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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-8-1, Page 1bt Volume 18. BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1890. Number 8. BIG FIRE. else Frame Itlocl{ on Tarnberry Street. near Ina Bridge, gee* no in Smoke - Last Sunday morning about 1. o'olook fire was disoovered in the rear of the frame; store, owned by Jno. Halliday, of London, and occupied by Miss Montgom- ery with her Moak of furniture, &c. The alarm was speedily given and the fire en. gine hurried to the river. The fire got quite a headway, however, and burned with great fury and it was soon discover- ed that if the adjacent stores and build. ings adjoining the block could bo saved a good work would be accomplished. When the corner building was wreathed in flames the intense heat endangered the store reoently vaoated by F, 0. Rogers, end to make matters worse a length of hose burst and the engine bad to bo stopped fora few moments. The two powerful streams of water prevented the fiery element from oroesing the street although the building was considerably damaged. About this time the two fine plate glass windows in W. 11, Wilson's block, aoroas Turnberry street cracked in a thousand pieces by the great heat. At this juncture of affairs Reeve Graham and a soore of our oitizens hurried over to the Ronald foundry and with the as- sistanee of some of the employees got out one of the large steamers', secured 300 or 400 feet of hose and put for the river. In short order a third line of hose was playing on the fire. The names quickly spread northward from one building to another till the whole block to the river ball{ was consumed. The woolen mill had n close call the frame work about the large building getting a great roasting. The window blinds ineide the betiding were on fire several times. A. Bruce's shop and dwelling and the blacksmith shop of Silas Jackson also had a good warming but as the morning was calm the danger was not nearly so great. The pump shop of Jas. Bell was damaged con• siderably and would no doubt have been consigned to the fiames had it not been for the brick veneer at the west of Halli- day's store. The buildings destroyed were as fol. lows :- 1st. Halliday's two story store 24x100 feet, insured for 51,000. Miss Montgom- ery, the tenant, loot a quantity of furni- ture and no insurance. A. goof portion of the goods down stairs was removed, a piano and organ being in the lot saved, Jas. Laird had two billiard tables stored in this building. They were burned. Loss $dt0, no insurance. Geo. Edwards, at carpenter, who had been employed by Miss Montgomery to knish some work, lost all his outfit of tools, valued at $50. 2nd, A store 20x00 feet, recently pur- chased by Wm. Roddick and tenanted by Thos. Ferguson, tinsmith. The latter did not save anything se the fire got in- side the shop so quickly. His loss will be about 51,500, insurance $800. There was an insurance of $350 on the build- ing. Messrs. Jackson & Halliday erect- ed the two stores mentioned above. The corner one was an extra large building. 3rd. A building 22x60 feet owned by a Trust and Loan Company. John Walker used it as a show room for the Maxwell Co. machinery. A. portion of the con- tents was got out but a binder and some small articles were burned. The build- ing was put up by Nelson Moore 12 or 13 years ago, The Insurance could not be asoortained. 4th. J. W. Mills' (West Wawanosh) double store 32060 feet. The lower apartments were used by W. Roddick for paint shop and varnish room. A. Bawtinhimer had a room rented in the rear for a work shop, and the Misses sample occupied the upstairs as a dwell. ing. The latter lost almost everything they possessed as the smoke was so dense people were unable to get in for the non. tents. They had no insurance. Lose about 5300. W. Roddiek's loss will be about 5100 and Mr. Bewtinhinier had some lumber burned. The I. 0. G. T. stared their outfit, worth about 525, in one of the rooms upstairs and it went up in smoke. The Late John Corms°k built this block and afterwards exchanged it with Jno, Welsh for 75 notes of laud in Grey township. Mr. Mills ie a relative of Mr. Welsh's and came into poeseseion by some bnsiness with the latter. There was 5850 insurance on the stores. 5th. Next was a building, 22x40 feet, recently purchased by Postmaster Far- row and fitted up for a postoflce and dwelling. Mr. Furrow's lose is about 5000. The Hamilton Provident and Loan Co. held an insurance on this and the remaining portion of the block, 4Ox40 feet, owned by James Buyers, of Leamington. D. Jamieson lived in the part fitted up for a dwelling. Jas. John- ston (better known as Gentleman Jimmy) erected this very substantial building about 14 years ago, and traded it to J. N, Wright for a farm near Jamestown. All the buildings in the blook were freme and two etories high. They were built on good stone foundations. There is very little doubt but that the fire was the work of an incendiary, but, of course, the guilty party is unknown. Some persons affirm that they met a man running from the fire down Mill street, and that he wore a checked goat and had his cap pulled down over his face. Whether thisereon had anything to do with the starting of the fire is not known, The object to be gained by the conflagra- tion ie not divined, although goesip oir- eulatc a story about the proposed removal of the postoilie° being the cause. ocnnrtne. The now post office was to have been opened this week There is no present likelihood of the stores being re•builb, The ruins smouldered away in the milers for several clays. A. hunter had his photo. apparal e out and took a view of the fire. What well like to know is the nano of the follow who fired tato block. Somebody says that A. Bruce received a free bath et the holds of the nozzle holders of one branch, Messrs. Ferguson de Halliday took the preoeution of ehiclding their plate glass windows from the intense heat byit number of plank. Partially burned shingles, oinders, &o• were found two miles from t.wn the day after the fire. Thos. Ferguson knew nothing of the Bre until it was over. He was out at hie father's, If miles from town. James Bell lost a quantity of pump logs, They were stored in the basoment of ono of the burned buildings. The town engine, hose parts and hose were safely stowed away at the Town Holl by 5 o'alook a. m, after the lire. Both Jack and Jill appeared in disha- bille the morning of the fire. On an 00. nasion of that kind people dont stand on the rules of etiquette, &o. J. D. Ronald is deserving of special thaeke for his allowing the town the use of his engine, hose, &o. There's nothing aslbish about Mr. Ronald. A mistake was made in not lighting the fire in the fire engine at the Town Hall instead of leaving it until half the distance to the river was covered. Dozens of our townspeople knew noth• ing of the fire until Sunday morning on the way to church. Some people only learned of it on the evening of that day. R. Williams, agent for Fleury Sons, implement men, had seven gang plows, one seed drill and two diso harrows burned. They were stored at the rear of the burned blook. The report of the tongue of the town bell being muffled was not correct, Care- taker James had the bell sot to rights on Monday and says the only trouble was the overturning. People who interfere with the branch - men and iesue contrary orders to those given by the ollioors should be treated to a bath from the Inose every time. What's the good of the organization if they aro not allowed to run it 7 The Lnspeotor of the Insurance Com- pany in which the Rogers steed was in- eared was in town on Tuesday. He is having the building repaired and painted where damaged by the fire. The upstairs windows in the woollen factory could not bo put down owing to the softened paint, &o., and as a result some of the machines were badly stiffen- ed up by the water from the hose, In giving the alarm the town bell was pulled upside down after a few rings and would not right itself hence the ringing suddenly ceased. The rope at- tached to the alarm is the proper one to pull in the mase of fire. The Toronto World of Wednesday says :—"The conflagration in Breese's, particulars of which were given in yes- terday's despatches, is still Further sue. tained to be the work of an incendiary, as some person was seen running up Mill attest, which diverges from the scene of the fire, shortly before it occurred. Ib was the intention of Postmaster Farrow to move his office into this block, whish was an unpopular proceeding, and it is surmised that this had something to do with the fire. The destruction of the block has been longanbioipated, as it was the worst old rookery on the prinoipal street of the village. An investigation is antioipated before the insurances are paid." The writer of the above is wide of the mark when he calls the block a rookery. It was nothing of the kind. ELECTION PETITIONS. Up to Monday 26 protests protests bad been filed against members returned at the recent Provincial election, and there is still time for more and talk of more. Last election there wore only seven all told. The names of the sonstituenoies, petitioners and respondents are as fol. lows Oonebitu'oy. Petitioner. Respondeat. Essex, N S. White, 0 Renfrew, N. A. Dunlop,0 Norfolk, S.,,, , W. Charltn,L Prontenao,,, , R.Smith, 0 York, W J. Gilmour, L. Mlddlea'x WG, W. Roas,L, Lincoln 3. Mama, 0,.. Wentw'th, S N. Awrey, L..- Iiamilcon,.,. M.3. PattersonT. Stinson, 0.„ Middlesex Pi J, O'Snllivnn,, R. Tooley. 0,,.. Perot N H, Oampbell.... A.R. Aherne,L Grey, N 1V,3.Hovitt J.Olelaud, L... Ream:, S L. Greeley W. Balfour, L, Prince Rd - ward W. H. Oteor J. Sprague, L.., Durham, 10, T. R. Collins G. Campbell, 0 Wellcnd ...... N, Fillsra W. McLeary, O. Rout, W ..,,.( 11. MOPhilmey.,, 3. Clancy, 0.... Ontario, 8... J. Lander J. Dryden,L,.,. Jlruee, N 0.M, Bowman.„ J. George, 0,,, Kingston S. W. Day J, Metcalfe, 0. Elgin, D..... J. lc. Durdle H.,Godwlu, 0. Algoma, W D, T. Ferguson 3, Conine°, L. Muskoka t L. Hanes,,.,,. 0, P. Harter, 0 Algoma, 0... T.J, ,Hawkins,,. A. Oampbell,0 Renfrew, N. A. Dunlop T. Murray, L Hastings, 1s. T. Doyle W. Hudson, 0. D, Ooutts T. H. Moffatt,... 13. Sbdsill.,. ,,., J.0, Sears.,,..... A, T. Stovosou... J Raymond 3,1d. Nestor 0 D.Potts It will be Been that fifteen of the pro- tests are againstt the return of Conser- vatives. Of the other eleven, ten are against the return of Liberals elected, one of which, however—that of Prince Ed. ward—is invalid by reason of the non• deposit of the necessary 51,000 ; and the eleventh is the counter -petition deposited in the case of North Renfrew by the sit- ting member against the defeated ex - member, a Reformer. St. George's business men have applied for a board of trade 'Barter, D. H. Tennent and wife leaves this evening for Sarnia for a two•weeks' vase. tion np the lakes, touching at Sault Ste, Marie, Port Arthur, Duluth an other Lake ports. The Palmerston Telegraph says :— "While George Solitfoider, of the tovnline of Peel, near Oreekbank, was engaged in snowing lie had a narrow osoape from death. He had just made a relay of horses, mod touched the one with a stielc when it made a, sudden jump. This frightened its mate and both started off on a run, Mr, Solutcidor tried to hold them, but the foothold broke and use was thrown forward on the tongue of the machine, which he grasped. He found hie head in close proximity to the horses' ' heels end thought of s0me moans of es. cape when ono of his foot was in some way oaughb by the whole of the machine. He lob go his hold and fortunately for him the horses took an opportune jump and sent the meteor clear over Mr. Soh. noiler. Ile managed to osoape with a few bad bruieee, but no boons were brotc• We are glad to hoar lie is progressing fav orably. Canadian News. There aro 584 oouviots in Kingston pen. ibentiary. Horse thieves are operating in the Niagara district, Friday's storm did considerable dam- age to crops in Ontario. Mrs. T, B. Pardee and family, of Sar. nia, are ab Ferndale, Muskoka. Moncton, N. B„ Y, M. 0. A. has let the contract for a 24,000 building. The eleotrio street railway will nom. menu operations in' Toronto in Septem. bor. Wheat out in the neighborhood of St. Thomas will average 115 bushels per acre. The wool olip this season in Medicine Hat district is estimated above 100,000 pounds. Baron Rothschild, a younger member of the groat banking firm, is visiting Montreal. A cattle breeders' association for Mani- toba and the Northwest territories has been formed. A. Watt & Co., of Brantford, shipped a oar of soapiest week to Yokohama, Japan, via the C. P. R. The Hamilton Street 111ilway Com- pany is considering the question of opera- ting its cars by electricity. A boy of 9 years named Dennis Tobin was drowned on Saturday at Campbell - ford by falling from a boom. Edward Bock, Carleton Place, who patented an oiler, has been offered .5200,- 000 for it by a Boton gentleman. Between 519,000 and 515,000 has been spent in putting in ao electric light sys- tem in the Kingston penitentiary. Judge and Mrs. Jones, and Messrs, Harris, Son & Co., have donated two public drruking fountains to llrantford city. A company, whose list of founders is headed by six dukes ,is being farmed in London to develops the phosphene mines of Canada. Maudie White, aged 11, was accidental- ly shot and killed near St. Catharines on Saturday by a playmate named Eddie Taylor, aged 8. Frank Folks, of Slrathroy, found a pocketbook containing 5200 on the excur- sion train to Sarnia. The owner was dis- covered and Frank was given 510. Daniel Menson, aged 17, of Arran town ship, had his arm broken and was other wise injured on Saturday, by being thrown from a reaper by n runaway temp. During one of the recent storms light- ening struole Mies Maggie Curtis, of Leamington, paralyzing her arm so that she will not he able to use it again, On Wednesday of last week, eight stur- geons were taken from the nets of H. Ansley, Port Dover. The largest weigh- ed 105 pounds and measured Eft loin in length. Daniel Messer, aged 17,0E Arran town. ship, had his arm broken and was other- wise injured on Saturday, by being thrown from a reaper by a runaway team. The petition against the return of Mr. Sprague, of PrioosBdwardaonnty, to the Ontario Legislature has fallen through because lbs deposit has not been paid in- to court. The house in Quebec where the body of General Montgomery was laid out in 1776 has been pulled down by the pro. prietor, who intends building a fine res. Mance on the site. S. J. Dawson, M. P. for Algoma, speaks in glorying terms of the progress of trade and traffic at Sault Ste Marie. Last year he says, 7,400,000 tons of shipping passed through the Soo Canal. Jed Cowell, the young man arrested by Detective Heenan for throwing a atone at a M. C. 11. passenger train, was tried be. fore Magistrate Milne, at Essex Centre on Saturday, and heavily fined. It is reported that Mr. Baird, whose lobster factory on the Newfouuland French shore was closed by Capt. Sir. Baldwin Walker, of H. M. S. Emerald, has brought snit os' against the rein g P P. Dougall, Renfrew, atung by a boo under the eyelid, grew unconscious. A dootor restored him, saying the bee bad touched a nerve, and the effeot was the same as if he had been kicked by a horse. According to the statistioal year book for 1880, just issued by the Department of Agriculture, the population of the Do. minion is 5,075,865, se conpared with 4,845,800 in 1881, when the last census was taken. A young man named Carrier was killed by a flying splinter from a log in a saw- mill at Scott's Junction, Beaune, Que. Another man named Bilodean was order- ed to the (tame work. He undertook it unwillingly and two hours later a lever broke striking him in the breast and kill. ing him instantly. A severe thunderstorm passed over Rosemont, Ont., shout 2 o'clock on Fri. dtey of last week. It was aaoompenied by a bailsborm,•and for a'rddius of about ttvo miles grain, fruit trees and vegetables were badly damaged. The windows on the west side of the buildings wore com- pletely destroyed. The hailstones were as large as plume. The Preensioan monks have recently opened their first Canadian monastery in Montreal. These montes live entirely by alms and are allowed to touch no money, If victuals are nob supplied they go forth and beg. They proneh penance and con. version, and their principal occupation is prayer, meditation and penance, ,Their doors are always open to the poor, send with them the monks share such as they have themselves. Mrs. Ewe Langford, of Winnipeg, widow of rho well known Methodist thin. inter who died last spring, while temper. arlly iaeane Friday night set herself on lire, end received such injuries that all hope for bon recovery has been given up. She went to a closet .and sprinkler) coal oil over her clothes, then igntted her dress, and while it was in flames rat shrieking across the yard into the house, setting the curtains on flea. Tho wee terribly burned, and her sufferinge seem to hays restored her reason, for she was able to make her will, leaving all hoe pro• perby to a deter. Mrs, Langford load been noting peotdieely for some time, and iter mind, it is sepposod, was newt through grief at her husband's death. &lateen Ontario newspaper matt for. med an association at Kingston. An electric street railway is to be con. struoted and operated at Yarmouth, N. S. A large industrial school for young Indians will ebortly be ereoted at Saint Boniface, Man, A Leann firm has handled 85 tons of binding twine for the surrounding vicinity since the lust commencement of harvest. The first ease of ticket scalping in the Northwest was tried at Calgary yester- day, and the scalper was fined 520 and oasts. The county of Bruce has a population of seventy tbousand,yetthe e is only one Indian girl confined in the County Gaol. At ISettle Point, Miss Mimiely had the end of a finger taken off by a patent chair and W. Crone bad his hand jammed by a log while stirring op the oamp fire. The Council of the Dominion Alliance will meet in Montreal on Aug. 14 and 15, and the course the Alliance shall adopt in the next Federal election will pro- bably be indicated, The Jones family, first cousins of Henry M, Stanley, live at Wllkesbare, Pa., and are much disappointed at his marriage, as they say he has promised to leave them his money. The annual meeting of the Canadian Press Association takes place in the Bassin House, Toronto, on Tuesday, Anti,. 5, at 1I a. m. for the the eleotion of office bearers and other business. A well-known Woodstock phyeioian out the diseased skin out of the sore eyelid of a young English girl and replaoed it by a piece of flesh from her cheek. The doc- tor thinks the result will be satisfactory. A largely signed petition has been pre- sented to the Mayor of Hamilton pray- ing for the better observance of Sunday by stopping excursions by steamer and train, and putting an end to dranken- nese. The work of unloading the cargo of the steamer Idaho is proceeding, and it is said the great bulk of it will be saved, except the grain which will bo ruined. Fifty-eight head of cattle lost while being taken ashore. Boors continue to be plentiful in all the ooantry parishes around Quebec, and lately have been committing numerous depredations in the cattle folds in the vicinity of Laval, Foxes have also put in their appeurenoe. A severe storm of hail passed north of Tara across the Bruce and Grey penin- sula on Thursday afternoon of last week, ruining some fields of grain, potatoes and turnips. Apple trees also suffered severe. ly, and many houses in the west had all the glass in the windows broken. At Winnipeg on Monday night two half-breeds and a Dane named Sores0n quarrelled about where they should go to boy beer, which resulted in a fight, in which a bfetis named Thomas Wilkins was stabbed in the head with a jack- knife, the blade penetrating two and a half inches. The knife was in a half hour before being extracted. Wilkins will die. Saturday afternoon a boy named Dennis Tobin, aged nine years, was on a boom in the river at Campbelford. His mother, standing on ahoro, saw him and called him to come away, and on trying to do so lois foot caught up in the boom, and he lost his balance and fell in and was drowned in full view of his mother, who rushed out to go in after him, but was held baok by neighbors. The Elmira Advertiser says :—Several well dressed, smooth tongued rascals have been "doing" the township of Wool- wich and Peel and have succeeded in swindling a good many of our farmers. Their specialty is gold watches which they claim they have been obliged to take on a bad debt. Their story was so well rendered that many of our farmers fell victims to their snares and paid from 510 to $18 forwatehes which are worth less than three each. A few days ago some person or persons Put cartridges, loaded with balls, is sev- eral stinks of wood which were being used for burning lime on the farm of Jno. Park, 7th con. Luther. When the sticks became ignited in (the fire the charges went off, the bullets striking the wall of the kiln and knocking off the plaster. Had any one been close in front of the kiln at the time their lives would have been in imminent danger. Such actions on the part of anyone are dastardly in the extreme. A cyclone which did much damage visited the village of Millgrove and adjoining country a few miles from Hamilton on Friday afternoon. Ths storm lasted nearly fifteen minutes and swept away all in its path. Trees were uprooted, barns unroofed, orops levelled and completely destroyed. Hail as large as wallnuts fell thick and many windows were smashed. The been on Nelson Ryokman's phtee was carried 1.00 yards into Hiram Anderson's farm. The crops in tine path of the storm, partionlarly oats, peas and turnips, were destroyed, and the loss to farmers will amount to thousands of dollars. A grand potlaoh surpassing in mag. niatinee all others of regent years, has just been brought to an end on the Nitin- ttt Indian reserve, The giver was the old obief of the Nitinat tribe, and his guests were about 500 of the real Bays and their American cousins, the Qnil•a- bouts, from below Cape Flattery. A great feast inaugurated the grand event, which lasted for five days and nights, the rejoicing being continued in the glare of giant bonfires long iota the night. After the banquet came a savage danoo, wild, fantastio aid plain:0equo, the dat000rs olotbed in garments of every Mit and color, circling the blaring fire of piles of pine in e, mad whirl, in which frenzy seemed to take the plane of poetic Motion, The "wolf game" was in pro. geese when the white apeotalare arrived, and clothed in skins, the Indiana wore 'sunning along the beech, faithfully imi Wing the savage animal. An soon oe they oaugh sight of the strangers all the human wolves stopped abort and with one record alt raised their voices fu proolnmation of the foot that they wore men. The white meta guide explained than the "wolves" wore afraid some ono would shoot before they could speak.. F. A. Decew, of Essex Center, bee sworn out 23 warrants, charging people living in Colchester with stealing timber off his property. R. Rothwell, B. A., formerly principal of the Dutton High Bobool, and latterly of the boossjaw school, hes been ap• pointed Public School Inspector for the diatriot of Neat Assiniboia. While preparing to harrow a summer. fallow Duncan McLachlan, of the 12th line of Enniskillen, was knoolced down by lois horses, which took fright, dragging the harrows over hila. He may not re. cover. Dundee Banner says o- .-' It is said that Bishop Head chased a sun kink two miles along tho railway track, but that when became up to it it was not a sun kink at all, but a pretty little animal with a blank stripe down its bank, which smelt as if it had been eating onions." An explosion of highwinee took place at the warehouse of H. N. Bate & Sons, wholesale grocers, Ottawa, Monday mor. ning. Willie Bate end Hurry Higgarty, an enplty s of b to Arm, were frightfully burned about the hands and face. Higg• arty was engaged in getting a gallon of wine out a barrel, when he accidently stepped on a match. This ignited and set fire to the floor, on which a quantity of the alcohol had been spilt. The flames blazed up around the can, which ther,. naught firs, Mr. Higgarty at once dashed to the door with the can, when be colli- ded with Willie Bate. A large quantity of the burning fluid struck Mr. Bate on the face and bands and burned him so severely that the flesh hung in strips from his cheeks and fingers. His °lethea were also oonsiderably scorched. Mr. Rigger o' bad tits skin burned off his hands, bat escaped further injuries. Mr. Bate, who is a nephew of the head of the first, was immediately driven to the Pro- testant hospital. Genera l News. Gold exports from New York last weak amounted to 51,255,000. Many natives are dying from famine in the neighborhood of Suakin. The Earl of Jersey bas been appointed Governor of New South Wales - Cholera of a virulent typo has broken out in three provinces of Bagdad. Two business blocks were blown dove at Pacific Junction, Is'„ Saturday, by a cyclone. Christy, the London hatter, died leav- ing assets of nearly a million and a half dollars. Cholera is epidemic in Mecca. There have been thirteen cases, seven of which were fatal. A cloudburst caused a large amount of damage at the mining town of Horse Creek, Ala. Foreign missionaries are to be preven- ted carrying on their religious propaganda among the Jews in Russia. China's solitary railroad is eighty-one miles long, and cost 59,000 a mile. It uses Amerioan locomotives, The oity of Hamburg has a surplus of 52,250,000. Of this amount 51,500,000 was from last year's receipts. New England cotton manufacturers have oombined to curtail the production of print cloth during the last two weeks of August. Mile Olotilde Mejstrik is a female bull fighter of distinction in Portugal. The first four weeks she was in the business she hilted four bulls. The Czar of Russia, Alexander III., is the owner of 50,000,000 acres of land in Ira=ala in his own right. This is an area equal to the whole of France. A lady of Knoxville, Tenn., was some. what overcome by being made thribly a grandmother, and all on the same day, by each of her three daughters. New York's new aqueduct is 30 miles long. It aost 522,000,000 and 80 lives ware lost in its construction. It brings 518,000,000 gallons of water to New York daily, The largest sheep ranch in the world is in the counties of Webb and Dimnet; in Texas. It contains upwards of 400,- 000 acres and yearly pastures 800,000 sheep. The Rev. Josiah T, Howse, a Congrega- tional clergyman for over sixty-seven years, is still preaching at Litchfield, Me., although he is now in his ninety-second year. Harry Manor, editor of the Red Key, Ind., Times, was playing with fireworks, when he exploded 48 pounds of powder in a can. Nino men were injured by the explosion. John Harris, of Tusoola, I11., the largest man in Illinoie,died on Saturday. He was 70 years of ago and his weight for many years past has been between 600 and 700 pounds. 'Whs. Elizabeth Jones, colored, was fatally stabbed by John Evans, a white man. Both lived at Columbus, 0., and the quarrel was caused by Mrs. Jones re- fusing to marry Evans. A cyclone struck South Lawrence, a suburb of the City of Lawrence, Mass„ on Saturday forenoon, destroying a great number of houses, Eight people were killed and a large number injured. A new Congregational church was opened at Fort Dodge, Iowa, on Sunday. The varnish was not dry and the whole oongregation were glued to the seats. It took an hour and a half to release them and the ladies' dresses were ruined. London is said to have no lass than 18,000 newspaper women, and the Ladies' School of Journalism turns out fresh material at the roto of 200 a terns, There are no leas titan 22 press clubs, whore elle fair scribblers moot to lunch, read, gabble and exchange notes. When the Grand Rapids factories Wont down at noon Monday workmen, sympathising with the striating street car drivers and cotduetors, praotioally stopped tro,fflo by obstrnctiog traoke and lifting oars in the getters. On Canal street a stone Was thrown by one of the snob which snmehsd a largo plateglass window. On Stoking street boys Dover. ed the track with stones, women nu. hitched hereon std tied thorn to the fences, and men lifted a oar into the gutter. The police are striving to keep order, but miens trouble is expooted unless the ears stop running, A revolution hoe broken out in the Argentine Republic, started by one of the regiments. There was fierce fighting in tiro streets of Buenos Ayres, and so far the revolutionists have the best of it. A number of Turkish soldiers, who were proceeding from their oamp near Canes, Crete, to a well to $raw water, were tired upon from ambush by a party of Christiana and live of the Turks) were killed. John M. Atchison, aged 17, of Chicago, eloped with Lillie Auden, aged 10, of the same oily. Now he is under arrest in Kansas City on a warrant charging him with theft. He says he stole nothing from Chicago exoept his bride. A poor family named Kingberg, in Shawtown, Wis., oonsisting of father, mother and seven children, had canned meat for their Sunday dinner. Two hours later they were seized with violent Mese, Physicians think four or five of the children will die. A Texas clergyman about to be ap- pointed chaplain of the penitentiary preached a farewell sermon to his con- gregation, which had treated him rather shaboity. There was nothing in the sermon at whiob anybody could take offence, but some of the newest members of the congregation did not like the text, .vbich was, "I go to prepare a plane for you, se that whore I am there you may be also," Personal. Paragraphs. Frank Vanstone Sundayed in Galt. Miss Edna Dennis is away on a visit to Harriston. D. Roberts, wife and children are visit- ing at Londeaboro'. D. M. Ferguson, of Stratford, was is town on Wednesday. Lawyer Taylor was fu London last Sunday and Monday. Mrs. Ellie, of Paisley, is visiting Mrs. John Stewar* Queen street. Miss Aggie Shiel is making a visit with relatives and frien,ie at Galt. J. Hutchison, B. A., of London, was the guest of Dr. McKelvey last week. Miss Millie Grewar, of Brussels, is rusticating with friends in the country. Mrs. (Rae,) Swann, of Glencoe, is visiting her daughter, at the parsonage. Mrs. C. Bowerman and daughter, of Grey, are visiting at S. Anderson's this week, Mrs. Milliken, of London, is the guest of .lira. 7, J. Denman. She is a cousin of Mt'. Denman's. Frank and Edgar McGuire, of Wing. ham, spent a few days visiting at George Rogers' this week. James Ansett, who formerly kept a grocery in Brussels, was visiting in this locality this week. J. D. Warwick, V. S., took in the eights at Owen Sound on Thursday and Friday of last week. Mrs. Wm Anderson and ohildren, of Ohesley, were the guests of Mrs. Neil AleLauchlin last week. Mrs. George Sanders, of Flint, Mich., is visiting her parents and friends in Brussels and vicinity. Airs. R. Bell and Cherrie, of Detroit, and Mrs. Dutton, of Stratford, are visit- ing at G. A. Deadman's. Miss Annie Brooks, of Montreal, for- merly a resident of Brussels, was in town this week on a brief visit. Rev. F. Swoon, of Auburn, was in town on Monday. Miss Winnie Sellery went home with him for a visit. Rev, W. T. Oluff is away on a well earned vacation. He will divide his time between Michigan and Ontario. Miss Ella Dickson and Miss Attie Johnston, of Goderioh, have been enjoy- ing a holiday visit with friends in Brus- sels. Harry Willis, of Mitchell, was in town last Sunday, He took his old position in the Methodist ohoir at the evening service. Miss Minnie Ames, of Saginaw City, was visiting relatives in Brussels and viainity. She was a former resident of this place. Miss Maggie MoLauohlin, of Wingbam, boas been visiting with relatives in Bras• sets and vioinity. She makes her home in Detroit the meet of the time. Mrs. Blashill sr, went to Northville, Mich., with her granddaughters, on Wed- nesday of this week. The old lady will visit there for a time with her daughter. A. MoLeonan and W. Thompson did not find things to their liking at Keewatin so would not stay. The former returned to Brussels and latter went on to Winni- peg. MoNaughton, who has been em- ployed in the Ronald Fire Engine Works for some time as machinist, will go to Chicago where be has secured a good situation. Henry Taylor went to Sault Ste. Marie on Monday and Miss Teenie McDonald and Mrs. John Clark, of Cranbrook, have gone to Hancock, Mirth. They took tiokete from T. Fletcher and went by the favorite route viz. the boat from Kincar- dine. John McNaughton left town for Chat. ham on Monday afternoon of this week where he takes a situation in the tele• graph and express office in that town. He is a capable, reliable young man and is not afraid of hard work. The fool ball °lab will miss him as Jack was a good kicker. 'PTs wish him success in his Work. Mrs. Samuel Peareon arrived home from her trip to Manitoba last week. Slue given a glowing aonount of the aoantey and the beautiful scenery along the route, Like Joshua and Oaleb aha broagbt samples of the crop from the goodly land. The grain was grown on S. Frnliok's farm and in tato Mennonite settlement and is an evidotnoo of a splen. did lsaeveet. The Harriston Tribune of last week says .—''T. Soli who Ilse been confined to hie room for the past few weeks, boas, we are happy to say, so for recovered as to be able to bo out. He has had a hard struggle which has taken the little flesh he lead, down considerable. It is to be hoped that bre is stow in a fair way of recovery." The above mentioned gentle- man is a sett of one townsman, Jno. Soli, and is the beading inornhant in that town.