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Ces. of Grain, Cattle,
In Tra,,cle Centres.
,:Dee. 81.-IVheat-The de -
for wheat, was limited to -day,
1 rims unchanged. White "and red
r quoted at '76ee middle freights
No. 2 goose at • 68c middle
Maintoba wheat firm; No.
;rd sold at Ress all rail, vie. Sol -
No. 1 Northern at 85o, and No.
e'cschehern at 81o, all rail, via Sap
". Prices are le lower via North
•
'lets -The market is quiet, WW1
elm unchanged. There were sales
Oly at 41:lic, but for export No,
'o quoted at 48c low freight,.
eas--The market is enchanged
'e demand good. No. 2 quoted
Meddle freights, and at 84c west,
markee is queoe with
tr. sCeleieeateiVerellow sold
--Market is steady. No. a
t 57e, anil No. 2 53 to 54e;
-tra at52e, and No, 3 at 51c
selefrolght.
eephe market is steady et 56
, Middle freights,.
......-setetWtheat-Market quiet, with pri-
ces stea,dy at nee middle freight.
Fiotir-The market is steady. Nine-
ty-4-ies cents., ie. buyers' bags, quoted
at $2.96 middle freights. 1.ocally
and for Lower Proelnce trade choice
straight rollers in wood, are $8.89 to
Manitoba flours- steady, with
Hilligarians $4.10 to $4.1.31),. and
strong bakers', at $3.80, Toronto
• freight. ee •
'? Oatmeal-MaAset unchanged. Car
lots on track', $5.35 in bags, ene
, $5.50 in wood. Broken tots, 25c per
bbl extra.
Millfeed--Bran very scarce, and pie-
ces firm- at 319 to $19.50. Shorts,
Cel to $22 outside. Manitoba bran,
$20, and shorts, 322, Toronto
geights, including sacks.,
85ic; winter', No. 2 red, 90-k to 01e.
Oorn easier; No. 2 yellow, 71!k0 to
71-40; No. 3 do, 71c; No. 2 eOrn,
70 -tee; No, 3 do, 6911e. Cate, fairly
iirm; No. 2 white, 5lec; No, 3 do,
51.to 51e; No. 2 Mixed, 49e0; No. 3
4811,6o ' Barley, 67 to 700, Rye,
No, 21"•794.0.
DEATH
ONLY FOUR WERE 't EFT
,
:Boe 'S Gained Konle Firet But
k, Were Driven„,Off.„ •
'
A dbsePateea from Lendon says : -
Lord Kiechener, in a despatch from
Johanneixburg, sends reports of Sharp
lighting An the Orange River Colony
and Trasnsvaal Colony, The engage-
/ occurred at points widely
ments ,
enter . The casualties, so far as
lei,e/Wn, aggregate about 150, equally
C folded; but, heaver Dritish losses,
the totals of which have not yet
been reported, heve occurred in -bile
Transvaal. In this last-mentioned
fighthig, two hundred mounted in-
fantry,, iu the neighborhood of Beg•-•
inderyn, were divided into perties,
and were searching farms when they
were attackee by throe hundred Boers-
PROI)UCE.
Potatoes -The market is 'steady.
Cars are quoted tat •70c' per bag, on
track here, and the jobbing price,
85e. •
Dried Apples -Market is steady,
with demand slow. Prices aro de to
5c per lb. Evaporated sell at 0 to
10c. • a
Iheps--13u5iness quiet, with prices
steady 'at 13c; -yearlings, 8e.
Roney -The 'market is unchanged at
10 to 10.1c for • .strained. Combs,
$1.50 to $2.50 per doz.
13cans--The market is steady; un-
picked are jobbing at $1.10 to $1.45,
stncl handpicked set $1.55 to 31.00•
Cranberries -- Market unchanged,
with Cape Cod at 38 to $9 per bbl.
Canadian, $6.50 to 37.
Hay, baled -The market is firth,
wiLli good demand. Timothy sold .at
9.50 to $10 on track for No. 1, and
vt $8.50 to $.9 for No. 2. •
Strews -The market is quiet and
firm. Car lots on track sold at $6.
Poultry -Market is firm, with good
demand. Turkeys, 0 to 10e per tb;
frozen, scalded and half -fatted stock
sold from 7 to 8c. Geese -Dry pick-
ed, 6 to 70. Ducks -50 to 75c.
Chickens, yoong, 5o to 05e; old, 85
to 4.0c. Rabbits, 25e per pair.
01
and forty armed natives, under Com-
Too Boors deemed went on the witnesd s stansobbingly,
omndant Dietz.
determinedly in overwhelmingarid Protested that' her father was in-
nocent, and begged the court to re-
bers, The Isaitish casualties were
severe, birt no details have been re- store hiM to her. •
AN
calved. - • KT :SAO RDINARY eT3DGID
Lord Kitchener also reports that
during General Do Wet's attack 01. This is the first time a man. ha,S
the British force commanded by Gen -1' been, tried ill Franc° for illurdering
orals Dartnell and Oampbell, hiS frvc1littlchildren, beginulog
with the eldest, by suecessively cut-
Langberg, the Boers charged bravely
tirig thole/elm:Its wn
while sleeping, i
and
T n
Oitrskt,1
PR",EINOPI PEAS-isiT MURDERED
HIS CHILD111V,
His Only Surviving Daughter Pro-
tested His Innocence and.
Begged. /or His Life.
Alter a week's trial at. Chartres,
•
which bas attracted the attention of
the whole of France, Iiriere, the far-
mer of that viethity, who, April 21,
murderod four of hiS daughter's, aged
respectively, 14, 11, 5,„ and 4, and
his son, 7 years of age, stabbing,
and beating thera to deeth while
they, were in bed, was found guilty
on Monday and was condemned to bo
decapitated by the guillotine. 'Brier°
persisted inseefeclaring himself inno-
cent, and defended himself with the
habitual cunning of the French. peas-
a.nt. But the circumstantial evidence
wae overwhelming.
A. pathetic incident of the trial oc-
curred when Briere's surviving.
daughter, who, the police declare,
only °seeped the fate of the other
children by not responding to
Briere's tatime' to go to see him,
THE DAIRY MARECETS.
„ Butter -The market is quiet, with
1/!! prices unchanged. The supply of
)-poor Stufi is too liberal, and :talcs
are difficalt to make. We create: -
Selected dairy tubs, 10 to 17'c;
choicelarge rolls, 10e to 17c; finest
1-0) :mile, 18 to 19c; packages show-
ing fetol,..1 to 2c less , then above
quotations; cremnery prints, 21 to
22e; solids, 19e tie 21e.
Eggs -The market is firmer, with
receipts light. Strictly fresh scarce,
soiling at 25 to 26c; cola storage,
19 to 20e, as to quality; .limed, 17
to 18e.
Cheese -Market firm, , We quottees---
lei/lest Septembers, .10e. to se -
corals, 9-e- to 510..
nous .AND PROVISIONS.
,
orderas the judge himself. proclaims,
FOUGHT DESPERATELY • ' . • ..
to marry his mistress, a woman 01
for several hours. Do Wet ,was cl.eite reputed wealth, who did not want to
en off with a loss of twenty men. s•eed.a , man Vith a Vamily. :Brier°,
There. were twelve casualties on the the eceesed, is a hard-heaciedi retie
side of the British. . cent peasant; the owner of a small
M. Bothe, with eight ' hundred farm near• the picLuresque vile:Igo of
Doers, surprised Colonel Damant's se
oortuseez. -He, emphatically declares
advance gettrd at Tarfel Kop, Orange hie "innocence,. stating that he is tho
River Colony. The Boers rushed a victim
kopje commanding the • main body of the hatred of hie towns-
folk, who., at the instigation of an -
and the guns, but Dement rallied .,
his men and drove the Boers from osaer peasant, one Lubin, che father
of the woman he 'wanted. to usarry--,
the kopje. The British, casualties th-o ma.a„.isrhom Lo accuses of. !Dojos.
were heavy. Daxnant was dangevous-
ly wounded, two officers and twenty tile real' niurderei 'of his .ehildven
- e killed. 'd thro
ee fficers stained blade cealed in his stable the blood-
Menweb an
and several inen were wounded. , ' ! .of a tuber with which
the crime Was committeci,•and Placed.
The `Boers left six deadson the feeld•
and dispersed. The British pursued ot.her! bloodstained objects, on the
the enemy and captured a nuniber""of IA onuses, thereby providing 0. chain.
of circumstantial evidence.
" hiding 'Cofnmanclant . ' . s.
pIe.-relysotenie-7,Latielii•e, the -Boers,- waferaThe judge refused to aleow the jure.
flag of . truce, asked persnissiten to reds ors to examine'Sbe premises where
move their dead. They admitte the crime was conmiitted and con -
having 'buried twenty-seven men. ductedthe trial -as. if !he were 3,1, p10-
scouting
TO THE DEATH. scouting attorney, wol king tooth and,
nail to bring home to the Deceased
In the fight at Tarfel Kos) etho one of the - most inhuman crimes
Boers, dressed as 33ritieh Yeomanry, heard of -since Medea . of Colchis
engaged in a splendid race with the slaugleteued the children she bore to
British in an. attempt to be first in jzison,
gaining the kopje. nihe Boers gained ' This -extraordinai-Sy judge, ' whose
the sununit first, and opened • et hea- method would' under almost any oth-
vy fire on the single troop of Da,- et judicial, procedure' than that of
insult's Horse NV hich took part in the France furnish groin -ids,. for a new
race for the kepje. These troopers tlial, broke forth in angry eXpletieres,
took advantage of all the small am- sayinge-ThiS is how' that enurderca•
ount of cover available ininledinftelY entered the room; this is the wa.y he
below the Boere, end fought until cut. his children's throats. Ifs Yon
all but four' of them were killecl
.
or don't believe it,' why 1 do; and that
woundedBy that time reinforce -
le enough for you to convia him."
ments of Damant's Horse came up
Oh! Oh! Your pretended
and charged, and capturedesthe kopje. And again: "
robberseonly wounded you, and did
. .
o not kill yoU3. Well, had lebeen in
13 WErS SWOOP.
Boers Clinab'ec--1, Precipice aic
Caught 'British Napping.
the1(13(alstPt4let'elolf-1)!Z'°elleliereePi.611°,31 WsallXiesh:-Ait
uow Mous, was fovght early on
Ohriatinas Morning, the British, suf-
fered a, severo defeat. Thismuch, is,
made gieito clear by the information
contained ,in Lord Kitchener'e long
despatch from Johannesburg, plebe
rishou on Sunday. 'rho liret offielai
list of cesualtles eleiws Six ()Moore
and Slily men killed, eight officers
wounded, Lour 'officere Missing, and
the Iona& of wounded and captive
,non-commissioned officers and men
not yet known, but it is feared that
the cot:epic:Le casualty Bet will be a,
very long one. 'Lord Kitchelme stet -
es that about halt the men of Fir -
maxi's column aro prisoners; so it is
evident that De Wet ecored a bigger
euccess than the officiels,or the War
.Department had at first- irnagisied.
The Boer victory was due to De
Wet's daring -plan of attack. The
British coluinn, oecepied an excep-
tionally stroke Position oe the slope
of a solitary kopje. The southern
side was almost precipitous, and Ma-
jor Williams, who was in charge oe
,Lhe column in the absence of Colonel
Firma, apparently never dreamed ot
the possibility ot the Boers climbing
the eopje from that sicBet this
is exactly what. they .succeeded hi clo-
the. The picket on outpost duty
was taken completely by surprise,
and before the men in camp could got
clear of -their tents the Boers rushed
through, shooting- thein down as they
came out. There was no panic and
a resolute defence was offered, but
the attacking force, which wee esti-
mated to number a thousand men,
Proved too strong, and soon had the
Breese(' hogs unehanged at $8 in
car lots,' with offerings fair, Hog
products steady. We .quote:-1303c0n,,
long clear, sells at 10e.e in ton and
case lots; mos perla e20 to e90.50;
do, dhort ctit, $21.50 to $22.
Snaoked meats-Hams,18c; break -
BOER SCOUTS. their Place, „I would not have missed
killing you; you inay fee1 sui•o of
that Strange to say, the conduct
Doing Excellent Work Capturing . • d'sep •
of the mclge cause • great igat
Irrecon.cilables.
among the townsfolk of the accused,
A despatch from Pretoria says:- and when counsel for the defence 9b -
Tho burgher corps of National Scouts jected to the ruling 'oi the bench and
raided a berm on TuefrielaY, capturing observed that his client had a right
two 13oas and a quantity of stock. to 'express his Andignatioe., and that
This is a striking indication of bow 110 • 'wept each time that his •deed
the enemy can beeroduced by aseniall. children Wore spoken of, theeandience
but 'alert mobile force without trans- in the court -room began to yell:with
por b. fury at the prisoner, shouting: "'Kill
-Among the burghers en camp a hinie kil1. him!"" and n venerable,
numberare offering themselves fer mild-maienerod 'gentleman with. White
service in the field against tie • irre- moustache called out: 'le:lough!
concila.bles, • who they consider are enough! Let him be guillotined
pravineo, themselves to be enemies -of right away!" ,Itedge Belat smiled,
the country, rang his bell, ad finally restored or -
Nine burghers have left Brugspruit der, .and the, trial Was, -continued in
to • take the oath of .allegiance, to too' stogy little court...house within a
Groat Britain, steme"s throw of Ohatres Cathedral.
"..Gen. Colin Mackenzie has captured
A GII.A.STLY SCBN1D.,
severs Boers Sehaap Kraal.•
at 'Major Jenninge Bramley, the new A brief visit to Chartres, which is
commander of the Second ScoLtish only, two hours by rail from Paris,
Horse, was killed December 20, showed one of the mostgrueeome
Lieut Dow, of the same reahneOt wile and tragic features of 'French erimine
e
•
also Wiled.. •Ineececlure, •Briere, the prisoner ac -
The formation of a new burgher cused of murdering nie live children;
corps, to be known as "National was led from the court -room and
Scouts,",,, has aroused great interest stripped; in an anteroom they • re -
among the surrendereu burghers. In dottier him wita all the garol,07145
view of the numerous meetings and which he wore when found lying help -
applications Glen. Kitchener has au- less in his farmyard the day after tho
crime, Tho Wretched- man was
brought, with tears' in his eyes, be-
fore the bench in blouse, shirt and
trousers all besmeared with dried. and
crystallized blood, svialle Dr. Duderoy
and ,other clu3mical. experts raised his
arms, bared his sleeves, and disclos-
ed his bloodstainea undershirt. At
last the judge himself walked down
from the bench, got on his knees be-
fore the DO:senor, and begall t1gOr-
ing him all oyer and pointing oat, to
the jury What stains wore, in tho
-opinion of experts, those caused by
the blood of hie -deed childrense and
those while were supposed to have
been made by hie own blood in de-
fending Ian:self from hie alleged as -
sessile, '
The scene wag see appalling that en
eminent Parisian eirame tic critic roe
marleed:---"Good heavens! this is too
frightful! Tf sech a scene were -put
on the stage of the theatre to Da4S-
Zan atalienee:sveuld. stand 'it."
1SULT41 NEARING HIS END
coluann at 348 mercy. .
Lord KiLehener, in hie first ineseage
mentioned that the colunm had two
guns. In his detailed accouut he on-
ly speaks of a 15 -pounder, which fir-
ed two rounds and .then jammed. It
is noteworthy that the British coin-
mancleioin-chief specially refers to the some yeers ago. •
good behavior of the victorious Boers
to the British wounded. NECESSITY 01' UNITY. ,
There has never. been the least
, question. that the powers could
• France and Russia are the leaders
01 thie latest; attempt to sot the Eu-
ropean steam roller in. metiers to
make smooth the rough placee
Turkey. What they aro tryleg to
reaCh as
is the bis of "aer
n undstaad-
ing for making representation$ to
the Porte and for eventuelly taking
actioe in order to oblige the Sultan
(101 only to carry out the elauses of
the Treaty ol 1 11 relating to both
Macedonia and Armenia, but to give
,guarantees for the execution of these
and further reforms and for the set-
tlement of the numerous questions
pending." So. run the terms of what
is undoubtedly a semi-officilel cora-
munleation from Paris.
Russia, it is said, is discuesing the
question witli Germany, the co-oper-
ation of Austria-Hungary, atid Italy
can be taken for granted. and there
FRANCE AND RUSSIA I1TT'EN"D
TO FORCE REPQRMS..
Conditions in, Armenia and Mace-
donia Are Regarded as a
Menace to Peace.
There Inc increasing eigies that th6
great poweve of Europe are coneen-
tratiess, clotheite plans foe action to-
wards, Turkey. • ,
liiarly tine week the Russian Am-
bassador in Oonstantiapple latorniecl
Said Pasha, the new Grand. Vizier,
that tile condition ot Armenia arid
Afacedonia was regarded by Europe
as a clisgraee to the Ottoman Gov-
ernment and peril, to universal peace.
This sigaificant announcemeot. Was
followed almost immediately by a
presentation of. notes by ail elle Am-
bassadors wieti reference to the anat
azieg attitude adopted by the. Porte
in the matter of the mining regula-
tions.
"UNDERSTANDING IS- SOUGHT.
is no doubt that Lord Lansciesslyne,
the British Foreign. Secretary, will
combine in any genuine scheme to
effect the objects which Lord Salis-
bury vainly endeavored to obtain
fast beano.,
thorized the creation of a fresh wing
Islcs rolls, 11c; backs,
to operate in the Northern and East -
14c, and :shoulders, 10ec.
with ern Transvaal, under prominent Boer
Lard--Markee is unchanged,
fair demand.
leaders, clouted by the burghers them -
11c; tubs, Ieel.e.Wo quoto:-Tierces, ; pails, llec to 1.1.11e, s'elvest •
It; is fleeted that much of the iteent
• - success of the British is clue,•to. the
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. , co-operietion• of Ceelier's and Cronje s
cominan.ds, acting tinder Genet:II
Montreal, Dec. 31, - Grain-NowBr uee anai 1 v
.crop No. 2 oats, 'locally at 48e; INC. •
2 barley, 50e to 57e; NO. 8 -extra
peas,. 82c, high freights.
sorleye 5gio; buckwheat, 53e east WOMEN FARMERS.
Flour -Manitoba, patents, eajo te The Ressler. Government Will, Ed: -
s '1.20; strong bakers', $5; straight ucate Them.
rollers, $8.d5 to $8.60; in bags, A despatch from St. Petersburg
$1.80; Ontario patents, says:-:-X.ong continued agitation has
3776 -Lo-14$1. reect-Atanitobn bran, induced tho Government to authorize
Lo $21; •shorts, $22 to $28, bags the Moscow Polytechnic Museum to
eluded; Ontario bran. in bulk, open a course in agriculture for wo-
,0,50 to $21,50: shorts, btilk, men., This step is regarded'ae a Vic -
O2.50 to $25.50.' Rolled oate-Mil- tory for women ie their struggle for
tors' prices to jobbers, $2.75 in begs, higher sciente Se edUCati on.. J t has
and $5.50 to 65.05 per bbl. Cheese.-- beer: won largely by the capaciey svo-
Onlearib Septembers and Octobers, 10 Men have hOwn in the medical pro -
to 10ee; Eastern &entities, Oe to 10e; feSeion end i(1 cortaia clopaetenents of
Qiiebee 9tec, Butter -Choice crown- oilielaidoins especially LIS famine izt
ery, ctereat receipts 20ec; seconds, spectors..
19 to 101c; Weeteril clairy, 10 to Tho frequent famines of the lust 1e1 -
161e; , rolls, 100. Eggs.--Selectecl toen years have impressed the Gov -
cold etovage, 1.7e; 31fontreal limed, 17 ereenetit With the neceseit,y for rale -
to se; best seleeted candled,' 22, to Ing thkincitional stand at,.(1. of ,ftgrialt-
24.e. peovisions -Heavy Canada: teret" The nelneber.of"Itileedati men of
sitOrt sut pork, $2:1-501 Seleeted, fairly liigia,oclucation is eonipatative-
$2.2450; OM/mound relined lard, Elee to 1Se Sinatle,
001 Plel Can:adieu lard. :1,1 to 12eo; Aegrieultine has no brilitalit future
finest !lard, 12e, to'133e; heals, 13 to in stdee for such as theee, foul most
14.e; !gore 121 to 150. Poultryet't
Tot k431 freeh killed, 10e; feozeno.7o
Lo fles excise, 8a to 9o; e1150, 35 to
chtim; Mbuons, 6 Lo 70; old foWle; 4
tto riole Ib for dvy-pieked birds, 'and
'aldOt Itock from 1, ke 2o lees.
LO (1116 EN TARICETS.
- ,o,,,..,
,Xnevernene st.afaccl 'Stole:lit siromera. Pl.eoes Of ‘73'aPPillg Paber and oilier
leogth been oridtwseci. by tile elteVeria- ttr".?" orl/no, • • '
moee, „ • • 'tete, 'oRpert eVIden.0O3.1aS ,UStlal eves
• . ,
, Oilie•eigee ,are tleeeviletxd in
rivate lettere 'cis being•-pet!'esettestest
se.,:ietteeltsta
S: eitisteeS; of/. ,1\13,i
CLEA1013Elt OF HORRORS.
To /nuke matters stilt More high-
briove, a !liege table stood itt the
court -room, upon which were dis-
played as in a chember ot horrote of
seine dinee Museum, the. b1,ulc of a
pLow, with which the- judge deela,res
the pvisonor cut his ehiltireti's
thioate, told the lauge mete bit with
which he ist charged With having
beaten out their "braine, Both weve
splattered syn.!). bioed and hair. Al -
Of there naturally prefer Al-
LOSS BY STORMS.
speedily solve the problem of the
• Near East if they *teould speak with
Canneries Danaaged and Demolish-
: 0.4 • in British Columbia.
A despatch from Vancouver, B: C.,
says:et-it is, estiniated that ,sioarly •a independent course at Mitylene. Pe -
million clonal's' worth of -damage pers now ase7erc in Paris; that Frensile
has been dime by storms alor.g the action /was not more dramatic sim-
Fraser River: Sea and Lulu Islands ply because the whole faiiiic of °t-
aro geclaimed farne lancles, and are 'Wiliam administration is so rotten
bordered by. canneries. 9.110 violence that a heavy blow Might pulverize
of 1110 Wind and waves broke .the it. If this" be so, all the snore credit
dykes, and thei water' rushed over the is duo to M. Deleasse for forbear -
islands,. covering •them with four feet ance. tTlie T'urlsish flag waves over
of water. Houses werc. swept; into many millions of human beings, and.
the, raging flood, and those that re- the horrors that would follow the
mained standing were flooded to the overthrow of the reginie of -Abdul
tore Window's in many cases Boats nanteia until such time as an effici-
have to be Used entirely. ent substitete svas re.ady can be
s The North Aem, Alliance, and La-
brador Canneries were demolished,
and every cannery on the River Fras-
er was more, or less damaged. .
Stacked crops were destroyed over a, lum no room to question their earn.-
wicle area, and the Cleve. Canning estness ? No one can pcedict with
Company's sLation, a very large con- !certainty the course of this most
remarkable and- miserable of poten-
cern, with a cold storage plant ad-
joining, was swept away.
All wires being down the news is
coining in meagrely, but the total
loss by the storm on the Canadian
Pacifin ebast to shipping, buildines,
crope1/4 and dykes is eitici to 'be fully a
million dollars.
NEWS ITEMS.
Telegrapilic Briefs From All
Over the Globe.
WillniPefe
Pox.
" The now direetory in Ieonden On-
tario, makes the population 45,937,
Osear Taylor of East Hamilton
was firied $25 and costs for ruentng
turkey raffle. •
, The 31,IcOlarey Mfg. co„ of London,
have eecured control of the Copp
Co's Stove Works at Hamilton,
Montreal. Harbor " Commissioners
are laYing Plaes ifer ,the erection of
millioo-buebel Wire -proof elevator.
The new contrivance for prevepting
the etusal tock.s beirig earried away
by the boats was tested with great
satisfaction on Timeclay, . at Port
Dalhousie, on the Woliana Oonal.
Recorder Weir of Montreal was on
Tueeday presented. with a. pair of
white gloves, in memory of the firet
day in eighteen yew's in which tliet'e
were -no prisoners for him to try,
Mr. George Daweon, Inspector of
Penitentiaries, reports. that. the num-
ber of prisoners confined in St. Vin-
eent de Paul Peaitentlary hes drop-
ped from 416 to 393, and the skilled
mechanic is so rare that there is it
difficulty in, carrying on certain de-
Pertments of the work,
CAN'ADA.
has eight. cases of small -
GR.EAT BRITA.IN.
A great newspaper trust may be
formed in England:
The Englizia Government is prepar-
ing a row Irish land bill,/
Lady Lyndhurst, wife o "ermer
Lord Chaacellor • of .Engian. is
dead.
Electric signalling is to be used
along the North-western ,Itailway,
England.
Wm. Waldorf Astor has given 210,-
000 for the National Rifle Associa-
tion, England. •"-- -
The coronation festivities will in-
clude a magnificent naval review at
one voice and weees an:metal oy ono Spithead. "
fairly disintereSted motive. But
right here is theilitchs C '1 Rhodes has "just, bought the
.eci
France startled the world by her Dalham Hall estate, :near Newsnar-
ket, for $500,000. ."
•
veatiog,t, end os. onset -001,10o too so 011) 1;110 1111110 WON) bloodstained
10 ,engego111. ageseostteso his tea stage peOpevtlee of tides, ektregi'etline
ru(glliiVo, 1)11!. till , trealod • cl.mlbt in
fjcvtrr Of ethe tte01d611,;•' Whisk in• ;en,
F9igl 1349 001131,, the .prlSorlerr'44 eOtinSel:
W.t.)tati 1 Ve.1)11032 b1tt 10 t4t't1 41) his
,rttsge. Mot 80, 1wtev
(4159 10513151811 341,
The, law hitherto itiesanglend, pro-
hibiting men with false teeth from
joining the regular army, has been
repealed.
• The North-Eastern Railway Com-
pany of Great Britain is about to es-
tablish automatic block signaling on
its line.
The levees at St. James' Palace
and the drawing -rooms at Bucking-
ham Palace will in future tie held in
.the evenings, instead of in the after -
more easily imagined than described. noon, as in the Victorian regime.
What would be the attitude of the
an enderetanding, that would leave Gas in. San. Francisco is to be fur-
an
STATES.
Sultan. should the powere come to
• Dished at 38.1e.
The Government has decided to use
wireless telegraphy in the navy.
The Wabash railevay is building a.
13.11i,n0g000,000 bridge over the Ohio at
James- Potter, 12 years old, was
,dragged to death by a. cow at Eng-
lishtown, N. .T.
Wire -rope rigging for Emperor Wile
So eerce was the storm that sirst- lionis yacht is being made at Wilkes -
hands all the threcids of adlninfstra- burro, Pa.
ish. Columbia was cut off from.
United States to the south for tin' !don throughout his' vast .domieions.
days, and_will be cet 'off from Vice
two TwierkSett,sil t lane. Leslie M. Shoes/ .flovernor i Iowa,
tiism world,
obiuttitohapi;idyes:12!tei!ii;,•-eso'ufccuice'ecla' ,Lroyansa'uainy.Gage as Sacra-
..e
•
tates, but the opinion in London is
that, so long a3. the dread word
"partition" reit:allied unspoken,
Hamid would offer nothing more
than a conventional opposition to
the demands of Europe.
He is getting on in years. By de-
grees he has drawn into bis Own
SPECIFIC FOR DYS
'Michigan 1)octore lvtake1)1
Disco very'.
A despatch from. Aim Arbor
says; Geticral interost has been
ed iti the 10 .i011 prolusion bege
r.3ports of a discovery of Ittkott
iroPortance of the bacteriorogiN
boratory of the University or Arl
gau. as stated that experinients
by 1)1. Frederick Novy and, Pl'oresSor
Paul C. _Freer, a chemist, :tiave pro-
duced what is believed to be un ^anti.
cholera, typhoid fever and tly,,erk-
cho,era, typhoid fever and dysext-
tory. The preparation has been IriLd
with stIecess in experiments cm small
aniMals, previously inocultited With
inteseinaredieeasefi, and dariiig the
past week- five medical students have
been utider..,,-oing a course of experi-
ments with the preparation, lt is
stated that they were, restricted to a
diet of sterilized milk, and that re-
Peated chemical maalysis during the
periods shoeled the utter destruction
of the iotestinal poisons.
P49
torte. for one weeet, as the cable is
tornup at both ends, "
A despatch from St. john's, Nfld.,
says:-Furions gales swept tne coast
que is capa.ble of indefinitely sustain-
ing tee strain he imposes on both
body and mincle • ,
As a natural result interval:4 of ab-
et Newfoundland. Thursday /?ight., solute inertness overtake han, and
and wrought"' much destruction . the accumulated work, which he wili
among the shipping and fiehing pro- allow no one else to touch, bas fall-
perties at flay of Islands, Newfound- en appalliegly into arrea.rS. 1
land, where Several Americen vessels
were 'seeking cargoes of herring, ALIENATES IIIS SUBJECTS.
At Placentia, on the ,west coast, :Moreover, Abdul -I-Tamid trusts no
Lee eseeeg beets sygered great dome ono. Ile has elle/mud 'the whole
ageo, and the wharves and water-' 111 ussulinan population of the -capital.
frorit buildiugs were destroyed. et individual freed.om no longer exists
is feared that the 'seas will inundate in tho • capital, even for tbe faithful.
the 'eneire hamlet. Dab. -tad breaks Secret; arrests and sudden disappear -
water ' and • the railroad pier have Deices iacrease, I'Vithin a fortnight to Ilarkharapstead, Conn.
prominent filen, have been dehounced of Isigini, Ohio, Stied on r.Puesday of
In Chicago Alex. Sullivan was fin-
ed $2,000 for trying to keep an het
dieted jury-bribet away -from the
city.
„ _
The rural free delivery eereer.e. 41
the most popular feature of the pos-
tal service. ,
Mrs. Clara Boss of Bernardsville,
N. is, dead from hydrophobia,
the result of a bite from steenge
dog „she • ehel toted.
W. 5, Carter, a Brooklyn lawyer,
has given a plot of land for a cemee
tory, and ..37,000 lei improvements
-been partly demolished. seventy Turks, including several Jane es -Hicks, steel mentifaeturer,
by spies a.nd banished to Arabia. blood poisoning from a cut on -the
NEW MICROBE IN CANCESR The trooPs are UnPaid. "1"2 an Arabi lip received 'while sealing an efevel-
appeared to -morrow the Yildiz would apes
be sacrificed. e' 'The Governor -elect ,or Iovra propos'
Discoveeer That May Lead' te a All 131115 is known and fully appreel-
• , Cure.'
ated by the Sultan, 14 all e es a commission of three men to
ee. .1 4. r 1 41 • • /Ids
A despatch from, Paris essys:-Dr., es him to yield to the powers. Ti
--)r-disP°se form a• non-Partisaa commission to
oeteimine tee -cams. 01 see. sal 1
question reeolvte• iteelf into f
00Yen, a leading surgeon., hes an- • • •••••' - I on° 0
method, and the plan wbich finds
nounced in. a lecture that lie obs,erv-
most favor among the advocates of
cd in cancerous tumors a now axle -
Turkish reforms is the opening of
robe which he calls micrococcus neoe
ago as the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus
formans. Dr. Doyen es long
! to 1.0 the fleets of 1 110 world. Truly
1887 noticed in caneerous juices car- simple remedy, but its vevy elm-
-Ulla cliplococci and small chaise: that la
plieity iS the most formidable obsta-
Weise ti11i difficul ty dist trigul shed 1
ole to its- adoption.
from cellular granulations. When
examined at the elle of tivb or three
Menthe, ho found these as actic,e 05
tyleen in tho tumor.
lexpevimenting with the new mic-
robe, Dr, Doycae found -thee he. wiee
able eo reproduce eaneer, Later by
subcetaneous ineeption of a s,terilized
solution 'of .toxines derived from the
neW luicrolse sacceecied in repro-
ducing in cancerous patients a. reac-
tion resembling tile offeets produced
111 tuberculoeis debieets by Prof.
Koeit's tubercuiosiee, that is, tending
to preveet returre of the eaneerotis
gt1°)11-V.(111e'eyen. do‘es not assort that Iri'D
experiments a.re COnelttsiVe. bUt 80.315
that the results' of trials carried on
for six months heti been ineee satis-
factory. Ile proposes. to coat -time
his experiments,
TO'CIIIi,CK THE 015pAsE.
O onlpulgokse Vo,tdiu&tiou. By-itvot
Passed., in -Montreal. '
A .slosmatels sfroin Monti:eel eaves-
tiorapttleory Settleiliatieen, Wilt seer: be
vaeeleated ie. Mention'. be order to:
stliy , the ,r4Vag0,5 02 sinalip6,x, • My :A.
tiesCing of the city Cotincil 'this 411,-
cer,rioco,k.;•4•by4aW 'cVas ilierodueeci. 910-
viding
ftit: tho.
•tro or alL.L 0 fthoi.$0: And
66 rY eot: 0. 214.113
SMALLPDX IN LONDON.
Spread of the Disease Raises Ap-
prehension.
A d OSP a Leh from London 315
Tho epidemic of, 51011.11 P05 Loral.on
is increasing steadily, and there, are
110W 687 cases under treatment. Tho
latest cases reported inglude two in'
ibe Probtste Dsipartment in Somerset
PIonse.. Those ere attraeting conside
erable attention, oaring 13) Ibe &see
ger involved' to offieera evho handle
Wills and Ahem 'Who exanaine them,
as these documents are Olen" gigned
In sick -rooms. '
ROYAL VisIT To IRELAND,.
toryS That it Had- Reese A•baieden,..
'ed Is 11100)22004 •
6.Vi.‘Stattd1. froiu DdltaSt;
Meyore hos tete:toed th;t.i.er
trent •Tilarlt 'Lard 'Lleittertient.
',Ii10lich(13304ivihg thrtt IIO SS, .04hio
•• to, pr•isiii,iVo.
00 • ptC•011S.C':341463..071 0.0 ": etey,al.
he:
give • 3' ..•.:fUlitet,',•:•::31,441.C1t3y,:•,tiO
171)ec1O808•'••'0Cit.pg,oherki30..,"•,..taightr...0ti
• •
in the etote svitlt a vieW to taxation.
GENEleAle
"The Canary Islands are overrun
with a plague of lecuses.
Ai; afire in Zacateeee. .Mexieo, 45
pereone lost their lives.
Gernotny had a decline of export
te axle beet month iiinoupting to 60,-
1180 toes.
FOUR HUNDRED KILLED.
Six 3.-rours' Battle in Colombia -
Traversed Nine Males.
A 'despatch from Coicto, Colombia,
via Galveston, Texas, says :---New's
was received here on Friday saying,
that General Marin, the Colombiaa
revolutionary leader, attacked ano-
de., on the Magdalena ltiver, Decem-
ber 9, with 1)900 men, The garrison
consisting of 480 mem fought from
6 a,m. until 12 pan, At e a.m. the
garrison received+::_einfor"ements
forces were vietoriotis. Four hurt-
dbia•ette. men, were killed during tbei
numbering 200 men, The , battle
chetes were used. The Govetennent
started on the outskirts oi the city,
from :amide. Bayonets and ma -
and ended at Oaraoola, nine miles
NEW IRISH LAND BLL.
-British Government to Introduce
• e New Law.
•
The London :Daily News SayS it is
etated by wellginformed peliticiane in
Dellin that the Governmene, ia pre-
paring an Irish Land Bill providing
an equivalent. compalsory pure ess...,
chase, the tenant buying at ,seven:.
teea years' purchaso, and the lar.d-
lord selling at twsnty years, the
State providing , payment for the
three years' difference. The prosecu-
tion of members or -the United Irish
League is regarded as e, sure harbin-
gee of remedial legislatiou, which the
reeent agitation has rendered a gees -
tion of necessity to the Goverament.
BOY SHOOTS HIS FATHER,
To Protect His Mother .From Be-
ing Killed.
A. despatch'from Brazil, Ind., says:
-:rn, defending -his mother fron1 an as-
sault by her drink -crazed husband,
Theodore Watkins, 18 years old,
shot and killed his father, Rielard
Watkins, . on 'Wednesday, at their
home heee-, Richard Watkins C3.1110
home aad began abusing his family.
Ite seed that ht Was going to kill his
wife anct attempted to strike her oa
the' head .with a hatchet. Theodore -
shot shis father with a revolver, and
surr de:dosed himself ea, ." the police,
The -pay says he shot ieses father to
keep1iihn. from killing his mother. He
insiseed that he was justified in thel
shooting.
REFERRED TO THE KING.
Chill and Argentina Agree to
Leave Dispute to in
despalch from Washington says;
--The state Department has been in-
formed by' Tie S. Minister Wilson, of
Santiago ne Chili, that the differ-
ences between A rgenti tut and Chili
may be regarded as settled throUgh
the signing on Wednesday or a proto-
col providing for the submissio11 of
the boundary lino and the
Esperanza territory disputes 11, the
decision of the King of Great Brit-
ain.
NEW
Britain Wants Wooden Clogs
From Canada.
A despatch from Ottawa says 1-e1
communication to the DePortinent 01
Trade and Commerce shows that
tradr is often, swayed by .sentiment.
For years Germany has supplied the
_
millions -of wooden soles extensively
used he the iarge iron andemining
d is evict s of Tratgl Ci . Recent; OX-
pre:eels:in Germeny of hostility 10
• Jews and Odeseli le-b0rers 111 Soue. England. eolisdect 111), Danatia,'s pat -
thorn are Plotting 113 111151 rioele stand for the empire, lige ovi..
the GO ernment,
re he :It Or:teal Iluko nal elitess 0
I3' 517 Were divorcee on ties groimde
of ineeperieble :eversion,
113e993,121 rro3/1 S tockholtn, prove
Chat worklog core improves the
arltlitkn'o leive to be 11171 11,)W34. In Liverpool,
1.1 and t Wo 3.3311131)133s vere fulls rslii 31
CO° u II re evideTIlly or birehWoOd, and
An, agent, or tin: Tra.ns-Silmmeen
annouileils that lsy May next,
thie railway WM lave a send -weekly'
serViCe betWeen Paris and 1? Olt 111 Mid
that lhe titne from Shanghet to 1",011
(lois will be. elAree, 1113 98
dently brought ' about a
11051 (0110331, an1033g,' 1114 importers 01 theee
Wooden WareS to buy them in ,Can -
ado, 12posKib)e, vutbur 411111 ill Get -
malty, •
.6 letter to the depar ttnent ga.vo
the price at which the •olOgs would •
RELIGIONS IN MANITOBA.
Stateiteeset Issued by Census DO-.
1)0.3 41110114.
311U11ci of (1 111183)101)5 hue pribitsitt '.
A, deepo Loll 1 ro).) 01! awe, en ysi--A. 14031,110 vestil 1g 0/ 134 In,(iniey, Into ilk() '
et:e1m:13,31i. of -elle 1'1111(110115i ()r i110 1.100" ('1)3181'14 (..) r ) )atite:triton, . , :rt.:. fli,eis„, 111 ut,
11(1' ()r 1013111 1.131111 pressurtsci by teux ilea- t eetteees es respoi,,sibro. for, 59 tr,
811S 1(090 11 is tee folle:eVs;--tierise "of tlis3 eeesse. ' a
byterinets, 011,822: 3Nter ii()(iistti, 4 3( '.14' , et:n . ts 1l$11 0 (30302 3''
,
..1".1 • lloulwri. Co tlioli(111 r) 1i.12.1,.'3'701'3i •drttrilttrerle, II
illeto.rts . I 0.3071; 1.\ ronv,t)ti it,(iA. '
tk11) ti el s, 0 , 1,1 M, l'ilie to
.i<1,014 or the- Pie-xviiresx •
9) (2(1! 91111918 89111w cha,t, Lliey coeht
quia./1 titles lier' eldil ivy, 3t oost
proholely be tnrileil out largo
(lIat v.•1)1.313,1 11. good margin, of
4-
.3.1,3(•101-10L AND "Iell.TePlilleiSM,
flit:v.-two, Per Cant. of Desti.ution
' Due to 11.1.1.M.,
lespu tele frOW. S te beeline et:este-,
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