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A despatch from Ottawa says: -The
Government has accepted the generous
offer. of the High Commissioner to de••
fray the cost of equIpping and Main-
taioingl 400 mounted Canadian soldiers
for service 'in South Africa, As, un-
fortunately,/ Lord Steathoona is indis-
posed just now, and has been forbidden
•by his medical advisers to transact any
business, the details of organization
haVe not been perfected, but in the
meantime, the militia authorities iwiJ,1
get& to work to prepare the equipment.
As the Province of British Columbia
has offered 100 mounted traen for ser-
• in •the Transvaal, this offer will
also be accepted, so that what may be
regarded. as the third Canadian eon-
bingent will be „made up of Strath-
• *one's Horse and the British °awn-
.
bians. •• '
The, kartire force will be raised in the,
North-West and British Columbia, and
as a hardy class of men is found in the
West,1 it is confidently expected that
the new body of men will compatre
most favourably with the first and
sego:ad contingents. ,
WILL COST STRATHCONA. 4500,000.
A. military expert, speaking on the
subject said; •abet the raising of the
•regiment, sending it to Africa, , and
• nlaiataining it for a year, would cost
Lord Strathcona over halt a million
•dollars. The cost is thus figured out:
400 men, outfit, $100 each. AI 40,000
400 men, arms, 050 each. . . 20,000
400 horses, $100 each. . . . , 40,000
400 horses, outfit, $50. . . . • 20,000
Transportation, $209 per man..• 80,000
Do., horses, $100. . . . 40,000
Pay 400 men, 50o. per day. .• moo
Maintenance, 50e. per day. . 73,000
Do., horses, 50c. per day. . . . 78,000
• Contingencies , and extras, say. 20,0e0
Grand total, . . . . .$ 479,000
no• horses would, be brought back
from South Africa, so that the sale of
. them Would •out down the expense
somewhat. •• 4
RECENTLY DEVISED 0AM•ERA..
Warren's division ef South African
• jOUBERT SERIOUSLY HURT.
A desPatch frorn Glaegove says i -The
troops for ten days. The loot divi- North British Daily Matra Estcourt,
aim is known as the fifth division' Natal corresPondent etates that
and joined General Buller at Frere Oommandant-General Joubert has
camp several weeks 11go.• been seriously ilijured and will take
no further pa -rt in ithe war. His horse
The complete .alasnace of news con- was elsot from under the geneeal, and
cerning Gen. Warren's force, together rolled over on him, causing a ruptine
with 'several significant indications, and serious injury to the spine.
leads to the belief that he is attempt- QUEEN TO WRITE.
ing a flank movement to the westward, The TJueen has telegraphed her ,ocne,
gratulattons and thanks to General
hoping to turn the Boers' right. White and the troops at Ladysmith.
The London 'experts are inclined to BUILDING A RAILWAY.
believe. that a flank movement bas been From the Boer headquartera it iff
undertakm, as the absolute impregna- reported thet General Buller is con-
bility of the Boer position ati.Colenso struotin.g a subsidiary railroad from
the main line to Coleus° westwardly
makes a frontal attack by 'hiller al- in the direetiou of Potgietersi drift,
moat hopeless. A destrotelt frora Ever° camp late on
• In the last despatch regarding the Sunday night said, all was quiet there,
Boer „assault on Ladyantith, Gen. But- thus eispeiling the Widespread hopes
ter said •he had seut his •entire avail- lir d=tiggilelfefigi (7=1:4wiuthl
Three •negatives of the safe object
on landscape can be obtained , by a
recently patented camera. • Ono of
,the plates is placed directly at the
back of the lens aperture as at pres-
ent, while the other two are arranged
one on each side of the first, and at
an angle . to it, so, that the three
Plateo represent half a hexagon. Two
prisms arranged at the lens opening
intercept part of the light for each of
the two side plates, and the light that
passes between the two prisms fall
upon the central plate. Three identi-
cal negative are thus obtained the
two side ones being reversed, but for
certain purposes -"color photography"
being one -this raversal makes no dif-
f menet..
ure
Cure for
Colds
When the children get their
feet wet and take cold give thein
a hot foot bath,. a bowl of hot
drink, a dodo of Ayer's Cherry
- Pectoral, and put -them to bed.
• The chances are they will be
• all right in the morning. Con-
.• tinue the Cherry Pectoral a few
days, until all cough has dis-
appeared.
Old coughs are also cured;
we mean flie coughs of bron-
chitis, weak throats and irritable
lungs. Even the hard coughs
of consumption are always
• Made easy and frequently clued
by the continued use of
•
NMI
herrg
Pectoral
Every docks' knows that 'Wild
cherry bark is the best remedy
known to medical science for
soothing and healing Wanted
throats And lUngs.
Put on ot
Dr. Ayer's
Cherry .Pectoral
Plasters
over .your MINOS
The goat Ithrtlioar
AtIrrk.• Csafrit
We now have int66 At Lim meet tent.
nom physicists in the MIROd SWIM
unmet oppe.4entt1es and tong expert.
MICE Maitently Et them tor ravine you
Diedleal Wawa write too. AU the
particulars Iri year blob,
Aare% Dr4. R. AM,
Loll, htMl.
able force out to reconnoitre. None of an effective move elsewhere, •
Gen. Warren's troops were inolued in • BRITISH LOSS TO DATE.
the list, so the latter must be some- The latest official returns show
where else, The Boers eVidently knew :.thus far the British casualties in
1 Beath Melee, excluding those. in the
of Warren's movements, for they are
reeentfighting at Ladysmith, are ;027
fortifying Springfield, on the Tugela, t killed, 3,675 wounded, and 2,511 Mote.
ttioont.he westward of Colenso, indioat- into
ing that • Warren is in that direo- 1 , • --,,-
. 'o .
. LOSSES AT L'A.DYSMITH.
All signs point to an attempt to send Thu London Daily Mail says: -"We
a strong force to make a circuitous learn that in the attack on Lady -
march In the hope of relieving. Lady- smith het Saturday, January (It the
smith from the west. Leading north- British losses were 14 officers killed,
west from Estoourt toward Har- 34 wounded, and over, 800 non-com.
!gamin one of the main highways missipned officers and men killed or
leads into the Orange Free State, and 'wounded. The Boer losses, we hear,
intersects with two good roadslead- are estimated at between 2,000 and
ing into Ladysmith. Suoh a move- 3,000 men."
ment would require a mare.h of fiftY ' • NO LACK OF FOOD.
miles, and woutd necessitate Warren
to out loose from his base. •.A despatch to the ' London Daily
Mail from Pietermaritzburg, dated
The speculation about Warren is, of January 8, says:-
course, mere •conjecture, owing to th° "Private adeices from Ladysmith,
complete censorship, but military ex- dated January 2, say that rations' of
perts agree that Buller, cannot sit idly bread and meat are plentiful, and the
by and see Ladysmith fall without garrison had not then touched the
taking desperate steps to relieve the bully' beef and biscuit supplies.
place, . "Luxuries are scarce in Ladysmith,
The 'War Office has received the fel- . but the hospitals • are.. well supplied
lowing despatoh from General Sir Mtn milk, and the horses are in good
Redvers Buller, whci is in command condition." • • •
of the Ladysmith relieving column :--•
"Frere, jan. 10.-A Transvaal tele.- GREATLY WEAKENED, . .
'gram gives the.enemy's loss at Lady- •• The correspondent -of • the London
smith on January 6 as four killed and Standard at Frere, telegraphing .un -
13 wounded, end this after, as admit., der date o1Januar' 8, eays that pat-,
ted, enduring a withering fire 1 rom rats of the Natal • Carbineere
six working batteries, and being de- and ' Thorneycrott's •Horse . thor-
featect at all points. oughly searched • both flanks of
Natives here assert that one com- the Boer position on that date. They
maitdo alone lost. 150 killed and wag- found a considerable number of the
gon-loads of wounded.' enemy encamped flee miles east of Col -
"The heaviest loss_ is•
said to lave „60. . .
•been suetained by the Free' Staters, Natives say that the Boers in the
whom the Transivaalera forced into the Tugela river were greatly weakened
most dangerous Place113." • • ' on January 6' by the withdrawal of
•••STILL BOM.BARDInG. . the bulk ot their forces to Ladysmith.
The London Standard has received EXPANSIVE BULLETS, ••
the following, dated Monday. Jan. 8, A despatch from London says:L.
from its' specialcorrespondent at Frere
eamp:- . Lee-Metford cartridges are reening.
• ' short in the British magazines, and
'A heavy gun mounted on Umbel-
_ according to semi-official report; the
Arana MI has bean firing 'Sines dal"' War Office purposes to fall.baok tem -
break. Evidently the siege of Lady- porarily upon 1011,000,000 "Mark IV. ex.
smith is still maintained. pending bullets," most of which -sizai
" It ia almost certein that the allies already in storage in South Africa.
will quarrel as the result of their de- The War Office, however,, has issued a
feat at„ Ladysmith." ' strict order to the regiments that the
A deapatch to the Daily Telegraph
ammunition of "Mark IV." given out
from Bennet Berleigh, under the same in England,must be used in practice
date from Vrere camp, says:- •
ons at home, none being *taken to South
around Ladysmith began early to-Iday,Afillet:r. then public announceMeint that
Firi• positng from the Boer
It still continues, but the so:monad- no. sach bullet would be used in this
ing is light and irregular." • war, its employment, the Daily Chron-
METHUEN PREPARING. iota thinks, would be a serious breach
A. despatch from Modder River, says:. of faith, e.speoially as the British come
-The British pickets are Using bill- menders complained that the Boers 00 -
hooks in systematically cutting away casionally use such Projectiles.
the patches of brushwood in, front of BOER PRT,SONERS„
their line.%' . . . A despatch from Modder River, says:
• The Work is risky, and is only done, -Forty-one prisonites, • belonging to
when a good opportunity offers. the Sunnyside commando of Colonial
Thus far there have been no casual- Dutch, took a train here on Monday
ties among the man detailedfor the
work. • . afternoon for Cape Town, under escort
of a section of the Duke of Cornwall's
The demolition of the farm -houses Infantry Regiment The prisoners
between the forces has also commenc-
ed. were allotted to comfortable seats in
' the railway -carriage. ' • • '
These prepstratons are taken to mean Like all the other Boers, except the
that Gen. Methuen intends to make a Staats artillery, they are without mil -
movement shortly. 0 . ' ' forma About a dozen of them wore
' , 22 DF.IItFRAM FEVER, bine white -spotted. scarfs around their
• wide -brimmed hats. Most of thein were
• A despatch from Pietermaritzburg, man at least 40 years old, but there
lated jan. 9, states that Gen. White were half a dozen youths. They looked
at Ladysmith reports the death of like typical veldt peasants-400se-joint-
three officers and nineteen men from ed," utikempt, " and round-shouldered.
fever. . . • They carried blankets given to them
-IS THIS TRUE 1 •.• by the British troops at Belmont, and
•
watched the preparations for sending
• The London Financial News Lays it them to Cape Town with stolid indit.
is reported that Gen. Methuen will be ference. f
recalled, from South Africa, and. that Amon,g•the prisoners are the second
he will be succeeded by Gen. Warren, and third leaders of the commando.
The Morning Leaders critio makes
The documents captured include the
an obscurely worded reference: te Gen. political records • of residents of the
Buller, apparently based on unpub- country, for fifty miles Jo the -neigh-
belied inIormation, ,implying that' the .bourhood. The stationery of thei Brit -
state of his health residers it desirable ish Government has been used for
A.RTEUR BALFOUR SPEAKS, Boers' correspondence, which was
A. despateh from London says: -Mr. efovuondouoituelhteowaxomag.istrates` offices of the
Arthur J. Balfour, First Lord of the
Treasury, speaking on Tuesday even- There was the usual Outpost cannon -
mg in East Manchestet, said:- ade on Tuesday, morning.
• "I know of no war in which Great BOER .CAStfALTIES TO DATE.
Britain has engaged, exoept that re-.
dulting in the independence of the Am- frAtiorosBorodeirngsourt000s aotffricrioatloridoefshpaetloohoe:
erican colozaes, which did not end tri- ea on the Transvaal side to date aro
Umptiantly. Yet I do not know! Of
proximate 2,100, without including the
One which has begun • triumphantly. casualties at Ladyamith,, whioh are be-
'
Trite!, the war in South Afriao la dis- lowed to be at least goo. The figures
appointing, but it is not a fact that
which folloare those of the Boer hos-
Great Britain. has suffered excepbeelal pital, reports:---
w
reverses or great disaster.
. ,Ki4121ed. Wounded.oic.
knitted together every braneh of.the
• "On the other hand, the war had, Dundee, ,
Elandalaigte. . . 96 112
Engbah-Speaking race, making all feel blodderspruit. . . 11 146
that they have a great commie • dee- Mafeking.• , .•. 25 98
tiny,' which is .their duty to ammo. Kimberley, . . ° . 22 '• 39
plish, These are thin& which 'ought 114.,,,,„.4,. ' ,
taraspan. . . , , 2lie 4 3482
to support us in far greater trials than ';..''""'"" '•...
any this war may produce.
• Modder River, . . 116' 306
"Remember that a ' nation which
Magersfontein, • . . 98 286
oa,nnot bear defeat is- a nation unwor- -•
colons°. 4 • • 81 296
thy of Empire, and although defeat Minor engegeMeets .in
has not yet, come, and although we .
. 87 41.
hope and believe it will not come in
hold*. At soigne strange that the Boort,
did not destroy the pont when they
lately evacuated Springfield. Ite poe-
sineilon may mean ninon to the Bt•itisb.
".Pont" in this connection doea not
imeilyt.lt bridge, but a large ferry beat
worked with steam cables, the familiar
Method 01 eroasing the wider and more
rapid rivers in SouthiAtrica.
Assuralog that it 18 the, northsvard
drift that General Buller helds; the
maps suggest the inference that ante
for a bridge can be found that will be
sholtared, front the enemy's artillery.
One evident difficulty of the :Attn.
however, ia that if the attackers
;goo there they must, when: they
Mettle on, the plain whielt the river -
bend enclose% come on a slateaul in
front et the enenty'e position, andonce
under tire they must attack. .
AN ARMY VETERAN'S OPINION.
Gen. Buller has made the first move
in the next operation for the relief of
Ladysmith in the direction expected.
In his despatch from Springfield,
which lies between the Little Tugela
and the upper etre= of the Tugela,
be reports the occupation of the south
bank of the latter at Potgleter's
drift and the seizure el/ the crossing.
It was evident Vora the frequent
reconnaissances in this direction since
the defeat at Colons° that there was
an ulterior intention to make a move-
ment by tbe Boer right flank, The
Beers at least expeoted it, as they die.
appeared from Springfield about two
weeks ago, according to the reports
of the Brjtish !scouting parties, and
took up a. positten on the north side of
t• he course of the present war* yet, if Total -......
matters should turnout otherwise, we 557 1,581
The Boers hate lost in addition 596
should rely upon the courage and
patriotiImmo prisoners, • of whom 188 are ati Cape
AM of our countrt
..
' Town and 40 were captured by the
Cheers.
• Canadians.
Addressing a ' second meeting, held
at Hardwick, a suburb of Manchester, 2,200 TROOPS SAIL,
Mr. Balfour said:- • A despatch from Southampton, Eng..
"While X am loath to claim in any says :-.The Cunard line steamer. 'Gm -
proud and arrogant Spirit that we are brio, which has been chartered as a
in any special sense the leaders of a tranaport by the British Government,
humanitarian cause, I deny hi the wiled from Southampton on Thursday,
strongest manner that we are anima- with 2,200 eoldiers for South Africa,
• ed by ignoble raotives. No more false or
stupid calumny was ever invented than GEN.. DIY1,414.ADVACING. .
the deousation that Great Britain is
animated hy a petty desire to add At' de/Vlach from ImildOn says .-The
wealthy regions to an already gigantic War- Office received this morning the
Empire. No mere inquisition of ter- follcating, despateh fronr General But*
ritory could eompenaate for a war, ler, dated Springfield, ann. 11, at 940
casting so Much blood and treasure.' In the evening--. -
FAULT-FINDING IN 1?ASHION.
ssayst-The critics range up and down I oecupled the south bank of the
Tureln river at Potgieteir's drift this
I
A despatch from London, Wednesday
(he entire field of war transaetionto morning, and seized the pont. The r1' -
finding fault especially with the leek ler [8 11* flood. The tuning is stro,ngly
of transports for troope who are ready I entrenched/ about 4 1-2 ogee to the
to depart, and with the concealment ....„,„.„
Of news, averring that the censorship
in South Afrlett embraces the mane, It to reported here that General Buis
that the report :I 01 correspondentd are ler submitted his plan of cattipaignto
being =Matedand entire letters &or& Roberta immediately niter the
suppreased,
The Admiralty in seeking transports' latter landed, and that Itoberts &inc.
• is reported to have chartered the Am- tioned it.
erican line siteamer St.Paul, which This meagre information is not sup -
wee inspeeted provious to chartering', plemente&from any willow, official or
and three Liverpool stentners. •
The Daily News editorially defines ,unoffielat Eventithe position General
the nubile opinion of the Continent as Buller has occupied is a matter of ape.
°lit a state which should not he Ig.. °illation, for no maps avallnble here
oared." It calls for "greeter vigil- 'mita illoteleter% drift, There are t WO
Anne than ever on the part of theee - , ,„ ,
veeponsible Inc the efficieney ef the dellts, &An sty mites rrom Springfield,
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THE VERY LATEST FROM
MI THE WORLD OVER.
luteritsrintt Items About Our Ow*
CoUntryGreat Belt I th V I
$tstes. and AU Parte of the Globe.
Condensed and Assorted for fiasy -
Reading.
no 6 ted
CANADA..
The by-law to abolish the ward ;sys-
tem carried in London. •
the number of Aldermen.
Ottawa voted for a reduction!, In
The Government will open tendere
for the deepening of Dort Colborne
harbour on January 3Ist,
Four returning Kloudikers have
been found frozen to•death in Alatikit.
One had $8,000 In his belt.
The Hamilton Board, of Trade wilt
petition the Government to establish
a uniform inspection et hides.
John Cavanagh has been mem' ted
for trial at London, Ont., on the
charge of murdering Ilia mother.
.Broom inanufaoturere of the United
States and Canada have agreed' to
advaace prices 25 cents A dozen.
ThreceiptefOrthrsttrmonth:hatthepawooaera;newa
and
tile"spring.are
in operation amounted to over *13,C00.
Tlh
they wilt probably not be stamped. out
three new oases of Innen-
pox in the Kamouraska district,
OtAtanwAa
tu2,700 acres of pulpwood territory In
the Gatineau district, according to an
cle:ipacatne:yndicate has bougitt
l:ohoozimt miniatTiothof
eo jolv8o919s
. showw the
a
CItarin5 u.. -in.
osame
p r ,u^nti (or N7tieniPeff
f
Trio, mtnera were blown to atoms
mthieneY ,were
et Portage.thawingout at the Sultana
by the explosion of dynamite which
nbuamekeet-ostb
It transpires that Herbert, the Ville
Marie Bank teller, lost $100,000 in
oGPe o rBgPs:cBunlaltIon, under the
It is said thilt the Cataract Power
Company syndicate will extend the
Hamilton Radial Electric Railway' to
OakvOle at an early date.
Ernest J. Lehman, thefirst to Put
Into execution in Chicago the depart-
ment store idea, died on . Saturday,
worth at least 110,000,000,
the stove, and damaging furniture in
deuce, Hamilton, exploded, emashing
stove at Rev. A. MacWilliams' resi-
the room. -
The hot water pipes attached to the
Airs. Weener, who has lived at Win-
nipeg several years in somewhat
straitened circumstances, has fallen
heir to £50,000 by the death of a rela-
tion in the old country. .
Mist, Annie Lee, of Stoney Creek, is
suffering from almost continuous
hiccoughs, • and her relatives are
alarmed about her condition: The
localp hysidians have 40t been able to
stop the hiccoughs.
0. P. R. land sales for December
give the following figures:•52,255. acres
sola for $163,762. For the corresponding
month of '98, 17,039 acres were sold
for $54,703. For the year 1899 416,438
acres had been sold for $1,323,720, For
for
re 31
the 348,608 stores were sold
A deputation waited on kr. Parent,
Minister of Crown Lands, Quebec, pro-
posing the imposition of a stumpage
rate of $1.90 a cord on spruce wood
with a rebate of $1.00 a•eord if the
wood was manufactured in the Pro-
vince. Mr. Parent seemed' favorably
impressed with the idea. '
The unusually mild weather experi-
enced in Manitoba this peason has en-
abled elevator building to continue
through the winter so far without in-
terruption. New buildings are now
finishing at Crandall and Manitoba sta-
tions, recently opened on the Groat
North:west Central Road.
GREAT BRITAIN.
'A hit trade trust is about to be
formed in England with a capital of
$10,000,000.
the Tugela commanding Potgletera
dritt, and have strongly fortified and
entrenched it, mounting, on it some of
the guns captured at Coleus° last
month. Gen. Buller, in his despatch
referred to, confirms the reporti
trioaselyialrptioceribovefoloofiotn tthh140( nisuobstotoi (l, en.
Ituller'e Is at °ace apparent en1 exam-
ining the) map. Should the; Owssage; of
the Tugela at that point be Emcees's-
fully effected, and thetBoersI be driven
from, their entrenched position, the
Britishj will obtain hold of the; road
between. Acton Home; and Dewdrop.,
and bei on the shortest road to Lady --
smith. The Boers holding the post -
tions commanding Potgieter's drift
are said to be, under Gen. Bela Viljoen,
ono or the most: energetio of Gen: Jou-
bert's subordinates,* and comprise the
Johannesburg contingent, a large num-
bet -of which are foreigners.
BRITISH LOSSES AT LA.DY.SM/TH.
Officers killed. k . . . . . 19
Officers, tVounded. . 2,7
Rank: and File Killed. . 135
Rand andt File Wounded-. . 242
Apart from General 13tiller's move,
the only news of interest received
from the front is. the) Wet tOffice re-
port of the casealties at Ladysmith
on, Saturday, Jan. 6, when, the Boer
attack was repulsed. These total 417,
la officers and 135 men killed, and 27
officera and 242 wounded.
There is a certain, sense of relief that
they were not greater, irresponsible
estimates having placed them at dou-
ble that number. . His father's emin-
ence makes the death of the Earl of
Alm the most conspicuous among the
losses. He accompanied the Natal
force in an unattached capacity, ap-
parently from love of adventure, for
some time ago he resigned his com-
mission as a lieutenant in the Sev-
Rien servWarren'sed
id
Bethune's Horse. and
enteeth Lancers.
Bechuanaland expedition.
So far as past 'services and prospec-
t -lie usefulness were concerned* the
raost•serioos loss among the officers
was the death of Lient-Col. Dick-Cun-
yngham, of the Gordon Highlanders,
who only a fortnight ago resumed ac-
tive duty after, being wounded while
leading the charge of the Gordons at
Elandslatigte. His career was full of
military activity, including a share in
Lord Roberts' Afghanistan campaign
in 1879,•' when he won the Victoria
Cross. The Gordons also lose another
experienced. officer in Major Miller
Walinut." •
FEVER PLAYING HAVOC,
Pietermaritzburg, Jan. 11, -General
White reports 18 deaths from disease
at Ladysmith between Jammu 7 and
January 9. I
11 111 1 111 nienininssie 11.
I II II II I II I
WILLIA110,. FRIND'''QUATY
•111•1,1116
HE WAS SENTENCED TO BE HANGED
ON APML 13TH NEXT
.811111.1•100
For lite •Thirder Warear hi Toronto oil
Novaiuber Stis•-Merey Was ' ketone.
1114,1111eS by the Jury. . •
. A despatch . from . Toronto says: -
After being put one/hour theajury 111
the. Varepe murder tridi on Tburalay
returned a verdict of guilt y, . with a re-
commendation to mercy. When the
jury filed In the 'hinds of the 'Clock
pointed to 10 minutes to 6, •The old
court -room was; crowded tot euffoca-
bon, but one could tell by the *death
like stilleess that ensoul whentha ;:ury
made, its appearance that' all present
were cognizant that a humaii life was
trembling in, the balante,
THE PRISONER .
was apparently the most collected
Man in the room when his Lordship
asked him if he lad anything to say
why the judgment of the court should
not be passed upon him. In a firm,
Unhesitating voice, Williams said :-"I
am. net guilty, your Lordship. 1 had
no intention of committing any crime
whatever. 4 was walking along the
street looking for a place to go to
bed„ when Mackintosh induced me to
i
go nto the Store. I dideverything in
my power to prevent Meekintosh from
eommitting the crime." •
"So far as the question of your guilt
or innocence is concerned," said MA
Lordship, "in as far as this -court is
Concerned, it is closed forever. You
have been well defended. Your cote.
sel has conducted yournase with abili-
ity and moderation. It is always a
sad thing to pass sentence on anyone,
and .In your cam 1( 18 really sad, al-
though it Cannot be Said that you do
not merit it. •
THE AIRY DID ItIGIIT
in convicting you. The story you told
could not be believed. Whether you are
old or young in oritne I cannot say. It
may be that you have been inveigled
into this ease, but the evidence as to
the revolver and your own admiss-
ions sealed. your fate. X islet not Want
to say' anything that wilt hurt your
feelings. Think of what you: di& 'A
man in tho flush of his manhood Wee
sleeping quietly in his home. Ton en -
tared Ms house and killed him for fil.
thy lucre, which you would not at.
tempt to earn honestly, In your ease
you will have time to prepare for
the end that certainly awaits you, but
in the ease of your victim he was shot
down without warning." HisLordship
etatett that the recommendation to
micro would be brought to the atten.
tion of tin proper authorities, but
that he could hold out he hope for
()leniency. . -
"Henry Williams," said his Lord-
, ship, "the sentence of this court is
that you be taken from the place
where you etand to the place
whence you came, and that on Friday,
the 13th day of April, you be hanged
by the neck, until you are dead, and
may God, have intim On your soul,0
The prisoner listened to the Sentence
withont flinching, and walked from the
court room with a firm tread.
CIVIC AND MITATARY POWERS.
* Boer field eornot ix usually -the
Magistrate of the neighboring coati.;
try wherein he resides, arid is Invested
with the rower to command all
hie -.bodied men on au& an occasion as
the present war.
An explosion et sewer pia et calk
night at Knoxville. near Pittsburg.
Pa..wrecked a large number el houses
and tore up several streets for hun-
dreds of feat. No one was injured.
Mabel Yisld, aged 18, discovered a
wooden bridge near Mount 'Vernon,
N.Y., to he op fire. taus ram half a
mike jut in time to went e train
was running toward tb. brtdg..
An elevator in the Almon room ot
the bras* foundry in the Illinois Steel
Co.'s branch works IOC/dog% fen, in-
stantly killing two workmen and in-
juring another so badly that he; died.
Herbert T. Lincoln and Norman B.
Ream, executors of the estate of the
late George X. Plillinan, have been
allotted as compensation for their ser-
vices the sum 01 3425,000. The estate
will figure up nearly 314,000,000.
Designs for the greatest battleships
ever projeated far the Vatted States
navy have been agreed upon by the
Naval Board of Construction, after
several months of discussion over the
important questions of battery, armor,
speed, coal capacity and dieplaeement.
GENERAL.
• Li Hung Chang has been again hon-
Ored in Vhina.
Austria talks of spending $100,000,-
000 on its array and navy. ,
Over 3,000 Austrian coal niiners are
On strike for increased wages.
,Two Japanese physicians of Wake
died from the bubonic plague.
The Sultan of Turkey is having, hie
relatives watehed, lest they flee from
his kingdom.
The gald yield for 18901n New South
Wales was 609,418 ()antes, an increase
of 168,926 ounces over, 1898.
An Abyssinian army of 10,000 men,
sent to subdue the Tigre rebels, has
reachei Ittacowah prov:nce.
King Menet* of Abyssinia is going
to Cairo, to visit the Khedive, thus
proving false the story that he is 1111 -
friendly to Britain,
The Newfoundland revenue far the
six months ended December 31 shows
an increase of 3230.000 over the receipts
for the corresponding half year [8 1898,
After an interval of thirteen days,
.in which no oases were diseovered,
bubonic plague has broken out again
le Honolulu.
With the arrival at Manila of the
Y.S. transport Grant, which left Ban
Francisco on Deo, 21, Gen. Otis will
have command of an effective force of
about 65,000 men.
Mall advices by the steamship Queen
A.detaitle say that another battle be-
tween the French and Chinese took
place at Kawchaten, and that the
• French were defeated with a loss of
30 men. •
Rev. George Buckley,. father of Geo.
E. Buckley, editor of the Times, is dead
at London.
Nurses have become scarce in•Eng-
• olanadio•sinneco.
esthe wayis , and there a lo
ik• t
The death is announced of SirJames
Paget, one of the leading surgeons of
Great Britain, in his 8611* year.
A white man' niimir6 Watt was tak-
en from the police station at Newport
News, Va., awl lynched by a mob.
• Thomas Kite, parish clerk of Shakes-
peare's church, is dead at the age of
91, according to a London despatch,
• Several pig iron .manufacturers in
Scotland have damped down their
furnaces owing to the scarcity of coal.
Mr. Rudyard Kipling and family are
confined to their room?, suffering from
, influenza, but there is no anxiety as
to their co;adition.
The final report of the NOW 'reek
State Canal Commission recommends
that 36i0,000,000 should .be expended in
improving the inland waterway.
Complaints -of Canadian and other
journals over 'the persistent dilatori-
ness; of the Pacific Cable Board are be-
ing reproduced in journals in London.
The nine survivors of the crew of
the wreoked British steamer Borghese,
of Glasgow, which foundered off Cape
Finisterre, have.• reached Bristol.
Twenty-two of the ()raw were drowned.
• A new "Imperial party" hasbeen
started in London, headea by Hon.
Thomas Sandys.M.P., to establish the
power of the British Empire. It will
support the Goyernment during the
war, and then enquire into the un-
satiafaotory condition of the national
defences:
• UNITED STATES. •
The Mississippi river at St. Louis js
frozen -over for the first time in many
years.'
Another ship -load of 1,500 mules is
to go from New Orleans to, South
Africa. •
The population of Greater New York
is given at 8,550,000, a gain of about
100,000 over last year,
County Treasurer Hershey ot Lan-
caster, Pa,, is short $85,000, and is be-
• Heves! to be in Canada
A strike of structural iron, workers
for a nine -hour day inateed of ten,
lute been inaugurated at Philadelphia.
Pool Grinstad, editor of the Wathens
Star, has been sentenced at Troy,
Iran., to eleven nienths • in jail for
crinntia I libel.
Rev. Dr. McGlynn, the well knoven
• New York priest, is not expected to
recover from an illness( with whieh he
Is now suffering.
Florence Owens died in ail wane
asyluna at Galena, the result of being
iforightetto in
erdby Chicago. nnwhile at work
ao
Senator-elect Joseph L. Myers,
farmer,walked from his home, 100
• i
miles, nto Co imbue to'show his con.
tempt for the railroads."
The wife a Louis Gordon dropped
dead in a New York court yesterday
• while 'testifying to the innocence of
her husband. charged with theft.
The wages of 25,000 Men in. Pate.
burg weft advanced the other day
from 6 to 10 per cent. -14,000 being
employed by the Carnegie Steel Cora -
Pahl.
• Joel G.Tyler, late. teller of the Safti-
ty Natiodal Rank of Fitchburg, Mass.,
was sentenced to tierVe live yeare in
jail for embeztling the funds of the
bank.
• A happy New Year in reality fell to
I the lot of nearly every person ten-
'• ployed in the great wollen litiluetry of
• New England, when a general ad-
vance In wages went into effeet.
Alfred Morrison, who shot and killed
his wife After a dream about burgistrs
and while in a otemnabulistie stste,
has been ttennitted by a eorotier's jury
et Mount VbrilOny near New York.
• The Diggers' News of Pretoria prints
O rumor to the, effect that Long-
wood, Napoleon's residence on the
lalana of St, Hielena, is being Irene..
totted, Inc the reception of President
`Kruger after the war.
IA i 80? Ili rim
110111104
steady at the quotation* of last Tues.
4:to, Jan. 10. -We had a good
yees.ore:or Ope,ln, Cattail, Chasm M.
- T
iie
In that Loading Marti.
d , d I were
Kxpoparid.
tcattle sold at from 4 1.4 to
50 per lb., and for selections 5 1-80,,
was
Good to choice butcher cattle la
wanted at from. 53.4 to 4 1.4o, per lb.;
medium and inferior cattle unchang-
ed.
There is no °image from Tuesday in
the business condition of feeders,
bulls, stockers, and, mach cows.
Good calves are wanted. °
Sheep and lavabs are unchanged
quotably, .but inclined to be a abode
17"Hro0ges0asi.
re steady at the recent ads
vance. For °noise hogs the top
price is 4.1-2e; light hogs sell at 4 /-80;
and fat hogs are bringing 37-13o, per
• lb,
Following is the range of quota.,
tions, which aro largely nominal:- 1
Cattle.
Shippers, per cwt. . 3 400 3473
'Butcher, ehOice do. . 375 425
• Butober, med., to.geod. 800 3.60
Butcher, Ulterior. . 250 375
Stockers, per ewt. 226 • 325
Sheep and Lambs.
Sheep, per cwt. . . 800. 350
Lambs, per cwt. • 375 450
Bucks, Per ewt, . .* 225 :250
• Milkers and .Calves.
• RACING CAMELS. • .
As Tareftit'y. Bred and Trained as Ostr
Own Trotters,
Camel races are held regularly in
the South of Algeria, where valuable
prizes are offered for the encourage-
ment of the breed of rapers* and much
interest istaken in their preparation
and performances.
The racing oaraele are the result of
Very careful breeding through many
ge.neratiobs, and in size, temper, and
appearance they are so different from
the ordinary- beast of burden that
they might alraoat be considered a
different race of aniinaia.
Perhaps'. the most conspicuous char-
acteristic of the ordinary camel is its
extreme slowness. Nothing on earth
will ever induce it to hurry.
• Twenty-five dollars will buy a very
fair specimen, but fora "mehari," or
racing ca Mel five to ten Hines that
sum is required to effect a purchase.
The racer, however, can be depended
on Inc. nine or ten miles an -hour, this
pace being kept up for 16 or 17 hours
withThoeu pace atop.In a camel race •is gener.
ally fast and furious at the beginning;
when all the animals are together, and
eeeomitrea.tosrealize that a contest is in
pr
. •
DOGS OF WAR. •
Roo Animals Vstinahle, Ittit nark at the
Wrong lime.
There is only one drawback that an
possibly attend the taking of dogs on
war expeditions, and that is that they
may bark when a night surprise is [8 -
tended; but even -this does not apply
when due precautions are taken, and
in recent campaigns the bresence of
favorite dogs of officers has been re-
peatedly referred to. •
In the German army a great num-
ber of dogs are trained in connection
witn the ambulance corps. A.t the
command "Seek," and a gesture indi-
cating some point of the compass, they
start off and when they come across
one of the men specially lying down
in imitation of the wounded, they take
upbis cap, helmet or handkerchief and
and bring this back to the ambulance
men, whom they dead back to the
spot. These dogs were a striking
part of the show at the last maneu-
vers.
"18 CHILDREN FROZEN: '
•
Overtaken When Itstatrutug Prom School
by n Snow Storm. •'
A despatch Vona Berlin • Says :-A
despa tch from Itluenicbschlag,-,. a
small tesen near Neuhaus, Bohemia,
reports that thirteen school children on
their way home on Wednesday • after.
noon from school were overtaken by a
clevere snowstorm and frozen to death.
The ;searching party. Which had been
Out all night, discovered the children
ins clitch near the highway deeply
lutried under the snow. They, had crept
oloselt together, and their arms Oiling
around each others' necks. . •
. -ti• •
• SKATING' FATALITY.
two Aimee' and Their Brother Drowned
O in
A despatch. from Baysville, Ont.,
says: -While skating on the Lake of'
/lays three children ot Thorne Brown
ran into an opening .on the ice near
Black 'point and were all drowned.
The deadare r -Brown, Margaret, 21,
Brown, Thomas, jr., 19. Brown, Janet
1 17. The bodies o$ the tivo girls have
been recovered,
1
411 JAPANESE PERISHED.
And•=11
Fierce Storm Munh 35 Tidal
Wave Followed.
A. despatch from Vittoria, B. O.,
says :-Advices by the steamship Em-
press Of Japan tell of a fierce storm
sweeping the japanese coast on De -
camber 2411*, by which 26 junks were
lost while being towed from Osaka to
Kobe, and 171 pereons perished, A
tidal wave accompanied the storm.
by whieh 411 liVe8 in all were lot,
85 KNOTS AN HOUR.,
▪ inizthti
eide-tiont bfterMk
yee a
A despateli,froirt London Ws r."-Theg
totpedo boat-deatroyer, Viper, fitted
aweletohntapttreolnim'aintaurrybintreweng0inheolkohnaddara.
ad
c 0 ntSherrsd 641 ttt rat stagetts :14L, 00; ails 60: 1 06n. reTica 16hn:t reaep eb osp eery, Id. sri fibtootif.gtuitiroln,
knots in four rune over a measured
mile. The fastest run was $5.6. The
are
°tveihirAki.mansitip and the Oara dloO.
Cows, eeoh. , . . 25 00 wee
ealyes, each. . . 200 10 00
Hogs.
Choice hogs, per °Wt. . 425 450
Light hogs:, per owt , 400 4 12 1-2
Heavy hogs, per cwt. , 375 3 87 1-2
Toronto, Jan. 10. -Wheat -Continues
-dull and easy. Red and while Ontario
la quoted at 61 to 65c according to
nearness to the mill; goose wheat at
(160, middle freights; 68c north and
west, and spring, east, 64 to 65c;
Manitobas, No. 1 hard, track, Owen
Sound, or Goderich, 72c.
Flour -Dull. Exporters bid 82.55 per
bbl. for round lots of straight roller,
in buyers 'bags, -middle freights; and
holders, ask 32.65; single oars for lo-
cal use are quoted at $2.90, in wood.
Millreed-Searce and firm. Bran is
quoted at 312, to 412.50,- and shorts at
0.4 to 314.50, west.
Corn -Easy, No. 2 American, yel- •
low, quoted at. 400, [rack, Toronto; and
m39c, track, Toronto,
pi xeae tu8.(1:111-a2ontgCe da .n ad, cia:r corn iptsd, ulltoac,
north and west, and at no,- eaet. "
Barley-lautet. Car lots. of No. .2,
middle treigh/ts,- sold at 380; and No.
1 was quoted at 400.
Rye -Demand light . Car lo a, 49
west and 503-40 east.-
Oats -Continue Jima. Dem.and 'fair-
ly good, White oats, 251-2o, north
arid- west; 26c, Middle 'freights; and
26 1-20, east.
Buckwheat -Easy. Car lots, east;
49c, asked,. and west, 48c, asked.
Oatmeal -Roiled bats, In bags, track,
Toronto, ,z,3.25; and in wood, 63.35 ,per
vbabCnitiecaagno; Jan.
fli6r.m-nehses ,of provisions,
steadied to -day by the 1,1"h:repot moistrkadr..t
May closing 1-8 to 1-2o over yester-
day. Corn closed 1-40 no, and .oats
unchanged. Final figures in pro -
Visions were 10 to 131-2c up. New
York reported 10 loads taken for ex-
port. Seaboard clearances in wheat •
and flour were equal to 360,000 bush.
Primary receipts were 494,000 bush.,
Against 648,000 bushlast year. Min-
neapolis and Duluth. reported 411 cars; ,
compared with 340 la•st week, and 412
it year. ago. Local receipts were 24
oars; none of contract grade. • I
Buffalo, Jan, 16. -Spring • wheat
Dull but ' strong; No. 1 hard, spot,
74 7-8c; No. 1 Northern, spot; 73 1-8c.
Winter wheat -Quiet, held above
buyers' views; No. 2 red, 781-2c ; No.
1 white, 70e. Corn -Active, higher;
No. 2 yellow, 37 1-2c; No. 3 yellow, 37o;
No. 4 yellow, 361-2o ; No. 2 corn, 36
3-40; No. 3 corn, 361-1 to 361-2c. Oats
-Dull, easy; No. 2 white, 291-2 to 300;
No. 3 white, 2834 to 290 No. 4 white,
28 1-1 to 28 1-2c; No. 2 mixed, 263-4 to
27c; No. 3 mixed, 261-1 ;to 26 1-2o. Rye
No offerings. Flour -Quiet, easy.
Minneapolis, Jan. 16. -Close -Wheat
in store, No. 1 Northern, January, 63
1-4c; May, 05 to 65 1-8c; July, 603-8
to 66 1-26; on track, No. 1 hard, 65 7-80;
eNron,.a
.160N7orothern, 63 /-13c; No. 21 North -
Duluth, Jan. 16. -Wheat - No. 1
hard, cash, 61 1-8c; No. 1 Northern,
cash, 61 5-8c; May, 67 1-8ct July, 68c;
No. 2 Northern, 62 1-80; No/ 3 spring,
53 5-8o,
EARL OF AVA DEAD.
Se.eumlbs to iVounds Received in ihe [MC.
Ile or LottlYstialth.
A. d espial% from London; Jen, 12.says:
-Thei War Office announcers that! the
Eitrl on Ave has; (limn from; wound4 re-
ceived in the fierce battle at Lady-
smith on Saturday, .
In the same battle Lieut. -Col. Wil-
liam, Henry Dick-Cunynghtim, V,O.,
commander:of the Second. Battalion of
the Gordon Highlanders since; 110,
was elan wounded, and has sine° gaol
cumbed to; his wounds, ate was im-
mensely popular eveetywhere, and, his
death will mum- widespread sorrow.
• Lord A.va: was born; in 1863; and Was
the eldestrsOn• Of the Marquie:of Dut-
ton= and Ava, fitter former Governor-
General et Canada, *Viceroy of ;India,
and British Ambasscdor to Paris. De-
ceased was unmarried, Lord, Toren.*
Temple is the second sou and now
herr to the title. He was; born in' 11868,
and int 1893 married (Miss Flora Davie,
of New York.
Col, Cutynghiem entered % the army in
1873, anal Was• created lieutenant -cola
,onel in 1897. 'He served; in the Afghan
war in /878-60, including Lord Roberts'
advance to Candiihar and the opera-
tions ,around' Cahul, when, he, received
the Victoria -Crose for distinguished
conduce in '04 'attack on Sherpere
Pees. Bei also took part in thel Boer
war of 1881. •
SCARCITY OP SOFT COAL.
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OF Famine (living Much concern so she
Instirearlit.
A despatth from Montreal says: -
Mei seareity of soft coal for locomo-
tive purpoaos is giving Much' concern
te the Grasid Trunk and Canadian
Patifics railways, in common with Other
systems on the continent. The Grand
Trunk management state that there
are not bye railways on the continent,
with a fertnighits supply of coat on
hand. The Grand Trunk Railway
Company have bean obliged to ship
from Montreal to Toronto coal rectum -
ed for the western division, which un-
der ordinary cireumstances would
come direct "to that centre from Penn.
aylvania. The reason for thie is that
they cannot get the cars necessary, to
haul the Mineral from the coal beide.
So far as anthracitei coal is concerned,
tbe supply is ample, but it was brought
here in the ninnies* menthe before the
effects et the ear famine were felt.
ttENEGADS MILTS/IMAM
The editor of Voortrekker,
entelorp paper, ahich
toriety of late b
on the British
troope
eurate,
WI 1 /311
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