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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1908-04-09, Page 2utra. LESSON IL -APRIL za, e9o8. The Raising of aazarus,-john ex: ale, PP/ 1 tla i a of God -"Sawa a revelation of tle.7.as power., as eliell gliselese lite allay." +A ,. V.. LazitrUS witted to MI OM 41.4;11, 41. Took away the stoxi4---Alarthq'a faith mast have viatica god atm gave way to Joule repeat. They hat accafl. pliehed all in their power when the SUMO WAS removed. jesue now kreetni Ale part, Lifted up lais ova •-•An outwera expressiou of the •elevatian of We maid and to show them wait stoed by frem whence Ile Oerived iiipower, Ile liftea up His (lee as looking iwyoua the grave and overlooking the diffietartee that arose thence-Cona.Com. 42. Thou halt sent um -Not to de. etroy men's lives, but to eeve them, noses, to ehow Mit God soot aim, 'Tiede the earth open axed swallow up men (Num, 10, 29i 30), tor the law was a jlipoisaiieu of terror: but -Christ proves Ira missioa by raising to life one tbet eels deadeelbid. 43.- Loud voice-lre did not whisper nor matter, as did. the magielans.-Hall. It wasthe type ef that vela) like the sound of many \Iret- on (Rey. 1, 15), et which all wh6 are in their graves shall come forth (John 0, 28; T. Thess, 4, W). -Abbott, "Ile that wept as a man now spoke as a Lazares-"Ife calla him, by menie as we eallethose by their mimes wawa we woul4 wake out of sleep. This intimates that the same individual person that died shall rise again, at the last day." 44. Bound Itand and foot -Probably oath limb was separately bound, as was. the Egyptiaa custom. • Loose aho--ete was a healthy, strong men owl no longer need- ed the banditoes .itua winding eheet. The remainder of the chapter tells how, the high priests and others in an. thorny plotted against hie life, COMMENTARY.- 1. Chtiet cometh to Bethany (vs. 1-311. Aloes had no home of hie own, but he often rested. at the homes o Ikis friends. The bone et Mary, Martha and Lawns was one of his homes. Only a few weeks before tho time of this lesson Christ vieitea this family at Bethany Pike 10:38-42). Soon. after Jesus had left them Lazarus eves taken siek (v. I). The Batten at once sent a message to Jesus (v. 3). They made no request, but the message itself was a prayer, "Lord, behold, be whom thou lovest is Melee" Jesus waited two days tater receiving the heave of the daugerous illness of Lazarus before starting to Bethany (v, 0), He Wes 40- eonapamed by his disciples, who felt they were going into great danger on account •of the hostile feeling of tbe Jews against their Master (vs. 8, 16). Jesus arrived at Bethany when Lazarus had been dead and buried four daye (v. 17), the befall, according to the Jewish custom taleivig place on the same clay on whicli'he died. Martha first heard that Jesus was cove aud, without notifying May, sae went to meet him just outside the vil- lage (vs. 20, 30), She greeted him with those words of sorrowful .despair - "Lord, if thou Midst been bore my broth. er had. not (lied" (via 21, 22). But even then there was a dawn of hope in her heart, from her experience of the power of Jesus. Jesus replied with the ewer. once that he was "the resurrection and the life," and prepared her for the great wara he was about to •do (vs. 23-27). When Martha's faith and hope were as sured, Jesus bade her go and bring her sister, with -the message: "The abater is come and calleth for thee" (v. 28). • Jesus seems to have avoided going to the house, because so mealy Jews were there. His work of comfort and instruc- tion could best be done with the sisters alone. "He did not come to join in fu- neral lamentation', but to take away the need of them" IL Christ's compassion M. 32-37). 32. fell down -Oriental wailing is said. by travellers to be indescribable. "Aftm the Luriai the women still go to the tomb in the early morning, where they pray, weep, sob, chant hymns, and beat their breast. This mourning continues thus violently for three days, and then. for four more /coatings and arailings are the prominent characteristics." if thou hadst been here -"These words express • the very essence of soul torture at Etta times. In our affliction eve continually echo the if of these sisters, saying to ourselves, if we had done this; or if we had done that, or if it had not been for our blunder, or that of our friends, ler that of our physician, our beloved would nob have died. But read verse 4 of this thaptee. Chance is the god of atheism, and is a comfortiese god in the time of our trouble." -Abbott. 33. groaned in the spirit -This is a strange terra and is better rendered by the margin the Revised Version - "was moved with indignation in the spirit." The Greek word. hero translat- ed "groaned" expresses indignation rath- er than grief. "Jesus was indignant at the hypocritical and sentimental lamen- tations of his enemies, the Jews, ming- ling with the heartfelt sorrow of his lov- ing friend Mary." -Plummer. "These self-righteous Jews, 'now weeping and groaning in professional sorrow with Mary, were men who would some be plotting to kill, not only Jesus, but the restored Lazarus" (compare chape12:10)• But Liddell and Scett state that here the word means "deeply moved;" this, however, would not be at variance with the other explanations.- was troubled - "Troubled himself." -R. V., margin. "Pro. bably the meaning is that he allowed his deep emotion to become evident to by. standers."-Iturlbut. 34. Where -laid him -A question ad- dressed to and answered by the sis- ters, Not that jesuse Aid not know, but His question was indicative of what he had determined to do. 35. Jesus wept -Jesus was e man, and as a mire Re wept. Ho did not feel it beneath His dig- nity to sympathize with the dist:ea:eel and weep with those who wept..This net on the part of Christ shows. His se in- pathy and love 1 or us. "The noode of the whole world rose up before. His eyes; all its mourners and all its graves were present to Him."-Trenth. tears suggest that weeping and working blend well. Tears were shed by our Sav- iour only on the eve of His mightiest works. It is mockery for us to weep over the "errhig ones" and then do tothing to save them." Cuyler. "With these feel- ings there mingled the certainty of his own bitter aeatla the picture of he un- believing Jews, a fallen race, bastening on to a -death which has no end, and nil that first moved Him to pity ma a mid come down to save him". PRACTICAL .APPLIOATIONS, "Jams wept" (v. 35.) 'Three times the tears of Jests are recorded, Jesus wept fle a substitute, pouring out this soul in e sacrificial weeping over a lost. world (Heb. 51 7); as a propltet, over the doomed. city (Luke 19; 41II as a friend nt the torab of a friend The Jews, -pee- ing- his tears for 'Alamos, said, "Boliold. bow he loved him!" (v. 36.) Sporgeon says: he, earth'Jesus was not asham- ed.. to find friends among mortals, On the Father's Ulnae lie is not ashamed Lo call us brethren (Heb. 2; IL) He is not aelaimed- to be written la the same re- gister as the. pear people. Jesus wept. lie was not ashamed to own the ethic - tin sin caused his holy soul, nor the gash the sight of death intedo in his ismet. He could not bear to see. • . the grave and its corruption. I never Inns from end to end of London without feeling a black elouti like a pall over tuy spirit. How my heart breaks for thee, 0 sinful city. Its slums, oins, poverty, drunkenneeevice go through a Iran's heart like sharp swords. Jesus wept, though about to work a wonderful mir- acle. Ile was not ashamed to ownbls manhood. while •lie proved lamsell the Resurrection and the life. He could have repressed. his tears, as many ,do habitually. But he eves never unnatta rat. Ire was free from pride, and were his heart where men could see it. He did not disdain the feebleness of that m- ai:mho had taken that he might redeem it to God." Jesus was truly Immo in his sympa- thies. He did not mostly walk about like a man, but he .was always in touch with sorrow, as ono ."acquainted with grief" Isa. 53; 3.) "Because there meets in Jesus the tenderness of ammo pity mud the fatness of divine power, he sat- isfies the deepest cravings of our hearts,. in sin sorrow, weakness, doubt or fear, we need sympathy But it ie hard. to find. What troubles us does not trou- ble those abut us. As our trial is pecu- liar, so the circle of those Who can syna pathize with it is ululate But what we cannot find in any human beiug we find ht Jesus." He is touched with the feel- ing of our infirmities (Heb, 4; 15.) But he does more; his heart as not only pita Eal, his hand is strong to save. Anti Wo will have power to help others when we have real sympathy with sorrow There was no bitterness in Ohrist'S grief. He never murmured against his Father's will, nor found fault with his dispensation. • The first -word. of bit prayee was "Father," and the fiat sen- tence a thanksgiving (v. 41,) If we can leek up through our tears and cry, "Fa- ther," if our first wor1 in bereavetteut is praise that God loves us and heats us, there iS no bitterneesin our grief, and. ours is a sanotified sorrow without shi: "Take ye away the -stone ae ega jesus wept and then commanded. He cried, "Lazarus, come forth" (v. 43.) 13e said, -"Loose him and let him go" (v. 44.) Jesus wept, bat he did more. Tears are not enough if there is something we can do to remove the cease of grief or as- suage it. Spurgeon says: "Those tears for -the sorrowing ones of Bethanywere tomes on a human grave." Both sisters said to Jesus, "Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died." (vs. 21, 32.) Over agaiust their "if" Jesus -laid another. "Said I not unto thee, flat, 'if' thou woulast believe, thou ebouldet Pet the glory of God?" (v. 40.) If we believe, we saall see. David wrotc, had fainted, unless I had believed to Poe the goodoesi tif God" (Psa. 27; 13.) 36. How He loved hint -A spontane- ous testimony from those Jews of the tenderness of the on of God. 37. Could The Israelites "believed to see" when in the day of darkness and trial, we step out "upon the seeming void, and find the rock beneath." Christ delays "to the intent" that we may believe (v. 15.) If the case be desperate, when relief comes we "see the glory of God.' "Ire that was dead canto forth" (v. 44.) Meathsaid to Jesus, "I know, that even aow, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee" (v. 22.) Jesus would not grant a miracle to a. !Ample impulse of amtural affection. Ile required faith in lofty exercise, and sought to revive this le the wounded hetet by the definite promise, "Thy bro. titer oheill else again." • A SOX OF GEN, MIDDLETON. TORONTO MARKETS, Varnters' Market. The offeringof grain Lu -day wore Mill. There was no barley, prices for which are nominal. NVIonit -wailer, 100 busliele of fell selling at 92 to 93e , Oats. steady 200 basliele selling at 03e per Dairy produce in fair supply with pile& firm as a rale. Butter eold at 28 to 33e pee lb., and eggs at JO to 200 per dozen. Poultry firm, with •eltielome *oiling at 14 to 10e per lb, tray in moderateeupply, with prices easier; 25 loads sold at- $18 ta all/ a too. Strew leauniuva at $17 a ten, Demo', . hogs are in limited supaiia, -with prices steady. Light 404 at $8 Q $8.25, :Lad heavy at $7,75, Wilma white, bushel ... $0 02 Dee red, bushel 92 Do., spring, bushel .. 0 90 Oiets, bushel .. • 0 03. Barley, bushel ... 00 Peas, bushel „„ . 0 90 Hay, timothy, ton 18 00 Straw, per ton . „ . le 00 Seeds-Buyers- Alsike, No, I, bushel . 11 00 Do„ No, • 2'bushel .. 0 50. Red clover, No. 1 , 12 50 Timothy, ,100 lbs. ... 7 24 Memel hogs „ 7 75 Eggs, new laid, dozen.. 0 10 Butter, dairy „ ... 0 28 Do. creamery ., . 0 32 011ickene, per lb. ... e 0 13 Dudes, dressed, lb, ... 0 la Turkeys, per lb. ,.. 0 18 Apples, per bbl. ,., 1 50 Cabbage, per dozen ... 0 40 Onions, per bag ... I 40 Potatoes, per bag ... .., I 00 Beef, hindquarters . 9 00 Do„ forequarters ... a 00 Do,, choice, carcase 8 60 Do., medium, carcase . a 50 Mutton, per owb, •9 00 Veal, prime, per cwt. .. 0 00 Lawb, per cwt. 13 50 not tbis man -"The miracle of the blind man was referred to bemuse it was of recent occurrence, and in the immediate neighborhood, while the two previous miracles of raising the dead (Luke 7, 11-17; 8, 41-50), were performed in dis- tant Galilee, about one year and a half before." Several leading commentators think that these Jews were unbelieving and now refer to the healing of the blind num in a deriding nutnner, suggesting that if he eould have done that, then he could have kept Lazarus alive, and real love .would have prompted Him to do it if He hail power. Wliedon, how- ever, thinks these Jews are expressing "no doubt of His past miracles, no mal- ice or cavil about liSs power. It stops ot simple wonder that this miraculously endowed being had allowed so loved a friend to die!" TIL Words of eomfort (vs, 38-40). 38. Again. groaning -11teause of the unbe. lief of the Jews. We never find him in as numb grief over His own sufferings as over the sine of men, Cometh to the grave -Lazarus W113, as beettme hie sta. Hon, not laid in a cemetery, but in his owo private tomb in it cave -probably In ginalet, the favorite place of inter- ment. Not only the rich, but ethers of antaller MAIMS) had tombs of their own, ptepared befote they were needed, and kept as pereonal property, The tombe were either of rock, hewn, or natural eaves, or else large walled vaults, with niches along the Aka In suth eaves or rock -limn tombs, the bodies were laid. having been anointed With many spices -with myttle, aloes, eta.-Edersheim. 80. Take ye away the state -Abet which could be ,doue by human hand he orders to be done. Ile would have the bystanders sea that Lazarus wee meta - ally dead. He stirtketh-Seenting to forget what Jesus had said to her When she met ITim, Martha now thinks only of the condition of her brother's bedy and objcets, The ides. of an immediate resurrection does not stem to have tee mitred to her, 40. Tf thou wouldeet be- lieve -So we Aft% that if theee had not po,seesea Itearte of faith, e willingneee to believe and obey Christ. this mitaele could not have taken pinee. $ 0 93 0 93 0 00 00 0 00 0 00 10 00 17 00 upou general businese. The huildiug trade here and all along the railroads is more notive and the demand for teeter- ittle Is brisk. Colectliene are generally still on the slow side. Vancouver anti. Yietoria---The chief point, about the past week's „business has been the improvement noted in col- lections. Quebee-The weather is not sufficient- ly settleti to eln.nge the treat) situation. Tile latter is quiet, and while travellers on the wee report the outlook favor. able oreers to liana are telly for imme- eiete wants, Ireanilton-aVade lute taken on a bet- ter tone*during the past week, but warm wether ts needed to start the sorting trade. Local industries show a better tone, particularly the building trade. Produee 18 coming forward well and prices hold steady. Lendon---Businese there continues to keep up a normal movement, although there is not the snap usual at this time of the year. Ottawa -There bas been 114418 change in the wholesale Etna retail trade here, o 00 10 00 13 00 8 00 8 25 0 20 0 33 -0 35 0 15 0 14 0 22 , 3 00 0 50 1 50 1 10 11 00 700 9 50 7 50 10 00 11 00 15 00 Toronto Sugar Market. St, Lawrence sugars are quoted as fol. lows Granulated, $4.90 in barrels, and No. 1 golden, 450 in barrels. These prices are for &livery; ear lots 5c less, BOWINS' STORY. DENIES • Vila im ROBBED MOTHER WELCH, Says the Murdered Woman Gave Him Iler Earnings -The Boy's Tale Die - proven in Cross -Examination -Hope- ' essly Contradicted Himself, Live Stock. Receipts of live stock at the city mar, ket since Tuesday, as reported by the railways, were 07 car loads, composed of 1,187 cattle, 806 hags, 120 sheep and 90 calves. A few good. cattle, with many common to medium, met a fairly active market, but not as brisk as it Was on Tuesdaea on aacount of their being no dealers from outside points. Exporters. -Not many export steers' were on sale, but prices for the few that werebought were about the same as on Tuesday. Export steers would be worth from $5 to $5.40; bulls, $4.00 to $4.50, with an odd one or two of extra. quality at $4.76. a Butchers. -Choice lots and loads of selected butchers' cattle, 1,100 lbs. each, sold at $5.15 to $5,30, and some 1,350 Ib. exporters were bought for butcher purposes at $5.40 to $5.00 per cwt.; loada of good $4.80 to $5.10; medium, $4.50 to •$4.75; common $4.20 to $4.40; --cows, good, $3.65 to 4.25; common cows, $3 to $3.50; canners, $2 tb $2.50. Feeders and Stockers. -H. ,S:. W. Mur - by report a geed demand for feeders, few of which are coming forward, all having flesh of any account being taken for butcher purposes. Messrs. Murby bought about 75 cattle, butchers at $4.75 to $4.90, and feeders, 1,100 to 1,200 lbs.. each, at $4.50 per cwt. Milkers and Springers, -Milkers and springers sold at $30 to $55 each, the bulk of the best selling at an average of $45 each. Veal Calves. -The market ''.or good to choice veal calves was strong at $6 to $7 per cwt* ; common to medium calves sold at $4 to $5.50 per cwt. Sheepe and Lambs. -Yearling lamas of • good to choice quality sold at $7.50 to $8 per cwt.; common, 45.50 to $6.50 per cwt.; export ewes, $5 to $5.25; rains, $4 to $4.50 per cwt.; spring lambs, $1 to Watch. Hogs.-Irog prices have again ad- vanced. Mr. Harris quotes selects at $6, and lights laid fats at $5.75 to $5.85 per cwt. The Cheese Markets. Canton, N. X. -To -day 760 tubs were offered and sold at 2834ee. No thecae was offered. Winnipeg Wheat Market. Following are the closing quotations on Winnipeg grain futures Wheat -April $1.05d bid, May $1.0714 bid, July $1.103S asked. Oats -April 410 bid, May 433 o. Canadian Produce Abroad, • Special London cables to Die Mont- real Trade Bulletin, ander date of April 2, are as follows: Flour -The market is quiet, lovers holding off,. Canadian spring patents quoted at 30s Od to 318 6d; seconds 28s to 29s. What --The market is unsettled, prices having varied from day to day, • but a more active dertutrol has been con- cluded, with floating' cargoes higher. Oats -The market is weak ana ad lower, owing to liberal ofteriogs of Ar- gentine, but the lower prices fail to in- crease the demand. Butter -The market is firm, with an improved demand at a decline of 28. Cheese -The market for Canadian cheese is firm under ligbt stocks. Can- adian, 03s to 04s for white and 618 for colored. Baeon-orhe market is firmer at an advehee of 4s. Canadian baeon, 47s to 53s. Mange sales, 489, • Hay -The market; is .quiet and ' un- clianged, no inquiry banig reported for Clanadian. Commander of III -Fated Destroyer Tiger Well Xnown in Ottawa. Ottawa, April 5. -Lieut. :Middleton, Who was drowned. on Thurs- day night off the Isle of Wight, when the torpedo-boat clesttoyer Tiger was eut in two by the ertuser 13eteetick, was well known in Ottawa. He was the youngest son of Sir Erederiek Middle - tion, Cornier e0muiander of the Canadian militia, and WaS Horned titter his wield, Mr, W. IT. Middleton, 1.112 Daly avenue. The late Lieut. Middleton left Ot. teem when a lad to enter the British navy, and bie rise eves --- 4 YOUNG sTuDort XILLED. Stanley E. Hoover is Run bowl% by Train. Locust Bin, April 5. -While 'walking along between the main traek mid the through siding of the C. P. R. track at Locust Hill, Stanley E. Hoover, of Green River, was struek by a weetbotted ex. pros awl throevri under a freight train, which was moving out, and metantly killed about 0.20 this morning. Deceased Was the Oldy eon of Mr. Alfred 'Hover, KILLED THE WRONG Mk New Policeman Killed In Mistake For a Rioter. Was Helping to Stop a Fight When Shot Down, Policeman Who Shot Him Did Not Know Him, New York, April 0, -Two polleenten, mistaking .90,011 other for riotera, hod a desperate fight at 50th street and Niath avenue late this afternoon, the smaller of the pair fatally wounding the other. jtplut Bresnahan; 26 years old, a six. footer, who has been on the force less gum two months, was loafing along his regular beat talking to sltopkeep. ere. when a ()Weer' told him a big Detroit, April 4. -Percy Bowhis took Lite stand 14 bis own bebalf on Satua day afternoon in the apparently hope- less effort te convince the jury that Ite was not guilty of the murder and rola bery of "Mother" Welch, On direct examinatien by his .attorney he told practically the same story that he told to Qbief of Detectives MeDonnell in his confession until he came to the point where he described what marred in "Mother" Welch's apartments on the evening' of the murder. • Bowins told the jury ter -day that he did not rob "Mother" Welch, but that she told him slie had, quarrelled %vita her lover, Dan Swat, and had driven him out. She said she was going to Elk Rap ids, Mich.; end wanted B.owine to go with -her as a sort of protector. Rowins said that he objected, because he want - ea to go to his home in Woodville, Ont. • She asked hint to get her some Cana- dian girls, and when lie said he had no money with whieh to be a "good fellow" the gave him her earrings, valued at $70, and told him to pewee them and keep the money to use in Gantida. He admitted taking the jew- elra to Buffalo, pawning it, and plug to Woodville, • When Prosecuting Attorney Grose took up the • cross-examination Percy Bowins was inclined to be flippant, all had gone so well with him on his direet examination. This flippancy eoon disappeared wider the questioning of Attorney Grose. The boy had said his 'confession lia,d been given just to please the police, and with the under. standing that the police would get him out of trouble. The boy really made a pitiable spectacle. Totally unnerved, and without fore- sight enough to enable bim to avoid the trope which were laid for him from time to time, when the court .adjourned at 6 e. m. he was wiping the perspiration • from his brow, and's() apparently at a • lbas to determine his position that even hie mother, hoping against hope that he might be able to impress the jury, beeke down and -sobbed es she clung to_ him, while the officers, prepared to take him beck to the jail. Bradstreet's Trade Review. Montreal --The volume of business moving has shown little iterease during Lite past week. The sewing retail move- ment is light and will continue so until waren weather becoines something of a. fix.tare. The wholesale trade is light a few sorting orders can be expected until therelfas beat a decided change in the temperatilre. The opening of navigationt will inerectee the volume of shipment." as some heavy goods ordered duriug the winter have been held over for sprier; freight, mates. Activity in railway building itt helping the metal Dade generally. Iron and eteel Niece are steady to firm. 'rororito-The business situation here contimies pretty well uttehartged. The Voltinte of actual business moteng is not- icenbly below that of a year ago. In many lines of trede there if; eatittatted to be a shrinkage Of about 20 per cot. Thc. weather eotitinuee to exercise an unfavorable influence upon eptiug trade ,and 111118 increase in volume ean be ex- pected until it beet:anal Wafter and more settled, Green Itiver, end aettuleht of the High Winnipeg-a-Tot:le rontititeli to show Selmol at Markham. The funeral took elges 01 improvement. all along the Hee. plitee et 1.30 to -any to Letetet VIII Cettie- The rush of immigrants. i$ tteusttetly tery., heavy and this Is having a good effeet :SAVES FATHER. miter on it whoa the explueloa mut - red. Two Itglitues were arrested ou snimition of complivity in the crime. Sportaro says two other •attenipte have been made to blow up the log. Ife declared. also Met he reeeived a letter hot week demanding 4,5,000 ,and saying that if he die not Accede te the demand he would be killed, ONE WOMAN And 30 Horses Bawd in New York Tenement Fire. ..^.1.•," New York, April 0.--1"ire 'in a four - storey tenement, lipase on Pearl street early this morning mishit the probable lose of life of QUO life and the injury of veveral occopents. The flames spread to a rear tenement, and from la:a-buildings firemen end po. 'icemen carried e number of persone. who were overcome by smoke. grs. Hannah Hamlin, 30 years old, jumped fight had started. Bresnahan, who wee in plain clothes, ran to the core nor, He found five or six toughs in a raw, Ile jumped in, among them, striaing right and left with his fists. Sergeant James Nierney, a bloyele p, ?iceman for the Bronx, was riding doe ntown in civilian garb, but a man who rocognized hie motoreyele as police property told him that a riot \Arai under way. It ierney jumped otr. his wheel and broke through the ring of spectators. Supposing that Bresnahan was a bel- ligerent, Nierney sailed into him, ' Tan •a cop," gasped the winded 13.:eenahan. 'how your shield," challenged Nu. limy. But Brosaahan was too busy. He turned on Nierney and struck at him with a blackjack. Nierney pulled leis heavy service revolver and fired one shot. Beeenahan gave a groan, clutched his stomata, with both hands, and topaled over an his faco, where he In moaning until an ambulance came. The policeman on the beat heard the shot and ran up. Niamey still he7d his smoking pistol. Vanderpool jerked the pistol out of the sergeant's hand and put his ander arrest. Then ho raised tbe wounded man's head net: looked into his pain twisted face Why, it's Bresnahan?" Ile cried. "He's from my etation. Who are you?" he asked, turning to Nierney. ''I'm an offieer, too," said Nierney, overcome by remorse. "My God, this Is e terrible thing. I 'did not know way he was." • a t ambulance rushed Bresrahan to Roosevelt Hospital. There the sur- geons said that despite his youth and splendid physique death for him wile only a niatter of hours. Nierney wa. locked up. Aged Man In Life and Death Strug- gle With Negro. Montgomery, Ala., April 6.- With deliberate aim, Mrs, Tessic Jones early this morning shot and killed Nelson Groom, a negro who was in a life and death struggle with her father. At 3 o'clack this morning Mrs. Jones heard a noise outside the window of her room. She awoke her sister, who called their father, while Mrs. Jenes secured an old revolver. - As the old man opened the blinds the negro grabbed him and tried to pull him from the window. He had the white man well outside when the woman ran tothe window, rested her arm and pulled the trigger. Twee the weapon snapped, but the third time it expkeled, the ball burying Ruff in the Skull of the negro. It is evideut thet the negro knew that only the young women and the old manavere in the houee, and ho no doubt figured to get the old man out, knock him on the head. and then have his own way ,with the Women. FELL OFF HIGH BRIDGE. Walter D. White Instantly Xilled at • St. Thomas. St. 'Thomas, April 5. -Welter Dawson White, aged 26, formerly a fireman on the. Michigan Central' Railway, was in- stantly killed tit 6.30 oh Saturday after- noon by falling front the Wabash bridge over Kettle Creek here. White had. been to the Wabash yards looking for work, and in order to Make a short eat to Ids boardlog house had occasion to cross the bridge: Before ho could do so a train came along, auci he stepped to one side, and Watt fell or was knocked off the strac- tura falling about fifty feet and break- ing his neek. White was married, his wife behig in Broughton, England, from which place' he came last year. His wife Was to have joined him here next month. *see' BOMB IX THE HARE1VI, Turkiali Sultan Mid His Entourage Pardo Stricken. Paris, April 6.-eA despateh from nelantinople to The Matin says that a bomb was fottnti irt the harem quar- tets of the palitee on Satttrda.y. The Sultan and his eritoutage be- •eatne panic-strieken. Many of the women and 'eunuehs haVe disteppeated. e- e•„a- Died From Burns. •Teron.to, April 6. -The fire itt the Nati,onal Matzo taid Company on Thursday morning claimed a vie. Um in the person Of lephtitun Gelman, tho watchman who vas trapped he tite botnitig bnilditig. Ile was ter. vilify• burnt about the right arm and band and the feed. At St. Michael's 11i4 tittle WAS alWItya tonsidered tea- ettt ahd he suffered terribly from his woende. On Saturday the pain emoted n little, bttt towards night he had a relapse and died at 10 o'clock. a I • TO BLOW UP CHURCH Organist Discovers Flames and Saves Edifice From Dcstruction: from the fourth storey, fracturing her ankle and receiving other lujuriefi, 'illeictilli4e9leeelltitenr1,1111agtsnislaaageadad001,awshaoliPsetPdi to have perished, la the collet if a stable, which Iles between tbe two houses, 30 horses were bunted to death. The damage is estimated at $5,000, ex- clusive of the value of the horses de. strayed. New York, April 0. -The dead woman was Julia. Isola, 22 years old, who lived witli her father, brother and two sisters on the fourth floor of the burned WHO - mg. She jumped, from a window after tier night clothiug had taken fire from the flames whicli swirled around the window where she and am father, broth- er and sisters were waiting for aid. Al- most before her body struta the atone paved street the firemen had raised an extension ladder to the window, and the other Members of the family were taken down in safety. While the rescue of the Insoles was ,n progress, alielutel'Conway, a young fireman only recently appointed, was carrying his mother down from her flat on the top floor to the street. In sea. • eral mote trips the young fireman brought Ids sisters to safety, and then the father and brothers followed. The fire started in the lower hallway of the building, and sweat upward, cut- • ting off exit by the stairways. From the halls the tinexies spread quickly to ehe rear of the house where the fire eseapes are located, and many occeipauts were forced to jump from second and third storey windows before Redden amid be erected. .o• A MEAN SWINDLE. Ordered Flowers for Dead Whoa There Was No Dead. Windeor, Ooto April 0.-(Speciah)e-C. R. Taeon, local florist., was the victim of a (Over ewituller„ who not only fleee- hint for five dollars, hut humiliated hint by having a consignment of flowers delivered to a house where the inumtee were all enjoying robust health, ;the lachrymose stranger seabed out an or. der te cost aboet $13, flowers to be worked into the design, "Slater." In payment he- tendered a cheque for $1840. Mr. 'lama never dreamed of bee lug swindled by a heartbroken brother, end bawled over *a in °amigo, later de- • liveriag the order to a surprised. The weeping swindler crossed to Detroit, dried Ids eyes, awl victimized nuother • florist on the time game, later being arrested. He gave the name of George MacKay, and said he was a earpenter front Denver. Bath, Me., April 0. -Miss Mary Morse, organist of the Univers:dist Church in this city, foiled a desperate attempt to alow up the edifice with gas an hour be- fore the services began yesterday after- noon, When the organist arrived at the churclt about an hour before the time for services she noticed that a small lamp was missing from the organ and also detected an odor of gas. Looking beneath the platform on which the organ rested, Mies Morse saw flames, and callea the janitor, who succeeded in ex- tinguishing the fire ,,with a few buckets of water. An investigation showed that a gas pipe leading beneath the organ had been disconnected and a lighted Itunp .placed beneath to touch off the fluid as soon as it filled. the compartment. A basket of shavings was also there. Fortunately the space was open and dia not permit enough of the gas to collect to cause an explosion. The police have been unable to find any clew to the perpetrator. " WILD CAT CAUGHT. ANIMAL FOUND IN A TRAP IN MULMUR TOWNSHIP. It Was Almost Uninjured, and Was Pur- chased by lV1r. E. M. Burke, of To- ronto -Express Messenger Travelled With Revolver. Orangeville, April 0, -An enormous wildcat, captured at Riverview, Mul- e= township, Dufferin county, a few days ago, has been purchased by ti Toronto me, Mr. 8. M. Burke. The eat, which is it beitutifta sped - men and very feroeloas, was caught: in a small trap by the clews of its front feet, beim; praetically uninjured, and was brought here last night by the Dominiou Express Company. Its tem- porary box looked somewhat btsecure 18 tbe express messenger, who prompt- ly took out his revolver ana intimated that if the animal escaped lie would kill it at once. The conditicas were ae- eepted. However, nothing happened, and this morning a strongly lined and barred cage was constructed here. It took over an hour to make the transfer safely, and ntunerous thrills were experieneed by the spectators during the operation. The cat will be shipped to Toronto by Mr. Burke, who is highly pleased over Itis fink as it is a rare thing to capture one of these ereatures alive. The cat is to -day on exhibition in the window of a • lociel hardware store. BOMB EXPLOSION. Three Men Hurt by it in a Tenement House. • New York, April 0. -By the explosion of it bomb in a ludlway of a five -storey tenement house la Bast 12th street, three men -were injured, though not fat- ally, fifteen Italian families were thrown into a panie, and the walls, telliegs and flooring of the house were wrecked. One of the inaired met, 1?anatunuelo Sliettata, is the owner of the hon', 1Te wns notified that a limulle of emokine rags had been 411nel:toed in the helltvey. Mid vas about to throw a bitekel of KILLS YOUNG GIRL. Sends Bullet Through Her Head as He Bids Good-bye. SUICIDE IN PUBLIC. •••••• $T, PETERSBURG STTJDENT SHOT IIIMSEIX IN KIX AT OPERA. Officer Xilled Himself in Fashionable Resteurant-Another Tragic Death in Sleeting Rink -Fifteen Suicides in a Single Day, Itensselear, Ind., April 6. -Daniel Day, a cripple and mentally weak, went to the home of Mrs. Maly Phillips last night and purchased a bottle of whiskey, for which he paid the woinan one dollar: Day then sat in the room till midnight talking to Deasy Phillips, the 17 -year- old (laughter, and occasionally drinking from the bottle. As he arose to leave the house he drew it revolver and shot the girl through the heart. A sister, who was, in an adjoining room, said that there was no sign of a quarrel, and that Day fired the fatal shot just as the girl bade him good- night. Day was found. early this morning and arrested. • • le THIRTEEN WIRELESS STATIONS Owned by Canada on Gulf and Seaboard • -zoom Messages Sent. Ottawa., April 6. -According to a re- turn just issued by the 'Government the• Dominiott owns thirteen Marconi sta- tions in the gulf and on the Atlantic sea- board. Three of these are what aro known as low. power stations, and cost $5,000 melt; the others are known as high power stations,..and cost $10,000 each. The Marconi Company receivos $2,500 and $3,500 per annum respective- ly for, operating them,- retaining all the tolls. CO• .s WINNIPEG DOCTOR ARRESTED, Tho %to Advance THEO, HAW., Proprlotor Dr, Agnew rhIll00;0“• Ownetonl Anoiuohour 4:000.--17petoivoM SAtIgkine+14 11014 40.4 one ��MWO" P. KENNEDY, 14.0.1 M.O.P•SA 41ereastest ee th. Orlflall WW1 iLsooet4tlei.1 411$0 ICIPAKAlfr SPECO1013411. IWO/• 0.100119* add di Ptarowo of Ti* oaeo Nod WAS lonato-1, to IX, 344 if de 3, DR. ROBY. C. REDMOND afil. IL a IL (r91.11 Ito O. IP, fr04.2.) PKTIO401111t4 AND iitinOtOM ) St... Peiersburg, April 6. -As many as fifteen suicides in a single day have lately been reported in St. Petersburg. Many of. these oceur in publie under the most drametie circumstances. A. few days ago a student shot aim - self in a box at the Imperial Opera dews ing one of the concluding scenes of "The Queen of Spades,' He was the sole occupant of the box, and during the per, formance was seen to smell repeatedly at a beautiful bouquet of flowers which he lied with him. In this bouquet was concealed a revolver, and at the last he liftea the flowers to his face and pulled the hidden trigger; dropping back dead in the box amid. a scene of ,confusion and terror. A day or two later Lieut. -Col. Kowa levsky shot himself in one of the rooms of a fashionable restaurant. At a skat- • ing rink, where the skaters included large number of children, ono of the perforreersin the orchestra drew a. re- volver diking -an interval and took his life in full view of everybody. I • In jail on Charge of Performing a Criminal Operation. Winnipeg, April 5. -Dr, F. S. Chap- man, a welt known praetitioner, was as - rested on the charge of perfuming a criminal operation. Ire was well known in the eity, and his arrest has caused a sensation. He has been in the oily about five years, coming here hone Kenora. Bail has been fixed at $15,000 and he is still behinc1 the bars. The names of the complainants have notbeen made known and, it is alleged, they are high sotiety people. *•* THE BISHOP APOLOGIZED. Sent Letter to Judge Promising to Obey in Future. Montreal, .April 5. -The Bishop of Chi- coutimi, who some time ago refused to. obey the looal Judge of that town, has changed his mind, On Saturday he sent te letter to the judge apologizing for his conduct, and promising obedience itt fu - Lure. The trouble arose over the Bishop claiming he belonged to a highar court than any civil one, and refusing to obey orders issuitig front the civil courts. The matter is now settled by the Bishop apologizing. • so ARRESTED AT HALIFAX. PEORIA FIRE. Big Blaze at a Distillery -$1,000, 000 Damage. • Peoria, Di., April 0. -Fire which stinted al the mill of Corning & Co.'s dietillery early this morniag was still raging at 9.30 o'clock this morning and indications were that the entire pieta, including two immense bonded warehouses, elevator, cattle yards and storehouses, would be entirely wiped out. The damage so far le placed at between $750,000 and $1,000,000. Several explosions oceerred, animater. ing the lives of the firemen. Soon after the fire started 50,000 gallons of spirits iu the still plant were consumed, the re- sult of an explosion in the warehouse. Shortly after the first explosion 3,000 bead of cattle stampeded, and ran at large in the railroad yards. CANADA HAS SHOWN DIGNITY. R. VANSTONE 111311711,3111119 1101•100014 NM* do Woe et lowed rase Offlorr-, MAW% al/301C, 41019311.Add, DICEINSON & HOLMES fikftRISTERS, SOLICITORS, EITC, Times Commends the Settlement of Her Problems. London, April 6. -The Times, dealing editorially with another article by Dr. Shadwell on "Iudustrial Canada,' says that though Canada has had to face many problems, Canadians have shown a dignity and sense of responsibility in their deliberations and Occasions width is in keeping with their conunercial sta. blity and worthy of the envy of nutch older nations. Dealing with the emigration ques- tion. The Times hopesthat too eigid • rules 'will not be laid down, especially regarding reformatory • children, and adds that, once started, the idea that immigrants are not needed will be dif- ficult to dispel. • Mae Front Poland Charged.. With Ern - bet -element. Halifax, .April 5.-Karlo Palmeri Kalke, aged. 33, of Abo, rhiiand, wee arrested here. to -day on the arrival of the steamer Virginian froln Liverpool, by Deptity Chief of Police Monahan and Dettetive Bayers on the eequest of the ltnesiau Government. Ile is charged with embezzlement, and will be extradit- ed. He wns botioa to Toronto. The ex- tent of the elltheralentent is not known here, • • TO. Save the Life of Uwe, Tormito, April 0.-A eommutation of . the death setttence passed upon aolm la Teavse to life imprisonment is being Bought by Mr. T. C. Itobinette, le. C., who made applieetion on Saturaay to the alinister of Justice, ttftrkomanying the appliattion with a copy of the eel - &nee. Tha afinietet will oleo ask a report from Mier Juotice 'Meredith and an opinion from Crown Conned Black. stock. The whole history of the ton. aterneN1 man lute been obtainee front ThIgland by Dia, Bruce Smith, C. K. .Ularke and Oda Cerener ikrthtir ,Tneee johnson. - EDDIE GUERRIN ARRESTED. Oilkoo4brar 131044 ITIngfteaL a Li 3$91413erie Dudlor fidolosaa. Notorious Chicago Crook Again in Trou. ble hi London. ,London, April 0. -Eddie Gluerin, the notorious Americao crook, of Chicago, who was at one time sent to Devil's Hand for a bank robbery in France, has again fallen foul of the pollee. He was arrested on suspicion of being eon - fleeted with a recent bank robbery in the provinces. After examination he was remanded. "A man named Smith and "Chicago May" Churchill atheznptea to murder Guerrin in this city last June. They were errested and tried on the charge. Smith 'was sentenced to penal servitude for life and the woman was given fifteen years. Stolen Bust Recovered. Rome, April 5. -After a diligent search the pollee have succeeded in fiqding the bronzo bust of Popo Cle- m -Alt VIII., whieli was stolen from th Vhs. Aldobrandinin, March 20th, Ttio thieves gained aecess to the villa b t breaking a window. The bust, which weighs fully 600 pounds, was found Ly the police buried about half a mile from the villa. It was evi. daotiy in concealment until an oppor- tunity shotild bo afforded to ship it r broad. • J. A. MORTON BARRISTER AND SOLICITOR MOM' TO LOAN OCII•o411•41344 =oak, Wfuellaza. Robbed Emperors' Tontbe, Ed. Petersburg, April 5. -Robbers to. de,' entered the cathedral of the Pe. tropavlovsk fortress, which, contains the tombs of the Russian Emperors, ano stole the enormous key of the Gneorgniosk fortress in Poland, which wee placed as a trophy on the tomb of Coestentine, the son of Paul the First. i a, • • China Grants a toan. ndon, Monday, April 0. -The Shrngliai correspondent of the Morn - Mg Post says that in consideration of the United States returning the American ehare of the Beater indem- nity some Ameritatie have been grat.ted the eoneession, of it loan of 20 000 tools in Manehuria. - • 1'6' Believes Ire Was Murdered, Detroit, April 8. -Tho family of Sam - net Weir, tho Detreit num whose body wee found in Pelee Creek, near Varleon- ver, and wliose death was remopetel Itt he due to Aikido, believe that lie was Wellington Mutual Flre his. Co. Oldatab1hrba4 1349.) LON4 orrr. 41411eloan on ell olasseo of tamable pro. the Uah or prentrue note orator:4 ocamm, CHAS DAYMIOlf, Booster% JOHN CRWOHT.Ei, Winallean, ant. Ave* Write for our interesting books "Invent! /enUon orkinprovement and viewillteltybu itt a rough sketch prItiodel, of your hi- e Help" and "How you ere swindled:1 WEI nor opinion ss to whether kis probably pljentable. Rejected applications have °Hen peen Mtitteasfully prosecuted by us, We conduct fully equipped offices in Montreal MA ashfngton f this qualf4es 1i6 mare:hate &pato% work and quicklysecute oaten:, broad al the invention. Highest rderesiCes •Wed: Procured through Marion fit Ma - 'fa /pada! Imo** without chergo,in Nrspapers diattibuted tlitbughout sjUi+.1°Sitent business of Manufac- ASPIWufern. MARION & Rased Experts avid $ottcIors. New York 1.,1.1.zr.,..,:ftroel A soda BIdew Inosttrnlyc MONEY EASY FOR THEM. Mr: C. M. Hays on Financial Conditions in England. Montreal, April Charles. M. Hat s, Vice-Preeident and general inanitger of the Caind Truuk Rail- way, returned front England to -day. In an interview With your cerret-- poi4.de11t he told about his visit to England. "Everything Canadian," declared. gr. Hays, `is at a premium in Eng - hold There are so many. good _Can - eaten iavestmeuts that people hard- ly know which to take first. jost be- . Rise I left, New South Wales put an issue on the market for $3,000,009, bat it fell flat, while every Canadian issue was taken up at once." "How about G. T. p. issues?" Mr. Heys was asked. We got our prive," he answer -I. "Vou see we roll bonds at a eeriitt figure, end the broker or banker a: - Heim them to the public. What he mates depends on market conditione at the time, but wo sold both Mattes nt the, prices we wanted. And," he add- ed, smiling, "we have enough money new for the next two years." ' What about immigration," was the next, query. "We will have more than lint year, bat of a different kind. More laborers will come, who will sena work on the G. T. P. and other cone truction weak," "Does the financial situation show ant, improvement?" "Oh, yes, there is it. decided im- provement for the better. Money ;.4 easy over there, and the people are confident," itt conclusion Mr. Hays said: ' I found that Canada ti becoming better and more favorably known, largely thrtngh the visits of the Britieh news- papermen. The whole country le in- terto ted in things Canadian, and if we lune a good crop this year things will boom in Canada," GRAVES OF VICTIMS DECORATED. --- Fifty Thousand Workmen he Procession in. Rome. Rome, April 6.- -A provession of 50,- 00 of the workmen of Fume made its way through the main thoroughfares of the capital to -day to the cemetery wbere are the gariese of the men killed in the rioting of last Thursday. The progrees of the men NVIIS witneesed by thousands of people from balconiee, witidowe rind ratife tilting the line if ton, eh, upon nrrivime nt the cem- etery wreathe WM deposited on the graves of the victims. Piety speenes were deliverchl in the cemetery, but there was no out. break or (Reader of any kind. The .authorities had taken precautions to hatit troops present in large numbers. TOLSTOI DEOLINUS. -- Does Not Want Any Puss Made Over His Eightieth Dirthdzty. if. Petersburg. April 5. --,Count Tot. stfyl has written to the committee that WM making arraneenients for the eel. obt ion of • it i.t Rifle birtl nifty express - Ina ileOp unfo'eeiztlinit of the bettor was ProPosod to eonfer on hint, but finally declining it.