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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1897-9-10, Page 22 Pi 7E REC 1(0 N 1 G. TILE IN R fU1'8HEiL THE BRUSSELS POST: SEPT; 1d; 1897- ...._...... Co tinned froth page 7. the open window on to the terree THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL,TDIM' n suddenly, gave utterance to a sbrie , WORLD OYRR. CTAAPTER STS-. and springing to her feet, flung her - Six weeks had elapsed since the self upon her husband's bretust and laed him routed nd theneck with both interesting About Our Own country. events recorded in the last chapter. It aims An instant latoi, a pts ul 1 t Great Britain, the united states, end was the evening ot the return of (ler aid Brooke and his wife to the home which they left under such tragic. cir- cumstances nearly a year before. Ger- ald's wound had proved a troublesome one; and after his release from custody, which was merely a matter of acouple of days, be had hurried up. to •London for the sake of obtaining the hest medi- cal advice; and there be had since re- mained; a. few friends bad met towel - come the home -comers; there was to be a grand reception by the tenants and others on the morrow. First and foremost, there was our dear' Miss Primby, not looking a day older than when we first made ber acquaintance. She had been filling the post of mistress pro tem. et the Towers for the past month. She was of an anxious mind, and small responsi- bilities assumed a magnitude in her eyes they did not really possess, and thereby worried her not a. little. She will be thankful when Clara resumes the reins of power, and she herself is allowed to subside into that life of tranquil obscurity in which she finds her only true happiness. There, too, deep in conversation, were Lady Fanny Dwyer and Mr. Tom Starkie. Her lady- ship was husbandless es usual, but seemed in nowise put about thereby. She end Tom struck fire frequently in the arguments and disputations they wore so loud of holding with each other ; they agreed to differ, and differed to agree, and perhaps were none the less good friends on that ac - wont. 'Flitting in and out and round about was Margery, spick and span in a new gown and gay ribbons, and This man bad made up los mind to a tiny apron all pockets and embroil- I murder you. It was your lite against cry. For the first time in her 'life she his. It may be—mind, you, I Duly bad on a pair of French kid shoes, omit a wimain (—tat (hat te Laof the and she could not help stealing a 73rotherhood to which you and i have glance at her feet now and again when no one was looking. She scarcely knew them for her own property, so changed an appearance did they present, This on her new ter evening she was to en duties as "own maid" to her be- loved mistress. Who so happy as Margery! The turret clock struck seven, but Mr. and Mrs. Brooke had not yet arriv- ed. They were to drive down from London, and ought to have been here nearly an hour ago, .Every minute Miss Primby grew more fidgety. Sume accident must have happened, she felt sure, Perhaps the horses had run away; perhaps a wheel had come off the carriage; perhaps any of twenty possible mishaps had befallen the tra- vellers. Ei,dgels aro infectious, end be- fore long Tom Starkie began to con- sult his watch every minute or two end to answer her ladyship at ran- dom. So many strange things had hep- pened to Gerald during the last twelve months that anxiety on the part of his friends might be really excused, The suspense was brought to an end by the' sudden inroad of Margery, who had been down 1.0 the lodge, and; now • brought- word that a corric.ge and pair bad just turned the corner of the high -road half a mils away. This news sent every one trooping to the main entrance to the Towers. Not long had they to wait. Gerald stili carried his arm in a /sling, but his other hand was clasped 1 b his wife, Neither of them i i -s lo. rang through the dusk, and the bul- let, passing within an inch of (leraltne head, crashed Into the pier -glass be- hind. At the open window stood George Crofton, hatless and haggard, his white drewu features distorted by I veloped in Montreal, a scowl of fiendish malignity, tholight) John G. Dolman of Hamilton hanged All Oats o1 the (lobe, Coteeensed una Assorted for Easy Reading. CANADA, Two new cases of smallpox have de - or mingled hate and madness blazing himself to a High board fence. in his eyes. Tom Starkie sprang for- ward, as Crofton, with an imprecatlori on his lips raised his revolver to fire again. But quicker even than Torn,aas e dark -cloaked figure which , sprang sudd yenly into the range of vision £ram- lLted weapon from Crthe window ofton'sthalnd, Fe or a second there was a colt. gleam' of steel in the moonlight, and then the cloaked figure vanished es quickly as it had come. With a loud cry Crof- ton flung both arms above his head and staggered forward a pace or two into the room. "Gerald Brooke, you have won the gaanel" he exclaimed in hoarse accents, then malting a clutch at his heart, be gave a- great. gest) and fell forward on his face. Gerald Mr. John Guthrie died near New- market the otber day,. aged 110 years. The first sod in the Ottawa & New York Railway has been turned near Cornwall. Mr. Benj. D. Culliver, of TILsonburg, was kicked by a burse and died in a few minutes, The first hundred miles of the Crow's Nest Pass railway will be completed by November 1st. Principal Peterson, of McGill Uni- versity Montreal, is seriously ill at Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland, Mrs. Jas. Benison, of Lambeth, died Friday from injuries received by being thrown out. of her carriage in Lon - and Ton raised him. A tiny stream n' it is stated on good authority that of blood trickled from his lips; he was a twelve days' run at the Mikado mine stThe portiere was drawn aside, and has yielded no less a sum than $30,000. all eyes turned on him who stepped Mrs. E. G. Thomas, of Woodstock, is into the room, at was the Russian, reported to have made $11,000 from a looking as cold, pale, and impassive. as mar1U0 investment in the Chicago wheat be always looked, " liarovsky, have you had. any A team from the Royal Grenadiers, band in this?" demanded Gerald, Toronto, won tbo Growski cup at the sternly, as he pointed to the dead Ontario stifle Association shoot on Fri - man, day. I, my friend 1 what should I The cheese shipments from Montreal have to do with any such can- this season amount to 1,052,200 boxes, aille?" demanded the other with a against 834,18d for the corresponding shrug. period last year. Not more than half a minute had Miss Coulter, of Lindsay, jumped elapsed from the beginning to the end into the river and saved a young lad of the tragedy. Under the direction of named Begg, who had fallen off the Starlets, two or tbree of I. he servants wharf, who had hurried in, now procesde.d to The announcement is made that remove the body to another room, the Federal Government will take While this was taking place, the Itus over the .Drummond County railway sian drew Gerald aside. ",Look here, on October 20th. Brooke,' he said. ' It is never wise to inquire too closely into matters when The Government has promised sup - no good end can be served thereby, port to a Canadian line of steamships between Vancouver and Victoria and the coast cities of Mexico. The first car of new Mfanitobarwheat has been received in Winnipeg from Deloraine. The wheat grades No. 1 bard, and is en excellent sample. the honor to Belong. If such were the I An Ottawa boy named Joseph Per - tight y y could speak as the carriage wheeled into the avenue and the old home they had at one time thought never tot see again came into view. Nor was there much said for the first few moments after they alighted. A. kiss, an em- brace, a hand -grip, told more tbau words; of tears the ladies shed nob a few, but they were tears which had their souroe in the daysprings of hap- piness. Dinner was over and the company had returned to the drawing room. The lamps had been lighted; but se soft and balmy was the evening that the long windows bad been left wide open. Outside, terrace and garden and the miles of woodland stretching far be- yond were bathed in a tender sheen of moonlight, Lady Fan was at thepiano, turning over some music. Mr. Tom Starkie was stooping over the Canter- bury, trying to find a certain piece of Schubert's he was 1 desiroue her ladyship should play. Clara end her aunt were tenting together in a low voice on the sofa at the opposite side of the room. On the hearthrng, his hack to the emptyltre place, stood Ger- odd. As he gazed on the pretty domes - tie scene before hum, he could scarcely realise that all the strange events of the past year were anything more than the dreo,in of a disordered brain. Could it be possible that only a. few: short weeks ago be who now stood there, so rioh in all that snakes life beautiful, had been a hunted, felon, on whose head a price hoed been set? Incredible as it seemed, it was yet but too true. If proof positive were needed, there was his arm still in a sling to furnish. it, !lis eyes turned fondly to the sweet face of his wile, to which the sunshine and roses of other days were already beginning to come back. How brave, how loyal, how devoted she had been through all the dark days of his trou- ble! The care enol love of it lifetime could scarcely repay bar for all she had gone through for his sake, She had indeed been " that crown, of glory to her husband " of whioh the sage Made mention in days long alio: Clara, who while talking with her aunt had beets absently gazing through case, they were bound by their laws rier, whose parents refused to let him to take his life rather than. allows him to take yours. But this is nothing more than guesswork. In any case life and i 1 is dead,yourli the scoundrel is satfee ; but it was touch -and- go, with you, my friend—touch- and-go." The unexpected appearance of. ITar- ovsky, following so closely on the grim scene just enacted before bis eyes, re- vived iu Gerald's mind certain appre- hensions that had slumbered, almost undisturbed for many months. All his fears took flame at once, as hie memory travelled back to that April evening when 51arovsky's i11 -emend presence first crossed the threshold of Beechle Towers. What if, at some future day. when all the world seemed full of sun- shine, he should suddenly appear agein with a message of the same dire im- port' m- p Gerald's heart seemed oompreese as in a vice, as this thoughe with all as dread significance, forced itself on his mind. "liarovsky," he sant, in a dry, hard voice, now that you are here, there is one question I would fain ask you," "I think I can guess the purport of it," answered the Russian, with his imperturbable smile, 'You need be under no fear, mon ami, that S or any other emissary of the Brotherhood evil ever come to you again with evil tid- ings. The man who was condemned to die is dead, and although he did not meet his fate at your hands, that mat- ters nothing. The sentence bas been carried into effect, and suoh being the case, by the rules of the Supreme Tri- bunal, you, Gerald Broolce, ere absolv- ed in full from ever being called upon again." (The End.) go to the lelondyke, swallowed a dose of Paris Green. 'Mr. Leonard J. Grimshaw was scald- ed to death at London by steam e s.aL - fug ,from a new angina that he was setting up in Watson's box factory. The traffic receipts of the C.P.R. for the week ending August 21show a gain of $101,000 over the receipts for the corresponding week of last year. Since the middle of July about five thousand citizens of Montreal bane ap- plied at the city Board of Health for vaccination, and the number is lm reas- ing daily. it is said that a syndicate of Eng- lish capitalists has agreed to purchase the business of a number of fish com- panies on the great lakes of Canada and the United States. of tate Indeed States Court at Dither burg, Pa, The strike of progressive• tailors in Few York, which was• begun last Sunday, hes been declared off, the demands of the strikers for an increase of '20 per cent', in wages being grunt- ein ,el , now and novel method of warfare against the Now York conlnantors bus been evolved by the Bast Side Garment elakers, It is the conflsaaLion ot the sewing machines of these contractors who fail to keep their agreements with the union, and the establishment of co- operative shops with these machines to stock them. Tho mansion of Frank A. Afagoivan, Trenton, was sold at a sheriffs sale for $1i4,400, to V. B. holt, repre- senting a syndioate. It is understood that the syndicate inclndes Senator William 1I, Sklmrn, who is one of Mesgowau's Ireavieet judgment credit- ors, BRITISH. The electric cabs have proved a big success in London, It Le stated that the Duke and Duch - ass of York have accepted Sir Wilfrid L'aurier's invittuiee to visit Canada next spring. Tho post -office et L'anaborouigh, County Longford, Ireland, was dyna- mited early yesterday morning, but nobody was injured. The announcement is made of the settlement of the long pending strike an Lord Penrhyn's Welsh quarries. The mon won a complete victory. • The Marquis of Conynghliam, who sat in the Buttes of Lords as Baron Minster is dead, He was Vice -Admir- al of the coast of the Province of Ul- ster. Sir Donald Smith, the Canadian High Commissioner in London, who was raised to the Peerage during the jubi- lee festivities, has been officially gazet- ted as Baron dtrathcona and Mount Royal. Sir George Osborne Morgan, Bart., M. P., for East Denbigshire, is dead. Toe was a Liberal, and was appointed Judge Advocate -General in 1880, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Col- onial Office in 1880. England's Cinque ports, now nearly all high and dry, may Income harbours again. The sea, which for centuries had been receding from Rye and Win- chileda, is returning, and 15 fast eat- ing into the land. Stationers' hall, in London, where all books must beoopywrited has at last prepared nu index of Utiles, thus en- abling authors to guard against in- voluntary infringement of others' rights, and the consequent law suits. The body of Captain Henry Ark- w•right, who was aide-de-camp ,to the Lord -Lieutenant of troland, and who was killed by an avalanche on the grand plateau of Mont Blanc in October, 1566, was found un August 22, 9,000 feet be- low . wberehe died. The members of the Jaokson-Rarms- worth expedlbion, who have spent three winters in the Arctic regions, have been brought back in safety to England by the British steamer Windward, which passed Aberdeen, Scotland, on Saturday morning. The Duke of Westminster has issued an appeal to the British public for funds to be used for the relict of the distress which prevail in Athens among the re- fugees from Thessaly and Crete. He says there are 50,000 fugitives depend- ing upon charity in Athens. Ex -Alderman Charles Farrell was found drowned in the river at West Brantford on daturday. It is supposed that deceased committed suicide while suffering from mental depression. Bin. Joseph Ladue, the founder of Dawson City, in the _Klondike, who has been in Ottawa lately, says there will be five thousand people in Klondike this winter, and some of them will surely starve. MAIZE YOUR OWN HAT TRUNK. The problem of carrying the innum- erable flower and feather Lrimmed hats without injury to them, when one is going away for the summer, has been solved by that new invention, the hat trunk; but many home mothers may feet that, after the necessities ars pro- vided for, the money is not forthcom- ing for these much -desired trunks. A common packing trunk without a tray may be brought into service by providing it with cusbions, tbus mak- ing a ver' desiru.ble receptacle for hold- ing and transporting trimmed bats and bonnets. The cushions are sup- plied by making a required number of begs or pockets, of drilling, cretonne, or some thick material and stuffing them very full of curled. hair. Tack these filled pockets to the inside of the trunk, finishing the edge and cover- ing the nails by Lacking on cotton gimp around each cushion, using upholster- ers' tacks, thus giving the interior a neater tend more finished appearance. A small trunk may be made to accom- modate at least eight bets by putting a cushion at each end of the trunk, WO upon the bottom, two on the cov- er, and one on each side. Supply each cushion with two long hatpins for las- tening the hats securely in piece. Such a trunk may be made not only useful when one is travelling, but also while one is at home, particularly where close et room is rnucli needed, by fitting a thick pad over the top of the trunk. Cover this with pretty cretonne, and have a pleated valance that reaches to the floor. SOpplled. with a cieuplc of sofa pillows, this piece of furniture will prove desirable end convenient, Mr. Anthony Orr of Galt, has found an axe among the chips that young Al- lison raked together, and from the stains found on it, is is thought to be the weapon with which ilirs. Orr was murdered. The Canadian canal et Sault Ste. Marie was blocked uu 'Thursday for six hours by a steamer and schooner be- coming wedged between the conal bank and the railway bridge pier. The thirteen -year-old daughter of Isaac Williams, an Indian on the Six Nations reservation in Brant, was bit- ten on the ankle by a rattlesnake on Tuesday °vetting. John G. TenEyck Lound a snail in W. le. Gibson's conservatory, at Grims- by which measured over five inches nor- mally, enol when travelling would stretch out to over eight inches. Mayor Colquhoun, of Hamilton, lib- erated a carrier pigeon on Monday whiub convoyed congratulations to Lord Lister after be had declared open the Toronto Victorian Exposition. The application of the Lord's Day Alliance thus the Attorney -General should carry the Sunday street car case against the Jlamilton StreetRail- maCompany to the Privy Council at the expense of the Province has been refused by the Attorney -General. The Canadian Government will make a test this fall of an overland route to Lhe Klondike, via Edmonton and the Peace river. The party to be chosen wilt be five in number, and will form a portion of the force who are to re- eoarn in the Yukon district, The outbuildings belonging to Mr. D. Beaudin, neer ot. Chrysturne, Que., were struck by lightning, killing Mr. D. Beaudin and his two sons, also a pair of horses. The buildings were set on fire and were burned to the ground. IN ITALIAN PRISONS. Italian prisons seem to need the ser- vices of a Howard, if we now judge by the report of Mr. Charles Cook, who hes 1ieen examining some of them. In one prison 1,400 men, all in chains, slept and ate in four. rooms, The fare consists of one deify meet of soup' and brown bread. There are no sanitary arrangements antl hundreds die of eon- su:mpti.on, while many take the suicide route to freedom. But while the Brit- ieh politic is exercised over lids story an :English prison Warden was recent- ly discharged for giving a biscnit to a hungry child, and a tiny urchin was a short time eine jailyd for boring a 'peep bole in the side of a cheap shocc . in a Roman building are the most in- teresting things brought to light, In the. lobby of the Chamber of Dee ination et Athena Al. Levldis formerly, uUliitstee ns Marine, taunted M, Grivas Cctlaf of the Stag. of the Greek fleet. regarding the conduct of the fleet bee forty' Prevesa, vi'1iest the latterstruck the former, who, it is believed, will challenge Iiia assailant. An, aecomplisbed French Newfound- land dog named &dean, wearer of a collar of honour awarded by the French S.P,O.A., has been poisoned at Corbell lay tramps. He had stepped a robber; naught a murderer, saved a girl from drowning ere the Marne, and a man from the Seine after lie half' jumped off the Pont Neuf. FLOUR IS $1 PER POUND l AND PROSPECTS OF NO WORK TILL SPRING TIIIIE. These are the Condit CMS. Under Willett Talton Hold. Seek ors Mud Them- selves. A despatch from (Juneau, Alaska says :— The latest news from the north still confirms all previous statements regarding the in -going Yukoners, their snncese and failures in getting over the trails, At Skag'ueuy there is found a emitted conditiou, no progress be- ing made in going over the suamnit by what be known, as the While Puss, tt having prtrvad a complete failure this year. ''here are now between four and five thousand persons camped along the trait between salt water and up five or six miles. They will remain there, eating their supplies, until. spring, ur until they make up their minds either to go over tu Dyea or return to Juneau or the State. Many have already sold out and abandoned the trip altogether, some gladly taking 10 per cent, or the original cost of their outfits and bus- ing that part of the country. '''hose who stunted via Dyea and the Chlicoot Pass are gelling along very well, since the Indians are charging at present only 35 cents per pound for pecking from salt waters to the lakes. Under present conditions it is expected that all who are now on that trail will safe- ly reach Klondike before winter sets in. Advices from the interior, under date of July 24, ere a repetition of what has been said before as to the richness of the diggings that have been worked up to that date, also that some less valuable finds have been made near Stewart River. High prices and wages renlaiti cis beretotore re- ported. According to recent news from Yu- kon, water has been s arse for hy- draulic. purposes, but cotter arrange- ments will be provided for these opera- tions next year. Flour is still selling for $00 per sack of fifty pounds, and like prices are asked for other staple articles. Miners who are employed in mines near Juneau and wino went to the Yukon River have bars their places all filled by recent arrivals, so that now there is no spezial demand for labor here, and it will he worse than folly for a man to come to Juneau ex- pecting to get work during the win- ter months. ale should be provided with money enough to take care of him- self until the spring. The bubonic plague at Poona is in- creasing, and the Kirkeo bazaar has been dosed entirely. GENERAL. The Switzerland Government is to acciture and oierete the railroads of that country. A° despatch from Bombay says that cholera has broken out, in the North- amptonshire regiment. The Upper Swat tribes have paid a. fine of 20,0011 rupees for revolting against the Indian Government. Lust friday the British military authorities disarmed the Khyber rifles forming. part of the garrison at Jum- rud. The Paris correspondent of the Ldn- don 'limes declares that a definite trea- ty has ectuaily been signed by France and Rusiela. The insurgents on the Indian frontier have captured the police post at Ma- honedzai, which was garrisoned by a detachment of the border pollee. Good rains have fallen everywhere throughout India, except in the dis- tricts of Bombay, and Deccan, and the crops promise to be exceedingly large. It is reported that Sadi Ali, Bey of Tunis, will shortly abdicate in favour of his son, and take up his residence in Nice. The Bey is eighty years of age, Greece has been asked by the powers to state the amount she is able to nay as a first instalment of the Turkish in- demnity, and the revenues she can as- sign to guarantee the whole amount. Deer Inland, near Pusan, has been ceded or lensed to Russia as a coaling station with the consent et the Jap- anese Government, which was disap- pointed at the faiilrure to arrange am ellianoo with Great Britain. The Freuch Government is consider- ing floating e. loan of £60,000;000 in 2 1 per cent. bogus, partly for the re- demption of the floating debt and partly for the reconstruction of the French navy. Cigarette smoking is on the increase in Japan. Every month 18,000,000 im- ported and 52,000,000 native cigarettes are consumed. Women and children smoke almost as much as men, Bight Hon. Sir Henry Strong. Chief Justice of the hupreme Court, who has been in Great Britain discharging his duties ac. the Canadian representative of the Judicial Committee of the Im- peria.t Privy Council, returned on the Labrador. UNITED STATES, Spokane Mae Chinese watchmakers, A crusade against sweat shops has been started et Pittsburg, It costs only ten cents to send a tele- gram 000 miles at Pittsburg, Denver butchers were fined for keep- ing their shops open on Sunday. New York iron moulders have asked arehitects to give contracts to local bosses. The license cleric at Washington, 1), C., has detailed that fruit vendors may rent their licenses. Two Gnrnd.redsille weavers in Pater- son, N.J., struck because operatives aro deprived of benches, Cincintiatd hes Veen Chosen es the place for holding the next encarnpe meat of the Grand Army of the Sea• public, The alien tax law:vas decided to be unconstitutional by Juuge Acheson, qa KHYBER.RIFLES .DISARMED EOIIT;1.UNPI KOTAL. CAPTURED BY THEIR TREACHERY. Three 00 Oinrrrs lulled br•. 1 siiiaenln• —,tool her Pollee Lost l'ulr(aee,l—A 'erre tdradr Nests la Indio, Neivs has: just been received in Sim- la, India, of. another insurgent suc- cess. The..l)aulatzaie, on. TlmrsdaY last, captured the police post at Ma- bomedzai, which was garrisoned by a detachment of the border, pollee. The garrison retreated to •a 1101V 170511 held by a detachment of the Seined Pun- jab Infantry, reaching there the next morning. As the flying column com- manded by Colonel Richardson, whioh left Kaugu on Thursday to reinforce the post on the-Samana range, which was attacked by insurgents, was re - earning after repulsing the enemy, the enemy rallied and attacked the British force on the plain. The tribesmeu, however, although in great strength, wore again driven off with heavy loss of life. On Lhe British side, Captain Beird- Smith, and Lieut. North, of the Scuts Fusilier's, and eight men of the Pun- jab lufautry, were wounded. AN ATTACK ON ,LAIlKA. WORLD'S WHEAT`HARVET The British post ut •Lakka was at- tacked un Friday. The elf breath Sikhs. iw ilh Lwvo guns, were sent tu reinforce the garrison, but their advance was stubbornly opposed. There was heavy firing in the diem:Lion. of Lhe Sunna- wari post on the Somalia range. loin, Vaughan, commanding at !'ort Lock- hart, hearing of the large and threat- ening gathering of the Orakzais above ]:'ort Gulistan, on the Sammie range, started to the assistance of the gar- rison with 150 rifles. The colonet re- ports that shortly before his arrival at Fort Gulistan, on Friday morning a 1 reconnoitring party, under Major Desveauxs, who commends at Fart Uulistan, was compelled to retire un- der fire. 1u addition, 'Lieut. Blair was severe- ly wounded while cutting off the ene- my's supply of water. But the Brit- ish force succeeded in driving baekthe al enemy's pickets, SERIOUS STATE OF AFFAIRS. The latest news from the front is not of a more hopeful character than that received during the last few days, though it is true that the attempted raid on the Kohat district has been repelled, and c that the Orakzais have taken to the hills. But against .the temporary saceesses of the British arms must be set the very serious state of affairs prevailingat Quetta, Baluchistan. There is little doubt that if the fort there is attacked the chances of the garrison's safety are slight. The fortifications are prac- tieally, worthless, and the place is said to be inadequately manned. KHYBER RIFLES DISARMED. Another note of alarm, and a rather incomprehensible' one, in view of the gallant defeuce made in the ease of forts All Mvsjid and Lundi Rotel came on Saturday from :lamrod, from which neeco a despatch announces that the British military ttulhnritias an Pricing deemed it wise to disarm the Khyber rifles forming part of the garrison of that peace. 1 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES UNABLE TO EXPORT GRAIN. KOImales or Inc .tustrine !ministry of Ag- eltialt111.t' — Canada ('ll.,, sell lis the MOM Sieporlsul er Me Exporting Countries. A despatch from Budapest, says: Tho Ministry of Agriculture hos issued its annual estimate, in which it describes the world's harvest as extraordinary- ily light. The total yield of wheat is placed at 578,760,000 metric hundred- weight, while the present annual re- quirenrents are estimated at 055,150,000 metric hundredweight. It is calculat- ed that for 1897 and 1898 tbere wilflbe a shortage of 50,800,000 hundredweight. The stocks remaining on hand from 1800 .are approximately estimated at somewhere between 38,000,000 and 46,- 00%000. 5;0001000. The total supply for the year, reckoning both the present stooks and the harvest, is estimated at front 610,- 000,000 to 051,000,000 metric) hundred- weight. The world's deficits are estimated as follower—Rye, 183,200,000 bushels; bar- ley, 100,4004000; oats, 102,400,000; and corn, 106,200,006, The report states that many reporting countries, such as European Turkey, Egypt, Australia, and Austria-Hungary, will either be unable to export grain or will he com- pelled to import, while others, include Princess ilalulant who hue just at- taunecl her majority, will return to Ha- waii in October, in the hope of being made Queen of the island Republic if annexation to the United States fails. A strike in the building trades at Budapest, in Wbieh 20,000 men are out, was inageu'ated with te number of. pitched battles with the police in which 200 persons were injured. The Sultan of Turkey has commuted) the sentences of death imposed upon those who were engaged in the massa- cres of moraines of the Greek Church at Tokat last March to penal eervitucle for life. Senor S. Idiarte Horde, President of Uruguay was shot and killed by an as- sassin at Montevideo yesterday during a celebration there of the indeponclenoe of Uruguay. This was the second ate tempt on the 'President's life. Count Mutsu, ex -Minister of Foreign Affairs, and one of the most distin- guished mem in, the history of the nese Japanese movement, and who, with the Marquis Ito,moulded the pulley of the modern Empire, is dead from lung trouble. At Tier, the remains of a large Ra- man house have bean excavated, Ib faecal on the main street• of the old CCI raatti city. eAfirst window idiscovered, ing British India, Argtlntina, and Chili, will have their wheat export considerably reduced. Tho ,savored countries are Canada and the United States, the former of which will soon be awe of the most important of the exporting countries, its excess over last year's production being 7,000,000 buislleills of wheat and 21),000,000 of oats. Its ouitput of all sorts of grain was 270,000,000 of Moth- elec. The yield of wheat in Greel. Britain this season is fifty miillon of bushels against 03,000,000 butshe',s Lase year. The wheat area of British Indra is maimed from 23,000,000 nom to 18,000,- 000 aores, and the wheat yield from 234,5(111,000 lxnthols to 21.2,000,500 bushels, The United States, which has reduced its erten sown i.w oats by 2,O00t000 neree, that sown In earn by a million acres. while i he l in at tier grains remains neer- ly unchance ct, will nevertheless die - pose or 081,000,300 bushels of wheat, against 434,000,000 bushels 'Inst. year, allowing the exportation or 16O,Otl0,000 bushels of wheat, wht.ia trio exports of cern will possibly be 50,000,000 greater than those of lest year. a The prospects for onto and barley are less favorable than in 1890. The price of bread in Australia has already rises 30 tier cent. "Miry, go Tato Mel Bitting room and tall me Maw t:Me, thermometer stands," It stands on the manttepieee pet alto the wall, air l" , AFRIDTS QUARRELLING. Tho sitmttion of the outlying garri- sons on the Seuran°. range, is, next to Quetta, the centre of interest, in view of the urgent need of reinforce- ments, and Colonel Gordon to -day will lead a column of troops through (:hietrict, liohat pass into the Santana tics - On the other hand, there isa hope - full. sign in they well authenticated re- port that dissensions have broken out among the Alridls. RELIEF SENT. A strong adman of native troops and the Royal Irish Regiment, with four gums, under command of Col. Richard- son, has started for the rebid of the Karam valley forts, and another force has been sent to the assistance of the Shimwari garrison. CAPTURT'.,;D BY TREACHERY. It hes developed that the capture of Fort Lumdi Metall was accomplished through treachery, and that the. ori- ginal reports that a fight lasting two hours took plaice withrn the walls of the fort is unfounded. It was this news which iced to the disurmiug of a portion of the garrison at ,1'amrwd. It is believed that the Khyber Rifles, garrisoning the forts in the Khyber pens, acted in a similar manner. A MOUNTAIN LION'S PREY. revolver -01d 051514 Carried 01r Wattle Gilt Fostee.310ttuu' Slept. A despatch from Casper, Wye,., says: —A two-year-old child was carried away by a mountain lion on Casper mountain on Thursday morning. A fruitless search has been made by herd- ers of flocks and miners, day and night, to final the baby. The little one is an orphan, whose mother died last year and whose father had put it into the, keeping of a family by the name of Henderson, who is berding sheep ten miles from Casper, at the head of the canyon. At daylight on Thursday, Mr. Hen- derson followed his flock leaving the Wife and the orphan charge steeping in camp. When he retttrned at 8 o'clock for breakfast, the women was still asleep and the baby 6one.It had awakened and toddled off in its night dress. A search was at once made foo the little one undies bare feet tracks were found leading to a spring nearly a mule away. Near the spring were found also freeh tracks of a huge mountain lion. No other trace oC the babe has been found.. There is known to Ile a den of four lions on Casper mountain. No hopes are entertained of finding the babe alive. , REM MIND, But you are too young, plead- ed the anxious mother. No girl Should marry before her mind is fully formed, Oh, slid the gladsome maiden of eighteen summers, my mind has been mato 'ftp for more than week.