The New Era, 1883-01-12, Page 8January12, 1883.
,HORROR OF HORROR.O.
A Quebec, 'Farmer, His 'Wife, Bon
and Dante
later
BRVIALLT PlUBDEIED II THE WEED
Platenting Details ot the Bloody. Deed-
' Escape oethe murderer.
A Stonefield (QUO.) despatch, dated
bad Tuesday saps : At Little Rideau,
near East Hawkebury, this morning, be-
tween the hours of 7 and 8 o'olook, Mr. and
Mrs. R. W4 Cooke, also the eldest daughter
and fourth son, were brutally murdered by
• an employee named Fred. Mann. Mr.
Cooke was murdered with an axe in the
barnyard. His body was found covered
- with draw. Mrs. Cooke and the daughter
• were !strangled in the woodshed. The
fourth son, George, was killed in bed with
an axe, and William's thigh was broken and
other injuries sustained. Be may recover.
Miss Fannie Cooke, coining to the brother's
atisietance, received a severe wound in the
-breast. She will recover. The rnurderer is
still at large.
leather details of the Little Rideau
• tragedy go to show that the murderer first
attacked Emma Cooke in the upstairs
• store room adjoining the house, strangling
• her with a lope. Mrs. Cooke, evidently
baying come to her daughter's assistance,
was next strangled in the 'Same way. • He
next attaoked Mr. Cooke, who had
• gone to the barnyard, where he killed him
with an axe, literally chopping his head to
pieces. Then fleeing to the house he pro -
'seeded upstairs ,to .the room occupied by
George, who was asleep, etrikiug him1 and
inflicting two fearful wounds in thetemple
with an axe, from which he shortly after-
ward died. Then, rushing into Willie's
• room,he struck him upon the thigh,
• inflictinga dangerous wound. Willie,
• although disabled, grappled with him,
and the noise alarming his sisters,
• 119,ggie and Fannie, brought them
to his 2198iBtatiOe. In the struggle which
• ensued Maggie secured the axe. The mur-
derer then secured 9; lamp and Berea
Bennie with it, wounding her severely on,
--'the-head.--He -then --fied-down-the___back_
ntairs. The twogirls,.going by the front
stairs, met Jahn in the dining -room armed
, with a poker, when he struck at them with
It. They defended themselves and closed
the door on him. Maggie ren to the front
door, where elle hailed a passer by, •who
sammoned assistance, upon hearing which
• the murderer fled and was seen • to
oross the river going .in the direa-
tion of the St. Phirfp dation Of the
Canadian Pacific Railway. Nothing further
-bate up-tothisrbeeneheterd....ofeslum.- The
house presente' a most_ ghadly spectacle,
the bodies of the four victims, Mr. Ruggles
W. Cooke, Mrs. Cooke, Minna and George,
being laid out in it. The flooes, walls and
deers are spattered with blood. Willie's
wounds'are so serious as to afford but
• slight hopes of his recovery.
• The murderer Frederick Mann, a -young
Eiilidhthan
• ItTafilrefit-flom London, has
been but three months in their employ.
Be• is about five feet six inches high, rather
slight, with fair complexion. He left with-
-- out a coat, -wearing plain gray pants and
• leather moccasins. Mr. Cooke, the mur-
dered man, was a very respectable farmer,
residing near Little Rideau: Great Sym-
pathy i feltfor the family.
KILLED WITH AN -AXE.
illiffitherTerriblerragedy at Rat Portage.
•
A Rat Portage despatch, dated yester-
day (Tuesday), says: Pat Maloney was
murdered here this nacirningat Melreown's
boarding-house bya man named . Drewers.
• Maloney asked Drewers last night tngive
hini a drink of_Water and the latter refused.
A war of words took place, resulting in
Drewers hitting Maloney with a oup • over
• the head. •s The men separated. • At 7
• _ 'o'clock thismorning they met andagain
. had Words about their rove. Finding lt
'• impassible :to settle the .matterby words,
•. one proposed that' they go outside and end
the quarrel by a fist encounter. The
proposition was agreed to. Maloney
took off his coat and started out ,of
_the thee cif the boarding house. Drewers
-• had gone aretiiidif-the back' VA -ilia mit-
. Maloney at the corner. Drewers had an
axe inbis bend when they met, an never
said a word, but hit him straight on the
head, the axe entering to the depth of
about two inches and a half. The wound
• was six inches long, and portions of the
• brain came out with the axe. It is reported
that Maloney ie dead. Drawers attempted
a similar act about two weeks ago on one
Matheson. The prisoner was taken before
Justice McCarthy andstemanded 'till to-
morrow. Maloney belongs to Ottawa; and
his friends live there. He is 21 years old.
• Drawers is a German, 37 Years of age. This
• makes the fourth murdericommitted here
• in 'a short Utile. The Bosscoby murder is
Btill a subject of conversation, and the
• . alleged guilty party is awaiting trial. In
that case . the murdered man was • also
• ., killed with an axe. The tragedy in which
7 Martin Sherlock lost his life, having been
• beaten to death with a hammer,.is Still
fresh in the memory.• 'Previous to that
• mime was the .9murder, of 'Wm. Adams,
whose murderer Wm. Horne, committed
• suicide in his cell after having been found.
Illicitwhiskey is at the bottom of
• all these crimes.
•
Poist-Offices in the Northwest:
An Ottawa deepateh says: r. Tohn
Deese, Post -Office Inspector, has returned
from hie tour of inspection in Maniteba
and the,Northwest, and reports the depart-
ment there in a very satisfactory state.
There are at present 207 pest -offices in
Manitoba and the Northwest, forty-five
having been established in the year 1882,
and there are applications for fifty more.
Ford Edmonton is the post -office farthest
away from • railway conarcamication, it
being 584 miles from the nearest railway
station. The made are sent in and out
once in three week% and no post -office has
mails lees frequently, while most have
meals from once to six times per week.
The total business of the'Winnipeg Post.
Office ranks third in the Dominion, that of
Montreal and Toronto alone being more
extensive. •The money , order business
transacted' there is the largest in the
• Dominion, and as a whole the business of
i ,
the office s said to be extraerdinary. In
proportion to the population, More cortege'
• pondence is done in Manitoba than in any
other part of Canada. The settlers are
said to be a very reepeotable class of people,
and allthings ie the Province iia prosper-
ous Condition.
• What kind of paper resemblee a sneeze'?
--Tissue.
At Leicester (Eng.), three weeke ago, the
auction of goods seized for non-payment of
ilnes for neglect of vaccination, occasioned
ahnost a riot, and forty Pelitee could Scarcely
keep order. _
ALARMING LEA_RT.morik.._
Watch Night -service' Motorised hr the
itartte sietakeng.
A Halifax (N.S,) telegram this (Monday)
=ruing eteys : Between half -past 11 and
12 oadockeviehile watobnigbe services were
proceeding in a number °Laity churches, a
slightsbook of earthquake waafelt in the
southern part of the oity. It lasted between
a third and half a-manute, and shook the
•dwellings and other buildings in a manner
to greatly scare the ocaupants, butwas not
sufficientlysevere to throw any to the
ground or injure any valnable contents.
Smallornaments standing were thrown over
and. some broken, but no • great
dataage • occurred.. The @MA wa&.
felt in St. Luke's Cathedral, *here
a large number had assembled to
epend.the last hour in prayer, and many
men and women started te hurry from
the edifice. Before, however, they could
carry out their impulse the rumbling
ceased, and their fears subsided., In other
places of worship unusuallylarge congre-
gations had gathered, the Methodist
•Church containing' a great crowd; and had
the earthquake been felt at all severely
.in these the result would undoubtedly,
have been most deplorable. The shook
and roar would have started the immense,
number in a rush towards the places of
exit, and in the- crush following many
would have been fatally or severely in-
jured. Fortunately there was no indica-
tion of shook itethe north end, and ouch a
disaster was prevented. •
BEWARE OF UEBSE BURNER.
A London Fandly's Narrow Escape trona
Death.
• A London despatch says : On Friday
•night Mrs. White, who lives on Gray street,
closed the doers and dampers" of -the coal
stove before retiring for the_night. "(Infer-
aunately eibeforgot to open the gas escape
and this neglect, together with One of the
doors being itnperfeot, allowed the gas to
escape neto the room. The doors and
windows of the room and theadjoiningbed.
room were tightly olosed,with the exception
of the bed -room doors, which opened into
the sitting -room. The consequence was that
the fumes of gas filled the two apartments
to such an extent that towards morning
• the childrenbecame_eaphyxiated, and two
of thane were rendered insensible. MailT
White herself awoke in great torture, and
found -herself -choking -et -a-sdreadfulexatese
BO much so that she had great difficulty in
rolling out of • bed. So 80011 as she
reached the floor she inhaled a cur-
rent of air which was not so much
impregnated with gas. While in this posi-
tion, with her mouth close to the floor, she
• heard her children groaning and choking
all around her. This gave her freeh
courage, and by a desperate effort she
hurled herself against oneeof the windows,
which she broke open and in an instant
she-began-to-inhalejhe pure air. • The
• heroio woman bad now sufficient strength
left to proceed to the door, which she
finally opened. Putting on what rai-
ment she could well lay hands one she
alarmed Chief Logan and others of the
neighbors, media a few minutes all the in-
• mates of the house were exposed to the
-fresh_air._Dr. Hutchison now arrived and
• applied restoratives, and in a few radiates
two of the family, a boy and a girl, were
pronounced out of danger. A third mem-
ber of the bandy is very sick, and the
fourth, 'a -girl of about 15 -years of age, is
said to be dangerously ill. •
A FIGIIT FOR A WIFE.
Two Bruisers Decide Their Rivalry in
• A Pittsburg, Pa., despatch says : A
German and Swede -of this city, named
Peisenhausen and Gilson, are rivals for the
affections of a South -Side maiden. In
order to determine who had the bestright
to her hand they decided to fight it out
under Queensberry rules. A week or so
ago they went on the banks, of the Ohio
River a few miles outside the 'city, and
pounded each other vigoroody. The
battle was decided a draw. To -day was
liet.for the decisive struggle. Accompanied
by a referee and a. few picked friends the`
rival lovers • left last sleight for Mercer
county, and went to the Pennsylvania
and Ohio State line to settle the affair. A
• brutal battle ensued, in which Gilson was
almost killed; •=
A Rondout (N. Y.) despatch says: The,
city is excieeel. .neer a distressing skating
• accident whieti occurred on Rondout creek
yesterday 'afternoon. Several hundred
-Were- akating-on icewhen-Anaie
• Staples, daughter of A. S. Staples, a
•_prominent citizen,broke through. Nine
young men atteenpting to rescue her broke'
in, _ and_narrowlyeescepedeevithetb_eiritytes:
-A youngan nruned-Gillietteempportlid-h-et-
• twenty minutes. All efforts to retioue her
were unseocessful till ropes :and boards
were procured, and one after, another
hauled out. Gillette finally fastened a rope
around,Miss Staplee,..eand she was pulled
out by the crowd unconsoidus. • Gillette's
bravery is highly commended. A majority
pf the _physicians of the place were last
night attending the sufferers, all of whom
will likely recover. .
• Mon Stabbed by His Father.
A Metcalfe despatch says: On Saturday
evening about 8 o'clock, John Laney, a
• laborer of thievillage, stabbed his son in
the "abdomen, letting the bowels out. It
appears that Raney was the • worse pf
liquor, and was breaking the crockery in hie
house, when his son, a young man about 18'
years of .age, entered and attempted to
stop him, when be stabbed him. The
wound was ` dressed by Dra. Fraeer and
Wallace. They pronounce it very serious.
The father was arrested and examined
before Messrs. A., Morgan, F. McMillan
and John Kennedy, Justices of the Peacei;
who committed him for trial at the next
assizes. He was taken to jail this morning
by County Constable Mackenzie.
A Triple Murderer.
A Mount Vernon (04 telegram says:
The wife of J. Stillwell, employed on the
Burlington ft Quincy Railtoad, confessed_
to three murdereon her deathbed. Her
first victim was Benjamin Swigert, her
first husband, whom atm killed in Mary-
ville in 1877, with the aid of her mother
and brother; the second was a stranger,
whom the pante parties killed far hits money
while etopping at their boarding house,
and the third was her daughter, aged 14,
eteshoneeille_ strangled ne the presence of her
mother at Reno, Neb., in 1889. • She -also -
confessed attempting ,to kill her present
husband three tinaes to obtain his life inse-
ranee. The woman is dying of coneump-
tione
A sound business -the operatic.
• The champion belt -the equator.
Capt. Williamseof NewYork, has verified
the statement that Oscar Wilde was taken
in by bunco steerera to the extent of $1,000.
Wilde, however,realized' that he WM
swindled in time to estop ,paytnent on his
cheque. )
asse alnowsoonows
THE DEAD STATESMAN.
' The
Immediate Cause 'of.-Gitifi4
' betta's• Death.
STATE EtiliEBAli TO Bei CiTYEN" HIM..
Penis, Jan. -- The autopsy shows that
the death of Gambetta, was the • result of
pepityphilite posit:whew. Any surgical
operation a - would • have been danger.
OLIS and unjustifiable. No !eaten was dis-
charged in any of the organs except the
intestines. ,
Gambettst's friends deny that he Wfif3
shot by the mother of his son. His friends
say that he received an accidental wound
in the forearm. The wound 'was healing
•nicely, but his desire to appear in public to
silence his enemies grew so that he
requested the doctor to stop the suppura-
tion, which the latter did, though he pointed
out the danger. In a few hours the pus
from the wound being debarred its natural
outlet took another course,burrowing under
the skin'towards the shoulder, and soon
manifesteOteelf in two, huge phlagmous
under the arm pit. Tito; caused him the
greatest pain. He arose •from his bed
hoping to be able to go to Paris the
next day, but had to retire again. The
slight fever was -auladued, but the Sunday
night before Christmas Gambetta dined
heartily, and becoming excited during a
politioal discusiion -suffered a relapse. In
the meantime the pus worked its way
dewnward and showed itself in an abscess
in the • stinnach. Later other abscesses
appeared and grew in dee and -'-nearly
blocked the minium.
• A. Novel Brat Catcher.
A\Chicago telegram says c Forty .eleo-
triolights in an extens, ei clothing house
"suddenly ceased to burn last evening.
The deem was found running ,rapidly as
usual and the . dynamo was • 'working
'elegantly. IThe stench of burning flesh
came up'near\the machinery, but for some
time its location could not be traced.
Finally, on loohittg under the dynamo,
there stooda rat, one leg raised as if ,about
to take another setblit motionless. The
rat waft-deadand,riveted to the ed. He
• had leapedfirat on one Of the copper 'con-
ductors underneath, and in stepping on the
_otiter_cleeed the circuit so that the _entire
ourrentfrom the fmty-IiiR-Brush machine
passed through his body, and 'prevented it
aseendingsebove, •'
• Aneited Confidence Men:
The Welland Teleirain, says: John Good-
man and- E. W. Wiliam were on Thursday
morning brought before Judge Baxter' to
answer to the charge that they on the 19th
of December, in a railway, oar, used as a
public conveyance, running On the Great
Western branch of the Grand Trunk Rail-
way, between St. Catharines, in the county
of Lincoln; and •Niagara Falls, in the
county-of_Wellandeclid_by means of a garne
generally known as the game of three ca--fd-
nionte, secure and obtain from 'George
Carpenter the suna of 420. • In answer to
this charge the prisoners pleaded not guilty.
and elected to be tried by the judge. The
case was then adjourned. Mr. Jarvis, of
Niagara Falls, repreeented the prieoners.
Panic in a Church.
A Mount Vernon (N. Y.) telegram says:
A panic was occasioned at the Christmas-
tide celebration of Trinity Church last
nightby altaper setting fire to some sprays
of evergreen. The main doors swing
inwards, and hundreds of half-orazed people
were soon thrown against them, so that
they could not be opened. There were
shrieks, cries and prayers of °men and wo-
men, who tumbled over each other and
trampled the children under foot. Some
smashed the windows and leaped out. The
burning evergreen was carried from the
church e;nd the frightened congregation
were finally calmed. -Many were injured.
Clinging for Lite. -
A St. Thomas telegram says: Yesterday
morning, Mr. Waddell, the station agent
at West Lerma°, observed an engine and
• train passing at "abigh rated speed. ' Cling-
ing to the coupling pin in the rear of' the
tender was a little boy about 8 or 10 years
of age. The little fellow was in an exceed-
ingly perilous condition. The agent sent
messages to Rodney, the next station, and
'to Tayler; further 'on, ordering them to
flag the trainand remove the 'child, The
message was received juat in time at Tay -
traveller was sent httok to his bona° at
• Delhi by the next ' • '
_ _ _
Clergynian coaster's counpse.
A Montreal telegram says : On Friday
• -afternoon Rev. Canon Henderson, while out
with his children tobogganing, was induced
to _participate in the sport. Not being
accustomed to thesteering of the toboggan,
_the_slipperyething turned 'Sideways, and
precipitated him down the hill at a terrible
• speed. The concussion on the hard frozen
snow was so Hever° that he had to be carried
from the scene,of the accident and after-
wards driven home. Medical aid • was had
at Once, but the extentof his injuries is not
yet known. His friends are exceedingly
anxious as to his condition. •
• A Dreadful holocaust,
Whilst the wife of Adam Curranoe, of
Iteyerley, Randolph county, Pa., WEIS absent
mirsing. a Sick neighbor, the house caught
fire, and he and four of their children were
consumed in sight of the wife and others,
who were powerless to help them. In
seeking to rescue her children Mrs. Cur -
ranee received fatal ittjudea.
A conductor lathed. -
AGrant VII.), telegram says; James
Gillespie; condtiotor of the stock express on
the Chicago La Eastern Illinois Railroad,
died on Saturday from the effects of an
injury received on Tueeday. GilleePie was
recently conductor of a stock trabron the
Grand Tiunk road. .
A Railroader's souperslition.
Hank Woolium, who was engineer ontbe
train at the time young Willett was killed,
said that almost Wince he began railroading
in Arkansas, or when, a mere youth, he had
been warped by old road men that the sight
of a white -oateat. -night was always an
infallible Isignal of danger. Mr. Woollurn
tells us that be' has never seen • One till
upon this occasion, when he and his fire -
Matt had counted four, and upon getting
into this place that night he distinctly saw
another large white one cross the track in
front of him near .Allinder's, mill. The
sight of these superstitious visiona iiad
almost eaueed_bint to leave his train at
Marrilten. The_fifth sight wounil up with
an accident occurring here, which resulted
the trainman's death. -Conway (NH.) Dein
•
The construction of a railway across
Australia from Brisbane to Point Darwin
has been decided upon. •
M. Gradewohl, saloon keeper, Milwaukee,
has been arrested for challenging Fred.
Malzahn, a business Wan, to fight a duel.
Gradewolal claims that hie daughter was
outraged by Malzahn, which the latter
denies.
SCOTLAND7
Latest News Item the Land o' Calmed.
BeriffitS outbreaks Of hater axe at,prefient
engaging 'the attention of tlae authorities in
saltirdisee and Duthfriee.
JAM 'Stephen, brainsfounder, died Bilk_
denlY,' from heart disease while attending
divine- service in the Wesleyan Clutrotte
Aberdeen, on the 100a ult.' '
,
jaineeWhite, the Montrose bitchier, isho;
n a 'fit of frenzy murdered his Wife and
imother-in-law, and has ignite been 0011filleCt
in the lunatic Wards of the Berth Prion,
committed guicide on the:901,We. by flinging
himself over the balustrade).* &
On the. "903; Mr. John Sealer; curator of
the 'Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh,
diet, somewhat 'soddenly at hie residencies
Inverleith row.: Mr. Sealer, who eeceived,
his' appointment only a 'few years ago, on
the death. of Mr. Mediae wasvery well
known to horticulturists., •
fewweeks ago the mortal remains of
the late jamas 'Elaroiltore, Langlean, Coat.
bridge„were laid to, rest idbld Mcnikland
Churchyard. Thedeceased was the BOD of
the venerated and giLed poetess of Coat-
bridge -Janet ,Hamilton -and for ' many
years acted as her athalhlellBie.
It bee been discovered in•Dunfetmline
that bill Ei amounting to 28,500, discounted
by the Come:medal Bank of Seotland, and
.drasfiea by an Edinburgh accountant in the
name 'of a Dtinferadindooalinaster, are
lorgeriee.„ ••'
,, .
ci, recent morning an encounter took
place), between a poacher ; and two game-
keepersein a wood on the Earl of -Stair's
,estate, near Girvan. The poacher, while
being ologiely petediele'terned- and fired at
the ganieleeepere, - injuring one of them
-nemed Rennie .so -severely that h'e'died in
the course of the forenoon. . ”
• At the inauguration of a branch of the
," Secular 'Union" kat month, Lord Queens
, berry said that .he bad. been -stigmatized as
an aalaeist, and then, Without being allowed
reply, excluded (the Scotch peers refused
to reeleet him as a representative peer)
from the ,Honse of Lards, whereas he had.
'never expressed ,an opinion as to theses-
istence of a God, duce he 'believed the
problem too abstruse to be &bided lay men.
• An interesting ecclesiastical_ ceremony
took' plaee. lately at Renfrew... The Free
e0/aurchithattown, which was built in.
1843, and is said to 'have been thefirst
erected by the body &fee; it broke off front
'the-Church:ofeSeotlairde-was-pulled down -
in .the present year. • A new building more
• consistent with preeent ideas is being raised
on the same site, and the memorial stone
WaS laid with Masonic honors by 'sir:Archi-
bald Campbell, Bart., of Blythstirood-, in
presence cif 'a numerous company.'
, .,„ ,
`• .A ,terrible fatality ocaurred in Kent
street, Glasgow, at an early houron a re,
,cciat morning, whereby- three persons -a
• Mettler and two young'ehildren-lost their
' lives.The husband, whose name is Peter
-Hutchesem-returnetleliome-from-hise_worle_
at -8 o'clock atniglate and -finding the door
--locked went to the house :01 his rpother-ita
late.' Between • 2 and 3 in the • morning
smoke was seen issuing •from Hutcheson's'
house and.in shires of fire was immediately
raised. On an entrance :being forced the
charred remains of\the Mother and the two
-children;weres-found--one the bed- in -the
e
,kitchen, and near the lay the .•sheatered
• pieces of is. paraffin IemP.
, •A Hamilton correspondent writes: .It is
• wet-knoteribere ..that the proceeds of the,
recent sales of the Hamilton Palace collec-
tion of art -treasures, books and MSS. have
enabledthe Duke of •Hanallton to free him-
self from the trueteep intiewhose hands the
management of . his estates passed: mart
than Live years 'ago. The ',receipts at the
, recent rent audit ran in His Grace's .mtme,
the winds " trusteee of " being.maseia., and
;he bite appointed Mr. J. .Auldjo. Jamieson,
commissioners on hie 'estates. • The
interior of the palaces, ' having been re-
arranged, leaves small evidence of the der
platten towhich it has just been subjected.
The blanks on the walls have been filled
with pictures from - closets and Xecieftee
where they have been stored away, and -the
furniture bas. been re.arranged, so that the.
palace is still a sumptuously furnished
mansion. ,•
. .
A Photographer's 1111.,
A New York photographer has ' suddenly
jumped into a lucrative business in mak._
ing cheap photographs. His "specialty,'
which is the secret of his success, is letting ,
-costly sealskin sacques, Gainsboroughehate._
-aiad other finery' to his "subjects," who
are moistly poor shop girls, to make their
-pictures-showy.-The special_charges_Which_
be roakeefor them privileges, which offer a
temptation which few girls can resist, bring
• hint in great profits. "The only difficulty
in the huffiness," he says,"ifs to get the seal-
skin eacque and silk cloak off the girls when
once put on. They have a bad way of
hanging around and looking in the glass,
and keeping a whole line -of anxioussitters
•
waiting."•
• • _
_ A Pathetic scene. •
• A Cleveland, 0., telegraro. says: Joseph
Kolinsky, a foundryman, lay down to sleep
last (Tuesday) night near a - finnan be-
tween two stocks used to carry off the gas
from the burning coke. Although it was in
the open air, he was smothered to death by
the gas. He was but recently 'married,
and the grief of his young widow was terri-
ble to witness. She clung to the dead body
• so desperately that it required two strong
men to release and remove het ,
• Brutal Murder ot a FurmerT
A Quebec despatch says : News was
-received here last (Thursday) night of a
horrible murder hi the" neighboring county
of Arthebalikee The only details of the
crime received as yet go te _sheer that a
termer nabaed Huot, the fe.ther of a family,
was stabbed to death laet night at the
Grand Trunk station in, Arthabaskee by
four individuals, three of whom have been
arrested. • Heot expired a few minutes
after receiving the fatal wound.]
Early yesterday morning a Mr. Law-
rence, of Sarnia, and his son, Wm. F. Law-
rence, were walking near the corner of
King and Picton streets, London East,
when they met a small sleigh drawn by a
large black dog. The vicioue brute made a
dart at the elder Mr. Lawrence, but be
sprang aside and escaped. His 2011 was less
fortunate; the dog seized him by the anis
and inflicted a deep and painful bite, serious ,
eeeugh to demand -the services of Dr.
Eccles. The owner of the dog, Mr. Alfred
Ditloway, of York street, was summoned
before Squire Peters, who assessed him the
OOits, ordering him to pay the dootor's bill
and. destroy the dog.
The German War Office is seriously
thinking of substituting a new pattern of
repeating rifle for the breechloader now in
nee in the • Germane army. • Several
battalions will BOOD be experimentally
armed with this weapon.
In the libel ease of 13ell vs. Lewes, tried
in London, growing ,out of the charge by
the defendant that a piece of, sculpture,
which the plaintiff claims as his own -pro-
duction, was really that of another, a ver-
dict for the plaintiff was rendered with
L5,000 damages. •
HANGING: Tile, JOYCEP.
,Delalls praise Desnaniag Forte otentarwood,
• the, ataecutioner.
3.0Fyeetilal '8.epeeop6ituntit tohf tzh%giulteebaurtiavol:reit.d 'Tthi)oe
convicts' rose • at 6 • o'clock, none of Went
having slept continuouslyduring the night.
'Mei they were visited by Father Greaten,
who remained with, them- till the end.
None' of the men' would eat breakfast.
"About 8 o'clock Marwood enteredthe cells
for the purpose of pinioning the arnis of
the convict's. To this operation' attiok
Joyce and Patrick: ' Casey submitted.
quietly ; but Myles Joyce 'protested with
great vehemence his inneicenoe' of the
crime for which he was to , ..,enffere
and resisted Marwood slightly. At
a quarter past • 8 o'clock -Myles
Joyce emerged from. the prison,
supported by two warders, and uttering a
number of exclamations m protestationof
his innooence. He., was followed ,by
Patrick Casey and he again , by Patrick
Joyce; both of whom were also " supported.
As each of the convicts emerged from the
„prison he seemed, from •a. hurried glance
around, to expect • to recognize somebody
among those present. As the proodisiou
,proceeded the service of the Roman
Catholic "Church • for the dying was
re_peated, b.y Father -Greaten's but only one
Of the prisener-i,-Pittitik JOyee, Made a
response. , With:the .exception of Casey.
the condemned men as'oended theeteps of
the scaffold without • assistance, and when
they bed been platted under the ropes
which were dangling from the crossbeam,
Myles Joyce, turning to the spectators,
made a number Of exclamations In Irish
to the effetat that he was ninece,nt.
When Marwood approached to adjust
the rope on his neck ,he, resisted slightly.
Father Greavan,eppreached and !poke to.
him, but be nevertheless continued to
speak loudly while the noose.was Adjusted.
on 'his neck tend the necks:of the Other two'
men, who siibmitteci quietly, and after the
white cap had'been drawn over his face he
movedhie head, BO ,that Marwood : had'
again le arrange the noose. Etrinthen he
did not stop epea.king,• exclaiming: " I em
going before zny God andI ant as innocent
as the child unborn. I neither raisedhand
nor footaganast the people. • 1 bad neither
hand, act nor part in the murders." When
the bolt was drawn and the naen- disap-
peared' from 'view there was scarcely a
quiver of the ropes -by which': Patrick.
Joyce and _Patrick Casey wisre euspended,
_b_ut there...was upparently severe •strugglinge
on theleart .of Myles Joyce f or rope
oscillated violently, and Joyce,
,oould
be seen for severe': minutes afterward
pushing down the body with his foot and
stooping down and endeavoring to do same -
thing -it could not he seen what --with' the
noose. Marwood afterward explained that
Myles -Joyce had, by some means Or other;
got his arm or hie hand entangled with the
rope and that he had been tryiug to push it
down. . Death' bewas positive, was instan-
• taneous, and nothing could have been wroeg
-with-the-rope,-as-he_Lhadaisedeite_atallL
executions before., Besides, be gave all the
Men a drop an equal length-ninefeet. The
scaffold, it may be mentioned, was erected
by workmen frona- Dublin, all the local
tradiss'meu having refused' to do ,the work
The prison was surrounded by sentries all
night, and a body of policemen were en
• duty outside quell -any disturbenee which
might arise, but -Scarcely a dozen persons
• as.sembled.at the gate, even- after the black
flag had been run up toShow that the sen-
tence of the law had been carried out.
,
- MONTREAL IN MOURNING. .
• —
Obsequies ot arrc jollutsinis nirA. lina-Grand
pu
• A last Wednesday 'Montreal de-
spatch says: The signs ofa city in, the
.deepest mourning were everywhere con-
spicuous here .today from almost every
housetop.. The national flag, 'floated at
half-mast, and ;the emblems of the cross
surmounted many private dwellings. • At
half -past 2 o'clock thousands of the masses
hued the streets and waited patiently to
witness a_solemn pageant.- • All these pre=
parations were to do honor to the memory
• of the fordiaost citizen of this city, the late
Sir Hugh Allan, whose remains were ;being
conveyed to the, tomb. 'ft was in
every -• sense a public .funeral, .thp
• Mayor, aldermen , and ..eivic 'officers.
heading theprooessioe, with the police
and fire brigade ranged on either side
'Following the hearse (Same the imneediate.
'family and neer relatives of the deceased.
Arnong-the-chiefenmernate-wereethesefeeir
Sons, and brother ofthe lamented knight.
The remaining part ot the cortege was corn.
evoke- eff -leading secitizens k --like-
soldiers six deep- and stretching nearly
ball a mile. 'There was, no Mercantile,
manufacturing, shipping or other city
interest that was not extensively rePre-
sented. On reaohing St. Andrew's Church,
belonging, to the Old ,Kirk of Scotland, of
whieh Sir Ilugh was a. life member, • the.
Coffiii wee "taken " burial
service feed by the pastor, Rev., J. Edger
Hill. The religions ceremony being over
the 'Procession re-formed an 'proceeded
to Mount Royal Cemetery, Where the
body Was deposited in the niagnificient
mausoleum of the family, where also the
remains of Lady Allan rest. • The Pall-
bearers were 'Hon. J. J., C. Abbott, Hon.
John Hamilton, -Messrs. Joseph Hickson,
'Robert Anderson, Mr. George Hague and
Mr. Henry Lyman. The. atores along the
line of route to the 'Church had their shut-
ters up. e The., orawila of people on the
-sidewalks, who 'principally belonged to the
workieg classes, showed manifest respect.
by raising their hate while the cortege ,was
passing. The regret' felt forthe lose the
city has sustained in the death of the head
of the great Allan Jirm I. a, by no means
confinedto any one class of the citizen,
but. univereal.
Eclipses this Year. •
There will be two eclipses of the sun and
two of the rabon this year. The first will
be a very small eclipse, of the moon on
April 22nd, visible from parts of America
and Australia, The .second a total eclipse
of the fnin on May 6thevisible from Eastern
Australia and Central Ansterica."The third
a partial eclipse of the moon on the morn-
ing of botober 161h, it being at 59 minutes
after 5 a. m., the moon setting in about half
an hour,so that it will be partly visible
here. • The middle of the eclipse will be at
54 minuries after 6. At the time of the
greatest eclipse rather more "than one
quarter of the moon's diameter ,will be
hidden. The • eclipse will be, visible in
Europe, America and West Africa. The
fourth will be an annular eclipse of the sun
on October 30th and 31st, invisible in this'
country.
•
Stage coaohes-tbeatrioal tutors.
A proclamation has beenissn�dsummon-
ing the British Parliement to mitten Feb.
• Thomas Fisher, of Muncey Indian
Reserve, -was lodged in jail at London on
Wednesday night on e. commitment issued
by John M. Cornell, J.P. The prisoner te
charged with stealing a horse and cutter,
with robes, eta. the property of John 0.
Campbell, of ikfrid, at M'elborne village
the sante day.
.LATEST NORTIIIITEST NEWM,
Ata Anshitlotts Coligregat/on--Ittlandllese.m
Nilifrin lrirdiapects-,-IfIla111 Robberies; m•
t"
Fleglaw;411111tisig Interests.
A Winnipeg` telegram Bays : A Brunie -
totted Assoceation has been formed here,
• The Times holds out no inducement to
Harden. Ross Wantsno paper vowing, and
will inake a bid for,tee :facie when the bleb
mean business.
•A Winnipeg telegram 'says: The .00n-
sdregation Of Holy Trinity Chinade are about
.ereating a $100,000 church. •-
•A letter lade been.. received here by the
Deputy Minister of Agrioulthre and Stets-
.% from Mr. Alex. Begg, London, Eng.,.
ageritnftlie Canadian Pacific Railway, in •
which he says emigration - promises to bo
very much larger next season than it was -
this . year, and also predicts that a large.
number ef settlers will come fromethe 'boa., •
tinent. The, C. P. R. are. making more,
gtrenueue, efforte than otter to settle the
Canadian eNiarthwest with the very hest
class of settlers. •
A mining bourse has beau opened heroes
a reaelt Of the rapid development of mining.,
interests on Lake of the Woods. .
A young man, respectably connected in
the East, occupying a good position, bate
been felted guilty of abstractingregidered.,
letteralrom the Reginapost-offine On the
letters being missed,suspicion fell upon
biro,"and the mounted police arrested hien
at Broadview, when he bonfessedihe.eriine • .
and- offered to return the stolen enioney.
He was brought back to' Qu'Appelle,azid
Major Walsh committed him for trial at
the next court. . • • '
Thee -weather is very mild at Regina and .
.•conSiderable building is going OD. ,
Rev. Alfred Osborne, Epieoopal.minister,
•from-Charlettetowit,,P.E.I., has arrivedeat
hold-
ing seivices in the Grand -Union Hotel.
Regina and entered'upon\hie duties,' hold-
„ • Mr. W.H.- Given; a former resident of .
-Brandon, *ha . was induced to go •, farther
.
west some months ago, is at present visiting
,the pity. ' returns quite a changed min;
:being convinced of a great deal of public'
and political rottenness in connection with
,the settlement Of 'Regina.' Lient.-Gov.
Dewdney, the Ottawa ,GOvernment and the:
'Conservative party generally ,conae",:;.in for
,mtich genuine condemnation. • Mr., Given .
• reports that a number of mounted %Police
horses had to be.returned to Qu' Apt:elle On
etteeoutd-of-therscareity-of-watereat-Hegina,
find that owing to the quality of it. 4 alai-
ber_of_p_olioemeneareesatepre.sent anfltiefor
duty, being laid up aritlidierrhoea.-Witati.•
peg, Free. Press. •,”
• A 'Winnipeg telegram says: The ocettet• e
time of veterinary surgeons at the Ministry'
of Agriculture to -day- reported. about- 160
oises of glanders lately: . The 'lbw- Agrictd- • •
.tural Act, will,give the inspector power to
:make. in 'examination without an order
fretseee,eaejedge whenever he belietee
animal e are affected. .If he reports the -
ddease likelyto prove fatal theowner is to .
be sumnionedbefore aJudge of the Queen's .
-Iliniche-Cetinty--Oourt-ludge oX three
magistrates, who may order the , animal Co
be shot. •The Contention approved of' the .
quarantine, • also the inspection by, the.
Federal authorities ea Emerson. • The im-
portation otworn,but horses and . badly -
ventilated fitablee are easigned as the chief
"' Peebles, -Police Magistrate- of. 'Win- .
nipeg, has sworn in Alderman' McMicken
as Mayer. Trouble hi •expeoted. It is
90e il .riFedr.. ., fd.tohWa.n: mg; r:.4.0a
m. cl, id° eheen0 t. i'ahet
• Ira il,oible.g:iliYy
h .
-e A wild rurhoi is brought in from Lac
Ste. ,Anne, Manitoba. • Last. spring
Stoney Laden]; the head 'Of a faintly living
'there„shoWed symptoms of insanity with.&.
tendency act 'cannibalism -the latter .by-,
biting a piece out ,of. hie Wife's arm' and •
swallowing it. . Last •July another family •
started into Edmonton with the crazy man s
and his family with the intention of giving• .
*the Fanatic, _up. be. the, police. Since 'then :
neither families hate beenseen or heard, -
of, and it is supposed, that the lonatio has
killed andeaten the whole party.'
, • During the. past 'season the Northwest
Navigatien Company 'operated the ;' dieted":
ere Alpha and Marquette, between Winnie' •
peg,. Brandon and Fere Ellice, and carried .
about 3,000 tons of freight up,' arid brought
1,000 tons dewet the river.. The 'Northwest .•
,Navigation Cempany, employed literati
• steamers and tea barges last seation. This• .
company' have, had ..several boats engaged: •
'On the Bed .River . and Lake .1 -Winnipeg,
Tfie. Winnipeg a% .Western Teatisportae .
tione-Compenye-ba.ve -done an exterisive
Jr.eight • business'on . the Saskatchewan
:--Thestioti_fallatBrinee-Albertehaseher''
exceptionally heavy so far. More snow has.. .
already fallen than during the.whole of last,
• Beef is selling atBattleford from.13 to It
_cents by the quartet ; fresh pork brings -25..
• cents, e pound, ; ,prairie chickens, 12i to 20 •
• cents eaoh ;. partridges, 20 to ' 25 writs
whitefish, 10, to 15 .cents. ;oats, $L40 •
41.50 ; potatoes, $1 to11.25. •
• Owing inthe rapid growth of the Metho-
dist congregation in Brandon, it is pie.
posed to increase the seatingcapacity_ by
three -hundred sittings; afi a.prebeble oast
of §e,500. • ,• • •t
- It is. a remarkable fad; says the Edmon- •
kin Bulletin, that in the deep, valley.of the. -
Saskatolielan the airs is 'several degrees
• bolder thanon the level above. In going.
from the top of the hill to the Water edge,
the difference in the .tenaperature is so, •
greet, especially in the morning, as to imake-
• aperson feelea though he were descending
into cold water. It ,ie also a fad that
Stu:Miler fe.ost is much more liable to attack •
vegetationinsahe valley sof .the river Shan'-.
oti :the level above. • '
The love that lasts -The love of money..
Come all who wish white Teeth of pearl.
To set off lipa of cherry; ,•
A tragrant Breath for the boy and girl.
Who purchases " Teem:any."
eras EVERY ON111 el DUTY—TO improveZth
opportunities presented for health, cheer-,
fulness and comfort. See to it, that
Zopeessis used in your fanaily for DesPerei
,sis and Biliousnese. ,D) is guarantee o
remove them.
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