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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-11-9, Page 6A ITISH Two Thousand Troops Were Killed or Captured. THE BRUSSELS POST, Nov, 9, 1699 WOUNDED OFFICERS. Pleamont Morgan, has, it is eald, Major Tohn Dawkine, Royal Artil- TheNews OI� New York ablishin bowie o orysliglItty. f bought a aontrolling interest in the t, laeut, Harold Belittler, /loyal A Lary, severely. Brieflyrtil- Tolai, PthrPer N. Brother. Major Henry Buchandu-Ricidela King's Royal Mans, severely, Land, H. 0. Tehuaton, Ring's Hoard li ne s, trver.e3B G , li. Rice. Royal Irish Fusiliers, severely. Captain W. B. Silver, Boyai Irish. treverely, Captaie . Surrounded in the Hills, and After Losing Heavily (severely. SWilcox, Gloucestershire, Ca Anti]aese Two Regiments and a Battery of Artillery Sur. e,„„1..,iy B.Ffe Clouetes re' .• rendered to the Enemy—Gen. White AcquitsdittPtuslen F. B. Statner. Gioueester- e verely. Them of All Blame and Admits the Sole Re., Late Thursday the War Office re- ceived a despatch from the Governor ailarbour at Haentlion is to sponsibility Should Rest on Him. of Natal, Sir la alter Francis Halt- LTptvbe °4 Th W0111.01 EVENTS Or INTEREST MIROMOL110 IN SNORT ORDER. gitteresting happenings of Recent Date—The Latent hews of Our Own Country—Doing* In the Mother Land—Whet le Goias en In the United Statee—Netes Prom the World Over. • 0A.NADA. Hutchinson, announcing that cum- Hamilton will again vote on a by - IA despatch from London, mys:—T following is the teat of a deeps from Gen, White at Ladysmith to t War Office: I have to report a disaster to column sent by me to take, n positi on a bill, to guard the left flank the troops, In these operations Monday the Royal Irish Fusiliers, N 10 Mountain Battery, and the Glom terahire Regiment were surrounded the hills, and, after losing heavily, h to capitulate. The casualties have n yet been ascertained. A. man of the Fusiliers employed o hospital orderly, came in under flag of trune, with a letter from t survivors of the column, who ask for assistance to bury the dead, fear there is no doubt of the truth the report. , I formed a plan, in the carrying o ne which the disaster occurred, and am alone responsible for the pia Where Is no blame whatever to th troop% as the position was untenabl FEELING IN LONDON. While minor reverses were no wholly 'unexpected, no Englishman ever dreamed that anything like the staggering blow General Joubert de livered to General White's forces Monday threatened the British arm in South Africa, and apparently th fait extent of the disaster is not ye icknowledged. Enquiry at the War Office seems to indicate that the mili- tary despatches contain other parti- culars which it is deemed inexpedient to punish immediately, but the seri- ous nature of winch is not disguised. be the despatches and earn the Viotoria Municalion with Ladysmith bus been law to upend 0150,00 on pavements. teh ' Came than to the fault of that splen- iliterrented since half past. two inclocia Treaty payments to Indians are in I did Indian veteran, General White, in Thursday efternoom progress in the Battleford district. be I spite of his pitiful avowal." I The War Oftice issued the following The Kingston Locomotive Works will II &snatch :— •Secretary : iandgdo.$50,030 to their plant and bailee — he Cbief af Staff, Ladysmith, to War oCalCISE OP THE DISASTER, :Indian revenu)e returns show tbe n j A later despatch from Gen. eVhite Ladysmith, Nov, 2.—Lieut. Egerton, fetal encase receipts for septeraber to of says :—"I took out from Ladysmith a I H.M.S Powerful, dangerously wound- have been $880,609.85. ma brIgade of mounted troops, two brig- I ed this morning by it abell, left knee ee- '4 ( the Natal Field Battery, and two bpi - I present. ado divisionst of hR eRoyal Artillery, I and •right foot, ,We not in danger at I against the by-law to abolish the wand 'Iv oodst GA ratepayers have voted eB- ades ot infantry to reconnoitre in I IL was inferred from au system of electing aldermen. ie force th0 enemy's main position to the I that the artillery duel between the' Brentfox•cl assessment rolls are bad - es ' north, and, if the opportunity should I Boers and British centinues, ee Lieu's ly mixed up. A special committee of ot ( offer, to capture the hill behind Faro,,- Egerton was a lieutenant Coancll will straighten them out. harae germ, which had on the previoua wita the big navagunnery l guns. j The Kingston LocomotivWorks day been held in strength by the ( Another List of casualties et Dundee! have received an order for ten more e as enemy, In connection with this ad- was issued by tile War Olf tee Tbursday compound engines fon the C. P. R. a trance it eoluinn, consisting of the morning It gives eighty-two non- ;Woodstock will take a vote of rate - Tenth Mountain Artillery, four half eommissioned °Wears a.nd men of the payers on January 1 on the question be) companies ot the: Gioncesters, and six Dublin Fusiliers missing, indirut- of municipal control of franchises, ed cempanies el the Royal Irish Fusiliers, in het Inc Boers aapturedi as malty AMangements for the construction and Major Adye, Deptity Assistant I Tae War Office received a tele ram • la the whole under Lieut. -Col. Carlton• as they did Hussars. I of fifty. miles of the Edmonton dis• ot trier railway will be completed next Adjutant -General, was deapatched at ' despatched treat Ladysmith at 9.25, month, g 11 pana on the 291)1, to march by night Thursday morning, saying that Gen -j Mr. A. C. Treshara, bandmaster of ut up. Beirs Serail and seize Nicholson'seral White was well and holding his tbe Dufferin Riflea at Brantford, will 11 Nek, or 50000 position near Nicholson's . 'position. BOMBARDMENT RENEWED. Special despatches from Ladysmith' °‚Nek, thus turning the enemy's right 'flank. el "The main advance was successfully e, ! carried out the objective ot the attack dated Tuesday, give further details re- hes reached Rat Portage with two In- ! di being found evaeuated, and an artil- garng the renewal of the bombard -I Mane from, the unorganized territory, meht. The Bosse, having reoccupied j way will be tried for murder at Rat leen duel between) our field batteries I their old positions remounted big Portage Assizes. t I and the enemy's, guns of the position , • lead the band that accompanies the Canadian eontingent to the Transvaal. Dominion Policeman Chamberlain . A. en Lung was accurate, at' Burglars attaeked the night wellh- ead. 'Maxims is understood to have caused 'heavy loss to the enemy. almost harmless. Some of the troops were • I . . y p . one at Bixel's brewery,Brentford, "The reconnaissance (forced. the Lieut. F. G. Egerton, and his Men 6 a tied hen up and robbed him of $10 and n i enemy to fully disclose bis position, ' from the Powerful did splendid work 1 int'heelinesbiew up the safe. They got no in the safe, failing to open the and, after a strong counter attack on and quickly silenced the Boer �0115js oar eight, the infantry bei ade tinct oas2department, camp, in the previous battle. pickets being left on observation. he B tar acknowledged havin i e cavalry bad, been/ repulsed, the troops Tered were slowly withdrawn to A FEARFUL LOSS. The story, as already known, how- ever, is sufficiently bad. The loss in effective men must, be appalling to a General who is nraoticaily surrounded, Two of the finest British regiments and a mule battery deducted from the Ladysmith garrison weakens it about a fifth of its total strength and alters the whole situation, very materially in favor of the Boers, who, owe again, have shown thereseivett stern fighters and military strategists cif superior order. The disaster cost the British from 1,500 to 2,000 mew and six seven - pentad screw guns, and, as the Boer artillery is already stranger than im- agtned, the capture of these guns will be a GREAT HELP TO THE BOERS. Apari t s in eftectives, which will seriously oripple Gen, White's operations, the British defeat most have a most depressing effect on the balance of the Ladysmith forces, while it may be expected to have much weight with the natives, who are wavering as to which side to support, and it will immensely raise the morals of the Boer tones and bring crowds of recruits to their stan- dard. WRITES MANFOLNESS. Further news must be awaited be- fore it is attempted to atacht the blame where it belongs. General White manfully accepts all the discredit at- taching to the disaster, which, appal., eats:, was at least partially due to the stampeding of the mules with the guns. From the list It will be seen that lorty-two officers were made prisoners besides a newspaper correspondent, Mr. J. Hyde. "AWFUL BRITISH DISASTER," "Awful British disaster," yelled newsboys on Monday and all London stayed its course and read the extras containing the official acknowledg- 011000 af tloe British reverse. T e an. nouncement appeared at the hour when shoppers crowded Regent and Oxford streets and Piccadilly. Women slopped their carriages in the streets and hailed the boys. Out of fashion- able stores women ran for papers. They stood atockstill in the crowded atreets scanning the pages of the ex- tras. Having read of the reversed ouch as does not exist, in the memory of living British subjeete, the men set their teeth and walked on with hard- ened troubled faces, while some women cnied. RUSH FOR THE WAR. OFFICE. Then there was a rush to the 'War ' Office, watch by noon, was surrounded With private carriages and hansoms, '• while many of the humbler class of ' people ca -me on foot, all waiting for I the possible pooling among tbe lists of dead of the names they held dear, By noon gloom and hitter sorrow pre.' veiled throughout the British metro - polls. • At the Goverment office no effort' • was made to conceal the feeling of dismay prevailing. One official said to a, representative of the Associated Prees: "It is inexplicable, and 1 am sorry to soy that its moral effect is inestimable. • We have lost heavily ba Many ware and have had regimente • , almost wiped out, but to anve regi- nannte captured, and by the Boers—it ' is terrible." 9 00 eave losaes in men and horses . Itt. liocir,1sos "Late in the engagement the naval second in command in the Transvaal contingent, under Captain Lambton, of forcs, and who was wounded in the H.M.S. Powerful, ce..me into action and, battle of Elandslarigte, died in the hos- silenced, with their extremely aceur- tion, pital at Ladysmith an Monday night. ate fire, the enema's guns of post- EXTE'NSIVE PREPARATIONS, STAMPEDE OF BATTERY MULES. A despatch from London, Friday, says:—All was quiet at Bulawayo, in "The circumstances which attended the movements of Lieut. -Col. Carlton's Rhodesia, according to despatches re column are nob yet fully known, but ceived this morning, tip to October 27. from reports received the cote= ap- There has been some skirmishing on pears to have carried out the night the border. , march unmolested until within two , aree in Apsiarently extensive preparations miles of Nicholson's Nek. At this point progress at De Aar; Cape Col - two bould11 ers rolled from the hill, andony, for the concentration of Lieut.- Gen. Buller's army. Thousands of few rifleshots stampeded the infantry mules are corralled ammunition mules. The stampede min that neigbbour- spread to the battery mules, wbich hood, and transport material is being hurried up from the sout/a, broke loose from their leaders, and got, According to another despatch, the away with praotieally the whole of the naval brigade* at Ladysmith has gun equipment and the greater portion mounted four more guns from Dur - of the regimental small ammunition, ban. The reserve was similarly lost. 1 The report comes from Rome that "The infantry battalions, however, Portugal will permit the landing of fixed bayonets, and, accompanied by Britisb troops at Lorenzo Marques. the personnel of the artillery seized a This coincides with the view strongly hill on the left of the roads, two raises prevalent in some quarters here that from the Nek,1 with but little 09905i-. the British invasion of the Transvaal tion. There they remained unmolested sill he made from that point, till dawn, the Cane being occupied in organizing the defences of the hill and 1 BRITISH LOSSES TO DATE constructin.g stone sangars, and walls • The. total loss to British arms since as cover from fire, the war actually commenced] with tbe "At dawn a skirmishing attack CM .bombarding of the, armoured train our position was commenced by the near Elandslaagte, twenty -ane days enemy, but made no way, until 9.30a. ago, is 216 killed and 721 wounded, m. when strong reinforcements en- This does not include the captured, abed them to rush to the attaele with whicb. will swell the total by fuly 1, - great energy. Their fire became very 000, , searching, and two companies of the TOTAL BRITISH KILLED -210. Gloucesters, in an advanced position, were ordered to fall back. The enemy then pressed to short range, the losses , on our side becoming very numerous. AMMUNITION GONE, BRITISH CAP- TUBED. "At 3 p.m, one ammunition Was I practically exhiested, tbe position was captured, and the survivors of the I column fell into the enemy's hands. "Tile enemy treated aur wounded with humanity, Gen. Joubert at once despatching a letter to me, offering a safe conduct to doctors and ambul- ances to remove the wounded, A me- • dical officer and parties to render first ' aid to tae wounded were despatched to the scene of action fro.na Ladysmith that night, and the ambulance at dawn next onorning. The want of menu ot the column was due to the misfortune of the mules Parade at Aldershot on Monday, when stampeding and the consequent loss of fifteen traction engines and forty the guns and sman-arra ammunition tucks were inspected previous to their and the reserve. "The official list of casualties and departure for South Atrieri. prisoners will be reported shortly. U.'he A su'et 1, af sandy rocky reed svas EXCUSES FOR WHITE, The manliness of General. White's avowal that it was his fault has awakened the deepest: eympathy. An official of the War Office, said La a •representative of the Associated Prtal: " It is more than lately clue, to the orate our roringer offteers to dis- tinguish therneelves, obtain mention in Colonels. 4 Majc.rs. •. . . . . 4 , Ceptains. . • Lieutenants. . • . . 14 Rank and . . . .191 TOTAL BRITISH WOUNDED -721. Cobonels.. . . . 8 Majors. , 7 Captains. . . • • 22 Tamil enants. . . 31 Rank and file. . • . 658 FOR USE IN WAR. The War Office Sends 24 Road Engines to Africa. A despatch from London, says:— There was an extraordinary military latter are understood to have been seleeted for the tests and gave an ex - The security of Ladysmith is In no eellent chance to observe the points at the en ' A. steep ditch ant sent b .1 way a fleeted." gums, c Genertil Whiteaccount shows that banks two and three feet high were the disaster as not so serious a one as safely traversed. Though at times the reported at firma Neither the Glouces- wheels sank axle deep, other engines tens nor the. Fusiliers were present in pulled out the helpless antes full strength, as previously imagined eeo' Connsught and rinces The foul' half companies of the for- Louie and Victor Napoleon attended mar regiment would nominally °eta', the trials, and were 0111011 pleased total 250 meta rem tbe eixcompanies of Fu- ' wit,the result. silierts 750 men, and the artillerymen I) Twentyfour of these engines will be • 125 men, or an aggregate of 1 1:25 men ' 800 KILLED A.NO WOUNDED, General Sir Stewart White has cabl- ed the War 0tfiie, Lhat one Reaches Victoria After toiling la Mis meat oft. Farquhar's) farm, neer Lady- smith, on October 30, when Lieut. -Col. by Vellow Fever. Ctirleton's column was compelled to A despatch from! Vancouver, says :— surrender, six fairer.; were killed Two ships with a ghastly record of eta nine wounded. Among I h. deaths sinus they set sail for Victoala non-commissioned °Mears and men the casualties wire 51 in Mena port, allayed oa Monday, The barque and 231 in woeeded, Gen White prom- Oariolinus, tram Panama to Victoria, 1005 a list' of the missing later. i to lond salmon, reached quarantine sixty-eight days out. Fifteen. men died aboard of yellow fever. Ten days Out of leanema, ten men were sudden- ly seized and died, The ship put beck and started with. a fresh crew, and fire more died, 10 few days- at sea. She be now being thoroughly grand Naas DISEASE -STRICKEN SHIPS, "flint DEAD OFFICERS, Lieut. 3, T. McDougall, Royal Ar - tiller Major W. T. Meyers, King's Royal Mout. Willie a; Chapman, Natal Mounted Rifles. Major •Edward Gray, Maim) C r s The British ship Eden Valley lost on Lieut. 81. S. Marsden, Xing's Royal the voyage from England, two males, her stewerd, and seven of her crew. Lieut. T. L. Forster, King's Royal The captatn's wife and the captain now on board tire said to b 5 i Messrls, H. Carscallen'11.P.P, C. T. iMyles and P,E.W. Boyd. of Hamilton, Propose to erect a blast furnace at Port Colborne if the town -give them a free site of twenty acres and a cash bonus of 0'25,000. I Ex -Vice -President Liehtenhelm, of 1 the suspended Ville Marie Bank, Mon - treat has been committed for trial on a charge of having made a false , and deceptive statement to the Goy- - eminent of the bank's affairs. Commercial Agent Bennett of An- Ugua, British West Incliee, reports to 1 the Department of Trade and Com- merce that there Is n good, market for potatoes and butter. Potatoes are sell- ing there at at per barrel, cooking but- ter a7 22 cents. and good table butter at 8.2 cents per lb. Outlying municipalities are making great efforts to attract manufactures from Montreal. The leather firm of H. T. Fisk & Co., have made a proposal to the Council of Laehine to build a factory there for a bonus of 325,000 and exemption from taxes for several years. The people of Longueuil are carrying on negotiations with the Slater Shoe Co., and the Lang Biscuit Co., has been Induced to move to St. Henri. T. Macdonald, registrar of Lands and Works Department, at Kamloops, kill- ed hinarrelt by shooting in the head with a revolver. One of his children was in the room. Be told the little one to ,telt his wife that he Was going to shoot himself, and before she got into tbe room ho had accomplished bis intention. There were some irrefular- ities in connection with this new office, and deceaaeder movements were being closely watched. An important order in Council has been passed providing that bona fide catalogues and piece lists of goods in any country beyond the limits of Can- ada, not exceeding three to any one address, be admitted through the mail or by other conveyance free of cus- toms duty; provided, however, that such catalogues and price dints shall not be held to include almanacs or advertising periodicals or printed mat.. ter designed to advertise the sale of goods by any person in Canada. GREAT BRITAIN. Florence Marryat, Mrs, Frances Lean, the well-known author, died in London Friday. The young Duke of 1VItusebestor an- nounces that he is going to South Africa as war correspondent. The British Government has accepted the otter of United States women in England to equip the steamer Maine as a South African hospital sbip. ]lx -President Harrison, of the United Stitt es, Isaq an audience with the Prince of Wales to London afterwardsvisit- ing tbe House of Commons. Vancouver City Coupon is investi- gating the charge that members of its pollee force have been bribed to per- mit gambling in parts of the pity, John N. Fulton, wanted in Montreal for alleged embezzlement; of 350,000 from the estate of the letThomas T. Coristine, is under arrest at Beaton. The December Bund, a social organ- zation of Germane at Ottawa, has tak- en steps to organize a company to bo ittaabed et Lb cm Lo the 43rd Rifles or the GitGisV0.r.eported at. Plymouth( that the Bridal Admiralty is about to mobi- lize a reserve fleetl in Immo porta, due to the intention of' Russia: to seize a port in the Permian Gulf, UNITED STATES, Sir Henry Irving, the dam, Is at New York, Iti'y, , Nov, 30, has been pro- olairned Thanksgiving Day in the Unit- ed, Stales, Another American battalion of marines has been ordered to emelt% the naval Station near Manila. The capital stook of tbe New York Central anti Hudson River Railway has been increased to 3115,000,000. The announcement is made that there is to be a combination of the large aheet brass and Copper colnerna. Chicago cleteetiees claitn to be on the OMB of the tabors wile held up the 00,011 Mail near Maple Park, I11., on Otatbek Enfield baa agreed to arbitrate with the United States the claims resulting from the seianre of sealers th the Behring Sea, pending for the past eight years, Over 310,000 %magmata have ar- rived at Hutitea Statee, ports during the year ending Tune S0a, 1809, in in_ °tease over the previous Year: of 82,- 416. Thq Comb or Appeals at Albany, 11. Y., has affirmed the conviction of Howard 0. Benham, sentenced to be electrocuted for the murder of his wife at Batavia, N.Y. IR. B. Ohristie and W. 0. Criek, brokers' clerks, charged, with stealing 410,700 in Buenos Ayres tondo and fleeing to British Columbia, pleaded guilty in London, and were sentenced to three and four years' imprisonment respectively, Chief Conductor Clarke, of the Or- der of Railway Conciliators and P. H. Morrissey of the Brotherhood of Rail- way Trainmen, are at. Montpelier, to interview General Manager Fitzhugh relative, to labor troubles of the Cen- tral Vermont Ry. The New York Sure has commenced ILOL egar battle against organized. la- bour. The paper admits its pireulae tioin bus dropped from 10,000 to 60,000 daily and about 3800,008 in advertis- ing receipts since the beginning of the strike and boycott. GENERAL. Emperor William will exhibit curios of Frederick the Great at the Paris Exposition. Twelve cases of bubonic plague are now under treatment in the isolation hospital at Santos, 13razil. Vandals have defaced newly erected monumente at Berlin. The noses and handof seven at the Emperor's enema toas bave been demoliahed. The names of Generals Giolannelli and Herne have been dropped trona the French Council of War, it is said, on account of the Dreyfus ease, A (minimal bronze statue of Christ blessing maukind, which was being belated into a niche in the new cathed- ral at Berlin, fell 100 feet, No one was injured, The British steamer Zuricla, from Komda for London, has foundered off the west coast of Norway. The cap - Mo was saved, but the crew is re- ported to have been lost, Herr Hopffe, a millionaire, has been sentenced at Dresden to five years' imprisonment for misappropriating funds of a charitable organization, of which he was treasurer. The Central Government of Switzer- land has prohibited the importation of German cattle bemuse of the me - valence of foot and mouth disease in the grazing districts of Germany, The Feenoh Cabinet has approved a bill granting trades unions tbe same status as aa individual citizen, and enacting privileges and penalties to Secure the free working of such bodies. Though he is financially ember- rassed, the Sultanhas ordered the construetion of two. new warships and a new Imperial yacht, along with the renovation of ten armour -clads and two yachts. The German Catholic missionary stations at Kribi and Buambe, Ger- destroyed by the Bulungro tribesmen, Man Cameroon, West Afeica. have been The missionaries fled to the coast, One was wounded. The visit paid by Sir Edmund T. Monson, the ,British Ambassador, and Gen, Horace Porter, the 'United States Ambassador to President Loubet was for the purpose of extending to the latter the thanks of Queen Victoria and President McKinley for the hos- pitality extended by the French Gov- ernment to the Venezuela. Court of Arbitration. MASKED ROBBERS. The Visitors Thoroughly Ransacked the house, lint Secured Very lAttle Plund- er. A despatch) froom St. Thomas, Ont., says:—On Wednesday evening three masked burglars entered the residence, of Mrs. Thomas Hunaphrey, who re- sides on the Talbot road about a mile and a half west of Middlemarols. They held revolvers at the heads of the inmates of the house and ordered tbena to make no outcry. They secured very little plunder. About 9 o'clock Mrs. Humphrey, John Sharon, who lives at the place; Mrs, Humphrey's two daughters, Mrs, Payne, of Payne's Mills, and Mrs. Kel- ly, of Lambeth, were sitting around the stove when they were suddenly startled by three men walking into Use house. They were masked, and. two of the number had revolvers. The ringleader told them to keep quiet and they would not be harmed. Ile requested that the curtains be drawn, and ordered his companions to clew the shutters and then guard the doors. He asked Miss Humphrey for a light, and was told that there was a lighted lamp uP- stairs, Ho then started upstairs, and informed Mr. Sharon and the others thaa if they moved he would " pepper them" Atter, the burglar had been up- stairs a short time he mane down and told Miss Humphrey to accompany him upstairs and show hint where the jewellery and money were kept. 'Vries 'Humphrey did so, but es they did not come ramose mach plunder the burglar remarked that he had never been in a house where there were such good, things and each little money. After ransacking the whole place the bur- glars stamina two gold watehes, a gold chain, 32 in money belonging to Mr. Sharon, some &Imlay school colleetion, 40 mats which was in Mrs. Kelly's parse, and 40 cents in another purse. After the tnen had ,been in the house an Ilona they asked tor sometbing to eat. They were told to 90 11110 the 051. ler and help therneelves. They, did so and consumed a number dotes, bread: washing' it down with milk One of the burglars ordered Miss l'/Umobrey to remove the rings from Joey fingers. She contealed with there. quest, but atter looking" at them he said they were AO good, and •gave theen beck to her again. WIN the 'eve 0011t1'08 jaw Ilutritioli, A 'Wonderful Recovery, Illustrating the quick Response of a Depleted Nerve System to a Treatment 17EThiela Replenishes Exhausted Nerve Forces., - .... 1*.V. ‘\ ,4,1-,:. , r\ 4.1 •.,,,,. '.. MR. FRANK MATTER, )3nittix, Ova. Perhaps you know him In Water- loo he is known as one of the most popular and successful business men of that enterprising town. As .aanag- ing executor of the Kuntz estate, he is at the head of a vast business, repre- senting an investment of many thous- ands of dollars, and known to many people throughout the Province. Solid financially, Mr. Frank Bauer also has the good fortune of enjoying solid good health, and if appearances indicate anything, it is safe to predict that there's a full half century of active life still ahead for him. But it's only a few months since, while nursed as an invalid at the Mt. Clemens sanitary resort, when his . friends in Waterloo were dismayed with a report that'he was at the point of death. " There's no telling where I would have been had I kept on the old treat- ment," said Mr. Bauer, with a merry laugh, the other day, while it:mounting his experiences as a very sick man. " Mt. Clemens," he continued, "was the last resort in my case, For months previous I had been suffering indescribable tortures. I began with a loss of appetite and sleepless nights. Then, as the trouble kept growing, I was getting weaker, and began losing flesh and strength rapidly. My stomach refused to retain food of any kind. During all this time I was under medical treatment and took seemed most hopeles', I heard of • wonderful cure effected in a case somewhat similar to mine, by the Great South AmenicanNervine Tonto, and I finally tried that. On the first day of its use I began to feel that it was doing what no other medicine had done. The first dose relieved the distress completely. Before night I actually fell hungry and ate with an appetite suoh as I had not known for months. I began to pick up in strength with surprising rapidity, slept well nighte, and before I knew it I was eating three square meals regularly every day, with as much relish as ever. I have no hesitation whatever in saying that the South American Nervine Tonic cured me when all other remedies failed. I have recovered my old weight—over 200 ponnds—and never felt better in my life." Mr. Frank Bauer's experience is that of all others who have uaed the South American Nervine Toni°. Its instantaneous action in relieving dis- tress and pain is due to the direct effect of this great remedy upon the nerve centres, whose fagged vitality is energized instantly by the very first dose. It is a great, a wondrous ours for all nervous diseases, as well as indigestion and dyspepsia. It goes to the real mutat of trouble direeta and the sick always feel its marvel- lous metaining and restorative power everything prescribed, but without j at once, on the very first day of RAI relief. Just about when my condition 1 use. Sold by G. A. Deadman. $10,000,000,000 IN GOLD. *hilted Slates lust Director hakes Some C .... iparlsonsi A despatch from Washington says:— Of the 310,000,000,000 of gold produced in the world since the discovery of America, more than one-half has been Prlodueed since 1860, and more than oneefouirth since 1885. To put it in other word, one-half of the gold pro- duct of the last tour hundred years has been produced within forty years, and one-fourth within fifteen years. These facts regarding the gold pro- duction of the world are presented by some complications of the Treasury Bureau of Statiatice, with reference to the temporary suspension of gold min- ing in South Africa and its possible ef- fect upon the gold supply of the world. The compilation presents the facts col- lated by Dr. Adolph Soetbear and the director of the United States mint, which show the gold product of the world by decades and years sine the discovery of America, and when sum- marized shows that the grand total of gold production from 1493 to and in- cluding the estimate for 1899 amounts to f9,8s8,059,000, An examination af the fig,ures of annual produotion allows that al the 39,888,059,600 gold produced sines 1493, 05,911,855,6(10; or considerab- ly more than one-half, bat been pao- duced since 1800, and 32,510,260,100; or more than one-fourth, since 1885, ON A DESOLATE ISLAND. Thirty retain in Perilous Position on le 'wader (NMI. (A deepateh from St, John's. 81 id, says :--The steamer Labrador, which has just arrived here from a .talp along the Labrador coast, reports that a Bal- ing crew of thirty people are on a de - spittle island oft the northern section of the mast, where they have been vir- tually abandoned for mine time owing to the fad that the instructions for. a vessel to bring them down miscarried, A speeial steamer must be sent promptly to their assistance or they will perish from old end hunger dm - Deg the corning winter, SMUGGLERS TRAPPED. Ountonis Officers Blake n Valuable Capture at St. Pierre. A despatch from Halifax, N.S., says: —Iespector Jones, of the Canadian Ouse tome preventive service, has made an, other discovery ot Customs infraetion, a discovery wheat affects the Freenla revenues of St. Pierre almost as mucii rie it does those of Canada. One mem, bar of a St. Pierre firm has been found to have been in the habit el buying large quantities of rum 10 Boston, and in Halifax, ostensibly tri be shipped in bond to St. Pieme, brut meth of it never went there, find- ing its way rather to out -of -the -wan Nova Scotia or other ports, where, it was smuggled in, M. Ferry, the late Customs Director at St. Pierre, who recently was driven from there by a mob, and Teem:tor 'Tones put their heads together, with the result that they found how thinge wore going. The French authorities have exacted 24,000 franca from the eirm for duties they believed lost on the transaction and the man who had- carried on' the frauds bus absconded. It was found float he had been lasing a Diatoms stone obtained itt some surreptitious way in order to strocessfully carry owt his plans. For this he was sentenced to one month's impriaonment. He la 51050 to be arraigned on a charge of forgery. FOUNDERED WITII TEN MEN. S0110011011 5V1111011 Want 10 800/441//1111 557.001/ IS Missing. A despeteh from 81. John's, 8f15,, says:—A. roasting schooner haineg terms the Newfoendland hore, iiaftt Belle Isle, whiola went to the wreak of the British steamer Sootsratin, in the Straits ot Belle isle, has not re- turned, tout has lima missing sines oboist September 28, It is believed that elm fetradered with n came of ten mem seven of Wheal were Married with families, They belonged to 1 -hu sett lentenl, of Griquette, which Is thud practioally depopulated of adult melee.