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The New Era, 1884-06-20, Page 8June 201884. DO1JBLE EXEOVTION, e. The Lnat of the Lazier TressedYen Prince Edward. County. 40WDER AND TOMPOETT HANGED. They Protest their Innocence of the Terri- ble Crime to the Last. The Ur!me. On the evening' of the 21st of Deana Peter Lazier, or Belleville, who w engaged in needing aacsountsioreau ag cultural implement agency in Bel!evil drove into Bloomfield. There was no ho twoolcamodation there and he proceeded the residence of Mr. Gilbert Jones relative of hie), a mile and a half west thevillage. While attending to Lazier horse Mr. Jones fell. through an openi in the hay.loft and was injured, and t Road man who lived near by was oblig to remain at the house later than usual It was abed:bele-past 9 on that even fig night when •• he leee Jones' hit .return home and ail was then cal and peaceful. A light snow was failing a soon dter the wind rose. Mr. Jones, on a oount of iujuries he had sustained retir early, Mrs. Jones was about the Ilene a Mr. Lazier occupied a chair in Wei sitiin room, where he engaged in reading. T bed -nom occupied by Mr. and Mrs. eone and that whioh was to be teed by Mr Lazier, were on the north side oethehous the kitehen was to the east, and the sittin room, in which there was a bright coal fir adjoined Lazier's bed.room. Mrs. Jon had bidden 'Good night" to Lazier, wh went to his room. A few moments leiter rap was heard at the kitchen door, to whio Mrs. Jones -responded. On opening ti door she saw two mon, one of whom wo a mask, and the other had his hat drn over his face. She hurriedly retreated who ahe saw them, and when passing Lazier bed -room called to him. She then ran t her own bed.room, closed the door an celled her husband, who came out into th sitting -room with anunloaded gun an snapped it several times. He saw the me with the meek in amnia with Lazier, an another man beating Lazier over the hea with a gun. They • separated, the ma with the gun retreating first, and th masked man fallowing , him into th kitchen. • When' about eight feet fro Lazier, theman with tbe mask fired tw shots, the Mat of wheel itruok the casing o Mrs. Jones' bed.room door, and the noon entered Lazter's • bodyandkilled hem There were tracks in the anti* about th hone'and when the alarm was given the were traced for a considerable distanoe that night. On the following diy, the traoka were followed, and they led to the houses of Joseph Tompsitt , and Sohn Louder. The firstenamed was arrested early on the following morning and two sons of the latter on the same day. The peteonen were 'sent •for trial and David Louder was acquitted. The other two, after a trial lasting five days, Were found guilty and by Mr. • justice Patterson sen- tenced to be hanged. All efforts to obtain a respite were in vain. • A correspondent, referring to the hang. ing of Tompsett and Lowder aePioton yesterday, gives the following account of a scene on the scaffold: The drop was six feet six inches, and brouglit the pawn- ers within twelve or fifteen•Mehes of the ground floor. A few minutes before 8 o'clock, the hour fixed for the exeoutien, the hangman entered the cells of -"the doomed men and pinioned their areas. The prooeseion to the gallows then formed, headed by the hangman, followed by the sheriff, and Rev. Mr. Loucks reading aloud a prayer. Then came thee condemned men. The prow:mien paned tp.stairs to the upper easterly corridor, and along this corridor to the gallows. They were both pale, but walked firmly. Tompseet looked calm and collected. Before the popes wee° adjusted, while on the trap, he turned BO BB to clasp Lowder% hand, and said, "Good bye, George," oelmly, but in a broken Willi°. Lowder said, "Good bye," and the black caps were pulled over their heads, their legs pinioned, and the ropes adjusted. Rev. E. Loucks, the Church of England inister, led a short prayer, after conolud- g which be said, "Sheriff, I think those on want to say something." The Sheriff ireoted the hangman to remove the black aps. Tompsett did not say a word, but tood firmly, hardly' moving a muscle. owder said if they knew what they were oing they would not do it. He then said, th deep emotion, "1 have said all I have say; I am ready to g� to God," and then gan praying. He prayed for some Min- n, using good language, but beaten° more d more excited as he went on, until at iagth he broke down completely, his lege ttering so that he could hardly stand. or some time his speeoh was indietinot cause of his sobs. There wan a moment's epense, the men edged nearer each other, d with difficulty Frank hands and said od-bye. The Sheriff struck the floor th his sword, and with great :raise the ap dropped' at 7.56 o'olook. The rope pped between Tompsett's right ear and in, and he struggled desperately. The pe was under Lowder'e chin, and the adders remarked that his neck Was oken, as they heard it oracle—Lowder ruggled greatly, but at the end alive inutee the choking noise ceased, though s pulsation continued for nine nainutee.-- ompsett died hard — struggled and itched, and kicked the pinions off his go. Several times he drew them up and row himself forward. Hil3 hands also ere thrown around as much as the pinions ould admit, and the spectators' sickened er au le, Id to ee of • ng he ad t- on t12 Ild o. nd g. be 6; g'• e, es a re' WD, '0 11 fl zn 0 in wi to be nt an le to 1' be BO an go tr sli oh ro op br et hi tw le th at the sight. The hangman disappeared, not waiting to hear the comments upon his dreadful bungling, and those who BMW the hanging weie also glad to leave the Nene and many wiahed they had never witneseed it. The hangman did not understand hie business, and the case will strengthen the agitation for the appointment of one skilled in the dreadful work of death by hanging. At the end of fourteen minutes the heart of Temp. sett ceased to beat. Lowder's face,af ter haeg- ing, was beadle distorted, and rery,blaok, while Tempt:etre was more natural. The usual inquest was held andehebbdies were buried ha the jail yard, . After the execration Tompeettei wife and Lowder's' mother sent large bouquets of &VMS. John O'Neil, ono of the eettith watches, said Tonipsett intimated to hiniems medal invasion that he was at Jones'on the night of the murder. Once he said : It hope God will kill me if I fired that fatal shot. I knew ,nothing of 'Lazier% 'death. until afteremyerrest and was then wound of the offence.' I know that George Lowder is as innocent as the child unborn. At another time he odd he would write A letter to th d public explaining the tritila from their beginning to the end. Eft wraild say that elebbett, the Chief Constable of Eaton, more to a lie, for the tracks that led from Soott% lane went eolith instead of north. George Lowder meld eel whet he knew sheet the tracks, and when George and Tommie met the latter said, e It is hard. to die, bnti there is no help for lia." They bade one another an affectionate farewell. Tompsett said, "11 I'm guilty I hope die hare and hang for an hour." TORONTO 1!11.171SD.Elt Two Venoms Found Guilty by the Coro. need Jury -A Illamiltou Woman Found to be Implicated. The adjourned inquest regarding the murder of Samuel Ken, was held in To- ronto last night, when the jury brought in a. verdid that Mrs. Hattie Jeffrey and John Falvey did feloniously and with malice aforethought kill and murder Samuel Kerr. Neither of the.prisonere sheered the slight. eat emotion; face when Mr. Galbraith, as counsel, spoke to Falvey, he replied with a broad smile. Hattie Jeff* Whispered eagerly with her counsel, and eald she ex- peoted fronithe evidence that she would be committed. The only witneas examined last night was Detective Reburn, who went over the grounds of what is known of the tragedy, all of which has already been printed. He .also prOdueed the shin worn by Fahey when arrested, which hes large blood spots eddiffeeent parte of kited' a pale Of large minors whioh were found in Jeffrey% room, It has been a theory with some oe the authorities that leerrealwound WM inflicted with a pair of scissors. Hattie Jeffrey beloegs to Hamilton, and she ie said to be married to a young man named Win. Wall, who has attended nearly all the hearings. Titmemetietalt .15T011131. A 'Vermont YIIIacAJmo.t Swept AWRY by a Flood -Two Lives Lost, A Springfield, Vb., despatela pays Th village has been visited by a diem:trees flood, the second in eleven months. •A creek flows through the valley, emptying into the Black River near the centre of the village. 11 18 bridged in many places, and lined for half a utile with honeesand, barns. The people, warned by the -.flood last July eaused by a waterspout, widened the brook and rebuilt farther from it. Two storms mooting over the village tedity broke and rain fell in torrenta. The brook rose with ends rapidity that the people were foroed to flee for their lives. Few were able to nye anything. The channel of the creek soon became filled with the wreokage of houses, barna awl other buildinge. Only the roughest estimate of the damage con be given, but it is thought it will reach at lead 650,000eIn some places the highways are gullied twenty-five feet deep and ROMS houses in the village have four -feet of mud in them. A barn near Cheshire bridge was -blown dawn, killing William Parker and fatally injuring Bella Spaulding. ALLEGED FIRE BUG DECAMPS: Guelph merchant, Charged with Firing a Block. Jump. Ills Bail. A Monday evening's • telegram from Guelph Bays •. Charles Kirk, the boot and thee menhant oharged with incendiericaze has skipped out. He' had been released on beil,-giving$800 in his own name and two sureties in $400 eaoh. His ease was to have' been disposed of beton- Judge Drove this Morning. His Home took his seat at 10 o'olook. Counsel on both sides were 'present, and after waiting for 001310 time for Kirk to put in an , appearance,- inquiries were made, when it was learned that he had not been seen' since Friday last, on which day he said he was going to Toronto .to arrange some matters there. It seems, however, that his destination was the States. 'His wife followed him on Satur- day morning, and his business is now in the hands of his oreditore. The judge ordered his bail eaoheated, and issued a warrant for his arrest. The block of buildings whioh be is said to have fired is the finest in the city; fortunately only elight damage was done. TIESEE.BIEN DROWNED. . Mill Hands17nable to Swint Drowned in a Mill Pond. A Sherbrooke, Que., despatch says Calista'Reil, aged 19; Jas. Castonier, 15 and Ootave Pope, 18, were found on Satur- day in the mill pond of Wm. Long, Key Brook, Brompton. They had all 'aeon in the employ. of Mr. Long, but did not work on Thursday in consequence of repairs to the mill, and went feshing. Not returning in theefternoon it was taken for granted that they had taken a short out to their homes, Wakefield Hills settlement, Wind- sor. ' The hat of Castonier having been found floating on Friday afternoon caused uneasiness, and a messenger was sent to their home, when it was found that they had not been there. The water was at one drawn oft and their bodies were found in a plaoe where the water was twelve feet deep. They had put their clothes under the bridge where they were not very easily seen. The evidence at the inquest showed that none of the three could swim. A ver- dict of found drowned was returned; Teen dweetneleire: OUTRAGES. Suggestions to the Home Secretary by the Police Authorities. A last (Thursday) night's cablegram from London says: The police authorities have suggested to Sir Wm. Vernon Harcourt, Home Secretary, that the Government should ask the United Mateo to compel shippers of dynamite to make it declare. tion of ete destination and purpose, similar to that now required in regard to ether ex. plosivee and inflammables by laws enacted before the• invention of dynamite. It is underatood that some request to this effete; will be included in the diplomatio note to Washington which is now being. prepared by Ilord Granville, The tinned dealers in gunpowder here ',ay, however, that such legislation would onlyhamper legitimate trade in the new espeosives, and would be ineffeetere against the dyne- raitera, who always smuggletheir materiala and never paokeor label them in the style need by the trade. Ilidwages dl Diphtheria. ' • A Montreal de:Tat:Ai says Diphtheria appeare to be increasing in the city. Oat of a mortality of 26 in the city laet week 7 deaths resulted from this fell disease. The corporation inedied health officer complains of a Want of finanoial aid on the part of the corporation to sanitary mete Beres, and the Health Inspeotoe of the city blames the physicians for tilde neglect to report their nen for isolation. , Prof. Goltz, of Strasburg, lately exhibited a dog reasoned of no part of that portion of the brain Which some phyeleloresta call the "Motor tract," or the ;seat of power for voluntary motion. Yet the animal had perfeet freedom of action, and knew how to effeeteally Violet any interference with him at meal time:. The printed volumes are many in which attempte are Made to peeve that au& it thing is iMpOissible. 1111131 HUMOR 1111 Danl. Woman Ilittlerage Amendment to be Tared On. A London ceblegram nye The -House of Commons presented an unusually ani' mated appeseanee this afternoon, the oc- casion being the diecussion of the amend- ment to the Franchise Bill offered by Mr. Wiliam Woodall, M.P. for Stoke-on-Trent, and whioh propoees to extend the aufferage to female householders. The lobby and galleries were crowded with apeetatere,and that portion of the gallery known as the ladies' "cage " was especially brilliant in aPPeaelesee% being Packed with ladies in all the bravery of spring toilettes. The disotue eion brought out the fact that the woman suffrage propoeition has etrong supporters on both Wee of the House, and that it is a question upon which the party line eaunot be drawn. Mre'Ciladatone is opposed' to the amendment, but his son, Mr. Herbert Gladstone, with Postmaster - General Fawcett and many other Liberal members, are in favor of it, and have signed a memorial tothe Government asking that a fall and free debate be allowed, and that a vote for the -amendment may VA be con- strued as a vote against the Government or it desertion of the Liberal party. Sir Stafford Northooto favors the amendment, and openly pledged himpelf to its support in a recent epeeoh at Belfast. Mr. Gorst and many other' Conservative members agree with the Tory leader, while his chief lieutenant, Lord Randolph Churchill, op- peses FOB, CIORDO1PIS RELIEF. . • An Armed Expedition to Saari tor akar- tuns on July OStb. A London cablegram Bays: The report which has been gaining currency the pan few days that the preparation for a mili- tary expedition to Khartoum had been -abandoned haa been semeoffieially denied. It is asserted that active efforts continue to be made to put everything in readiness. The expedition, it is said, will be en route by eitly 281h. A committee oomposed of Major-General Fielding, Quartermaster - General Harrison, Colonel Ha -mitten; and Comminaay.Generall Young has been ordered to ingot at Aldershot to report upon teleran for providing a water supply for the army while operating in the desert. Ordera have been sent to Cairo to echelon the whole Egyptian army under General Sir Evelyn Wood between Anouen. and Wadyhalfa. , Late bills drawn by General Gordon on the Government have reached Cairo, but no lettere. It is suspected that thelettere, which must in all probability have been despatched, have been intercepted by men in the pay of certain offioials at Cairo, who an secretly trying to thwart the adieu of the English. The Times 'says that khe friends of Ger- don have znade arrengemente to send mete angers to Khartoum with letters and oomes of reports, and of the debates in Par- liament on the Soudan question, and of the proceedings of various meetinge at which the Government was urged to relieve him. Extrade from London and provincial press will also be sent for the purpose of showing Gordon that a large amnion of the publio is in favor of military action to res., on bin. Men have arrived at Wadehalle from Dongola ane 'report that Shedd:di is strongly fortified and that there is an abundance of wheat there. The Nile is rising rapidly, and the rebels, fearing the arrival of the army from Cairo, are about to retire to Kordofan. Benue, June 3.—The :Cologne Gazette says that England has advanced to the Egyptiam Government £8,000,000 to • balance the budget. Another battalion of Egyptian troops has been ordered to Suakim,andthe remainder of the marines at Port Said also start im- mediately for the same place. • FOIMONED RE HELLEBORE. The Potion Accidentally Introduced into Custard 'Pie.. On Monday night Mr. James Crothers, his wife and little boy, who reside at the corner of Laing street and Eastern avenue, Leelieville, were seized by violent eiekness and vomiting, which became so aggravated that Dr. Mackenzie Was sent for, who on his swivel found' that they had been poisoned, and after administering remedies remained with them all night. Mrs. Grethen and the little boy recoverd to: wards morningeeut Mr. anthers continued BO ill that Dr. Carrell was called in and gave little hopes of his recovery. Last evening, however,. when a Globe reporter called at the house, the door was answered by Mn. Crothers, and the little boy was running about the room, apparently none the worse for his mishap, while Mr. Ctoth- ors, though *still very weak, had ceased vomiting and appeared to be in a fair way or recovering. It is supposed that the poieoning was occasioned by the contents of a oup of hellebore, which was danding on a obeli beneath whioh Mrs. anthers was making a custard pie, being blown' by the wind into the pie, of ,whioh they all partook at supper. This theory will be tested by an analysis. -• FAR WEST DirecoeerieNlee British Colombia's Complaints' ot Dom- inion Blaladministration. A Victoria,. B.C.,. despatch sale ; The Colonist, the Goverment organ, has a bitter article on the failure of the Dominion Government to carry out the terms of the Settlement Bill, and says net only has the dryedoter not been commenced, but the Mainland Railway lands are still tied up. Hundreds of immigrants who deoline to squat on them have left for the American side, and the situation is becoming threat ening. Fears are entertained that fresh complications between the Ptheince and the Dominion will arise. The members here have remonstrated with the Dominion Government in view of the gravity of the situation. • Distutter go a Canadian Propeller. A Sanabeach (Mich) despatoli saya: This Morning during a dense fog the Cana- dian propeller California struck a reef one mile north of the harbor' and half it mile out while going at full head. After fruit- ion efforts to get her off it bad hole was found in her hell, A northeast wind springing up, she was nettled and her pan:angers brought ashore. The captain has telegraphed for a tee and pumps. She was bound frtifieChiettgo to Montreal with twelve cabin pan:angers:rad a cargo of oorn. Iler preamit position is preearieue, as the Wind and samara More:ming, • Twenty.one rare ago there were twelve woinen dootore 10 110 United States. Now there are 580, and more coming, lie title; will believe only veld 110 eau fully oompreliond mud have a very long head, or a very short ereed. Soddy is a crucible in which all gold Melte. Out 0111 ia drawn Only one of two prizes—vanity or disgust. Wigglea predicts a big titmice Sept, 19th. THE HUM WOW** A INtrY Member el Parlfauseist Give. His Vomit,* of the Newry Outbreak-. He lAnimplond the Orange Side. A London cablegram says: Mr, Henry Thompson, the Conservative member of Parliament for riewry, Ireland, who wit - peened the Orange and Green riot in that town Iset Sunday, was in the lobby of the House of ()ominous this afternoon. He at. treated qtlite a orowil by a graphic 'and exalted narrative of his observemes and expegienee during the fight. A000rding to her. Thompson, the Nationalists foughe with the ferocity of tigere, while- Garage:nen mined to this the gedlenes of lanibe. He was especially Mere upon the police, who, he odd, took the part of the Leaguere againet the Loyalists, -and were unneoeseartly brutal all around. Mr. Thomp- son declares that he narrowly mowed with his own life, dodging by only a few inches inclose a desperate bnige made at him by a constable with it sword bayonet, which was driven with such force that it was firmly imbedded in a wooden wall behind him, just as 10 Blipped aside. Mr. Thompson propane to question the Government cop. °ening the riot, and if thee:lowers et Chief Seeretary Trevelyan are not satiefeetory to Lord Arthur Hill and the other Orange leaden, he will force a dismission on tbe whole subject. He says that the people of England do not understand the merits of the question, and that if it is fairly vend, lated in Parliament he believee publio opinion will compel the Government to countermand the orders giveti by Viceroy Spencer, which Mr. Thompson claims are putting a premium upon eedition and meshing the Loyalists. A Loden special says that trouble is anticipated in Ireland over the avowed in- tention of the Orangemen to walk on, the 12th. They claim that they can 'muster 50;000 strong, all able-bodied men, while the Nationalist:Elm! that they will agree to kick into the Boyne all the Orangemen who can be mustered above 5,000,," bar- ring the boye." • Much excitement dill prevails at Newry. Two Protestants were knocked down and badly beaten there yesterday. The police appear powerless to put down penebreakers. Arrangements are being made for a monster•meeting at Belfest to protest againd the Government's policy of encouraging Nationalists and suppressing Loyalist demonstrations. FIRE IN WINNIPEG. Thirty-five Thousand Dollard Worth 'of 1Property Destroyed-Itlaze at Brandon. A Winnipeg, June 10th despatch says: A destructive fire broke out this tnorning in a small stable near the Lemon Hotel. • The flames rapidly spread, everything being SB dry as tinder and a fresh breeze blowing, Notwithstanding.the efforts of the firemen, the Lames Hotel building, in which was Mr. McGregor's fruit store, was destroyed, along with Ernes' livery stable, Mrs. Wil son's residence and grocery, a Chinese laundry, and Bawlf 'a grain warehouse. The fire 'Occurred in the thickly -settled part of the city, ill elose proximity to the market square, the Princess Opera House, the police station and numerous modern structures, but fortunately the flames were confined to the buildings named. Lose es. timated at 535,000; McGregor's lose being 51,500, Berridge 520,000, -Murray $2,000, Ald. Bawles 57,000, 55,000 being on stook; Ernes' 4300, Multhep Hotel $3,000, Mrs. Wilson 01,000. Insurance, 010,500 ; of whit& the City of London has 45,000, Citi- zens' $2,500, Manitoba Mutual 42,000, Lam. caster° 53,000, Guardian 41,500, Liverpool &London & Globe 01,500, Caledonian 01,000. Mr. Berridge is an ex -Hamilton. • ANOTHER FIRE AT BRANDON. Two • fires occurred at Brendan last •night, a yeentiat building owned by 'Cape Wastie, formerly of London, being fired et 1 o'clock. The flames were extinguished, but at 4 a. methey again broke out, and the building was consumed. -•^, DROLL SCENIC IN CHURCH. Whole ot the Maori Chiefs Fall [Asleep "and Satore'in St. Pour.. ,A London cablegram says:. A comical scene was witnessed at St. Paul's Cathedral this morning. The ten Maori chide who accompanied King Tawhai to London were taken to the oethedral to attend morning prayer, and were expected .to be profoundly impreseed with the grandeur° of the edifice, the beauty of the musio, and the solemnity ,of the 138n1013. The untutored New Zealanders, however, were by no means impressed, but were, on the oontrary, unmistakably. bored. They listened with dome appearance of interest to the music:, but they found standing up during the responses and kneeling during the.prayers too exhausting, and finally kept then nate. When it came to the pennon they could evidently stand it no loiagek, and the entire ten fell asleep and snored nand:Windy throughout the discourse. Ring Tawhai dtd not attend, being confined to h is nom by rheumatism and' sore eyes. Tem .99.EADLY iimisoussurn. . . • Two Vomen Badly earned With 'Coal Mrs, Sohn Maokintoeh, of London East, attempted on Sunday °yelping to kindle her fire with, coal oil. The result was an explopion, which - scattered the blazing oil over Mrs. Madkintosh and her little girl. Mr. Mackintosh, who was in bed, sprung to the rescue of hie wife, drugged her out of the house, and rolled her in the nand till the flews were extinguished, hie prompt though seven , treatment saving her life. As it was she was badly burned about the •arms and legs. The little girl's halide and arms were badly burned, and the father's hands were somewhat injured. 0 Despoiling the Forests. • great pine forests of Michigan, Wis. consin and Minnesota are beginning. to .shotv the signs Of exhaustion. There 38 a shortage of produCtion thie year in these States footing up about 600,000,000 feet. The average of "lint quality" lumber has run down from 12 per cent,. ten years ago to 2 per cent. last year, showing the rapid deterioration of stook whioh is brought to ihe mills'. The quality of the logs is 132110.11 poorer than ever before, as many hate, been put in from land once out over, aud new lewd has been bleared of everythin.g 'that will make a cull board. The improve dent luniberreare who in the past only out the choice pine end lef t the remainder to be devastated by fire, now saws down his inn don to the root to save an axe kerf, serapes the ground with a fine tooth rake to get °Very log that will Make passable mill outlet and will discharge a foreman that lewd on tbe ground a log eix inehee in diameter.---Iforthioestern Lumberman. ' There are no 'depths for a bravo heart from whioli hope menet 1110tini hope, Which outlaets gold and tile grave, M• any of the letters writtenlay George Eliot, and incattdea in Mr, Ones% forth. coming biography, tefer to the American °eel war, • ,-.tribih News. Mr. Ambres•Anturke, P. r4.• BullYbuley, a Member of an obi and respeOted family in the county of Antrim, died on Iday 146h. =An inquest was held on May 21a1 in Dub 11-15 OD the body of Capt. Alex. Bell, who had died suddenly while on his honeymoon tour. The jury returned a verdiot of death from natural causes. The vacancy in the den of Local Govern.; raent Inapector, recently created by the death of Dr. George F. Roughen, Galway, has been tilled by the appointment of Dr StewartiWoodhopeo, Abotit twenty disguised men entered one night lately the house of Dennis Hayes, a farmer at Gortahola, Tipperary, and oar- ried off his daughter. Her father had re- fused to Id tbe girl marry her lover, hence the e.bduotiOn. A. brutal murder was committed near Rathdrnm, County ei'eieklow, on May 191h. The viotim was a woman named Moore, $0 years of age; and the murderer, who beat her brains out with a shovel, and stole a gun, £3 in cash, and a cheque for £50, is believed to- be it retered soldier named Tobin. • A MILE A. MINUTE. *Unprecedented Fast Time Blade from • Chicago to Washington. The special newspaper train conveying the Washington correspondents from the convention arrived at Washington yester. day afternoon. It made the run of 813 miles in twenty-three hours. e• The :ideal running time was nineteen houra thirty minutes. The time from Chicago to Chi- cago junction, 273 miles, was 6 hours 30 minutes ; oohed running time, 5 hours 35 • minutes. The average rate was upwards of 52 miles an hour, an unprecedented run for the distance. At one time 57 miles was accomplished 10 59 minutes and ffequently eingle miles in from 56 to 58 seconds. The final 27 mike, from Barnesville to the Ohio river, were made in 28 minutes, six miles of the distance being run in four minutes, or at the rate 'of ninety miles on hour. WheneWathihgton junction was reached the engineer was instructed to run the last 44 miles at the rate of a. mile a minute. He exceeded the limit by hat a piiiitite; and ran the last 161 miles in 14 •'caudate 44 miles in 43i minutes. SPEECH BY EMPEROR WILLIAM. Foundation Stone ot New Parliament • Building Laid. A Berlin. cablegram says : The founda- tion stone of the new Parliament building in Berlin was laid to -day by the Emperor. The assemblage was .brilliant. The Em. peror's epeech, whioh was read by Prince Bismarck, says: Through the success of the United German arms the empire has attained a,greatnees before undreamed of The oonfidenoe existing between the Federal Governments gives strength to protect the constitution, and ensure national develop- ment and prosperity. May the work, which will in future be done in this build- ing, be devoted only to order, liberty, justiceand equal love for all classes of the people. May peace abroad and at home attend the erection of this edifice, and may it be forever a visible sign of the undissolu- ble bonds which have united the German States ant the people. •• Printed Ilandherehiets. 'Oooasionally a French printer evolves it notion weethy of a live American. A typo' in Bonen has printed and published a large s edition of handkerchiefs for thediffusion of military knowledge among the masses. , There is a grotesque sound to this, but none A nob is intended ; the novel typographie enterprise is as serious a business 'project as the ptosaicework of issuing it primer or spelling book. The handkerchief has been carefully edited by two officers holding high positions in the mak of Frazice, and is printed on linen with what is said to be in- destructible black ink. A large, quantity of matter has been crowded on the handker- chief, all of practical value •to men in the • ranks of the army. Besides the array of martial knowledge inculcated, the handker- chief inculcates eentiments of patriotism 10. pithy, ringing Benterafes. The shrewd -printer of the handkerchiefs is aura of the countenance of his Governmenefor France le more than ever eager to recover her old- time nailitaty supremacy, and to awaken a love for a military life among her, people. What more convenient manual for the .. would.be soldier than the handkerchief of useful military knowledge I • IIIIITOBA MD THE -11110711WIST. (By telegram from Winaipig.) • A. number of tramps arrived ElundsX. Mr. Burgess, Deputy Minister of 110Interior, arrived on .Sunday. The wife of Mr. David Young, a promi- nent citizen, died, unexpeotedly Sunday jest after her return from Florida. Mean time, and not etendard, will be observed in olosiug hotel and aloon ban. This fillowe twenty.eight minutes longer at night. A clerk named Darland, iiirmerly of the. Memited ..Polioe, has disappeared mys. terionly from St. Paul, Minn. 110 bazla flora Belleville. Mr. John Persie, late chief clerk in the - Traffic Manager's office of the Canadian Pacifio Railway, bas been appointed agent of the 'Great Eastern Line in the North- ee , west. (By Edmonton had the pink eye. Fort Frances is to have a new hotel. Mica has been discovered at Edmonton. The prairie e are now decked with beau. Wel flowers.' For Saskatchewan hasit resident Pres- byterian missionary. Port Attlair is to- be lighted by elec.- trioity. ° Apple culture has proved a suocese in the. Big Saskatchewan A branch of the Ontario Law Sweaty io to be formed in Port Arthur, Fort McLeod has now the finest police barracks in the Northwest. Twelve men are waehing eald thlif season in the North Saskatehewan. 'There is a scarcity of flour at Edmonton and barley is worth 75 cents it beehel. The United Empire took three corpses from PortArtlaurefor,mterment intim east. Mr. Samples, of St. Paul, has been ewarded the beef contract for the construe.tion company.. • The Healy Mining Comeany purpose bridging the Bow_ River and running a- titanway feeinit teetheir mine, a distance, of five or Fez milea. About fifty men will be employed, -and work is to' commence on the 2ad June. The Minnow, it small steamboat, made it trip to Lethbridge, thirty miles below Mo. Lead, from Medicine Hat. This is' the first ascent of the South Saskatoliewan and , Belly Itiversond is of great impedance W that notion oe the country. • Neepawa markets: Wheat, Noel bard, 7 tits.; frozen, from 45 to Mote.; oats, 20 ots.; potatoes, from 35 to 40, ole.; butter, from 22 to 25 ole.; eggs,15 ets. ; wood, 52.59, per cord ; beef, 10 cents per pound; fresh pork, 8 ciente por pound. '• Prairie fires are making terrible havoc: on the Riding Mountain. Miles of valuable timber have been deatroyed and the Indian Reserve at Rolling River hits been devast- ated, many ,of the Indians' houses, together with grain bed implements, being de. strmoyre.Gd. eorge Wilson, a dealer in dry goods in Winnipeg since 1879, is about re- moving to Almonte, his native town. Mr. Wilson Rays that the dry goods business of Winnipeg 10 greatly overdone. ' Compete • tion is keen and expenses Engl. He men- • tioned the case of one large retail house, the daily expenses of which were 0300. Winni- peg in his opinion is a goo & distributing peint. Much depotale on the crops wbioh are at present i4 need of rain. • • The 11. C. bazaar at the Portage. netted • Hay is plentiful at Blandon at 7 per oad ; wood hone e3 to 54. inies... Ainewtrail from Brandon to Plum Creek reduces the distance from 24 tole. . • Capt. Waste has sent in his resignation as chief of the'Brandon fire brigade. Mr. Towers has also sent in his as eminent. Ames Renal' has been appointed in the Captain's place. • , Earth worms •ere• committing great • depredations in the various gardens in the• vicinity of the Portage. Onions, tomatoeie• • and cucumbers are sustaining n;tost injury. • Mr. Tomlin has had two acres of -onions almost completely destroyed• . . Nearly a thousand head of cattle have arrived from Tenneesee• for the ranch° at Dimple Creek. . • , The Manitoba Farmers' lJnion will meet to.day for reorganization. 411 arrangentent has been made by the union with it Toronto -firm to sell their grain ' in the markets of EueoPe. • • Last Friday, two • barrel, supposed to contain cod oil, slaipped from Winnipeg, and assigned to •Mr. Currie, Calgary, arrived at the latter station. On inspection they were found to contain kegs of whiskey, whioh were wedged in with pieces of wood to keep them solid. On Saturday this whiskey, about thirty gallons, was spilled on the bank of the Bow. , Methodist Blemberdhip Ileum's. , There is an increase of memben in the • Montreal Conference of 1,252, and in the London Conference of 3,389, not including the Woodstock distrid, which has yet to • report. There will also be it good I:Areas° in the Toronto Conferehoe. •• 40NDON CONFERENCE.• . . Total Membership, Increase. Hamilton Histriet 4,380 439 Niagara "• 8,147 100 Brantford " 2,046 424 London • 88Vgtin11"dweeoet:8 ; 1: ' ..• ..... .... , 823r9181 00 (dee07r23ease.) Chatham " ... ... . . 41:15o7 • (lasti7soear.) GS a ru clip% ' :: • 2,685 457207 3,885 Goderich• " Wellington 4,• 3,801 257 Stratford " • 2,3:769517 • 485476 /.1•••••.• , Total ... 43,209 3,389 Oscar Wilde on Marriage. A London despatch Heys : Oscar' Wilde, who was married last Tuesday to Miss Constance Lloyd, has writteh a silly and thoroughly characteristic letter to it friend, in which he nye he has not been disap. pointed in married life. He feels confident of his ability to sustain its labors and anxieties, and sees an opportunity in his new relations for realizing a. poetical con- ception which he has long entertained. He Days that' Lord Beacon:afield taught the Peen of England a new style of oratory, and similarly he intends to set an example of the pervading influence of art in matri- mony. 0. • The Wonderful Nile Family. Riohmond, Pa., despatch Bayo: Alone Immense and Iecob Kilo of,this townahip, are brothers. They are triplets, 72 gout: of age. Inn is fifteen minutes older than Jacob and is fifteen the junior of Abraham. Their mother, Catharine Kilo, died re. wetly, aged 98. Beeides these three ohildren ehe left 9 others, besidee 82 gratidehildren, 120 great.grandobildren, 28 great.great-grandoluldren and 2 great -great. great-gliradohildren. She had been it widow four yeara, her husband dying at 95. They baa been married 75 years. They aredisooverers that dunk thero. is no land when they cart see nothing but (Mat , To be faithful, to keep faith, simply and joyously, is to teach and held the essential best of life. Front oork chippings, once throtin evray, thoueande of genie of lineleuni me now Made at Deltnenhoret; GerMany, Where the indUstry is becoMing qUite-itoportant. • • . . A Cure tor 'Diphtheria. • A correspondent of it Victorian paper writes "Should any of your family be attacked with diphtheria, do not be Warmed, as it is usually and speedily cured without a doctor. When it wad raging in England a few years ago I accompanied Dr. Field on his route to witness the so•called ' wonderful cures ' he performed, while the patients of others were dropping off on all sides. The remedy, to be so rapid, roust -be simple. All be took with him were powdered sulphur and a quill, and with these he cured every ,patient, without ex- ception. He put a teaspoonful of flour of brimstone into a wine•glass of water ahd • stirred it with hhifinger instead 'of a spoon, as the sulphur does not readily amalgamate, with water. When the Bulebur was welltaix- ed he gave it as a gargle, and in ten minutee the patient was out of danger. Brimstone kills every species of fungus in Dian, beast and plant in it few Miontes. Instead of apittingout the gargle, he noominended the awallowing cf it. In extreme oases where he had bed: called jut in the nick of time,. when the fungus was too nearly closing to admit of gargling, he blew the sulphur through a quill into the throat, and after the fungus had shrunk to allow it, then the gargling. He never lost A patient from diphtheria. If a patient cannot gargle, take a live coal, put it on a shovel and Bprinkle a teaspoonful or two of flour of brimaton at it tithe upon it ; let the Oaf- ferer inhale it, holding the head over it, and the fungus will die. If plentifully used the whole room may be filled ahnoat to suffon- • tion and the patient oan walk about in it inhalingthefurnee, with doors and windows. closed. The mode of fumigating a room with sulphur has often cured most violent. - attacks of cold in the head, ohest, eto,, at same time, and is recommended in elutes of coneuMption and asthma." Another deadlock in' the negotiations between Prussia and the Tatioan for the election of an Archbishop for Posen lute occurred. Little is Bald abed dynerdite at London - The pollee keep to themselves whatever informationthey receive. O'Donovan XiOSSa'S threat against Windifor Clestle merely results in ineretteing the pod there.