HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-10-19, Page 3THE I ER ULTIMATU
Kruger Demands Arbitration and
Withdrawal of British Troops.
He Wants an Immediate Answer—TheTransvaal
Will Regard a Refusal as a Formal Declaration of
War—Londoners Cheer the Australians.
despatch from London, says :—The
Transvaal ultimatum, whieh is sin-
ela by Mr. F. W. Reitz, Seeretary of
State, concludes with the following
four demands:
"First, that all paints of mutual dif-
ferences be regulated by frienaly re-
course to arbitration or by whatever
amicable way may be agreed upon
by this Government end Her IVIajesty's
Government;
"Second, that all troops on the tor -
der e of this leepublie shall be instantly
withdrawn;
'Third, that all reinforeeraente of
• troops welch have arrived, in South
Africa since Suns 1, 1899, shall be re -
pewee from South Africa within a
reasonable time, to Lie agreed upon
with this Government, and with the
mutual assurance and guarantee on the
part of this Governmeut that no attack
upon or bostilities against any portion
of the possession of the British Gov-
erament seen be made by this Re-
public during the further negotiations
within a period of time to be subse-
quently agreed upon oetween the Gov-
ernments; and this Government will,
on compliance therewith, be prepared
to withdraw the armei uurghers of
this Republio from the borders;
"Fourth, that Her _Majesty's troops
which are now ou the higleseite shall
not be landed in any part. of b'outh
Africa,."
•To these demands is ap,pended the
definition of the time limit for a re-
ply:
TIME TJP TO -MORROW.
This Government presses for an
immediate and affirmative answer to
these four questions, and earnestly re-
quest Her Majesty's Government to
return an answer before or upon
Wednesday, October 11, 1899, not lat-
er than 5 o'clock p.m.
"It desires, further, to addthat, in
the unexpected event of an answer not
satisfactory being received by it with,-
• In the interval, it wiliewite great re-
gret be compelled to 'regard. the action
or Her Majesty's Governraent as a
'FORMAL DECLARATION OF WAR
.c and evil.' not hold itself responsible for
the consequences thereof, an.d that, in
the event, of any further movement of
troops occurring within the above-
* imentio,ned time in a. nearer direction
to our borders, this Government will
be. compelled to regard that also as a
formal declaration of war.
"I have the honor to be •respect-
fully yours,
• 'F. W. REITZ,
"Beate Secretary."
LONDONERS CHEER THie AUSTRA-
LIA,NS.
A despatch from London says• :—
There is no mistaking the significance
at the great raenifestation combined
with warm spirit of Imperial solidar-
ity, that oceurred in the streets of
London on Tuesday morning when the
New South Wales Lancers traversed
• the city to embark for South Afri-
ca. Tens of thousands assembled to
homage'to the little ha.ndful of sol-
diers representing the Empire's loy-
h'rom the Arrival of the squadron at
• Waterloo station to the entraining
at Fonchurch street station tumultu-
ous scenes ,of wild enthusiasm ma,rked
the route traversed. The bends were
allowed to play nothing but "Soldiers
of the Queen,'" "Rule Britanilia," "God
• Save the Queen," in which the dense
crowds joined. It is doubtful .if such
a frenzied, welcome was ever before
witnessed in London. There was an
incessent roar of aheers and song un-
til the Mansion house, the official resi-
dence of the Lord Mayor of Louden,
was reached.
• The Lord Maeor, Sir John Voce
Moore, In lhe full robes of office, re-
strained the singing and vociferous
cheering while he addressed the col-
onial troops, wishing them Godspeed
and expreesing the ' interest of the
eountry in their heroic determination
to assist in asserting Imperial author-
ity in South Africa. Sir John Moore
said; --"I hope there will not be war,
but the necessities of the moment re-
quire a demonstration of authorite,"
An in,spering scene closed with the
singing of the National Anthem, the
• Lord Mayor leading.
A similar demonstration took place
tit Frenchchurch elreet station'. The
windows in the neighbourhobd were
erowded with sightseers, who shower-
ed miniature Union Sacks and squares
of bunting bearing 'portraits of the '
Qaeen upon the passiug troops.
• DUTCH GIVEN AIRMS IN CAPE
COLONY.
• A deepa tole from London, Wednesday
says ;--The Cape Town correspondeint
of the Daily News says that at a meet-
ing of the Dutch itt bberkstroom, it wes
resolved to ask the Government of the
Cape Colony to supply them with arms,
and In the aseent of it refusal, to apply
• to the Orange Prep State.
The correspondett adds that -6. mys-
terious distribution of IVeauser rifles is
pereeeding at Steynsburg and other
natal distriets in the Cape Cololiy.
Ontelde the momentous notes ot the
ti tam, n othi 9. of moment has
been reeelvect be London from 'the
scene of' likely hostilities exeept the
rinneuncement that the 13:eirs have
censt meted, forth commithding Laing's
Nek, and that guna hat% been nioexit-
ed Mount Pagwane 'and Mount
• P,reslieett.•
le'riday's Cabinet Council will have
to cleal with the military situation,
and Parliament will thave little else to
do than lei sanction the necessery
eredIts,
The Portuguese blinister to Great
Britain.; Senior Several, ()ailed at the
Foreign, Otfice Tuesday afterncon and
lead an interview with Lord Salisbury,
and, this visit is naeura Ity,connected ixi
the public; mince with the alleged pur-
these by Great Britain of Delagoa, Bay.
A desp•atehetending to confirm the re-
port of this public report comes from
Lorenzo Marques. t It states that the
British third-class craiser Plailom,e1 is
anchored 15 Miles off the port, and is
supposedl to be waiting the arrivae of
transports and. warships to pilot them
into the harbor. It is quite certain,
however, that the transports wend
not go to Lorenzo Marques, unless the
British were about to fly then, Hag
over the port.
8,000 BOERS NEAR MAJITBA.
A special war correspondent of the
London Times, dating his despatch
beindspruit, Oct. 9, records therein the
details of a four -days' visit that Com-
mandant -General Joubert allowed
lean to make among the Boer forces
in that neighborhood. He says :—
"el he strength of the Boers at this
point on the frontier is about 8,000
Men, scattered in vario,us camps over
a wide area. The general's headquar-
ters,. and the artillery carap are half
a mile from Sandepulet Station, and
abont 10 melee from the border. In
a.ddttion to the Boer comanandees
Hollander corp,s and an Irish corps
are here; each is abort 250 strong.
I There are two German corps, one of
, the latter, tender Col. Sehiel, being at,
; t'he Klip, river, near the Orange Free
State bather. •The frontier is care-
,
' fully patrolled, but by special 'orders
no Large bodies °teamed burghers are
allowed to show themselves near the
frontier, and none is allowed to MSS.
"The arratigements of the camps and
commissariat are rougit andready.
There is little drill or discipline as un-
derstood in European armies, but the
general result is quite satisfactory,
each man or small mess looking after
his or its own affairs, When the
burghers first arrived there was con-
fusion owing to the delay in the ar-
rival of the, commissariat, but now
there is an abundance of food and
equipment. The only defect is the
want of good water.
"The whole of the Pretoria com-
mands shifted their position to -day,
and got neerer drinkable water and
better greet.
The weather is cold, with heavy
rains and hailstorrols. This pleases the
Boers, as it helps on the grass for their
horses."
GREAT BRITAIN'S REPLY.
• Right Hon. W. St. john-Brodriek,
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, announced in a speech at
Guildford on Tuesday night that the
Government has made the only pos-
sible reply to the Transvaal, namely,
that "We are not prepared to discuss
such terms."
• 50,000 REFUGEES IN WANT.
• In response to a long despatch from
Sir Alfred Milner, Governor of the
Cape Colony, and British H gh Com-
missioner in South Africa, setting forth
the sufferings of the refugees from
the Transvaal and the Orange Free
State, Sir John Voce Moore, Lord May-
or of London, has opened a fund at
the Mansion bouse for their; relief. He
aepeals for subscriptions through the
press, • It is estimated that nearly 10,-
000 refugees are already' at various
places in Cape Colony and Natal, and
h.undeeds are still arriving daily,
• INVASION OF NATAL.
A despatch from Bennett Burleigh
to the London Daily Telegraph from
Ladysmith, Natal, says teal a column.
of Boers, numbering 8,000 men, is now
at the Tugela river, inside the Natal
boeder. Others • are • at Middleclale
farm, below Tintwa, mountain.
Judging from the Telegraph's de-
spatch, the. Boer move apparently aims
at cutting off the British northern gar -
Aeons. They will probably be joinee
southward of Ladysmith by a column
which is •believed Lobe advancing from
the Buffalo river.
A despatch from Durban anted
Thursday, 8 o'clock a.m., announce
that the Boers seized Albertine station
and demanded the keys, which were
delivered to them by the stationmas-
ter, who reached Ladysmith ea a trol-
ley. The excitement at Ladysmith is
increasing and the troops are ready
to act at a moment's mice
2,000 BOERS ON RAILWAY LINE.
despatch from Vryburg says :—A
body of Boers have cue • the border
fence, advanced to the railway, and
out the, telegrapth wires. Two thou -
said Boers are now occupying the rail-
way line.
A panic hag brolken out here, and a
hurried exodus has begun' owing to
Beitish refugees from the Transvaal
declariog that a large force of Boers
was advancing oe the town. The
rumour that Newcastle has been oc-
cupied by the Boers is without coa-
ti rm alien. •,
BRITISH FORGE ON NATAL 13ORDER,
The situation ih Natal need acuse no
undue alarm. The force i the vicin-
ity of Gleneoe is sufficient to stop any
serious invasion. It consists of five
battalions of infantry, viz,, the 1st
Leicester, 2ed Royal Dublin Fusiliers,
1,st Liverpool, 1st King's Royal Eine
Corps, and let Manchester Regiment,
the tveo last named bolter on their road
to this. point,
To these must be added • tin 5th
Lri ce !Nil and 18th Hussars, tbgether
with two field batteriee and the 10th
leroutititin Battery.
Over arid above these there is a roTao
o abeut 503 Volunteees. It will thus
THE
he seen that scene 6,5'00 men, with
e geteeo gun, are available to( deel
teeth any Boer ineuesions . Ite may be
defeimet to stop them destroying the
lihe between Glerime and the frontier,
aa it would not be prudent to push. the
Norval's Pot, on the Cape Colony
side et the, Grarige river, (
Every! preeamtionl heel been taken: at
lealeking against attack, awl all the
Leets are barricaded with waggons.
The Boers intend to shell the town be -
lore delivering their attack. They are
said to poseess 12 Iguns. Every man
in IVeafleicing is carrying a rifle and
the military autborities are confidant
they will be able to, repel the attack,
but Lhey lack the foree necessary to
follow the Boa retreat, The tower is
fairly quiet. Three 33ver spies have
been arrested. in the town, ;
Railway ,colmsnunicat ion to the south-
ward, is practically at the mercy of
the Boers, over 200 mem of the line
beiug within. easy striking distance of
enterprising commandoes. Sad scenes
occurred at the railway station upon
the departure of women andchildren
by train. It is thought even sleeted
th.e maim line be blown up at ane,
point the damage can be repaired
within, a few hours.
Som,e traders at Zerust with '
storekeepers here bad centraetee r
large shipments of (=munition bave
refused: to execate the orders, it hav-
ing beeu reported to them the supplies
wee% intended for Boars.
BRITISH' ARTILLERY READ.
A. despatch from Kimberley seates
that the artillery stationed tb.ere has
been out practising at a dummy force
at a range of from 2,5e9 to 2,91.0 yards -
The practice, which wns wenessed by,
many spectators, among t1ea a targe
number of ladies, showed excellent re-
sults. Trees eave been felled ithcir.
clere.red away in meter to give the, ar-
tillerymen a good field for their fire.
Al:northing to the seme despatch, de.
fences have been erected en all mance
liens, and the gaerison deelare tbat
they are, "quite ready to meet the ter-
toige, ana gee,e hien a warm receptaon
•wbein he puen his head above the
kopje,"
VICTORIA'S WAR CREDIT.
The London Daily Mail's Sydney de-
speacli says :—"The Vietariael Paelle-
metnt on Th eee eerece. le at of Sir
George Turne5.' eetit le a a credit
of e30,000 for tthe pee ree sending
the Victorian contingent teelee Trans-
vaal. T(he •leader of the Opposition
seconded the motion, and the pro-
posal was caxried by a vote of 67 to la.
The members then sang the National
Anthem. and gave cheers for the
British Empire.'
COCKRAN WAS eISSED DOWN.
. _—
Extraordinary Scone In Carnegie Mall --
Was Rost Ifstintlent Throm.slion 1.
A despatch from New York, says:—
A meeting was held on Wednesday
night in Carnegie hall to voice an ex-
pression of syropathy for , the South
African Republic in its controversy
with Great Britain. W. Bourke Cock -
ran was the principal speaker. Before
the meeting was over its promoters
probably got the notion that more po-
pular enterprises can be undertaken in
New York just now than that which
involves an •expression of sympathy
with an enemy of Great Britain.
As a mattes of fact., it was one of
the mast turbulent meetings ever held
in Carnegie hall.
Mr. Cockran made a savage attack
on Chamberlain. Once when he was
interrupted, he said:—
"Ruffians in finance and ruffians in
politics, ruffians with women and•
cowards with men, you. are they who
sing "Rule Britannia" for hire, in the
hope of drowning the voices of those
who are crying tor deliverance from, a
despot." ,
UNION JACK UNFURLED. •
:Then' a man up in the west gallery
drew from his packet the Union, Jack
and waved it triumphantly ever his
head. The sight of the flag of Eng-
land provoked loud cheering, amid
which plenty of hissing was heard.
Cheers from the floor were answered
be cheers from the gallery, and hisses
irone the bexes answered hisses front
the floor.
Meanwhile. 'the man with the Union
Jack continued to wave it, until a man
who, sat next to him forced him down
into his seat, grabbed his flag, and tore
it up.
• NAYS IN THE MAJORITY.
,When Mr. Cockran concluded his
speech' the audience made. a break for
the door. 'When about half the people
had gene out a number of resolutions
were read. One, asking "the Govern-
ment ef the United States to use its
goad offices witth the Government of
Great' Britaiii and. the G'overnmene of
the South AErioan Republic in the in -
Wrests ot peace," was pub and. decte.r-
ed. carried, althoegh the cries of "No l'
dro.wnecl out the voices of those voting
in lhe affirmative. Other resetutioes
met the same -reception.
WHEAT FROM THE YUKON.
Grown In Q0ieker 11411110 Than That of
Red RI v -or
A despatch from Duluth, Minn.,
teaysi—Evidence that the terna "froze
an Nprth," i eot applicable to the
Yukon country, was brought deem from
Canada a day or two ago. There Was
a laxge , shut of grain, besides thresh-
ed kernels of wheat, oats, and barley,
le the list of evidence.
It all 'Came from near Dawson City,
Mod was erown this year. The wheat
was sewn late in May on ground thaw-
ed a few irechei deep, and it was har-
veeted freee 75 to 85 days later, thor-
oughly ripe. That is from 10 te 20
days quicker than the best average
performantes of the famous Red River
valley. In the samples were white
Fife, red Fife, and Scotch Whette that
would pass the best grades here. The
oats ere fully as good as anything
raised in the North-Western States or
in Menitoba, and the barley is six. -
rowed, oe the highest quality.
Tbe seed grain hem which this wee
produced was sent to Dawson last fall
at the suggeatioxi of Clifford Sifton,
Canadian Minister of the Int,eeior. The
sample% have been forwarded ;to Me:A-
rco], and Ottawa, and are very intete
estirig and suggestive.
EXETER TIMES
MEETS OF TB WORLD,
Prins of Clealn, Cattle, Cheese, 40
in the Leading Karts.
Toronto, Oct. 17.—For an off day the
reeeipte were large, totalling up to
sixty -live lon.cle, including 1,000 hogs,
800 ((Attie, 600 sheep, and lambs, and
it few milkers. i
The niaarket was praetioally unehang-
ed as fair as peicee 'were concerned,
and business was dull, what good, cat-
tle came in wee sold readily, but prices
showed an inclination to be easier Inc
conarnon stuff,
• There was at fair export demand
for any kind of plesenteble cattle at
from 4 1e4 to 5o per lb., but inferior
shipping cattle dragged.
Good butcher cattle will sellat
from 3 3.4 to 4 1-8c, and Possibly 4
1-4o fax exetat prime stuff; ordinary
to naediun sells from 3 to 3 1-2c per
Ib., and common stuff cannot well be
quoted, a f is not wented here at
any price. The warm, weather consid-
erably interfered with the local
trade,.
Stockers, feeders, export bulls, and
mileh cows see u.ncbangede
Sorae fair to good, calves are want-
ed; there were none here today.
Sheep are beelined to be easy, but
there was a. fair saleeto-day.
Lambs were a fair sale: at,from 34
Lo 4c. per le.
Hogs are unehanged.
Hogs are off to -day one-quarter.
Quotatiops for .hogs to -day were 4
3-8c per lb. for ehoice bogs, sealing
from 1001 to 203 lbs., aud le per lb.
for light and fat hogs.
Following is the range of euxrent
quotations
:—
Cattle.
Shippers, per cwt... 425 $ 500
Butcher, choice do.. 375 4121-2
Butcher, med. to good. . 325 350
Butcher, inferior. . 275 3.25
Stokers, per cwt. . .. 275 850
Sheep and Laanbs.
Ewes, per cwt. . . . 300 350
Lambs, per cwt. . . . 350 10'3
Bucks, per cwt. . .' 250 5G0
Milkers and Calves.
Cows, each.. . . . . 2500 4500
Calves, each . . . . 200 700
• Hogs.
Choice hogs, per ewt. 4121-2 457 1-2
Light hogs, per cwt. . 400 400
Heavy hogs, par cwt. . 100 400
Toronto, Oct. 17. --Wheat Steady,
Cables closed same as yesterday. Chic-
ago easy at opening, and closed 1-2c,
below Wednesday. Toronto wheat
market steady and not xnuch doing.
Ontario wheat is quoted at 66 1-2 to
67c, red and white, west, with no
,buyers. Spring scarce at 67 to 67 1-2c,
east, and 65 1-2 to 66e, west. Goose
slow and quoted at , 70 to 71c, low
freights; to New York. Manitoba firm.
No. 1 hard •sole to -day at 82 1-2c,
grinding in transit, and 81 1-2e, To-
ronto freights. One sale of ten cars
was reported made at 83c, g.i.t.
Flour—Better, demand and steady,
Straight roller, $3.25 to $3.30, Toronto
freights. A sale of straight roller for
export was made to -day at $3t� $3.05,
f.o.b.
Barley—In fair demand to -day and
steady at 43e, weste and 44c east fax
No. 2.
Millfeed—Market steady. Bran is
quoted at $11.50 to $11.74, and ,shorts
at $le to e14.75 meat.'
• Peas—Without change. No. 2 is
quoted at 59 1-2e, north and west, 60
1-2e, on the Midland, and. 62c, east.
Rye—Rather dull at 53 1-2 to 54e,
west, and 55c, east„
Corn—A firm market. No.' 2 Ameri-
can, yellow, quoted at 42c, on C.P.B.,
Toronto; and No. 3,. American, yellow,
40 1-2 to 41e.
Oale—Demand light. White quoted
et 26 1-2o east, and 25,1-2c west; mix-
ed, 21 1-2 to 250 west.
ar $3.40 for cars of
bags, and 63.50 for UAL on track, To-
ronto.
Buokwheat—Quoted •at 48 to 5te
west.
Toledo, Cet. 17.—Wheat--No. 2 case
3-40; Deeember, 74 1-4c bid. Corn—
No. 2 mixed, 31,c. sfeets-eN,o. le mixed,
24c. Rye—Neglected. Cloverseed
Primee eesh, and October, 16.20; De-
cember and. March, $5.40.
changed. •
Bufealo, Ott. 1.7.—Spring wheat —
Dull; No. 1 Northern, old, 78 1-8e;
new, 76 1-8c; No. 2 Northern. new, 73
5-8e. Wietex wheat—Nothing doing.
Corn—Strong ; No. 2 yellow, 39 1-1c ;
No. 3 yellow, 390; No. 2 corn, 88 to
38 1-20; No. 3 cern, 37 3-1c. oats --
Fein; No. 2 white, 29 1-40; No. 3
whet% 28 3-40; No. 4 white e 28c ; No.
2 mixed, 27 1-2c; No. 3 mixed, 27o. Rye
—Unsettled; No. 1 quoted at 68c. Canal
freights—Higher; corn, 3o; wheat, 3
3 -tic ; flaxseed, 3 3-8c; to New 'York,
Flour--Sbeacey.
Chieego, (ect. 17.—Flaxseed, North-
West and South-West, cash, 4111.20,; Oct-
ober, 41.20; Deceartber, 41.19 1-2;
!Juliette aneb, $1,17 1-2; In arrive),
Cfaceee, $1.17 1-2.
Detroit, Oet. 17.—Wheat elosed
No. 1 -white, cash, 71 1-4c ; ;No. 2 red,
na,sh, 72 34c; Deeeraher, 74 3-4c; May,
79 1-433, •
Milwaukee, Wis., Qct. Pee-Wee/at—
No: 1 Nerthern, 72 1-20; No.
2 Northern, 68 to 69c. Ryee-Steacie ;
No. 1, 58 3-4 to 59c. Barley—Firmer;
No 2, 46 ; eample, go to 45
lege.
WHEAT GOES UP.
English • Virrniers Refuse to Sell for 'teas
Titan 90 Cents. •
.
A despatob from London, says e -The
outbreak of ever his sett up the pries
of English wheat, arid on various cot -
try markets the fanners have refused
to sell wheat under 30 shillings per
quarter, in some cases even holding
out for a still higher prim
A riot occurred at Wyegatirdnatie,
Holland, arisen from the strike of' the
corporatiOn eertere, T,he police were
called Oak arid were received with
shots from revavers. The officers
were obliged te charge the Mob with
draWri Swords. Severel police Were
woutuled and many arrests Were made,
• /Ai/ ezels Sum
co4 Rend
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oeTt.halno.ksgiving Day this Year Win b
Beamsville Higia selnol bas bee
eS Ioyed by fire,
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t.n c.
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Hardware manufacturers in Mont-
real are putting prices' still eigher.
will Increase its capital. etock 41,-
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The Canadian exhibits for the paris
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set forth,
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to co.operatio
• The Bank of Hamilton will iuerease
its capital stock from one and a half
to two million dollars.
Assessors' returns give Ottawa a
population of 57,002, an increase of
1,616 over last year.
A rumor that the three Winnipeg
breweries and soda water works have
been iunalganaated is denied.
Landon Street Railway directors will
increase the company's capital stock.
by $50,000, making it §400,000.
Ottawa Valle,y lumbermen are cone
sidering a unilorin method of culling
limber, to stop British complaints.
• Lord' Stratheona has given e10,000
towards a new building in connectible
with the Montreal Maternity Hospital
• Enos L. Munro, collector oi customs
at Whitehead, is ander arrest
on charges of conspiracy and arson
.Axtlatir Murphy, ex -M. P. P. for
Quebec Centre, is charged at -Hull
Que., with the theft of 20,000 lbs. of
mica..
The Canada Atlantic Ry., has bought
three more vessels for its trade be-
tween Parry Sound, and the Upper
Lakes.
• Children of David Baird, the T., H.
& 13. watchmen killed at it crossing
at Harailton, have sued the railway
for .$5,000.
News retches Portage la Prairie that
a Galician woman and four children
were burned to death in a prairie fire
near Dauphin.
Percy Gordon, a boy of 16, while
hunting at Qu'Appelle, met with an
accident, which necessitated the ampu-
tation of his right arm.
Canadian Pacifie Ry. land sales in
Manitoba in September were 25,550
acres for §85,000, as compared with Sep-
tember, 1898, §1,800 acres fax 4157,016.
The Allan Line steamship •Bavarian,
now at Montreal, has been requisition-
ed by the Imperial Government fox the
• conveyance of troops to South Africa.
Workmen have commenced building
it branch line from the Kingston and
Pembroke Railway main track to
Caldwell% iron are mines at • Cala-
bogie.
It may be that Ottawa will lose
the seat of the recently -created Papal
delegate to Canada, and that Mgr.
Falconio will be permanently installed
in Montreal.
Speaking in Montreal, 0.5. Phillips,
a London publisher, said Canadian
pulp is better than the Scandinavian
pa-cid:act and is worth $2,50 a ton more
in England. •
Customs Inspector,' MeMiehael, as a
result of his visit to Dawson, will pro-
bably institute radical changes in the
service there. He seys customs work
is done well in Dawson
One of the liquidators of the defunct
'Banque Ville Marie says that the de-
positors willnot receive more than 20
per cent from the wreck, and probably
not more than 17 per cent.
People in villages along tbe line of
the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Rail-
way want their mail handled over
that line instead of by stages from
the Grand Trunk Railway stations.
.A Grand Trunk surveying party
eommenced this week to lay oat the
work for improving the grades • and
double -tracking on the Grand. Trunk
line from Plamilton to Niagara Falls.
Commissioner Pratt says that the
assessinent of Ottawa will be affected
to the extent of at least e100,000 by the
new Provliacil law exempting electric
plants and other einancial corpora.
Cons, • •
• A striking evidence of the scarcity
of workingmen is a great placard
which' has been hung out in front of
the Postoffice, Ottawa, by one of the
lumber compames asking for 1,003
laborers and 300 shantymen.
The Ham;lion customs rotaries for
lase month showed that duti,es to the
amount of $79,283,33 had been collect:
ed, this being an increase of 421,891.-
04, over the corresponding month last
year.
The Good Shepherd's Home at New
Westminster, B. C., one of the largest
Catholic Insientions on the coast, WaS
destroyed by fire on Wednesday.
Eighty children and nuns escaped
from the burning building.
Brantford's assessment has been ad-
vanced to 67,099,518 • as compared with
$6,541,965 last year, but the population
is 17,344, compared with 18,669, The
exemptions amouet to $1,177,800, as
compared with $1,828,650. '
The contract has been let to Thomas
Powers of Levis, by the Government
for the extension of the Lorne graving
dock at Levis from 445 to 600 feet, at
an estimated cost of $117el00. The dock
will then be large enough for boat e of
over 580 feet.
Miss Maud Walbrook., the young lady
who disaPpeered froin tbe Red Deer
Iedian school, has been given up for
lost. It is believed that she file into
the Reel Deer River and was carried
doeve the stream, which was a raging
torrent at the time of the occurrence,
Ocean freight rates have advaneed
sharply became; a number of Montreal
ships have be ; withdrawn from, the
Atlantic trade to supply the demands
of the English Government for the
purpose of transporting troops and
manitioxis of ever to the Transvael.
The London City Counal unanimous-
ly passed Aid. Pernell's motion favor -
lug eompulsory arbittation o disputes
between coMpa,niee holding publie
franchiees and their employee. It au-
thorizes a, petition to the Local Legis.
lature, for legislation along the lines
• Sir Louis Davies
days with Lord Stra
cee.
Jelin Dilloe, the Irisb
member, has refused. to Km
laying of the foundation •sten
• memorial to Pa.rnell.
It is rumoured that the ownt3r of on
of the big New York dailies is seri-
ously coneidering entering' the Lon-
don field with it seven. day newspa-
per.
The miners tbrough North Wales
resumed work at en advance in wages
of 2 1-2 per cent„ and coal mine own
-
ars announced advances in the selling
prices of coal of from 6 to 25 cents
per ton.
etudyard Kipliag has just become
affiliated with the ancientMasonic
lodge of Cannongate, Kilwbaning.Kil
winning is the earliest; known seat of
Seettish Freeraesonry, Sir Walter
Scott was a member of this lodge, and
Robert BUI`1343 its poet laureate,
• UNITED STATES.
Bishop Potter, of New York, will
shortly visit the Philippines.
Key West, Pia., had 24 new cases
of yellow fever and one death on Mon-
day.
Johr Grouix, aeronaut, fell from his
balloon on Tuesday at Chicago and is
terribly injured.
• Miss Lettie Statzman, of Goshen,
Ind., has been paralyzed by the ex-
cessive chewing of gum.
• A. strike which would affect nearly
3,000 eoal miners' is pending in the
Northern Illinois coal fields.
•Admiral Devvey has accepted a house
in Washington already constructed in-
stead of having one built for him.
The strike at Cramp's shipyard,
Philadelphia, for a nine -hour day is
increasing. Over 900 men are out.
Des Moines, Iowa, has had a $500,000
fire, the Masonic temple, the Murphy
housc and several factories going up.
At Salt Lake City, Chief Engineer
O'Melveney of the Oregon short line
was shot and killed by Ethan Mills,
formerly Lieut. -Governor of Idaho.
The Washington authorities refuse
to recognize General James R. O'Beirne
as the representative of the Transvaal,
on the ground that he is an American
!citizen.
The Pattilieipal Pawners' Society
opsns at Chicago on Nov. 1, and will
lend money at 11-2 per cent. a month,
to the great loss of the high-priced
pawnbrokens.
Mrs. Henrietta Heib, from Bremen,
while on her way to visit her son,
Michael' Kunz, at Chippewa, Ont., fell
from a train at 'Binghamton, N. Y.,
and was fatally hurt.
Mrs Margaret Babcock, her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Armee S. Fay, and the lat-
ter's six-year-old child were found
dead in their beds asphyxiated by coal
gas, al Roehester, N. Y., on Thursday
morn Ina.
Marza Townsend, an aeronaut, went
up in a balloon at a eircus in Des
Moines, Ia. The balloon was nbt high
enough when the cannon was fired,
and the parachute did not open. Town-
send fell 1,000 feet, striking on his
in England.
Charles Lehban, aged 13, touched a
lighted match to paper decorations on
Carrie Cartwright's dress at Spring-
field, Ill. on Tuesday. The girl was
burned to death. Her mother was seri-
ously burned in trying to save her.
Lehbah is under arrest.
• GENERAL.
The French Parliament meets No-
veimber 9.
The Nile is now at the lowest point
on record.
Bubonic plague is being successfully
treated by inoculation at Oporto.
It is said that Germany is about to
hand over docuxaents whieh will lead
to the quashing of the Dreyfus ver-
dict.
A syndicate in Montevidea has been
discovered, which has been insuring
ehe lives of poor people, and murder-
ing theim to get the policies.
As the result of( Eraperor William's
advice, the University of Straebuig
will receive a Catholic faculty, thus
ending a long and bitter controversy,
The members of a club in Berlin,
tvh.eee large sums oe money were won
and lost, are on trial. Witnesses in
the highest: circles have fled the coun-
try.
The British ship Tekoa, from New
Zealand to London, foundered off Cape
Hern. Five of the crew were picked
umpl,knhovnustthe fate of the passengers is
During a 13ritish attach on the forces
of Aiab Mullah, who has been pro-
claimed elahdi by the Mussulmans of
the Hinterland, '27 natives were killed.
Indian troops are being sent to the
scene.
• It is estimated that the Indian Gov-
ernment must spend 1,500,000 rupees to
relieve,a fnedelti he aat itnh tihoeuti ceebniterglvinoes inptIrsoi
eePend at least one-third of this
amount In addition.
M. Mamontoff. the Ruseian railway.
king cbarged with eibbezzlement, has
been allowed bail in the unprecedented
sum of Iwo million dollars. M. Tcholo-
koffanother prominent railway man,
is charged with embezzlement.
Ituestan Government has 5100,000 for
the heirs of Anthony Pollock, an Am-
eriean life-saver, wbo was drowned in
the wreek of the Pourgogne. Pollock
won the inoneiy in it competition for
• the best invention of life-saving appar-
atus for use it wrecks at sea.
ACCIDENT ON A BATTLESHIP.
Nine Men SerlOwily, nod Sobte Patnlly
Illitrt on the Prineo Ceorge.
A despAten from COrk, Saya i—The
British battleship Prieto George ar-
rived in Cork harbour Oh Saturday
from Pettey. While coming up eine
met were seriously—some at next fa-
tally-eilijured by an engineeroota Ac-
cident, Two Amputations were NM-
dored neeessary.
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A despatch from Br
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mer, who is suspeeted of being invite
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There the men identified three heade
as belonging to their °Attie. A visit
to Ott's tannery found the hides and
then visiting the butcher shop three
carcasses were found. Halther will bet
taken to Paris, ebarged with the
theft.
Canning factories in Queensland are
vexed at reports of British orders foe -
canned meats placed in the United
States. They had colleted on supple-,
in,g the forces fax South Africa.
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