
What, inquired the psychological
student, do you regard as the chiet end
of man?
Well, answered Mr. Blykins, it die -
pends on what you want the man for.
If you want him to do brain work, it'e
hie head, and if you want him to ran
errands, its leis feet.
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COUNTER RUDENESS,
•
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An innocent -gowning midshipmen
who knew with how little considera-
tion his class was regarded. one day re-
ported himself for dui,y, on his first
sea -going ship. The captain, a man of
entre six feet twc, literally looked
down on the boy, end said:
Well, youngster, so you've come to
join?
Yes, if you please, .sin meekly re-
sponded the middy. ,
What is it'? Same Old yarn ? Sent
the fool of the, family to sea?
No, Sir, quietly replied the lad, 011
no, air I Things have nitered since
your' time, eir.
Go away! roasted the captain, and the
middy flew below as fast as his little
legs could carry him'.
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WORLD
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A Viarvelnous Sta.ternent - Re.
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"Ihare been cured of rheumatism of ten
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