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WARREN SURPRISES - HE BOERS
And is Now in Possession of Spion Kop--Strong
Resistance by the Enemy --Oen. Woodgate
Killed in the Battle.—Long List o1 Dead
and Wounded—"Advance" the Only Order,
AtETIU3iiN'S VXGo tOUS A17AO1c.
A despatch from Modder River says:
- A vigorous reconnaissance that was
Made .last night engaged the enemy's
asnnon on the kopjes and higbiand6, '
The Bridal Light Infantry advanced
smartly in extended or'd'er to proteet a
half battery " of howitzers, which
swiftly took 'a position ° on the left
facing tbe kopjea,
The guns were unlimbered and to
aulion within a couple of minutes of
the time they, halted,
There was stron{i and incessant
shelling between the howitzers and
two Boer guns in kioofs in the hills,
The British long-range guns sup-
ported the howitzers. The firing last-
ed from 5,55 to 7.90 p.m,
The Boars were fading a strong sun-
set, and tbie seemed to binder their
marksmanship. Though they shelled.
both the infantry and artillery they
hit nobody.
The enemy's lose, if any, is unknown.
The infantry were within seeing dis-
tance of the Boers' trenches. They were
wale and deep, and banked with sand.
They were 'strongly occupied.
BULLER'S ESTIMATED STRENGTH'.
The forces under Gen. Buller's com-
mand, including Gen. White's forces,
at Ladysmith, number nearly 40,000
men.
The .following is the list of gener-
als working conjointly in the move-
ment -foe the relief of Ladysmith:—
Natal Field •Farce, Ladysmith.
Fourth Division—General Sir George
White commanding.
Ladysmith's Relief Force.
General Sir Beavers Buller com-
manding.
becoad Division—Lieut-General Sir
Second Brigade—Major-General R. J.
Hildyurd,
Fourth Brigade—Major-General N, 0,
Lyttleton.
Third Division -5th Brigade—Major-
Geueral A. F. Hart,
Sixtb Brigade -Major-General G.
Barton,
Fifth Division—Major-General Sir
Charles Warren,
Eleventh Brigade — Major-General
Woodgate.
Including the eight battalions of the
Fifth Dive ianhe bas now six brigades,
numbering 24 battalions. Admitting t
that each battalion stands only 200 ,s
strong, the deficiency of 2,400 under
the total war strength of 24,000 is all l
but rands up with the large drafts for b
the baLtatigne of the Ladysmith gar- t
risen. 1
In. this manner Gen. Buller's' force a
!nay be summarized as, folJ•ows:—
Infantry. . . . 24,000 1
Cavalry 3,200
Artillery,2,200
iEtigineers . . 400
(Add White's Force. 9,000
the Acton Homes road, A lyddite bat-
tery co-operated with the other bat-
teries and Maxims, Certainly the fire
was effective, causing the enemy seri-
ous losses, The Boers, however, clung
desperately to their works, from winch
they are only being veryslowly driven,
"To -day the enemy fired their guns
oftener, using also the captured 15-
pounders with shrapnel, Our Gaaual-
Lise to -day were less even than those
of yesterday,
'Fighting begaai about sin in the
morning, 'and continued until: dusk;
but teem has beeu nothing like a gen,
mai engagement,
"The naval big guild.•aesisted front•
Peealeter's drift in ehellingt the Boer
positions."
CANADIANS IN ACTION.
A despatch from Victoria, B.C., says:
—Word reached here lost night that
Private J. W. Jones, of the first Brit-
ish Columbih contingent of the Cane
adieu farce, bad been killed in action
at Dover's farm.
J'oales Le a graduate of West Point,
although of Scottish birth, and one of
the beat -known mining men of Van-
couver, "Black Jones" being his com-
mon title,
HOLD SP101$ RQP,
A despatch from Spearman's Camp
says:—"Gen, Warren's troops last
night occupied Spion kop, surprising
the small garrison, who fled.
"It l:as been bald by us all day,
though we were beavily attacked, es-
pecially by a very annoying shell fire•
"I fear our casualties are consider-
able, and I have to inform you with
regret that Gen. Woodgate was dan-
gerously wounded.
"Gen. Warren is at the opinion that
he has rendered the enemy's position
untenable.
The men are splendid."
LONG CASUALTY LIST.
A despatch from London sayst---1,10- thing can yet be added 10 the brief
news orf 'General Warren's success,
whteh has brought intense relief to
Great Britain. A few speak of the
possibilI'by that the British. may be tin_
able to retain what they have so hard-
y won' in view, of the "very annoying
bell fire" meutioned in General Bal-
ers' despatch, end that the hill may
ave to be retaken, La, asbuming that
he position is permanently held, and
hat the Boers are driven from the re-
minder of the plateau dominated by
$!ion•kop, there is no ill u.ien respec-
ng the gravity of the task involved in
covering the twelve or fifteen Bailee
separating the hill and the
Boer lines outside Ladysmith. Tbere
ie complete ignorance bere as to' the
ability of the Boers to obtainrreinforee-
men•ts, and es to whether they' have
prepared asecond line of defence. That
ignorance prevents any Forecast of the
operations. The critics continue to bid
thet public to prepare, for a long cas-
ualty list, they attaching, the fullest
sigaifiranoe to General Buller's intima-
tion. No full list ofithe losses in the
fighting previous to the attack on
Spion kop has yet been received,
though each day brings addition's,
General Barton's force, which is
holding Cbieveley, had a few killed and
wounded on January 28, which, indi-
cates an engagement which hitherto
has not been reported, It, was prob-
ably only a reconnaissance,
Grand Total , . . 38,800
BOERS SHOOT ENGLISHALEN,
A despatch from London, says:—
Three
ays:Three Englishmen who had received
passes authorizing them to remain in
the Orange. Free State, were com-
mandeered an Dec. 25. They refused
to fight their countryman, an'd were
shot in tote market place.
A TERRIBLE 'ORDEAL.
A despatch from London says:—The
assemblage in Pall Mall outside the
War Office, and those privileged to
wait in the lobbies, reluctantly dis-
persed at midnight, after lbs final
word that nothing more would be an-
nounced. The morning papers went to
press with conjectures and forecasts
of all sorts, striving to guess out some-
thing front Spion kop.
Topography reps snow that Spion
kop iB the highest part of a rooky
plateau. Eastward for eight miles are
the Boers' positions along the Tugela.
North,iwestward from Splon kop the
pllteeau runs gradually up to a great
spur' of the Deakensberg,
Gen, Buller's infantry, to reach the
summit of Spion kop, must cross a na-
tural glaeisthree-quarters of. a mile
wide, and climb 500 feet up a steep.
slope.
Nobody here seems to know, not
even the War Office, ,what Lord Rob-
erts has done with his large reinforce-
ments. Six tbousand troops awaited
his arrival at Cape Town, and since
then 6,000 others have reached there.
Militgry critics are all hoping that a
good" share of these 12,000 have gone to
help Gen. Buller, and they argue that
a few day& wait may make him strong
enough to overcome, the deadlock,
BOER POSITIQN CAPTURED,
A despatch from Spearman's Camp
Bays:—The field artillery and a few
,howitzers this morning shelled the
Boer left from a kopje on the right, the
Infantry keeping up a continuous rifle
fire from good eoveri
The Boers abandoned'tbe summit of
the kopje whicb they lead been hold -
Ing, and the British then occupied 11:,
.Lbe enemy then took shelter behind
a stone wall on :the side of the kopje
and bold the position for hours.
They retreated in the afternoon, the
British dropping shrapnel and lyddite
shells on them as they crossed a ra-
vine.
The :British then occupied the poet -
lion the enemy had held.
The ea:mettles were few,
XT IS SLOW WO.R1{,
A despatch +Erna Lonrdone saysi--•
"0le Monday Sir 'Charles, , Warren's
force cannonaded and fusllladed tbo
Boer position' west of, Spion kop, Hoar
GEN WOODGATE DEAD.
A. despatch has been! received from
Spearman's camp, that. Gen. Wood -
gate has succumbed to the wounds' he
received in the attack wpont Spoon
kop,
A despatch from Spearman's Camp,
says :—The battle aantinues. The in-
fantry fire is aonoentrated at the crest
of the hill, nems thei centre. The Beers
are holding the corresponding crest in
the valley, It virtually is an artillery
bombardment, The Boars are replying
occasionally and moving thele, guns
when they are located by the British,
but seldom firing more than three
shots from one place.
A coxes of. stretcher-bearers, raised
by Major Stuart Wortley, behaved well
during the fighting after volunteering
to bring in tbe wounded under heavy
tire.
At 2 o'clock the Boma raised n. vvhite
flag on the summit of a high' hill, but
both skies continued firing,
The easualti.es yesterday included
Capt. Baitt, of the Que'en's Own, kill-
ed, and Capt. Warden and Lieuts.
Smith and Dubisson severely, wound-
ed.
Capt. Ryall, of the Yorkshires, was
killed, and Lieut. .Barlow severely
wounded. •
DUNDONALD'S GOOD WORT{,
A desptltclx from Spearman's Camp.
says: -Details of Lord Dundonald's
engagement west of Anton Holmes
on Jan. 17, show that the American
Colt gun did great work for the Bri-
tish. As preVious.ly cabled, the
British and Boers made ao rush for a
kopje, which, unknown to either, had.
been previously occupied by a de-
tachment of the Natal Carbineers,
The British, of course, won the posi-
tion, and then turned their Colt gun
on the .enemy, who could not stand
Against its fire. .
Twenty -OM prisoeeero were taken.
They fraternized with the British, and
showed no signs of animosity.
The British troops displayed great:
consideration for the wounded Beets,
and everything possiblewas dodo io
alleviate their pain.
The honors a the eaegagemani: at
Aotoe Jfolmos were with the Imperial
Light horse, Natal Carbinears, and
sixty men of the Xenrited Bit/ea,
DOERS PLUNDER, TRG D 1AX1,
.. despatch frail London saysi T
02auser's bullet, is no den
a very buinane one and balloted so
wonderful wands. Som'» of the bulla
he says, took extraordinary courses.
man was shot in ,the head, the buil
camp out of his side, and he is dol
well, An officer was sbat in thele
breast, the bullet came out low do
rho bask, and he was walking Abe
on Sunday last, and sad Ile felt not
ing wrong with him,
The Boers treated our wound
well, and, in feel, did not take the
Prisoners, as they said alley Gould n
be bothered with tlrem•. They took t
Wounded colonels, as they like eolone
and would prefer one •with ietitle, b
they rifled their pockets and want f
bread in the haversacks with gree
X don't think they can be getting mu
bread now, They also stripped a
dead, of all clothing, for they have
Pimlico behind them, and office
breeches were bighly treasured,i
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTEBNATi0NAL LESSON, ' FEE '4.
he The runt.11iselples Or Jesus! 4011 1.:10.0.
bt GJden Tom..Uehe tone
IrenemIrene86,' The next day, .The day
te, after John the Baptiet lead polnted to
A Jesus with the words,"liebold the
et Lamb of God, which taksth away the
ea sin of the world." John stood. A
certain writer said that Jahn was "the
ft stateliest representative of the hue
'Am man race, up to that day," E'v'en
ut Jesu, said, "There hath not risen a
la- greater than John the Beelist," Matt.
11. 11.'There may be seine scholars
ed who have not got so ,far along in bible
m study as to avoid uonfeeing John the
ot• Ikeda with Zahn the Apostle. Two
we of his (Heavies,'One was .Andrew,.
Is, verso 40, the other was probably,
ut though not aertaln,y,Jobe, In other
or peaces we have called attention tothe
it necessity Laid upon a Jewish rabbi to
eh surround himself vtich disciples. The
us• other men mentioned in this lesson
no are not said to have been John's die-
s, ciplee, though it is probable that they
were. It is well to remember also
that not all of 1olen'a disciples left
hint to follow Christ, Sae Matt, 11;11
G'+and Mark 6, e9, and, more astonishing,
n. I Acts. 19.1-3,
on 00• hooking upon Jesus. Earnestly
,gazing upon hint, He earth. It is
s conjecture. that John haver saw Jesus
er again. Behold the Lamb of God.
be Words that he had used the day be-
l_ Ifora, verse 20. The "two disciples"
wars famtiiar with the regular Biloxi -
floe of a lamb at the great altar in
ales Jerusalem, and when John spoke must
!hale thought of that typical atone-
ts' meat for sin. The phrase "that (aka]]at 'away the sin of the world" alludes
e to Lha scapegoat which was periodical.
ve ly driven oat tothesouthern wilder_
In- nese after Lhe sins of the whole na.
ur . tion had been formally •placed on its
bead. What definite conception of
e Jesus Johne exclamation brought to
ea his hearers it is difficult+ to say; but
It was hardly equivalent to ".Behold
xn the Messiah,"
r : 37, They follawed Jesus. Walked
down the road alter him. There is no
l_ intimation that they said anything,
_ nor tbat, for a while, Jesus spoke,
d They were not consciously uesertieg
John, but advancing where he bepointed out the way, t
d 1 38, Then Jesus turned. He knowse, wbene'er a sunt takes a step toward
s,. him, and is always ready to open con_
versation with human hearts, What
.seek ye? :This is the first words of
our Lord's ministry, Not "Whom seek
ye 1 but "What." "Why by do ye seek
a mel" What. is the motive of your nee?
, What is the object of your searoh f
Rabbi,. "My honorable sir." This title
e for public teachers, new at this time
FRENCH COULD TAKE COLESBUR
A despatch from London says t—Ge
French, with the utmost deliberati
and the greatest caution, Is drawin
his lines mows closely around the Bo
position. Every day he tightens t
net, greatly to the alarm and unison
nese of the enemy
ethos
The Boers have made several ea
on our outposts.
The tactics of these engagemen
are a repetition of those employed
Majuba hill, but everywhere they hav
been pluckily repulsed, The Boers ba
been out-generalled in this region,.
dividuals frequently desert to 0
lines.
This latest arrivals say that th
»Boer strength is now 7,000. Thr
weeke ago they were reinforced by 1
000 men from Ladysmith and 000 fro
Magersfontein, The centre of thei
position appears to be at Colesber
junction. Their lines of common
cation are strongly protected to Nor
val's pont, while they still committhe road to Colesberg and the wag
on brigade.
Gen, French's position, as views
from. Cole's kop, is a great semi -circ(
The Boer kopjes are lower than our
and are commanded by our guns.
Out lyddtte shells have apparent
and silalenced the Boer artillery for goo
Gen. French could undoubtedly tale
Colesberg, which is two miles away
at any time he, pleased, but be bass ,re
framed hitherto from bombarding th
town because of the non-combatants
including women and children,
STILL SHELL LAD•YSMITH.
A despatch from Spearman's Camp
says :—There was a heavy, hambard
meat of Ladysmith this morning.
The Boers did some lively snipin
and shelling this morning, but th
casualties were not heavy.
but alley a few years conferred with
much of ceremony, seems to have been
disapproved of by our Lord, although
,the was usually addressed by this term.
Evidently by other rabbis he
was regarded as an intruder, a
seif-appointed master and unautlior-
ized teachor. Where uweilese thee?
Not, where is thy, permanent home,
g Nazareth or Capernauml But where
e
LS thy etapping place' %Obese guest
art thou All around them( were
beothe of wattled boughs int whiclepil-
grims dwelt, and they desired to know
which was his tea poraryl hula,
39. Come and: see. The second isen-
teau_•e uttered by Jesus after hist/mut-
e airy, was begun,. "Now i4 the cat' c.f
a salvation." Or. Clarke says that. the
cotustaut invitation of Christ is to
come by faith and to see thy personal
TWO FREIGHT TRAINS COLLIDE.
•
nt Fireman Injured—Crews Save,( i'i,sI
Lives by -Jumping-hailing !tock Les
Heavy. •
A' despatch from Newcasl'le, says:—
A freight 'double-header going east
and a west -bound freight collided at
the Grand Trunk Railway station here
this afternoon about 4,30, The three
engines, are a total wreck, and several
cars are off the track, Fireman Hish-
on was badly hurt around tbe, head.
The line will be' blocked fon some
hours. -
The injured fireman, C. Hishon, aged
25 years,, was brought co the city last
evening from Newcastle on rhe Mont
real express, which arrived at the
U,uon Station at 11,45 o'ciook, being
three hours late, owing to tbe,block-
ade of the•tracks, He was immediate-
ly transferred to the police ambulance,
which mot the train, and conveyed to
St, Michael's Hospital. Upon examin-
ation it wes found that his injuries
consisted of an ugly gash in the back
of the head, and several small fractures
around the shoulders and body, Hishon
stated at the hospital last night tbat
the accident happened without the
Least warning. He said hbat he
and driver Elliott of Belleville,
who had: charge a the engene. the re-
gutar driver being off duty, had been
side-tracked a short distance from
Newcastle for a few .hours, to allow
some regular trains to pass. In the
meantime a double-beader freight train
eastbound from Toronto to Mont-
real had pulled . up in front of the
station. The westbound freight start-
ed on its journey, and was malting fast
time until: it reached n curve, when it
entered upon the main track, By this
time the train was proceeding along
at lively rate, when Fireman Hishon
noticed the eastbound freight on the
same track. lie immediately jumped
into a ditob. Driver Elliott applied the
brakes and, shut off ,the power before
he jumped, but it seas too late, and to
a-fewv seconds the engine orashed into
the western train which was at, a
standstill In (rout of the elation, The
three engines were completely demon
isbed and a majority of the oars de-
railed. An auxiliary was sent out
from Belleville and It -was some time
before the tracks were cleared again
for traffic. Hishon's injuries were
dressed at Newcastle. Tib lives at 986
Brook avenue, In this city.
MOST AGONIZING.
Glut. Wallows Carbolic Add anti Sao
auniUa 15 a Vow lilnls es,
A despatch from laingston, Ont,
Saye—A little child of Thomas Ruther-
ford, Victoria street this morning
swallowed soma carbolic acid, which it
had accidentally name across tn, a cup-
board, and died shortly afterwards, in
great' agony.
•
experience, A'bacle with, h au that day
for it was about the'ten,th hear. Aud
SQ they had from, ten o'clockl,in the
morning; until sundown tot talk with
Jesus. The common. Jewish method of
dividing the day from( sunrise into
twelve equal hours makes, "the tenth
hour" about: four o'clock (iu the after -
0000. ,Bot apparently John used a
diffenrent reckoning, which substanti-
ally agrees with ours, The result
of their conversation wee that thee'
want
forth saying, a have "W • h
Y g, efound the
,
Messias." Genet as was their privilege,.
eve have a greater. ,No man of all our
Lord's disciples could hear or see so d
MOO of his goodness, as can we who
have the full Gospel story to study.
40. One of the.two, ",That the other
was aohn is hinted by the form, of the
statement that Andrew found his own
brother Simon, implying that his com-
panion found his."—Moulton, Andrew,
A 'fisherman of Galilee, who lived at
Bethsaida, and was in business part-
nership with his brother Simon. Of his
later career little is known. Already,
the first century, whale this was
written, it had become neutral to de-
scribe Andrew as Peter's brother.
41. He first findeth bis own broth-
er, Before the other disciple found his
awn brother. The best place in which
to begin Christian work is in one's
family. Lovable in character were the
taro disciples who, having just discov-
ered the Messiah, each went for his
awn brothel'. We have found the Alas-
sies, which is, being interpreted, the
Christ. That is, being interpreted into
Greek. Being interpreted into English
it becomes T,be Anointed," the title
of the Marvelous One the Jews expect-
ed to come as their national prince and
deliverer.
42. Re brought him to Jesus. Any
man, one would think, could do as well
as that ; but it .was the means s2 giv-
ing to the Church its greatest preach-
er, When Jesus beheld biro. Looked et
him with fixed earnestness, as John
had looked et Jesus. .Thou art Simon
the( son of Jonas. That is thy present
name, There were no family names
In antiquity, and men were identified
by etttaching to their names
the name of their father or
or of the town' in which they lived,
Thou shalt be called Cephas, Wbieb
means, as we are presently told a
ettne, a detached mass of rock. A
later occasions is recorded iu Matt, 10,
18, when the name Nobles is said to
bavc been ,given to Peter, or, retber,
when he was reminded of it,
48, 44, The clay following, John's
gospel, more their any other, has sue -
cessions of dates. We have four ae-
curetety marked' in ibis chapter, vers-
ea 19, 29, 85, 44. Jesus would go' forth.
Ilia bad been invited to the wedding
at Cana, Itis journey was from i3etlsa-
Mira, in rho lower valley of lite Jordan,
near to the Dead Sea, to, Galileeteethe
most northerly of the terovineev gover'
net by Herod, iteindeth P.Ililip. A
man' of prose% and, practical mind,
who' mu:,t not be eoefusea with the
adventurous dwell' of wham -we read
int Aute,. Z'ollow ins, .Our I,ord'd' 1n-
✓ arlable auinmgala to dislplesbip. iioe
Matt, 8,22 M1.0; 19. 21; Murk 2. 14; 10,
Luke 097; 9,59; Jobni2,1,19 That
Philip was a townsman of .4141 w and
t eeter 1:,. of interest,
45. X'bililr fiudetb Natbanael, Proba-
bly the sainerapostle whom the other
evangelists call .iiiartbolutnew, who h
is not a .name but a patrooymic,
meaning Son of Tn ntai, wlio is 1004-
moult' coupled' with !hide iu the list
of apostles. We •have found him, of
whom Moses in the law, and lite pro-
phets, did write. "Tho Iaw" was a
general term for the first five books
of the lliiJle, "The prophets" includ-
ed ills bistorio 1112 prophetical books,
To have found the Messiah was to
have made the greatest discovery Poe -
Bible to the Jews, The son of Joseph.
probably -did not know the circum-
stannes of his birth, and speaks in ac-
cordaracs with the common belief of
hie parentage, Meet. 13, 55.
40, Can there any good thing oome
out of Nazareth 1 Nathaneel dwelt
at Cana, and had a villager's contempt
for a neighboring village. Cana it-
self might as well produce a Messiah
as Nazareth, It was pt'overbial that.
"out of ,Galilee arisen no lal'ophet."
From Nazareth Jesus was' afterward
expelled by a mob ; and the most that
we learn from evangelists about its
people is bad. Come and see. T1te
beat way to win beifef is not by argue
ment, but by testimony. 12 you can
aay, "I have found a Saviour; come
and see him," and if your conduct does
not be ie your words, you will do good
to many,
NEWS SUMMARY,
CANADA.
Sheriff blcliim of Wellington is
dead.
The Methodist century fund now
totals $590,&0.
The num„er of failures during 1899
was less than in any year since
1882,
Mr. Cornelius Neville, Deputy Col-
lector of Inland Revenue, died at Ot
taws,
It is rumored that Mr. Edward Miall,
Commissioner or Inland Revenue, will
retire.
The Toronto & Collingwood Railway
Company is applying for incorpora-
tion.,
An agency for lbs sale of mining
lands will be opened by the Ontario
Government at Sudbury,
The Provincial Legiolaturewill meet
about the middle of February, but
the exact date bas not yet been de-
cided on.
Jit' a fire in Peek & Co.'s block Win-
mpete the Consolidated Stationery
Company lost 550,000 by damage to
steak.
'the name of the steamer wrecked in
St. Mary's Day, Newfoundland, is aid
a mystery. A diver will go out to the
wreck today.
The man who murdered bliss Fergu-
son, of Toronto, attacked several oth-
er persons, He is supposed to be a
maniac,
A large part of the business quarter
of Dawson City was burned on Wed-
nesday night, January 10. The loss
exceeds 66500,000.
Hon. Hugh John Macdonald bas ac-
neptec the Li, utenant-Colonelcy of the
Winnipeg Light Infantry, a new regi-
ment now being organized.
ALrs, John O'Connor of Hamilton was
bequeathed 210,000 in cash and twenty-
five acres of land in Wilmington, Dela-
ware, by Miss Julia Nelson, an aunt.
An order in Council has been, adopt-
ed by the Macdonald Government in
Manitoba dispensing with the sea'iices
of J. A. Macdonell, Chief Provincial
Engineer,
Fourteen people—women, children
and cripples—were taken out in au al-
most unconscious state from a fire in
Lang & Co.'s departmental store, Ot-
tawa,
A case of smallpox has been discov-
ered at the Windsor Hotel, Moncton,
N.11., the patient being an Intercolonial
Railroad brakeman, who brought the
isease from Campbellton.
The Conners syndicate has awarded
the contract for the construction of
the big grain elevator at Montreal to
Barrett & Record of Chicago. The
building will cost about 51,500,000.
Captain Philip H. Gibson of rho
Montreal Fire Department fell down
headfirst in the shaft of a spiral stair-
case at No. 2 fire station, and died in
the ambulance on the way to the Notre
Dano Hospital.
The contract between the Great
Northern Beltway Company and
Messrs. A.P. Chapman & Co, of Buf-
feto for the oonstruction oe a 0_00,000
grain elevator at Quebec has been
signed.
Walter L. Fellowes, the stock-
broker, who carried on the bucket -
shop transactions for the clerks of
the Bank Ville Marie, has been arrest-
ed on a charge of receiving stolen
money knowing it to have been stolen.
The Winnipeg Free Press was in-
formed a few days ego by a man call-
ing at the office that the reports of
contemplated attacks by T`enians from
American territory were sober truth
WO far as Winnipeg and Manitoba are
concerned.
The British Columbia Provincial Gov-
ernment have declared their intention
of so amending their alien exclusion
law as to hereafter permit Americans
to hold claims purchased from Cana-
dian locators, Such a concession quite
satisfies the Americans in Atlin,
S. D. Vallieres, one of the candidates
for Alderman in Montreal, makes a
serious charge against his opponent,
Alli. Preuoveau, of offering him 050(1 to
leave the field, accompanying the of-
fer with the assurance that he would
endeavor to have Mr, Vallieres elect_
ed two yeare hence for the some seal
by acclamation.
The New Brunswick Governinen.
has been, reconstructed, Preuticr Era -
mason, While retaining that,posltion.
becomes Attorney -Genera i,: while lion,
Mr. White, late Attorney -General,
seheeeds Air, Dmmerson as f'hicf Com-
missioner of Public Works, H. A. Mr
Keown; M,P,Li',,, 81, John, enterer the
Government without portfolio,
GREAT BRITAIN.
Col, Steele will command the Strath
-
vane Horse,
Briti:4h 5ettsus reports of tonally give for England tend Wales
253,600 Smiths and 242,100 Jones,.
Win the Nerve Centres Need &frith
A Wonderful Recovery, Illustrating Om
Quick Response a of a Depleted Nerve
System to a Treatment Which,
Replenished 32xbau jted
Nerve Forces.
MR. FRANK BAUEB, BERLIN, Our,
Perhaps you know him 1 In Water- seemed most hopeless, I heard of a
too he is known as one of the most wonderful cure effected in a case
popular and suooeesfuibusinese men of somewhat similar to mine, by the
that enterprising town, As ...snag- Great South ,mericanNervine'Top�tieo
ing executor of the Kuntz estate, he is and I finally tried that. On the Met
at the head of a vast business, repro- day of its use I began to feel that it
senting an investment of many thous- was doing what no other medicine
ands of dollars, and known to many had done. The first dose relieved the
people throughout the Province. distress completely. Before night I
Solid finanoially, Mr. prank Bauer actually felt hungry and ate with an
also has the good fortune of enjoying appetite such as I bad not known for
solid good health, and if appearances months. I began to pink up in
indicate anything, it is safe to predict strength with aurpriaing rapidity,
that there's a full half century of slept well nights, and before J knew
active life still ahead for him. But it I was eating three square meals
it's only a few months since, while regularly every day, with as much
nursed as an invalid at the Mt, relish as ever. I have no hesitation
Clemens sanitary resort, when his whatever in saying that the South
friends, in Waterloo were dismayed American Nervine Tonic cured me
with a report that he was at the point when all other remedies failed. I
of death have recovered my old weight --over
" There's no telling where I would 200 pounds—and never felt better
have been had I kept on the old treat- in my life."
ment," said Mr. Bauer, with a merry Mr. Frank Bauer's experience 15
laugh, the other day, while recounting that of all others who have used the
his experiences as a very sick man. South American Nervine Tonle. Its
"Mt. Clemens," he continued, "was instantaneous action is relieving dig -
the last resort in my case. For tress and pain is due to the direot
months previous I had been suffering effect of this great remedy upon the
indescribable tortures. I began with nerve centres, whose fagged vitality
a loss of appetite and sleepless nights. is energized instantly by the very first
Then, as the trouble kept growing, I dose. It is a great, a wondrous oafe
w„s getting weaker, and began losing for all nervous diseases, as well as
flesh and strength rapidly. My indigestion and dyspepsia. It goes
stomach refused to retain food of any to the real source of trouble direct,
kind. During all this time I was and the sick always feel its marvel -
under medioal treatment, and took lone sustaining and restorative power
everything prescribed, bat 'without 'at once, on the vary first day of its
relief. Just about when my condition use
Sold by G. A. Deadman.
More than forty per cent, of the peo-
ple( of Great Britain; could not write
their names when Queen Victoria as-
cended the throne. Now, only seven
per oent. of the population' are int that
condition.
Lord Roberts has authorized the
colonial troops under Gen. .Brabant,
As a further mark of favor, Lord( Ro-
berts, It is said, intends to select his
ow•n body guard from the colonials.
Forty million rounds of small -arms
ammunition, 11,000 rounds of shrapnel,
Lyddite, and camnon shell? :n51 boxes
of fuses, and forty boxes et pistol am-
munition were recently dispatched'to
the seat of war, ,This is one of the
largest consignments of ammunition
ever sent from Greeff Britain.
(UNITED STATES.
The first 500 -foot steamer, built on
the great lakes was lauricbed at
Cleveland.
James Pyle„ the great .Pearlin mak-
er, is, dead. !He was A citizen of New
York, though born in Novas Scotia.
Edward J. Fisher of Brantford, a
delegate attending the Masons' Con-
vention at Rochester, committed ewe
tide by' jumping into 'Genesee Falls,
IVIr, John 14. Booth, says there is no
truth' in the atatemeeti that a syndi-
rale of New York eepitalists is nego-
tiating for the purehesetof the Parry
Sound, and Canada Atlantic' Railways
At Frankfort, Nye ex -Congressman
David J. Colson shot end killed Ethel-
bert Soott, Luther Demareaand Chile,
Julian, The killing utiourred in the
lobby of the Capitol Hotel, and was
the outcomes of an ,old feud,
John J. Albright, announced to the
Board of Directors of the Buffalo Fine
Arts Academy his intention to present
to that city an art go llery tea cost not
less than 5250,000, and to begin its con-
etruetion' immediately.
As the, result of a family row at an
Italian tenement house in East
elleveiith street, New York, Antonio
Collstti, d Caletti, is
brother, agageed. 1987;, analspar David
OoiSalvatohr'o,
a cousin, aged 40, were shot and killed.
Vincenzo Spinella and Matson Frank
are under arr'oet, !barged with the
omurde
theto.r, and the police. are after
GENERAL,
Russian soldiers are supplied with
handkea'ehiete, at the expenee of the
Govar'n,ment,
The outbreak of typhoid fever on
the Montezuma may canes some de-
lay in her sailing.
Blaekleg has .broken out among the
cattle in the Glenvale district. 1.4. vet-
erinary surgeon vaccinated the ani-
mals in the affected district,
Mph, Girouard, a hotelkeeper, of
Ste, Cunegonde, was handling an In-
candescent electric light when he re-
ceived a shock and dropped dead.
The Japanese Government has of-
fered to establish a military academy
at Pekin to educate Chinese under Ja..
peewee officers, Chinamay accept,
A dynamite factory in Italy near
Turin exploded, shattering five build.
ings. Ten bodies have been found in
,the
Tenders have been invited for a
monthly steamship service, including
the carrying of mails, between Halifax
and laingaton, Jamaica, calling at Bet,.
muda and Turk's Island.
Hasse, shipped to Soutbl Africa for
the war are allowed a space of 2ft.
Ban, ny 8ft. on- board the transport, -
Myles are packed in pens oft foine each
animal being allowed 211. Iain.
! Mr. Frank Pedley, Superintendent of
Immigration, estimates that nearly
14,000 settlers from the United States
have become residents of Canada dur-
ing the 'past season.
Major-General Sir Frederick Carr-
ington, the well-known South Afrioa
officer, until now commander of the
Belfast district, hos been ordered to
South Africa,
Heavy sarthqurtke shocks were felt
in 14te:tioo on Friday at .midnight, At
Colina and other points several 'build -
trigs were wrecked, massive churches
demag'd, and seven deaths are re-
ported,
If General Buller has succeeded in
crossing the Tugela, he has retrieved
his reputation from the reveres suf.
feted some time ago. And General
French's reptltation bas gone down
with tbat of all the other British
commanders in South Africa, 11 Is
Indeed- the graveyard of military re-
putations,
Military ballooning is, of coarse- in
its itrfancy, and the present war' is
practically the first opportunity we
have had of testing its effica,.y, Each
dozen cameras in order to obtain pan.
(ramie vinvs of the country, which
are of great value to the Invading
army,