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Bank Burglars Shot Down Constable in
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i 'A deePltoh' aeon Toronto ;sap: -
Meanie Rutledge, Fred Lee Rios wad
Thomas Tense, known as the " Chi
sago bank: robbers," made a reckless.
attemptLo eeeape erten, tlzair Ignerds
cum Tuesiday nis'1mt while being driven
Srom the city hall to the jail, and
Ooze only liubdued after el County
constable had been killed, and Jones
Wee himself enviously wounded.
• 1Lutledge, J'ometi and Rice •haye had
them 'story often told, They are
Items= all over North America es a
trio of desperate men whose records
maned bath in Canada and the United
States', 'have Shown that they will
atop at nothing. After the long legal
fight which went against them In
Chicago, they name to Toronto and
behaved as well as omen in their Poei-
lion could be. expected to do. They
talked with their guards', laughed at
thinge that pleased them, and seemed
totake things 'with a long .ineaeuse
of plmilesophy. Rice, the "gentleman"
of the three, drew pictnree. Not till
Tuesday night did they drop the mask
of docility and enter on the moat dar-
ing ent'elrpries on retort', in the crime
Mal annals of Toronto.
• kiZE latLL1SARlIS.
who fired the shot which killed Con-
stable Boyd, is 27 years of age. `Ho
is better known as Fred Harris. Ho
is a littlo over 5 feet 7 inchos in
height, is of medium build and fair
complexion, with light chestnut hair,
slightly curly. Ile has evidently
been in scraps before, for he has a
scar about the root of his noso and
his right and left index fingers are
scarred. Ho is known to the police
as a forger and safe-blower, and was
arrested in Chicago on let June last
year on the latter charge,
BEHAVIOR IN COURT. •
The evidence in the Aurora bank
robbery case had been gong against
therm and as the afternoon wore on
they seemed to lose their habitual
composure and became restless and
oagee. 'At the adjournment of the
tenet at fli.x o'clock the three ware
shackled together and placed in a
leao'k to be taken to the jail. Jones
sat in the centre with Rutledge chain-
ed to his left hand and Bice to his
fright, the three being seated on the
back 'seat of the cab. Opposite them
were County Constables William Boyd
and Walter Stewart, and Constable
Lyman Bogarn at on the seat with
George Highley, of 237 Sackville St.,
the cab driver. •
HORSES T00 SLOW.
The drive was •uneventful until the
cab began to approach Sumach street
on Gerrard, etrcet, when the prison -
ere began to seem anxious.
' I think O'ou have, a &lose team,
these," shouted Rice to the driver at
the start. "Try tend drive us home a
little faster to -night" Highley nblig-
iwgl:y w-bipped op bis (horses and
brought the cab nearer to uSmaoh
street, and Constable Boyd nearer to
hie death. At the corner of Sumach
street, a stranger, who had appar-
ently come up Sumach etreet, and
,'was loitering at the, kerb, ran to the
whose real home is Frank Warnell, ie
31 years old, and was bort in Pone-
eylveuia, Ile is 5 feet 10 inches in
height, and is of fair complexion,
atm! medium build. He has dark
chestnut haire Ito also, is known
as a safe burglar, and was arrested
in Chicago along with Rice and
'Jones in Juno last, on that charge.
aide of the cab and tossed a butdlo
through the !window, It fell to time
floor of the cab and seasinstantly
pounced upon by Ripe and Rutledge)
who had olds a free hand. leutlodgc
tore the newspaper w rapping from the
pareiel', aabel brought out a stiff hat
rand a sovohv'er., .Rica had also pulled
a revolver from .the parcel, and be
aimed it - deliberately at Boyd, who
hat directly opposite lmiin,' ,.The con.
stable sprang Forward; but Aloe
puilacl thea trigger, fixing +tsyico, and
Hord fell.
MORRTALLY WOUNDED, t:l
Walter Stewart, elle' other nonetabie
the cab, weal the only officer arme-
e .
raeed., xIe reached' back toward ills, hip
pocket, but ;knee sew the nctLon, and
being unable to do anything else
yelled to the others to "give it to
the other one,' Stewart promptly
dropped all .form of resistance and
feigned fear tend submission, "I give
up ' he paid, throwing up his' hands.
"Get out of the t'ig:'
etatledge at coos jumped out, drag-
ging the, others after him. Once out -
aide he turned cad' began shooting
beck into the cab. Rion,' alto, as be
aligl,mLed, filed into ;the rvehiole. The
throe Liman ran for apaesing street
etilr of the Cariboo and College lino,
bait, ns they teemed, Stewart snatebed
bis wevolver and began bo shoot. The
first ball front his revolver brake
Jones' eight arm, and the man yelled
in agony and woald seemingly have
stopped. He was shackled, to the
othess, however, and they
DRAGGED 'JIM ON.
and etxrted to board the car, Stewart
hit Jones again in the groin, and the
mean ;staggered. The fugitives climbed
on to the. front platform of Lee ear,
and grabbed the motormen to'get, con-
trol of the cnr, Daniel Black, of 310
Seaton etr^eet the motorman, clung
to the tomt'roller, but eves being over-
come when some ono on the back of
the caic pulled down the pole and the
oar stopped. Constable Bogart bad
jumped from the cab.enet,and though
unnamed, ran to the aid of Stewart.
The a'uiu ways fired at him, bat the
bullet went wide, and Bogart, Stew-
art and Black, closed, in on the three
mua•dcrere. Stewart, bel-ieving that
he had eshatlated the cartridges in
his own weapon, diropperl it, end seiz-
ing Rutledge's revolver, wrenched it
from bit hand. Rutledge picked up
the discarded revolver, but could not
use it, and Stewart began to hammer
all three' with his elute. With the pully-
iund down of the trolley pole and the
application of the brakes, the oar
stopped aerie Cheeman's butcher shop
at Sword street, and here the two
constables and motorman .overs sting-.
gling.with the detspezadoes when two
jail gaaxds, Richard Dodds and James
Spanton, who were on their way home
tam the. trouble and, boarded, the scar..
The prisoners were still firing, send-
ing bullets' in all dissections, end it
wins only by happy accident that no
one else was killed. Bullets mashed
through the doors of 449 and 455 See-
seeee ,one
�'R D JONALIAS501-111
who was shot by policeman Stewart,
and who has since died, travelled une
der the alias of Frank Benno, and is
also known as Davis, He was born
in Kentucky and was 87 years of
ago. He was a little over six feet in
height, was of medium build, was
of florid complexion and had dark
chestnut hair. IIe was a laborer -by
occupation, and was arrested in Chi-
cago on lst June for safe -blowing.
rlxrd,street, but with the coming of
the two 'jail 'guards the . resistance
practically ceased,
PRISONERS OVERPOWERED.
"I ,give ua," said Rutledge, and a5
Jones was unable to fight, Rice was
the only one left to deal with. He
was soon overcome, and the car ran
on to the jail gates, Rutledge, Jones
and Rico being covered meanwhile
with revolvers. They were trona -
tarred to the jail.
Constable Boyd Lived only a short
time after Rice's murderous attack,
The bullett had entered his head on
the lett side above the ear and pene-
trated to his brain. Jones, when ex-
aminee'.. by D.te. Bingham, and Sneath
at the jail, wase found to be badly
hurt. The bullet in hie groin was ex -
tamales' in safety, but his arm is shat-
tered and tnay have to be amputated.
THE 1V.IYSTLRIOUS STRANGER.
County Constable Bogart 'says the
OW, clothing of the, stranger with the
we -elverii, After .the first shot the
horses were pulled up and he jumped
from hie meat beside the driver, and
ane to the• loft tide of the haok,wlmere
Constable Boyd was bundled, with hie
hated to the side) of his head, Bogan't
spoke to Man, and neceiving no reply,
rushed to the cur, whore the desperate
straggle between the prisoners and
elemstables and citizens Was just end -
ALL' THREE INJURED, '
None of the prisoners escaped un-
injured from the rain ,ef blows from
the club in the )hands: of Stewart•, Aloe
Min foto wounds, an inch and e half
caoh In length, on the back of his
head. When these were being dressed
he coolly :requeetcd the surgeon to be
sure and remove all the ,blood from
hie hair. Iiutledg.o also hacl scalp
wounds which 'bled profusely, and 1
whoa be areaved at the jail lie was..
vary weak.
(Crown Attorneye Dower! and Curry
visited the 'tense prisoners, and also
heard the eta temente of eye -witnesses
whase'stories wore all taken clown in
ehoriel ancl, A charge of murdor is to to
leett ergalnet all throe for the kill
ping od lloyzl.
TIJOM S JONES
A Is: DEAD,
Themes ,!'ones, tho bank robber,
Who. seas she
t in the arm one', in
t groinby w
the r m Constable Stewart t0 aft
at
the time of the Boyd flaunter, !,lad
in the General Hospital at 7 minutes
past eight on Thursday morning, Tho
shattered arm was removed oe
Wednesday and Jones appeared to be
resting easily. The bullet in the
groin was probed for without sue-
cess and' it wee decided to leave it
elene. The patient was placed In
ward 21 in the east wing, the win-
dows of which are limavily barred and
a county constable mounted guard
over him. After coming out of the
stupor following the aclnministretion
of an aoaosthetic, Jones elept quiet-
ly, but Thursday morning he took a
quiets turn for .the worse. •Twenty
minutes before his death it is said
that be turned to County Constable
J. 1e.' Stogmatm and said:
"If I had „1rad time use of my hitnds.
Stewart would !save been where Boyd
is."
Tim guards changed, and Constable.
Frank Brown was with 'Jones when
he died, Tho officials say that noth-
ing in the nature of an anise -mortems
statement was endo:
MARKETS OF THE WORLD
Prices of Cattle,Che3n3, Gillis, &3
in the Leading liTarkets.
•
Toronto, ' June 11. -wheat - The
feeling to -day is rather' weaker. No.
2 white rind red winter sold at 68e,
middle freights, to Portland, and No.
2 red winter is quoted at 6Sa.c, low
freight, to New York. Spring sold
at ei0c for No. 2, on C. P. R. middle
freight. Goose, 65e to 65ec middle
freight, No. 1 Manitoba hard, ` at
92e, g.i.L., middle freight to Mont-
real. No. 2 bard, at 890 middle
freight, and No. 8 hard, 80c. No._ 1
harcdToronto and west,. OOc.
Milifeed-Market' quiet and prices
steady. Bran, in ear lots, 512 to
312.50 west, and shorts $13 to 514
wee L.
Corn -The market is steady, with
Canadian yellow selling at 40++ to.
41c, and nixed at 40 to 40 a west ;
yellow, on track, 46c.
Rye -Tho market is quiet, with
prices unchanged, at 50c middle, and
50c east.
Buckwheat -Prices nominal, with
very little oliering.
Peas -Market is firm, with sales at
601c west.
Barley -Market ruiocl firm; No. 2
quoted at 50c lake ports, and at 45c
No, middle freights. n „extra, 49c at
lake ports.
Oats -Market is easier, with No. 2
quoted at 84 to 34,c on track here,
and at 81 to 314c high freights.
Flour --Tho market is steady, with
fair demand. Millers quote strong
bakers' at 52.75, in buyers' covers
for export, and shippers quote 90
Per cont. patents at 52.65 to 52.67
middle freight. For shipment in
bbls. to lower provinces $8.20 is
quoted. Manitoba patents, 54,25,
and strong bakers' 54.
Oatmeal -Market unchanged. Car
lots at $8.65 in bags, and at $8.75
in wood; small lots 20c extra.
DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -Receipts are fair, and the
demand good. Pound rolls job at
150 to 17c; choice tubs, 14 to 16c ;.
inferior, 10 to 120. .Creamery, box-
es, 18 to 184c; and rolls, 19 to 20c.
Eggs -Market unchanged at 116 per
dozen in large lots, and at nee for
case lots. No, 2 chips, 8+ to 9e.
Cheese -Market quiet. Pull cream,
September, 94 to 10c; do., new, 9
to 910.
DRESSED HOGS AND PROVIS-
IONS.
Dressed hogs unchanged at 58.75 to
$9.25 for small lots. Hog products
ilrm, as follows : 73acon, long close,
loose, in car lots, 10c, in case lots,
104c to 103c. Short cut pork, 520
to 520.50; heavy mess pork, 319 to
519.50; shoulder mess, 315.
Smoked Meats - Hams, heavy,
123c; meclium, laic; light, 14e. Rolls
114 to 12e; backs, 14 to 15c; and
shoulders 11c.
Lard -Pails: 110; tubs, 103c; tier-
ces, 10ec..
DUSTINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal Juno 11. -Tho weakness
of time outside markets had a depres-
sing effect on the local grain market
to -day. Buyers were unwilling to
give more than 76c for either red or
white wheat, and holders are shy. A
few cars of peas sold at 76c. Bar-
ley is scarce and prices are firm.
Oats aro quiet, and rye is easy.
There is a fair trade doing for local
account in the Manitoba grades of
flour, but Ontario brands are heavy
owing to the fact that Ontario 'till-
ers are putting up prices 20c a barrel
above Montreal quotations,
Buffalo, June 11. -Flour -Quiet and
steady. Spring wheat -Moderately
active but unsettled; No. 1 Northern,
old, carloads, 8410; do new, do, 80c.
Winter wheat -Firmer on reports of
Hessian fly in growing grain
throughout State; mixed sold at
703c; No. 2 reel would possibly bring
80c; and No. 1 white, 79c. Corn -
Firni; No. 2 yellow, 464o; No. 3 do,
eic; No. 2 corn, 45ic; No. 8 do, 45
to 45;;c, through billed. Oats -
Steady; No. 2 white, 8210; No, 8 do,
82c; No. 2 mixed, 81.c; No, 8 do,
30e to 8044, through billed: Barley
-Quoted at 57 to 61c. Rye -Quiet;
No. 1, on track, 583c; do in store,
581c asked.. Canal freights Steady;
wheat, 8.320; corn, 210; oats, 23c; rye,
210, Now Yorls.
Toledoto, ,Ione 11.-Ciover seed -
Cash, 56.10; October, 35.27+.
Milwaukee, Juno 11r13arloy
Quiet; No. 2, 56e; sample, 40 to
54}c.
Chicago, June 11,-Contlntted hea-
vy.rains caused a weak market to-
day, and Jtily closed 1$e lower,
and July oats 4 to lc lower, Pro-
visions at time close were a shade to
74,c higher, Corn was rather dell,
The opening was easy on the rains.
The prediction of frost, ]However,'
caused buying, which steadied prices,
July solei ne 44 e, and closed a
shade up, Oats Wore in plentiful
supply, but local support checked
the tio0lilto; Juty sold bettveen 28e
to 2'7e to 271e, and closed 33 to is
lower, at 28 to 28.4c. Estimated .re-
ceipts tomorrow -Wheat: 85 care,
corn 445 ears, oats 210 cats, hogs
33,000 head.'
CATTLE TLE a zzs'al;�a's,
fAI.
Temente, Jetee 11.--Ph
nro
eei
i
ts
at the western eattle garde today
wore only 50 leads, including 1,188
cattle, 500 hogs, 142 sheep and.
lambs, 140 calves, and a few miioll
news,
Trade today was comparatively
quiet, with prices for cattle inclined
to bo weaker; small stuff and hogs
wore imchangos;
The export cattle sold well et.
about Tuesday's prices, for good to
choice the range was from 440 to.
530 Per lb., though five and ten
gents more por 100 lbs. was paid for
a few dots of extra choice cattle.
Except for the best grades butcher
cattle was rather a slow sale, and
prices were weaker, while scarcely
quotably changed.
There is no aiuticeable change in
the condition of etocltez's, bulls or
feeders.
We have a demand for few good
milch cows; those here' today were
only of medium quality, and prices
ruled low. Good toehoieecows
will feteb from 345 to 550 oath.
There was a larger run of calves
than usual here today, and the cls
mond for choice veal calves contin-
ues.
Sheep, lambs and yearlings aro un-
changed.
Hogs aro unchanged at the prices
of Tuesday last,
Tho best price for "singers" is 7e
per lb; thick fat and light hogs aro
worth nen per lb.
Hogs to fetch the top price must
ho of primo quality, and scale not
below 160 nor above 200 lbs.
Following is the range of quota-
tions:-
Cattle.
Shippers, per cwt...$4.50 55.12e
Duteber, choice, do.,. 4.25 4.75
Butcher, ord. to good 3.50 4.00
Butcher, inferior...... 2.75 8.15
•Stockers, per cwt 8.50 4.00
Export bulls, per cwt8.50 4.00
Sheep and Lambs,
Choice • ewes, cwt 3.75 4.00
Yearlings, grain -fed4.50 5.00
Lambs, barnyds., cwt4.00 4.50
Do., spring, each2.50 4.00
Bucks, per cwt 2,75 8.00
Milkers and Calves.
Cows, each..,... .. 20.00 45.00
Calves, each 2.00 10.00
Hogs.
Choice hogs, cwt 6.50 7.00
Light hogs, per cwt,6.25 6.50
Heavy hogs, per cwt6.25 6.50
Sows, per cwt,8.75 4.00
Stags, per cwt... 0.00 2.00
ROYALTY'S TOUR
The Dates Are Fixed for All the
. Principal Cities in Canada.
A despatch from Ottawa says r
According to present arrangements
their Royal Highnesses will arrive
at Quebec on Monday, September
16th, on H.M.S. Ophir, where they
will bo officially received by the Gov-
ernor-e4encral, the Prime Minister,
Members of the Cabinet, and officers
of State. Their Royal Highnesses
will leave Halifax for their home-
ward journey on October 21st, and
the following outline of their tour
through the Dominion has been pro-
visionally approved:-
Arrive
pproved:Arrive Quebec, mid-day, Monday,
Sept. 16th; leave Quebec, nen., Wed-
nesday, Sept. 18th.
Arrive Montreal, amid -day, Wednes-
day, Sept, 18th; leave Montreal, a.
m., Friday, Sept. 20th.
Arrive Ottawa, mid-day, Friday,
Sept. 20th; leave Ottawa, a. m.,
Tuesday, Sept. 24th.
Arrive Winnipeg, a.m , Thursday,
Sept. 26th; leave Winnipeg late p.
nn., Thursday, Sept, 26th.
Arrive Vancouver, Monday, Sept.
80th.
Arrive Victoria, Tuesday, Oct. 1st;
leave Victoria, Thursday, Oct. 3rd.
Arrive Toronto, Monday, Oct. 7th;
leave Toronto, Saturday, Oct. 12th,
Arrive St. John, N.B., Tuesday,
Oct. 15th.
Leave Halifax, Monday, Oct. 21st.
Their Royal IIighnesses will be the
guests of the Governor-General at
the Citadel at Quebec, and at Gover-
ment House while at Ottawa,
WILL PRESENT MEDALS.
It is expected that their Royal
I-Iighnesses, . after leaving Winnipeg,
will make short stops at Brandon,
Regina and Glengarry, end will
probably spend Sunday at Banti.
Time time allotted to Toronto,
from October 7 to 12, is intended to
include visits in Ontario generally,
while it is hoped that the time
available after leaving Toronto will
enable their Royal Highnesses to
visit tho chief towns in the Maritime
Provinces.
As court, mourning for Queen Vic-
oria will not be over, IIis Excellency
has been informed by His Majesty's
Government not; their Royal High-
nesses cannot attend balls or public
banquets, dither Govermunent or
civic, but that official dinners, con-
certs, receptions, and reviews may
Imo held.
IIis Royal Highness has expressed
his desire to present medals to all
Canadians who have served In tine
South African war, '.Their Royal
highnesses are accompanied by his
Serene Iligbness Prince Alexander of
Teck.
PROGRAl1IMES MUST Ble READY.
The arrangements for their Royal
Highnesses' reception 'mist largely.
depend on provincial, municipal, and
Private ondeavor, full progranune of
which, however, must bo evaihthle
for the consideration of flit Royal
Highness on his arrival; and with a
view to sa.tisfuctom'y organization it
is suggested that the proposalof all
Reception Committees Should be sub-
mitted to the Secrotaiy of State ns
soon as possible, and that chairmen
of Reception CommtiLtees should cor-
respond with theSecretary of State,
Sir Claude Macdonald, British Min.
toter to Japan, is returning to Erie
-
hind.
An the Duke of Cornwall and 'York
ie the royal barge, creased the harbor
at Sydney, to inhpect the naval clepot
al Garden bland, all the British war-
ships vete flying the United States
flag, out of compliment to the Tlnitedl
States trranspoet Glacier, which was,
Mowed in the htrcfm,
INf N[�S IN A NOTSHELL
THE VERY LATEST FROM
ALL TIE WORLD OVER.
Interesting !tensa About Our Own
Country, Great Britain, the United
States, and All Parts of the Glebe,
Condensed and Aseerteii fete Easy
Rend/sig.
CANADA.
/Weedstoek will be incorporated as
a city cm July 1.
P,rcniford'e population is 10,014, an
incre.aree of 9,808 over 1801.
A fever house is to be added to the
Hamilton General Hospital.
Rev. Dr. Mackay, the well-known
missionary, died at Formosa.
Ottawa has a gang of boy burglars,
about 22 in number, about 16 years of
age,
The, Grand Truin•k track entween
Part Union and Port Hope will he
doubled.
Montreal needs another contagious
disease hospital for sueh diseases
as. measles,
Dr. E. A. Blakely, chief clerk in the
Manitoba Educational Department,
has resigned.
Medicine Wn,t, Te W. T., has been
created an outport of customs, to date
from July 1.
Ottawa is paying the expensoe of
its £Inc ohtof and two deputies to the
Buffalo Esposulion.
Twenty-five thousand dollars will
be .spent in improving the Russell
House at Ottawa.
Ottawa will spend 32,590 for decor-
ating the city during the visit of the
Duke of Cornwall. •
London hese $12,000 of um aid taxes
for 1900, and warrants are being issu-
ed for Lee delinquents.
Major F. S. Maude, Coldstream
Guards, is gazetted Seoretary and
Military Secretary to the Governor-
General.
The population of Sault Ste. Marie
has reached 8,030, and the townspeople
talk of applying for corporation as
is city.
Lord M)nto starts for a tour of the
Maritime Provinces on June 10th. He
will mike the trip on a Government
steamer,
Ottatam. Rleotris Railway Co. seeks
the ail of the Board et Health in
checking the habit of spitting on car
floors.
Duncan Patterson, of London, Eng„
is at Winnipeg making arrangements
for starting an immense cattle ranch
in Manitoba .
English capitalists have purcbared
the nickel properties in the township
of Denison, near Sudbury, owned by
Dr. Ludwig Mend, for 6325,000.
The idea of connecting the eastern
and western blocks with the House
o f Commons at Ottawa on asort of
semi -circle plan has been abandoned.
The Grand Trunk is considering
building a new l:ne from Jordan to
Niagara Falls, with the object of get-
ting rid of the tunnel under the
canal
In consequence of the voting down
of the by-law to improve the Mont-
real fire brigade it is likely that the
insurance rates there will be raised
again.
The Canadian customs revenue for
May shows an increase of $165,332
over the same month of last year.
The figures are: 1901, 32.420,515; 1900,
33,201,183.
There is some talk of an emigration
office for Canada, containing a re-
presentative diep:ay of the natural
resources of Canada, being opened in
the Strand, London, Eng.
/Winnipeg real estate dealers hay
that a large number of Minnesota
and Dakota farneer.s have obtained
options on Manitoba property, and if
they can ,sell their own land in the
States they twill remove hare.
Jas. Cummings, Canadian Trade
Commissioner i11 South Africa, re-
ports that after the plague and the
war there win be demands for dress-
ecl, general housobu'liing supplicg,
furniture, stores, eornmsal, etc.
It Ls likely that the Ophir will call
at Halifax on September 14 to coal,
and that the Duke and Duchess of
York will be there for several hours,
although the official landing will lee
at Quebec.
Paynm,ent by the Imperial authori-
ties cif the special war gratoity to
Canadians hos been made to only
about 400 man out of 6,000 who are
entitled to it, and it thought that
the War Office across the sea are
mixed' fn accounts.
Hon. Jas. Dunsmuir, Premier of
British Columbia, has announoed to
the miners el Extension and South
\WeIl;ngton that he has granted two
hundred lots in Ladysmith, frco to
them, on condition that they )build
their homes there at once.
GREAT 13i1ITAIN.
A long drought in England has just
been broken by heavy rains,
At York, leagland, the mite of a
miller drowned her three young
ch"ldren,
The late Goa .NI. Smith, the London
publisher, pati $3,590,090, on which the
(teeth dutios are 3280,000.
The Thouneycroft firm of torpedo-
boat builders is mow a limited con-
cern with 2250,005 capital.
The Marquis. of Hariford has re-
signec" his liontenancy In the First
Life Guards baoause 113 married an
Vice -Admiral: Sir Edward H. Sey-
mour, who has been Commander -M.
Chief on the China station since 1803,
hi.s• been promoted to the rank of
Admiral,
al,
London eoolety is sold to be crazy
ear gambling, everything else being
tmboi'd)nated to the passion for win-
ning money. .
The United States training ship,
llariford is at Plymouth, whore the
usual official visits between her of-
f:cors and time town atuihoritios Were
exelmegeci.
Andrew Carnegie, in en article in
e
thNinnteenth Century, says'hat rill
that has d;parted from Great Bri-
tain is her monopoly, and that there
]vas been no eteennorelal) retrogreee
69471
A thrifty h
band and wife e r-
oilsee three
old •pal'ntings for ce5
Oheslmiro, and after' eioanimmg them
fonm'nd them tie be the work of old
Italian masters, They are nem/lake
beg
m/lak-
ing 425,000 icor the treasures,
Tho bye -election in time Saffron -
Wei dein
affron-Weiden duvismon if Bceox for a succes-
sor in the Dritislt house of Commons
,.sto aintethe d lateh1too A. retann Wodeboofuso, I,ibsral,
the Ltboraf
eandl-date by a largeiy inersaned ma-
jority.
SIr, Chamberlain wants Canada's
bepersontative on the ,ludlei,ai Com-
mittee of the Privy Council to be a
£ullfledged lord, with a scat for life'
in the Hoose of Peers, and holding
office as a member of the dudieial
Conanmittee for ,seven years at a
salary of 530,000 a year, paid by the
Imperial Government,
'UNITED STATES.
MrsJahn ILalferiy sneezed to death
at Wichita, Iian,aas,
Smallpox exists in twelve States
bordering on' Canada.
Lars Anderson, of Boston, will
build a 51,010,002 residence in Chi-
cago.
Lieut, Sweet, farmerl;p New York
palleemanis to be made chief of
Manila isser2't service.
In the Illinois Supreme Court Mrs.
Appellmaen 34 suing for divorce be-
ca.uee her husband has a wooden log.
Mra• nley, is ll e and
carman be
l'ioIiconsidered outstioffeebldanger,
Her progress will no doubt be slow,
but improvement is looked for,
Nanet.car 'varlke of Indiana Las,
been formally announced as a candi-
data for the Presidential nomination
by the Republican Convention of 1904.
Moose chased by dogs became en
tangled in the anchor rope of a boat
and dragged the bast, containing a
ch'1:1, across Black lluek Lak', Minn.(
The' Mattel Presbyterian Assembly
nt D sMoines, Iowa, adopted resolu-
tiems prohibiting admission to the
church of m,embors of seorot socie-
;tiesi.
The wages of tee 2,003 day men of
the plants of the American Steal Hoop
Company, of Ohio, have been volun-
tarily increased from 10 to 20 per
cent.
With only a mixture. of cream of
tartar and warm water Miss Mar-
garet Sae, a New York ;abaci teach-
er, declares she cured her parents of
smallpox.
The idea of making the carnation
the national flower, a plan favored
by Prnsideat littK:uiey, finds advo-
cates among the expert florists in
Joliet, Illbnoie.
The Albany Law School at its semi -
centennial commencement exeroiees,
conferred the degree of doctor of laws
upon President McKinlay, a graduate
of the class of 1807.
During a fire, (which destroyed the
home. of Thomas McAndrews a:. Moosie
Pa., his eon James, aged 23 yeaa's, was
burned to death, and Mrs. McAndrews
was fatallyinjured by leaping from
a second storey window. •
J. H. Stokes, with a fortune of 550,-
000, is an inmate of the State prison
in Waupuam, Wis., where he must re-
main two f,'eane. Ho was convicted on
e. charge of burglary) in Dane county,
the sum involved being email. _
TRAGEDY AT BRAMPTON.
Benjamin Parsons Killed His Wife
and Then Suieided.
A despateh from Brampton, Ont.,
says:-Benjamn Parsons ,of Queen
street east, Brampton, a wholesale
butcher, Friday morning between dive
and six o'clock, killed his wife and sui-
aixled by melting their throats from
ear to ear with a large butcher knife.
leoesoms for some time !mad been
deeply affected by the loss of a ehild
six Tease of age, and gave expression
to the belief that lie had nothing to
Lire far, there was mo pleasure for him
m,aw. Fon the peat two weeks Parsons
had, acted strangely, but no one
thought be contepnpleted any such ac-
tion. ,
Fsiday storming about a quarter to
air Ida ,Parsons, the eleven year old
child of Parsons, with her nine-year-
old bwoticer, and a baby girt of three
years, ran crying across the road,
to the holies. of Patrick Kenney, a
mon employed in the sada water
works here, and told 'him their father
and mother w'ea'e dead. Kenney ran
to a neighbor's house a short Si.s-
teneo away and wakened him and
,said Get up ; Ben Parsons has kill-
ed his wit°. and himself.' Together
they went to the, house. The bedroom
is situated on the east side. The Par -
sans were in the habit of rising about
five, o'clock, and it in eupposed that
at that hour eve near it
ITIS WIFE WAS ICILLED.
Pams'ons went upstairs to his clmil-
clren'9 bedroom and said ; "Ida, the
Lard leas told ma to kill you chil-
da'en,"
The child Ida jumped out of led and
seta: "No, father, the, Lord never told
yen dost, for lie would have toll me,
too, and you have kilted buy mother."
H,, nn,w•amang, sail: ' Oh umy, I drl,"
and going dtvwn,tuurs again Ise nalioid-
ed. The roam prteented a distressing
picture. IVIrs. P.ui'eine w'aslyhmg part-
ly under the bad in her night clothe-,
with her throat gashed, and her heed
in a peel of blood. Her li'u;haud wins
beside her, face down, saturated with
hie own blood.
The bed presented a en gesiion of a
slight struggle, the sheet in one
paler had beet grasped with it tight
al'utoh, but nothing Olin hent been dms-
turbad. Tyro i<1 1MTrs, P,nrse lead
made any effort (.o :Savo ;hersecelf, Aho
could not ,have done. so, pier Parsons
was a powerful man and in the prime
of life. It is evident ha was deranged,
for is mor: kind and boater men never
lived. He feed not an mnkind grain
in his make 'up. Ihia lava for his
fkimnily was Wel and feriae ably known,
Hiss Wife was formerly L4ltss Llizahr.lh
Choeihamn. Shs ,'mvsue thirty-five
years of a,go, e
Pa.rsnanls 10as en tgosd circunm-
'd amtoe, and true tamely it
s a,mh lived 11.
y well.
He vials tvldcly known among tattle-
-num and in Toronto. .
70 HOLO QN .T011TIaoa'tJ
111. IIIRNISR, TES b1l(Np OF CIl005
LATE AND ANTIC'OS'i'1(,
wrench owner of Ins into 1u tato St? itnw
m'e$eo iuelensia 80
htcutawe .ttia Presterna'
ns Ste t'ienses,
".1: aim flood frionde with all too
world out there," said Id. Messier, to
a Lennon Leader oorrespcndent,wav^-:
lung his hand vageol;v "n what one
supposed to be the direotiosm of Cane
ads, ''excepting foie a few 'mauvaia
gents' otic toll s about n."•I I
Sri this: nvay did)lieLhe ifuwg m0feghoco•
late and 'Anticeetti diepasu of the'evil
pum.ora of ]mit lnteniions concerning
t:ho Deland in tine moutmta of too St,
Lawa•encc ries,..
bit ief just five, Pare since l)ak, Henri
'Veneer eat foot for the first time in
Anticotsti, and there can be no doubt.
that the 'notary of the Wend dates
flromm his appeara'noa as its owner.
BMforAgoicnnkii1se, 8lrt9a115,epiyshmaItnhnathmend eixiesnt-
ndturnoefd tvioacritoiusn Cobomanyo
ffLairmeditehdim, matt: itsoluMnd. Mfaorni2st,.5,0ohff
nosd. wefecence sent out a commission to
report on the trade !possibilities of the
island, and on their report eventually,
boWgbt it.
Among Ai. Homer's frignes it isbe.r
Hoped that ha intsndai to stake of 5510,
island a model settlement like the
town of Ineleiel in Trance; which hag
practically grown up about the eh000-
late factories. Ma Paris people say,
that M. Monier doaei not really know,
what ha is going to do with his is-
land, that it )s, a rich man's whim,
amid) that )f it turtle out a paying ono
so much the better for
ON GOOD TERMS WITH CANADA'.
But them Paa•iaians are altogether
rather amueed at M. Monier and his
,kingdom'. Not for one moment, Ifeel
ewe, do they' give any credence to
the notion that M. Neuter is prepar-
img, dimreotly or indirectly, backed by
the l'rench Government, to plant a
thc4n in the Canadian side of Great
Britain.
f'hat he has views' of this kind for
Anticosti, M. Meniei denies emphatic
pally. "People have been telling lies,
ho said simply, when I spoketo him
an tha:i;mbject. "People have :ail! that
I am fo,rtifyung Anticosti, so as to
uommand the passages 119 time St.
Lewyenoe to Quebec. Look at the
maps ; the passages are 25mLles wide
one side and 03' the ,thew, and where
is the cannon that will carry even
25 miles ?-while the passages awe far
too deep to toepedo them."
In reactor, .too, that he is an the best
of tome with Canada, M. Monier
drew my attention to a passage
a letter published by the New York
Harald. The. writer said that the
"meaasg'e of ucrndolenco sent by M.
Comettant on the death of the Queen
on behalf of the adminietration and
government of the Island of Anti-
costi, was returned by the Governor
Geiaerral of Canada on the ground that
it implied a claim to a sovereigneyf
over a British island by an aliens
possesses, which was en insult to the
Brritish Empire."
That is absolutely false," said M.
Men)elr, "for the telegram we re-
ceived in anewer to mere was of the
moat cordial kind possible. S repeat
Tam good friends' with" all the worice,
excepting for a. few. ' mauvaie gann,'
who tall lits about Inc.
Tor the rent M. Metier regards his
property "aa a pieta of lewd any one
might hold, only lett it 13 a bit
bigger than usual," and, he refuses to
daouris his plans for its future. I ;
The impa•eissien left on one by a
conversation with the Iceland King is
that ha means to manage ale pa'o-
pesty as ,he pleases and as lips title
gives him the right,andthat he knows;
abore all thinge that Anticosti as a
commercial apeculation is likely to
pay a goad deal batter than Anti
oosti as a masked fortress.
d'
Mrs. Housekeep-Do you really meals'
to tray you are looking for work f'
Harvard Hacbeam-No, lady, Chat's nat
then what I said nor what. I meant
to say, I said I was looking for em-
ployment. , ,
In Rome the masons' strike .lea
s3meading.
The Sultan has concluded to allow
typewriters to come into Turkey.
There were 187 deaths in Hong Kong
of bubonic plague, in ono week,
A Paris 'news:paper urges heavy im-
post upon goods from the United
States.
The Ozar',s eldest daughter, Grand
Duchess Olga, tour years old, Ilan
typhus fever.
Filipino judges are Lound to be in-
competent, and must make •way dor
Americans.
A German paper says that catlntry
must largely import wheat and rye
this season.
TJpswsdds at 314,000,003 is to be ex.
pendod au pavements and sowers for
Havana, Cuba.
The census returns for all Austra-
ltm. showss a population et 4,590,651, an
increase of 740,758.
A large boat was capsized near the
west Menne Islands, Iceland, tend L'9,
men and \semen perished,
Tho battleship Regina Margherita,
the most powerful vessel In the Ita-
lian navy, was successfully launched
at Spezzia.
One hundred ani" thirty-five housee
have been burned in time south-eastern
part of ltuesia, two seamen killed, and
many persons injured.
It i;n seporied that time Duke of
ilio .lbwuzzi and Dr. Nans'en will
shortly stnm't on a joint Polar expe-
dition, it ons Italian and one Swedieh,
vessel. - .
The crop pxospaots in Prussia are 56
bid that Conant Von Bttn.low has advis-
oil
the various Governmentdepart-
sunt, to take measures for )9rovt,du
ing Stato aide to the people'vheyg
such may bo needed: ' -
Acoordit
i» to the record, 98 par cent:
of the' naves in Zanzibar and Pemba
.refuses to accept liberty granted theiSi,
by time 03;rititih Government, The slave-
osvnews have treated them more 1rimQ.
ly since the laws treeing them carne
into force. ,