Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1904-10-21, Page 1trtr ATE CURL NTEEq. OAT. omin ot for East. in Myth( g a 111=4 vatiteet im FLISWeil ;ernion th ext 011 7 day, al -I dieplay of a. sale in There en to buy, Les can be :try serve- * proved Birks, soiled two .eongrega- = response $47 be- en the. :her peo- empt and e call for e taxation' 1ring the tied baek received on Wed - it. He is v and We r aid Alex. reek from a meet - here on. flf he canal- xarty for Derninion daturnoes Ling was rmade be' BeglieS. r.,eek Dr - tan City, rs. 3- 3-- inited a. teKenzie, Ey taking ride. The Brussels. 'years of nais of . War well vIS,. Were ay from [:ken t oi mee Me- a \shish Sunday. ere over his week eels and erowd. Hamil- for a was jii ededs at iday ev- .We a Lex. Me- in dur- that a oon set s eallied to eee Ell with., ie neer condi- cMartin ere visa eve dans ass and visiting et gar- thilf, of fritdi e 41C,7 ' - , 1.` EXRTSIXT YEAR, VirBOLE NUMBER, 1,923.1 Fine Tailoring and ieadyrnade Clothing 1 TT HET RBE FT.7116 • .AND , TEPERNISH 1NGS t•rommemiamp.srlapogammemassams 411•••11101•1•061.111111M SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, • OCTOBER 21 1904. LAURIER IN TORONTO — Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the great lead - 1 Br of the great Liberal party of Can- ada,oaddeessed an immense audience 1, in Toronto. on, Friday evening last. 1 The largest public hall in the city ' was packed, and many were Unable to gran •aamission, even standing-. room in the hall. No other man in 0a.nada eeuld bring together such, an audience, and that, too, in Tory Toronto. What fr,h,e Mitil and Empire Says. • Five thousand people were packed ,in Messey Hall last night, and gave Sir ;Wilfrid Leerier a reception which duplicated in enthusiasm those with .which he has been greeted on his-for- mee insits tothe metropolis of One tario. .6 If -leers were a relia!ble gauge of votes, the Premier might reasonably 'Look to see 'five members horn Toronto at his back when the tenth Parliament of (Canada assem- bles. Unfortunately for his fond hopes, the lesson of the past is that Toronto may turn out and cheer dis- tingurShed (visitors, but at the cru - Wel (moment it votes according to 'conviction. As a premature Hallowe'en cele- bration, the meeting was a decided success. The fun -loving students of the City and. 'eager for a chance to give their buoyant ' spirits full ply, had*assenabled over a thoesand strong in Queen's • Park, and, tinder the marshalship of Mr. T. B. L. Par- sons, traarched to Massey Hall, where the top gallery had been reserved, for them. Here (they kept the.aaselves in constant evidence to both eye and ear, and fearing that their lung pow- er would fail, unaided.; to afford a full cape for their e exuberance, they brought megaphone, fish horns. and 100thi3T ipetruments of noise into requisition. The weault, as the man- agers of themeeting had. expected, was a plentiful supply of ready-made and tnoi-sy 'enthusiasm at conventent intervals, tout the interruptions and expressions ,of dissent Which now and then enaminated from the ranks of the !students showed that to- them the occasion was one rather of jolifi- cation (than of serious attention to a presentation of vital political is- sue. On other result of the monopoliz- ation ef saoh a large portion of the ball by the student e was -that bona -fide electors were unable to gain admission to the hall, although many of them were leadieg Liberals end (held tnikets entitling them to eeats on the platforna. You can alwaye 'get a better selection of Furs early in the season. A fur gatmeut wmesuing yourelikely to.wear a number of years, and when you are buying its of importance tO you to get only the nicest and best of the kind. There are no Furs made quality of which is too good for our store and its patrons. We sell no nr without our guarantee. , We have tlie maker's bondlor it, we give you our bond that everything will be of only the best quality, in all lines, at an ogee.. We tie ourselves to no one maker or brand of furs, but search the whole market, and pick the best. --and on y the very best—from all the differ- ent responsible manufacturers. Our mod, sty impels us to retrain from \the nee of boastful expressions, characteristic of other store advertisements, re. gsrding the size of fur stock, big buying, 4ge. If You Cone, Ccinie to See speak, for itself, and as to the values we offer, our A magnificent stock of the following garmentsto The size of our stock wifl prices will (10 the arguing. select from : NECK: FORS. Ruffs, brovha. sable Ruffs, Ohio sable, 4 tails Ruffs, Columbia sable, 6 tails Stole Collars, Alaska Sable Collarettes, black Collarettes, Sable Caperines, black se -verities, sable and seal Caperines; Sable and.Persian $ 300 to $ 4 50 5 50 to , 7 00 7 00 to 10 00 10 00 to 25 00 .300 to 600 5 50 to 10 00 5 00 to. 10 00 10 00 to , _15 00 15 00 to 25 00 • -FUR JACKETS. 1 Persian Lamb, plain , Persian Lamb with sable Persian Lamb, mink RUSEtial:), Lamb, plain Kiissian Lamb and Sable Booharan Lamb Seal, plain isS 4 and Sable trachan, long tre6han, short Cloth Fur Lined Coats t100 00 to $15000 135 00 to 150 00 160 00 to 195 00 50 00 to 60 00 50 00 to 65 00 40 00 to 55 00 30 00 to 40 00 40 00 to 55 00 30 00 to 50 00 25 00 to 40 00 65 00 to 90 00 amaaalmagimmgaromaimmoimus FU CO AT In Coon, Black Dog, tlack Calf, Brown Wonabat, Wallaby, Clear Fut Lined Coats, all as good as you'll see anywhere in Canada, at low, and possibly lower, than in most places in Canada. -Men 's Dress Gloves Wombat, prices as An immense stock of thg lined and un-. lined Gloves and Mitts for dress or for work- ing, best Canadian and English make; Price 50c to Hundreds d e and Women Can be overcoatal from our very. stylish and sensible' assortment of tkese garments. Our coats certainly hay.) a newer style in. design than most others you'll see, and our low prices are surprising people every, day. If you have not been in yet, come now. Prices $5 to $15 Raincoats Prices $4 to $20 +.1-÷+÷+-Hetedefelet-S-H-44-1,4-1-1-leiedeeh Bring Your Boys Here. The most poptilar store in Huron county for b)ys' outfitting—Suits, Over- coats, Reefers, Sweaters, odd P,:trits,-Cap-,, Stockings, Underwear—everytbing the boy needs for cold weather wear, and so easy in price • you'll not find it hard to get everything needed. eleepeeeve^~,A04AleeetotWeeeltee~ Greig Stewart, Johnson Bros.' 'Old Stand, The Largest Clothing and Fur Store in Western Ontario. 11111-- 11,1"11111 What The Globe Says. How' lean such an event as Sir Wil- frid Laurier's meettng of last .night be (referred to in language that Shall seem :restrained and moderate? Only once before has it been paralleled, and that was on the 16th of October, 1900, When Sir Wilfrid Laurier spoke in the .same grand. auditorium to a similarly transp.orted audience,which like -the audience of Friday night, had 'left double its numbers outside unable to obtain admission. 'Warned by the expeelences gleaned. On. tat occasion, hundreds of enthusiasts had by 9 o'Clocii taken their stand so as to be "next " when the doors opened. Those that thought that 6,30 would. be time enough to get to a meeting that evould not start ;until o'clock. were Chagrined to find that the early (bird had got hold of the door knob, andthat between the 6.30 ar- rival ande that lucky individual was a dense clow -d, too fiercely desirous of•getting] inside to brook the for- mality of forming a aliened 'The coming of eight or nine hundred students in prOcession sent the ex- citement Ks to fever heat, and the injection of thig flood of vigorous youth into the ocean before the doors stirred. it, as jt freSla- breeze had blown across its surface and ruffled it into billows. .When at length tbe 'doors 'opened the, man who has been asserting these many years that water cannot run up hill would have-, been lwaltelty persuaded that he had been endoesing a fallacy, for no image can convey the picture the stairs then presented unless the read- er can conceive of Niagara flowing upwards instead of down. When the students reached the gallety reserved for them the movement was reversed and the headlong flight down the tier of setats made nervous people believe that the tarrent ,would never stay itself till it landed, bruised and bleeding, among the chairs oo the lower floor. But it did, and lost not a moment in convincing all within thearing-that, like most tor- rents, it was full of "sound and fury:" In the meantime other torrents were pouring into Jibe body of the thall, and it might almost be said that every seat :wee occupied in the twinkling of an eye, and even these Who considered the.mselves, fortun- ate in coining early found, to their consternation, that they would have to stand daring the whole eveninig. They toeseled themselves, however, as they heard long after the meet- ing was under way the huh -bub and .sheering outside .of those who had not been able to gain admission at all: The poiice calculate that fully 10,11f, people Who were a.nXious to gain aamission had to be turned away. Sir William Mulook's ope.ning words were that :they had at last gathered some. 'idea .of the mean- ing• of Mr. BOrden's word, "ade- quate," for Massey Hall, large as it is, was not ,neerly adequate to hold- ing all that wished to see and ,bear their Seeder. Waiting for Hours. Me -first of the erowd came to thehall precisely at 5 o'cloc4,at which 'hour half, a &zee men 'took up thelr station at the *etre Shuter street door. In a few min- utes theie numbers .were increasect to a score, and tehen the uptown rush began at 6 o'clock nothing could be seep from the Yonge street ears but a great mass of people stretch - ii from the street crossieg to far -pat the hall. From that time the or.owd easily trebled, and the great- est audience thet Massey Hall ever lead lett twice its numbers teutside. Varions Were the schem.es resorted to by enthusiasts to gain the inside of the hall before the doors were waned to the public. Under the guise ed Minister's seeretarYis. news- window paper men or members of the corn- mittee many approaehed the police; !Who 'guarded the doors, but even for those who succeeded in Serallibling Shades through the crowd, passing thei guard's was an all but impossible ' feat. One traan was caught hoistiegii 3/11elle 1 a ladder to Orte. of the rear windows,' , "" CO Order All Sizes up (which he had planned to' -pass; three ladies. The police took charge! of the tadder. A Great Speech. • Sir Wilfrid. wee in good form, an(i. in- the opinion ,of most of those whe heard Lira in the same place four years ago he was in stronger voice than then. Not quite so playful or facetious as then, but grave and. sera bus with. the mighty matters that . he has undertake.n for the upbuild ing and enlargement of Canada. Stil thete- were sonie ef :the old tim flashes of humor, stfcla as thatwlie he !compared •Mr. Borden's raitwa policies Ito the rose, -Which biome to -day and died to -morrow. If ther was less tendency to, raise the laug the eloquence was even higher an nobler than before. The concludin sentences, in which, he prophesiei that 'Canada would be the prodigy o the twentieth-century as the 'Unite States had been of the eineteent stirred, the audience to a perfect frenzy of patriotic • fervor. The Speech. was stopped more than once not by oheering ,merely, but by reg- ular dea,tening salvoes of Pince cheers. and, -a tiger. 1 ] , Lady Laurier. I The distinguished wife of the Pre- mier was • not overlooked. Lady Laurier, (who entered, a box on the seeond. tier some niinutee before Sir Wilfrid appeared' on the platforte, was 'quickly recognized by the aude ience and was enthusdastioally eheeie ed. To the ladies' the sight of La4y Laurier, radiant and smiling, was o e of the great treats of the evenin She twas obliged to 'remain standi for some minu es, acknowledgi the plaudits of he vast throng. Plashes From The Speech. • , The following are a few of t e bright flashes from Sir', Wilfri s speech as compiled by and whi h we take from the Toronto Woe' ; I don't claim that we've been i fallible. On he contrary, I'm pre- pared to admit that, in the admin- istration . of some departments, we have ibee led into error; but this I 'claim. We have given you a pure and hon st government. '1 It is sy to find fault. The pr lem is and the difficulty is to eol struct and to build. , There's not a man in thiS ho se who does not feel prouder to o411 himself_a Canadian than he did eight year ago, `` e name of Canada as a, prominence it had not eight ye rs lip. I ' . tionle 411011 Will', say Providenee is the pause of our prosperity. Y s and I bless Providence on both knes Moir the _prosperity and be efits.1Providenee has sbo-wered up n us. tBut Providence. helps those w io help thenaseives. The measares tie government has taken are the merins by :which those favors have reached us. And the, first of these Foster was a nieasNs- ter h Il. ' was the British preferenee. Mi. says " \Ve stumbled on' this.". n the days in tvhicir merabee of the government it WiltS . not on things noble, but on thins ; ignoble, that they stumbled. The construction of a railway I frogn the Atlantic to the • Pacific, every . inch MI Canadian Sell; is a politicel 1 and commercial neeessity. It; is a , deastssitY, awieg to our geogrephl ical eituatiOn. 1 . Theme are _men in this audienee who twill see thie country with; 66:- 000,000 of people. Then are we net to provide tor the future'? Whatever our fault?. we shall not err for want of boldines. We have not failed to grapple with, any diffieulty we bane lead before us.1 : We have $70,000,000 that we have- tak n out of the pockets of the an- adii taxpayers for 'the Intercolons lel ailway, and how much of intee est ve we reoeived'? Not one con . It lirs not earned its running ;ex penses. (Phis is what we have a.fte 25 .years' experience, and th.ere ,ar men 'mad enough to extend. tha railway twice its own distance. ! From- Mr. McKenzie, ate to Mr. Emmerson we have had deficit after\ deficit on that railway. It IS not thei manand as long as the system remains\ 'ilt is the system that is vcious, i we shall have deficits. il Gnevernraents can build but cannot -operate railways. Railways are to carry passengers and merchandise. Governmepts (were never intended to go into railways or into commerce. The twentieth century shall be the century of Canada. For the next 100 Years Canada shall be the star to- . wards (whieh all men who Love pre- gross and freedom shall come. I ask you to sink the petty, mie- i er,able squabbles, which have divid1 ed as in the past,and take your place ' in the line of progress. • Huron Notes. —Ed. Cassels, of Clinton, suffered the doss of the end a his right thumb at the organ .factery Tuesday of lest week. It was the old stery of sawing a board and the thumb- also _Old ilArs. Burton, who lives in: Statilet-on, fell Wednesday morning of dast we k, breaking seine of the' bOrtes of hr wrist besides dislodat- ,ter a few (minutes was spent in hand- ing it. hakipg,, an address was read, and —Mr. Edger Bowies, a former well', n extension. table, 6 chairs and an - known business man of Wingham,, •ther arra chair for their respected. died in Orangeville On Friday, 7th , x -pastor to rest at ease in, were init. Consumption was the cause of death. He was 38 years et age: —Mr. R. Fitzsimons, et Clinton, haS eame fine epecimene of sun flow - e -r. The largest measures in .circura- fere.nce 49 inches• and weighs 5 14 pounds. He has four others that go over 40 inches. —A severe storm, , aoeornpanied by heavy thunder and fierce lightning passed over the southern part of Stephen township on Saturday af- ternoon, 8th inst. The house of Mr. 'Wesley Jones was struck by. lightning and destroyed. Mr. Jones and' a daughter, who were in the house nt the time were stunned. by the ebook, while the daughter was injured by some hot substance CURTAiN POLE—all sizes in. • stock., ALEX.. WINTEE,' Picture framing it, Specialty. striking the.r on the face, and burn -4 ing it badly. Both however, ,es. - °aped tr0111 the building which *as totally destroyed. athere was $450 tnsurance ion the Ibuilding and con- tents in ,the Bay Township Insur- ance .Company. 1 --'The anany friends of Mr. B. Rumba'', of Clinton, will regret to learn that ha was Stricken with Par- 6/yais, on Wednesday of last week. 1Dne side is paralyzed and he is in a 11110LEAN BROS,„ Pubil their two children 'bade their frienda and. Scotland good bye forever. Ar - living in this eountry, they lived , for some -tiroe at Columbus, Ontar- , io, but in 1862 moved to East We- ; we.nosh and started to make a home ni what was then, over 40 years ago, g solid forest. Her , husband died 11 years ago. 811100 (hen s -he has eon- ' tinned to reside n the old home- stead, , with her ison Andrew, and daughter, lefargaret. The. family 'comprised BiX sons and twodaugh- ters. • A ;despatch from, doderich on Oe- !taber 0.4,th gays: Forty men em- ployed by M. A. Pigott & Co.„ on Can- adian Pacific oonstruction work ' here, ire on -strike f -or higher wages. They ,have been receiving $1.50 and ask $2. Twenty-one of the strikers are Polack, some Italians and the rest Canadians. They are walking Vire streets, with no likelihood of be- ing taken on, as a compromise on $1.75 fell through this mt-ninig. —The ;hand of death hr t. brought sorrow mid sadness to th home of Mr. M. X. Powell, of the C -,.h conces- sion of Turnberry, this 'beloved part- ner having pawed the bousiC of time .Sunday 9th bat, Some time ago critical eondition. Mrs. Powell was stricken with ty- , —Mr. Israel Taylor. of Clinton, phoid fever, aria it was thought that ;has been appointed district m.ana- she would ultimately recover. She ger of the Imperial Life Insurance Company or the counties of /lid-, dlesex and.Huron, with headquarters in London.. —On Sunday night last the bar ot the tiVfamstan ROILS% :Exeter, was en- tered and some $8 or $10 stolen from the till. This is the third. time ,thieves have done the same thing. —James Johnston, for seventeen years a c,orperation :laborer in God-. erich, died on .Monday of last week, after being- confined. to bed for nearly a week. Deceased had been ill since last Maroh with cancer of the stomach. He was a native of Qu—elbeMie' nr.Robert Everett, &liehter. of Mr. Sohn Burley, of Goderiche died in Sarnia Hospital on Saturday, October ittth, from an attack of a- cute typhoid pneumonia. The re- mains :were brought to God.erich for interment in Colborne cemetery, the funeral ta.kipg place from Mr. Bur- ley's residence. ]. — A number of friends of .Mrs. S. Crioh inst at her home in Clinton the other evening to Say farewell be - or departure for Los Angeles. California, (where she goes on a vis- it to her daughter. During the ev- ening Mrs. Crieh was presented with a handsome set of hooks. —An . assessment sof six per cent. has been levied one the policy , hold- ers an the Hay Township Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company. The company sustained several 'heavy /asses the past summer, which made it necessary to make the. call. 1 —The annual meeting of the °Hu- tton Board. of Trade Was held recently when the • following officers were elected. President . J. Itansford; vice-president, W. W. Farr in; sec- retary, 'W. Jackson:, treasurer, th R. Slodgins. The question of the municipal - ownership of the elect- ric: light plant was taken up, and a oommittee was ,appointed to investi- gate ale advisability of the purchase' of the plant. —1Vfx. Abraham Lehman has sold. his aoo acre farm on the Bronson line, Hay, to Mr. jeeePh Smith, the consideration being $5,000, •Thee farna is a good one and well worth the money. Mr. Lehman ha -s cleeid- ed to give up farming and hes"pur- chased. the cottage in ;Zurich =freed the Settel estate, paying therefor $675, rind. 'himself, and wife will be- come tesidents of Zurichi shortly. —Mr. fouls Schilbe, of the 14th concession, Hay, metwith a serious accident. on Monday of last week. He INVOS in the ,act of hanging- in a door, and •not being able to reach quite thigh enough had. placed a -wheelbarrow blear so he could. stand on if. wihue in this position, in some way the lost his balance and the wheelbarrow upsetting, Mr. Shiliae tell heavily on it, with the result that a namber ol his ribs on the left side were fractured. —There was a serious accident at Mr. George Walker's barn raising an the B. line, Turnberry, on. Mon- day afternoon of lest week. The work a raising the frame ,had pro- ceeded !without any iiitcl3 until to - became suddenly worse, liowever, • and despite the efforts of physician and friends, Suomi:abed on Sunday, death being due to heart failure. The deceased, whose maiden name* was Mary Ann Musgrove, was iboete in 'Hullett 'township, but removed with her parents to T.urtaberry when but a blind. Deceased was married. a- bout six Years h.ge, and besides her husband haves a little son. —The death of another pihnete of Colborne township, occurred on Sat- urday morning, October 8th, when Mrs.- Robert Bissett passed away at the age of 81 years and nine months. Mrs, Bissett was born in Devonshire, England, in 1823, and 7 came to this country in 1812. She was married in Goderich to Rdoert ; Bissett iin Octoheet 1844. After- re- maining tor two y4are they removed to Colborne and settled on a farm where. Mrs. 13isseti4 resided until a short time ago. 1They experienced all the - vicissitudes of pioneer life. The (family who are lett to mourn consists of four !sons and three daughters. 1,! —The heavy rain. of Tuesday ev- ening of last week °wised quite a flood in Zurich. 1The cellarof a 1 la n -umber of the bu iness pces were flooded and a' gre t deal of damage reeulted. Mr. D.'e.T. Merrier is t e heaviest loser, amp water in the c4. lar of hs store riSing so high as t damage a las,ge amount of butte and c•ther perislileble goods. The loss is estimated.•44t about $160. Mr: D. S. Fant also, aaffeeed some loss. —The voting sim of Mr. joeeph Solenstent of East ,Wawenesie while working in CoFvveU' saw mill. on Friday hof laet week, had the misfor- tune to get his bend very Severely cut twitla a eew. 'The hand was al- most cut in two: . —The angel of 'death invafied the home et John K. Wise, Huron Road, Tuckersnaith, 'an Monday afternoon Last week, and took, therefrom the spirit of his ingthet, Rebecca Iting- ston, relict of the late John Wise, at tthe age of 7-5 years and eleven ra. months, efter an extrded illness of about a year's dtion.Fifty years ego she came to Huron with her husband, and settled on the old homestead, where she died, being lot 29, SlUren Road. Her husband prede- ceased her some 22 years- age, but with an affeetionate family of two fions, John K. and Samuel, and niece daughters, Mrs. 'Charles Glew, Mrs. Win. Bubalz, of B gill= dville, and Hannah at home, she waS comforted in her loss during those years by them, and when the end came, it was iii peace that she lovingly said good- bye. MrstWise was born in Ire- land, ibeing but six yea* old when she came to this country -with her parents, twho first settled at Tor- onto.-- She possessed that kind and Warm (hearted dispesition that made (every one A friend at first acquaint- ance. She was eaised an Angelican, but after marriage she was attracted to the .Methodfet denomination, un- der which ausPices she wee 'buried on the following Wednesday, by Rev. Joseph Greene, ,in Clinton cemetery. wards evening,when one o • the beavy -- timbers fell and. struck Mr. JamCanada.es I Fowier„ of the Bluevale'roadeind one —A few days ego the 12 months old of his legs was broken just below daughter of Mr. George Penfound the thigh. Mr. George Walker was - harness _xn.akeri of Oil Springs, fell, also thart about the shoulder. The into a pail of water, and -when found rain had,rnade the timbers very slip- by Ms. Penfound was dead. wiry end this is said to have been —The _late Col. McLaren, of Ham - the cause of the tihaber slipping. ' ilton, left an estate valued at $265,-' — Mere 'died at his residence, one 0$0. Fife thoneand goes to McLaren; and a quarter miles caret 4 Farqu- Memorial Fund, another $5,000 to the . her, en Monday of last week, Sam- Mary McLaren Memorial, and the rest is davidedtameng".seven obildren. uel McCurdy, ane of the best known borne, at the ege of 79 years De-, township, of test-, —The last of, the toll roads in. Ox - borne, of the ford county was taken over by the 'county last -meek. The *tells on all ceased. ihad been ill for some time, but two of th* roads have been re - the cause being a weakening and moved, and the tolls on the -remain- breaking lap of the system. He was a man of steeling qualities and pos- sessed the eorifidence of all witb whom he came in contact. He is survived by a grown -up family, to whom the sympathy ,,of all is ex- tended. —Tuesday everting of last week, a big Surprise was -sprung on Itey. Dunlop end family by the Baptist ohurch telegregation of Clintoenwhen bout fifty walked in on them. At- ing roads will be taken off in a day or tAVO, when the . money is paid. over. —Wm. Smith, a young mechanic, of Woodstock., bee been sentenced to three years io the. penitentiary, for stealing $40 from a young girl cm- ptoyed at a local hotel, where Smith boarded this Summer. He got the money from her on the promise of marriage. —His Locrdelaip, the Bishop .of Hur- on is lying dangerously ill at his residence, Bishopstoeve, in London, and there are said to be some doubts as to his recovery. The heati of the Huron diocese is suffering from a resented to them et% they left for . heir new home at Springfield, to !stroke of paralysis, Whioh seized vhich- place they left Thursday him at 10 o'clock last Saturday orning. —On -Sunday, 9th inst., there passed o her reward' One of the pioneers f Bast Wawanosh, in the person of elen Inglis, relict of the late James ilson. Deceased was in her 77th ear, and the caitee of death was neumonia and heert failure. She , vas a native of Lanark,La.narkskire, cotland, 'where she wastmarried to er tate husband, and they resided t Or some time in the city of Glace ow. When the hard times at the Lose of the Russian war in 1856 set 'n, they deterniined to try their for- tune in the New World, and with tit • : morning. Hie physician says that the patient is not likely to recover. —Me. W. J. Carson, for several years inspector of London's publie sehools, died very euddeialy at his home in that city, on Friday. Death was due todhea.rt disease. Mr. Car- son had not been feeling well in the early part of the day, and up t� the time of bds demise, although he had continued his duties. He visited the Normal Sehool, in South London, during the gaerning, and about noon, when he was ready to leave for home, he eomplained of an attaok of indig- estion. However, he proceeded home er $1 a Year in Advance on a ear, and after arrieingethere he further complained of feelings, ill. Be suffered considerable pain in the region of his stomach. MrsOar- son was with him at the time, and when there was no improvement in the condition of the inspector, she telephon.ed for the family physicien. The latter reaehed. the house at 1.30 and. gave Mr. Carson relief, after which Mr. Carson decided to lay down for a Sheet time. He hed settreely done so when tie expired without (uttering a. warning of any. kind. • —The death of Alexander McNeil. one of the oldest residents of West- ern Ontario, -occurred last week in Lobo township. He was 94 years of age, and was born in Inverness, Scot- land. He came to this country in 1832, and worked at his trade as a stonemason for many- . years, aftere wards retiring, and taking ep1arin- ing.. At one tirae Mr. McNeil took a. trip ',around the world, working at lea trade all the tirae. —Mr. Alfred Bordeau, an teriployee, of Pineombee & Donaldson's sawnal in Stratihroy, met with a very pain- ful accident by which he lost his left arm. He was engaged in hauling the logs from the yard. to the mill, and. in soMe wuy his left hand was caught between the chain and the pulley, *terribly mangling this wrist until it became severed. It was found nec- essary to amputate the area above the elbow. —A fatal accident occurred at Springbrook, a little village not tar from Belleville, Louis Bennett stopped at Mrs, Green's for a night's lodging. At brestkfaet time the. was missed, though his elothes were still in his zoom. He was found at the bottom of the oelilar steris dead with his neck broken. Apparently he had got up in t he night and walk- ed down the cellar way, which was situated in the .woodshed, aid r un- protected. • • —A. P. Westervelt, secrefa\ry of the Dominien Live Stock Assoeiation has just returned from St. Louis with excellent reports of Canadian saccese. alohn Campbell, of Wood- ville, the Only -Canadian exhibitor of Shropshires, won $1,654, ineluding grand championship, amther cham- pionehip, 19 firsts ,and. 17 seconds. J. B. Brethour, of Burford, for York. hire pigs, won $1,200. John Mc- Gillivray, of ITtbridge, WWI $1,000, and. Douglas, of Mitthell, won .$800 for Teinwortli pigs, (besides many other minor gums, won by •Ce.nadians. —As in result • of investigations into the presence at Pall fairs` .of gambling -' devices, 4.me interesting information has been forwarded to Superintendent Cow -an. ' At one fair which received. a Government grant eight gambling rallichines Were in op- eration. At another one a device was confiscated and the owner fined. It was worked by a dynamo, and the dice were so made that whenever they struck the table a perfect el- ectrical connection was establish- ed, and the dice had to fall just the one way. —At the Wentworth assizes last weak Miss Mary Gawley, Binbrook, who sued. the Reeve, James L. Sal - /TWO, for breach of promise, was given &raves to tthe amount of $800 ae a balra for her wounded heart. The defendant admitted Driomising to marry the plaintiff, but, he said, it was eonditional on his two sisters, with, whom he re- sided en -the farm, giving their eon - Sent to the marelage. They refused se he deoided to call it off. He had • doeument, signed by Miss Gra.wley, releasing him from hisissigagement, but she swore- that when she signed it she did so under la, misapprehene sten, 4011 sbe .di4 not know it was a release. Mr. Salmon is 60 years of .a.ge, and the plaintiff indirectly ad- mitted to close on to 50 years. —A fatal head-on collision oc- curred oti the Galt, Preston and H-espeler Eleetric Railtva.y Monday morning at Prestee. Two loaded coal cats misled by a freight motor, Were being moved on to the siding. The conductor went ahead to open the switeh and also to flag the pes- senger car from Hespeler, as is the rule. The passenger ear was not due fee ten minutes, and the freight started for the switch. There is a sharp curve at this point, and just as the coal' cars reached it the pas- senger car crashed into them. Miss Annie Renwick, of Hespeler, a 16 year old student ef the Gait Col- legiate 'Institute, on her way to the echool, was instantly killed, bee' bead being almost severed. from :her body, Geerge Rooke, the motorman on the passenger car, had his left toot tak- en ,off and his right leg broken. Sev- eral of the other passengeles were injured, but none seriously• -1 —C.M.Passinege, twho has been cr- ginist in the Mitchell Presbyterian ohureh, has been engagedeas organ,. ist iin one' of the Guelph elrorches. —There died in St, Marys on Sat- urday, (October Stil, 'Mrs. Elizabeth Blundell, in her 73rd year. Mee. Blundell was, born in Devonshire, 'tr.:gland, but came to Canada when she was about 13 years of age id for two' years resided in Cobourg. Froze thierta she removed to London, where he Was married to the late James !Blundill, who predeceased her !thirteen years ego. Here she lived for some time and then moved to .St. Itiffarys, and from here to Muskoka, where eh° has lived for twenty years. About a year ago she *eine baek to St. Marys. —A :violent' 'thunder storm passed over Listowel on Saturday afternoon, 8th inst., during whieh the lightning tote n hole in the roof of the Mor - • piano faoilory. The building is equipped with its own eleetrie light- ing syetem and tile bolt was carried by the wires through the entire fac- tory, down to the engine room and dynamo., Robt. Wakeford was the only person it the room where the lightning entered. He was severely though not dangerously shocked. Other employees, especially those in the top flat, felt the effects of tke shock. The damage isslight, some fine panels and other artielee in tie finishing 0:rem being destroyed, and the lighting service crippled. • Had it not been for tne electrie wiring the xesult. would doubtle,ss have been ditiastrous,