The New Era, 1884-06-13, Page 2jvne 1.3 1884.
THE DYNAMITEOUTRAGED.
6ideen Packages et Dynamite Found at Scotland
Yard Felice Department,
xmon vasma, ormail VOICED.
A London cable letter of this moron)
sago dynamite is the seneation ot the de
Egypt for a time is eolipsed, and all lo
affairs are thrown in the shade. A eerie
of exploders occurred last evening wbio
;attracted much attention. At 9,15 • p„ m
an explosion was heard in the vicinity
Scotland Yard. Traced to its mune,
was discovered that one of the police hea
quarters building, used aa a lodging hong
by detectives, had ,been demolished, and
number of houses in the Vicinity badl
damaged. The adjoining Clarence toter
was demolished. Several cabs were ove
turned, one wrecked altogether, and, sem
of the horses badly injured, and policeme
on patrol Seriously hurt. Two Minute!' tete
a second explosion ocourrea, this time in Pa
This] shattered the Windows of th
Carlton Club and considerably iejure
other otruotures in that viainityitearing u
the roadway so that it was impassabl
The rumors became current that Viotori
Station, was blown up, but' investigatio
shOWed it to be unfounded. Three minute
after the Pall Mail explosion a third explo
aion enured in St. James' Square, a ober
distanee from the scene of the seoond oon
mission. This case waa the severest of al
The back well of the ablator Carlton' Clu
building, which faces on Pall Mall, was
blown in, and the splendid mansion of Sir
Watkin William Wynn, M.P., No. 18 St.
James' Square, was win", wreeked. Two
of laix Watkinal .menservants .received
alight injuriee. The windows weeeemathed
and the gm extinguished. ' Eight niaitiser•
mints or the Junior Carlton Club were
wounded by flying debris. When -the rear
wall of that building caved in they were
removed to a hospital. At 9.30 p.m:
sighteenelabe of .dynamite, all conneoted
with the'Slab which had a fuse attached'
were found by tlae 'police at' the base of
the Nelson Monument in Trafalgar Square.
They were conveyed to Scotland 'Yard and
,earitnirned by Colonel Majendie, Inepeotor
, et Explosives for the Board of Works, who
pronounoed them to be nitro compound.
Had an explosion dimmed in Trafalgar
.Square great loss of life mug bate ensued,
as at that hour the vicinity is•crowded with
pedestrians and loungers. The explosions
sindthe disoovery of the evidence of a wide.
spread plan of destruction have mused
great consternation among all•classes. 'The
fact that each extensive operations could be
married on suecessfully in the very heart of
the oity in spite of the vigilance of the
police gives riseto a feeling of
inseourity - and dismay. The police
think that several dynamiteremust
have started out jut after dusk, each going
directly, to a previously pretested spot and
depositing the explosives in suoh a matter.
o-faet way as to attract no attention. The
singling out Scotland Yard as one of the
points of attaiik was, of mune, a pine of
bravado intended to show complete defiance
and Contempt of the 'authorities. The police
are maddened by to-nightafevidence of their
incompetency, and are the Subjects of
ridicule at the clubs and other resent] where
-
the, mincer is disouesed. • The number of
persons in the hospital auffering• from
injuries caused by the explosions is twelve].
• The Daily Telegraph says: "Who are
the viotims? They are harmless pedes.
trim& " -.Yet -they are: -maimed- at -hap;
hazard to bring joy to the souls and money
to thepookets of Roma and his shameless
American orew. There will be a terrible
day of reokoning for these dyna,niiters, and
it is not fax distant." ' ,• .
The Post says.: "It is imperative that
England insist forthwith that America
shall no longer harbor dynamiters. Eng.
land and America are happily at peace, and
between friendly Powers certain obligations
exist which it is impossible to ignore with-
out seriously endangering the maintenance
of amity." - ' •
The Daily News says: ' "The explosions
show that the primrose and methods of the
dynamiteer have not been checked. The
miscreants are clever, well chosen and well
disciplined." •
The Standard, while belittling the efforts
of the dynamiter'', warns them that they ere
running a fearful risk. Even a worm will
turn, and it will be a terrible day for the
dynamitera when the people of London
make up their minds to bite. It will take
but little more to bring them to that point.
The following are the latest cablegrams
reording the dynamite explosions in Lon-
don :
The results of the investigations by the
London police have made it almost certain
that the Islelson monument in Trafalgar
oquare was the main objective point of the
miscreants. who planned the dynamite
explosions Of Iiiiirriday night. The police
new announce.the theory that the dynami.
tars aimed to concentrate public excitement
about the square in order to • obtain a olear
Sold for operations elsewhere. The con.
splutter& according to this theory, expected
that the explosions in the popular and
populous locality of Trafalgar Bowe would
cause an immense rush of people from St.
James' park, Spring garden, and the other
reeorts in that vicinity, and calculated that
the explosion in Scotland. Yard would still
further distract the attention of the police
and the public, increase the panic,a,nd leave
dynarniters free to make an attack upon
the Government offices in Downing street
and upon the Houma of Parliament.
The Dublin steamers are being carefully
watched, and . extraordinary precautions
are taken to guard the barracks, monu-
ments and public buildings in London, and
all the leading towns in England.
The Freeman's Journal, the Irish Times
and the Dublin Express strongly denounce
the outrage& The explosion,' Caused a
seneation in Pavia. It is believed the dyne,
mite Was smuggled into England from
Prance by women.
Eighteen packages of dynamite havebeen
found itt Scotland Yard. Had it all ex-
ploded the effect mud have been appalling.
The compound is atlae powder, precisely
similar to that used in the outrages a few
meeithsrago. Three hundred panes of glass'
were shattered in the deteotives' officio.
Two perilous tried to arrest a roan whom's
hurrying away from the Beene of the ex.
plosion, butefoUr men emerged freen a dark
corner and Messed him.
The dynamite under the Nelson Menu.
ment failed to explode owing to a defective
fade. Had the package exploded the menu.
went Would have been demolished and
widespread ruin and lots of life would have
been canoed. •
A. M. Sullivan, the eniinent Irish pub -
!joist, Bays in an interview: "1 have
nothing to add 'to the Views I expressed
about rhe 1111111' aPSIllit0 exploder* HUH&
by Iriehmen. • I think Ireland hos no one-
miefiliio bad M those Irishmen who &rd.
mit them outrages; they ere 'Amply
elootuldrele• Who injure Ireland even more
than lbey do the immediate Violins of
their malevolent*, if that 'were possible.
Thie work of moret murder and hidden
&dregs is ineltproosibly devilish; is crime
pure and simiiG, and inotiletthiblY Iujurioue
to the Iriel; osuse. All the true friends] Of
Ireland Oppose the raothode of the aYnrn
mite and mast form mistreat*, even the
Fenian& end even such rani:mom ex -Heed
Centre idteohein and Mr. O'Leary,"
The Pall Mall Gazette, referring to the
explosion,"advocatee the immediate forme. f
tion of a dynamite insurence oomptiny
inter(' POOP14 against thie steadily growing
class et mumalties at a !premium say of Bd.
per £100. The Gazette - Mye that accident
seal:trance oorapenies now „Inoue ogninst
injuries by wetting, and thinks that
dynamite, although lees dangerous, should
euggent a new and more profitable chum of
risk&
The police Bay the explosives are Ameri-
can manufeeture, and this is seized by the
prams as an muse, though all berate the
police for their incapacity. .
The Home Secretary, on the demand of
the London Chief of Poliee, has advised the
Government to place at the disposal of the
chiefs; a large sum of eeoret eervwe money,
with whioh to buy information regarding
treasonable and other criminal projects
without revealing the informers. The
chiefs of police report certain conspirators
ready to sell information which they pos-
sess provided their names are kept sword.
Extra guards have been placed around
Mr. Gladstone's reeidence at Hawarden.
TUE NEW 01111DAHERIT.
PravIding for •its Establishment Et the
Agricultural coileue—The cream
Gathering 'system.
. A Guelph despatch says: Mr. 3. H.Vou-
zer, of Darlington, Wis., is here drawing •
plans and completing other arrangthnents
for the establishment of a creamery in con-
• nection with the Ontario Agrioultural Col-
lege, on the cream gathering system: Mr. •
Wanzer is the nominee of a committee ,
specially appointed by the Provincial Gov -
eminent to visit the creameriesof the
United States and Canada and to choose
the beet Man to inaugurate the new system
here. The sum of $3,000 was voted to de. .
fray the expense of starting the establish-
ment. Hon.A.hl. Roes, Provinoial Treiteurer
and Commissioner of Agriculture, was here
to -day in oohoultation .with Mr.Wanzer end
Prof.Mille,Prinoipal of theCollege,in relation
to the establishment of the new creamery.
Itis expected that -,the building now used
as a ahem factory at the College can be
made available for the use of the creamery,
and that by this means the . expense will
not be greater than $1,300. Provnien will
be made for using the cream of 1,500 cows,
but a start will be- made with that of two
or three hundred cows. As the name im-
pilot', the oream only is colleoted from the
farmers inetgad of taking the milk, as
under the other system. The advantage's
are, to the creamery greater certainty and
leas expense in transportation, and to the
farmers the use of the skim -milk for stook
feeding. Guelph is the centre of a great
stink -feeding region, and this system,
while giving all or nearly all the advan-
tages of ' the other system, will not
interfere with . that business. Mr.
Warmer is a practical man having a
creamery which USN the milk of 2,400
oows, and has an average daily product of
2,000 lbs. of butter during 'the season. He
brings with him samples of the cans in use
under this system. One is to be used by
' the farmers who supply the cream. It has
a small glass scale at one side which will
Show at a glance whet quantity of butter
the cream in the can will make. The other
is for carrying the cream. -It has a move-
able top, which mete upon the cream and
prevents it from churmag. Mr. Wanzer
Bays the farmers in bis motion make from
li35 to 645 per cow each season. "In fact,",
he said, "we tell them that we will pay
them as much for the cream as they could
get for the butter if they made it, and I
think that is about the practical result."
BURIED iN Time etiverve.
—
Many Persons Killed by the Fall. 01 811•
Immense Cotton Warehouse.
A Baltimore, Md, despatch says: The
weight of cotton stored in Hooper's build.
ing, in this city, monied it to collapse this
afternoon. When the front of the building
fell in threeor four persons were in the
counting -room, four in the shipping office,
and at least fifteen or twenty in front of
the structure. Men were immediately set
to work removing the debris in order to get
the people out. The body of Mortimer H.
Linthioum, cashier of the house, was tonna
peeked in between several barrele ; it was
impossible to reaoli ' him. A man named
Kelly and a colored boy were also found
emong the ruins. Eight bodies so far have
been recovered. Up to 7 o'clock no more
bodies had been recovered. Edward
Bowen'.a oolored porter of the firm, is
known to be in the wreck, as well as Gildea
Hook and Kenneth MoLea, employees of
the firm occupying a second storey room.
The building was erected twenty-five years
ago, and was supposed to be one of the
moat substantial in the city. On which
storey the break ocourredje not known; all
are down from• the . front to within forty
feet of the rear. The ground on•whicili the
building stood was filled in, having been the
river there, The foundationle said to have
settled and caused the calamity. '
A Griete,Pie SICAISA.TION.
Storekeeper Charged With Ineendiarioni,
A Saturday night's despatch from
Guelph says: There was considerable
excitement nere to -night over the arrest of
0, Kirk, boot and shoe dealer, for Moen.
diarism. On Friday after Guy and Hes-
band's dry goods &ore was closed, one of
the partnere had occasion to go upstairs
and detecting an odor from burning boal
oil, he went to the third flat where smoke
was seen coming through the floor. The
boards were torn up' and a quantity of rags
saturated with coal oil was found close sto
the brick wall separating Kirk's store from
Guy dts Husband's. This morning a fuller
investigation was made, On taking up the
floor on Mr. Kirk's,side of the well, it was
seen that a omen hole had been bored
through the wall and only reoently filled
up as the mortar . was quite fresh. The
police were a:insulted and Kirk placed under
arrest on suspicion. Kirk is weildknown to
the trade in Montreal and Toronto. Him-
self and wife lived over the stores Although
circumstances point towards him as being
implicated there is 0, 'general feeling of
doubt as to his being guilty of the charge.
,There name to he st good deal of differ;
enoe between the authoritiest in England
As to bow much a" smokable" algae wide.
Sir Henry Wolff told the Muse of Cem.
moire the other night that " decent " Olgafts
blight be had for 9si Ode per hundred—
that hi to say, for a little more than.two
canto apiece. The London 2'imes,vii the
other hand, ensures ite readers that a
" fair " isiger estri be had for ninepin& dr a
shilling—eildst to twenty.four omits.
Dr. Hargis, how a peorainerit Methodist
preacher in the States, ohine for the motto
of his &liege moiety, 'The devil take the
hindmost," and graduated at the fint of
hie olme.
DEUMED AND NIONINED.
A Camp Swept MAY by et Cloud.
Burst in Nebraskn.
11 MEN CARRIED TO DEATH BY THE TORRENT.
Denver telegram dated Monday says:
A cattle, round.up camp on -Frenchmen
creek, Neb., just over the Colorado line,
ivas entirely destroyed on Wednesday by
a flood. Eleven cowboys belongiug in
Colorado encINebreake, were drowned. The
flood was coined by a cloud -buret on the
creek, whieh runs through southwest
Nebraska and northeastern Colorado. The
party, which consisted of Charles Hall, W'
j. Pollen, Wm. Carson, Wm. Ferguson,
Lou Witherbee, John -Smith, Patrick
Lynch, Robert Fowler, Robert Reedy and;
3. Lindsay, With a round.up ramp outfit
from Round -up District, No.10, of Colorado,
arrived at Frenchman Creek Wednesday.
Meeting other parties they joined forces
anti camped near "Cooper Clump." About
two blurs after an awful rush of the waters .
in Frenohman Creek occurred, but was
unnoticed. It gathered etrength and
violence, and rose rapidly until shortly
after midnight, When the cloud -buret m-
anned. This swelled the little creek to a
mighty torrent, whit& burst over tliehanke
and came ruthing down on the cowboys'
camp in a mighty wove, NOWA swept
away waggons„ epithets and men. The
camp at once became .
A SCENE Cr INDESCRIBABLE TERROR.
The shouts for help from the tents, the
neighing of drowning horses and the howl-
ing of fleeing cattle, nIling• the air, while to
increase the terror of the moment rain
began to fall in torrents, accompanied by
thunder and lightning, making the night
one of fearfulbOrror. Two camp; near the
one upon which destruction was wrought
had narrow escapee from the devastating
flood: 'Although the water oaine
into thri• tramps, they were too
fax from ' the creek to be seriously
damaged or any lives to be endangered.
The men in these camps, as soon as the
flood bed subsided, and they could ascer-
tain the situation of the other outfits', went
to the assistance of the unfortunates, and
were instrumental in Raving lives and res-
cuing the bodies of the dead from the
Wrath of the angry waters. 'When day-
light came the scene along the creek was
indeed a distressing one. The banks of
the ,strearn were strewn for milee with
fragments of waggons, tents, tent poles and
blankets, while hereand there was a
body, the face depicting the terrible agony
undergone in the struggle for life.
Five bodies were found some distance down
the creek. They were theme! Wm. Pup-
ae/I, Win. Carson, Charles Hall, J. Patton,
and one whit% has not yet been recognized.
The six who are still missing, notwith-
standing a continued search has been made,
up to the present time, are J. Lindsay, Lou
Witherbee, John Smith, Robert Fowler
and patriok Lynch.
THE POWER or THE FLOOD.
The fall of the water where the cloud-
burst ocourred tore a great hole in the
ground and carried down tons ot soil and
rook to the creek,and left no ohmic° of
escape to thmi
e
en n the camp, which stood
directly in the path of the slide. The flood
came with such rapidity that the men in the
other camp do not know 'Whether the camp
was destroyed by the torrent from the
oloud-burst, or whether the water emptied
,itself into the creek, swelling it and thus
causing the flood • -
A Waco, Texas,*despatch says:. Informa-
tion from Shackelford ',wintry states that
Friday last a huge waterspout fell, cover.
ing several hundred acres of land, doing
serious ,damage. One ,rancliman lost 860
sheep out of a flock of 900. On the same
day a waterspout buret near Cisco, at the
head of Battle Creek, canoed the creek to
overflow, and. in a few minutes &Vining
the bottom lands, drowning some cattle
and washing everything before it. Several
farmers are ruined. No lives lost. •
suerweawiner. AND SIEFFEBING.
Terrible Hardships of It' Crew off the
Coast of Georgia. -
A Brunswick, Ga., despatch says: A
terrible tale of shipwreck and suffering is
told by ehree seamen who reached this
portgesterday, as the sole survivors of the
schooner Mary Vanoleft, of Camilen,°Me.,
whit& Frank fifty miles off the coast of
Georgia, on Wednesday. On Tuesday the
men report that a severe storm was
encountered, and shortly after niidnight
the vessel struck seine unknown object,
which dime a. hole ill her beam's, and she
sank very shortly afterwards. A terrible
sea was running, and the wind, which was
blowing alniost a hurricane, was bitterly
cold. The captain, mate, cook and four
Beaman succeeded in launching a raft. All
were exhausted by the work at the pumps,
and none had eaten in several hours
previous to the ranking of their ship.
The waves washed over them oonstently,
and it was only by the most strenuous
exertions that they were kept from
being washed overboard. 'After forty-eight
hours the captain lost his reason, and
drawing his knife, threatened to elaughter
his companions and eat their bodies" but
eventually he leaped into ' the sea with a
maniac yell and was drowned. A few
minutes later one of the sailors overcome
by weakneee, released his hold, and was
washed into thane, milled. His brother,
named Robineon, Met with a similar fate.
Two hours later the storm showed no Wpm
of abating, and the men were breathing the
'suffice of one of their number for food
when the schooner Addie Jordan hove in
eight and made ready to attempt their
reeoue. Owing to the dangeraof running
down the raft, three hours were consumed
by the Jordan in the work. Ropes were
finally thrown to the raft, and the remain.
ing milers and mate tried to save thorn -
selves. The three men succeeded, but the•
mate was so weak that he fell bask into the
sea and was drowned. The following are
the lost: Captain Fred. Bmalb, Mate
Albert Grant, andseamenNathan Robinson
and Isaao Robinson.
The Nor Irish Land Bill.
A Linden ottblegrame says: The 120W
'Irish -Land Bill introduced by Mr. Treve-
lyan is in substartoe a generous mesetire
by which the Irish peasantry Will be en-
abled to become absolute owners ot thine
farms by paying yearly for forty years a
sum lees than what they now pay for rent,
the Government undertaking to advance a
hundred millions !dr this purpose. Mr.
Parnell memos his decision, but it in
underetood that he intende to oppose it on
the grab:ate that the .eountry coo ie -made
liable as ,uourity for these adVantssi but
really hawse it bill of that mope takes the
land question out Of hie hands AA a lever
for further attllaticini, •
Plon-PlOn'e boy Voter 14 now at Chisel.
heat visiting Eugenie. trom whom he
expects tO inherit considereble money; and
who stimulates him with the tempestuous
'preepeot of Ora° thne or other Bitting on
the,throne of eorneliody eltre'e fathom.
r.
nets Drunk at the Derby and Attileke
Railway Officials.
*410,rr-err
HIS LEG pROKEN IN TWO PLACES.
A cablegram. from London says The
But ofAylesford, who is Well known in
Arairice is the *inured an immense ranch
in Texas, on which he remains most Of the
time and where he has immense herds of
cattle, has lately been prominently before
the law warts of England in the rote of an
injured husband, with the young Duke of
Marlborough as the co-respondent. He
had just outmoded in defeating Lady
A.yleeford's claim for alimony On the ground
that she had been guilty of 4 rapleetatiOn "
by appropriating his &mind title—Lord
Guernsey—for her illegitimate child by the
Duke of Marlborough. perhaps it was to
celebrate this' victory that begot intoxicated
at the Derby yesterday, but at all evente
he was very drunk when ho' came back
from the races to,LondonBridge in a, third -
clam carriage of au emureion train on the
Dover & 'Chatham Railway. The train
was crowded with roughs and a succession
of small skirmishes'tookplace between the
guards and the passengers all the way up to
London, Lord Aylesford was not only
drunk but obstinate, and he absolutely re.
Mud to siumender hie Outset to the in-
spector at London bridge. The official
persisted in his demand, and the noble
esti bit hire on the head with a stout
walking -stick. A struggle entitled, in the
course of which Lord Aylesford was thrown
heavily to the ground. When he was
picked up it was found that one of his lege
had been broken in two places, and he was
carried to a cab and driven home.- He now
threatens an Rationits damages against
the Dover & Chatham Railway Company,
but it he attembts this the company will
undoubtedly retort with a prosecution for
assault and battery upon the inspector.
' MUMS AMOS OF IN E1/1101,181`.
•
Mr. Ira D. Sankey Will Return to
' America— Strong Expressious
Sympathy.
A last (Monday) night's London cable-
gram says: Mr, Dwight L. Moody, the
evangelist, announced this evening at his
revival service on the Thames embank-
ment that the health of his colleague, Mr.
Ira D. Sankey, had again collapsed.Ee
added that lir. Elankey's complete restore-.
Idea tolealth was -deemed abeehitely im-
probable, and that his voice, which . had so
often led thousands of assembled worship-
pers in the songs of Zicin, would probably
never beheard again in their services. The
preacher said that the great • singer's
pmstration was so complete that he had
been compelled to retire from the work of
evangelization and would sail ter his home
in the United Stabs on next Saturday.
Mr. Moody pronounced a toweling eulogium
on the services and devotion of Mr. Sankey,
and °imploded by asking the prayers of the
congregation for tbe preservation of his
useftd and honored life. The response was
very earnest and affecting. Several fervent
prayers were offered for 'Mr. Sankey's m-
antel, ,and many people in the vast con-
gregation, including strong men as well as
women, were Illoved to tears.
. •grun DEAD ALINE.
A Man Aker Being Prepared for Burial
• Suddenly Comes to "Ate.
. A Creetline, 0., despatch says : 4 most.
MyBter1011e affair took' place here yeater.
day afternoon, which has excited the
curiosity of all our citizens who are familia ,
with the facts, and it has been the prinoi-
pal subject of conversation among our
gossiper& James Barton, an influential
and respected citizen, and who for a num-
ber of year] had been•working in the P. F.
W. noir shops at this place, about six
weeks ago, byreason of sickness was obliged
to quit work and•go home. It seems that
Mr. Barton grew gradually worse, and he
was obliged to take his bed a part of the
time, but he was not considered- dangerous.
About 2 o'olook yeeterday Mr. Barton's
family were startled by his apparently
dying condition. His features were very
much dietorted, and he fell back on' his
pillow memingty dead. The family, almost
crazed with grief, attracted the attention, of
their neighbors, who; hearing them, rushed
in and discovered that Mr. Barton bore no
signs of animation, and upon, a.tiloser ex.
amination they pronounced life extinct.
His breathing was not perceptible, and his
eyes looked as if they were closed.in death.
The mystery is that Mr. Barton remained
in this condition for four hours. Prepare-
'
tions for burial were about to be made, but
happily for the family and all Air. Barton's
acquaintances when 6 o'clock arrived, he
suddenly aroused from his euppoeed death-
bed as lankly mho had 'warningly expired.
There is something very mysterious con -
rooted with this affair, for during the four
hours Mr. Barton lay as a corpse he was
turned about and all those'whe reviewed
hinfolainied that there was no visible signs
of life. . •
DROWNING OF A IIDEKO.
Death • ot it Man Who Saved 'Fifteen
Lives '111'the Tivoli Disaster at Bahl.
more.
A Baltimore telegram says: Christopher
Doyle, aged 24 years, one of the heroes of
the Tivoli disaster which ocourred here in
September last, and by which sixty-three
persons were drowned by the giving away
of the wharf on the Occasion of a Sunday
&loot excursion, wast drowned to -day. in
CurtisCreek while he and a party of friends
were out sailing. The hat of one of the
men blew overboard and Doyle, who was an
expert ewimraer, jumped after it. He mirk
and did not rise to the surface. The de-
oeased wag awarded the first prize, a aostly
gold medal, donated by the Mayor and City
Council, for hie heroism at the Trivoli dis-
aster, where he was the first to jump iuto
the water to the resoue of the unfortunates.
He was standing near the Rev. Father
Starr, the pastor of the church, when the
orash came. He asked Father Starr it
wail right for him to take off hie *nothing
before the women and ohildren. The
clergyman replied: "Go in man WI God
• made you." Doyle did so and saved fifteen
live& '•
g John E. Smyth, personal property o ve
atiserieed. Total, 54,000. Off, $1,600.
• It is one proof of it good adtwation arid of
true refinement of feelingto respect anti.
quity.Sigottruey.
An inquest was held at the Mercer
Reformatory, Toronto, last night bri the
body of Margaret Fox who died there mid,
doily on Saturday eight, The cause of
deeth was fauna to be heart dimes& • .
Commander Coffin, of the Greedy rutin
steamer Alert, telegraphs] the 11. S. Seine.
tary of the Navy from St, Johns, No.;
that the protspeets are favorable for &good
presage to Drieee, Greenland,
De.Olitik, St. Catharines, had a valuable
the; Poisoned on•FridayOlia• third highly.
prized dog whieli has died during the week.
The Wel game olub will offer a reward for
the .discovery of the offenders.
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Rapli& COI at siolo.. at.*
• Batilliford 1. agitating fog a new ceme-
• tery.
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• Rowing is in tun swing 4n the Moors
Zaw: •
A four lb. trout has been caught near
Calgary.
The tree -planting fever hat spread to
Rapid City.
Teel pot -office is to be called Qu'Ap-
pelle Station.
Plow is from 05 to 18 per sack at Fort
McLeod.
Port McLeod restaurants charge from
$8 to $9 per week for board.
The stage fare between Edmonton and
Calgary is /¢25L five dive' ride.
The Assiniboines have again challenged
the Garrys for the lacrosse championship.
The opening of the Calgary kabob of
the Bank of Montreal will be deferred for
the present.
Sturgeon has been taken by means of
nets and baskets On Bata& River., Gold -
eyes and other fishare also taking bait
freely. '
Serious prairie fires are reported at Iran-
das, five having occurred in one day, and a
good deal of damage being done. .
Placer digging is being prosecuted on
Cabyon Creek, one party having scoured
about 18 ounces of gold this season.
Excellent " reports are reoeived of the
crops from different sections in Manitoba,
but the need of rain is beginning to be felt.
There is nothing new regercling the Pol.
-lochmurder at Maple Creek. The belief is
the Indians were from. the 'United States
and have retreated aoroes the line. The
Mounted Police were still in pursuit at last
"muelibr.e'''
ernains of C. McCarthy '• were
Th
found on Tuesday by J. Baunin about air
miles' from Rapid City, at the edge of a
bluff a few hundred yards from Mr.Varooae
house. An inquest was held on the remains
by Coroner Cornell. The jury brought in
a verdiet Of "Death from being lost on the
prairie and from the inolemenoy of the
weather." •
Messrs. 3.G. Brown and Lovejoy brought,
in from the Kootenai Lakes on Thursday a
quantity of bear and other akin& They
killed an immense grizzly bear there the
other day just at the edge of the mountains
,
and within 100 yards of the house. They
claim he would go nearly 1,000 pounds. Tho
Nez Perms Indians killed a she grizzly and
two small cubs. • •
On their bine cif March near Fort Qu'Ap-
pelle, the other day, the Indians brokeinto
several of thesettlers' houses and cleared
out all the provisions they could lay their
hands upon. Among those who suffered
were Thos. Gorrall, Fred Withinghara and
Thos. Grey. The latter, whose loss was
the heaviest, has secured a warrant for the
arrest of Pie -a -pot. '
• Governor Bodeen, of the Stoney Moun-
tain Penitentiary, hes turned his large herd
of buffalo out on the prairie. The Stone-
wall Nem says they are all in geed condi-
tion and prove that gentlemen to be an
adept at this kind of stock raising. His
black bears, whioh have been in their dun.
geone all winter, look Wick and fat after
being out in the sun for a couple of weals
. The rancher leasing system is net working
well in the West, The Interior Depart.
merit is trying to do two 'things which are
incompatible, viz., to encourage' ranohing
by granting leases and to encourage. Settle-
ment, by allowing settlers to ,ge in and
defy the leases. The stockmen • say it
would be better to abolish leases, levy a tax
per head on cattle and make 'the ranches'
free.' The double -headed policy now pur-
sued is injurious both to oettlerberit end
ranching. --Winnipeg Sun.
Butterflies at Edmonton en 24th April.
'Rhubarb is selling from 10 to 15 cents
per bunch in Winnipeg.
The greatar part of the trairie between
Edmonton and Calgary is burned. •
So far 370 shade trees have been planted
at Brandon.
"' A Brandon man had 19 cattle impounded
efoorstihnijmursinisosheLdhe•-trees. Their liberty
'An Edmonton man received it number of
apple and other grafts by last mail. He
will try grofting apple on thorn.
. An epidemic is feared in Leggett where
dead horses are lying around unburied,their
putrefication tainting the air for miles. •
A cherry shoot of this spring's growth, 2i
inches long, was brought to the office of the
Edmonton Bulletin anionth•ago. The leaves
were an inch long. •
Chief Fader McFarlane, cf the H. B.
Co., district of Athabasca, Will probably
retire from the service next year On 4000111213
of ill health. . • •
There are already evidences of a new
departure amongst many farmers in 'the
raising 0! stink, poultry and devoting raore
attention to the dairy.—Winnipeg FreePress.'
Gold dust is coming to Calgary from
Britian Columbia and is selling at 010 per
ounce.. High water is delaying mining
operations in the upper country.
In April a prairie fire got into the Little
Maintain and • destroyed a large quantity
of dry standing timber upon which the
settlers' depended to a great extent for
firing. •
Fires have been running all over the
Battleford country during the past two or
three Weeks. On the 23rd ult. one got into
Little Pine's camp and destroyed five of
his lodges. .
Upwards of 150 would -bo prospectors
are now in the Columbia River, in the
Rooky Mountains country, on the verge of
starvation. They 'are mere adventurers
and slon't know how to work.
The Northwest Mounted Police en-
deavored to arrest a citizen of British Col-
umbia on the British Columbia side of the
line without a warrant from the looal
authorities. The oitizen refused to go and
the police desisted.
Cartier, & Larkin, who have been in
partnership as builders and contria8c8t0,av
rgaet
Brandon, Man.,' since 2
assigned in trust. Their liabilities reach
probably 510,000; they show a nominal
unpins, but it is largely locked up in North
west invoiltinente.
The gas well that was struck thirty
mil& west of Medicine Hat some time ago
is still burning, supplying the fuel for a
etetionary engine that is digging for water.
Some thipk that the region between Medi.
oine Hat and Calgary 18 full of petroleum.
.It is,certainly full of coal.
The Bell. Pavel Company hat taken 500
bushel!' of fax seed from Mr. tody,,who is
about ereoting a tinned oil mill et Winni-
peg. This -quantity will seed down 10500
acres of sod. The product, estimated at
about 25,000 bushels, Will be purchased by
Mr. Body, who will &immune amain as
mon an the orop is threehed.
In the Legislature on Monday the
Government reeolutione reit:sting the
Ottawa tertila Were rosa a mond thin. A
resolution Was added empowering a Speolal
Cteinnittee, &insisting of the Speaker and
the Members of the Government, to carry
(rummest:Sodom with the Ottawa Govern-
ment, and if no Medifkation is offered by
lbw pomjiil�rzSdevernmetill la_ biller'
Seaternent Of Wilms tO ley WHO the
Queen in Coientel_ .1 _the Ititoment to be sob -
witted tothe Leipsnittire next session.
from the 1" barracks/
On Eitinilacisiven14, word was reoeived '
man named MoManus Mid murdered Bill
Reed, better known as " Buckskin f3hortyr
at Geddele farm. Bight policemen went
• and discovered tbe body and arrested Mo.
Monne. A. man namac1Harqr eaW
cutting Shorty with a knife. On attempt-
ing to interfere )(Manus threatened. to
4,00 4m. McManus °lama that thekill,
Ing was done in mit defelne, and Made no
attempt to escape. Both parties are whis.
key dealers. The police have been hunting
for Shorty for some time, he being inspected
of having .whiskey hid on Bow River..
There is no coroner in the district, and
Major Dowling has telegraphed for instruo,
tone.
Mr. R. 3. Short has just returned frora
thelar West, where he has been superin-
tending the construction of barbed wire
fenoes around. the a. P. R. experimental,
farms. He reports the farms booking;
excellent, with wheat, int& barley and peas,
above ground and growing luxuriantly.
Vegetables of all kinde have been put 111
and promise well. The season is a montlt.
in advance of that east of Moose jaw, anda
the ram which fell all along that region a.
few days ago has given quite an impetus to
vegetation a all kinds. The farms, ten in
number, are located at Glob:Men, Tilley..
•Stair, Dunmore, Forms, Maple Creek, Gulls
Lake, Swift Current, Rush Lake and
Sumter:. They vary in size from 15 to 40-s
urea ; the soil is light, bat not of the un-
productive character generally Supposed in
advance of the present tests.—Winnipeg
Sun. •
THE N. W. U. P.
The Northwest Mounted Police Force -
have been redistributed as follows:
Regina District — Headquarters -125,
men. The Commiesioner and Senior Sur-
geon Jukes; Sdpts. Shurtliffe and Gagnon .;.
Capt. Deane, Superintendent and Adjutant,
and Supply Officer Neale.
Calgary District, including Silver City.
and the line of railway westward -100 men.
Supt. Herthmer and Inspector Dowling at.
Calgary; Inepeotor Steele and 30 men at.
Silver City.
McLeod and outposts -75 men. .
Cotton and Inspectors Perry and Moffatt,
Maple Creek and Medicine Hat -50 men. .
Supt. Mciltree at Maple Creek and Inspec-
tor Howe at Medicine Hat.
Battleford District --"-• 150 men. Supt.
Crozier, Inspector Antrobus and Surgeon
Miller at Battleford ; Inspector Griesbach
and ,25 men at Fort Saehatchewan ; In-
spector Dickens and 25 men at Fort Pitt;
and a detachment of five men at Prince
Albert.
Twenty mon will be stationed at the re.
°rutting depot, Winnipeg, under Inspector
Norman. It is intended to keep the strength
of the force up to the full complement of
520 men, and while the chief reliance will
be placed on the depot in Winnipeg,'good,
men Will be taken on at any of the district •
headquarters. .
Business troubles: Northwest Territory.
—Wilkineon & Lindsay, hotel, creditors to
meet; Grass & MacKay, general store,.
Regina, stook ecild at 50 cents on the dollar.
Manitoba—O'Connor & , Dimmiok, hotel,
Winnipeg, sold out by the shoriff. ,
Principal Goggin, of . the Manitoba
Normal School, says the demand for
teachers in tile Province ievery great. The •
salaries are from $30 to $50 per month,
some being engaged by the yearatthe rate,
of about $400 per annum, although many
of the schools are on account of the cold.
weather closed during the winter months..
There is n preference for lady teachers, and
very little differentia is made in the salaries
paid the different sexes. '
The Calgary Calgary murderer Mt:Menus is said•
to be from Biddulph, Ont.
Brandon is applying for the letter -box
system and free delivery.
• Farmers on the Big Plain having secured,• ."
their patent] are going to tne Souris, 001111.• „
try for second homesteads.
The oounty municipality of Pottage la
Prairie ie 26 miles wide and 30 miles long, ,
and contains 500 resident and 500.non-reei.
dent ratepayers, and has a total population .
of 1,500 souls. •
The Manitoba Legislature was prorogued
yesterday. Previous' te tbe prorogation a,
Bill providing for dire& tetation, to take •
effeot on the let of January next, was intro:.
dined by the Premier. The only Point of
importance in the Speeeh was the para-
graph regretting the ueeeeeity for rejecting-.
the terms offered by the Dominion'Govern-
merit. • . .
The North Ideskittehevian is too low for
navigation at Prince Albert.
Winnipeg liquor dealers havingpleaded...
hard tiraes, the Counoil passed a by-law
reduoing the rates to 6400 by saloons and
$200 by hotels, wholesales and shop& •
A treraedots haul was made last weea
by a miner at the Selkirk range. He
washed out $3,900 in gold and $420 in sib.
ver. For the benefit of intending emigrante
it may be well to say that this is not an
average week's profit& About $7 a day is
the figure; expenses,,$3 ; Profits 541. risks, .
an unknwn quantity.—Winnipej Sun.
• • CHECK YOUR. BAGGAGE.
A. Case ot 'Interest to Travellers and
Kotel•Keepers:.,
• The Court of Appeal at Toroeto.on Feril
day, in the cam of C. 3. -Palin against R.
H. Reid, laid down the law in a matter of
baggage said 'to be lost in a hotel. 'The •,
plaintiff was an &tete agent in England
and came over here with his papers packed:
Op in a trunk of Saratoga dimensions. He • • .'
put up at the City Hotel, Toronto, kept ,
by Mr. Reid, and after remaining a short '
time paid his bill and went away, leaving,
as he says, the trunk and some ,
window fixings in the hotel, in ' the • --
public room, but without check or
receipt. A" notice warning guests to pot
their baggage in the molt prOvidiAlor that
purpose was dieregarded by He went
away without returning for eeveral weeks,
whenthe trunk was not M be found. The
proprietor of the hotel swore that no trunk
• was left in his charge by the plaintiff, that •
he had no recollection of any convereation •
About it, but that there might have been
many Ruth there as it was exhibition week.
If put in bis charge he said he would have -
put it in the proper room and have given
a oheok foe it. The court below appear to
have held 'that' it was groes negligenes on
the part Of the hotel -keeper not to have
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• produced the trenk When it was Tea for,
but the full Court of Appeal rev Bed thin,
sn the Mots of the ease.
'One of the only two remaining Boman
milestones in Great Britain is 14 Cannon
Area, London, the other being in Cheetor- '
holm inNorthumberland. .There is Ruben
work alit:4lb the Tower of London. Until '
quite recently an old Roman turret ' was
'deriding within a hundred yards of Lud-
gate Hill station, and in Cripplegatti may
yet be seen o splendid epebimen tif the •
original Roman wall.
Corner died nuflaordy at his masa •
on Mill street, Toronto, on Striaday night,
having btu& o blood vowel while coughing.
He was foreman Of the Grand -Trunk%
works at the Don.
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