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The Huron Expositor, 1887-07-22, Page 1Ou i NINETEENTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 1,023. • lonth Some very choice Patterns. a nd jackets, at the ['pti eeve he also Mbbert led. Moved Y JUall,; )9 fa board an i4digeuts arrled.- ondedj by Js anbe A. Cikrnieh. liter sa for rel'adala Gouneil ad day in Sep - She hail matoli the Country ex- the latter, y little Face .'cIoet., in the nencecl waa ,ng the conn - al. that they trawanosh or le out they taken. One eir beasting Delroit or tilt hawed Slick as they dtplayed at they muffed We hope s well when [in Blyth.— heap Cash Store of Hoffman & Coq Cardno's Block, Seafarth, gents for Butterick's Patterns —Mrs. Alice Thompson, wife of Mr. rilliam Thoir.pson, city editor of the ndon Advertiser, died on the 12th t. after a brief illness. The deceased lady, whose marriage took place last meaner, was widely known as a member f the talented and popular quartette onnected with the Dundas street Metho- 'at church. She was in every way a ost estimable young lady, and her ecease will be deeply regretted by very one whose privilege it was to have ade her acquaintance. Besides her filleted husband she leaves an infant ut a. few days old. —Father Andre, the well-known rorthwest 'missionary, has been receiv- ng much attention in Quebec since his rrival on his way back with Father eaten, Bishop G randin's vicar -general,. from Rome, whither they had gone to tten.d a conference of the Oblat Order. n returning through France Father Andre visited his native Province of rittanyewhieh he quitted over 30 years go, and where he had the pleasure of finding his aged father still alive, though arclly able to recognise his long absent on. From the people of his native vil- age, to evhone he preached, he also met with a most enthusiastic reception. —The- Manchester Guardian of a ecent date editorially refers to the dis- ute between Manitoba and the Domin- on Government on the railway ques- ion. It gives an outline of event % since 884, and says: "The mere enumera- ion of these facts makes it perfectly leaa that the position of the Dominion overnment in the matter is untenable. The settlers of Manitoba have a clear right to provide themselves with such acuities as they consider necessary for placing their produce in foreign markets on the most advantageous terms. Any estriction of their freedom in this re- pect is nothing short of oppression. • has removed here he ex- hore wotkin two ehil- ae s*nding es. ffe ex- bat1 of his leds 'vith the klfth 1pa88l early every o BI4h or Way siting 1Godeale1e.— Bengough, lve g*ne to ha see their pecple of tended the iall, Wing - ay even' gs. I Boot B aoh ry busy ea - e hay' crot ist, and wW month.. It the :spring erom4lnia— Of BIttevaley C elurch here at 3 p.m. invited to. 2..30 ghat' and go to 1.s Ty -tier has And- has or new furni- One of the most appalling railway dis- asters which has ever happened in West- ern Ontario oecurred at 7:15 last Friday evening at the crossing of the Michigan Central and London and Port Stanley Railways, resulting in the loss of 14 lives, and the injury of about 100 per- sons, one or two of them fatally. A special east bound Michigan Central freight train was pulling out of the yard as theregularexcursion train froTh Port Stanley approached with eight or ten coaches literally packed with residents of the cities of St. Thomas and London. Epgineer Harry Donnelly was in charge of 'the Port Stanley train and as he was crossing the bridge noticed, the fireman states, that the semaphore was closed against him. As he approached Wel- lington street he applied the air brakes but they were useless, and refused to work. He then whistled for brakes and reversed his engine, but as the lever was what is known as a screw lever, some time was occupied in reversing it. From Wellington street to the crossing the train ran with the lever reversed. The violent whistling had alarmed pedestrians and passengers alike and that a collision was unavoidable was evident. The passengees commenced emerging from the car windows and. every available means of egress was taken advantage of. The majority of the passengers in the car next to the en- gine had been got, out when the engine plunged into the Michigan Central Rail- way freight. Engineer Donnelly could be seen in the cab, with his hand on the lever still endeavoring to make the air brakes work. As if the fates were link- ed to add additional horror to an already sufficiently appalling affair, the section of the freight train into which the en- gine of the passenger train plunged con- sisted of two cars containing tanks filled with crude ` oil and a car loaded with barrels of refined oil. Almost before the passengers heard the crasb of the collis- ion, it was followed by a tremendous explosion which could be heard for miles. A pyramid of red fire and black clouds towered up. in the air, and,in a moment sheets of fire reached out and enveloped cars dwellings and warehouses in the -viciLty. When the engine struck the oil tank it tore the manhole from the top and but a moment elapsed be fore the oil I was in a blaze and the roaring of the flames could be heard all over the city. When the collision occurred the engine bent, swayed and surged for a moment and finally turning partially over, fell to the ground on the other side of the car. Then shot up a column of flame through black smoke and cinders, that was visible 25 miles away, accompanied by a roar overpower- ing like ap ocean symphony all other sounds. The burning oil was scattered around in all directions, setting fire to Griffin's coal and salt warehouses, J. L. Campbell's dwelling, the watch house and other structures in the vicinity, and with the repidity of lightning the air was filled with burning oil. In less time almost than it takes to tell it, the box car used as a baggage car. next the en- gine, and the first passenger coach, as well as the three oil cars were in a blaze, the oithaving spread forth its heat like the leaves of a fan until everything for a block square was enveloped in theefur- nace. • The fire department was summoned, but by the time the hose commenced playing on the flames they were at their ,fiercest. Willing hands set to work re- moving the cars whicfi had not as yet been 'touched by the devouring element, and the freight cars were also removed, affording an opportunity to confine the streams to the burning cars, but in a moment the buildings already alluded to were in flames from top to bottom. —Angus McKay, of Ingersoll has en-) When once the fire had begun raging tered an action against Mrs. John Mc- Kay, of the International hotel at St. Thomas, to recover $300, one half inter- est in the trotting horse "McIntosh," which Mrs. McKay recently sold for $600. ...t.The defence has put in a counter laim of $500 or $600 for one half the ost to keep the horse. It is admitted that Angus McKay owned a half inter. est in the horse when it was purchased, nine years ago, but Mrs. McKay claims that he never paid a cent of the $150 a year it has cost to keep and train the horse. —The body of Timothy Sullivan, an old resident of London, was found in the river at Dresden the other day in a very decomposed condition. Mr. Sullivan worked in London for about thirty Years. Last fall he left the city and went to Dresden. One day he disappear- ed suddenly from there and was never seen alive afterwards. The other day some parties observed a body in the river, face downward. There was only a Pair of shoes on it, and by these the party with whom Sullivan had boarded identified the body as his. The unfortu- Rate ins.n was only 42 years of age, and how he came to his death is a mystery. —An Ottawa despatch says: Mr. .1a.naes Fletcher, Dominion entomologist, has just returned from Picton, Ontario, ,f the town - from the at. and act inst MrS. tte AucleVi cif Jier sea ; at the ad" 4 re)aehe• of lanark- ife PrlY tare, I to lab rt ease 'oat her friegality iI .ts faMilY i.labath afters ie from tb prgain .icee t at iettlers t a- eed ita Ifl iien-e foreieci st. tist their 'church hal' a a was one rtof ,te8, iend SEAFORTI-, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1887: + ft!' McDEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. ress Muslins, Dress Muslins, Dress Muslins. New Dress Muslim just opened. ew Brocade Silks. Lovely Patterns, Special Low Prices; uitable for Capes, Wraps, Dolmans Other horses, maddened by the heat and noise, neighed and screamed with affright, and darted off at full speed, with ears laid back, and eyes wild with amazement, shivering as if it were with cOld. Many of the flying pedestrians were knocked down and seriously injured. From 50 to 100 persons were scorched and burned. The roar of the flames sounded just like the roar of the. sea. They laughed and cracked and roared with demoniac humor, darting after th skurryiog men, women and children. Many for the moment believed their las hour had come. People hurried on lik mad, but were •unable to escape the fol lowing flames which kissed them wit withering- fervor. As many as thirt men with their clothing burning on thei backs could be seen at one time, whcl ran from .death • with a fleetness they - never before displayed, and it is hoped will never again be called upon to exer cise. About 9 o'clock the oil had bee pretty well burned up, and at 9:10 pyramid of red fire and black clou towered up for a moment and then melt- ed into the general blaze, and the fir began to subside. At 9:20 the fire de- partment had the best of the battle, an within fifteen minutes had under contr the fire which had enveloped everythin within reach with the resistless graph deur and celerity of a barbaric invasio A TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT. the task of describing its ravages in de- tail becomes an utter impossibility. As well might a private soldier endeavor to paint Waterloo or Sedan. All that the writer can say is that everything was hell. The earth and sky were flames; the atmosphere was smoke. A perfect hurricane was created and drew the fiery billows across the way as if it were sucking them through a tube ; great sheets of flarnes literally flapped .in the air like sails on shipboard and were driven down the sky like huge blazing arrows—towering blood signals of vic- tory. The firemen labored like heroes. Grimy, scorched and hoarse, time after time they charged up to the blazing foe, only to be driven back to another posi- tion by its increasing fierceness. Thou- sands of spectators—men, women and children, had by this time collected and watched the scene of indescribable bon fusion, horror and dismay. It required but little imagination to believe one's self looking over the adamantine bul- warks of hell into the bottomless pit, so great was the roar of the cataract of fire. It was one vast volcano—which the ell seemed to convert into a boiling chald eon. When the collision occurred as stated above one of the tanks was split in twain which accounted for the sudden fire. The other remained intact, and where he went at the request of Dr. despite the fact that the crowd was Platt, M. P., to investigate and report Upon a disease which appears to have developed to an alarming extent in Prince Edward County. The seed peas produeed in Prince Edward are of the first quality, the large seed merchants of the United States, as well as those of the air in every direction, and lighted Canada, and even England, securing up the already brilliant heavens. The seed from that district. Mr. Fletcher sight sent an awful shudder to the soul W, driveu through the county by Dr. of every man, woman and child %eh° sew Pinta The crops in the tOWnship of it. For a moment every one was speech - Hillier appeared to be most seriously in less and spellbound. Then they; attempt- feeted with the disease and some will be ed to run. A acene of awful confusion a total failure. The trouble appears to followed. In the frightfal rapidity with lee due to a parasitic fihngus, which at- which the clothing of the hurrying ped - tacked the roots of the pea plants and' estrians ignited, a terrible premonition reduced their vigor so that very few was afforded of what would probably be pods were produced, and in some in- I the fate nf scores of them. Men wore, etances whole fields were killed outright. hurrying in all direction, their clothing Mr. Fletcher hopes to be able to apply on fire. The hose reel of the Depart - a practical remedy which will rid pea- I rnent was completely surrounded by fire, growers of this destructive parasite. and the horse took fright and ran away. 1 The eicape of so many of the wome and childreteis attributed to two cause —the fortuitous circumstance that th coach had turned but partially over, an the alacrity with which the male passen- gers set to work to rescue their more helpless fellow citizens. THE WORK OF REMOVING THE PASSENGE FROM THE CARS. The passengers in the first car, whicki was crowded with women and childre did not realize that there was any dang until the crash came. As stated els where there were but two cars wrecke the box car used as a baggage car a the first coach. When the locomotie passed over the oil tank it overturn on its side, burying Engineer Donnel beneath with his hand still on the ley unavailingly endeavoring to reverse a save the lives of the passengers. T passenger coach was left stationary the track. The freight car parted the centre and the second section wet coach, partial followed, imm the noith e crashing against the overturning it. Fire diately afterwards, and of the coach was in flames in an instan It was here that the nine persons wl perished were hemmed in unable escape the fiery doom that awaited the Their death must have been instant neous. Messrs. A. B. Rerney and A. Drake were the last to leave the doo ed car'and they thought that eee person had been safely got out. M Zealand, whose husband and chi perished, was rescued in a serious burned, condition. Her clothing w burned almost completely from h body, and she also had one of her le fractured, and was otherwise badly i jured. Miss Charlotte Jeffries, of Lon- don, was badly bruised and burned, aid Mrs. Baynes,of the same place, was Ii1e- wise seriously injured. After the pats- sengers had been safely removed, willing hands set to work to remove the other cars so as to prevent the fire from spread- ing. SOME OF THE VICTIMS.' The following,among others are known to have perished: - Mrs. S. Fraine, wife of Samuel Frai e, merchant tailor, formerly Mrs. Banish, daughter of Mr. Sherk, of South D r- chestere She was seated in the fist seat of the car with Mrs. Zealand; when the collision occurred. Frankie, the three year old son Mrs. Fradne, who was seated on mother's lap. M6 S. G. Zealand, superintendent the carpet department of the firm of & W.-Mickleborough. The two year old babe of Mr.. Zealand. Mrs. J. Smither, wife ot Mr. J. Smither, dry goods merchant. Ir. Smither intended removing to Toro to with his family next week. The three months old infant child of Mr. Smither... Harry Donnelly, engineer of the ill- fated train. HOW THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED—DID 'I AIR I3RAKES REFUSE TO WORK. That the wreck was wholly the fa of the Port Stanley Road is evid Both semaphores between the cros and the bridge were closed against excursion train, and the freight had doubte:lly the right of way. It is al ed that Engineer Donnelly was int cated when he left Port Stan Whether such is true or not the inq will probably settle. Certain it is, h ever, according to the eye witnesses these on board the train, that he ni no attempt to reverse his train until een SO, , is Up ed. 0 0 1. s. 8 end of the car where the blate was fierc- est. There was no possibility of escape by the door. The car was one of the rough " excursion " class, with small windows, and by these narrow openings the frantic inmates struggled to escape from their fiery prison. The sight was truly awful. At the forward end of the car a party of women and girls had been thrown together in a heap by the shock, and were endeavoring to tear off their burning clothing, while the flames licked their faces and set their hair in a blaze, their frantic screams for help mingling -with the crackliug of the fast -consuming woodwork around them. Mrs. Jeffrey helped the little Banes boy out of the window—the only one of that family on board who escaped—and then threw herself out. Mr. Jeffrey's eldest daugh- ter in trying to escape became wedged fast in the window and could move neither way, when some one from the outside pulled her through. Miss Jef- frey was badly burned about the head and limb!. Mr. Jeffrey, after getting out his own ehildren, assisted the two little daughters of Mr. Stokes of London West, and a number of others whose lives were saved, sustaining some slight injuries himself. He states that before the train left the Port he saw somebody, whom he supposed to be a railway man, go up to Engineer Donnelly, who was then in his cab, end warned him "to be careful, very careful." Donnelly's man- ner left the impression on Mr. Jeffrey's mind that he- had been drinking, al- though, of course, that impression might have been groundless. warned of theie danger they continued to hover as close to the tank as the flames would allow. Suddenly and without warning the tank buret with:a report like the rattle of a charge of cavalry and a wave of flame was whirled through of I8 of J. HE ult nt. ing he n- the third party, is said to have crept through the cellar door and could not be found, though a thorough search was made. Bennett was committed to jail for three months and Irving was re- leased till Saturday on bail. Order is now restored and the backbone of re- sistance to the enforcement of the Scott Act is cansidered broken. f —The St. Lawrence sugar refinery at 11 Montreal was burned the ot er morning. One or more lives lost and half a million dollars' worth of property destroyed. The Halifax refinery itnmediately ad- vanced prices. —Miss Nellie Thomas, of London, was drowned the other day at Port Stanley. She inadvertently stepped over the pier and falling into the water was drowned before assistance reached her. —Nelson Ryan, of St. Thomas, who shot his wife on Sunday, returned home on Wednesday night. His family told him he would/ not be prosecuted if he staid away, so, after getting $5, be departed. --A barn, thirteen tons of hay, a field of barley, a mile of fence and other destructions were the meexpected out- come of a fire started by a farmer near Napanee Mills for the purpose of clear - off some rubbish. —Farmers of North and South Nor- wich and East Oxford, are going to organize a fire insurance company. Al- ready they have the promise of $80,000 worth of property, and they require only $20,000 more. —Rev. Mr. Shipperly, of Baddeck, Cape Breton, has a pair of kid gloves that were worn by the Queen sixty years ago. They were given to Mrs. Shipperly's mother'and have been kept as an interesting relic. They are still well preserved. —A spectacle peddler lately succeed- ed in swindling a number of farmers in the vicinity of St. Thomas. He repre- held of th:: Rookton l'reshyterian con- sented his goods to be solid gold, and gregatii)n, county of Wentworth, Mr. sold a quantity of them at $7 per pair. They afterwards turned out to be gold washed and worth about 50 cents. —Maximilien Bibaud, litterateur, and formerly professor of the law faculty, of St. Mary's College, Montreal, died in that city on Saturday, 10th inst., aged 64 years. He was the son of the Bibaud who wrote the first French his- tory of Canada. —Hugh Ryan, contractor for the Red River Valley railway, is in Montreal. 'He says when he left Winnipeg eight miles of the road had been graded. He declined to make public the condition of the contract between him and the Gov- ernment of Manitoba. —A farmer, of Hamilton Township, some weeks ago was offered a dollar a bushel for one hundred bushels of pota- toes. He refused the oiler and waited. He is still waiting, arid would gladly take fifty cents a bushel for his stock, but as new potatoes are in he is quite unable to find a market. —A consignment of 49 horses pur- chased in Canada for service in the cavalry and artillery has just been re- ceived at Woolwich. Fourteen out -of the whole number are classed as very good, thirteen as good, twelve as fair, four as too old or too young, and six as indifferent. —The death iS announced of Alex- ander McKay, of Puslinch, at 88 years of age. He came from Inverness, Scot- land, forty years ago and cleared a fine farm of 200 acres. He was a staunch Presbyterian and attended the Gaelic form of worship at Duffs church in East P uslinch. --The mother of Ralph Shaw, the Chatham volunteer killed in London camp, has been presented with $15 by the members of the 25th Elgin Battalion, $30.35 by the regiment of cavalry, $74 by the 22nd Battalion'$50 by the 24th Battalion, $115.25 by the 20th, and $68 by the 28th Battalion. —A society for the prevention of cruelty to anitnals was organized in Hamilton last winter, but has languish- ed since. County Constable McNair seems to be much more valuable than the -society for the object mentioned in its name.. He has just had a West Flamboro man fined $18 or two months in jail for overdriving his horse on Do- minion Day. —Last Friday while a young lady was enjoying herself in a merry scuffle at Niagara Falls a diamond ring fell from her finger. ger merriment was changed to sorrow, and immediately a dozen friends were searching the spot, men with rakes were combing the grass, and every means were being taken to recover the valuable stone, while a crowd of un- employed carters were looking on. Canada. Hon. 0. Mowat left Toronto last week on a visit to England. About 500 Icelanders arrived in Que- bec the other day, on their way to the Northwest. —Rust is reported to have- seriously affected thewheat in several .townships in the county of Waterloo. —During the recent heated spell the mortality among working horses in Hamilton averaged two a day. —Sixty-two per cent. of the wheat in- spected at Winnipeg last season graded No. 1 hard. —The 90 days' quarantine for cattle has been extended to Manitoba and the Northwest Territories. —Ailsa Craig boasts a street on which live no fewer than seventeen widows, with only two marriageable men to keep them company. —Ira G. Walker, a Belleville grocer, has been missing for a couple of weeks. His liabilities are about $2,000; assets $100. —Mr. H. Airth, sr., of Renfrew county, on Monday, llth inst., took heavy hay off a field on which snow had lain exactly two months before. —A short time ago an old lady ninety years of age was immersed by Rev. P. S. McGregor, Baptist minister, at Parrs- boro', Nova Scotia. —Principal Woods, of the Ottawa Ladies' College, has resigned his posi- tion as principal of that institution, to engage in other work. —The town council of Paris offer a reward of $500 for the discovery and con- viction of the incendiary who set fire to the market building. —The Guelph School Board have voted down -a motion to expel the Book of Scripture Selections frone the schools of the city. —A Montreal woman has been sum- moned to appear at the Police Court for keeping between 200 and 300 cats,which annoy the neighborhood. —During the first three months of this year the Scott Act Inspector for South Ontario ,had fines to the amount of over $1,000 imposed upon violators of the law. —The engine attached to the 7 o'clock train from Stratford to London, rat into two horses at Fairfield station -Saturday morning. Both animals were killed. —H. D. Whitney, the defaulting sec- retary of the Montreal Harbor Board, has, it is said, gone to Havana with a rich Cuban planter. His defalcation amounts to $12,000. —Mary Halbyson, while haying in a field near St. Catharines on Friday, was prostrated by the heat, and since then she has been paralyzed. It is thought she cannot recover. • —A man, a span of horses and a wag- on loaded with stone fell along with a bridge near Port Elgin the other day. The fall was 40 feet, but neither man, horse nor wagon was in any way injured. —On Saturday lightning struck the barn of Mrs. Pollard, Yarmouth, Elgin county, and almost immediately the structure was enveloped in flaines ; loss, -$1,500 ; insurance, $700. —The collection at the laying of the corner stone of the Oakville Presby- terian 'church was $355, which was in- creased by the entertainment in the afternoon and the concert at night to $515. —It is understood that Sir Donald T. Smith has taken stock to the extent of $25,000 in the new Conservative paper to be established in Toronto. John Livingston is engaged organizing a staff. —Saturday evening the remains of Mrs. Baynes and her three children, victims of the lamentable railway acci- dent at St. Thoma, were brought home to London for internment. They occupi- ed one casket. eg- xi- ey. est w- nd ad e after Kettle Creek bridge had crossed. That he attempted to do and, found the attempt impossibl also apparent. The train had slowe considerably when the collision occur Donnelly was one of the oldest engineers on the road. He was between 60 65 years of age and had been an engi on the main line of the Grand T Railway, for upwards of 30 years, ing come out when the road wt6 b Previous to that time he had bee engineer in the Old Country. . Of years he has been running the fast press ou the main line out of Lon where his home is. One of his sot employed in the shops at Windsor. A PASSENGER'S STATEMENT. Mr. George Jeffrey, of London, Mrs. Jeffrey and three children wer the ill-fateelhexcursion train, and plett seats close to the unforti Baynes family. On the opposite sia the car from them were three men, two children and a man, who Jeffrey is convinced were burne death. When the crash came the ward end of the car dropped down, almost before the train stopped th tire car was in a blaze. The B and the persons referred to by Mr f rey slid down the incline to the for and eer unk ilt, an late ex- on., a is with on ccu- nate Le of TV 0 - Mr. to for en- nes Jef- yard alarming frequency, no less than seven accidents having occurred from falls from these trees. A St. Thomas daily paper without an item chronicling an accident would be a curiosity. —A row boat containing three men and one woman, was run down by the steamer Mackinac, in the Detroit river about 11 o'clock last Friday night, The accident happened near the Canadian shore opposite Detroit. The roW,- boat was cut in two, and the occupants were all drawn under by the powerful Suction of the steamer's paddles, before they had time to even utter a cry for help. —Mrs. M. Axon, of Dundas, was terribly burned recently by the ex- plosion of a can from which she Was pouring coal oil on her kitchen fire. She •retained sufficient strength and presence of mind to run and throw herself • into a little creek that flows by het door. This saved her life, but she will be very much disfigured, and is now in great suffering. —Wm. Quick and Joshua Elspn, the Westminster cattle thieves on the day they received sentence before Judge Davis,gave an order to a party, tet whom they were indebted, to draw on Mr. 0. Kelly, post -master at Lambeth, for the sum of $37, stating that they would give him, (Mr. Kelly), credit for the amount. Mr. Kelly says a check from them for their book accounts due him, would be more acceptable. —Owing to the dry weather the grass along the track near Glanworth caught fire from a locomotive spark on Friday afternoon, and Mrs. James Allen, wife of a section man, tried to stamp it out. Her clothes caught fire, and she was burned in a terrible planner. She lin- gered in great pain until Sabbath morn- ing, when she died. Mrs. Allen leaves seven children, the youngest being very small. —At a pleasant gathering recently lIemlerson was presentee with a Bible, a pair of gold spectacles an easy chair and a secretary. Mr. Henderson had been an elder of the chunk for a longer space than is ordinarily allowed to men. It is fifty years since he began to serve the church in the eldership. —Mr. Wise, Superintendent of the Rideau Canal, does not believe that the Government will ever take steps to low- er the water so that the drowned lands may be reclaimed. The cost of such work would require more than $500,000, and the land, 2,000 acres, having been paid for, it would be unwise to incur the expenditure of re -purchasing it. The traffic on the Canal is equal to that of previous years. —A very bold robbery was committed on Sussex -street, Ottawa, about 3 o'clock Friday afternoon. A shantyman named Gravelle, who bad just been paid off, was counting his money, about $100, in front of Mackay's Hotel, when a passer- by snatched it and made off, and before Gravelle was fully Aware of what had happened the man had disappeared round a corner, and nothing has been heard of him or the money. —The five Buffalo highwaymen, Geo. Hayes, Thomas McGuffin, Wm. Wood, Jas. Daley and John Regan, who knock- ed down and robbed John Dunbar, an Irish immigrant, on the Esplanade at Toronto about two weeks ago, were sentenced by Judge Morgan to five years each in Kingston Penitentiary. Two well-known thieves, Martin Kelly, and John T. Smith, got three and four years respectively in the penitentiary. --John Campbell, a prominent farmer of the 6th concession of Howard, Elgin County, met with a shocking and fatal accident on Tuesday evening last week. He was driving a reaper and had stepped off to fix the harness on one of the horses when they became frightened and bolted away. Campbell was knocked down and the horses and reaper pass- ed over him, crushing him in a terrible manner. —The funeral of the late Harry Don- nelly, engineer of the ill-fated excursion train wrecked at St. Thomas, took place last Sabbath from his late residence, London, and was largely attended by members of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers, from Point Edward, Windsor, St. Thomas'Stratford, Ham- ilton and London. About 150 walked in the procession ahead of the hearse, which was followed by about eighty carriages. —A fatal accident occurred on Thurs- day morning last week, at Walker's new corn elevator in Walkerville. Frank Platt, a painter, 27 years old and resid- ing in Walkerville, was employed in the tower of the structure,some 70 feet from the ground. The ladder upon which he was standing slipped from its I base, and Pratt shot like an arrow to the ground below. Both arms were broken and serious internal injuries sustained. He very earnestly. 'While two of them ex- plained a paper which they held close to his face, the other stepped around be- hind and began prospecting for the pocket of the proposed victim. Just as the operator was getting down to work, however, he saw that he was watched, gave a signal, and all three ran and caught a boat which was just leaving. This is probably the same gang that has been "working" funerals in Detroit. —Five hundred Icelanders recently arrived at the Icelandic settlement near Winnipeg. Two hundred more are now on the way to join them and it is ex- pected that in a few years the greater portion of the population ef the Island will have been transferred to Manitoba and the Northwest. The 1 winters in Iceland are, from some unknown cause, y early increasing in severity, and it is fast becoming impossible to raise any crops. —Rev. A. Heyworth, Colborne -street, Chatham, was arrested a few days ago on a capias sworn out by his wife, who al- leges in her affidavit that her husband was going to leave her and also that she was maltreated by him. The present trouble causing his arrest is likely to be settled by a mutual 'separation, Hey- worth settling certain property upon his wife. The only matter in dispute is a question of costs. Had it gone on the evidence would, it is said, have caused a sensation. —Mr. J. M. Whyte, one of the Whyte brothers known as the singing evangelists, is now in Toronto, after a season of hard work in the Ottawa Val- ley region. He says that everywhere. the revivals were marked by the great- est earnestness, and he believes much good was accomplished. He was en- gaged mainly among Presbyterian con- gregations, and among these he noticAel a wonderful breaking away from the old reserve and unimpassioned forms of tlie Presbyterian service. —Monday night last week an elderly gentleman, said to be on his way to Manitoba,in company with a young man named Bennett, stopped at the Chapman House, Sarnia. The old gentleman in- sisted on having his companion room with him, which privilege he was grant- ed. Upon the elder gentleman awaking in the morning he was somewhat sur- prised to find that his companion had decamped during the night, taking 13.bout $400 of his money. Beimett has not been seen or heard of since. —Policeman Willis, of Windsor, has got himself into trouble. He ordered an inoffensive middle-aged man named J. C. Hart, sitting in front of the British American hotel, to move a chair off the sidewalk. Hart told him to move the chair himself, whereupon the police- man clubbed him vigorously. Hart called for help and another policeman rushed up, tripped and handcuffed 'him, and the two bundled him off to the lock- up. Hart proposes to lay charges against Willis for malfeasance and as- sault. —Frank Hearn, of Ospringe, owns what was until Tuesday a very valuable horse. It was a pacer and was worth about $500. Tuesday evening he took his horse into Wansbury's blacksmith shop to get shod. • The blacksmith was out andMr. Hearn tied his horse and left it there. There was a reapingma- chine in the shop and the animal in prancing about came in contact with the knife, severing the cord of one of its hind legs just below the hock. The horse has lost the use of the limb and is thus rendered comparatively valueless. —The other day an unknown woman attempted to throw herself over the Horseshoe falls at Niagara, but was seized by two of the eMployes of the Prospect House as she was in the act of precipitating herself over the brink. died the same afternoon. • The woman, who was fashionably dress- —Strawberry Island, a nely summer ed, said she had. nothing to live for and resort, consists of about 50 acfes situat- wanted to die. She refused to give her ed in Lake Simcoe about 12- Miles . from name. Orillia, with which place, also with Bar- -Passengers arriving in Toronto one rie and- Jackson's Point, connection is evening last week over the Great \Vest- maintained by steamer. The island ern division of the Grand Trunk Railway stands right out in the open breeze - report the burning of a twenty -acre field swept lake, and so is free from mosqui- of wheat near Oakville. The grain, al- toes. The fishing in the surrounding though quite green, burned with the water is of the best the Dominion greatest fury. The flames swept the affords. Mr. C. 'McInnes, of . Orillia, is the proprietor. —During a funeral service at St. Alphonsus' Church, Windsor, last Sab- bath morning, a lady felt a touch, and whole field in a very short -time. It is —The 11 o'clock train from Stratford alleged the fire was caused by a spark for London has been changed from an from a locomotive. express to a mixed, much to -the disgust —St. Thomas Times: he daily re - of passengers ,from the east, who do currence of accidents in this city and putting her hand in her pocket, found nat arrive in the city as soon as for- vicinity, aggregating no less than 27 her purse in the hands of a Well-dressed raerly. during the past fortnight, recalls the stranger who stood beside her. She came upon the scene and tore down the —Thursday morning last week a num- cognomen of "Calamity City," bestowed seized the purse, whereupot the man I motto. Immediately a crowd of howl- • loosened his hold and hurriedly left the ling Tories gathered around and protest- -It is understood that the contract with the Bassiers Bros. Company, of Paris, for the establishment of a line of steamers between Canada and France will not go into effect until next year. The subsidy to be paid by the Govern- ment will be $30,000 annually. The contract provides for a service to Mont; real in the summer, and to Halifax in the winter. In the winter time the ves- sels will be permitted to touch at Ameri- can ports. Trips will be inadefortoight- ly. The steamers will be of 2,500 tons burden. —Last Saturday night in Toronto, while Police Constable Bell was arrest- ing Samuel Smith for disorderly con- duct, several of the prisoner's Compan- ions attempted a rescue, and a riot en- sued. Several policemen in plain clothes went to Bell's assistance,and immediate- ly they were Pelted with stones, and. some of the policemen were struck, two of them, Bell and Welsh, being badly injured. A crowd of about 2,000 people gathered, and hooted and yelled at the policemen, who arrested eight of the leading rioters. —The double -tracking of the Grand Trunk between Montreal and Toronto is being pursued at three points, viz.: York and Scarborough, 3t- miles; Gan- anoque to Lansdowne, 9 miles; and from Coteau Landing to Montreal, 36 miles. This is a total of 48t- miles, which it is intended to complete this year. There is already a double , track of 74-, miles from the city to York station. Next year the work will be resumed, and it is estimated that at the end of the third year the whole distance be- tween Montreal and Toronto will be covered. —A disgraceful scene occurred at Peterboro on the morning of the 12th. Contrary to an agreement arrived at by the Executive Committee having charge of the Orangedemonstration, a streamer upon which was printed " No Roes Bible" was stretched across Brock 8treet. The County Master, on learning of the action of the young hot heads, ber of the sturdy . yeomen of Mono, upon it last year. Whatever e cause, Amaranth and East Luther, who had certain it is that the neighborhood of St. been sworn in by Mr. Gray, police Thomas has more than its fair share of magistrate, as special constables, arrived accidents. While a large proportion- of at Oran eville at an early hour and pro- the accidents of course, are on the rail- . • .11 than olite building, accompanied by a eompanion, ed. in language mo not, however, before he was Pointed out against the removal of the streamer. to a young gentleman present, who Cries were raised by many, •‘ We want shadowed the two and saw them take the whole Bible, by G—d." A leading ffi • 1 of the order on horseback created d tl n of the consternation and cheers by offering to ceeded to arrest the tavernkeepers ac- roads, which London escapes, having but the ferry boat for Detroit. cused of assaulting Constable Hall on one through road and a couple of spurs, , moments later, Monday evening. They were stoutly ! still we have more than our share of I lady who first spotted the pickpokets armed and walkedaro -"th • 'dents in the harvest field on the I were standing at a corner of Sandwich which meant -business. Bennett was I bighway and upon the farm. The cherry street, they saw three other nien sur - first secured, then Irving, but Duffy, tree seems to have got in its work with rounding a farmer and talking to him ments. The bet was not taken up. bet $10 against $1 that there was not one of the howlers who could repeat the Lord's Prayer or the Ten Gorrmanct-