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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1889-12-06, Page 1• TWENTY -SECOND YEAR. Cheap Cash Store A. GODElabH TOWNSHIP', LEge tlesp OY wad a ItteS Wt. ise- and old. red ered by and the Met wai concert tilling in 1 after with the [iis house roved to aerly age mer-° re coca - Laughlin L of the t is very tbe -up bast- rrte, half rot. ,Li•of the Thum si with Ines* in banding rick led °ITT?, RAP* SA All kinds of Goods STILL GOI-NG ON. • Sales kir Cash Opty OP -HOFFMAN 'St. -CO., in See- n 00211*, be 'able montitli by Mr. Sunday- ethodist 1ton, and fethodist Sunday, of the killed ogs one ties don't season. , iraost to at rallied -- op town - to tak6 on Mea- ls ned sem of e of Mar- ia, where aVery ow' from 50 acres, f years. rmerlybe- sitaated a the 7th -is at elly. has improve - Great Ifiddoemen BER 7th and, lasting tilt Sew Yeer's No wetter what the amounts of pip chase may be, will receive - Recognizing 'that Money Is twee J-. Robert Iles determined to make it pa easi as possible for his customers to purchase their -Chris twit; and New Years presents and has determine d offer his entire stock' of r Christmas and Fancy .Goods AT A— s. Discount of 10 pet cent. fof Caik. There no- space to enutheiate but his:Stock will be found complete. COME IN AND SEE and make your selection early, when by paying a small deposit the article will be put aside "until called for. EiTRA INDUCEMENTS offered to presenta- tion comtnittess and tO school chparen making presentationw Manitoba Notes. About 1,200 •buehels of wheat are 'being delivered by farmers at Griswold° oents_per bushel. -The village of Neepawis is 'no-ve without a shoemaker, James Walker, -who has been carrying on that business having moved somewhst suddenly to, °. -Four of the remaining buffalos' at Sten mount& have strayed away,and Me. ones can get no treck of them. They were last seen 011 the 15th ofsthis month, but since then nothing has beeI. heard of them. . -The new Presbyterian -Manse at Rapid_ City is now. completed and is. occupied by the pastor, Rev. -A; T. Cotter. The building -is a commodious? stone one and reflects credit hponstha -Manitou PresbYterians have extend- -*ham, Quebec. It is expected he veill accept, in which case he will begin hie ministration, at Minitel/ about' the be- ginning of the year. - -At a largely attended meeting 'at urging the government to supply seed grain to the farmers for the. coniing spring, were unanimously pissed, and embodied in petition to the Miniater of the Interior, - -A limn named Rosenberge, who 'de- . serted. from the Mounted police nearly, two years ago, gave. himself up toan officer in Winnipeg a few days ages He was without funds and decided it was better to go back and serve his seri- - twice for deserting than starve. - -Malcolm McMillan, of Shoal Lake, while tying up a bull the other•day, was thrown by that animal into the stall and would have-- been gored to death by the infuriated brute but for the tithes ly assistance of Mr. Baird, 'who ran in _and rescued him. . II -A man named Hays died at the St, llonifaco'hospitalio Winnipeg on Tues- day evening. When - his clothes were searched after death between WO and $700 were fauna in. his pocket., He was taken to the hospital Tuesda,y by two men from the city, who old ins name 4-• was Hays, but beyond this nothing is known about him as he was too III to speak from the tithe he was taken there, till his death. _ hcotchman who farms on an extensive scale at . Brandon, had seven hundred acres under crop, last summer • and -harvested 16,000 bushels of grain, just a little less than air aferagesof 23 bushels per acre. Next year Mr. Sandison have 1,700 acres under crop. On the strength of his good fortune he has left on a. -trip to "bonnie Scotland • About. eighteen months ago, H. J. Whiteley; of the 16th conceisioe pf Gode- rich township. died.. At the time there - were whispering's that all -Was not right and that there were strong grounda for suspicion that his death *as due to Ols- on. No inquest, holever,..Was held aud matters (filleted down, and- any One of foul play that had arisen at the. time Were forgotten. Mts. Whiteley dispoaed of the property of her deceased husband Asnd came to Clinton to live.: Some time during the past summer, while visiting at the residence ef friend, Mrs, Whiteley met a gentleman from Woodstock named Edwards. A friendship sprung up. between them which requited in their marriage about six Weekaiss.ago. Mrs: ` Whiteley then went to. WTodstack to live with her hus• Wards, was living with her hifsband in Goderich township, they hid liv- ing :with- • them , a . young woman nemod Minnie Johnstoe.. After Mts. Whiteley's marrie.,ge to Edwards this Jelinston revived the story of_ the poisoning, and Made a`Tetatement to the effeerthat while living sat White. ley's she had been tient by_Mrs: White- ley to purchase arsenic, thatTshe had seen Mrs. Whiteley •platte the poison in her husband's food, on several .different .occesiehe s that she had hitherto been. through fear of threats made to her by, Mrs. Whiteley :and that she !only now exposed the crime is her conscience would not allow her to longer conceal it, • On the ,stretigth of ' this declaration, Mr. Wm. H. Whiteley, of Londeeboro, brother, of the deceased, sWcire .'out an information against ^Ml.s. Edwards, charging her with the murder:of. her for her arrest and/was plaeed in the hands of Constabl Paisley for execu- •tion. Mr. Paisley ent to Woodstock.: on Wednesday of last Week, aka arrest -- ed the accused and took her to Clinton. The preliminary trial swag -held , in that toWn, oh Friday last, beforii4ustices MeGarVaand. Ferran, when several Wits Edwards, the present hatband- of the accused is sad to be a highly re, speetable gentleman, and Much syin the unpleasant position in' which he. finds himself. He accoinPanied hia wife to Clinton and rerhained with her ,until she was taken to Goderich: It is but fair to sky that Mrs. Whiteley stoutly protests her innocence, although in view Of the evidence. given at the preliminary. ini•estigation appearances seem. to • be against her. Het. maiden name is Mc - Brien ; she ivai a full cousin her de- ceased husband, and is :about thirty The following is the evidenee of the THE BROTHER'S E'VIDENCE. Wm. Henry Whiteley; sWorn, de- posed ai follows.; .I live in Londesboro,, in this county, ant. brother of the des cased. - I am acquainted with the act cued, She Was my brother's Wife:. -He dieion the Per of May, 1888, He was sick about Hoven weeks. I just knew of hit Ulnae when he came to my plarte, Heil -complained of Isving pain. at - :his heart. -This was about the 16tb of March. I went back to the place abont a week afterwards. I saw my brother. His - eyes were inflamed and swellen, He said he lied taken sick on hie •svay home froth Clinton on horsibadk, vomits ing and spitting. . I did not See him 'for about a week afterwards. I met him on the. corner . of the street at Hodgens' ger°, ClintOn. .This day he and Geo, Dyke had been at Dr. Reeve's. and -they, were just coming- away. He paid he had - been sick ever since I saw' hiin; and he was wpm, I next saw him' the same evening. I- left my house instown and walked across the gelds abOut miles about him. The eimptome were similar to those of the other ocoasiOn. His eyes were still inflamed. I -went to eee Dr. Reeve to see 'what was wrong. He -could not. eat anything.. He felt a burn- ' ing feeling at his stomach and sweet taste in his mouth. I met -him about Week afterwardg 'about the forepart of April: I Went tojliii house and saw him, He said he *Oho -better. .It 'was dn Saturday,. the 14th of April,. and- I him .agfun on SiindaY, the 15th,. and ,he *as some betters I went on the fallow- ing Monday evening to sit hp with him. It was between -nine and eleven o'clock.' I found him much better. I, -a hired man; Leonard sHowson; Mrs. Edwards and my.sister, Mrs. Quade; were all the people in the house. I sat up that _night. I was to lie on the • lounge and keep fire•on and give. Iiiin the, medicine the elect& had ordered and sotne soup. put Win a cup and aet it bet*een the storm door and the inside door .to. cool. -He Was in a bedrootn. She placed the Soup at the doer in the roma where I was.. No -person but Mrs-. -Edwards-hed anything:to do with.the soup as far :as I saW.. I gave some of the ssoitP- to my brother about midnight. Re ealIed to me; -to giVe. him some of that pup. I got if and set it dOwn on the -table and looked at it. I -thought it loeked tod 'ctein spoon and dipped some -off the top and put it into the saucer. I then tast- ed it and said IT DID NOT 'TASTE RiGHT. I tasted three -spoonfuls. Either Mts. Edivards er-- Mrs. Quede, my sister. said, ." Put somesalt in it." I am sure it Wes salt, as I thought It :was strange, so tasted it to make sure. it •WaSs Salt. tasted the soop again and said it had not improved it.- Again ()hoof the two women staid, Put some pepper into it": -I got the pepper. and apieed Mrs. Ed- wards if that wee the pepper, and she sopp:; after•I put peplier in I- tasted. it had a strong; bitter, o ild taste like ver- digrik-no other sensation._ I took it- to him and he said it was Pot very good.• -Before he spoke agaio he plaood the cup set the cop oh the teble : and ley down on the lounge. Atter lying•down for k few Minutes I felt .my throat hurn,* end' thought that the. soup. had. not been good'. I -thought -that :my- .brother would YoMit 'again, and he.did vomit. He thoUght he would have been allright if belied not taken the-soitp, as he had been seven all that day. He vomited :ing. - I was up once ar twice to, help to Wait, oh hini: The soup I took sickened . _that and, morning. I saw.Mrs. Edwards and Mrs; Qiiade with ' the dieh, and to the 'best of my knowledge. they took . some of the soup, They both said they were sidlL I was so sick myself I did. not pay much attention:to them. I re- ' mained there until. ateut nine O'clock the next morning. .He (the deceased). continued oleic until 14eft. • MY Own aickness 'continued until eight o'clock in the morning'. when , I . felt better. -.I noticed when it was 'planned for ; Mrii. Edwards-, to go to bed with him she was unwilling' to.do so. • • She wished to lie on the lounge. Ile (the -deceaped). spoke iip and said; "Charlotte, &tine in and lie down with me,".or. %verde to that effebt. When.he took 'sick. she got up In an excited .manner. She blamed my slater, Mrs,Quade, for Making the soup :and et getting adme of the, tin, off the bottom of .the dish. I kneW nothing about. this 'dish being ' used before, I saw him agiln.sin the 18th of - April it his own houtes - . -I got word about One. o'clock in -the day. that he Wes dying.. He. ;when I arrived. I wa,lowith. him day end night until the following Monday. did pot have moch pail?, -but he emu- ' plained ot hot paini in • his liver ..or ei . Mrs.' Edwards an myself: welted on .him, myself prints pally ; ler- -all,: ahe .seemedto do all she -could during -that thin. . I left On the Monday -and went that Mrs. Edwards had. objected. td. an sexaminatiOn in case of:. bis death, he maid :' eo If the doctors de not know what wait theni to know afterwards." When the aecheed was present • nothing wee said by. the deceased in reference to a Mr. Scott -What conversation - ihad you with lhe deceased io reference to a , , Witness -I asked him if he had told 'hia wife -that he did not want ;aa exam- ination, and.shis answer was mi. I Went and told her that the 'deceased 'did not tell her that he did not want to be ex- amined; ;-:After that;-Ihelieve,-she went and talked to him, The next time I' went- to him he said 1 de not under -- stand *hat you asked Me and did not want to have thatdone-Leaaing a post- mortem. 1. ,went there again about -9 o'clock:on the 2.3rd of -May, .and bedied in abouttwenty minit4s or _halt an hour afterwarda. When I get there he was 'Iliad his eyes turned up.- I don't think tion_with rthe accused touching his death, She diclinot seem to be troubled about its s. In the latter part Of hie illness she seemed male's. Bathe first: -part she did all she bould for him, ' I :did _not kpovr what. hie .trouble was, I never day of his death or afterwarde, A short time afterI had &conversation with het, all the respeoCihe could to my .deeeased- brother, • We talked about the itickness: all -through, -about the reporti that were. Minnie JOhniton, sivern, _deposed as at his place, I Weut . there about six Months' before his. death. I Mrs White- ley asked me to go. . I recollect he took :sick between tho 15th• sand -..20th . of bought arsenic it. her' tequat, r think -,oel wrapped in a light 'colored, paper with a printed label (arsenic) on It. I ;took it hoine. - Mrs. -Whiteley did not eay anything to me 011ie times but she' afterwards told me it was foirat poison. I gave it te Mrs.' Whiteley. _ She did not say anything°. I did notSsee where. ahe pot it. I got it in February, mid between the 15tI4 and 20th of- March I saw' it again.' Mrs. Edwards had it, she was putting some on Mr. Whiteley's and droppedit on the plate, thep she pittporridge on the plate. • I asked her what she was doing, She said she; was -going to give Mr. .Whiteley. some of the poison. She.sald'she did not think it paper and the label was on it. I 'saw Mr: Whiteley -get this plate -Of porridge. / saw him eat it.- This was lbetween 7 Whiteley did not=remain in :the house "any lotiger than Usual. He took sidvin the -morning abOut two hours afterwards. He waaeutside and came in. He corn - he Vomited outside thedoor. .1 did 'not Sec :what: fie voinited. HO did not vomit iery long, just a few* minutes. He only vomited once , that day- , that I Tknoiv of: I did not notice anYthing else that day, only his COM laining of being sick atthe stomach.. his was the first time for him being troobled that way. of the same parcel, a few days after the , I ain ptisitive it was out- of the same • ‘1). arcel. -she ptit it in the cup with a teaspoon with sugar, a small quantity-, about what would lie on thepoint of a pen- - knife. 'She,threatened me if ever I told it that it -would be as bad on me as her, and that she would do away with me. , dowse, and although a plenty of money,. -but ed before the bank •ot hinted this fact to ea privately, and, at di Mr. Whiteley was out working at this . time. :I saw him get the cup of tea. saw him drink it. He did not usually •take stigar and there was se4,r. in it, that was all the remarks he ncisde. He came to town in the' 'afternoon'. He drove inat buggy. Mrs. Whiteley said likely. he would be 'brought home dead; I did not know where this arsenic was kept ; onee she said- it. was kept down cellar in a box of salt. I never saw her give any more of this to Mr. Whiteley: She (Mrs. Whiteley) admitted to giving it to him regnlatly, She neyer spoke to me este the cause of. his death after his death. When he _came home after he had dLunk this tea he was sick. He was:vomiting all the time. I did not notice enything else. It wise nearly dark when he got home. He domplain- ed of being sick and did not knew what was the matter with him. He appeated. to be well that morning. Don't knows of• any other symptoms. Did pot see what lie vomited. Thb vomiting ..con, tinued nearly the bight. lie went to the -doctor next daY. * His eyes looks ed dreary and stinken, I did , not hear . himsay anything about his throats . I never felt his skin with my hand to.see low color. I was not there all the titne daring his eickness.. I was .away about two weeks, 'fon) 4th to 19th of April.. I was thete from 19th - of- April -id the time of his death. ae WaS Sick all- the time ; confined to the bowie. -He - coin. plaine.d of his itomaeli. • He hadn't _any appetite at all ; . this *lilting kept up ;off sod owe!! the _ time of his sickness and purging.all the time. , Was there at his death. Was in _the reent at,the tithe alio; death. He was conmtotte alMost • to the last. Hi died in .W the morn- ing of di-6'23rd Mey. • I am sure he wee conecious the day before' hi died. - He, wasinot able -to use all pa,rtkof his body.. He was paralyzed in all his Joints, in -his arms espegially. mg SKIN WAS YELLoW all•thrmigh. I was not there when the treable arose about the soup, I Was not there when Ain.' Whiteley burot some sehickens. She never made any etatemeet to me regarding that. Mrs. Whiteley has mentioned about his, death, but she never told me the cause of his- death. I often adked her if she did not think she had done wrong. She sad She did not think :she -had. She threatened me at the time and since during the time I stayed with her, She threatened Me • before she went away down to Mr: George Johnston's'. She told -me . what she would do with me if ever I mentioned if ----that she would do away with me.- _ She aloe threatened me down my own hoaie at Mr. Gordon's. If this ever came .out she said she _would make it the. coldest day _I ever knew. She very- often Made the threats: . Dr. Whiteley, of Goderich ;.R. John7 ston of Clinton ; Mrs. Geotge Johnston, .of- Clinton ; and MO. George •Gordon were also examinedosnd Corroborated the witness of Mr. Whiteley and Miss John- hiteley and Minnie. Johnsten Was en- tered into vett, fully by Me. Bell, of id but he failed to materially ehake the evidence ot 'tither of them, . COMMITTED YOE TRIAL After hearing the evidence Mre. Ed - Wards stood up before fhti P.s The court was sitting all day Until; nearly midnight, -moulting in a commit:; lad cif the amused to stand her trial forS the alleged murder of her late husband, I Thigh anflieS Whiteley. . The witnesses were all bound over te, appeer at the trial to give evidence when called upon. T,wo infants died • last week- in -C4ues beofrom overdoses of soothing syrup. s• -•The Kingston cottOn Mill shipped the other day for China 74 bales of cot. ton, valued atabout $7,000. ; dispeied of the Paris Review to,) Mr.T. a few. days apt at the age of 104 years. Her eldest living son is 80 yearept &gets -s-Fredericton, New Brunsttick, has decided, by a majerity cif ps votes, that the Scott. Act shall not barepealei, "Parkhill, is -now matron at the Ontario Agricultural CAllege_, at Guelph, 'at an increase of salary. - body of S. C.' Johnsten, who was buried at Bethel, cOunty ef Prince Edward, oe .1sievember 18, was stolen from the grave the other night. s -About half a million 'boxes of smok- ed herring will be put up in the of Grand Mantua this seven: - -Mr. John ,Dunlop, of -Pembroke, killed a porker the other day which when diessed.weighed 535 pounds. -Owing to ineendiariSM• in Simcoe, the town counciroffer a reward of $1,00.0 for the apprehension Of the incendiary • or incendiaries concerned. -A fine new building for the use of the Young Men's Christian Association wai opened and dedicated in Hamilton list week. • -A number of well -know., figures aiound thb Royal hotel, Woodstock, in. Oludimg. some pretty shrewd horsemen have Just been- neatly taken in by • tit " &etch greenhOrn.1' The man in ques- tion registered as John Donald- at - the Royal a couple Of, weeks ago; •and Said that he had:not been long from the,. old Country. He had: the appearance .of a assuming, straightforward Manner ;soon. *on the confidence' ofsa select ;circle -of friends. :He always appeared to have • • are not iti it its seertaiiit nice little thing Of.ik affected feel werseet ing taken in by a gree -Miss Dlmsdale,.ev Kingston. for her: weet has regained her health wprk. early in the neW, -The Canadian .Pao their teal WO :14, e -Major and Mies Salv.ation Army, feta the Army in Canada ' -It is said that A ne. Offen-0e to. us es o ftenel comfy., had -Wed oVe .farm Where she 'died, of Thorithill„Tork?le death of their'sendle ton,•oCcupiecti -by s, aged Methodists -MI wife brake- het armss Morning.. ' The build -.Feank Willson', sand - .churches- in. Ingerso thins being _without 1 eidered an opportune. 4-The•Many friend Re.- John. McClure, efficient principals • echoer, St, ThomeS, of his death in Glisge Contb.er wail' Domed . ago; collected:. his J left for the.. State!, left liabilities Of Ove has purchased the -w Cleb House with far river frOnt below Sail sideration itas in: t on the fields, of MO. King: -town:Shift, le' poisoning cattle.. -skrehbishop Wal weeli: for Toronto. received :with _greati about 10,00(1,Of Cana Massed In •Kingaton; .° sof troop( can be 'gat . s --In an article Ohs the religieus or. • sem which beteg periodie isi his brother'S res date for the Doiiitntit „Well countyssorite ye .• -Major' Dalryin Earl of Sthlt,. andsh estates, it in tail at - inability to pay a:fi to have beensliving i and. clubs!' iin-his rep* .s-Salvetton Army an officer in the Cana :official atsheadquar •writet sof the hooks" Ell-BoussisOf .14114 presented la hug.' children, ,:tWo• 'hop mother aiSd'ehildle The children averag Jere held. in- London •eritial duties On. whA discussed, the *lineal , that they were Very of the. Ontarie farin -On Wednesda while the steamer the harbor at Olsten -trip to Port Arthur heavy north-weafg ani a -blinding snow T -On thelr way It Arlersity Medical -C` I Of stUdents were . for shouting: and O iooked up, The stu ter and Fred Millie,. Sentence-uptil called Wright tififdiernistte When -Mr. '8amuttLQ' Aznanda Sell, of L wits performed Saturday he 'cheque cash, .his friends the accounts at be 'made a est of the men thought of be• kin at losing • igellit, has left home. She -will resume Railway yes- . route made 0-'teesson last °ley, of the 1 -England in a -has been in ve years. spunishable lting fan. e tele. on the On the, ye come by the ,orman, an d the st Friday iinsouWrendediboyr ng• made for. r it is con. r Uniting. y years the he grammar regretsto learn ,Sbotland, some ose mill hear a few weeks eta money and iies said he hes, toted .on the kW; The von- eighborhood of .ewmarket, has months in the ng: Paris green Graham, of purPose of • • • are held was; evinced by the numerous and costly .presents. • After • the cere- mony was over 100 people sat down to a -triehly-furnished table- provided by the genial hesfaod hostess., and after justice - had been done to the spread the ' pair left on the eatbound train amid the congratulation _of their friends. - --The Rathbun eitipaity, of ,Deser- onto, have sec re& valuable property in tt; London, Engle, d,....t:The dock has been named the Des rentn- dock. The cbm- pauy arecontinually shipping to London doors., Bashes,' acetates, ash, birch and - other :native wOods of Canada. - -One day -recently George. Boddie, a tenant of Depoty Reeve Fulton, of Har - Aston, had over $50 worth, of sheep killed. and worried bf dogs. After taking the hides off the dead sheep he sprinkled some poison eater the carcases and suc- ceeded in poialning „three foxes and a -The- solicitor . for young Lawless, whose action to annual his marriage with MiSs Chamberlain was dismissed at Toronto,liayifno divorce will be applied for, - -This is the case' where the girl's father used a pistol to back op his de - The: Lawless family fermerly resided in ...--A., mass of rook, Weighing about 500 tons, fell recently from the high clifis on the Canadian side of Niegara River tothe banks beloW, within a few yards of. one Of the supports of the old Lewiston bridge. Bed the immense rock strtick one of the -stone pillars the bridge would Undoubtedly have given way, -Itis said that. the Ontat4o Govern- ntent has.giveryupall hope of ever lath- , oming"the Galt' poisoning case. Detec- tive Murray is Imorally certain that . he could put his hand on the fiend who murdered poortlittle.Meta Cherry, but there is no evi ence which could be Te - lied ' upon to convia him before a - -Silas Mini, one Of the first settlers in the townalt* of North Glillimbury, and. who yitai widely and universally re- spected, suddenly - dropped dead while getting out of. !ifs Sleigh at .the Royal betel, Newels ,ket, op Saturday; De- ceased was abont , 60 years of age, and was always al yery hearty and active —John -Wyllie Esq., the postmas- ter at -Ayr andidaneger of the Bank of Commerce at that place, was the recipi- ent of a porsOef $100, on the eve of his de.parture on 1 his - Western trip, his tanity affordedt to manifest their appre- ciation of his worth as a lifelong resi- dent of Ayr a0-dAns an untiring worker in the cause oft progress in the village.' ---Rev. R. Qaailes, thenewlyappoint-* ed pastorofthe Huron street- (colored) Baptist church, London, administered the rite of baptismto two candidates in the river Thainee lastSunday afternoon at four o'elOck.L It was a colkperform- ance, and -wasiwitnessed by immense crowds -of peope. . .A hole wee made in .the ice for the ptirPose.` . -Mr. John Sinclair has started an- other Petrolekyoung.:man to the far-off climes of' India - to enter upon an en- gageMent of two years with the Assam 011 Syndio4e, of Calcutta, India, for the develop out of oil in that apparently profitable country. The young man, Mr, Willis* MeMtllan,sof ID11 Springs, is &very capable driller. -The case of John Vining against thir township of ItVbst Nissouri,. Middlesex county, a clantior damages for a horse killed:Wan obitruction on the highway, wee tried before judge - Elliott -in the 'bee last -and jttdgment reserved, The ease his been ageittargued and fudgment given by theiljuilge for the plaintiff for chased a se Alt] sack in Detroit Thurs. day, and en coming off the- ferry custom offic and make the officials cog. urchase. That evening Londoia last dnstallation evening at ere he was estations of next summer Militia will be st one place, *king the ; holds that geepter Part of nnerrels overturned our slnY0Frod. the 0000 in Martha.' but 'wasid rothei of he ca 'the title and treat, because Of He is Said. best hotels rs are ailed at one time week 7 MTS. with -three fine - a girls, The five pounds to live and erg and mil. ay the differ- ,fiour were opinion being to the Can - the laterals -10 of tat week WEis.: leaving on her last struck. on a my light.; A S blowing and dipner in To - Mining a couple iii by the police nseemly noises body 'else and r 2 Charles Fos; remanded for and Dr. Adam • ok place the of Mr. Chas. ,oncession, Lobo, %Med to Miss The eeremonti ich-the couple MCLEAN(EROS. Pub hen. tors took samples of thd tea, which is supposed taw be. the source of trouble, but ars yet hardly able to make out dm case. They suppose, however, the tea to have contained poises that acted on the nervous system. The tea WHS a cheap class bought for 25 cents a pound. - The case is being investigated. -The, Sheriff would not reveal the _identity of Harvey's .hangmap, but he has been located. He lives near Dray- ton, and bears the name - of G. Smith. Smith is a native of the Island aGuern- sey, in the English Channel, and tame to this country about three years ago with his wife and child, He is not by any means considered a ferocious look- ing man, and considering that he is only 22 years of age, his nerve was strong to assuroe such a, duty, His fee -The Montreal Witness of -Saturday , says : Forty-two years ago to -day the, Lachine Railway was 'opened. s It will - be rememhered that the road was open- ed with greateclat Lord - Elgin ' was upon the first train, whose progress WM witnessed ;by tens of thousands. There are only three of the original employes now known to be living, -Wm. Perry,_ the celebrated builder of fire engines ; Mr. O'Connor, conductor of 'the first train, and John Watson, who was the engineer on that -occasion, and is now engineer at the Post Office, He is hale and hearty yet. He le a Scotehman and has a 'neat little bunch of heather pinned to his cep to.day. -Miss Helen Barry, the,great° Eng- lish actress,arrived in. -Toronto on Thurs- day of last week. While being Inter- viewed by an Empire reporter sh.e made the following remark : Do you know, it was awfully funny tome the manner in which I made my entrance into Can- ada. I carry With me a potable dress- ing retem,ewhich is made up %of four painted canvas walls, and on Ne the' - customs officer demanded a dollar duty. Of course, the dollardid not _matter to me, but I -could not understand whatob- ject there , could be in , charging duty on a thing that could not possibly have any Commereial value.'" -Thenavigation returns for the sea- son just closed. at Hamilton port show c' that there have been 328 arrivals and departures of vessels of all kinda, exclu- sive of the local passenger steamers be- tween that city and reroute. The steam - S44 trips to and from- Toronto. During ' ing the summer there has been nearly 60,000 tons of eoal -brought to Remit- ' ton independent of what has come by the different railways. The balance of freight has been pig -iron in large quan- tities and general merchandise. -Robert Scott, -about SO years of age, Met with injuries on the Grand Trunk track at London, Saturday even- ing, which proved fatal. . He waspartly deaf fromage and was accompanied by his daughter, who is both blind and deaf. They were creasing the track on their way to a revival meeting in the opera house, held by the Goaper hall people, of which body Mr. Scott was an energetic worker, Both his legs were smashed, one above the knee and the - -other a little lower, Ile WAS removedto the hospital, where his legs were ampu- tated, death resulting in a few hours. The, daughter escaped with sligbt in- juries to her face. The pair have no -George Wilson, a young English - .man, *he has been in the countryabout a year and a half, Was killed, on the farm of . Mrs.- James Archibelds of Mc- Gillivray township,- the other Tay, He was engaged with three companWn" felling trees and Witting them into cordwood, having _been et the work two weeks. On this ocasion he had quit for the day and wee helping one of the other - Men, when a tree fell unexpectedly and pinned him to the ground. was un- conscious when picked up, having been. badly crushed,' besides sustaining avere -wounds on the lead. He died about noon on the follovving day, having only _ recovered cOnsciousness for, a short time. His relatives all reside in Eng- land. Dr. Cowan, the other day, visited Ax - ford's and Allison's harms near Chats ham killing eighteen of Allison's and -out all their pig stock. Mrs. J. F. fin, near Isupperville, notified Dr, Steen and he visited her farm, wbere tie killed three hogs. He also Inspected Quin- stwo Were affected, bot had been prompt- ly isolated, one having been.killed, Dr. Steen killed the other, but saw no further trace of the tholera, owing to Quinnell'e prompt eaten. He thinks that the outbreak is under -control, and recommends in all suspicious eases im- mediate isolation and prompt reporting. There are no eases in Harwieh or Rs- leigh. The Dominion Government will pay a third of the loss if -the hogs were diseased and twothirds if healthy. 4 -Harry Wetts, who carried on agen- end- store in Iona, near St Thomaa, left for London about two weeks ages in answer to a telegram, {3.nd has ,not since turned up. A day - or two previously, his sister-in-law, a young woman who was visiting the family, left ostensibly for her father's home in Dorchester, which, however, She never reached, Suspicien was eXelted, but a letter to his father-in-law, set surmises at rest by stating that he was eloping, and recom- mended the family to the father -in - Iwatching their interests, but no great - law's nate. Creditors have agents defalcation is expected, Mr. Watts was a good business man, an ingenious mechanic and a noted musical artist, He wes a prominent church member, and a leader in two -church than, be- ing in many respects well thought of, However, he hats fallen sufficiently low , to abiindon a helpless family, an invalid bebe, and the one he remised to love , nizant of h p, she was called" upon by an officer and paid into. th treasurrthree times the amount of t e duty on the garment. Mr. Ro ge t Morton, of Dakota, son of the- late ugh Morton, of North Dumfries, via Galt, haibeen so unfor- tunate as to la e hie barns, with three horses and • tumber of cows, 1,400 -bushels of and .a quantity of oats, implemepts, to., destroyed b fire. Mr. Merkel'. ed an ineurance of on the proper destroyed, but that sum -Th-St IT ger Ottawa 'Improvement Company ha s purchated from Captain Goulet, of ylmer, his two -boats, the "Albert " andthe " Castor.' The price issaid to have - ban $30,000. These boats are to ply on the Deschenes Lake. The CoMpany are also building two tugs at Pemb oke for saw legend square timber towi .' They are to ply be- tween Des J chime and the head bf the -Last' Sat rday the Cycjorama on Front street," Toronto, was re -opened, and the fine picture Tepresenting the battle of Get sburg exhibited for the first time in ronto. - The effect of the painting is a treble. The whole battle scene is take in, and the mountains be- hind are pres ted so naturally that the onlooker is ap to forget for the moment that he is standing within the *narrow 1 at a Teal stret, of landscape. - are neighbors, living on Hayden street, Toronto. Fa some day.s Pelham had I been complain ng of dizziness, and had 1 seen strangei• sights, so much so that ' people around began to regard him as crazy. Tuea ay evening they went home toget Pelham became mach worse, and, a octor was called in. Mrs. Pelham and I o of their children then also fell sick,L na the doctor renounced the' case poled . linight-stmol up with his friend all' ight; and in the morning, before lea -took a cup of tea from Mrs. Pelha Then 'he 'became sick, ed half crazy. . The doe- -Robert elhani and John Knight tee, and 0 • • • human words cannot add emphasis, IT J. FleAdam, off,. St. Thomas, hold claim of 1150. 0.