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CANADA.
Brantford is taking sleps to prevent
fv,'tare floods there.
I•Iamilton is enjoyiug a rather un-
seasonable cut rate on coal.
The Galician smallpox patient In
quarantine at Winnipeg, is dead.
The pride of flour was reduced 40
cents a barrel at Winnipeg yesterda
Hannah Lute, aged 17, has been al
Tested at Hamilton, Out, on a charge
of infanticide.
The Ontario Agricultural College a
Guelph, has had over 13,000 visite
since June 1st,
Private Thomas Robertson, R.O.I., S
.1Orm 8, tine., nos serame ins'
through the use of cigarettes.
The custom collections at Lake Ben
nett since the opening of the season
have amounted to $125,000.
An addition costing a quarter of
million will be made to the C. P. R
Windsor station, Montreal.
Achille Dorton, a Freneb-C'anadia
lawyer of Montreal, has been appoint
ed a judge of the Circuit Court.
Albert Webber, a Hamilton street ca
conductor, tell from a car and is su
fering from concussion of the brain
Miss Millie Dawson, daughter o
Postmaster Dawson of London, wa
very seriously injured by a trolley
car.
A young son of Mr, Isaac Johnson o
Binbrook was run over by a loaded
wood waggon, one arm being badly
torn and broken.
Hyacinthe Asseltn, aged 60, a car re-
pairer, was killed in the G. T. R. shops,
Brantford, by the unexpected shunting
of some cars.
Andrew Harrison, of Montreal, an
employee of the Canada Refining Com-
pany, was instantly killed by contact
with a live wire.
The Montreal Harbour Commission-
ers have accepted tbe plans of the
Minister of Public Works for the im-
provement of the harbor.
the amount oC indemnity to he paid by
Russia to Great Britain for the seizure
a Canadian vessels In Russian scaling
grounds.
UNITED STATES.
The Cf. S, Senate t sdebating the Ha-
waiian annexation question,
The business portion of Park City,
Utah has been destroyed by fire at
a loss of $1,000000.
All the coal miners in the .J'sUieo dis-
trict of Kentucky will seou be trans-
ferred to au English syndieeto.
Portland, Maine, has hseu selected as
a coaling station for all United
States war vessels in eastern waters.
A five-year-old daughter of Mrs.
Skinner, of Kalamazoo, Mich„ was
drowned in a fountain al Clifton
Springs.
Col, R. E. A. Crofton, retired, died at
Washington yesterday, aged 68 years.
He took a prominent. pact in the sup -
pression of the riots at Chicago during
Debbs' strike.
Twenty-eight men bave been sworn
in for duty along the American Sault
Ste. Marie canal, 'Phis is to prevent
t Spanish spies from tampering with
rs Government property,
Lieut. J, Fugate, of the Japanese
t• navy hits arrived at Seattle from Yoko-
hama, Ile will watch the construction
of the war vessels now being built for
Japan at Philadelphia and San Fran-
cisco.
Twenty-five British bottoms have
a been offered to the 'Glutted States War
Department by their owners and agents
for transport purposes. Alt of these,
o however, are not yet in the United
_ States ports, but their arrival has been
anticipated, with a vtew to their ex-
rlamination as soon as they reach port.
f_ • A Norfolk and Western passenger
train was wrecked on Sunday two
tittles west of Shawville. Va, Three men
were killed and several injured. The
s dead are, the engineer, Al. Horner,
Bristol, Va.; the fireman, Edward Sat-
Ier. Bristol, Va,; and the mail clerk,
f A. S. Francis, Marion, Va.
Many of the buts stolen from the
Dominion bank at Napanee have turn-
ed up in Montreal, and the detectives
there are but after those who are
pressing them,
The confusion of American and Can-
adian railway signals at :Niagara
Falls, Ont., resulted in a collision and
the death of Engineer George Jack, of
the Erie railway.
bfr. E. X. Grandmairre, who sued
the Hull Electric Company for 81,500
damages for the death of his son,
was awarded judgment at Hull on
Friday for $275 and costs.
Cadet Sergt,-Major Denison of Tor-
onto, youngest son of Col. Denison,
won honors in all subjects. fourteen in
number, at the Kingston Military Col-
lege. This is a new record for the
institution.
The medal of the Royal Canadian
Humane Association has heen grant-
ed to Conductor McMurray, of the Toe
rent° Street Railway Company, who
saved the life of a motorman named
Cruise on March 16 last by cutting
a telephone wire which had crossed
the trolley line.
Three Klondike exploration parties
were sent from Ottawa on Monday
by the Public Works Department, Two
parties will start from Edmonton to
explore routes through to the head
waters of the Pettey River, The third
party will enter from the coast by
the Stikine river.
A small tornado visited Wolseley, N.
W. T., ,Monday night, and demolished
the skating and curling rink. over-
turned three freight ears on the track,
blew down the walls of a brick store
in coarse of erection, a fine large sta-
ble, and a number of smaller stables
and out -buildings.
It has beea decided not to extend
the electric railway system of Quebec
to Montmorency this year, but every-
thing will be got in readiness during
the winter to change the motive pow-
er from steam to electricity next
year of the entire railway from Que-
bec to Cape Tourment, below Lu Benue
Ste. Anne.
Al the meeting of the Quebec City
Council it was decided to guarantee
bonds of 8200,000 for the Great Nor-
thern Raitwey, on condition that the
company establish its workshops in
Quebec, that the line be completed
and that a passenger train be run
through from.Perry Sound to Quebec
or vice versa,
Mr, J. C. Roy, division engineer for
tbe Dolninion Government, has return-
ed to Victoria from (Llenora, where he
has been with Chief Engineer Costo, of
the Public Works Department, exam-
ining the all -Canadian route to the
Yukon. Mr.. Roy reports the Slickeen
to be a fine body of water. The
trouble this season has been, he says,
that several steamers not powerful
euough have attempted to ascend the
river.
Mr. A. P. Lowe, of the Geological
Survey, has left for two years' work
in Labrador. It has been said that
gold exists in Labrador in paying quan-
tities, and an abundance of iron and
of oval in different localities. 'The
journey into the upper country is (edi-
aas and long, and once well in there it
is not possible to gat out the same
season, Mr, Lowe therefore goes pre-
pared to remain over ail next winter
anti summer. The geological forma-
tions will be noted, and the survey
means the production of n map eachs is not at present in existence.
GRihAT BRITAIN,
Mr. Joraepb Chamberlain emphati-
Getly denies the rumors of his eentem-
plated retirement from the British
A Sootah member of Parliament id
authority for the statement that
the. Governor -Generalship of Canada Js
a position much too expensive for a
Scotch noblemen of smart means to ace
cep$. •
ProCessor,.Rive, of the University ot
Brussels, says the London Chronicle,
has bean appo3rl.3ett arbitrator to rix
The finishing department oaf the Ring
Powder Company, located at King's
Mills, near Cincinnati, was destroyed
Sunday night, evidently having been
fired by two amen. One of them was
, badly burned, and was captured. People
going to the fire met a stranger go-
ing toward. South Lebanon. The pris-
oner is apparently a foreigner. The
monetary loss is small.
Alexis Churkoff, a 12usslan, who was
under aentence of death at Philadel-
phia, for killing George D. Haas, Last
winter, committed suicide by banging
himself in his cell in the county pri-
sm, Haas, at the time of Itis death, was
' assistant superintendent of the White
Dental Manufacturing Company, and
was murdered by Churkoff because the
latter had an imaginative grievance
against him.
One hundred and fifty soldiers of the
05111 New York Regiment went to Cab-
in John Bridge Hotel, a resort seven
miles from Washington, and took pos-
,session of the hotel. Costly mirrors
were smashed, pictures were stripped
from the walls, and beer bottles and
glasses were thrown in every direction,
1 Word was sent to the camp and apick-
ed company from a New Jersey regi-
ment was marched on the double-quick
to arrest the rowdies. Wben the guard
was sighted the New Yorkers took to
the woods. Later in the day the mob t
surrounded a trolley car and smash- n
ed it with stones, injuring several t
passengers. d
• GENERAL. t
Fourteen Russian sailors, capsized off
Nonmea, N. S. W., were devoured by t
sharks. t
A Chinese torpedo destroyer was ;1i
driven ashore at Port Arthur and 130 t
men were drowned. f
A rt
mine t tre�
Pe n ut of•bi i n
9
at trot o
hue been successfully arranged he- a
tween Italy and Argentina, a
Austria is likely to take military g
measures to deal with the Albanian
and Servian disorders near the Aus- a
trian frontier, o
The Sultan of Turkey, it is stated, l
has purchased :3,000 square yards of b
land near Jerusalem, which he will
present to Emperor William, of Ger-
many,
[HE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JULY 10.
"liOIJah the Prophet." 'Wags 17, WO
1.ohleu feet, l Etnas IT. Ili.
PR,ACTLCAL NOTES.
Venae 1, Elijah, iiia name means
"Jehovnh fs my God,' and the name
expressed his chururter, ivbioh was un-
amtuprotnising and radical in fidelity
to the Clod of Israel, We know vett'
little of his history and nothing of his
atweLstry. (1) Not " who" a man is, but
"what" be is, is the intpbrtant qu08-
tlnn. The Tiebbite, Perhaps indicating
that he was a native of a place ealle
Tishbi, 01' 'I'ishl,eh, of which nothln
is known, Gilead. The country 011 (1
east side of the Jordan, a lofty tab;
land, stretching to the Syrian dtiser
the home of a roogh, uncultivated pec
plc. 1t is noteworthy that the grea
est prophets of the past and the great
est preachers of the present began li
in the free lite of the country. Saki un
to Ahab. For once the wicked kin
heard the voice of a man, clad not o
flattering courtiers. As the Lord Godo
Israel event. His mission wtta t0 pro
Maim Jehovah es against Baal, a lis
Mg God 'against dead idols. Beier
whom I stead, He stood before Go
as his servant, and in an age of per
seeutioit made a bold oonfessiou, t2
Why should any follower of the living
God be ashamed to awn his service
There shall not be dew nor rain. Per
haps not a.bsohttely none, for then the
country would become a. desert, but
a drought sufficient Lo couvinee king
and people that it came directly from
the hand of God. But according to, my
word. This would prove that he spoke
by a divine authority. "How hig doth
he speak when he speaks in God's
name." --$Bishop Hail. (8) See in this
the fidelity, courage, faith and obe-
dience of God's prophet.
'd The word of the Lord, How it
come we know not.
3, Turn thee to eastward. From
Samaria, where he had met 111e
king. Hide thyself. (4) There are times
when Hod's servants must stand and
times when they may fly. The brook
Cherith. An unknown torrent run-
ning into the river Jordan from the
mountain region. It -has been suppos-
ed by some to be the Wady Kelt, near
Jericho.
4. Thou. shalt drink of the brook.
Kept running longer than others to
supply hie needs. J. have commanded
the ravens, Birds of prey were to
bring food to God's servant. Some
would change the Hebrew orebim into
arabim, "Arabians," and say that he
was fed by wandering Arabs; but if
we believe in miracles at all, why not
taeep'1 the plain statement of Scrip-
ture here? (5) See hots precisely God
directs the ways of a servant who
trusts him.
5. So he went and did.)With absolute,
unquestioning obedience. According
unto the word of the Lord. This ware
he rule of. Elijah's acetone. He had
0 e.at:orate creed, 00 national tonsiL-
ution, no social proprieties to fence his
ally conduct, but in tilt things sought
o adjust his life to "the word of the
ord." Dwelt by the brook Cherith.
ow Long we know not. The tempta-
ion, doubtless came to bine that 1111'
ime there spent was uselessly spent,
ut he, must learn that, 0. There are
Imes for patieni waiting as well as
or actual working.
0. The ravens brought him bread
nd flesh in the morning, and bread
nd flesh in the evening. Where they
*o( this food, in what condition of pre •
-
servation it was, in what quantities,
nd with what regularity it; came nolle
f these things are recorded for us. The
impie fact is given by the historian
hat such food as Elijah hale including ,
0111 flesh meat and other food, was
rough$ by these birds of+ prey.
7, After a 'while. Some have suppos-
ed this "while" to have been about a
year ; we do not know, The brook dried
alt. hiLtle by little. 7. To observe
earthly resource etea(lily diminish and
retain undiminished faith hs God—this
is the height of Christian heroism. Be-
cause there had been no rain. 11. was
)tlijah's God that had withheld the rain
and it was Elijah's voice that had
foretold the. drought, so that the very
test of his faint became an inspiration
of faith.
8. 0, 17>e word of the lord, 11 came
to hila from above; it comes to us from
the wt'itte.n word, and ours is the more
sure word of prophecy. Get thee to
'Garephath. An anoient city midway
between Tyre and Zidon, in Lite New
Testament culled Sarepta, now culled
Surafe.nri, .C:etongetlt to %kion. Olden,
on the seacoast., sons the very headquar-
ters of Baal worship, and the home of
Jezebel. 8. God's commands are not;
to be measured by worldly stand-
ards of expediency. Dwell there, Note
hots directly under Baal's shadow God
wits raising up and. preserving Ilaal's
dest a'uyer1 A widow woman. 'Ile
condition of the widows in 13m East is
helpless in the extreme, so that Lo
0e10e 1;1153801 from such 0 source 'svas
another trial to Elijah 's faith. nut
then ,ebeb would never sea.r011 for the
1001(1 in such qua iters. 'lo sustain
thee. Yet in so doing she was herself
sustainer( end blessed. 9. They wbo
routeibute to (lad's aluse receive more
than they give.
10. Ile arose and went. Notice
through out Uli,itat s history the prompt-
neas with which he obeyed the csom-
muntls of God's Epirit, The gate df
the oily, An old tradition locates
the very spot of this meeting south
of the city. The tvi.dow Woman
was there. An unpropitious prospect
not enoeuregging to the fleshly nu tun—
a support from a starving widow But
.Elijah knew that the thread, of God's
purpose, howsoever trait it. asoma, 38 a
cable Ma human strength can never
break, A little water. He was thirsty
from his journey; she sons famished
with hunger, 10, Two atotns with om-
nipotence behind thein are mightier
than two kingdoms in Brtal's name,
11. She was going, In her own need
she was mindful mf rtuothor's need/ and
was ready to heli to the limit Of her
power, A morsel of bread. It was not
a selfish request, but was made tinder
divine direction. to show the widow's
want tend awaken her faint. Perhaps,
Mete Elijah was CIM quite sure wile -
thee she was the trod to whom Gtsd had
directed hint, and spoks Lo her as a
test.
12. As the lord thy God livelh, Ant -
ung the Hebrews this ttmta the most
solemn of 0111.11.8 0r inva0)llong. That
a pagan woman adopted it.s-haws simply
that slip knew 1Ita1 Elijah was 8 devout
bel•ieverirt God—that ta, Jehovnh. She
used the words that would he most it11-
pres4ye on hint; it. (laps not follow'
(bat she herself worshipped, Jehovnh, 1
have not a cake, Or, as soel might say,
a biscuit, A handful of meal. Probate.
ly barley, tlx cheapest grain food, A
barrel. An earthenware jar. Olt. Olive
oil, sweet oil, user.( in Southern b;urope
and Asitt Miner ns we •us0 butter, L
cruse. Abeetle, 'I'n'o stlolcs. A coupte
of slicks; mat meaning exactly two, hat
1 very lett, l>reseeit. Cook it. That we
d may sat 1,1, and ttlo. Words of the .most
ltathoi:io despair,
g i3. L'ear not. 1L would be a helpful
la task to set the scholars on a seareh for
e. repetileoxts ot this little wwalleure in the
t, Bible. 3t and its equivalents are re -
repeated more frequently than any
- other anjualetion, except, per-
t- haps, "P.r.•uise ,the Lord," Make
ale thereof a Utile cake first. As-
eftarnishing as this demand is to us, It
was in accordance with oriental feel-
- Ings. To -day in India a Filch' ur holy
g man might. make a similar demand of a
starving Hindu, and, stranger still,
f weuicl probably receive the food. to the
case of Elijah and the widow woman
-, the prevalent superstition, and rever-
-ence for the boly orders are ennobled;
e into an act of living faith in the pro-
phet's God.
14, 'Che Lord God of Israel. Ile appeals ,
- to the same bower to which she had r•e-
verently alluded. Shall not waste, The
stock shall not be lessened. The Lord
seudeth 1;ain, here is a lesson, often Jg-
neretl, that we should impress on cur
- pupils; wkenever (he rain falls it is
the Lord that sends it; whenever the
' stock of provisions a(: home is renew-
ed it is the Lord that renews it. (11)
Ilan gives Cts day by day' our daily bread
and to the truly devout heart this
thought should be as constantly pre-
sent in times of prosperity as in ex-
tremities.
15. She went and did. And received
the reward of her faith, If men and
women were made of the same sluff
in !.hose days as in these theta n'ere
many other's who bad as clear belief
in the Lord God of Israel as she, but
dared not go and do. The Lord Jesus
found no scarcity of people to ap-
plaud the story of the Good Samar-
it.ttn, but w]len he said, "Go thou
and cin likewise," not many obeyed
him. One secret of Chrisl.lan effea-
tiyeness is to do as well as we know.
According to the saying of Elijah.
Elijah went according to the word of
tbe Lord; this woman goes according
to the word of the Lord's servant,
• Whether Christians roil) or not they
are treated, in the same way now, (12)
We are God's epistles, read and known
of all men. Many days. Very likely
more than two years. Our authorities
for the three and. a half years' dune -
tion of the famine are Luko 4, 25,
James 5. 17.
TEXAS HIT BY A SHELL.
ONE MAN KILLED AND EIGHT
OTHERS WOUNDED.
Battleship Not Ncrtously Dnnulged—The
0)ead 111111 IHn'I1'd at 800. Ono of the
Injured Ear Dir.
A despatch dated off Santiago, Cuba,
says:—One man was killed on Wednes-
day and eight wounded aboard the Tex-
as. The battleship at the time of the
landing of the troops, went to Maha-
1 morns to make a taint attack upon the
fortifications there hi connection with
a land force of Cubans under General
Rabi, The Texas silenced the Socopa
battery. Just as the action ended a
shell entered the battleship, with the
result given above.
The dead: P. .R. Blakeley of New-
port, IL.I., an apprentice of the first.
TheSpanish Chamber of Deputies
has had under consideration the Re-
publican proposal to establish gener-
al obligatory military service, and to
abo13811 substitutes.
Over 200 sail of fishing vessels bound
for Labrador are blockaded by ice
floes stn Green J311y', Newfoundland,
The north coast is reported filled with
ice, troth floes and bergs,
An old temple et Aisango, Japan, to-
gether with several other valuable
buildings, were destroyed by fire on
May 22. Another temple et Kyoto
was destroyed by the same agent on
May 25, A warehouse was also
destroyed.
The Pope's health according to his
physicians, is quite good, flis Jioliness
has quite recovered from a slight at-
tack of rheuenatoln in the shoulder,
and on Tuesday he transacted business
and promenaded the gardens as usual.
The British steamer Yarn, from Dun-
kirk for Tile Cove, loaded with copper.
for Swansea, entered an ice floe off
the mouth of Notre Dame Bay, New-
foundland, on Saturday, and was crush-
ed, sinking within two hoot's. The
crew arrived at Tilt Cove all right.
During a military veview Tuesday at
Deutsch Eylau, near Osterode., East
Prussia, a soldier in the ranks, whose
identity is not yet established, fired at
General Van Rabe, wounding him in
the leg, and killing his horse. A search-
ing investigation is proceeding.
The situation in the mining reg-
ions of Catalonia, Spain, is most eeri-
ous. There are 17,000 people out of
omptoyment, and more factories are
expected to close shortly. A renewal
of rioting is expected., but the au-
thorities are doing everything to pre-
vent tithe
1'IIGIIT FALL DOWN.
Mr. Newcomb has put up a tem-
porary 1000(1 fence around a pens tree
to keep the cattle frons eating the
loaves off the, lower branches.
You'd bettor not: lean up against it,
said Willie to 'hie little friend oat3 af-
ternoon, it's only just basted.
PIGS AS .BEASTS OP BURDEN.
It is said that in Mont* of the tattling
diotriols of China pigs are harnessed
to small Wagons and made to draw
them.
Glass.
l'he wounded; R. C.:Eagle, seaman,
of New York; H. A. Gee, apprentice,
of Philadelphia ; J, E. Lively, lands-
man, of Norfolk, Va.; Cf. F. Mullen, ap-
prentice, of New York; 3, E. Nelson,
apprentice, of New York; 111, Russell,.
apprentice, of Philadelphia ; W. J, Sim -
0110011, seaman et New York; A. Soo -
gist, seaman of Nesv York,
Russell is very sertuusly wottnfed,
The ethers will all .recover.
The shot which struck the Texas was
about the last tired by the Spaniards
when abandoning the battery under the
heavy, aacuraLe furs of the Texas. it
entered twenty fent abaft the stern
an the port side, about three feet be-
low the main deck line, eat a ,jagged
round bole, the measurement of which
Lndicates that ]t was a 61 -2 -inch pro-
jectile, Oddly enough, after striking
the first obstruolion, the shell failed
to explode. It passed through the
batt ser reel, then cut into a heavy iron
elate -Mien at the centre line of the berth
deck, leaving the upper and lower parts
inleri. Here the explosion occurred.
Standing around at quarters, but not
in action, were the crews of the two
six -pounders located at the forward
compartment of the. berth deck.
Blakeley, who stood about two feet
from the scene of the explosion was
torn to pieces. Pieces of shell flew in
all directions, wounding eight other
men, Part of the shell struck the star-
board plate, causing a slight outward
bulging. The compartment was filled
with smoke and fire, Bose was or-
dered there to extinguish the flames.
Other sbelle exploded near the '1',ex-
es, but outside, .Ensign Anderson, sec-
ond
eaand in command in the port turret,
says ashen exploded ten yards away
on the water, filling the turret with
smoke, The firing aboard the Texas
was confined to the port battery, Con-
tain Phillips spoke highly of all the
mea and officers, 71he best hit was
scored by 'Lieut, Bristol from the port
turret,
Par the first titan during tate war
the impressive ceremonies of a burial
et sea have been witnessed, The Texas
steamed out to sea after the action and
buried Blakeley, returning to her post
on the btookade at 4 pen.
The Man who has never beeii in dan-
ger caertee answer far his courage,-
Johnson, ,
CLIFTON HOUSE IN BENS,
NIAGARA'S WORLD-FAMOUS HOS-
TELRY A PREY TO FLAMES,
Ilud NIINtered Itoyalte 111 Ito i'Inre—ldtso
$1100,000-1'nrlln)ly Irovrred bJ' twin!'111111',
A despatch from Niagara Pelts says;
—The world -famed Clifton House lies
in rules, being totally destroyed with
its contents by firs on Sunday morn-
ing, When the fames were first,lotic-
eel they were in the rear of the big
Wee in the room over the kitchen,
and although the alarm was prompt-
ly given and the entire fire dePa i-
ments from both sides 1'C the river re-
sponded promptly, the water supply in
this particular portion of the town was
inadequate. The fire was noticed about
12 o'clock, and burned fiercely until
2 o'clock. The flames (hat shot out of
every window and towered high in the
air seemed to laugh) at the futile at-
tempts of the laddias with their toy
streams of water, and when they had
exhausted thole fury the large four -
storey hotel, with its shady verandahs
supported with immense pillars, stood
out a total wreak, with only the walls
standing to mark the spot of the
world-wide hostelry, that had been the
;tome during the summer of the best.
families of America es well as Europe.
It counted amongst its many guests
member's of the royal families of Eur-
ope who had visited Niagara. The ho-
tel was a four -storey. large, stone,
roughcast faced building of letter "L"
shape, with a oburt Ln the centre that
contained a regular greenhouse of cool
and shady promenades. The building
contained 250 rooms, which were alt very
expensively furnished and only the very
best of tbe travel was catered for.
This morning 85 guests stere on the
register, and all of thous, lrith their be -
lodgings, were safely taken out of the
place without a single hitch. Amongst
those on the register were Mr, and Mrs.
John Penman, Paris; Dr. Lame and
family', New Orleans; Mayor' Taggart,
Indianapolis, Ind.; Mr. James Macken-
zie, Sarnia. The hotel proper was first
built by 14Ir.Iiarmanius Carysler dur-
ing 1836, who named it the Clifton
Rouse. It afterwards got into the
hands of Mr. Zimmerman, who made
quite an addition to it and made the
place a fashionable resort for sight-
s -ere at Niagara. Its present proprietor,
bit'. George Itt. Colborn, has controlled
the place for thirty years past, and,
had everything to do with tbe famous
name the hotel has throughout the
world. Mr. Colborn is absent from
home in Philadelphia, hat has been ap-
prised by telegraph of his loss. The
hotel was owned by the late Hon. John
T. Bush estate. .Loss to building, $100,-
000, partially covered by insurance;
contents and furnishings, $50,000, par-
tially covered by insurance, The cause
of the fire is unknown as .vet. The
destruction of the hotel win be a big
loss to the place and will throw some
100 people out ot employment. The
fireproof hotel Lafayette, which stands
close to the Clifton House, stood the
heat admirably.
WARSHIP HITS A MINE.
The lilnrblebead Escapes Dlwtrartlon Off
llitantontinlll by Almost it lilrnrle..
A despatch from Playa del .'Este,
Cuba, says; --Sown contact mineswere
taken from the harbor ot Guantanamo
on Wednesday by picked crows from
the Marblehead and Dolphin. The work
was done under heavy fire from the
shore, Which was answered by the
Marblehead and Dolphin. Three of the
six contact arms of one of the mines
were found to have been driven M. It
is believed that this was caused by the
propeller of tate Marblehead or Dolphin
when they went in the other day to
destroy the fort. The driving in of
the arms should have ceased the mine
to explode,
The work of clearing the harbour of
mines will be continued until all have
been taken up. Then one of the light
draught, vessels will go in and capture
or destroy a Spanish gunboat which
is in hiding close to the town.
The work is as dangerous as any
that men are called upon to do in time
al war.
TWO contact mines had already been
taken from the entrance of the chan-
nel loading to Caimanera, and the
Texas struck a third one, which rose
to the surface, and fortunately did not
explode. Commander MaCalle suspec-
ted that there were other mines in
the harbor, and determined to take
them up. He sent four boats with
picked crews to do the work Lieut.
Broughton commanded one beat from
the Marblehead, and Ensign Walter
R. Gberadi, sun of the rear -admiral,
tbe other. The boats from the Dolphin
were in charge of Ensigns Coole and
Stirling. As soon as (he boats had
started the two warships took posi-
tions close 3n, and swept the shorn
with their rapid -Give gnus. The four
little boats stood boldly a1' the channel,
paying no heed to the bullets that
spattered. around them, but attending
striol;ly to the Work of sweeping for
the mines. They had taken up seven
by nm00 and. then abandoned the task
for the day.
There is greet enthusiasm m Camp
McCalla, which is only e. few miles
east of stere, over the arrival of the
troops at; Santiago. One or two regi -
menta we expect will be landed hero,
The marines are all in good health.
Officers of the navy believe Lhat ped
mire' Carver), has mooted his eines 00
as to bring their pore batteries in posi-
tion to command the entrance to the
harbor. It is reported also that the
starboard batteries of alt the ships
have been taken off the ships and
mounted on shore.
WIGHT 13ECOI12L TRUE,
Jos --jack's new wife won't speak to
me,
Tom—Why net 11
Jots ---I got conftteed at the wedding,
and tendered hies my sympathy in-
stead 01 congratalations,
James A. Beli, of Beaverton, Out.,
brother of the Rev. John Wesley dell,
S.D., prostrated by nervous headaches
A victim of the trouble for several
years.
South American Nervine effected a
complete ,cure.
In their owe particular field few men
are beter known than the Rev. John
Wesley Bell, B.D. and his brother Mr.
James A. Bell. The former wet 0c re-
cognized by his thousands of friends all
over the country as the popular and able
misslanary superintendent of the Royal
Templure of Temperance. Among the
20,000 members of this.order in Ontario
his counsel is sought on all sorts of oc-
casions. On the public platform he is one
of the strong men of the day, battling
against the evils of intemperance.
Equally well knoevn.is bfr. Belbin other
provinces of the Dominion, having been
for years a member of the Manitoba
Metbodist Conference and part of this
tithe was stationed in Winnipeg. I•Iis
brother, hir. James A. Bell, is a highly
respected resident of Beaverton, o'nere
his influence, though perhaps more cir-
cumscribed than that of his eminent
brother, is none the less effective and
productive of good. Of recent years,lyw-
ever, the working ability of Mr. James
A. Bell has been sadly marred by severe
attacks of nervous headache, accom-
peeled by indigestion. Who can do tit
work when this trouble takes hold of
them and especially co
p y when it be arcs
chronic, as was, seemingly, the case with
Mr. Bell? The trouble reaehed sun in,
tensity that last June he wits complete.
ly prostrated. In this coodition a friend
recommended South American Nervone,
Ready to try anything and everything,
though he thought be had covered the
list of proprietary medicines, he seaured
a bottle of this great discovery. dt
second bottle of the medicine was takes
and the work was done. Employing Ma
own language; "Two bottles of South'
American Nervine immediately relieved
my headaches and have buin up my
system in a wonderful manner." Let us
not deprecate the good our ctergyme(
and 800101 reformers are doing In the
world, but hots ill -fitted they would b
for their work were It not the relief
that South American Nervine brings to
them when physical ills overtake
them, and when the system, as a re.
cult or hard, earnest and eoutlett0 e
work, breaks down. Nerving treats the
system asthe wise reformer treats the
evils he is battling against. It strums at
the root of the trouble. All dla.
ease comes from dlg or nnizntio of the
nerve centers. This is a scientific tact.
Nervine et once works ea these nerve
centers; gives to them health and vig-
or; and then there courses through the
system strong, healthy, lite-matutatninq
blood, and -nervous troubles of every
variety are, things of the past.
Sold by G. A. Deadman.
?r throshOld of Santiago de Cuba, wLLlf
FIGHT. NEAR A.: - I m 't•
R S IiTIAGOi ore L cops ga' t r d L tl
ing 0 war Cons •an y
and they are preparing for a final as -
THIRTEEN AMERICANS KILLED AND saint upon the city.
The following officers were wounded;
FIFTY WOUNDED. Major Brodie, shot through the right
forearm, Captain MoClintock, troop B,
Biz l)llicet;c Among the Sufferers—The Fat. shot through the right leg, Lieut. J.
011310lleet Tock Place 0n Srldly horn• R. Thomas, troop L, shot through the
ing—ypantee Dercated. right leg, His condition is serious. All
the foregoing officers are Roitgh Rid -
On board the Associated Press des- era. Other officers wounded are Captain
patch boat Wanda, off Juraguaga.— Itnox, whose condition is serious; Ma -
This morning, Friday, four troops of 'rife ofethe 1st;CaBvtlun, 'Chose officers
the First cavalry, four troops of the .Edward :Marshall, correspondent of
Tenth cavalry, and eight troops of :Cho New Iorlt Journal mut Advertiser
Rosaevolt's Rough Riders—less than a
was seriously wounded in the small of
thousand mon in all—dismounted and the back.
attaoked 2,000 Spanish soldiers in 111e Itis probable tvou at Mast tea men in
p the list of wounded will die.
thickets within five miles of Santiago SPAN.i.SIT 11EPORTS Ob' ']7Ii; T'I(JI-IT.
de Cuba, The Americans beat the en- A desputoh from Madrid says: --Gen.
etny back -into the city, but they lett:
Linares, commanding the Spanishfosw
the following dead upon the field: e•s at Santiago, has cabled to General00100(1, eneteeer et war, Llte following
Rough Riders—Captain Allyn K. Cap- official report. of the fighting which
ran of $roup 1.; Sergeant Ilamilton, took place near Santiago friday morn-
leisheaun.; Privates Tillman and Dew ing;—
son, both troop L; Private Dougher- bans attacked
force of Americans umn i-
ttacke [ the Spanish column in
Ly of troop A, Private W. T, Erwin the ltiils near Sevilla. The enemy was
of troop h'. • .repulsed with heavy losses. The Span-
, lards Cavalry—Privates Dix, lore; lardshadsev0U killed and1;wenty-
B,jork, Kolbe, Llerlin and Lenmark. Seven wounded.
Phe debark, tion 0t the American
Tenth Cavalry—Corporal White, troops is continuing at Juregua, w11ieh
At least fifty Americans were wound- pwandone.d 11038
owlaceing toas (.stahn terrffte aabynnonthen.do850C t tieh.
heavy glans of the American warships
covering the landing. The buildings
were nil destroyed. The 8panittrds i.,
hired, but tock with them all their
munitions.
'The debarkation oC the American .
troops tnnt1ntllss in the Ensenada tuin-
ornd dlstrial'., which i 0vucuated, des'
directed the operate/is of the Rough y - vitinge, Owing 10 the
Riders several miles west. Both Part' fact that the. Ainerien.n ,spaces on was
1 bombarding within •2,001) -poses or 000
its struck the Spaniards about 1118 same trenches, we removed 11'1
time, and the right lasted an hour. The oat ma-
tinee,
ed, Including six offioors, Several of
the Wounded will die, 'Twelve dead
Spaniards were found in the bush after
the fight, belt their: loss was doubtless
Cur in excess of, that. General Young
comivanded -the expedition, and was
With the regulars, while Colonel Wood
arra in Ihn
Spantards opened fire from the, thick
brush and had every advantage of num.
bees and position, but the troops drove
them back from the start, stormed the
hlookhoase around which they made
the final stand, and dent them scatter -
Log over the moulitains, The cavalry.
men were afterwards retnfarced by the
7th, 12111, and 17th Intantry, part of
the Oth Cavalry, the 2nd Massachusetts
Captain -General Ilia000 telegraphs
teem Ilav(10)0 that a Lourie et 31(0 Am-
ericans attacked the Spaniards neer
Siboney and, huvilla, 711e Spaniards
had three men killed and three wound-
ed. The Americans else atlaekcd ilio
Spanish troops under General R.uhnn,
but were repulsed and pursued. Tho
Spaniards captured the Americans'
ammunition ant. clothing. The. Am -
and Lilo 71st New York, The Anleri- ericans, he pays, have, bombarded
calls now hold the posttien at the Casella