The Advocate, 1887-11-17, Page 6aa -
BALEOUE AT Bnispmuji.
Ireland to be Scourged illt0 Submisi�ntnd
rXee BPeech to be SUPPreasell•
0844GBIKEN WILL EIGHT -
A last (Friday) night's Londou cable
aye Mr. Ballgur Went, to PlrminghaPt,
today and attended the first anintal
-.lug of the Midland 'Conservative Union.
He was accompanied by a detective and
the chief of the Leetaingtoo Retie°, At
Birmingham armeddeteetiVes were posted
•eit the depot to,Wiltoh for suspicious4char-•
teeters. Mr. lialfoor received, during the'
day a hundred addresses from Conservative
sissoctatie-ica's,iid'in thanking the, depute -
lions -which brought them he gave assurance
that the,Grovernment was resolved to pro-
ceed ba* anVirinly with' the work they
Lad taken inliand inireland and thing it
to a good conelneion. Ele admitted the
task was a difficult, one, but held, that it
was perfectly possible and capable of suc-
cessful accomplishment. Certain, incidents
-lin Ireland had caused same of their
friends some misgivings, but those inci-
dents were due, not; tole& of ,resolution on
the part of the Government,_but to defeats
in the law, which had never contemplated
the present system -of organized popular
rebellion.
Mr. Balfour addressed a large and enthu-
alastic audience at the town hall thi even-'
ing. He Said he toped that at the next
aession of Parlian2ont England tend Scot-,,
land would get a fair share of legielation.
till, the Irish question, would -remain the
foremost problem in the mind of every ono
who took an, in -Ore -at bathe fortiMeglif his
country. He had noticed that Mr. Glad -
atone --(hooting, cries of " Chips," and
laughter) -although he had mentioned his
programme of legislation, didnot appear
to take a very lively interest in it him -
Self. Except as regards the offer of the
plundering of the Scotch and Welsh
4. churches, as a bribe for the -dismember.
, -extent of the empire, Mr. Gladstone dia.
; iplayed little interest in anything except
the ‚Irish question, and no man: had done
r, anore to make .-it impossible to ignore the
-4 Irish question. Therefore Ireland would
a • be his , (Balfour's) tope to -night, ,Tho
- question was not whether Ireland was to be
- governed under her own or an English Par.
liament, but whether she was to be governed
at all in accordance 'with any of those
[principles which had hitherto regulated the
liction of every civilized State in the world.
(Cheers.) Referring to the events of the
winter of 1885, he compared the Liberal
E
to those barbaric ancestors who got
baptised because their king embraced
Christianity. One morning Mr. Gladstone
announced himself a Home Ruler, and
forthwith a large section of the Liberals
decInred theniselves Herne Rulers, SOMO
Of. them explained to a scoffing public the
veason for their conversion, while others,
like Harcourt, evidently believed that
Least said soonest mended,': and that it
was possible for men to utter their opinions
negarding Ireland and yet retain the tradi-
tions hitherto governing their Party. 'They
might have allied themselves with the Par-
nellite party so far as the question of Horne
Bulewas concerned and rejected lusioa. but
they had instead rejected an alliance and
accepted fusion, and their principal object
now, as evidenced by every paragraph 'of
, Mr. Gladstone's shameful speeches, was to
render difficult the government of
Ireland. In condemning ,Mr.. Glad -
stone's inconsistency and his pre-
sent tactics, Mr. Balfour, declared
that not one of the evictions now occurring
could have been prevented, even if the
smendrdent which Mr. Gladstone wanted
Lad been inserted in the Land Bill. Mr.
Gladstone's criticisms onciland legislation
were 'Strange indeed, coming from a man
who for sixteen or seventeen years had
fruitlessly tinkered with the question. In
-regard to the unhappy affair at Mitchells -
town Mr. Gladstone had attacked him
(Balfour) personally for not listening in
silence to bitter attacks made on Men who
spent their lives in defence of the law. The
demon of inaccuracy had pursued Mr.
Gladstone even to his, assertions on this
Subject. But it was unnecessary to enter
into details in justifying the police. If, as
the Nationalists and Mr. Gladstone de-
lighted to say, the police were defeated and
routed, could any one blame them if they
red? (Cries of "Oh.") The truth was,
' the,Nationalists, including Mr. Gladstone,
' dmust choose upon which horse they will
ride. If they choose to, triumph .in the
defeat of the pence, let, them not -blame
the police for firing in salf-defence. If
' they. choose td say that the police
tvere brutal butchers and they fired
without cause, let us hear no more
of this indirect triumph or their defeat.
(Cheers.) Mr. Gladstone's attack on the
character of Constable Whelehan'who was
murdered by moonlighters, was the most
tnonstrous of all his aasertions and ought
to cause shame to his followers. The state-
raent that the police had paid an informer
previous to planning the outrage WU totally
eintrue. In comparison the number of
meetings proclaimed by the Conservatives
-was much less than during Mr. Gladstone's
.administration.
Continuing, Mr.Balfour said he intended
.to stop speakers who directly advocated
crime, but to toleratethose who only talked
• anortsense. Earl Spencer; he said, moved
uneasily in the Parnellite livery, but Mr,
Gladstone as if " to the manner born." He
.concluded by predicting that a steady
,epplication of the present policy of the
4Govetnment would result in the Irish be-
coming enthusiastic and loyal supporters of
aan empire which they by their virtues were
Ltted to adorn. '
Mr. William Johnston, member of tar.
'lament for ,South Belfast, a Conservative;
onade a speech to -night at Glasgow. Lathe
course of his remarks he said that every
Crangeman in Ireland was deterinited to
take up and Me liis rifle before he *mild
AllOW the Empire to be torn up.
Earl Spencer, in -a speech at Scarborough
thia evening, said it ill became Lerd Hat,
tington t� make insinuations against M.
-Gladstone thatihey were as underserved
atiad illogical as they were unfair. Tho
treatnient of Irelatid, witheint regard to her
. emtkinal aspirations-, Was bound to fail,
-Washington Irving Bishop, whose
anind-readino tricktvere exposed last
eleason both in Boston and New York, has
turned up in San Fratioisco. HO is at
preSent slowly notivering from an attack
.of epilepsy,
P..*.14,1114., " 4 fff ICTSOKIC TRAP,Illor
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AP: ec7Ternlitanlan'a POPItttPrtt frewIlert Plek4,fted Peutb—ler murders ills Wire
Nork-illla Deficits, 4- Pk?* AtFOther4o-LOw •olok
Yorkdespatcla says: David I3cott Mite Snicide,
ena of the ablest and most suceessfei busi.' ", LQuisYtile,clespateh says; At 19 o'clock
nes inen'in this city in the paper ',trade, Yesterday )010koniing.11irs. Mary Bruner, the
partner in the old firm( of.Vernon 13rOtlierePl„ Other of Mrs.. Charlee 13? BroWnfitild„ who
& Po., and Preeitleot of the Ivanhoe Paper live§ 114 144 West Chestnut street, ,o,eile,4
Company?, haft mysteriously' disappeared. at the reaidence ef her daughter, Airna
The; Antrim is partly eelVed, by the die, OM) answered. her ring she raised the
coVery, since M. Scott's disappearance, wilarlow of the little one-story frame cot -
that he has withdrawn considerably over tagi?. ,T40, fgight that met her aYea Was a
$40,000 in ca'sh,frams. the firm Alif Vernon horibe oe. rn the middle of the door
Brothers & Co., and that he has involved ()opting between the room occupied by her
the firm wtth the Ivanhee F,aner porormy ,ciatighterandkusbandandtheir littledaugh-
to the exteat 'of $60,000, and with the ter of 8, or 10,4iecus, ana the one Occepied by
LaWrenceVille Cement Company, of '10 'Wm:aligner, a brother of Mrs.: Charles
Breadway;for $10,000 more. 'BroWndeld. ytheresided With the family,
Mr, Scott disappeared on Ootober 2244, Witallie body ofCharieli B. Brownfield, her
!ate; he had had a long andexciting inter., daughter's husband, suspended by a strap,,
view with:Mr. Thomas Vernon, the senior fjeaCi-, 44W,h9 *cid& back .andon a' bed
Partner of'Vernon Brothers & Co.win which In ,a ila,rit,aPaner reposed the body of Win,
Mr Vernon obtained from Mr Scott atE'.:Bruntir With Sis"throat cut fioin ear to
,
partial explanation of his hasthee*-en, ear; Faciiigthe self.murdererinthe other
tangieineota. While Mr. Vernon then and ,r,ocin Was another bed uponifinich, stiffened
sincelledebit'e 'disappearance 'has been 'ilar..the. bleed were the forms of his wife
able to learn the amount in which Mr. a,,e 1144. Their, heads, were almost
Scott has involved ,the .firm, he, has. not seVere froinibeir bodies. Beneath Brown.'
been able tolind out Where the money Went. flail's !feet depth° razor: with Which ,the•
Mr. Themes Vermin siddin an interview, [Win/ XlseAa bad been committed, The
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yeaterd: A Mr.*ott has been with the lhad oldthing Was drenched with blood and,
firm for thirty -years. He came', tooalew the faces of the' victims besmeared so. that
York fromaoronto, Canada, with -a letter' APY'VereAlmost heyend kecognitimit On
of fi4Ooduolioh; and was given a clerksbipi the ittreatt in the parlor the '0114;1v/hag let -
at 46:a week, He was bright and intern- tar, dated .3O a.m., and written 4the
gent,, and he pee rapidly in OUF esteem. murdetni in an unusuallylegible hind, was
After five yp,arelie was admitted to all hI7, "
teres in the firtrq; . , , T9' all .anyhom , it , may enneerri,-I,'
Mr.., Scott' was, also President of the Cherlee B„Eircnynfield, murdered my dealt.
Lawrenceville : Utiment gompany.,, The Wife and baby, also W. F.,`" Brener, my,
direaOrs met in the company's'office'in the' hrotherlinAliat!, -I killed my Wife and baby'
Boree1A building: yesterday. Mr. Alvah beoaus,e I avinetired of life and di4u0twalit
Hall, one of the stookholders, said that the thenleft penniless in the world and no one
companytheld $10,000 in Mr..Soott's notes, to care for them. My cause of being tired'
but they werdfullY secured ,lind Wel coin, of life le gambling. Now let my brothers
pony would l6sa nothing; , kr: 'Hall radded and friendtake warning. I ,killed W. F.
that he belieired Mr.SeettiobelerePorarily Bruner heeallse I did not think heves fit
insane. to live, and now.I will make an attempt on
Mr. Scott is a son of Mr. Scott, formerly my life, so good-bye my father, brother and
,
Surveyor of Customs of Toropto. He is sister, and friends and relations. 'All take
about 48 years old, andhad been with the warniog. Good-bye.
firm cif Vernon Bros. it Co. for twenty:five CmaiLes B. BROWNFIELD.
years, The New York Sun has the .follow- Charles B. Brownfield wasabout 30 years
ing regarding birn ; An intimate friend of of age and verv dissipated. He caused his
Mr., Scott said' yeiterday : " Mi. Scott's father, Squire'Brownfield, a magistrate and
private charities will never'be'known. He highly respected old gentleman, much
was genprque, charitahle and open-handed. trouble. He was a mechanic and worked
There are three tombstones in Greenwood
in the shops ef the Louisville & Nashville
that he has had erected over Young "men Railroad in this city.
who had died friendless. One of these was
the son of William Lyon Mackenzie, the , DuriNig AND viz,
Canadian patriot of 1837. Mn Y meii`have. - .........
told me with tears in their eyes, of what A Swiss Silk iraver noots kis Wife and
Scott has done for -them. He has been a lEireii His House -Two Children Burned
changed man for a year. past, has drank to:,Deliti,.:
some and been to races, put I can't ,under. A haat (Wednesday) night's Hebron,
stand what he has done with; his meney."..
Cohn., despatch says: John Hodel, a silk
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weaver, shot his wife last night and then
WOMEN FIGHT 'WITH. WOLVES. set fire to the house. Two children were
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Keeping the Desperate Brutes at Bay With tined. The murderer says he told his wife
a Lantern Till Help Comes. last night he was going to kill himself. She
A Houghton, Mich., despatch, Bays: said she wanted -to die, too. An agreement
Dolphie Brunelle, a farmeimearhere, ayes wa's then madethat the whole family should
called from his home on Wednesday and die together. There were two small children
left his wife and daughter, the latter aged -boys, aged 3 and 6 -and the mother ex-
17,*alone. Mrs. Brunelle heard a noise
in pedtedto becouned again in a month.
'the calf -pen late in the evening, and' she 'Do'ri,e4 ihe night, Hodel says be brought
..
and her daughter went out with a lunturn, the children from an adjoining room and
to see *hat was the matter. They found placed'iliem in the bed with their mother
the barn surrounded by wolves, and before andeet fire to•the bed, but the smothering
the women had gine to retreat the fero- prOceea was too slow, so he . got., a shotgun
cious animals surrounded them. The and fired bcith,liarrels into his wife's breast.
brutes were afraid of the lantern and re- TWflarnes then spread and -aniothered both
treated whenever, -it was swung toward children.' Withnothing on but a nightshirt,
them, but Mrs. Brunelle dared not swing Hodel ran down the road towardsthe depot
the lantern violeatl for fear it would go oryliii, ",Fire l',' The neighbors gathered
out. With remarkable courage she worked, and p4, , the fire out. Model wandered.
her way step bYetep toward .tlui,,,,, barn,' ,larmindliwhile and then returned to the
keeping the wolves.at bay with the light. lionise, Whee he Was arrested. Eth was a
After ten minutes' of the ,greatest ,Ordeal 'soli weaver, earning good wages and had a
she managed to reach a pitchfork, and half a dozen barrels of home-made wine
while the daughter swung the lantern she and cider in his cellar. Drinkingthis made
attacked the' wolves with the fork, _finally him'ora,zY and prompted the crime. He is
succeeding in getting into the barn and a Swiss and came from Lucerne 'eighteen
closed the door. Then both fainted.
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months ago. He is,,31 years old. .
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burnedio death. Hodel fled, but was cap -
FINE FRUIT.
Apple Trees of 1812 Still in Tull bearing.
At Dr. Springer's barns in East Haniilton
is a eight really worth seeing.-- In one heal;
alone is a thousand bushels of apples
(Rhode Island Greenings) and here and
there are piles containing 100 or 150 bushels
of other varieties. The fruit is all good
and sound and was raised by the doctor in
his splendid orchards. It may not be
generally known -that there are on Dr.
Springer's premises apple trees which were
planted in the year 1812. This season two
of these bore .fruit in abundance. The
product of one was thirty bushels and of
the other thirty-three bushels. The doctor
has given great attention to fruit' ahltine,
and has been generally successful. '
The Latest Craze in England. s
A London cablegram says: We are
threatened with a new craze, which, pro-
perly worked, deserves to become as popu-
lar as walking round the Agricultural Hall
used to be. Nepoleon Bird is astonishing
the North of England with, 1-Ong-dithiance
pianoforte performances. 'Thist.'weele this
artist played at Stockport for thirty-six
and a quarter hours without ' stopping,
thereby beating his own. best previous
record by eleven and a quarter hours.
Although much troubled by sleepiness dur-
ing the last hour or Iwo, he seems to have
finished very fit, and wound up by singing
"Rule Britannia " to his own accompani-
ment. At present there seeing to be no
rival in the field. But when we get our
two or three men playing against one
another on different pianos the sport will
become exciting as well as intellectual.
' It is stated in Ottatva 'that Dr. Mc-
Michael, Q. 0,, of Toronto, has been offered
a position on the bench -of the Queen's
Bench Division, and that Judge Armour
will be made justice of that division.
4 'CANADA. AND AMERICA.
NeW York,Chagnber `of Comineree on Inter-
.
national.' Relations
A New York, despatch says : The Cham-
ber of Commeree yesterday adopted reso-
lutions favoring the attempt now being
made by British 'members of Parliament
and &hale to have urged upon Congress
the importance of having all ,disputes or
differeaces between the United States and
Great -Brits -in settled by arbitration when
not accomplished, by diplomatic proceed-
.
I ings. Betholutions were. adopted tavormg
the peadeful settlement 'of the Canadian
'fishery question between Great Britain and
this Country, and a committee was ap-
pointed to investigate the possibility of a
material expansion of our cbtiimerce in
this" direction, by inviting arguments for
andegainst Commercial Union with Can-
ada, and documentary evidence as to the
exterdandinospects of thci trade between
the ‘two coontriee, and to report to the
,Cheinber suoh recommendation for its
itction as,would enable it to contribute its
influence, not only to the early adjustment
of the fishery question, but to aid in pre -
curing the extension of the commerce of
this country, should such action be deemed
desirable.
Mr. Reibert 3. Burdotte has written' as
felloWS to a comedian who •desired 'the
humorist to write * play for hint':
"Thought of it once or twice,but Miter got
gaits eo far ail the title, if *Vet I de com-
mit the deed, hoWever.I'll tellyeti the first
one. But, seriously, 1 Conkinftiao it. It
limit in me, 1:Use-writing defearide a pent.'
liar genii* fou which I haVeafearched all
throngli thy baggage .a hi -Milked titnes,,., but
it there. I 'think it Mind have been
Seised in the chatom hotted,"
A.4 6, result a the recent inteatigatiOn
into the fOiiiidlifig question th Montreal.
the Grey nuns haVe dedided te abandon the
ferining out system and keep all tonna,
tinge in their own betabilahniezit.
The Heroine of a Romance Dying.
A Baltimore despatch says: The report
that the beantiful Miss Williams, of this
city, was at one time engaged to Mr. Her-
bert, the owner of the Muokross estate,
in Killarney, is slowly dyingat her home
here, ri
ecalls a romance, As s well.known
the wedding -day was set, but theceremony
was forbidden by 3/1r. Williams because Mr.
Herbert wail a divorced man and hisestates
were heavily encumbered. Subsequently
the younk lady fell from her horse, and
since then she has been an invalid, She
obeyed her father and gave up the man she
lolled, but tae struggle Wing too much. She
pined away graduany, and now they say is
slowly dying, surrounded by all the aim -
forts of a luxulious home and the atten-
tions( of a devotsd family circle.
Sachs, t4e St. Louis cook who
threw the ps,noakt, at MM. Cleveland, is
Co* oh .exhibition ha dime MUSeUni. Prom
feeding 'Stomachs, the hag descended to
feeding' morbid ouribsity.
privateletter !I'm Los Angeles,Cali-
fernis.; iiimontiCeS Oe presence hi that
city doe day feet Week tf Benjamin Cronyo,
the missing solicitor fthe Ontario Invest-
ment Association Ltbdon, Oat,
A FIGHT WITH INDIANS.
Algt_Eogegenzent In Wide!' trOvOh./7
'rot tho itO,.._dohl..__Ov to !light -Vivo 1O`
Masa and One White Wiled,
A Crow indian Agency, Mont„ despatch
saitita, Yesterday. ,moroing a mat ,itod
interpreter were sent to the Inciip.43., village
,erdering the Oda to come, to Oen. Roger
lit, headquiirters. After the chief' had her.
segued the camp a nuinben of, them .rode'
&lore .Gen, linger'a quarters, where a
parley took plebe, at the end a which the
chiefs returned to their camp. . The cavalry
were down in full field order on the emin-
ence fronting the Ttidism, positinn. The
Didiene soon bean- about and
singing war songs." At the end of the time
allowed, the Indiana tocome in. with the
bid young men, whose surrender the Gen-
eral haddemeaded, the ocivalay advanced,
the iefaotry ti?ok position and the Indians
opened fare. At the first volley Corp.Chas.
Simpson, of Troop "X"' 1st; Cavalry, was
shot dead. , PHI ate Enguene Mollerof
Troop K, was weanded, four times. 'The
Iediare took a position in the rifle Fite and
,ix the bush. The Itotchkise rifle planted
the first shot beyond the 'Little Ilorn. The
next fel in the, Indian camp, and one In-
dian and a home were killed. The cavalry
now advanced upon the Indians, 'driving
thein into the bosh: Sword Bearer was
killed, being stoat twice in the .skirnaish by
0 Troop, let Cevalry,commanded by, Capt.
F. C. Upham mid ,Lient. 3. 11.*Ayleeacre,
The CroW scout, Firebug, also claims to
have fired .the, fatal shot. Nearly all 'of
them ,came ,,hito, the agency, only about
twenty esoaping to the hills. ,The latteri
are nqw being pursued by 'cavalry.' The
above. narnes clover all the casualties, ex-
cept one, who ;was, slightly ,disabled by a
fall. Five „Indians are reported dead.
There is no danger to the settlements.
• SOLD HIS DAUGHTERS.
A Sot Who Bartered Away His Flesh and
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Blood to Savages for Whiskey. •
' A special to the New York World from
Ottawa, Ont., says: While a Victoria
schooner was lyingat the wharf at Barcley
Sound, on the weet coast of Vancouver
Island, recently, thecaptain and crew were
surprised to see two white girls running
towards. the vessel, closelypursued by
three or four Indians. The gide sprang on
board and begged the captain to protect
them from their pursuers. The Indians
demanded the girls as their property, but
the captain refused to give the girls up.
The Incline went away and returned
largely reinforced.' The captain then sur.
rendered the girls for fear of his life. They
are daughters of Wm. Thompson, of San
Juan. The father became 'dissipated, and
all he earned went. for the purchase, of
liquor. When he could no longer obtain
money or liquer he bold his eldest daughter
to a wealthy Chinaman, to whom, it is
said, she was married at the point of a
revolver. His wife died of a broken heart,
and in one of his revelries at the Indian
camp, it is elleged, he agreed to barter two
of his daughters for whiskey. The follow-
ing night the girls were carried away by a
few of the tribe. Since their captivity they
have been brutally treated. A younger
sister, only 8 years old, was sold to another
tribe.
Latest from the Northwest.
The total number of immigrants arrived
in this city this Season to date is upwards
of 16,000.
The weather has taken a very mild turn.
The river is open again and ploughing has
been resumed.
Thomas Newton, against whom a true
bill for the murder of John Ingo has been
found, was remanded this morning to the
Spring Assizes, owing to the illness of an
important witness for the Crown.
Mr. Marshallsay, member of the North-
west Comicil for Broadview, is dying.
A Victoria special says: The English ship
Duchess of- Argyle has gone ashore on San
Juan Island, opposite Nesh Bay, W.T.
Constable Warren, who waseentenced at
Lethbridge for refusing to clean an officer's
boots, has been released by order of Com-
missioner Herchrner.
The tug Dryberry, which has been mis-
sing on the Lake of the Woods for the last
ten days, was found -yesterday. She was
frozen in during the cold snap of last week.
Rev. D. M. Gordon leaves Knox Churah
for his new field in Halifax week after next.
Negotiations 'between, the citizens of
Winnipeg and the Manitoba Government
for the construction of the Red River Valley
Railway have been resumed, with reason.
able hope of a successful result. '
The Manitoba Methodist Mission Board
has made the following appropriations:
Winnipeg district, for home missions,
$1,230; for Indian missions, $5,000. Mor-
den district, for home missions, $1,000;
Deloraine district, $1,166. Portage la
Prairie district, $600. Barrel district,
$1,444. Brandon district, 41,585. Regina
district, $2,989. Saskatchewan district,
$2,715. The grants to Indian missions in
the West amount to $7,975.
A Sleeping Beauty in Court.
A Detroit despatch says: The Coroner's
inquest in the case of Mrs. Jane Hoag, of
Adrian, who drowned herself on Saturday,
was marked by a peculiar episode. Gertrude
King, the principal witness, who is given to
naps lasting from two to four hours, during
which she cannot be aroused, fell asleep in
court -room, and the able legal gentlemen
present, after shaking her, were perforce
compelled to await the pleasure of the
sleeping beauty. Finally the inquest was
adjourned until to -morrow. The girl is 18
years old and the ablest slumberer in
Lonawee county,
A. Missing vessel.
A despatch from Winnipeg says: The
steam tug Dryberry is believed id have
been on Lake of the Woods; as no trace of
her can be found. The Dryberry had sev-
eral passengers on board, including George
Heenan, the well-known mining expert.
Dr. Dawson, of the Geological Survey,
hes returned to Ottawa after an absence of
six months in the Yukon country with the
exploring expedition. The other members
of the party will whiter in the country and
resume their labors as early as possiible in
the spring, Dr. Dawson has already
secured much valuable information re-
garding the district, arid will be °coupled
all the winter preparing repOrts and maps.
The present epidemic of diphtheria in
Montreal id Oansing some alarm,
PLUM) .W4.11613 AallaVAL
sebill'uou P,t St. Xaula 9vor the )r-seellsed!
ilea'ste from a circus -
4 St. Louis desPatch Bays: One of the
most exciting scenes that ever occurred i*
this oity took place at the 'Pinion depot
between'.8 and,4,o'clOck this afternoonand.
for a time created net only a tremendous
excitement, but the wildest kind of a soon.
among the people present. During the day
a special tram of passenger and flat cam
bearing John Robinson's menagerie and
circus people and their animals from Fort
Scott, Kansas, came into the 'Onion depot
en route to Cincinnati, where they are to
winter. About half -past &the train pulled
out to MSS, the bridge, and while passing
over the "•ruzzle awitele'," in the depot
yard a flat car flewl the raok, followed by
others, end ran into a freight train on the
side track,demolishing two or three
oars and, killing George. Squires, a can-
vas man„ and badly injitring two other
circus men named Fuller and Lite. In
the smash-up some of the animals' cages.
on the at, cars were brokenand a Bengal:
tiger, two lions, a leopard, an ibex and
a vulture escaped. The wildest kind
of a commotion followed. The depot
officials and policemen ran frantically
shoot shouting warnings,. and there waa
general':and quick, stampede from the
yards to the streets beyond. The circine
and depot men then made Search ter the
animals. The leopard was found crouched
under a freight car, and an attempt was
made to lasso him, ',but it failed, and the
animal rushed from cover, bit a maft
severely in, the leg op his way out, bounded.
into the ticket office, and then jumped
through a transom into the superinten-
dent's office. He was besieged* by the
circus men, ,and after several attempts to
capture him and two or three shots being
fired at him , he was covered with a
tarpaulin and secured. One by one the ,
other animals were found, and after more'
or less trouble were captured and returned
to their cages, but it was not until nearly
dark that the work was over and the
excitement was allayed.
A NOVEL COAIIIAT.
A Mink and a Hawk Fight in a Barrel et
• Water.
A fight took: place a few days ago on the
farm of G. Hanshaw, lot 6, con. 6, West
Niseouri, the like of which does not often '
occur. Mi. Renshaw had a sunken barrel
in a spring on his farm, where the water is
very scarce. A mink thought he would go
into the barrel to We a little swim, but
when in he found he could not get out
again. While he was struggling in the
water i a large hen hawk chanced to fly
over, and it seems to have occurred to hint
that it was a good chance to make a meal
of the mink. 'lleavent for the barrel and
a terrible fight ensued. The hawk, how-
ever, succeeded in killing the mink, but
during the combat his feathers became so
wet that he, too, was unable to get out and
was drowned. Both victor and vanquished
were found dead in the barrel afterwards
A Father's Flans Frustrated,
The Minnedosa, Man., Tribune had the
following in a recent issue: A surprise
awaited Mr. Campbell, of Merchiston, the
week before last, that he little dreamed of.
He had made arrangements to send his
daughter,'Miss Campbell, well known in_
Minnedoria, to Scotland, but on her arrival
at Strathclair she and Mr. John Arch.
McDonald, of the Hudson Bay Post, became
one, and the trip to Scotland was indefi-
nitely postponed, though Mrs. McDonald
passed through Minnedosa the same day
on a visit to friends at Rat Creek, while her
husband went on a trip weat. Although
Mr. Campbell was much disturbed at the
unexpected turn of affairs, yet he has made
up his mind that "what can't be cured
must be endured," andlorgiven the couple.
Draughts.
William Strickland, of Leeds, champion
blindfold player of the world, died recently
at Leeds. He was 38 years of age. There
is no doubt that the strain of mental foroe
he brought to bear on draughts shattered '
his nervous system, and made him fan
early a victim to any disease which pre-
sented itself. Wyllie the " Herd Laddie
in discussing blindfold playing, expresset
the opinion that blindfold playing
was injurious to the brain, and 'should,
never be indulged in. Besides, it was a
useless test of ingenuity. Strickland was s •
splendid player and a genial man. He had
many friends.
Assignments.
The following assignments are reported:
Ontario -Chatham, W. H. Crow, grocer
Guelph, Chas. Humphries, ten; Napenee.
P. S. Hicks, grocer; Oshawa, Smith .
Adams, general store; Toronto, Walter B.
Over, hotel; Woodstock, J. George Mason.
stationery.
Roomy 'grousers.
"Now, Job," said Mrs. Shuttle, 44 those
trousers are altogether too big for the boy.
They'll have to be changed." "No, they
won't. They're all right. I bought 'ens
where they advertised Boys' clothing to
play in.' They are just big enough forhint
to play in without going out of doors'.
They're so roomy."
The Twenty -Four Hour System.
Mr. Sandford Fleming, originator of the
24 hour system, has received a letter frorn
the Japanese Minister in London stating
that the 24 o'cloek system will be adopted
throughout the Japanese Empire on January
lat. Mr. Morning is also informed that it
is giving satisfactory results in Sweden.
and expresees the belief that it is only a
matter of a few years before the system
will be universally adopted.
There's nothing like being prepared.
A. man died in Boston the other day who,
for over thirty years, greased his nose
every time he wont out on the street. His
idea was that some one might want to
tweak it, and having it greased their fingers
Would Slip off. Bat for his caution his
ruose might have been a wreck.
Parting with their friande, the Ruesiana
, se a triple kies. The partiea totheoscula.
Itory not cross mouths at about the angle of
' the letter X, then reverse the angle for a
aecond coritadt, and fcir a trine] climax.
With faces squarely vis-a-vis, they impart
, a savory sniack that boars considerable',
evidence of cordiality,
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