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TES BRIJI3SII1LS POST.
The News
Briefly Told.
TIN WORLD'S EVENTS OF INTEREST
CHRONICLED IN SHORT ORDER.
Interesting happenings of Recent Date—The
Latent News of Our Own Country—Doings
In the Mother Land—What is Going on In
tho United States—Notes Prom the World
ever.
CANADA.
HumeIton wants a home for incur-
ables,
Atlin district is petitioning for a
Circuit Court Judge.
The Legislature of British Columbia
will meet en Jan. 4.
The Winnipeg Rowing Club will or.
ga'nize en eight -oared orew.
A Miami, Man., farmer's crop of
wheat averaged 40 bushels to the acre,
The Prince of Wales' Fusiliers of
Montreal will visit Toronto on Thanks-
giving Day,
A detachment of Royal Artillery has
been suddenly ordered to leave Hali-
fax for Esquimalt.
Joseph Brenner committed suicide by
throwing bimself in front of a train
at Ashcroft, 13, C.
Commissioner McCrary has placed
the number of new settlers in the west,
arriving this year, at 40,000.
Deliveries of wheat are delayed at
manypoints in Manitoba owing to the
scarcity of men and teams.
Sir Henri Jaly will likely visit Win-
nipeg shortly to scrutinize the work-
ing of the new grain inspection ant,
week's Easiness recorded in the his-
tory of the clearing house, For tbreo
sucoeesivo weeks the clearings have
been ovor the million merle,
Tion. Mr.J3lair and President Shaugh-
nessy of the Canadian Pacific Railway
have been conferring in Montreal re-
garding a settlement of the differences
between the Intoroolonial and the Can-
adian Pacific 1'ly. There are prospects
of a satisfaotory settlement,
Hebert, the eminent artist( of Mont-
real, has made good progress with
the statue of Her Majesty the Queen
which was ordered by the Dominion
Government to be erected at Ottawa,
This statue is being cast in Paris, and
will be completed some time next
March.
Marks of honor have been bestowed
by the German Emperor on. Supt.
Boetill'er and other members of the
Government staff, on Sable Island, for
saving the captain end orew of the
German steamer Moravia, which ran
on the northeast b•ir in a blinding
snowstorm one morning last Febru-
ary,
Lindsay ratepayers have voted
against by-laws to raise $20,000 for
street improvements and $7,000 for a
new fire hall.
The Mount Royal ('fining Co. of Ot-
tawa bas been organized with $1,000,-
000 capital to operate in Lake of the
Woods district.
The Department of Public Works at
Ottawa is calling for tenders for 150
tone of telegraph wird for the Lake
Bennett-IDawson liue.
Mr. Sifton lvill appoint an official to
issue permits for the importation of
liquor into the Yukon, a fee of $2
per gallon being charged.
James Hughes bus been commixed
for trial at Golden, B.C., on the charge
of murdering Alex. MacAulay, at Tete-
Joune-Cacho last July.
The Hamilton Retail Grocers' Asso-
ciation has asked the co-operation of
the Trades and Labor Council in the
early, closing movement.
The aunuo,l meeting of the Canadian
Bankers' Association will be held in
Montreal on Ootober 25 and the sec: -
reeding two or three days.
Tho Montreal police inquiry estab-
lishes the fact that it was custom-
ary to charge applicants from $100 to
$300 for a position on the force.
The Cataract Power Comliany has
offered electric power for Hamilton's
waterworks at $14,000 a year, but the
oost by steam is only $11,688.
Mrs. John Baker, of Clappison's Cor-
ners, died suddenly of heart failure,
in a dentist's office in Hamilton, after
having had several teeth extracted.
The Government bus directed Geo,
Johnson, Dominion Statistician, to
prepare a handbook on Canada for
distribution at the Paris Exposition.
James Marshall, Wentworth county
councillor, has just wheeled from his
home in Barton Township to Mont-
rose, Man,, nearly 1,700 miles, in 16
days.
Great qualities of fruit are beteg
shipped doily from Winona to Win-
nipeg, Ottawa and Montreal, besides
largo shipments to England every
meek.
Wh:Le wroatling with a companion
is Crow's saw -mill at Lindsay, Angus
McDonald fell against a revolving saw
and it eat him in several places fn Ir
serious manner.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Lord Watson, the well-known Eng-
lish Judge, is dead.
Tho half -yearly meeting of the
Grand Trunk Railway Co. will be held
in London on Oct, 12.
The British Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science has granted $5,-
000 toward the expenses of an Ant-
arctic expedition,
A London despatch says the Queen
has sent Emperor William a prized
ropy of her family tree, showing King
David at tbe Top,
car, In tow of a scudding engine, sent
out for it, was a thrilling sight,
GENERAL,
Floods are raging in Silesia and
Bavaria.
The crop outlook In Western India
has improved.
The 13hils and other wild tribes are
showing restlessness in Guzerat,
India.
Four men were killed by the explo-
sion of the boiler on the German war-
ship Waoht, at Kiel,
A Shanghai despatch says 2,000
deaths from the plague have occurred
in the airy of Nin-Chwang,
Germans at Apia are said to be sow-
ing seeds of discord between Great
Brit.alu and the United States.
The French Government has distri-
buted $60,000 among the sanitary au-
thorities to protect France against the
plague.
The discontent over the new taxes
continues aL Barcelona. Carliet plots
have been discovered In the neighbor-
ing villages.
(Brazil talks of putting an export
duty on coffee to France, Germany and
Italy three times greater than the
value of the article.
Turkey has refused to allow the Ar-
menians who emigrated to the Cau-
oases at the time of the Kurdish atro-
cities, to return to their homes,
VANDERBILT ESTATE TAX.
Stnto and Nation Will 001 Some
000,000.
Sir Thomas Lipton's Secretary has
been convicted on u charge of using
for too making of jam, fruit which
wits unfit for food.
Queen Victoria bus received many
telegrams from home and abroad beg-
ging her to plead with President Lou -
bet for a pardon for Dreyfus,
it is reported in London that Sir
George S. White, V. 0., former Quar-
termaster -General, bus been selected
to command the British forces in
Natal,
Sir Thomas Henry Sanderson, K.C.B.
Permanent Under-Secretary of Stats
for b'oreign Affairs is talked of as
successor to Lord Pauneafote at Wash-
ington.
1.1 is "understood that Lord Jersey
will be the first Governor-General of
Australia and Sir George Turner, pre-
sent Premier of Victoria, the first
Federal Premier,
The report is current that a marriage
has been arranged between the Hon.
the kite Lord Walter Campbell, third
son of the Duke, of Argyle,. and Miss
Aimee Laurance, daughter of the late
NIr. John Laurance, of New York city.
The British Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science successfully ex-
changed courtesies with the French
Association for the Advancement of
Science, in session at Boulogne-sur-
lVlor, using wireless telegraphy.
A0 order for a thousand tons of spe-
cial brands of iron has recently been
Lrlaced in Glasgow by Canadian buyers,
owing to the 'high prices ruling in the
United States. Good judges think the
movement is likely to increase.
A gift of £400 has been received from
Mr. James Woodward of Dubuque, Ia„
by the Wesleyan chapel of Birk -by -
Stephen, out of gratitude for Sunday
school teaching received there 40 years
ago. Mr. Woodward recently sant the
chapel another contribution for the
same amount.
Building statistics for this year at
Brantford show that $130,000 has been
expended. All but a smell portion of
this sum has been for the erection of
private residences.
03y -laws grunting W, W. Ogilvie, of
Montreal, exemption and free site for
his big new flour mill and elevator at
Fort William, were carried practical-
ly without opposition. The vote stood
437 to 10.
The 1VLunicipal Clerks' Association of
the Guilty of Oxford think they are
receiving too small wages, and will
probably pass a resolution asking Lha
Legislature to fix a minimum salary
for their services.
Manitoba's big wheat crop is now on
the move, deliveries are general all
along the main line of the C. P. It,
and all over the southwestern portion
of the province. Most of the crop
grades No. 1 hard.
A memorial has been received by the
Government from the shipping men,
asking that Thanksgiving Day be fixed
on a date after the close of navigation,
as the suspension of business so late
La the season involves loss.
The Government had decided to re-
strict the use of the Soulanges Canal
for this year to boats drawing 0 ft.
and under in order to give the oon-
tractors every opportunity to put on
the finishing touches.
It is said that W. A. Carlyle, super-
intendent of the Le BM mine, former
mineralogist of British Columbia, has
been offered the superintendency of
the 1110 Tinto mines, in Spain, at a
ealary of $25,000 a year.
Montrealers are hereafter to have
cheaper electric lighting. The Royal
Etocteic Company have decided to nut
the price to the rate of one half cant
per ampere hour, in place of three-
(murters of a oent as is now the ease.
Mra, Sullivan, the Nanalmo woman
whom tbe police gave up for dead, is ll'fatal( shot Ins wife,
alive and well, after existing for three H. Beientnay
days nod nights in the bush without the eartridgeaaoidentally exploded,
A United States syndicate, • headed
by the Johnsons, of Brooklyn, is
making all arrangements to scour° the
passage inParliament of a private bill
which shell enable it to run an elec-
tric trolley line from London to Brigh-
ton. The promoters intend to make
the journey of 51 miles in an hour
and a half, and at a rate of 1 shilling.
Walter Wellman, the leader of the
Wellman Polar expedition, who arrty-
od in 'London on August 28, after suc-
cessful explorations in Franz Josef
Lund, has undergone the first surgi-
cal operation for straightening his
right .leg, which was seriously injur-
ed by Mr. Wellman falling into a snow-
covered crevice while leading his par-
ty.
UNITED STATES.
New Orleans has four cases of yel-
low fever.
Admiral Schley has been assigned to
oommand of the South Atlantic station.
An Indian family of five is reported
to have been murdered at Fort Wran-
gel.
Anti -Imperialists at Meadville, Pa.,
have prevented an army officer from
getting recruits there.
A monster mass meeting to protest
against the sentencing of Capt. Drey-
fus is lasing planned in Chicago.
Alexander Sheppard, of Washing-
ton, D.C., has sold his mining proper-
ties in Bato Pita, Mexico, to an Eng-
lish syndicate for S5,000,000.
Thu Adirondack Match Co. at Og-
densburg, N.Y., has closed down, die -
charging all employees and passing in-
to the control of the Diamond Matob
Co.
Tbc Grand Trunk Railway has a big
exhibit of 250 pictures of • Canadian
scenery and a collection of brook trout
from the ITaliburlon district, at the
Fair. in St. Louis.
A consignment of one million dol-
lars' .worth of Klondike gold for the
United States assay offioe arrived at
Seattle an the steamer Cleveland from
St. Michael's. The consignors were the
Canadian Bank of Commerce, $600,000;
wad too Bank of British North Am-
erica, $400,000.
Gen, Merritt will be sent out to
Manila, to manage the subjugation of
the Filipinos, with Otis in the came
relative relation. President McKinley
thinks this will not humiliate Otis,
and this he is very desirous to avoid,
believing that Otis deserves well of
the Administration,
Wh''lo pinking apart a cartridge in
his home at Newark, N. 3., Eugene
Aid,.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
UNTN)1NAT10NAL LESSON, OCT. 1.
,. Joy lin hod's house." Pm. 122. Volde11
'rex1. Iso, 102. 1.
PRACTICAL NOTES,
Vera° 1. 1 was glad. "My lase was
joy-ligh:tented.' When they said unto
me, Let us go Into the house of the
Lord. At the beginning of the great
annual feasts the people of Jerusalem
were aeetlatomed to flock out from
the pity to welcome the earlier pilgrim
oar•avans. 'The (meeting of the two
multitudes was one of the sights of
Jerusalem; they hailed each other
with enthusiustie expressions of joy
and triumph. It was suoh an occasion
that our Lord used as a background
for h:s triumphal entry. Songs of wet -
come,, which included blessings on
those who came in the name oe the
Lord, and invitations to partiolpate in
the temple ceremonies, were responded
to by each songs as this: "1 was glad
when they eeid.unto me, Lel us go In-
to the house of the Lord," Tho text
suggests several truths: 1. True wor-
€J1ip 'ls a joyous worship, inducing
praise and song. The pilgrims to
Jeruealom are (spinal of penitents
coming to the Saviour. 2. Many a
penitent would rejoice if, with over-
flowing hearts, Christians said Lo him,
not "Go Lo church," but "Lot us go."
8. The house of the Lord is the center
of all religion, intelligence, and bene-
ficence.
2. Our feet shall stand, "are stand-
ing" or 'have stood,' within thy gates,
0 Jerusalem. We have traveled a
great distance to reach the Holy City;
now at Lhe entrance we pause a mo-
ment in cbeer delight.
8. Jerusalem is builded as a oity
that Is compact together. Imagine a
modern metropolis with front yards
and back yards and spaces between
houses closely builded upon, no spaces
open to the sky except Liny courts
surrounded by the solid masonry of
private houses, no parks and no eve-
nues, :most of the etc•eets covered and
in many cases builded over for
tenements, and you get some concep-
tion of the solidity of Jerusalem, 1f
any of the citizens owned gardens,
they lay beyond the city wails; for
Jerusalem eonld never overleap the
valleys of the Kedr'an and Hinnom; it
wee shut in, and the population so
doubled on itself that Dr. Edersheim
tells as that in the time of
Jesus there was a considerable
underground population, The psalm -
let's dt,iehr, Ln 111111 con{i'auaness
is largely due to his contrast of the
A despatch from New York, says:—
Cornelius
ays:Cornelius Vanderbilt's vast estate
must remain tied up hard and fast un-
til Alfred Vanderbilt, his second son,
can arrive home from Japan, For four
weeks, therefore, the millions be-
queathed by the head of the house will
be legally without a master. Until the
legal formalities have been complied
with William K, Vanderbilt will con-
tinue to manage the property, as he
has done practically over since his
brother's first illness, three years ago.
Assuming that the estate will
amount to $100,000,000, and that it is
devised to the direst heirs, it will pay
an inheritance tax to the State of
$1,000,000, of which one per cent., or
$10,000, will go to Controller Bird S.
Cater to compensate him for the cost
of collection. Another tax upon the
estate will bo collected by the Collector
of Internal Revenue as a war tax, and
will be paid into Lhe treasury of the
United States, The law provides for
a tax of two and one-quarter per cent.
on bequests of $1,000,060, or more to
children of the testator, four and one -
halt per cent. on legacies to nephews
and nieces, and fifteen per cent. on
bequests to others than blood rela-
tions,
It the estate is $100,000,000, there-
fore, the Government tax will be at
least $2,500,000, so that to the State
and the nation $8.500,000, will be paid
?before the property is divided. The
sum Oboe will actually be paid may
reach $4,000,000, as Lhe State collects
five per cent. on collateral bequests.
This will probably he the largest tax
ever lav:ed on an estate in this
country.
New facts in regard to Mr. Vander-
bilt's private charities, concerning
which he always observed the greatest
seoreey, are becoming known. Sen-
ator lDepew said last night that he
probably dispensed $500,000 a year in
these benefactions.
food or water. Mrs. Sullivan says she
teals stronger and better than she did
'before, thMontreal Police Committee has
e
and the bullet struck her in the heart.
She was at his side watching him: il-
lustrate the manner in which cart-
ridges were made.
decided• to hold an investigation as to i1 Montpelier, O„ npeelal; The
whether any epeolnlments have been through Canadian Pacific sleeper Pal -
made on thee police foto°, as alleged, extinct, at the rear of the Wabash fast,
hribery and corruption, and to ex- express, duo in Chicago at 10,55 0,m.,
was disoovored to be on firs on Thurs-
day. The train was stopped, but the
amino all the members of the force
under oath._ rink clearings for the
Vancouver b g
STRUCK BY • N ALDERMAN.
A Prominent Inner:. It Man In a P e
canon. Orndltlmi.
A despatch from Ingersoll, Ont.,
says:—AC his residence, on Frances
street, ex -Mayor Thomas Seldon, the
well-known apple exporter, lies In a
precarious condition in consequence, it
is alleged, of a blow dealt him in
the face by H., D. McCarty,' a member
of the Town Council, on Monday,
McCarty was placed under arrest
about 3 o'clock on Thursday, charged
with aggravated assault. On appearing
before Magistrate Morrisou his relens°
was .secured on bail 'for $2,000 being
furnished, his own recognizance for
$1,000 and two sureties, Micheal Dunn
and Charles Harris, for $000 each.
The affair has created great excite-
ment here.
When the trouble occurred the two
men were engaged in a street corner
controversy, Mr. Seldon was struck
under the eye, and erysipelas developcl
Lhe following day, since which Limo bo
has been unable to leave his home.
crew finding itself unable to ext:ln-
week ending Thursday wens $1,180,821, guish the fire, the ear was detected
balance $1813,1.10, Tbis is the largest and the train rushed on. The flaming
the kings of Judah sat. Wrought in-
to tire toren of a bull with it head
turned Over its shoulder, it was ap-
proaelied by steps on which were die
lions of gold. The bull was, it. 10 sup-
i:oyeci, the emblem of Lpbruim and the
lions the emblem of Judah. The peal-
miiti dere not °illy glances bank hie -
Lunen ily to the time before the parti-
tion of the kingdom', when Jerusalem
n
was OW splendid ail Y. of the thi n606
the house of David, but prophetically
he thinks also of the future Israel
united forever under one soe'pter. 9.
To the ends of I he earth great David's
greater Son will yet. (bear sway;
6, Pray for the peace" of Jerwvalem.
Althougla. living long before Christian
times, the author had a neer a /nigh
vision of God not( to pray for sure: os
of armies, but for peace. Coelrluesis,
with hardly an exception, are curses
Lo the nation thatmakes them. Peace,
the peace that passeth understanding,
is the ahoieest gift of God to man.
Jeriusulem means peace. The Chris-
ter* Church elands for peau. Pray
that bei eundition may verify her title.
They shall prosper that love thee.
Whoever intelligently loves Jerusalem
levee 'what Jerusalem stands for: God
in the world, goodness in life, spiritual
and intellectual enlightenment, the
dawn of Christianity, Ther great
forces eventually will dominate the
earth ; therefore all that are in bar -
away with them have the basis of
permanent prosperity.
7. Peace be within thy walls, and
prosperity within thy palaces, As a
capital city Jermsalem wits palatial,
and walls outside wells surrounded it.
The psalmist, in grouping its homes
in his mind so that they might be pray-
ed for at once, thinks of them as a
collection of princely mansions.
8. For my brethren and compan-
ions sakes, I will now say, Peace be
within thee. "'Chis man wanted a
blessing not for himself merely, but
for all," says en old. writer. His
prayers were not selfish; his benedic-
tion was an earnest prayer for others
0. Because of the house of the Lord
our God I will seek thy good. Here is
the key -note of the (whole psalm. '10
the psalmist's mind the oily existed
for the temple, and the temple for God.
lu manufacture and merehnndise, in
architecture and works of defense,
many an oriental capital surpassed
Jerusalem, but in religious force it
was unequaled. "It existed for pil-
grims- frweni.y thousand priests were
needed for the conduct of its
worship. Levites in greater num-
bers end scribes skilled in the Scrip-
tures and traditions did their religious
work; the first o0 a physical sora, the
second deeply intellectual and spiritu-
al. In latter days there were four
hundred and eighty synagogues in
Jerusalem, where the rabbis read and
the people heard the', word which God
Was spoken. The city as indeed in a
sense the religion of Israel incorpor-
ated'and localized, and the mon who
loved the one turned doily his face to-
ward the other." , So writes Dr. Fair-
bairn. What Jerusalem was Lo the
Jew the Christian Church should be to
era,
new and stately bulldings , with the
ruins which had lain there so long.
But in this passage' Jerusalem is chief-
ly regarded as the type of lbs Church
of God in heaven and on earth. The
happy man who wrote these linos and
the happy folk who ',sang them may
not have bad our, clear eunoeptionU of
Lhe Church, either militant or trium-
phant. But by them, els by us, the
capital city of Jewry was revered! not
because of its granite and marble, even
where those materials were wrought,
into the walls oO God's houseJ'but be-
cause of the religious forces ell which
it was rho center. t Through all! ages
Athens stands for wisdom, Corinth for
delights, Rome for government, Bag-
dad for romunoe; but Jerusalem was
the typo of the +Church of God. And
we have only to follow the ecstatic dis-
covery of the seer of the New Testa,
mens to perceive that it is also the
type of the forces and the joys of hea-
veel.
4. Whither p the tribes go up, the
tribes of the Lord, Mose of thus,: whu
returned from Babylon were members
of the. tribe of Judaea; but procably ev-
ery tribe was represented, and pilgrims
to Jerusalem came every year from
every part of the Holy Land. Just
here is a medical lesson which Mr.
Spurgeon beautifully deduces; As Is-
rael, divided by trines, was, neverthe-
less, one people, so, 4. Christendom is
essentially one, though divided into
Methodist., Presbyterian and other
trihes. And as all were tribes of Jo-
hovah, whether Judah or Bonjatnin, or
Manasseh, or Ephraim, so, 5. All the
Churches may; be, and should be, equal-
ly the Lord's own. Unto the testimony
of Israel. The Revised Version, "For
a testimony unto Israel," makes the
meaning plainer. Tho law which or-
dered all males to appear before the
Lord. each year was a " testimony" to
Israel of God's covenant with it. Just
as the annual observance of the'First
of July as Dominion clay is an historic
evidence of the orga.nization'of the, Do-
minion, so the pilgrimage customs were
evidences and testimonies of a religious
eom'puot made between God and reran.
Here again is a lesson for us. The
temple, and, all its ceremonies, and the
annual journeys to it, were no ,more
of a testimony to the Mosel° religion
than: are 'our Sabbath day and our re-
gular participation in public and pri-
vate worship to the religion of Christ.
6. We are God's witnesses; and even
to pass through the streets on Sun-
day, with la Bible or a bymnal in one's
hand is an appreciable testimony un-
to the ,world. To give thanks unto the
name of the Lord, Testimony to God
brings sincere t'6lanksgiving, for God's
dealings with es neve been
kind beyond ' computation. 7. The
true Christian finds attendance upon
worship an occasion of delight and of
praise.
5, There. In Jerusalem. Are set
thrones of judgment, Darnel was to
be pre-eminently the people of God, and
it beea.ms necessary that the capital
of newt nation should be the rcillst• of
religions worship. In our own land
we thieve ranch reason to thank God for
the separation of Church and State;
nevertheless, g.,;Church and State
should nlways be, its Matthew Henry
says, near neighbors end good neigh-
bors
a gbars who •greatly boutons 0115 cora-
or, Inhnginative coloring may bo
brought to this verse by remembering
the majestic throne of jvery en which
BURIED BENEATH A WALL.
Four Strathroy Flrenten Infura1, Ono of
Thetis Fatally,
A despatch from Strathroy, Ont„
says:—Fire broke out in a barn in the.
old Johnston property at 8.45 on Wsd-
neaday night. The rear wall of tbe
barn fell in, burying' four firemen be-
neath the ruins.
Of these, Frank Urquart was seri-
ously, if not fatally, injured. Joseph
Northcott was slightly injured, Geo.
Beard eat in tho head, Harry Butler
internally injured.
'J:he four men were buried beneath
the rains for about 20 minutes. Doo -
tors Were promptly on the spot.
.At the time of writing Urquart's in-
juries are unknown, but the belief is
that they will prove fatal.
HIS PICK HIP DYNAMITE.
Montreal tabourer Killed While Gigging
a 'rrenelt.
A despatch from Montreal, says:
Joseph Dufresne, who was employed•on
a sewer trench in a north-eastern
suburb, near the Shamrook athletic
g
roeinds, aaoidentally struok a dyna-
mite cartridge with his Ptck on Tiles -
day morning. The explosion wliioli re-
sulted, inflicted 'terrible injuries in
Dufresne, end he only lived long
enough to rnneive the last tithe of the
Media.
ROYAL TRAIN WAS WRECKED.
queen',) tl0,n(lchIId and her "husband
Narrowly Escape Death.
A despatch from Perth, Scotland,
says: Prince and Princess Hohen-
lohe-Langenburg narrowly (escaped
death while going to Balmoral to
visit the Queen on Tuesday. Their
Strain collided with another train at
this station, The Royal saloon car-
riage was half telescoped. As the
Prinoe and Princess occupied the rear
end of the oar, they suffered only a
severe shook, and proceeded to Bal-
moral. No one was seriously injur-
ed.
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DIED AT THE AGE OF 106.
Tee oldest Resident o1' Lincoln enemy
passes Away.
A despatch Lrom St. Catharines, Ont.,
says:—Toe oldest resident. of the
County of Lincoln, Mrs, Win. O'Con-i
nor, died on Wednesday morning at
,the residence of her daughter, Mrs.
John Arbuthnot, Grantham. She was
105 years of age, and had liven in this
vicinity for at least half a century,
having come from Ireland. She had
only two children in this country, Mrs,
Arbuthnot and Alr. Patrick O'Connor,
of this city, The latter is the young-
est of Mrs. O'Connor's children, and he
is quite well advanced in years him-
self. Mrs. O'Connor was a sister of
the late Bruce Riordon, of this oity,
who accumulated considerable pro-
perty, which he parcelled out to his
relatives before his death. Mrs,
O'Connor retained many of her feoul-
ties to the last.
DARING BANK BURGLAR.
Killed the OaslNhr mei Shot Another
1101,.
A despatch from Chicago says:—The
Bank of Palatene, 111., 20 miles from
this city, was entered, by a burglar on
Wednesday evening. le. J. Fildert, the
cashier, resisted, and was shot in the
head. Ela will die. After firing at
Fildert the robber rushed from the
bank. He was met:by H. 0. Plagg, a
citizen, who attempted to capture the
robber single-handed. ' Plagg was
shot in the heed, but threw his oppon-
ent to the ground, and only gave up
the fight when he was hammered into
insensibility by the butt of (:he rob-
ber's revolver. A posse chased and
captured the robber. Ile was at once
Placed in gaol under a strong guard.
—�—
$15,000 IN NOTES GONE.
liurginrs plow once the Safe at Ian -
east e y ant,
A desllatcb from Cornwall says:—
Some time between Saturday night and
Monday morning burglars broke into
A. McArthur and Sons' office at South
Lancaster, blew open the safe, and
carried off notes drawn on the name
tef the firm for between $12,000 and
$15,000. This is the secord time with-
in two months that the office, which
adjoins Choir saw mills at. Lancaster,
bas been broken into. Thinks have
been notified mot to oaah the notes. A
reward is offered for thole return.. .
IN
ERPUL
NER.
James A. Bell, of Beaverton, Oct.,
brother of the . Re0. John W esiey Bell,
MD., prostrated by nervous headaches
A victim of the trouble for several
years.
South American Nervine effected a
complete . eure.
In their own particular MO few men
are beter known than the Rev. John
Wesley Bell, IAD. and his brother Mr.
James A. Bell. IAD.,
former win ne re-
cognised by his thousands of friends all
over the country as the popular and able
missionary superintendent of the Royal
Templars of Temperance. Among the
1:0,000 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, nettling
against the evils of intemperance.
hqunlly well known ie Mr. Bell in other
provinces of the Dominion, having been
for years a member of the Manitoba
Methodist Conference and part of this
time was stationed in 'Winnipeg. His
brother, Mr. Janes A. Bell, to a highly
respected resident of Beaverton, where
ills influence, though perhaps more cir-
cumscribed than that of his eminent
brother, is none the less effective and
productive of good. Of recent years,b.'w-
ever, the working ability of Mr. James
A. Bell has been sadly marred by severe
attacks of nervous herBache, accom-
panted by indigestion. Whe can do fit
work when this trouble takes hold of
them and especially when It becomes,
chronic, an was, seemingly, the ease with,
Mr. Belle The trouble reached sues in-
tensity that last June he was eoimplete-
ly prostrated. In this condition a friend
recommended South American Nervine.
Ready to try anything and everything.
though hethougbt he had covered titer
list of proprietary medicines, he secured
a bottle of this great discovery. A
second bottle of the medicine was taken
and the work was done. Employing bee.
own language: "Two bottles of Routh
American Nervine immediately .relieved
my headaches and have bmisup my
system in a wonderful manner." Let us
not deprecate the good our crergymet
and social reformers are doing in tee
world, but how ill -fitted they would be
for their work were it not the relief
that South American Nervine brings is
them when physical ills overtake
them, and when the system, as a roe
suit of hard, earnest and continuous
work, breaks down. Nervine treats tee
system as the wise reformer treats the
evils he is battling against, It strums all
the root of the trouble. A11 die..
ease comes from disorganization of the
nerve centers. This is a scientific fad.
Nervine at once works on these verve
centers; gives to them healtb and vig-
or; and then there courses through the
system strong, healthy, lite-maintaishi
blood, and nervous troubles of dare
variety are things of the pass.
Sold by G, A. Deadman.
WHY DREYFUS WAS PARDONED.
The «'nr Minister's Report Preceding, the
Decree.
A despatch from Paris, says:—Tho
Journal Official of Thursday publish-
ed the decree granting pardon to Drey-
fus. In a report preceding the de-
cree the Marquis de Gallifet, Minister
of W.ar, points out that Dreyfus has al-
ready undergone five years' deporta-
tion, but that, as the law does .not as-
similate his deportation with five
years' solitary confinement, the pris-
oner would have to undergo ten years'
detention. Tlie Minister also calls at-
tention to the fact that the health of
the prisoner is seriously compromised,
anti that he would not be able without
great danger to undergo prolonged
detention.
The report of the War Minister con-
cludes thus..
The Government will not have mei
the wishes of the country, which de-
sires pacification, if it docs not hast-
en to efeace all traces of the painful
conflict, It 'belongs to you, M. le
President, by an net of lofty human-
ity, to give the first pledge of the
appeasement, which opinion de-
mands, and the good of the Republic
commends.
ORDER TO THE ARMY.
The INII'nister of War, Gemmel the
Marques de Gallifet, has addressed the
fihlowing order to the corps com-
manders:—
Tho incident is elosed. The mill-
tory judges, enjoyling the respect: of
ell, have rendered their verdict with
complete :independence, Wo all, with-
out harboring afterthought, bend to
their decision. We shall in the same
manner accept the, nation that a feel-
ing of profound pity, dictated lo the
President of the ;Bielmblio. . There tan
be no further question of reprisals of
any kind. Home, S repeat it, the in-
cident is closed. I ask you, and, if it
were necessary, I should command
you, to forget. the pest in order that
you can think eo1ely of the future,
With you and all meg comrades I pro-
claim vivo Permee, which belongs to
no other party but to France alone.
(Signed) Gallifet.
The order will be read to the troops
throughout the French army.
GOT HER CHILD BY FORCE.
Mrs. henry Tree, Formerly of Toronto.
Secures Possession of Iter Little Girl.
A despatch from Montreal says: --i.
A sensational kidnapping case was ne,
ported to the police on Thursday night.
Little Violet Tree, the sixteen -months -
old daughter of Sydney Tree, formerly'
of Toronto, but now of Montreal, was
kidnapped from the home of her grand-
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tree,
Thursday afternoon, and up to the, pre-
sent she has not been recovered.
Mr, Tree went to Manitoba some
time ego, leaving his wife and ahil-
Bran in Montreal, but he pieced the
child in charge of his parents. This
displeased the wife, and Thursday af-
ternoon, accompanied by some of her
relatives, oho went to the house and
scoured forcible possession of the elanid.
Mrs. Henry Tree was attacked and
badly beaten, and is now in a 000100ss
condition. Mr. Tree has been called
back to Montreal, and the case will
be brought before the omits,
EAI.OTHQUAKIOS IN ALASKA.
Seismic Deem:banous ixtmadhig 0voe
1,810 trues or Coast.
A deepateh from Seattle, Wash., says:
—Alaska has been Shaken by a tare
rifie series of earthquakes, extend-.
tag over from 1,000 to 1,50D miles of
roast, The shooks aro the most violent
that have ever been felt in that part
of the world. The steamer -City of
Topeka, from Juneau, brought the
news hero,
The earth knaves and tremors ex
tended along the windward'cours0 09
the sea shore from Tuneciu to the
Aleutian archipelago. No: doubt they
rumbled On down bloc Aleutian arehi-
pelage to Dutch barbonr, and pos'siblyi
to the furthest islet of the ahaine
There were two Severe eommottoni4
The first ocauirred on Sunday, Saptemia
bor.9, and the stoond a week later. ,