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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1901-03-15, Page 2SULTOF FRENCH'S ORK itm'ent of Boers After the enteric fever at IXregersderp ` on Peeruary etli. Mrs. i+oseer (nee'. La] tinier, of Gravenixuraart>, was married a little over, a roar ago to Major E. M. Fos- ter, a retired- offieer of the Beeal. Artillery.. leer husbt nd attached him: self to one of the regiments of Im- perial Yeomanry raised in England fort service, in tee war. After hie de- parture, • Mrs. router left for Ma- eda, where she has remained with her relatives. } Horses for South Attica. War is Over. VET AGAIN ESCAPES. n Boers Kilted--Fprty Boers h ot In an Attack on a Train-De- Vetes 'tactics - An Appeal to attain ... Comedian Horses "fore erica. !barna March 8; --Col, Plumer is pursuing Gen. De Wet, who has ad through .Fauresmith, in the western portion of the Orange Colony. s Boer;.eemznander:had only 300. and two Cape carts. Each man Rawlings three, horses. , Drisotiil;s Snouts Captured: n Town, March 8e --Three emu - Boers surrounded fifty of Dris- couts, h 2nld, at, a" kraal DoonbergThe' scouts held out i. day and •,a:iigiit before relief fed them. Tee Were captured., .yarded the V.ce aeon March 8. -The • Gazette is that Lieut. P. A. Maxwell of Ia rte' Horse, has been awarded the aria Cross for the greatest •gal- •y In saving guns at Kornspruit. ✓ ent out on five different oeca- and assisted in bringing in two and three limbers: • Win Raise a Second Force. lifas, N. St, March _8. -Col. Steele' xd to -dice that's he had decided; to go to South Africa wa`th-tho' int force of Canadians for, n-Poweles constabulary. He said it was his intention to under- the, raising of aseoond force e thobsant1 men, who •will follow orps,-,npw being , mobilized; He necofttjsany- them •to the front three months hence. 'Talk of Surrender, " E on. .:Mare3i 9.-:TIxe Chrpnicle he same authority that It had preatoue :.reportsthat negotia-• were'going on 'between' Gen.. ener and 'Commandant -General now gives tee dataiis of the lee . arranged • between them, it says, was largely due to 13otiia s. agency, Gen. Kitchen - Vete amnesty for all the laying' down their arms, and er all' prisoner's' except the Dutch; Who, while British sub were active in fomenting Boer nee. Gen.:: i DeWet:. and -Mr. , leader of the commandoes of ange Free State, are express- uded, from the amnesty. Gen. ner promised • that the B3rit- overnment, after peace is es- . will assist in rebuilding onses that have been destroy- iving to military necessities, estore to their lawful oernor- seised farms, which it will to sstopk, e3cept those belong- persons guilty of treachery. roniele adds that Gen, •'Botha, to have been entirely satis- th the interview, which took at- fiddlebuz-g.. He, departed to t with the Boer generals. 'with It that a vast majority of followershave accepted the . Botha seeanis to have beet to • eosnanuniaate with Gen. be and' Mr..Siteyn, who . are irre- Table,, and who declined to 40 - any terms whatever.`''Geh. • De • saying it was now a war for gec` and tixct he :.was determin- o",;a,11 the daattetege, he could. nwbile' ;final arradeemen is . with ra's'efeiee, weleh ia•' •tron-cofnbet- ,ase li}'iely to be %terertdueted ,so o one+bit; him to tormslly submit (larch '`11th, "his follolvers ;ing to Gen. Frenei The Chr,on a `eorrespond'ent says, in conclu- , than Gen.Iseitehener, in his ie - law with Gen. eBotha on :Feb. . al,nd,.March end, • showed the leader' the greatest considers - bane March 10.; --Gen.. • French's tion to the ,end ,of, February ted:in, a ,thousand Boers being ,,mnntled, captured, or cur- ed. A. bommandant, seven field ts, and two landrosts were also Seven Boers' Killed. Town, March 10,-A party of Irregulars,. under. Capt. Collet, a number of Boers at Zand- n tend drove them off. Seven Burghers were killed and see- m:Wi tded. The British sustained will Appeal to Britain. ` ' ss Match, 1f1 -The' first meet, - delegates froth the ',Etiropeen, - . an{i1 the Vetted States, • who deflecttee nieet here 'for the ' = of nrggt'ng a conclusion of the war, was 'held yesterday. Lt is remit, etthe delegatee.to draft meal- to • Great„• Itritaie urging eel„rye to, stop t1i;e war, and t antenomy to the two South n Republios.• Senator Panilat "ed. at yesterday's 'meeting. Boers', 1+'amilfes Deported. enzo Marquez, March 100, -Toe agues() transport Zaire sailed Lisbon to -day, having on board hoer famfflee, including those of editor•-Generel Maris and Com- mit lee Koch, Died of laeuterie. rrle, March10. - t's. i i.t. l.+'os. has received a riessa,go iranr the Of'f'ice tnan Ianli statin that idadbzl, a•or F,arte r dtid of f • Cape Town, March 10. -Col. Girouard visited Gralla.mstownon. Friday to inepeot the entrenchments which are being thrown up for the defence of the colony. Kritzinger's commando is in Maur raysberg, in the Beaufort West dis. strict, The coniinantlo numbers about' 14000 inen, who have very little am- munition. Many of the • Cape Dutch recruits are without rifles. Deported 'Wish the Rest. • London, March 1t -A despatch to the Deily Mail from Lorenzo Mar- ques, says that a Mr. Martinisen, who' resigned :a post in the United States army to join the Boer forces, was shipped for Lisbon, Sunday, on the Portuguese transport Zaire, which carried 103 Boer families, .after he had made an ineffectual attempt to obtain Consular -protection. . Was Five Years In Transvaal. Simcoe, Ont., hliareh 8.=Sergt. Car- ter, who was killed in' the same en- gagement in which Major Howard fell, was a brother to Mr. Henry Carter, of this town. teeergt. Carter had been livings,in. the Trausvtaal• for the past five years. Early in the war he join- ed Orpen'sLight Horse et Cape Towne and served:. with tlxe corps until it was disbanded in November. He elle listed again with IIoward's Scouts on December 1st, preferring to be with the Canadians, DeWet Has Again Escaped. Lomdan, elarcix' 11. -The Times pub- lishes "the, faliowiug despatch frdxn Aasvogelkelp, March" 9. -''Gen. De Wet has escaped northward by a forced march with 400 men. His ob- jective is believed to be th'e vicin- ity of Kroonstadt. "Four other Boer `Leaders are still in the southeastern part of Orange River Colony. "5sv that Gen. De Wet is back in Iii own coti3itry, it will be almost impossible to operate against him. Just as soon as he is,pressed, his tom= mando dissolves, to 'meet again a few days later. Only a few bands of Boers are now loft in Cape Colony." Ai ontreal, . March. 10.---0. M. 13,os- worth, 'freight ` traffic manager of the Canadian Pacifio Railway, ,has peen advised . by cable from London that Lord ` Strathcona and Mqunt Royal has completed 'arrangements with the Imperial Government to send an'airliner of the War Depart- ment to . Canada to purchase horses for use In South Africa. It is under- stood that the officer will soon sail from London, arriving in Canada• during the latter part of this month en' early• in April, and will purchase from 1,500 :to; 2,1100,horses; which will bo shipped from Halifax, --- Forty Burghers Shot Down. Cape Town, March 10. -The bodies of forty Boers have been found near Boodehoogte, as a result of an en- gegoment with •an armored train. It appears that a ,horse train left Roode- hoogte and 'proceeded for some dis- tance, when the sentinels od the en- gine discerned some Boers in am- bush. The horse train backed to a siding, and, the pilot notified the en- gine driver, Of en armored 'teeth, tehe started forward at once. The. ,,Boerb evidently thought,the armored train was the horse traln returning, and allowed it to come within close range before opening fire.: Then the armored train sent in hot fusillades on the Boers, who fled in great ,haste. Many; of them threw away their rifles in thee: anxiety,to escape., ' . Many Withou t Rifles. liow the 'Boors1IaY be Treattcd London, Marchi 10. --,There were' many rttmere in tare air last night ;respecting the 'negotiations be- tween Geller,' Bothaa, and Lord .Kit- chener, but there was no authentic news. The British Government has been consulted, but Sir Alfred Milner is Lord Kitclmner's ;political adviser, and is le a position to settle the terms oft amnesty lend peace. The outlines of these terms which are published are paced tavern conjecture, and the statement that Gen. Botha has, communicated the conditions of peace to Deiarey,;?.;De Wet, Steyin, and other Boer leadairs`', still in arms is incredible.' ,& fortnight at least will be requited before there can be a general consultation among the ;Boer generals, and meanwhile there will be daily rumors from Pre - torte and Cape Town. The fact that Botha ,,a,nd Vil joen. have been willing to :d1setise "with Lord Kitchener the terms of surrender offers a strong warrant. f9,r , tee hope that the end' of the' 1"iopelee. :conflict is in sight." But those most conversant with the character of the leaders believe that Delarey. Steyh and 'De Wetwill;'offer' resistance to any proppsals made by their` colleagues Even those most skeptical respecting:' the results of Lord Kitchener's aliploniacy are con- vinced that tate 'capture of De Wet Would end the War, since .the 'Trans- vaal Boers would then, beat liberty to make the best terms possible. The reinforcements have not been stop- ,,ped, and there are 110 signs at 'the 'War Office that •anybody in author- ity is tookingerar• the iMinetllate do1- lapse of the Boer cause. Whenever peace is made a tempi rary arrangement will be necessary for .,feedilig and . carni, for. a„co1isid- erable.p:irt of ,the populatlon,,and Sir 'Alfred Milner will naturally, be at;nxie.. ens no empty the fortified,,,laagers and distribute the Burghers and their families among the villages ' and farming regions, Where they can set- tle down and become self-supporting.' There is no likelihood that the Burgh - ere will be bought or pensioned, but a wise administrator like Sir Alfred Milner will seek elf ee to remove discontent by a distribution of the captured supplies and stock. At home the ]oast reasonable among the pro -Boers have• been 'making a dead set against Sir Alfred Milner in the least fortnight, bat lie occupies a unique position as a peabemaker, who has contrived to ? command the sueport and sympathy +ti.i' the D'atcb 1a Cape •Colony, and •sir' d rsttunrls ~mere clearly than anybody else the diffiaulttes slid dangers ;.caf the transition period of rape rela- tions wallet) must follow the c1Qeo of the le.meetable war. Tb.e Pletermarl'tzburg oorrespond- eat of the London Daily Mallsays the British, troops unearthed Boer gold valued at £9,500 on 'the Swazi- land border. i JIIXEO NMHITA.L AfFAi11S Church Official's Wife Sues and Counter Issue is Raised.' DID HILL MAKE 'CONFESSION? New York, March 9. -Magistrate Kramer, Williamsburg, yesterday sent the •case of Mies, B„ Ile Devlin; a, widow, charged with assaulting ,Mrs. Eliza- beth Hill, wife of Benjatiniin l'-te1, a wealthy ten dealer and treasurer of a Methodist °hu,rclx, who lives at No. 213 Grand street, Williamsburg, to the Court of Special Sessions. Mrs. Devlin furnished a bond in the sum of $100. ' On' leaving the court Mrs. Devlin was serveb by, Mrs.' Hill's attorney with papers in a suit for $5,000 dam- eges for alienating the affections of ll r. Hill. Mrs. Devlin's attorney ac- cepted the papers, saying his client would institute a suit for $100,000 against the tea dealer for breach of promise. Mrs. Bill testified that she was mar- ried to Mr. Hill twenty-three years ago, and first saw Mrs. Devlin four weeks ago, when she called at the tea store and asked about 'Mr. Hill's illness. ' Mrs. Devlin called at my home a week ago," contained Mrs. Hill, "and tried to farce her way into my hus- band's bedroom. , I prevented Ler, and she struck me. I called for the•pofioe and Sirs. Devlin's arrest followed." Mrs. Devlin, who was clad in a tight fitting tailor-made gown, was 'then called. Straightening herself in.the witness chair, she said: `It was in 1894 ,that I first met Mr. Hill. , I was separated from,'my husband at the time. Mr. Hill tolme lie. was divorced. At his request I went to Chicago in 1897 to Institute Meares proceeaings against my hus- band, Mr. Hill defraying the expefige. While the proceedings 'Were pending Mr. Hill visited me several times. I obtained the divorce, and 14Ir.' Hill ,accompanied me and my youngest daughter east. He told • me after I obtaiued the divorce that I was his affianced. My husband later died in Boston." Mlrs. Devlin exhibited a, 'diamond ring and a watch, which she said Mr. Hill gave her in 1897. She said he told her he did not like the name Benja- min, and asked' her to call him `!Cliff." He gave her $800 on January 2nd last, she asserted. The witness said that about a month ago the Rev. D'. R. G-.,.Pard- ington, pastor of the church of'rvhieh Mr. Hill is treasurer, visited her. I:te was accompanied by Pollee Captain Short. They told her, site averred, that Mr. Hill was married, and ad- vised her to have nothing further to do with him. It was to investigate .their statements that she visited Mr. Hill's Lorne. Mrs. Devlin then told of the en- counter with Mrs. Hill. She said Mrs. Hill seized her, and Mr. Hill, who was in bed, shouted to Itis wife: "Mamma., let her go 1" The witness said Mr. Hill had ar- ranged to marry her next September, and engaged a dressmaker to make her wedding gown. It was ascertained last night that during a critical period of his illness, and believing that he could not re- cover, Mr. Hill summoned the Rev, Dfr. Pardington, and to him, and in the presence of Mrs. Hill, told of his relations with Mrs. Devlin, pleading for and receiving the forgiveness of his wife. In the hope of preventing a scandal the clergyman consulted with Captain $host, a life-long friend of Mr. Hill, and the visit to Mrs. Devlin Seas the outcome. ]BALLET GIRLS IN MeV OLjT: The Chorus ofPat-is Opera House on Eve of Strike. ' Paris, March' 10. -The strike mania, •wh'ich has been spreading over France th'e Last few weeks, bats now reached the Paris Opera house, where the ladies of the ballet are on the point of revolt. They,• strange to say, are not demanding an increase of pay, but strongly object to what they describe as the 'tyranny of M. Venara, the ballet master. He, it 'seems, is as autocratic as the Czar of Russia, axe distributes fines right and left. One little woman found her salary last month shrank to 10f., the rest having gone for fines. The gay danc- ers threaten •to shake the dust of the historic opera house off the toes. of their wbite satin slippers unless satisfaction is giveln. frhe strike of the Paris dresemak- ere' employees is practically ended, almost entirely to their own dis- advantage, though they continue to Mold daily meetings. The funds of the associations basun . been exhausted, and the• enthusiasm of the members flue worn away. The patrons have net yielded a point in the long con- test, and, as near as mate be observ- ed, the only result .likely to be re- gistered is thkae of the improvement of sanitary conditions in the work- rooms. ; i. FIRE DESTROYS POST-OlrLr10E. Building at"`11lespeler 'Gutted and Much Mali Burned. Hespeler, Ont., Mareh 10. -The Hes- peter Post•offioe was completely gutted by fire at 10.45 to -night. The office block was soa,lly constructed ',of red brick, two stories In height. Oil the bottom floor was situated the Post=office, also a. boot and shoe stor& conducted by Henry Lapsiey. The top flat was occupied by Iles- peter Count, A. 0. U. W., No. 208. Tho blaze broke out in the upper flat, but its origin Is unknown, The build- ing end Post -office contents were valued at about $3,000, which is partly covered by $1,500 insurance In the Perth Mutual. Mr. Lapsley's 1oss, which is principally caused by watery, is covered by 10.,,000 in the same company. The lodge •hate its paraphernalia partly insured In the Gore Mutual, A considerable quantity of mail Wats destroyed, but the registered 1ettera stamps, a , p , ..•p pens, etc., Wave Intact In :the safe. , THE EMPIVft1E CMEI Danks Was Struck With Iron- shod Stake, STORY 'OF THE FATAL ROW, Kemptville, March 8. -The Town Hall was crowded when the inquest on the death of Launcelot J, Banks, adjourned from last evening, teas called at 9.13 a. m. to -day. James Ault said be was at Banks' livery, on Wednesday nlgiit, going there about 11.80 or 12 o'clock to have a talk with Win. McKenna. He found Gannon, Dell, Garrett. (the three prisoners) ate Newman there, and everything was quiet at first, Raymond Banks, son of the deceased, aged ten years, who had gone after his father, came in to say, "You fel- lows cannot run this place any more," and was called names by Dell. Then L. J. Banks, the deceased, who had been summoned by Raymond, arrived at the back door, and .when admitted by the witness asked Ault about .the row, and took the prisoners to task for trying to impose on a boy. Words followed, a,nd all were put out. Ault thought lie bad locked the door, but to -day found the lock would not al- ways work. The prisoners pounded ane kicked on the door, and talked of thrashing Banks. Dell challenged him out. Banks, becoming al- arme • . • , tl got an un- load ridge wea Rayn Inca anent. Gannon in the leed, with hie coat off. Gannon offered L, J. Banks some money he owed him, which Banks said he did not want now, and that he only wanted order and quietness. Gannon said, "We will lick you." Shortly after Gannon and Dell got behind Garrett and•began shoving him against Banks. Banks . took a stake from a truck wagon platform, and the other's also took stakes. Banks backed away, and repeatedly told therm to go back and quit. Witness never saw Banks offer to strike nor heard him threaten Gar- rett. When Garrett prepared to strike, the witness made a rush to interfere, but was held back by New- man, who was evidently trying to restore peace and prevent trouble, and did not appear at all angry. Witness thought prisoner's blow was intentional. It was made with a swing over the shoulder, the stake being grasped in both hands. Banks was hit on the left side of the • Bead with the heavy iron end of the club. Banks said, "You have killed me," and, bleeding freely, staggered to a bench, and later managed to get outside. After other witnesses were heard the jury found that Banks was killed by a blows with a wagon stake in the hands of J. Garrett, and that Gannon and Dell were accessories. E1A1TAI AMY flEFODMS Mil DEVVE o=���FOfegd N EG OTIATEONS Three Army Cor • 'Service. THREE FOR HOME SERVICE, London, March 8, -During the die- oussion on the army estimates in the Rouse of Cumm,nj today, the itight i hon. William at. John Brodrick, See- retary of State for 'War, said he had heard It sale that i.nglishmen were a fighting rake. 'they might be, he said, by nature, but it was only accident that made them a military nation. Referring to the lessons of the was, Mr. Brodrick said that it was evident that in the :British ariny more ine.i- viduality and independence was Wanted among the men. It was a question between the vol- untary and compulsory systems. He adhered to the former, under which 140,000 men had offered themselves for the war. Compulsion would, therefore, be like 'applying the spur to a willing horse, .and would be dis- astrous. 'rile Government could not hope to get rid of Lurc,pean entangle- ments. It could not shut out the possibility of having to despatch forces ons .toabroaddefend. the British posses Mr. Broca -10k then entered into de- tails concerning the proposed reor- ganization of the army. He said that the object of the Government in di- viding the country into six districts was to centralize the responsibility and decentralize the administration. e army corps, to be entirely com- et regulars, would be stationed Idershot, Salisbury, and in Ire- ; The other three army corps, to ie 60 battalions, of militia and teers would be stationed at Col- chester, York and Edinburgh. The Government, in addition, proposed to raise eight t battalions fer garrison duty from men about to enter the re- serve, to establish a reserve militia, aid raise a force of 35,000 Yeomanry, to be armed with short rifles and bayonets. (The net addition to the army un- der this scheme would be 126,500 men, at a cost of £2,000,000, and 40,000 additional trained volunteers, Mr. Brodrick also said it was pro- posed that officers hereafter should be able to procure their uniforms at Government establishments at cost price. Dealing with War Office re- form, Mr. Brodrick insisted that there muut be hearty co-operation: between the Co,minander-in-Chief and the Secretary of State for War, and 'h'e asked that a committee be ap- pointed to advise in regard to need- ed changes. Mr. Brodrick said that the esti- mates for the year, apart from the war estimates, amounted to £29,- 685,000. The Government had al- ready taken on account of the war the full sum it expected to have to ask for. They were determined to carry the war to a conclusion, and had not stinted the General in any- thing. Sir (merles Duke's Opinion. London, March 8. -Bir Charles Dilke, M. P., in an interview, says that the great defect in the speech was that Mr. Brodrick begs the whole ques- tion of how and where the Govern- ment is going to get the men to in- crease the army. There are already three drafts due from India, and the 90,000 reservists exist only on pap- er. Sir Charles thinks that the speech plainly hinted at conscription. Military members of the House of Commons generally approve of th'e plan, but do not see hew it can be made feasible unless conscription is resorted to, or a much higher stan- dard of pay is established. COL. SI'l:EIdd HONORED. May Now Write 11.V.O. After His Name. 11111B 8AIIER TD MI. Disrobing Scene Expected to 11 Catch On. al FAYNE MOORE'S LATEST SCHEME New fork, 12arch 9. -Payne Moore, whose husband is serving a long term for working the badger game, is to be a real star in "The Road to Ruin," which is styled"a sensational melo- drama of Tenderloin life." Theodore Kremer 'and Al.. E. Woods plead guilty to the masiuscriilt. According to the statement given out by the managers, Mrs. Moore will receive $500 per week and all the special advertising she requires. The production will open its season Aug. 2nd, and will come into New York for a snort engagement. The •managers rely upon the third act of the lurid melodrama to score its success. In this act Mfrs. Moore, who assumes the role of an advent- uress, will enact as nearly as pos- sible the alleged badger game of which the late George C. Mallon coin- plained in court. To accomplish this the authors have arranged a disrobing scene which they think will attract the stale populace to the performance in crowds. The scene is built some- what along'new lines, for instead of showing Mrs. Moore in the disrobing act before the audience, the latter is permitted to see only, her reflection In a stirrer. In this act the adventuress is rep- resented as waiting. for her stage victim. To while the time, away she decides to take a. bath: Her maid, impersonated by Louise Bea,uton, pre- pares the bath., and the adventuress retires to an inner room. Splashing of water. carries out the effect, while the maid holds the centre of the stage With a few wise remarks. At this juncture a messenger boy enters with a telegram for the ad- venturess. The latter (iinters behind St screen, and reaches over the top of it, displaying an expanse of bare Shoulders, and receives the telegram. It amlonnces .the arrival of her vic- tim on the met train. She then hastily 'dresses, but in doing so stan"us in such a position that her actions are visible in the mirror. The vletiln • arrives and the plot is carried on in a highly sensa- tional manner. P'IONV/Jett STAGE MAN DEA%). Ele Took the First Stage West to Salt Lake. San Jose, CaI., Mareh 9 -Willi m Buckley, a pioneer stage driver and owner, is dead. Ile was born in Al- bany, N. Y., in 1828, and drove stage In the Mohawk Valley and along the old Post road to Now York City. Be brought the first stage. coach across the continent from St. Louis to Salt Lake in 1817. He was tate pioneer in the coast line etage business be- tween San Francisco and Los An- geles. Fear 18 the tax that cofselefoe part tw guilt. --Sewell. London, Mfareh 8. -Sir 'Thomas Lip- ton has been gazetted a Knight Com- A LONG COURTSHIP. minder of the Victorian Order. Lieut. -Col. Steele, of Stratheoua's Horse, has been appointed to the fourth class of the Victorian Order. For Agreement on New, 04- Pauncefote Treaty. WHAT COLUMBIA URGES. Washington Has Hopes of Reselling, Agreement in Regard., to the Nlcaira gua Canal Matter Eire .bong • --French Company's Rights to, be Respected. , New York, March 9.-Aceaeai;ing to a Washington special to the Herald, Secretary Hay has received advices. that Lord Pauncefote will submit .: proposals for the revival of the Hay-Panneefote treaty anti for har- monizing the points of difference between the United States Senate and the British Government. Senor Silva, the Calm:031MA Minister to the United States. has already formally submitted proposals to Sec- retary Hay for the acquisition of the Panama Canal by this Govern- ment, and has been invited ties dis- cuss them further. Preliminary protocols were 'eater"' ed into some time ago with: Costa Rica and Niearagua, so that these two countries during the summer~ will probably be merelyinterested ed spectators othe moves whims the United States, Great Britain and Colombia will make. It is understood that the essential point which the Government will -urge: A lease for' a term of years. as long as the United States may desire, not exceeding two hundred years, of the territory across which• the Panama Canal is being can- structed. In return for such lease, Colombia is to receive either a percentage of the tax on tonnage passing through the canal, or a lump consideration. Recognition of the rights of the French company, whiee will sell its. concessions with Coloinibla's consent to the United States. MATADORS GOR .1) BY BULLS And the Nobler animals Bellowed 'their Approval. Dice, March 10. -Luer since the bull -ring opened here a few weeks ago the people have been longing for an exhibition more exciting, than is allowed by the Governmedt. regula- tions. Their desire was g-ratlf•Led ,to- day, when, without interferenee by the authorities, a large crowd wit- , nessed an exhibition calculated to satisfy the most callous and .biped - thirsty. The bulls tortured were splendid creatures, and fought gamely. One tossed a Spanish matador maned Robert, who, however, was little hurt. , Another matador was badly gored in the groin. Three horses, wretched, blindfolded starvelings, were 3isem- bowelled. Two of the buThs jumped a.. the barrier, causing 0 panic, *along the on.00kers, but appar..ntly`nobody was hurt. Finally Robert," After a dramatic appeal to the crowd, witielx yelled crazily for the blood w the bulls, stabbed a beast, while the nouler animals looked on holding th it breath and g;oating in silence until til crea- ture fell. Then 'they bellowed' their applause, the women showering flow- ers and the men, coins upon tie matadors. COL. STEELE, Iu Command of the Home -coming Strathconas. The Ming of. Greece and the Crown Prince of Denmark have received the honorary Grand Cross of the Vic- torian Order. Tho Royal Victorian Order is the latest of the British orders of knight hood instituted, and dates only from April 21st, 1896. The designation of the fourth class is " Member Royal Victorian Order, fourth class," and the abbreviation is M. V. 0. The order hat' its appointed anniversary on June 20th, the day od Queen Vic- toria's accession. Tlie d-'corations• are the badge, star and ribbon. Col. Steele will be the first Cana- i dia.n tie be decorated with this pecu- liarly, distinctive order. A. DRUNKARD'S SUICIDE. Bad Record Closed Suddenly at Montreal by a Bullet. Montreal, March 1.0.-A terrible tragedy took place yesterday in the north end of the city. Crazed by' drink and domestic infelicity, Louis Feuwe, of No. 624 Park avenue, fatally shot himself shortly before 11 o'clock. A wife and brother lived in the shine noise, and were horrified at the suet- eexiness of the tragedy, Louis had a record that was unpleasant. He was Well known to the police as a near - do -well, a drunkard, and, It is said, as a Inv breaker. He was only 'about 4 years of age, and Married but a shorteine. Eiderly Lovers Wait Thirty Years Before They are Married. Woodstock, Ont., Mardi 10. -(Titan. McKay and Llizabeth Parke, 'of •Sweaborg, a little place five miles. from here, waited 30 year's foe the consent of their adopted patentee Mr. and Mrs.' John Cummings,.,~. to their marriage. Nea.riy fifty years ago, John tarn mings, of S,weaborg,. who hall no children, adopted Chailes ilfa%ay..and • Elizabeth Parke. ' is the oh11461.' grew up, they learned to ,love each other, but neither Mr. nor Mrs. Cume mings would hear of •their marriage, They decided to wait, in the hope that their adopted parents would relent, but they found . their hair growing grey as they waited. Last October Mrs. Cbmsuings died. Cummings himself died a month ago. The farm was left to the adopted children. There was 'no farther •im- pediment to the marriage, sc; the .. lovers drove to Woodstock; on'Frlday night and were married by the ltev. Mr. Miller. McKay. gave hie ttgeete 60, and his bride as 57. A SERIOUS CIIARGE..' n ' is This Physician a Victim of a. Mistake? Montreal, Mareli 101 -Dr. G. O. Bry- mer, of Point St. Charles, and John Stone, formerly a; wafter at ,items Windsor Hotel, were charged 'eater- day at Bowick, Que., by a eoroner's jury, with malpractice, caaising the death of Miss Christy Hadley, a,ser- vant at Mvb. 'Wilson's, C1iabviliet square, Montreal. Tho girl diod„on. Feb. 14th, axed the certif%ate oS death was signed by C. C: Brynner., Last week the body was exemned, tune after hearing Dr. Wyatt •eeixnstod; of .this city, the verdict vvas„ryelourn ed as given above. • , Dr. Brymer was arrested laaet• even- in.g, but it was found that Stone had,, left the city shortly after Aches Hadley's death. 'The eam'aScd do rued all knowledge of the a,ifa.lr, and it may be that he is the.,vit:tlit et some other map, as botch Mrs. Wil- son and Mr. Tee% the undertaker,' say that Rryiner is nut the, . meet who attended the nixfortee tFi ere - man. Arthur Little, a wooalntmite afat all. driven out of ca,nxp by hie foreman, near Goulais River, Ont. and. was foued frozen to death in a granw- drift. Mr, P. C. Moltityrers+ appoitlertaint as P.oetbm (je of V •lbeinppeel eeteseti., tea.'