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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe East Huron Gazette, 1893-03-30, Page 5ODS in ed Costings and sale prices. We abouts, etc. tab. 1 stock of Goods i bonnet shapes. lrly and secure • )le posed of ear Vialaislimiallaisissialgaimizaidramoommucgmsms. conference have handed in their re - NEWS TOPICS OF A WEEK signations. The conference is expected to meet again on May 30. IMPORTANT EVENTS IN FEW WORDB I The Siamese government has rejected the proposals of the French government FOR BUSY READERS. for the settlement of the Me kong fron- tier question. A. Complete Record of the Busy World' Happenings Carefully Compiled and Put Into Handy and Attractive Shape for the Readers of Our Paper, ANARCHISTIC. Six bombs were thrown in Rome Thursday, and general alarm is felt. No arrests have been made. The police of Moscow are firm in their belief that the shooting of the mayor was the result of an Anarchist plot. ROYALTY. The pope gave andienee to the princess of Wales, princesses Victoria and Maud and prince George. Queen Victoria sailed from Ports - month Thursday for Italy. She will spend the spring season near Florence. AMONG THE RAILROIDS. The Texas legislature has passed a bill requiring the railroads to provide separ- ate coaches for whites and negroes. A bill has passed the New York State Legislature making the railway fare on the Delaware and Hudson two cents a mile. CROWNERS QUESTS, The jury on the Kennedy inquest met at Kemptville Thursday, but owing to the unfinished analysis the case was farther adjourned until Tuesday, April 4. The Fortin inquest at Quebec result- ed in a verdict of death from inflamma- tion of the lungs. Mrs. Fortin, who was suspected of having poisoned her husband, has been set at liberty. TEMPERANCE, The Brantford City Council decided to endorse the Dominion Alliance petition asking the Ontario Legislature to name a day for voting on prohibition. The temperance people of Fort Scott, Kansas, are fighting the liquor sellers with much vigor. 30 saloon. keepers were arrested by order of Governor Llewelling and placed behind prison bars and the town is greatly excited. IN LABOR'S DOMAIN, The great cotton strike in England has been settled. Chicago boilermakers have decided to demand ten hours' pay for eight hours' work. The Big Four Switchmen's strike has ended in an unconditional surrender by the men. It is said that non-union men are run- ning the Toledo and Ann Arbor railroad successfully. EPIDEMICS, Troy, N.Y., is agitated over a case of smallpox. Rome, N.Y., is suffering from an epidemic of measles. The Spanish steamer Malaga has reached Malaga from Hamburg with a case of Cholera on board. The grip is spreading in New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City. During the past four days there have been twelve deaths from the disease in New York. SPORTS, Winnipeg canoeists have ergenized a canoe club, with Mr. Hugh John Mac- donald, M.P. , as president. _ -. The Winnipeg Cricket Club has en- gaged a professional coach for next year. He is on bis way from England. Wolf's Crag won the race for the Lin- eolnshire handicap, Gangway second and Manion third. All are three -year-olds, and carried light weights. AMONG THE OARSMEN. Stanbury has accepted a challenge from Teenier to row May 30 at St. Louis. Oxford defeated Cambridge in the university boat race in the fastest time on record. John J. Ryan of Toronto, amateur clecnpiou of America, has entered for the diamond sculls at Henley, England. The second deposit of ee00 a side wag made in the Geudaur-Hanlan match Thursday and OriIlia was decided on as the place of the race. AGRICULTURE. Canadian horses are being shipped to the West Indies. Much alarm is manifested by grain men at Omaha on account of the terrible blizzard which is prevailing in Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas, with wheat fields entirely unprotected. United States Secretary Carlisle has issued a circular in regard to the import- ation of animals for breeding purposes which modifies the existing regulations by making them in some respects less stringent. MILITARY SHOTS. The troopship Jelunga arrived from Bermuda Thursday morning with the new regiment for Halifax. A new plot against President Hippo- lyte and in favor of the exiled General Manigat has been discovered in Hayti. The Chinese government has des- patched 15,000 repeating rifles to the troops on the western frontier in the vicinity of the Pamirs, The cloth cuirais invented to assist the small calibre bullet has been suc- cessfully experimented with by the Ger- man war department. RELIGIOUS. Rev. John Gray of St. Andrew's church, Windsor, has accepted a call to achnrch in Kalamazoo, Mich. A stone church will be erected at Roxbury, N. y., by the children of the late Jay Gould in memory of their fathez The Toronto Salvation Army has o a refuge, founded on the prince. of Gen. Booth's Darkest England scheme, at the corner of Wilton avenue and Victoria street. Rev. E. Cockburn, M. A., of Paris, THE FAIR SEX. A ladies' auxiliary has been formed to aid the proposed Y.M. C.A. in Belleville. At St. John, N.B., a 14 -year old girl was sentenced to two months in gaol for drunkenness. By a vote of 31 to 19 the Minnesota Senaextending yesterday suff passed athe electionsSenate lin Minnesota to women. Miss Eleanor G. Lennox, Toronto, has been appointed house physician of the city hospital of Cleveland, Ohio. Miss Lennox studied in the Women's Medical College in Toronto, and won the position seven gentlemen. -gust WIND AND WATER. A windstorm did $100,000 damage in Indianapolis Thursday. The San Joaquin river, in California, has overflowed its banks, and many towns are partially inundated. A cyclone swept over Northern Missis- sippi and Western Tennessee Thursday, destroying several small towns and kill- ing several people. in a competitive examination The southern and western states were visited with serious storms Thursday. Bowling Green, Ky., and other places suffered severely from cyclones. Prairie fires are devastating the coun- try about Guthrie, Oklahoma. Many buildings have been burned and several farms swept clear of everything THE FIRE FIEND, Mr. Duggan of Quebec lost $4, 500 by fire on Thursday. E. R. Richard's house, London, was damaged $500 by a blaze Friday. J. McInnis house, Poulette street, Owen Sound, is in ashes. Loss $400. Five small buildings at Fort William went up in smoke Friday night. Losses light. Prairie fires are raging for miles around Guthrie, O.T., and much damage is be- ing done. Three stores at Rat Portage were burn- ed and the Queen's Hotel damaged by fire. No statement -of losses. Samuel Ryall's house, Cramahe town- ship, was burned with contents, Thurs- day. Loss $800, insurance $600. J. Sharpe's stationery store Owen Sound, was a blaze Thursday, but the stock was partially saved,. Loss over insurance $1,500. THE BUSINESS WORLD. The National Plate Glass Company has been incorporated at Springfield Ill. with a capital of $8,000,000. At a meeting held in Boston the American tanners formed a combine with a capital of $50,000,000. The Cumberland tin mill at Baltimore has gone into the hands of the receivers. The company was incorporated in New Jersey in March, 1892, with a stock of $300.000. William C. Williams, president of the b oan and Savings Bank, which hatchery. closed its doors a few weeks ago, has been arrested. The liabilities of CASUALTIES. Chicago L THE 3IORTUARY RECORD. The Duke of Bedford is dead. Dr. Adolf Fischof, a noted Austrian physician, is dead. Rev. James Spencer, Baptist, died in St. John, N: B., aged 74. Mr. John D. Hood, town treasurer of Woodstock, Ont., died Thursday. Ex -Senator Saulsbury, of Delaware, died last night at Wilmington, aged 76. Rev. George Dempster, formerly of Brantford, died at Clinton, N. C., the other day. John M. Tracey, the animal painter, died at Ocean Springs, Minn., from nervous prostration. Lieut. A. R. Gordon, nautical adviser to the Marine Department at Ottawa, died Friday, aged 42. Ii 'r. Alexander Buntin, the Montreal paper manufacturer, died of heart fail- ure in Bath, England. - Mr. James Kilgour died suddenly at Guelph, aged 81. He was an elder of v sciples of Christ. A'Brantford despatch says Chief John Burk, one of the most eminent of the Onondaga chiefs, is dead. Col. Elliott Fitch Shepard, editor of The New York Mail and Express, died suddenly Friday afternoon. The Very Rev. Dominic Marssetti, D. D., D. lee:order of Minor Conventuals, and pastor of the Italian Catholic church in Hoboken, is dead of pneumonia. Mr. Walter B. Gillett, manager of the London and Ontario Investment Com- pany in Winnipeg, dropped dead Thurs- day morning. He was well known in Ontario. IN GENERAL, The Supreme Court of New Bruns- wick has ordered a new trial in the Wel- don -Randall conspiracy case. At Mexico, Missouri, George Harding, a negro vagrant, was sold at auction ; at least, his services for six months were sold for $19. A successful test was made in Chicago of the telautograph, an instrument which transmits by wire an exact copy of handwriting. At an intercolonial postal conference in Brisbane yesterday a motion favoring a cable from Australia to Vancouver, B.C., was passed. At the assizes in Ottawa Thursday the McGreevy -Connolly conspiracy case was adjourned till the next sitting of the court in September. Governor Flower has signed the bill appropriating $300, 000 additional for the exhibit of New York state at the World's Columbian Exposition. A special committee of the New York Reform Club has completed a draft of a bill which will be urged as a substitute for the McKinley Tariff Act. It has been decided to petition the On- tario and Dominion Governments for $15,000 each, to be added to a grant by the city, as a fund guaranteeing an in- vitation to the ° British Association to meet in Toronto in 1895. A Windsor despatch says :—Preston Leach yesterday forwarded to the gov- ernment at Ottawa a petition signed by nearly -10,000 persons protesting against the injustice of the present fishery laws and suggesting the abolition of the fish the bank amounted to $56,000 and the assets to $10,000. The Exchange Fire Insurance Com- pany, of New York, owing to its great losses by the Boston fire and the fear that on examination the resources might be found to be impaired has decided to gceout of business and has stopped writ- ing risks. PERSONAL, President Cleveland is said to be vigor- ously opposed to Nepotism. W. W. Astor, who recently purchased the Pall Mall Gazette, - will start on May 1 The Pall Mall Magazine, to be pub- lished in London and New York. The University of Cambridge has con- ferred the degree of Doctor of Science on Prof. Virchow, the celebrated Ger- man pathologist and anthropologist. Peter Smelt, the coachman whose marriage to the wealthy Mrs. Hiller of Boston is announced, was a native of Eel Brook, Yarmouth county, N.S. Smelt is 26. and the woman, who 'is- ( worth several millions, is quite old. The state department at Washington has received official information that Queen Victoria has raised the rank of Sir Julian Pauncefote, the representa- tive in Washington, from that of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten- tiary to that of ambassador. - MARINE MATTERS. The Allan steamer Pomeranian, bound from. New York for Glasgow, put in at Halifax Thursday for repairs to her ma- chinery. - - - The two Columbus caravels, Pinta and Nina, have arrived at leavana from Spain on their way to take part in the Coluni" bian naval review at New York. The brig Caroline Gray, which sailed from Rockland, Me., for New _ York February 17, and which was given up as lost has arrived at her destination. The steamer Borderer, which arrived at Boston - Thursday from London, brought the captain and twenty men of the fishing schooner Iceland of Boston, which was abandoned in a wrecked con- dition on March 20. The steamer Gaelic has arrived at San Francisco from China and Japan with 3,500 tons of freight, most of which is made up of exhibits, for- the World's fair from . China; Japan, Java, Corea, Borneo and other oriental. countries. SUICIDES. Two gamblers named Weil and Robb, from New Orleans, snicided at Monte Carlo on Wednesday night after having ; b lost heavily. a The report of the discovery of a dyna- mite bomb at Niagara Falls is said to have been a "fake. " Durward Reid, the four-year-old son of J. S. Reid, was run over by a wagon at Hamilton Friday, and instantly killed. The four -months -old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stuart of Sandwich was found dead in its cradle. Death resulted from suffocation. A child named Thomas R. Goodridge, was killed by a trolley car on Thursday in Toronto. A verdict of death by acci- dent was returned. Five women and one child were burned to death in an apartment house fire on one of the leading residence streets of Cleveland, 0., Thursday. - A man thought to be P. Toban, form- erly of St. Mary's, but lately foreman in the Thedford flax mill, was killed by a train five miles west of Park tll, Thurs- day morning. During a fire in a flour mill at Litchfield, Ill., Thursday, a quantity of mill dust exploded, wrecking sever buildings and seriously injuring abou twenty persons. - Two men, Calvin and Welsh; we instantly killed in Montreal Friday b the collapse of a derrick at the new Wel lington street bridge, now being buil over the Lachine canal, By the bursting of a mould in Mar shal's foundry. Pittsburg, Pa., Patric Moore was fatally burned, Joseph Schaffer was seriously injured and Michael Murphy and three others were badly burned. end - BIG FLOOD AT LONDON. Several Narrow Escapes From Drowning— Moving About in Boats. LONDON, March 27.—The waters of the Thames are now receding and all danger to the village of London West is over. The flood is the largest since the celebrated July flood and penetrated the breakwater at several points. The villagers in the southern end of the village are only able to move about by boat or raft and their housefurnishings are badly damaged. There were several narrow escapes from drowning. Floods at Brampton Too. Basamror, March 27.—The Etobicoke Creek overflowed its banks Friday night and flooded a portion of the town. - The gas lights went out. The gas is made from lubricating oil, and water got into the tank and the fluid was floating all over the town. The electric lights also went out. The driving power comes from the Credit, a short distance north of Brampton, where the water had raised and flooded the plant. The water fell about two feet Saturday morning and very little damage was done, MISTAKEN FOR A MOOSE. Shot by His Brother -in -Law While Out ,Hunting. HARMONY, N. S., March 27.—Robinson Smith, his son George Allen Smith, and son-in-law, Wm. Fenton, all of Harmony, Colchester county, went hunting, and after arriving on the ground they separated, each taking a different course. Presently George saw a movement of the branches about 25 yards ahead of him, and taking the moving object for a moose, took aim and discharged his Winchester rifle. He was horrified to find that he had shot his friend, Wm. Fenton, the bullet - having entered his right side, striking a rib and following its course came out at the unfor- tunate man's back. On examination by Dr. W. S. Muir the rib was found to be smashed to pieces. The wound had to be enlarged and pieces of the rib taken away. He now lies in a very critical condition. Two Canadian Bishops Consecrated. LONDON, March 27.—At Westminster Abbey Saturday two Colonial bishops were consecrated—Burn, of Qn'Appelle, and Perrin, of British Columbia. The newly consecrated bishop of British Columbia was appointed to St. Luke's, Southampton, in 1871. He is well known REV. WILLL&M WILCOX PERRIN. throughout England as a strenuous tem- perance advocate, and a very hard Worker in matters parochial. His appoint- ment to the Diocese of - British Columbia was made by the Archbishop of Canter- bury, to whom the power of appointment was delegated by the Synod of British. Columbia. Killed by a Broken Fly Wheel. WINDSOR, March 27.—At a sawing bee on the -farm of Jacob Fox, con. 5, Mersea, Darius P. Orton was instantly killed. Abort a dozen farmers were working around, the machine when in an instant the balance . wheel burst into a score of piecr-s, which flew in all directions, and crushed and wrenched the frame of the machine to fragments. One of these pieces of - iron, weighing about 18 lbs. and flying at a tremendous speed struck Mr. Orton back of the right ear, inflicting a most horrible wound from the effects of which he never regained consciousness, passing away`at 7 p.m. Pieces of the wheel were found 55 rods from the spot where the machine stood, and several black ash rails, al 30 rods away, were fairly shattered by a t flying bar. The only other member of the - group who received injuries was a young lad named Wightman who was struck - on re the leg by the belt. Y - + Shot at a Police Inspector. t TORONTO, March 27.—An attempt was made early Saturday Morning to kill In- _ � spector Hall, of No. 2 police precinct. He k was walking up Centre avenue about 1 o'clock, when from a lane just north of Edward street a revolver was fired by an unknown man. The would-be murderer missed his mark and the inspector was not scratched. The man ran away. Though the officer searched everywhere for an hoar in tfie neighborhood the would-be assassin could not be found. The revolver was found in the lane. CRIME. The Wonch murder case will not be tried until the fall assizes at Barrie. John Torry and_ Ben. McCoy, colored, were hanged at Hazelhurst, Miss., for murder and robbery. - - George Crispin, the youthful London burglar, was sentenced to five- years -in Kingston penitentiary: by Judge .Elliott yesterday. Wm. BOyes, a. mill hand;`was assault- ed and robbed - of $00 and -a gold watch near Comber Wednesday night. - His assailants escaped. _ Because of unrequited love William Fry, aged 17 years, laid his head on the Louisville Southern. track, near Shelby- ville, - Ky., and snfferred decapitat on. c As St Louts; Mo., Scott Jones and his olored mistress were shot and instant- ly killed by Louis - Kemnade, a white artender.- The trouble originated over game of cards. - James Stevens, who carelessly shot James Walker at DeCew's Falls a few weeks ago, has been convicted of man- slaughter at Welland Assizes, and sen - At Newburgh, N.Y., Irving A. Kil- mer, a wealthy manufacturer, swalllow- ed half an ounce of carbolic acid in mis- take for cough medicine and died in a has been appointed a member of the Aoff theoWorld'sy orcongr'essssous congresses auxiliary r= b connection with the World's far, FOREIGN AFFAIRS. i 6p The German: Reichstag has adjourned anti April 13. an It is now stated that President Cleve- : in laud will not call an extra session of Con- - e -1t is reported from Paris that the Be- s nine sea corlimission will, in all likeli- Iv- h%& adjourn until. after the Easter - td anted to a month infjaii. At Laramie, Wyo., W. H. Hunter, a butcher, attempted to kill his wife and then killed himself. He had been drinking and was insanely jealoi2s of h.s wife. Mrs. Hunter will recover. Augustus Ts - Kerr, the bookkeeper who embezzled $14,000 in Kansas City and was chased by detectives to Liver- pool, captured and broueht back, has been sentenced to two years in peniten- tiary. At Dayton, Ohio, Mrs. -Charles Hagan, in a fit of jealous rage, dashed. a bottle of -vitriol in her husband's face. Hagar; - is suffering terrible- agony, .imd, will probable be blind forlife. - few minutes. i te John Meighan, of Hoboken, N.Y., jumped from a ferry oat and drowned himself. He was once wealthy, but made unfortunate e eulations. H. S. Stevens, a prominent cattle man d delegate to Congress from Arizona from 1872 to 1876, shot himself, dying two hours. He had been despond- nt owing to cattle losses and ill -health. John Weir, bookkeeper for the Wind- er Truck Co., has been missing since arch 10 and is thought to have suicid His - employers highly esteemed La. He was an Englishman, candle, of o -d Lolled*, holidays ee_of4lite ivo .delegates �m thei hi e Aec.r L _. #enai> p Fingers Chopped Off by Inches. - 1 WATERFORD, March 27. -Charles Havi- land, of Boston, met with a terrible acci- dent while working at a steam cutting box on the premises of his father, - Mr. John Haviland. He had the misfortune to get his left hand in between the roller feeders, and being unable to extricate it was car- ried along and had his hand chopped off inch by inch by the knives until an inch or two above his wrist was taken off before the engine could be shut down and the cutting box stopped. Newfoundland's Tangle. LONDON, March 27.—The Chronicle says that the Ministry in Newfoundland must have strange ideas concerning constitu- tional government. - Lord Ripon, Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs, must feel considerable difficulty in dealing with a colonial Ministry which is at sixes and sevens, as Newfoundland seems to be at the presentemoment, Toronto Robbers Sentenced. Toxoerro, March 27.—The members of the gang of daylight robbers which terror- ized this cityee fewmonths ago received their sentences Saturday. George Bennett was given 15 years in. Kingston peniten- tiary, Wm. Archer got 10 years, Edward Archer was given 3 years in Kingston and Wm. Norris was sent down for 2 years. - Died. front Drinking. - fiestorera; March 27._,Thos. Cosgrove, a laborer who has been working on the C. P. R., came here a few days ago.. `He has been drip heavily since and was found -dead-in a sleigh" in one of, the hotel sheds. Saturday 3noneing. Nosuspicion of any #rxrtl >-nluv / The Glasgow lloust. Some hustle for business ; others don't, But the firm that does it gets to the front. We're on the hustle to catch your spring business, and we want to seb everybody on the jump to get their share of the value we are offering in Spring Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Etc. In Gents' Furnishings, Suitings, Etc.,� V V 1.7 1V . In Dress Goods we ha-_tter value than ever. (Our Imported Goods are 15 per c. botter value than ordinary. See our. Lace Curtains.) In BOOTS AND SHOES We are Rock Bottom. yOU can't go wrong when you buy from us, because we have just one way of do- ing business, and that is to give a dollar's worth of Good Quality for a Dollar of any mans money. We have the and Pi 1e' sY 5N isis The Verdict on inspection is . I saw their many bargains, I nailed some on the spot ; There may be others just as good, But I guess not ! Prices. ny person whose Cash 3 0.0 0 purchases aggregate . gets their choice of any one of the Pictures on exhibition at our Store. One-half amount of produce is allowed on above. Be sure and get your picture cards punched and get a picture. It will cost you nothing to try for one, as you will make money en every deal. Produce taken.