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TROTZKY RALLIES ARMY,
CHECKS PETROfi AD DRIVE
Savage Attack on Yudenitch'sf A TIC PROPHET
Line Holds It Back
"Red" Leader's Staff Captured,
But He Escapes
London Cable -- Rally lug wider the command or
Leon Trotzky, Bolshevik Minister of War and Marine,
troops of the Russian. Soviet Uovernment have savagely
attacked the lines of the Russian northwestern army and
have sueeeeded in parrying, for the moment at least, tile
thrust of the latter against Petrograd, aecording to re-
ports reaching this city. Tsarskoye-Selo and Pavlovsk,
south of Petrograd, have been reeaptured from thelorcss
of General Yiideniteh, it is claimed, and the advanee ot
the Bolshevik continues.
South of Moscow, where General Denekine's ad-
vance has menaced to a certain degree the hold' or the
Boisheviki on the ancient city of Czars, fighting is go-
ing on, but nothing as to the results obtained has bec?
learned. •
Tobolsk, western Siberia, is said to have been cap
-
tared from the Kolchak army. by the Bolsheviki• This
report, if confirmed, would indicate an advance of -the
Soviet army in that sector, as last reports showed them
quite a distance to the westward of Tobolsk.
TROTZKY'S STAFF CAPTURED.
.
Copenhagen Cable — The entire staff of Leon
Trotzky, Bolshevik. Minister of War and Marine of Rus-
sia, has been eaptured at Tsarskoe-Selo, according to a
Bevil despatch to the National Tidende. Trotzky, him-
self, escaped by clinging to a railroad ear and later flee-
ing from the Seelle ill an automobile.
Troops of the northweetern Russian*
atmy pursued the tatinister 'and fired have followed the course outlined by
Prince's Grandfather and
A.merican
(N. Y. Sunday Sun.)
The eldest son of England's demo -
(Tittle King nue erossea thee Atlantic
•und his preseeeeon 'this side of the
eve* will evoke, from the bare -
strings of both our itatiotial history
and personal memory, not a few de-
lighttul t,uoras. le a word, beettuee
ot the iiiitial visit of a Prince of
wales in 1860, American patriotism
Is to -day more of a reality. The
"iutlis;hible union of indestructible
States"
resemblee much more that
adamantine rock, which Lincolnebe-
lieved it to be, and not at all the "rope
,sand" which- President Buchanan
feared and talked about.
it was in those dark days when the
fifteenth President, "the Sage • of
Wheatland," called for a day of fast-
ing and of prayer -as Ite did well to
do -while the United States govern-
" went, with an empty treasury, natieto
beg for money at 12 per cent, interest,
when the. American eouanonwealth
and sisterhood was menaced wtth dis-
ruption, that the Prince of Wales,
,afterward. King Edward VII. and
peacemaker par eecellence, visited us.
Still, it is simple fact, to. recall that
the great historian, Edward A. 101Te-
l-eau, belleythg that the Union was at
an end, planned his great book, in
four volumes, on the "History of
Federal Government, from the Anie
phyctionic Council to the Disruption
of the United Stats of America."
Tha activities ofLincoln, Grant,
Sherman, Thomas and a million or
more of American patriots, however,
compelled a change in Mr. Free-
man's views and plans. Only one vole
tune appeared and the work remains
a torso.
On the other hand, It was an even
grander voice that laid emphasis on
thee'creative and unifying forces in
American history. He proved the true
prophet. It was no less a personage
and. oa Britian soil without slauehtee,
the emus) struggle began. Without
the bloodehed of battle the lame vie -
Nary was woe. in. 1830 thee he Won in
174, with Peen* alt', and in 1787
true representAtive gee erieuuent, We
nanialr, that of
etinsolidated here,
mad ee ;are of our vtptory againet a
German Kiug, who, with a corrUpt
Parliament, misrepreseuted British
tradition lead spirit, in our Coastline
tion, our union and our stable goo-
enoneut, in 1787. Across the water
the reform a 1830 meant a Parlia-
annl i
tre7pI.
roeeenthig Men and not land,.
The Prince, laterelCing Edward
VII., reeommended that not -only
should the refreshment tables and
benches be removed, but that the
whole building should, be restored to
its origieul simplicity and 'use.
But, women, sisters, let us reveal
tne secret. Men belked at the cost.
They pleaded the same argulnent, of
Loss of revenue , ,which has been so in-
dustriously and with as much falla-
cious reasoning and pseudo -eloquence
urged in favor a retaining strong
beverages. One gloelotis male excep-
tion was seen In that gentleman of
strong individuality, who wrote one
of the most honest autoblograpliles
In modern days, Samuel 'Whittaker
Penxtypacker. Ile turned the en-
gines of his unique erudition to the
reenforcement of the D. A. R. With
women's tenacity and an importunity
as invincible as that of their Biblical
exemplar and precedent, the Daunt -
tees of the Revoletion persisted and
won. Independence Hall, restored to
Its chaste simplicity and pristine
grandeur of style, is now an Amera
eau mecca. What a tremendous agent
Lor nattonal, unity! What an invest-
ment in nation Wide loyalty to the
Ideal 'of the. fathers!
Within a year from Edward's visit
at the greatest of shrines of Amerlea,
the greatest of her sons, Abraham
Lineoln, 'sat In the Hall of the Fath-
ers ,who looked down upon him from
their speaking effigies on Mures.
Later, oatside in the front space
where stood once in the flesh.and now
stain* tn bronze the Father of his
Country, an4 where in 182ethe can-
non of old at Valley Forge and Bar -
Ten Hill thundered Weicone - to our
visiting Lafayette, we saw Lincoln
raise the' Stars, and Stripes. He
hoiSted to the top with the halliards
the sailor's knot- and ball, and then,
with a jerk, set it open, and set
rippling nigh ein the air to the breeze
the emblem of a Federal republic.
Here again in 1865 We saw the form of
the dead, President lying In state arnid
the optritee of the lathers, while mil-
lions mourned,- and at midnight wo-
men entered to lay flowers upon his
IMIseless heart, the memorial emblem
of the greatest of sacrifices on the
world's most famous mountein. And
in that hall. in 1918, here under the
American flag and. around the Ltherty
Bell,met the delegates who proclaim-
ed the creation of the central Euro-
pean republics.
Like the 'diamond polisher's finish
ot the final faeet ou a uniquely rare
'diamond, a' Kohinoor or Cullinan, the
greatness of which throws the work-
in ehadOw, we cut our story
short. here.. Let the Prince of Wake,
grandson cif the cosmopolitan patriot
of 1861, come among us. Let him see
the splendor of a union of forty-eight
States, whin his, grandfather helped
to cement: 'We, too, have a jewel
room, not a, Norman Tower shadowed
ber sinister 'memories, but in a temple
ot clomaI eichiteeture, honored by
reel the nation.' Let the grandson see
now well we have listened to his
randfather's Words, Has "England
always been our enemy?" Well, some
of us do not interpret heetory's lead -
lag fects with prejudices.' With the
,menthrles :ot 1801 vividly recalled and
reading the nation's entry in the light
of princrtilee, aa well as events, we
find that British love for the great
republic between the oceans and
American 'affection for the two islands
set in the"sea, mas exist together. On
neither the British nor the American
flag does the sun ever set.
than the ales, England s
reaehing. Petrograd.
upon his car, but Trotzky succeeded in the Nebular Hypothesis of Le Place. Prince of M
The left flank of General i'Ude-
nitan's army is reported to be under
fire from the Bolshevik dreadnougbi
Postava, which is lain.g in the Neva
River, inside of the limite of Petro-
grad, and shooting .over the house
tops.
STILL IN DANGER, SAYS TelOTZKY tigator, that states that no satellite 'of way and underneath the grAnd stair -
London special cable Leon a Planet can exist intact within 2.44 ease? Listen, ye Daughters of the
Trotzky, Bolshevik Minister a War. times the radius of the planet. This American Revolution of 1919, to
In describing the Soviet couneer-offen- limit is spoken of as "Roche's Limit," whose mothers we owe much, while
%We end "capture of Paylovsk, south of and applying it to the planet Saturn some there be yet who remember and
Petrograd; and the repulse of anti -
Bolshevik forces in the Pskov sector.
The theory of the origin of the solar
m andsysteevery theory advanced to
explain the manner in which the soar
system came into existence must sat-
isfactorily explain the cause of this pe-
culiar appendage of Saturn. „There -is
an interesting law known as "Roche's
Law," however, named from its inves-
future King, who in 1860, as Lout
Renfrew, visited us almost incognito,
and certainly without ostentation or a
trace of snobbishness.' He canto- un-
expectedly leto the State Hoase at
Philadelphia and was mightily inter-
ested in Independence Hall.
But, oh, what did lie see in the hall -
says : •
"The danger hanging over Petrograd
Itai been driven back, but not yet de-
flnitety removed," according to a
Wireless despatch received here from
-Moscow,
TORONTO PAT STOOK BROW
The Toronto .Fat Stock Show will
be nett' at the Union Stock Yards,
'West , Toeobto on Thursday -and Fri-
day, December ilth and 12th. Stock
raisers -should get the highest.
market pride as well as some'of the
'big :prize money , by entering their
- well finished stock at once. Write,
Secretary Box 635 Union Stock
fall within this limit. It does not ne- can confirm what we tell. )T4terally,
eessarily follow from this that the they took up the 'tell, winch the men
minute particles of which the lenge had put down. What clid the Prince,
are coMposed are the shattered re- to his disgust, see but an eating stand
mains of one small satellite but rather and materials of quick lunch. whose
that they are the material from 'steaming odors filled he place? We,
which a satellite might have be* with our juvenile Keystone 'State ap-
formed ,were it not so close to the petite, voted these vians as ambrosial
planet. Within "Roche's Limit" 'the and fit for the gods. There we took
ticles„ for each other that would tend
par- our Philadelphia peppettot, Waffles,
hominy, scrapple, smearcase, cheese -
mutual attraction of the various
eventually to gather thein into one cakes and "dump noodles and Shier
body is overcome by tidal forces that "sethr Manhattaners, we translate,
arise from such close proximity to the wheat flour doughballs, dried apples
huge planet. The stress and strain, and ham boiled tegether and .served
of such forces is so great that no with nioAsses.
grouping of particulars can take plaeo. To•crown the vision, beheld as joy-
fully by the Quaker City small by,
This explains possibly, why the rings who concealed a mammoth cave on.
continue to exist in their preesnt con- dee his diaphragm, as it was syrow-
;Mien, The total mass of the rings fully lookedupon by the . surprised
Petinee, there sat a goddess of liberty,
in the form of a fat lady, who might
have tipped the scales at a (-marine of
a thousand pounds. Red faced and
Deeming with motherly geed nature,
amid appetizing clouds oi vapors, she
Presided over the 'steaming pots and
-pans, kept calorically high over live
.chareoal 'in sheet iron bases. This
lady bountiful dispensed soup, beans,
pretzels and pickled tripe with espe-
cial joy when dandidates for her pine
benches began to multiply, at 12:05
ithst meridian, and she soon had
waithig list. The more, the merrier,
seemed is) be the motto of herself and
her maids. There was the Liberty
which, then set on rough tim-
bers under the stairway, furnished
on its platform n dresser for dishes.
STILL TRYING TO PREVENT
A GREAT COAL MINE STRIKE
. .*••••••*". -•-••••••fr•
ut the outlook ju the distaut more ntenacilig than ever be -
States Seems Very Poor.
Wachington report: Preeiderit W11-
son's Cabinet met In epeclal. 0081011
•thiii Morning to coneider the etrilte of
half a million bituminous; enal Minera
called. for next Saturday. Director -
General Hines, or the railroad ad-
ministration, has been invited 14/
attend.
Secretary sef State Lansing evat;
cenfined to ble home with a cold,
and could not attend. All ather
Members of the PreeitlenCe °Motel
family were present, and SecretarY
War Baker preelded. Secretary Tu.
malty wee present to convey the Views
of President Wilson on the eituation.
As they entered the Wh:te
the Cabinet officials decithed to make
a forecaet tfnne member, boa -
ever, were said to hold the belief that
stern action watt neceesary in the face
of the grave industrial situation iodate
lug over the country.
Washington, Oce 25. -The nation
took stock of its coal bins toelay, for
a strike of 500,000 mthers in the chief
fielemup
s loomed ed days`
'Yards, 'West Toronto, for Premium, is known to be very small, for they do
List and Entry Blank. e not disturb the motions of any of the
e. nearer and smaller satellites, though
ZINGS or SATURN. tiny Mimes, six hundred miles in. dia-
meter is only thrrty-one thousand
Miles beyond the outer edge of the
IllysteriOUS Circles Seem to Be outer ring.
ea. ' Nide of Flimsy Stuff. An interesting observation was
made a year or so ago of the passage
Nearly everyone, with the excep-
of the rings of the planet between us
.
tion of a few .unusually earthbound and a star. Though the light of the
• individuals, has felt atesometime or star was diminished to one-fourth of
other a strong desire to gaze •at some its normal brightness when the rings
of the beauties and wondeas' of the passed before it, at no .time" was its
light entirely eclipsed by any of the
heavens through a telescope and the
one object that all of us wish to see, particles. It was computed that it
JO perchance, this desire is to bee. the diameters of one of the ndividual
gratified, is Saturn, whose unusual , Particles had amounted tea* much as
Ang system has so far as We know I 'three or four miles thegar would
jtt eounterpare in the sky. writes have been temporarily eclipsed. An
Isabel f, Lees*, in the Electrical 1 upper limit for the size of -the moon-
eaxperimenter. .• lets was thus obtained. The average
diameter of the `114rtieles is probably
All the planets in the solar system
I milee,
evitlr•the exception of the two inner-
much lees than three
tnost, Mercury and Venus, are at- 1
tended by satelites but Saturn, alone, I Newness as to Candlesticks.
bas in addition to a large and impos- A new idea se that of white candle,.
log family nine moons, three digs, sticks. We used to leave silverecandle-
fillet rings ot great dimensions which 1 elicits or colored Pottery candlestieks
form a total 1114SS composed ot with white candles, Now behold the
swarms of minute 'particles revolving white porcelain candlestick With the
,around the planet. 1 colored candle. Blue candles are o1!
Why. Saturn sho-uld be the only ten used,. with a centrepiece of white
planet to possess such a system of flowers in a blue dish, The result is
einge has not yet been explained in
etn ntirely satisfactory manner, de -
reading .tte it doea upon the •manner
of the Origin Of the entire solar stye -
tem which it is new agreed could not
really very attractive.
No surgical operation is necessary
in removing corns if Holloway's Corn
Cure be used.
bituminous
But, oh, what. a. debacle from au-
gust historic memories! Was the
treatairy of Penn's city so poor -and
even as low as that of the 33tichpan
Government in 1861 that .the city fath-
ers must rent out the sacred edifice
for the mean revenue of an eating
stand? Tile future Edward VII. was
horrified. retlhen end. there lie, the
Prince, spoke Out strongly, in his
Mother's English, which we glee in
paraphrase. He intimated that it was
the duty of the Philadelphia mantel -
panty to end such base usage of an
edifice consecrated by treble memories.
For, let it be recalled to -day, none
more than Edward knew the true
inwardness of' the Revolution. In
1775, on American soil with blood,
fore.
apparent hope or averting the
atrilte, set for NOv. 1 -the eve or the
wIntea-vaniehed last night, alien
Secretary of WilE3011 ,four-day confer
m -
ence With the Seale committee of the
miners and operators broke UP, de -
;spite the appeal of President Wilson
from, his sick bed to them to brush
aside the old animosities and start
negotiations anew, with Arbitration as
a last resort.
Representatives of the miners and
operators to -day continued to , charge
each ether hexing caused the
ending of negotiations. But the fact
remained that instructione were going
out to -da' to all locals of the ,Untted
Mine Workers of America. suspent.
Work at mienight next FrklaY.
In tile meantime Government offi-
cials renewed their quest for some
means of preventtng the walk -out,
wind!' will dose operations in the coal
fields of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Vir-
ginia, Indiana and Illinois.
Estintates to -day as to bow long
the coal sto
ck of the nation would
last varied, but the average figure
Placed the reserve at little more than
one month's supply,
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Pellet at the Parish cliurch of Helton
Bumpatead, Essex, now claims to be
the oldest womaaist organist in Eng-
land, A.statentent was made recent-
ly that airs. Mary Kemp, aged eighty,
or Sandy, 13edfortishire, held this dis-
tinction.
North Wales Congregational Col-
lege, Bangor, has admitted its first
woman student.
After their, wedding at ShorWell,
Tsle of Wight, Mr. and Mrs. Hollis
drove in a flower -strewn farm
g
"My husband and 1 are separated. I
live in the fiont room and he lives in
the back." -A woman at Willesden
police court.
Professor jellies W. H. Thrall, Reg-
ius Professor of Botany in Aberdeen
Oniversity, died on September 18th, in
his 69th year, He had held his pro-
fessorship since 1877. '
Sergeant Harold Thomas, of
Port Talbot, late of the South Wales
'Borderers, has been recommended fee
the V .C. for gallantrY at Outersteen
•
In August, 1918..
Mr, B. Frank, E. Lott, nephew and
executor of Herbert Spencer has died
at Burton -on -Trent. He was a dis-
tinguished arehaeologist, and a recog-
nized authority on. mineralogy.
Preb. E. Wayland Joyce, vicar of
Harrow, notes the; fact that there have
been only four vleare: in the last 170
years, and that he is but the ninth
since Charles 1. name to the throne.
Two large barley ricks, about forty
tons of hay, and 'a. threshing set, val-
ued altogether at over '42,000, were
,destroyed by a fire on the feral of Mr.
George Burns ip
nsTHilttoenrSarayt:Cloughjordan,
n
The only vacant, window in Hugh-
enden Church, rich ,in memorials to
Lord Beasonsfield ,is to be•filled with
a stained glass deign, to perpetuate
the Memory of the officers and men of
the parish who fell in the war.
Exeter's only centenarian, Miss
Eagliezdoableto,hReed, died on September 22,
Abee keeper in the neighbornood of
Sheffield has pust riarvested 138 lbs.
of- honey from threethives.
During the quat•ter ending July 26th
the school children of Monmouthshire
killed over 11,000 rats. -
The Duke of Beaufort intends to
sell in November Vie outlying portions
o this Badminton- estate, comprising
;4,077 aeres, with rentals of £3,721.
Durieg restoration at St. Alban's
Church, Worcester, discovery has been
ur
made of what atorgeologists believe
t
be 11rl
bthuentrelm,20a0ieaatahoriginal
oeet
In order to accommodate several of-
ficers and their fateilies who cannat
find houses, Brentford guardians are
letting rooms in their late Poor Law
Schools, Percy House, Isleworth.
John E. Daniel, of ,Priar's School,
Bangor, has been elected to a Welsh
Scholarship of Classics at .Teeus Col-
lege, Oxford, onthe results of the
Central Weleh Board Examination.
1919.
Although 20 years old, the cruiser
Highflier has again been selected as
the flagship of the Eatt Indies etation,
Rear -Admiral Sir H. H. D. Tothill
-will hoist his flag at Devonport.
Princess Louise Duchess of Argylee
opened Hilleide Holiday Home, Clyn-
der, Gareloch, which has been acquire
ea through the generasity of two
friends of the Coweaddens Child Wel-
fare Centre, Glasgow, for the *eclat
benefit of young mothers and for chil-
dren under school age.
Aged 101, Mrs. Ann Brixey, South-
ampton, has died.
Because the vlear discharged the or-
ganist, St. Paul's Church choirs GrilITS-
by, went on strike.
Several seals and otters whieh were
destroying fish have been killed at
the mouth of the River Boyne.
Fishing in the Arun at PulborOUgh,
Sussex, Harold Simpkins, a Claphant
boy, caught a 9 1-2 lb. sea trout.
General Sir 11. $. Horne, Cotanan'der
of the Pieta Army, has been made an
hon. freentan of NOrthamptOtt.
The Right 'Rev. Dona, Jeseph Mac-
Donald lute been enthroned as Abbet
Of„St, Benedicte Abbey, Fort Augustus
I.4141VeorliriteeSreShirien. the sillt hat trade of
Denton, near Manehester, are to have
an adViinee in Wages of 58 per cent.
Lor body makers and finishers and 50
per cent, for shapers.
Mr, Alfred T, Oregon', Otter of the
Invert* Gazette, bas, for reasons Of
health, neelitied g n invitation to con -
three Ile Mayor of Tiverton for a
ninth Consecutive thrill.
Superintendeat T. Oakden, of Lich -
Deed, has resigaed afer 48 years' ser-
vice in the Staffordshire Constabulary,
iet a relative, on his Mother's eine
of George EliOt,
The UM Andrew C Baird Imo been
appointed Professor of Divinity and
Biblical Criticisni In the Univereity Of
Aberdeen, in the rooM of the late ReV.
Thomas NI eol.
Tne Council of the4Vitiversity Col-
lege of Wales hats Unanimously reemn- were still in existence they might be vaProtectuttootte.e tan you exclude the
Mended the appoinhelent of Dr, T. IL on exhibition there.
Chtford's war memorial is to be a
large cross.
The Disposal Board bas for sale
100,000,000 rifle bullets for melting
down.
Since February the -wife of Capt.
Bowyer, LI. p., has, eta Ms typist, an-
swered 2,000 letters.
At -Reading, Sohn Godfrey, aged '90,
who is employed on the railway, etra$
married to e'er* Persons, a widow,
aged, 76.
Chemist and .druggist to the royal
family for half a century, Sir Peter'
Wyatt Squire, who died, aged 72, was'
buried at Shepperton t Middlesex. -
Camberwell Cuardens have seat
back to a committee 'a proposal that
a lad of 18, said to Itave the head O2.
a man of 30, be appointed assistantr
master at a workhouse.
The garden and summerhouse at
Olney, Bucks, where Cowper wrote
'many hymns ann poems, recently rs-
cured for the nation by the Cowper
Society, has been opened .beelsord Lih-
colnshire.
A tunic of the 66th Foot, prebably
the only one iii existence, . has been
presented by Mrs.. Eleburye widow of
Corporal George Mee ury,- of Reading,"
to the depot of the ?Royal Berks•Regi-
ment. •
An educational an,d religious pageant
with over :00 chAradeers' in costume
from five contineats to* place in the
open air at Whitley .Wood, Herts.
Canon Morgan Smith, rectOr•of Steven-
age, inaugurated it; and the noitcoa-
formist 'bodies all joined -en. ,
Mr. and -Mrs. •Alfred • Gilbert, of
Praysdale, Hint* • road,-.. Uxbridge,
have ceteLrated their petal. wedding,
Mrs. Gilbert's sister and. husband had,
a golden wedding t. nee time back,
while heriaatlier,and father lived to
celebrate their diaanone wedding.
Postel woreere in• conference at the
Central Hall, Westminster, decided to
amalgamate 'with the Postmen's Fed-
eration, the Postal and Telegraph
Clerks' Aisodation and . the Fawcett
Association. The new organization
Will be called the Itnion, of Post.
Office Workers, arid Will ..*.oa .
membership of about no,00e: •
Staffordsn ire'a most *cleat finger -
Post, that on Cannock Chese, at the
junction of Watling street anti Chester
road, -has become so dilapidated that
It Is to be displaced by a new one in
the same style, bearing on its depestal
the date 1777.
The Major of Wolverhampton paid
a £10 fines iinposed on a discharged
soldier who defrareled. hint of £5.
Aged 100 on Sept. 17, Mrs. Howell,.
of 'Waltham Cross, Herts, gets up at
7 aao. and does her own housework..
All Saints', the oldest vicarage in
Kingston-on-Thaines, as been sold,
for convereion into, a. shop, It is said.
Eeld by onc fanttly for over a
century, ths White Hart, a small
public -house at Caxton, neach Roches-
ter, has been sold for 48,500.
Two pounds damages wasawarded
at Ashby-de-la-Zoach county court to
-Alfred lilasesee Sloalvillt,. against
the owner of a bulleythiche breaking
away from the men holding it, en-
tered his kitchen, smashed the furni-
ture, /and finally .emerged from the
house with a window -frame round its
back.
At a meeting at, Chester of the
Cheshire -Province Grand Lodge of
Mark Master Masons, Lieut. -COL Hu-
bert Cornwall Legh "vas installedePro-
Viacial Grand Master of the Province.
of Cheshire, in sec -cession to Lord
Egerton of Talton, "who lots retired.
Darby ,Condon," farmer, has died at,
Ballymore, Athlete, aged .104.
No purchaser could be found for the
historic Abbey of )3radenstokee near
Dauntseyt wheit offered for sale.
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THE RIVER AOtt SS DURING'ENGLAND'S STRIKE.
Photo Mow eaeseropirs o11 one of t he steamboat* which ran between le lchmond end
morning *Ad eventne to take pee off to sod from
Victim:niter in the
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Par y to the Citi•.ir Of O*lU 1o,antes
Melon to tea late Sir Eisteltard Aiwa/.
The ecutmet sifiteM ter ereet1101-
end repairlIng lentella itat4 ClOveitnnantat
building% is to be abottentel frata Ap-
r11 1, 1020, Sir Alfred 5.104 hae de-
cided. All the Wortwill be done ter
the Oftlee of Works, eniployiug labor
direct.
The death took place on SepteMber
24, at Petit ilot House, GuerneaY, lfl
his 71st year, a the ReY. ffenrY
Wal-
te Brock, Son of the late Very BM
Carey Brock and &rendition of the late
Rev. Tnonlas Broelt. Ali three vitere
rectors succeesively since 1803 a St,
Peter -in -the -Wood, Guerneey.
So far thle year county mouth)
have bought 04,815 Wee for settling
ex service men.
Seamen and firemen have reseiven
to continue the bonott of all Britten
ships carrying Germans among their
crews
Excavatione at Windsor Castle have
proved tbat a "eecret paseage" 6 ft.
wide and 10 ft, high dug in tne reign
of Henry fl1. (1216-72) from the Cur-
few Tower ends near the castle Wail
In Thames -street And does net, as
tradition bad it, go Under the Tbamea
to Burnham Abbey.
There are expected t be aboUt
000 Undergraduates at Can brip gar
this term.
A leaeehold eight-roemed house at
Harrow, cold for te390 three years
ago, realised ..a830 at a recent sale.
An egg having on it deer iMpres-
sions arrauged in a circle like the
figures on the dial of a clock bas been
laid at Walberton.
Taken ill in the street, ,Capt. C. E.
Gladstone, of St. Peter's, formerly
eommanding Ramegate Coastguard,
died euddenly.
Sir Harry Seymour Foster has been
elected Master of the Glazierie Com-
pany and Mr. James It, Taylot Master
of the Founders' Company, London.
There are vicars and rectors in
Northumberland entiose gross income
Is from 4120 to I:140 perateinum, and
a campaign for raising their salaries
Ls in progress.
Two-thirds of the employees at
Messrs, Martinsyd.e's aeroilane 'works
at Woking have been diecharged
owing to the action of the Govern-
ment in cancelling all contracts.
London cable: The high cost of
living took a leading place in the
discussion at it meetinsg of the
Miners' ftederation to -day, Vigorous
protests were made by Robt. Smillie
and Prank Hodges,. Who deviated
that since the Government's scheme
of teeing excess profits had been in
operation articles' of consumption had
increased 8 per cent., making them
121) per tent. higher than the pre-war
pekes. They hinted that the Gov-
effunent encouraged excess profits in,
order to fill dee exchequer.
The opinion Was expressed by the
speakers that excess profits should
be devoted to a reduetion in prices
Instead -of going' into the treasury.
The meeting deckled to make ar-
rangements for a special latter .con-
gress to draft a talky to bring
about a 'reduction itt the high cost of
e
living.
Juvenile Jattngs.
, Challis frocks,
'Bright red mate.
Eiderdown embroidery. •
Lots of plaid, real or shani.
Plenty Of leather and buckle trim-
tning, •
Whole coats Of seal, squirrel or
white, rabbit.
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Of THE NEWS
OF IDE JkY
• WARNS 'GERMANY
Foreign Minister Advises
Evacuating Lithuani&
The Ministry of Health bas ar-
ranged an inquiry into the application
of the Manchester eorporatien for
power to borrow a million pounds ror
an electricity generating scheme.
The Isle of Wight County Council
hes resolved to continue the payment
of a bonus of 3d. per rat, Whi411 has
resulted in the destruction of 10,700
rats in the island during last half-
year.
In three motor -boat trips to the
Sovereign rocksoft Eastbourne,
Messrs. E. Lambert and Me. S. Moreisa
of London, caught halt a ton of fish,
including cod, conger, ling and bream.
The death of Mr. Thomas *IlolmeS.
Gore is announced,' fle was for six
years clerk to the 'Margate magistrates,
for ten years assistant clerk at the
Mansion House, and for forty-four
years clerk to the Bristol magis-
trates. • •
Mr. Frederic .ele, Hochepled-Harpent,
who has died tie :Willesden Green, was
the last surviving ser. of. the seventh
Baron de Hc hepied, in the kiegdom
of Hungary. Ile-evas formerly a deputy
accountant -general at Lahore.
For saving three lives when the
Leinster was torpedoed last October,
William Maher, ooe of the stokers ot
ths elite, was presented by the Lord
Mayor with a nte4a,1 And certificate at
the Board of Trade office, Deblin.
General Lockout Or Werk -
men Througluiut Spain
is Ordered,
EMHART TO QUIT
Baltic Blockade Moderated
to Permit Coastal
Traffic.,
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The Prince of Wales spent Saturday
and. Sunday in IcillgStOn..
James Anderson, aged eighteen, of
Mud Lake, was killed in a wreck on
the C. P. R., caused by the train
ting a cow near Crow Lake.
Ashton Williamson, one of the best
known farmers or West Oxford, (lien
suddenly at his borne in Ingersoll.
aged fifty-eight.
Thomas Gray, employed on the Wel.
land Ship Canal, committed suicide ae
St, Catharines by placing a dynamite
cap in bis ear and attaching a lighted
Luse to it. .
The plans of the Hydra Commissioa
to buy the Sandwich, Windsor gt Atlls
herstburg Railway for $2,190.000 were
unanimously approved by the border
municipalities' representatives.
The death 4as-occurred ,at North-
ampton of Mr,. Dan Stanton, J. P.,
who was the first workingman Magis-
trate for the town, being appointed
in 3893. He was a member of the
boot and shoe Operatives' execualye,
-and was 71 years of age.
A green...grocer named Payne, of
Dumnow road-, Willesden, presumably
in a fit of mad-ees, attacked his wife
and three daughters while the were
in bed. They were all admitted to St.
Mary's Hospital, Paddington, suffer-
ing from serious injuries to their
heads.
Only 246 electors out of 12,144 voted
in a by-election for a vacancy on the
Southwark Board of Guardians for
St. John's Ward; Walworth. The
successful candidate was Mies Eliza-
beth C. Oldfield, who obtained, 129
votes Against 111 given for her option-
ent, a Labor candidate.
Re Blagojevitch, a Serbian student,
has' swum the Menai Straits in 20
minutes.
The Victoria. Cross awarded to Pte.
David Hawkes, 2ad 13attalion Rifle
Brigade, for rescuing a wounded sot.
dier under fire at Lucknow in 1858,
was sold for 478 at Celendentang'a
London:
A cross erected outside Dulwich Col-
lege Chapel in memory of old boYs
of Dulwich College when fell in the
war was unveiled by Lieut. -Col. W. D.
Gibbon, D. 5. 0., M. C., an old Alleyn-
ittil.
Several soldi s were injured be' an
explosion in a tore room at the Cas-
tiecomer coal mines, County Kilkenny,
caused by a Itght coming in contact
With two barrels of blasting powder.
The Boston (Lincolnshire) corpora-
tion has resolved to purchase for
47,500 Oldrid's Park, which for some
years pas e has been leased as a re
creation ground, and is now under ad-
tivation a llotmente.
When she Mashes her farewell tour
of the varietatastage, Lady de Preee
(Miss Vesta Tilley) is to "star" in. at
least one • film for the Alliance Plim
Corporation. at is writing the
scenario herself, basing it on her life.
Mr, 11. A, L. Yishtr, president of
the Board of Education, at Sheffield
said the Government would shortly
introduce a bill which would ensure
that the benefits derived from the
working of the Liquor ContrOl 13oard
would not be lost.
Newport (Isle of Wight) corpora-
tion have deelited to buy from a OM
of London jewelers a pair of sinall
silver salvers over two centaries old
which Were originally the property of
the corporation and were receritly sold
at Christie's. The iriet asked ,was
£160 10s.,
Mr. S, Ward, headmaster ef the
Church of Englend Bort' School, Bare
ton -on -Humber, On his retirement
after 42 years' eerviee, has been pee -
settled by the -old boys and friends
with an illuminated address and a
cheque for .285. Pots many years Mr.
Ward :has been a Lincoln diocesan lay
reader;
The National Poor LaW Officers' As-
eocietiononeetiag in Newcastle, adopt-
ed a programme inclading a 44-houe
working week, with a whole day off
in every seven, and overtitue pay, the
salaries to be not less than the pres.
ent rate, plus the civil serviee scale
of war bonus, s,t, least three weeks!
annual leave, and a mininutra Of four
Weeks for nurses.
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Muggins---What has, become of the
servant girls? Are they extinct? Bug-
gine-eSettreli me. If -the dime untsettins
The stable boys at Epsom race.
course, England, struck on SaturditY
fo ra minimum -at 50 shillings weekly.
Violet Cameron, the actress, died at
iiVerthing, a watering place on the
English Channel.
Lieutenant-Colonel J. C. Porte, In -
center of the flying boat, has died at
Brighton,
German opera in New York has sue,.
cumbed to public opinion, according, to
the latest available information.
Russell Cooke was arrested Friday
at Ernefold, Sask., on a warrant
charging him with the murder of Mrs.
Thompson in the Lydyard district in
1917.
St, Catharines' City Council, at, a
special meeting has passed a resolution,
urging °that Hydro enterprises should
-be continued without interruption, in
spite of Sir ,Adam Beek's Meat -
Berlin epee:al cable bl,y the As-
socleted Press). -In the course of 4
long address before the National As.
eetably, whieli eoesisted mainly of a.
protest against retent addresses by
Premier Clemeneeau, and. what was
railed flee "militaristie tendency" of
France toward Germany, as Well as
the laponsistent spirit ehoWn in the
forint/00 of the Leas* of Nations,
Foreign :Minister Mueller insisted 10'
day upon the negessity for a seeeldY
German evacuation of Lithuaula and
Letvia. He said this step was nedes-
sary to convince the world of Gere
triattY's sincere desire for peace.
The finger of scorn Is a poittter
that will dog a man's footste0,
"I have read somewhere that the
eaMel can farry a bigger load than the
elephant," anaeurated the club bore,
"Laelly camel!" exelaimed the man
Witb the impremilloaleile nose.
The appointment as G.O.O. the Nos -
then Ccenmand of Lieut. -General gdr
F. I. alaxse, vice General Sir J. G.
Maxwell, is gazetted.
The death is announced, in his 68th
year, of Mr. C. A. Lufftnan, for forty
years editor of "Bradshaw's Continen-
tal Railway Guide."
A representation of the Ascension,
designed by Mr. Ivor Beaumont, the
new priacipal of Belfast Art College,
has been unveiled in Hampsteed Gar-
den Suburb Free Church aa a war Inc -
'mortal.
As Dorking firemen'are reported to
have refused to delli,onder their pre-
sent °Mere, the fire brigade, after
inore than seventy years' ettervee, has
been disbanded by the urban council
with a vieW to IN reorganization.
Tne death has occurred of Mr.
stephen White,. 411 East London ex-
deteetive, who captured the dynami-
tards Cunningham and Burton in the
Tower ot London, discovered a . Fen -
Ian arsenal in Lambeth, and was en-
gaged in the "Jack the Ripper" *veto
tigatiot.
Two men have been making a
houeetbreaking,, tour through the digs
triet betvveett Ashford and leavelethant.
Pront one cottage, gear Ashford, they
stole 450 in gold ,belonging to a sol-
dier in hogpital, and at a eehoolneas-
thee house they secured 443, chiefly
in tretteurY notes.
Vole, aged 83, who is Istill or-
Edward -Beyly, K. C., or the past,
twelve syeare solioitor to the Attorney -
General's eDepaitment, ban been ap-
pointedeDeputy ,Attorney-Generai, suo-
ceeding theelate J. R, Cietwright, K.C.
It was reported in Toronto that -.I.
L. Englehart, who for many years
has been ashaieman of the Tinalskii-
ming and -Northern Ontario ItailWaY.
will give up his post ill the near fti- es'
tare.
Representatives of fifteen Toronto
and Ontario firms waited all last night
at the Toronto offices of the Victory
Loan Committee to present their
claims to the Prince of Wales' honor
flags.
The Berlin Kreuz Zeitung learns
from official sources that the'Foreign
Affairs Com,mittee of the Assembly
has concurred in the Government's, de -
Melon to decline to participate in the
bloekade agallist Russia.
Five Ped&al byeelectIone are taking,
place. -They are staged in New Brun-
swick, Quebec, Cattalo, SaskatcheWau
and Britten. Columbia -one in each of
the five Pro7viti0es-a-nd should thrash
an indication of the trend of nubile
sentiment in relation to Dominion poles
'tics. :
The Congress of Spanish Employers,
sitting at Barcelona. declared a gen-
eral lockout of workmen througleout
Spain. The lockout order will be ef.-
fective Tuesday, Nov: 4t1i.
The Lettish Government officials
b.ave returned to Riga, according 'to
tb.e Lettish press bureau. Food sup-
plies have been securetT and all 'shops
are open, despite the Russe -German
bombardment.
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eorge Poulger, a returned soldier
working on the Grand Trunk at Nap -
watch the G.'T, R. tracks on the Belle-
ville road crossing while the Prince of
Wales' special train was going througe
and was found lying on the track dead
after the train had passed through
here.
Aceordiag to a despatch from Kiel,
the naval authorities there mama te
that the Baltic blockade has been so
far moderated that territorial waiters
its restrictiene. GerMat Baltic coaet-
al traffic is thus agate Made pee.
sible. •
SERBS TO AID
GEN. DENIKINE
Two Divisions to Join Drive
On Petrograd.
No Cause for' Fears for
Yudenitcb..
London, Oct. 24. - A wireless de-
spatch froth General Denikine, the
anti -Bolshevik leadet itt SOutb.ern
Russia, says that taro- Serbian divi-
Slone are proceeding through Odesea
to support General Denikine.
Military experte assert there is no
eause for anxiety beeause General
Yudenitch's offensive heet slowed down
declaring he is either resting or
luvaltaing reinforcements. They eall
attention to the fact that every great
offerisive mast have breathing spelle.
There is no disposition to niinitniee
the intentiort of the Bolshevik to fight
for Petrogrsel to the lot ditch, arid it
bellened there will be a fierce stand-
up battle before General Yudenitch itt
able to Capture the capital.
Latest advices italleate the 1:thistles
'Oki had some 30,000 troops in Petro-
grad, and it is here that the hardest
fighting is expeeted, sine tieneral
Yudenitch took their last formidable
defence this side of Petrograd, when
he captured Gatehltra.
An official message reeeived here to-
night says that the Itusso-Oermati
forces tontInued Priday to bombard
Riga with light shells. Little damage
resulted.
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