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Exeter Advocate, 1907-06-27, Page 2RIFLE BULLET AND SABRE The French Government Is Facing a Serious Crisis. A despatch from Paris says : The news from Southern France during Fri- day night was mostly disquieting. Thera are those who see or profess to see an insurrection of dangerous pro- p( rtions uh•eady launched, but the facts, or so fur as they have reached the capi- tat, do not justify such u deplorable con- clusion. 1l is True that events in Ile Midi have taken n much worse turn than seemed at first likely alter the initial measures of the Government \Vedteesday -morning, when F'erroul, ex -Mayor of Narbonne, UFO others were arrested, but up to the present writing there 1s not sufficient reason for believing that the Govern- ment is face to face with ar. armed in- surrection. Ig is known, however, that seven deaths so far have resulted since Wed- nesday at Narbonne. One of the vic- tims was u soldier, while Iwo, father and daughter, were killed in a cafe, the iron shutters of which yore down. The rioters cepturrol gmial Commis- sary Dulest at Narhoa!te and are hold- ing him as a hostage. Alt circulation on Ih^_ street; is prohibited. A despatch to the Petit Parisien from Narbonne says the town hall square was the scene of A VEiJITABLE MASSACRE al about 8 o'clock, resulting in six per- sons being killed and many wounded. One man who escaped told the` corres- pondent that he was near the conal and saw a crowd driving a detective along with kicks and blows. With thirty companions he succeeded in getting the detective from the crowd. The chemists being shut, they corned him to the town hall, on the top steps of which were two officers and many soldiers. The man asked the captain to receive tete wounded detective, whereupon an order was given to the soldiers and they lined up, ready to fire. The rescuers were astounded and turned to flee, when at least fifty snots were fired into •the rescuers and the crowd following Iliem. The military authorities at Narbonne have taken the direction of everything. Troops occupy every street and square. Fresh troops are arriving (here from Resters, Toulouse and Montauban. From 10 o'clock until midnight Mont- pelier was the scene of riot. Three re- volver shots fired by unknown men be- gan the disturbances, then Ihlt soldiers charged in all directions, clearing the streets around the prefecture and de- molishing barricades. Nobody was killed, but many fcrsons were wound.ol. including a ,•. ,itenant. IIOSTILITY TO CAVALRY. The crowd's hostility to the ca\alty began at the arrest of Ferroul, when the cavalry roughly treated the crowd accompanying the ex -Mayor's carriage. Since then the hotels have declined to receive cavalry ollieers for meals. The butchers are ready to serve the infantry na usual. but will not sell to the cavalry. The feeling has become so strong that the military authorities are not using the cavalry, but are leaving all the work to the foot soldiers. Gen. Turcas upon leaving his hotel, stopped to speak with some one on the pavement. Ile was immediately sur- rcundcd by n crowd which threatened to throw him into u nearby canal. The General gave his word of honor that the cavalry should not go out, and he Was allowed to Ieavo. Among the victims in front of the town hall were three men and a girl aged 20 years. • A despatch front Paris says: Like an electric shock the news ran through Paris about noon on Friday that a mil- itary mutiny had been added to the serious developments of The situation in the wine -growing districts of the south. The report that 300 men of the 17th itegiment of Infantry had in a lolly marched out of the barracks and jellied the peasantry was received rt first with incredulous -iunazement, and when soon after confirmed, with feel- ings akin to anguish. Before going the soldiers had pillaged the armory and carried away with them WO cartridges each. At first the mutin- eers declared they were going to Nar- Loone to kill the cuirassiers who had charged the populace there, but finally they marched through the night, with drums and bugles playing at their head, lu Beziers, where the majority of them had been recruited. and where they ar- rived at 6 on Friday morning. All the officers remained at Aude. On ar- rival al Beziers the mutineers endeav- ored to turn the regiment which hod replaced the Seventeenth out of bar - rucks, but failing in this,.fhey appar- ently carte to realize the gravity of the act there oonunitted, and proposed to return to Aude on condition that no disciplinary measures were taken against Ihent. Cternenceau sent an immediate reply that he accepted no conditions, and that Ids colleagues -in the Cabinet fully ap- proved of his action. GOVERNMENT i101:1t1:D. Departmental Checks Sto! ti. Fooled and (:ash,d. A despatch front Ottawa says) A f(•w days ago an employee of the .Militia De- partment named Martineau appropriat- e'. some blank checks of the department. filled thein out for certain amounts, f•:rged the names of the leading offici- als and cashed them at the bank. in This way he obtained some $60.000 to $70,(100. aid is now serving a term in e the penitentiary. Il appears that some- one who Is not yet known has been fol. lowing Martineau's daring forgeries and tttr 4 been successful to the 141110 of a few hundred dollars. 1t has u.st leaked out that over a dozen blank checks have been stolen from the Inland Rev- enue D4-parlmenl here. When the theft was noticed the banks were notified to stop ()ay merit, the It -timbers of the cheeks being given. Before This was tk,ne a couple of the blanks had been used. and the money obtained. It is said that the name of the party on the clii•eks and to solum they were payable* .s not knrnvn. The nair.es of the offici- a!s were forged. To allay suspicion it is said that the checks were cashed on Ru 1st and the 15th of the month, Gov- ernment overnntent pay days Six men met in n pistol battle in the rood at lase nose. Ky.; two were killed, and two wound.•.1. IIIVOc 111 FOREST FIRES. 1.le(grapbic Communication is Entirely Cut 011. A tjeslat tt from Fort William, Ont., says : From fill over the district reports of the great destruction of properly by the bush fires which are raging in every section are pouring in and the losses are now reaching astonishing proportions. The lire is now not more than twenty utiles from this city and the homes of Iwo settlers, Robins and Playlet'', resid- ing at Slate River close to town were on Tuesday totally destroyed, the owners getting out with barely their clothes on their bucks. They are in greeat.•want, and the local relief society are now sup- plying them with clothes. Practically all telegraphic communicn- Iion liars been cut off by reason of the burning of telegraph poles. Greer Bros., the contractors of this place, lost 20,000 lies by lire which swept out one of their camps last week. '-_-el, 'rhe committees of The Hague Pence Ccriference began their sittings on Sat- urday. Three officers and len peasants were killed In a balloon nccldeit in Hun- gary. on Saturday. Joseph Chichester was suffocated at Fort William, and three other -nen were rendered unconscious by fumes from ex- . - used in the ,new waterworks Inns. . on SAlirdny, REVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL Fierce Barricade Fighting Between Troops and People A despolch from Paris Frays : De- o !tee t• ceivcd on Friday night from 1 •'.on. undated, via Madrid. stale flint p• , oiler hatred of the system 1)1 g:•rcertt. meld by decree instituted le senator 1• ;oi Franco after the di`m:sod of Per- i ':.ent has hail an otttconte In barri- o, lighting; between troops and the • , 4'. with merit bla•deh(rl. The ire- . , r made a journey to Opx,rl° in the I •• n( securing n pi -pular etuk,r. etnent e ' 'its policy. but rat every stalker Ire- ',.. • 'n Lisbon 011(1 Oporto crowds hiecevl and hooted the Irwin as 11 passed. lel.,rlo received the Premier with crape I • o.•t•s in place of flogs. and with yelle . incl g QQf �!a hoped for n tie ,1I(taiea' reitTrtiet1 10 . �- • _, fursgJpt rill out - . The cavalry „ u:.tb. and,ll.e nil.tntry rived t•rs cOil in) utdc dr4J'%nod Ihc •I e efts te+ the du.taletr C• 11 ,.‘01. ileely the` . mw 1. A t. g± otli,cr wa= t't'.i • ee,nin.I( I. ft ' et,hbnriiig eeinnre • lii!e•l « th 1 „I and trolmded In••1 ...•1 .r. r. ee -. preoeipurl fight t : ' 7 el. the windows of 11 • I! A, 11 \nti;e- lene. Several Engle tuii •i' wit• ne'e',ei Ili' s!r'ty;,t.'. 944,4 4.+441 the people fought for 1.. '! •' • ! s and ston(rc ,gains! the •e'l•t e 1 •ee' flied wntley e+. A\.•rncn with apmns It. .1 won stones :; l ..1 1111-• • - a. the men and urged Ihrtn un. 11.'g,u1 an leaders hr rengucd the people lo retell. Barricades were formed and cafes invaded. the nob i.reaking up furniture for their est•tn- pe re fortifications. The chief Lisbon cafe wits completely destroyed. The ntob fought with great fury. undisniay e'd by the volleys of the (root c. Friday was a day of mounting for the ekad. All the newspapers appeared with deep black IMtr.lere. and on the business offices and I•rivnle houses !lags flew hall mast- \\ inelows were draped in crepe. Friday eight again the Iro opo were tiring on the partite in the public squares. Most ser - tette events are expected. The spirit of hoott is wi.be,spread and the censorship strict. KING (%Itf.OS ON WARSHIP. ,\ Madrid despatch to the I'nris \gratin soy= : News• front Lisbon enntinues4 grate. Kung Cnrlos is retorted to be tittered the cruiser Amelia. fustics' sur- o.und Prieto \Iitesler Frarteo's house. f►esp11•• disturbing etentc Senor Franco 1s rev'teat to eenlntue his leak. al- thouith It,. Altittde as dictator k becom- ing deity 11,0(5' dangtemus. The agita- tion is extending to all the provinces. Order, have been given 1„ intercept sus. pe test cnrreapondenee. and prefects have Leen Bullion/NI to suspend the puisieals.n of newspapers. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS DAI'r'ENINGS FROM AL(' O\'En tutu Telegraph!, Briefs From Our Own arse Other Countries o1 Rectal Events. CANADA. The Salvation Army is making large purchases of real estate in Toronto. The C. P. 1i. is to build a line to Moose Jaw this summer, it is reported. Ma•Iha Parsons, a Barnardo Nome girl, was drowned at Delhi on Friday. George \V. Mitchell of Belleville died of lockjaw on Friday, resulting U'uut stepring on a rusty nail. Sixty-six Chinese entered Canada by veay of Vancouver in May, paying $500 each. Brantford City Council has appoint - e,1 a committee to investigate the hous- ing problem. The County Council of Dufferin is ask- ing; for an investigation of the admun- is!ration of criminal justice in the coun- ty. A four-year-old Guelph boy fell out of ar upper window, on Saturdays picked himself up and walked into the houee, unhurt. 'Ike Reid Wrecking Company of Sar- i.iI IA ill undertake to raise the dredge Sir \\ ilfrid, sunk in the vicinity of Port Koper. Mr. 11. R. Garrey estimates that 11,- 000.000 1:(*0.000 damages was done by forest fires in Jatnes, Smyth and Tudttope townships. King, who is in Brandon jail on the charge of murdering a Galician, admits the deed. and says the deceased spat lei his face, and he drew a`i•evolver and shot him. At an inquest into a Chinaman's death at Ottawa, It was learned that there was a lodge i f {3tttese Freema- sons in the city with headquarters In San Francisco. W. E. Wicket!, a young man, was drowned by jumping' from a yacht on Saturday night in Toronto bay. He thought the steamer Primrose was about to run the yacht down. Two life-saving stations of the most ellicient type will be established or• Ute north shore of Prince Edward Island the season. Next year a third winter steamer. the most powerful it is pos- sible to ,build, will be run between the island and the mainland. GREAT BRITAIN. The Duke of Devonshire is suffering from heart (rouble. The Postmaster -General has reopened negotiations with Canada, Australia and South Africa in connection with the scheme of uniform rates for the, convey- ance of parcels. UNITED SPATES..4 Typhoid fever is again epidemic in Pittsburg. Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco has been removed from office. A fabulously rich siker strike is ro- rerled from the Cow Creek district, Col. After August first a heavy tax is to be levied in Texas on the sellers of fire- arms. Five men wero blown to atoms In' an explosion in a powder factory at Sen- narnahoning, in Pennsylvania. A train near Mitchell. Indians, was cut in two by a falling rock in a tunnel, and seventeen passengers were injured. Tho United Slates Government pro- poses to relieve China of part of the Boxer indemnity, amounting to 112,000,- 000. Bids have been necepted by the Ameri- ca, Navy Department for the construc- tion of two battleships of the Dread- nought type. A contribution of 1100,000 hug been given to Vanderbilt University by Wil. linin K. Vanderbilt, grandson of the founder. Bishop Patrick A. Ludden of Syracuse, N.Y.. publicly denounced sacred con- certs, calling them "a succalosh of piety end profanity." The police descended upon nn oren- nie• Salvnik,n Army meetrng al Water- bury. Conn., for disturbing the First Baptist Church services. Jeweler worth 11,000 were left be- neath the pillow of a Denver hotel and recovered by the owners a month after, while in Los Angeles. teem 21i d0.vns ingsouka ryskisiona aCar More than $1.000,000 worth of properly e ! ierewers accused of violating the pro- ..1•it.e.tt laws itt Kansas has been eon- ,. .'.,1 by the Stole. A v • 11100 who hod lival as n pamper, and who reecnllly died in 1.11 Illinois (;ouuty llospital was found to have been worth more than $50,(00. Jacob Knonse, a fanner of Selius Grove, 1'a., exchanged 300 rnllroad ties which proved to be rotten, for an auto- ruobilc which wouldn't run. • A nineteen months old baby of Cald- o , :;. Idaho. wandered into the Fage- t rush and after being gone from home three days. was found alive and unhurt. Frightened by it dream of murder, a e, 1 nnessent miser deposited in a bank• R3(i,00(t which he had kept for years hidden in fruit jays mead his home. new, \Vestey Grellem. died recently 81 Duncan. Kentucky. aged 96, oiler n life- time of preaching w•imme a cent in pig- ment. in it church of Ihnl place. 1t is announced Ihst the wage's of con- di:cloys. bnggagenten and trainmen of the Delaware and iludson hailvny will to increneed 10 per cent. inunediatety. George W. l.yle. of Newton. Intl.. was found murdered in his hnynow• seder - (lay night. with $5l.(II0 which he theses received earlier in the day for his farm, gone. A new• crusade against tobacco was begun in Chicogte) ly two women evan- gelists. who des -lore the entente for the went is fast Intoning hereditary with children and a peril to the nation. GENERAL. An Italian Prince and four other pe'r• sons have been killed in a motor sinosh. Pane deli/itch announce+ the come p.eti-•n of pneifle treaties between Frartee and Spain and ilritain and Spain. \le i b'r' of the Jnpanes.' Conslitu- ti.,na!isl party have linseed n rrerlMk,n .run the Atn.•ricatt queai•,n recommend. log calmnem and prudence. LEADING MARKETS 1)I1EAI)STUFFS. Toronto, June 25. -(:all board quota - thins are:- Wheat-Ontario re:w heat -Ontario - No. 2 while, 90c asked, outside. \Wheats -Manitoba - No. 1 northern, 9;'%c bid track lake ports, 03c asked. Peas -No. 2, file askal, outside. Oats -No, 2 white, 46e asked. outside, 44e bid. Corn --No. 3 yellow, 00e bid, Toronto. Prices are:- Wheat-Ontario- re.Wheat-Ontario- Unchanged; No. 2 white winter, S8c to 90c; No. 2 red or No. 2 mixed. 88c to (10c. Wheat -Manitoba - Lake ports, No. 1 hard, 95c; No. 1 northern, 93e; No. 2 northern. 90)1,e. Oats --No. 2 white, 41c to 45e, outside. Corn --No. 2 yellow American, Ole to G1yc. Barley -No. 2. 53%c to 541c; No. 2 extra, 51,%e to 53%c. Peas -No. 2, 79c to 80%c. Rye -70c to 71c. Buckwheat --60e. Flour -Ontario, 90 per cent. patents, offered at $3.55; Afanitoba first patents, 14.75; seconds, $4.15 to $4.20; bakers. $4.75. Bran -$19 to 120; shorts, 821 to 122, outside. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Butter -Market is easy; receipts aro large, and the demand strong. Creamery, prints . , .. ...... 20c to 210 d•; solids ...... .... . .. . 1!k. to 00c Dairy, prints t 7c to 18c do solids ... .. 17c to 17%c Cheese --12%c for large and 13c for twins, in job lots here. Eggs -17c to 18c per dozen, in case lots. Beans -$1.50 to 81.55 for band -picked and $1.35 to 81.40 for primes. lotatpes-Delawares, 11.30 to 11.35. in car lots on truck here. Ontario, $1.10 te' 81.15. Baled Ilay-$14 to 115 for No. 1 linr- olhy and 112.50 1.0 113.50 for secondary grades. Baled Straw -Firm at $7 to 17.25 per ton, in cur lots on track here. PROVISIONS. Dressed flogs -$9.50 for light -weights and $0 for heavies, farmers' lots. Pork -Short cut, 22.75 to 123 per bar- rel; mess, $21 to 821.50. Smoked and• Dry Salted Meats -Long clear Lacon, Ile to 11y%c kr ions and crises; hams, medium and light, 15%c to 16c; hearty, 14%c to 15c; backs, 16%c to 17e; shoulders, 10%c to 11c; rolls, 11%c; out of pickle, lc less than smoked. Lard -Steady at these prices: Tierces, 12%c; tubs, 12%c; pails, 12'/.c. • MONTREAL MARKETS. Montreal, June 25 -The situation In the live hog market is virtually un- changed and the ruling price for select lots weighed off cars is Win 87.25 to 8.40 per hundred pounds. In the butter market the official quo- tations were:-1'ownships, 2lc; Quebec 26%c to 20%c; Ontario, 20c; dairy, On- tario, 18e to 18%c. Cheese stowed the following prices: -Ontario, 12c; townships, 11%c to 11%c; Quebec, 11%c to 11'/.c. Prices of eggs were 17c for wholesale lot and 18c for small lots. Bans remain ahout the sante, with enly a fair demand. Three -pound pick- ers are at 81.40 to $1.45 per bushel in car lots, and 81.50 in a jobbing way. Maple syrup is quoted at 6%c per pound tins. and 5%c per pound in wood. Maple sugar, 73%c ,to 8c. White clover comb honey 12c to 15c fuer pound; while extracted, 11%c lo 12c; buckwheat. 8%c to 9c. o Mash tannins scarce, and prices are without change. First sorts, $6.15 to $6.25; seconds, 15.50 and pearls at $; per 100 pounds. BUFFALO \IARKir. Ruffolo, June 25. -Flow• -Dull but limn. Wheat. -Spring. stronger; No. 1 northern, 11.02: \\'eller, unsettled; No. 2 white, 99e. (xtrn--Strong; No. 2 yel- low 57%e; No. 2 white. 57%e. Oats - Strong; No. 2 while, 49%e; N.'. 2 mix- ed, 46%e. Barley --Unsettled; quoted 78c to lift. Rye -No. 2 offered 8tc. Cannl freights -Unchanged. t\1:\\' l O14K \\ ilEA'1' \IAlK1:1:S. New York. June 2:i. -Wheat - Spot rem; No. 2 red. 97%c; No. 2 red, $1.1701 f.o.b. afloat; No. 2 northern, Duluth, $1.07;; 1.'..)'. anent; No. 2 hard winter. 81.02*% f.o.b. afloat. CATI'I.E MARKET. . Tomato, June 25. -The exporters' cat- tle brought forward were of tinily fair quality. tieing stall fed. ''rices in 11 cUhtis were well maintained, sales keel Mg up at $5.75 to $6.25 per cwt. rankle.:s' cattle were quoted as fol - 1 •w.:---1hoke animals. $5.40 to $5.50; ordinary butchers cnttle, fair to good. &'4.60 to $1.90: evunnhon cowls .and mix- ed lots. $3.50 to 81 per cwt. Light stockers were nlco slow of sale. and prices were easy al $3.50 to 11 per cwt. ileavy lerder:c. 1.050 1n 1,100 lbs., rr al 114.15 t $5 per ewl. Got,.! grain -fed iambs were quoted Si. to 86.5'1 per cwt.; spring Intuit's. s to $5 'Ace; export ewes. 111151101Th i'' "e 1.. $S.5tI: short!. 51.75 to $5; loci. s<I to 11.50. flogs weft unchanged- Quo's!' for selects were SO.1U, and for ;isle. - end fats $6.65 per cwt. Meiteurne and w'dlingtnn are ti • greatest distance by post from I.oml, e'! any Colonial cities. Leiters Inky :1 days to reach either city. Among the nntires 01 Central Ind:,, o ntnrriage ceremony t+ always: Attend - .ti by n sham fight. and the came gurney lice prevails among the alntosss .1 &bait). TROOPS GIVING TROUBLE al Kiev Mutiny Has Been Followed By ' Other Outbreaks. A despatch frcin St. 1'elcrslurg rays: Details of the mutiny of sappers at Kiev show That it was only suppressed after a bloody engagement at midnight, June 17, between the mutineers and loyal Coops. About seventy men were killed or wounded. 'Tbe mutiny was planned to coincide with a pxolitical strike, as a reply to the dissolution of Parliament, involv- ing the railreuds, telegraphs and -nails. The decision of e.Kt revolutionary staff here to refrain front demonstra- tions was disobeyed by the hot-headed sappers. At midnight, Juste 17, live hundred nitro at a given signal left their beds, disarmed the sentries, hurriedly dressed, obtained possession of their rifles, broke into an armory, secured a number of loaded cartridges and then matched to the camp square and tired a volley in the air. Iib•1•t.sLl) TO SUiRRENDEit. The officer on duty, Captain Akuloff, ran out and addressed the mutineers, persuading them to disperse. Ile then called out another battalion, drew the teen up and led a charge on the mutin- eers, ordering !hent to surrender. Upon ►heir refusal to do so, Captain Akutoff e•rdered the troops to tire and fell dent himself at the first volley: The fighting ci ulinued fur several minutes. 11u11 :► dozen soldiers were killed and ubeet sixty wire wounded. Finally the mu- tineers, who had no officers, no leaders and no plans, waverer and fled. Two hundred anti fifty were captured, but 193 eluded pursuit and hid in the city. '1111)1 81.1: A'1' K:\LUGA. Military troubles have also broken out among the troops of the third in- fantry division, stationed at Kaluga. General Orluff, 11►e suppressor of tote insurrection in the Baltic Provinces, turd regarded as one of the most ener- getic officers in the 'Russian service, teft SI. Petersburg hurriedly the night after the receipt of a despatch to ttnka charge of the garrison at Kaluga. No information is available as to the nn - lure of the trouble. The despatches of the Associated Press from Kiev detail- ing; the mutiny there were turned over to the censor and held up for front twelve to twenty-four hours before they were delivered. Wholesale arrests continue in Sl, Petersburg. NOTED :t iIILETF AILETS (►I:.\T11. "Hod" vtiiarl, of Ottawa, Breaks Ilk \eek 11alhin0 at Belleville. A despatch front ilelleville says: Win. 11. dgson Stuart, better-known as "lied' Stuart, the famous hockey player at Ottawa. met an untimely death in this city on Sunday afternoon between the hours of 2 and 3 o'clock. In company with some companions he visited the wharf and decided to take a bath in the Lay. After disrobing he dived off the shoot and swam to the lighthouse, it distance of about 100 yards. His com- panions did not venture into the water. Ilod," after sitting upon the landing of the lighthouse for a few minutes, dived off. and this was the last seen of hint alive. Not rising, an alarm was raised, and parties in a rowboat went to the lighthouse and in about three feet of water the unfortunate nein was seen lying upon some rocks. .As quickly a., possible, ssible, he was raised up and taken on shore, but it was evident that life was extinct. I)r. Yeomans was soon upon the scene, and upon examination discovered that the victim in diving had struck his head upon the rocks, causing a fracture of the skull and dis- location of the neck. Death was in- stantaneous. Stuart, whit was 21 years of age, was born at Ottawa. Ills father, \Vat. Stuart. was in the city, having the con- tract for the erection of the (trill shed, and the son was superintendending the^ work. Deceased was married, and in addition to his widow, two small chil- aren survive. The mother, one 'another and two sisters are living in Ottawa, where the remains were sent at nrid- night after teeing prepared for burial. VM I\1\tbGIt t\T` P411 1t1\G I\. Settlers Arrive at Winnipeg Maim ity of itrilish Birth. A despatch from \\'innipeg says: Three hundred British immigrants ar- rived in the city Saturday from the CAS - 5111(h11 and Sicilian. There have been nearly 2.1(g) immigrants nrrive in the count of the week, quite exclusive of the Ionteseekers' excursion of Thurs•lny, which does not fall into that category. About Kett Galician', have arrived in period. The inunigralien from the old Country is aboiit 60 per cent. of the total or 1.390. Some 40 French and 15 Cernhnns have ante in, making the bal- ance. This compnres favorably with other weeks of the current season. FOt'\r► nun (IN bittIRn:. -- Tragic End al ', innipe(t of Cocaine Fiend anklet:in. .\ (testat'•h from Winnipeg says: Ifebert Marwood. pianist, was found lend on the prairie near Free•Innn:s Lake on Saturday. Harwood, who was a native of England. was a cocaine fiend and et heavy drinker. A previous must- einn jot the sante resort vas found dead on the prairie about a year ago in a sander manner. There w;11 be no strike of Western Cnion Ieleg:rnptr opern1. i.., TERRIBLE FOREST FIRES. condi!' s Ar.' .tppallinq in the Upper Ottawa Walley. A despatch from Ottawa says : !11r. Colin Rankin, of Matlawa, who nrrived in the city on Thursday, says the forest fires are appalling in the Upper Ottawa Valley. Sopte days the smoke is so' dense as to darken the streets of Mat - town, although the fires are many miles away. Mr. Rankin tells of the great, danger to life along the Montreal River.. Reports have reached Mallnwn of sten having had very narrow escapes, so sudden was the inroad of the flames on the timber regions. The lumbermen who own limits in the 'I'cmiskaming Distrieto will lose enormously. The prolonged dry season had suet' an effect on timberi that it is almost impossible to save it. 1 Tho heavy rain of Wednesday night) completely exlinguiahed the bush fires which have been raging for the post, week up the Parry Sound line. Tho damage is nothing in comparison to the' great area over which the fires swept.' Between Mndatvnska and Whitney, for' a considerable distance on each side of Iha railway track, the lightly wooded ground was burned clear. The heavy ane! vahtahle timber limits farther back from the right-of-way were precti ' untouched, the region destroyed bel l mainly that which had been cut years before and is now springing up again in thick scrub. The St. Anthony Lumber Company, J. R. itoolh and the (J.T.11, have the rights to the territory swept. 1111.1 MILE OF 1.1 ill;tat BURNED. lire in Vancouver \1i11 (noes Damage to Extent of 822.10,000. A despatch front Vancouver, R.C., says : Nine million feet of lumber wero destroyed by fire nt the pr. mates of the Vancouver Lumber Crunpaany Salueday afternoon, entailing a loss of 8250.(11. The fire started in the drying -roost and spread rapidly until half a mile of lum- ber piled many feet high was ablaze. Dynamite was used in an endeavor to stop the (lames, but it was futile. Camble Street bridge was also slightly burned. Telerhoit - :111.1 electric lights were put out of his :• • o The loss is covered by insuranr. . A Bleb iF: •%T 11ui.t:1 rat7tt. Killed -throe (ow. 1t illi an .ire in a Dairy. A despatch froom (.,halt says : On Saturday night a Ilaileybury dairyman lost three cows. Some ruffian hit all three cows with the blade of nn axe. Two were found cad, and the third dy- ing on Sunday morning. The px.lice will ferret out the guilty turn, and prosecu- tion will follow. An Italian harper shot and killed ono passenger and wounded two others 10 n train in Kon -as. on Saturday. Courts Ittr.t, of Ibhnhillon. Who. keels. ft candy store, was (hied 810 for selling oh. Sunday. The steamer Crystal Stream wilt burned rat her dock in the '• John River on Friday. Four men inti.! . ne.l in MO hold peri'hed. THE FAMINE IN CHINA Unless Rice Crop Is Large the Need for Relief Will Continue. \ despatch from L..ndon says: "Thou - orals 101131 die in the (offline district of 11n before ad can reach them," Cap - son Henry Lrvmon!, military attache of !tie American Legalion at Pekin, said on tuesday. adding :-"The people of the lnngtzektang Walley. ever since the lk t>,ls destroyed their last crop, have !.ern suhsisling on gens.• and the bark .1 trees. the dogs and cats being fowl •ntacialetl In eel. The suffering in that Lst icl ie indegcrihnhle. 11 tors guile +•t ideal when 1 1111 Pekin Iha! Ihc 1►0pes .terylssly in (:tuna cherished that fool wo uid arrive in the famine districl in home to prevent appalling kws of lite would not be realized. Contribullorw AIL Aim. - Aim. -hod hegtm to arrive, hal It was plain that 11 would be Intl es.ible to place) sufficient supplies where. the. were needed to save all who were Ix•rishmg from hunger. "1l Is not loo late, however, for they charitably inelilteet to do n test emoted of g;'od for these suffetingg Chinese. Un• less the next rte crop. due in July. is h,rgpe. the nondltkm of the wreteti population will be such As 1.e require wast nnte,unt of out,i•le ni(1. The dang,e Ihnl Iltrenlens the crop lies in the linlril• ily of the Yangtzeklnng 1.) overflow Its hanks. The rhe r is so ea'rnik: this year 111111 it ronrpartii tety •maII deewnp,ur of rain woukt .,,nine a et a J. 1