Exeter Advocate, 1907-08-01, Page 2•
NINA DROWNED IN NUMBER 11yILEABIN
NARKETS'couuevstu news ITEMS
Gasoline Launch Belonging to Toronto
Junction Upset in a Storm.
A despatch from Toronto says: Nine
lives were kat in Luke Ontario early on
Friday morning when the gasoline
launch I)nlvine, with a party of
Tcnonto Junction y44ung men on boned,
capsized In a sudden squall which
swell over (lumber Bay. Of ten young
fellows who enjoyed an evening's fun at
Ilanlan's Point, but one sole survivor is
left lu tell the tale of a terrible night's
struggle against the wind and waves
which owelw•hehne(1 them in the dark-
ness. At dawn Ike battered launch was
found washed up on the beach. Not far
away lay the body of one of the ultimo
tunate victims, and 0 short distend) out
in the lake n cont belonging to ano-
ther was found floating. George
Shields, 45 Von Horne Street, the only
o',: of the party to survive, owes his
life to the fact (hat lie clung to the ill•
lobed craft through the wind and rain,
how long to docs not know, until it
carried him near enough to the shore to
be able to stagger through the shallow
water to safety on the reach. \Vith the
finding of the paunch and ono of the
bodies, several dragging parties set to
work. Another body was recovered al
1.! minutes to 2 in the afternoon, and
although the work was kept up during
the whole day, it was 6 o'clock before
a third victim was brought to shore.
AN 18 -FOOT LAUNCH \VITel TEN
OCCUPAN"I'S.
The Define was en 18 -foot launch,
and belonged to Leonard Daly, who,
with his brother, Frank Daly, took the
party out. From their mooring in the
Humber River they set out to Ilanlnn:s
Point shortly after 9 o'clock. There
were on board the Daly brothers, \Val-
u; Duluth), John Irvine, Joseph Irwin,
Frank Kyle, Reginakl Miller, Gordon
Lnmcque, Dawson Niehrgang and
George Shields, the survivor. Although
the little croft was not intended to carry
a ninny as len, they crowded in, and
(1.:: journey to the point was made
over smooth wafer without n mishap.
The party remained until 12 o'clock, and
as they were about to start for home Il
began to nein, and as it was only a light
sprinkle, They waited to sc•e if it would
slop. At 12.30 the clouds rifted and they
started out. All went well for nearly
three-quarters of the journey. As they
of eel along in the darkness they en-
livened their homeward way with merry
songs and laughter.
Past Sunnyskle they sailed, oblivious
of any impending danger. Suddenly
Ile, dark clouds gatherer! again, and
fleshes of lightning. ((Mowed by (•harp
peals of thunder, warned them of the
ar•troach of a storm. Almost before
they had lime to make things secure lew
rain broke upon them, and the seas
dashed over the heavily cmwdcel
launch. The engine stopped. and before
the occupants could find out what was
the matter with it the twin swung
around into the trough of the seas. The
naves swept over then* with increasing
fury. enol their singing changed to cries
for help ns they were swept into the fey
waters. What hnplx•ned after that no
one will ever know. Shields says he
her,rd someone cry, "Heng to the boat,"
but it was pitch dark, and he ml.kl see
n' thing. The storm* redoubled its force,
and the frail shell became the play•
thing of the breakers.
As pate ars 10 minutes to 2 o'clock the
Ringing was hear) by Police Constable
Lewis, of the l'arkdnle Statism. who was
pedalling his tont akeeg the Lake Shore
Bond. Ile could also hear the quick beat
o! the 41lgi014' brewed n the 11111a in the
wind and the noise of the thunder.
Sudelenly the singing changed to cries
fit help. 'Inc evnsteble peened htlu the
darkness. but cr,uld ser, or hear no-
thing more. Ile waited about for mime
lime. and went on to the man nl the
'Taran10 Bolt Mortis, ,where lee made n
report.
CAPSIZED BOAT FOUND BY POLICE
ON '1'111. 5IIOIDE.
Police Constable Ih,binsen, who look
i.ewitt' Ellice al 4 uckiek, was instructed
to watch along the chore. As he patrol -
lot the bench, about 5.30 ii eke'k lir
came upon the capsized Wench near n
chimp of willows. els ii1 50 yards from
where the Grenadier fond skirts the
opposite side of the and. (:Hose Iw•ci(I4'
it was the body of \\'alter 1)111141111.
Robinson led111411 the station, and the
remains were nnhevest to the 1aly
Mcrguc in 11 1101n,1 wagon. In milking
n further search. the constable noticed n
oral floating sem14' distnne4' mit in the
1i.ke, and often it was recovered it
proved to be that of Joseph Irwin. the
young son of Councilor Irwin, of
Toronto Junction.
\Vhcu the news of the discovery of
Ow launch spread, f.everal serol parties
set 001 in rowtr,als and launches, and
they vvorkrd tell liol-ning without resuit.
At 6.10 the senrcliern were rewarded by
the discovery of a third body, that of
John Irwin, the owner of the needing
coal. Ile was a son of Counriler Irwin
of Toronto Junclioil. Ile was the third
fon of the family. was 20 years old, and
worked as a bricklayer. As six bodies
still lie at the bottom of the bay. the
search was kept up until duck, but no
more were found.
SURVIVOR SHIELD'S S'1'OI(Y.
George Shieds says thnt there were
ten on board the launch when it left
Sunnyside at about 9.:10 for Hnnlnn's
Point. All remained there until a half
hem- after midnight, when the home-
ward journey was commenced. Rain
had (allen, but the sky had cleared.
When. however, the launch had arriv-
ed within 300 or 400 yards of the shore
at Sunnyside, opposite the west gate of
ILgh I'ark, a storm arose, first a high
wind and then a crash of thunder, fol-
lowed by a downpour of rain. Sud-
Cruly the engine stopped. 'The boat
turned broadside to the waves and
without warning capsized, throwing Its
occupants into the water.
OTHERS LOST THEIR 11O1.D.
"We were thrown about 15 feet from
lite bort," said Mr. Shields. "Niehr-
gang and Miller could not swim. John
Irvine shouted. 'Stick to the boat,' and
Frank Daly, Kyle, Dundin, Irwin and
myself swam back together to the
launch. John Irvine swum alongside.
1 don't know when i lost sight of him.
"Irvine and 'foroeque, the two strong-
est swimmers of the party, swain for
the shore. Others last their hold on
the upturned boat and disappeared.
Finally only Dundin and the survivor
remained clinging to the submerged
launch. Shields believed that the
launch would drift to land, and this it
diel just before daybreak. Ile stumb-
led through the shallow water to the
bench. where he sank to the ground
exhausted and benumbed with cold.
After lying for a period of lime, which
he estimates at hall an hour, Shields
arose and trade his way home through
Iligh Park. arriving about five o'clock.
ile is naturally somewhat contused
as to the hours at which the various
incidents which the mentioned -occurred.
Fon instance. he thought . tial the boat
must have capsized at 3.30 a.m., and
that he was from two to two and a
half hours in the water; yet he arrived
home al about five o'clock.
AL1. THE BODIES RECOVERED.
All the bodies of the nine- victims of
Friday morning's launch disaster off
(lumber Buy have now been recovered,
the last two having been taken from the
waters on Sunday afternoon. in the
pulpits of several Tomato Junction
churches on Sunday touching references
were made to the tragedy.
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CONE Y ISLAND SWEPT RY FIRE.
Seven Blocks in the Amusement Zone
Burned.
A despatch from New fork says:
Coney island, the playground of New
York's niilltuns. was visited by a dls-
astruus lire early Sunday and seven
blocks in the a►nusernenl zone were
completely destroyed. Tilyous' Steeple-
chase Park. and nearly twenty small
hotels were wiped out and for a time
the flames threatened Luna Park and
Dreamland. Buil scores of smaller
places, which fringe the water's edge
for n mile. A hiekv shift of the wind
to seaward nidal the firemen, and pro-
bubty saved the whole picturesque area.
1 ut not until a million dollars' damage
had been done.
N(►NTItE:A1: S IIE.AYY DEBT.
.A1 Close of Present Year Will le! no
Less Than 832,1140,011.
A despatch fain Montreal says: Fig.
tires eomplled al the City !Intl sh•w
that al the close of the present year
pie ety:s debt will be no less Ihnn
S;2141,000. The city has one of the
I1 rgest debts per capita of any city on
the continent. The interest 10 be paid
•en Ilia debt is n trifle over ono million
three hundred thousand a year.
WIL HAYWOOD ACQUITT
Boise Jury Declares Him Innocent of
Steunenberg's Murder.
A .1.41.: fe :n Boise. Idaho, says:
Ate,. 1.'ing vitt' nearly 21 hours the
jury in the caw.' of W. 1). Ilayw.'0e1.
tectr•tan•y of the Western Federation of
\liners.on trial fur c enpleely in the
r ,ureter 4,1 ex -Cover -ewe SIeu*enls'rg, of
1 .,11o, bn•ughl in a verdict of asriuit-
Th • 1041 teem wee welt in merely
e. sting k r the lawyers I.. get 144 1114'
,erten *454'. It was 7 ee''•le•' 1, 011 Stet.
. n:ornaug %iw•n they finally agreed
to let ItavvO,wl go free.
I'lIF \ ERDI(T A 51•I1PUI'4E.
When Itnywo.'l board the cierk cf
1' a Court rind the jury's wort 11hn1
ted) him a fir man and acquitted
1..11) of the murder of et -Governer
c e unenteirg, he was. It is needless to
soy, n highly pleneed n►an.
The sterns., was stunning. even to
Unaweo.l fete:P'lt. Of alt the peclpie
in the c'durt•Ison, when the jury calve
Pat it is pIxibabte Ilial feu expected en
aequiltal. 1l is Cl rlain that neither
110)w.111 ner his lawyers looked for it.
\List of the jurors say they could not
4.•m•ial under the (;iron's imdruction+.
To the pre'eruli(m the surprise was
net ks6 connplete Ihnn 141 the (lefence.
I
hey had been 1.. ping for it (h'ngree-
nicnl width not more Ihnn two or three
amen !bolding out 11r Haywood. and
when the lawyer's and reporters were
coned in in the early morning will' the
Ih ws tint the Or) WAS ready in report,
It 8+111:4 t(r sin Brat some cart of a
ceon+iclion had been agreed upon.
nnenusrcres.
BREAD.SI UFFS.
Toronto, July 30. -Ontario \\'heat -
St.'ad.; No. 2 while, 87Xc to 88c.
\t,n:loba Wheat -N,, 1 hard, nom-
: I: ; N.1. 1 northern, 97%c; No. 2 north-
: 11. to 1%11.
N :. 2 yelk,w, 60%e to 61e,
14 .r:4' 4 N. anneal.
c u !--Ontneao--No. 2 white, 4l'/.,c to
4s . euhide, Muutloba-No. 2 white,
41Y•,e' t, 45e, on track at elevator.
Peas --Nominal.
Rye -Nominal.
Flour-Oularte-00 per cent. Valents,
$'.35 bid, 3.SO asked; Manitoba first
patents, $5 to $5.20; seconds, 4.40 to
1.4.51; strong bakers , $1.20 to $4.30.
Bran --$17 to $17.50, outside; shorn,
al.,ut 520 outside.
COUNTHY I'iRODU(:E.
Butter -Markel continues steady, with
geed business being dont.
Creamery prints I-: to 22e
do erohds .... .... .... .... 20e to (O:
Dairy penile. .... tee to 19e
deo solids 17e to 00o
• Cheese --Quiet at 12c to 12%c for large
and 12%e for twins, in job lots here.
Egg!; -Steady at 17%e c lo 18c.
Beans -81.65 td 81.70 for bund-ptckcd
and $1.50 lo 11.55 14r primes.
Potatoes -Dull; ie'laware, 80c to 90c
i.ag; new potatoes, $3 to 53.25 per bur -
rel. in car lets on track.
Baled flay -Quiet at $14 to 815 for
No. 1 timothy; No. 2, 812.50.
Baled Straw -$7.25 to $7.50 per ton,
u1 car lots on track here.
PROVISIONS.
Dressed Hogs --19.75 for lightweights
and $9.25 for heavies.
Pork --Mort cut, $22.75 to $23 per
barrel; tress, $21 to 521.50.
Smoked and Dry Salted Meats -Long
clear bacon, Ile to 11y,c for tons and
cases; • hairs. inediurn find light, 153;c
Lc 16c; heavy, 14Xc to 15c; backs, l6Xe
to 17e; shoulders, 10%c t4) Ile; rolls,
115 c; out of pi_kle, lc kss than smoked.
Lard-Stcudy; tierces, 12e; tubs,
1fyc; pails, l2Xc.
MONTREAi, MARKETS.
Mor tsnl, July 30. -'revisions -Karl
rels short cut mess, $22 to $22.50; half
barrels. $11.25 to $11.75; clear fol'
Lacks, 523.50 to $24.50; long cut heavy
mess, $20.50 to $21.50; half barrels do.,
10.75 to $11.50; dry salt long clear ba-
con, lee to ll%c; barrels plate beef,
811 to 816; half barrels do., 147.50 to
•814.25; barrels heavy mess beef, $10; halt
barrels do.. 85.50; ermgwnind lard, 10%c
to 10%c; pun: lard, 12%e to 12%c; ket-
tle r:'ndered, 13e to 13y,c; hangs, 14c
to 16::. according to size; breakfast La -
eon. 14%4' to 15c; Windsor bacon, 15%c
to 16s; fresh killed abattoir dress.rl
begs. $9.75 to 810; alter, $7.25 to $7.40.
Oats --Sales of car lots of Manitoba
No. 2 white were made at 4$3Sc to 49c;
Ontario No. 2. 48e to 48%c: No. 3 r.1
47c to 47%c and No. 2 at 46c to 46%c
per bushel, ex store.
Flour-4:hoice spring wheat pete'nts,
4'5.10 to $5.20; seconds, 81.50 to 14.69;
'winter wheat patents, 84.65 tr, 54.75;
'straight rollers, 84.25 to 81.35; do., in
bags, 81.95 to 82.10; extras, $1.65 to
81.75.
\lillfeeel-Prices in bags, 819; shorts,
x21 to $25 per ton; Cmtarie bran in beige,
$18.50 to $19; shorts, 82.2 to 522.50;
4.111141 nouille, 824 to $28 per ton, and
atroight grain, $30 to $32.
Bellied Oats -Quiet at $2.25 per bag.
Cornmeal-ls steady at 81.45 to 81.50.
ikaled Ilay-Tricots are steady: No.
1, $Ili lo $16.50; No. 2, 815 to $15.50;
clever, $16 to $16.54u; No. 2. 815 to 515.50.
Rutter-'i'ow•nships, 20.. to 20%c;
Quebec, 21)c; Ontario. 19%e; dairy, 17%e
to 17%e. Ite'eipts this morning were
3,410 packages.
Cheese -Ontario w•hiac, Ingo 10 10%c;
co1ore'(1, 103/c 10 10%c; eastern. 10'/,c to
10%c. Receipts to -day were 21,518
I-eoxes.
Eggs -'the egg market is unchanged
end sales of 5'k'cted in single race's
were rnnde at 20e end mmol 14415 of
straight receipts at tfv: No. 1 candled
at 170. No. 2 candled et 14c 1141(1 No. 2
straight at 12%4' per dozen.
NEW' YOI11( \VIIEAT MAI%Ki:I'.
New York. July 30.-\Vheut - Sis.t
steely; N -.e, 2 nil: t►7Xe in elevator and
..s'«;(: Lo.h. ,nlk,nt; No. 1 northern Du-
luth. $1.08% f.o.b. anent; No. 1 meth-
ern Duluth, $1.08 ; Lo.b mewl; No. 2
Laird winter, 941%c 1..b. afloat.
LIVE srO(:K \t\1IKE I'.
Toronto. July 30. -Export cattle were
cell. and values were nonlinolly un-
changed. The better classes were quo -
leo et $5.541 to 85.75, and medium veld
at $5 to $5,40 per cwt. Expert bulls
were were' $4.50 10 81.75 fuer cwt.
1:INei<e butcher's' cattle $1.801 to $5.10:
fir.dont!, 84.25 f0 '$1.711 cell r news
rand fair butchers' cattle, mix4r1. $3.75
to. $4.15; common Cows $2.25 to 53 per
eel.; bulls, 82.50 lo 81 per col.
Feeders, 1.014) 1.1 1.1111 iDs.. were
we.rll► $1 to 81.25. and medium weight
cattle. Mto:kers, sold at 83.25 to $3.75
ewer ewe inferk.r mockers were reef
wtented. and Ilveir prices ranged (Tool
4'2.25 1„ tit per awl.
1'.w. •• $1.2:► t4'. $1.50: hicks. 83 lo
4'3 75: lambs. $6.75 le 87.511 per ret.
Wel calves veld at 1 In he per 1D.
Il:,gs were steady tel tali.'M1 for selects
nn41 56.S, fee lights and fats.
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1:\ 1'I:i :1, 711 Ili•:E-I'OI'h1 II 1:11411'.
as �nsui�ce molt nv ��cn iuc
DAI'rl:NINGS FIto\I AiI mill 1116
GLOBE.
TeleOraphl-. Briefs Froin Aur Own and
Other Countries of Recce&
Events.
C:\ N:\ D:\.
Buyers are oft ring 11.25
at Belleville for apples.
One hundred and eighty children un -
testi live years of age died in Montreal
lust week.
The British Government wi'l store
cent al E•quimalt for the Paciii.
Hundreds of acres of clops hove toe.
devastated by hail 1n Lylelort dist!:ct,
Munitoba,
J. Lorne McDougall. Canada's ex -
Auditor -General, is in very poor health.
The Governor-General and Countess
Grey will spend several weeks in Nova
Soutu.
James McKay, of Hamilton, for many
yar, inspector of streets, is dead,
abed 90.
7'he Dominion Government will stn -
lion a powerful launch off Toronto Is-
land for life-saving purposes.
Twenty -ono of the twenty-six school
tenehers of Belleville have had there
salarie.> increased.
Demo Bros.' bag factory of Roston
wilt establish a million and a half dol.
It.. plant at Welland.
Miss M. Boyd. injured in the Crystal
Palace disaster al London, claims dam-
ages from the city.
I.arge quantities of meat and fish
wens seized al Montreal last week as
unfit for titmean consumption.
leant; Lnfranchise, of Ottawa, mes-
senger for successive Prime Ministers
since 1863, is dead, aged 85.
Reports show that rails are laid on
the temiskanhing & Northern Ontario
Railway to a point 208 miles ubove North
Bay.
Prof. Hutt has been investigating a
pest that attacks the orchards in Dur-
ham county. Several, trees have been
Constable Somers of the \\'innipcg
police force is charged with having
robbed a house on his brat on Sunday
night.
F. 11. Smith, Saskatchewan Inspec-
te.r of Mines, confines the reports that
coal has been found in the Eagle Lake
dill riot.
Quebec is to join with Vermont and
New York in celebrating the three
Lundredth anniversary of the discovery
e'! Lake Champlain.
Herbert Buller of Paris was killed
while teaming between Paris and
Brantford on Saturday, his wagon be-
ing stork by 0 trolley err.
To make the report of Montreal the
gest on the continent, the Montreal
Harbor Commissioners have retained
Mr. 11: C. Davidson, of London, Eng-
land.
While asleep on the ground near the
granary, the little con of Thos. Knight,
of Cypress River, Man., WAS run over
t4': a load of wheat and killed.
(:. \V. Porter of Bowling Green, Ken-
tia•ky, died of injuries received by jump -
Mg off a street car in 'Toronto ou Satur-
edny to recover his hal, which had blown
off.
C. P. R. officials are consldering the
removal of their steamship terminus
!'-ort Quebec to Three Itivers, on ac-
count of the poor accommodation ob-
(*linable at Quebec.
Pilgrims to Ste. Anne de Renupre
tv the G..T. R. last year totalled 200.-
600, and by the C. 1'. 11. 11,000 and 11113
year the lotnl will bo much In excess
of these figures.
The steamer Ptarmigan was wrecked
oil the Columbia River, between Golden
and \\'ind4'nhcre, 11. C. There were '►
1•undred passengers on board, all c f
whom were saved.
The men charged with counterfeiting
wcr' sentenced al Lindsay on Friday.
l,urke was given three years in p eni-
lentinry and Ahller was acquitted. 'fhe
others got lighter sentences than
flurke's.
per burrel
['timer, 01 lhutil44t'a IIine Nnlhin(I In
Itiirvr (here
A 414'941b -hi !runt (11tnw'a 8443'+ : Dr.
/teen, Saunders, Director of Experimen-
t u Fnrnn. tins returned from his tour
o f inspeetiOn of \innitobn nniNhe \\'est.
De. Saunders (kris nal share the pw'ssi•
neistic opink,ne recently published ns 10
1114' crop shortage. Ile says the atm in
which pnrlinl failure is expectnl owing
tel drought is a recltr'Ied one. and en the
whede, niter a careful review of the situ-
ation. he believes stat there will he ,t
three-fourths crop. With %%heel nl its
ptescitl Rice ice this will menn n larger
Cash return lel the farmer than he re-
ceived for the crop of In,.t year. Even
ehould 1.4)1114' of the late sown grain lee.
eerie, finch`, it will bleb a price nl-
nwest lis high as 5403 obtaineed for goad
reheat last season.
UNITED STATES.
Commissioner Bingham, of New York
says European emigrants air to
be blamed for the recent epidemic of
crime fn that city.
United Stoles Senator l'ellers of Ala-
bama wasstricken awith nIspleyard
ilot Spring.` N.(:., ynight,
died shortly afterward.
New f'ork's Police Commissioner has
confessed that his force is unable to
eine with the series of attacks on chil-
dren being made in and about the city.
38.(X:0 acres of coal lance- near Johns-
town, f'a.. have been sold to the Som-
erset Coal Company of Baltimore at an
nvernge price of $60 per acre.
"Buster," n famous St. Bernard dog,
who has saved 17 lives set (Toney Is-
land, was recently sentenced to be shut
for biting a boy at that place.
Ellen Humphrey, 16 years old. e f
( a:icngn. nllempled to jump from n
window eel the juvenile court niter 10-
I k sentenced (41 1 stale refuge. by .budge
Tuthill. She ons prevented in her
suicidal attempt after a fierce struggle.
54,110 DAYS 1081 BY STRIKERS
Forty=one Labor Disputes During
the Month of June
A despatch from Ottawa says : The
total number of trade disputes reported
t : have been in existence in Canada
•!,;ring June, was 41, a decrease of right,
• el:uparcd with tete previous month, but
:,r, increase of 11 compared with lune,
1106. About 262 e:stubliehntenls and
5.7'28 employes were affected by these
disputes, whose beginning during the
nicnlh involved about 78 estul.les:'incuts
and 3,704 employes.
The loss of time to emeloycs through
trade disputes during June was approxi-
mately 54,710 working days, compared
with a loss of 88,325 days in May, and
8,215 days in June, 1906.
Of the 41 disputes in existence during
GBI.AT IIIIITAIN.
U.nnnelinn marksmen al Risley vedn
ov 4'r .£341) in prizes this year.
Lord Curvet has severely criticized
what he terms the hugger-mnlgger
1114110141s 01 111e British Colonial Office.
Mrs. Jos:pltine Leslie, who was eon -
epee
,n-
wv 1e 1 of swindling members of well -
•4'k, English families, has been sen-
t. need to five ycnrs' pedal servitude.
Itt the 114111sh !louse of Commons Sir
Henry Callin1sdl-Ilnntlernhnn presentr1 n
(toyed tneesnge prepnang a spxraal grant
of 5350.000 to bard Cromer.
Dissatiefntlie,n will► the podgy (41 10110
Bedouin(' is increasing in the Irish party.
and the Sinn Fein opposition Is growing
stronger.
One of the most exclusive of women's
clubs in London. the Lnd*es' Park Clot..
tens moved into new premises and bridge
is forbidden.
C.E NElt:\1..
Five hei elrerl mining have been kill<r1
by nn mpk'iel in n mal pit in Jaron.
Gipsy I nnds an. numerous in Hungary
and are committing wholesale depreda-
tions.
the month, 23 were terminated, either by
definito settlements being reached!, or by
industrial editions ceasing to le
affected. Thirteen disputes were termi-
nated by negotiations between
patties concerned, two were settlev
conciliation, one through the frieildjy
mediation of 111e Department of labor,
and one through the Bureau of Concilia-
tion of Quebec, and eight disputes were,
terminated without negotiations.
In seven disputes that went termi-
nated the employers were sueressful, ten
ended in favor of 1114' employes, com-
promises were effected in thee) castes,
and in two the strikers were partially
successful.
The Supreme Court of Guatemala has
conlinnell the death penally on 4111 those
senteaccd for attempting to assassinate
President. Cabrera.
Vice-Adrntnal ljuin of the Japanese
navy has stated. that Japan will hold
rigorously to the plans for naval in-
crease which she has mapped out.
The people in Russia are manifesting
little interest in tho cooling election of
delegates to the third Dunia.
The Congo is to become a colony of
Belgium and wilt pass from King Leo-
pold's personal control.
Forty thousand workmen belonging to
lee cotton mote in the Moscow 401(1 \'la-
dimir districts. Ru shin, are on strike.
A number of French army ofilcers are
resigning as a protest against the Gov-
ernment's policy of retrenchment.
A Danish woman dismissed from ser-
vice hanged her own three children,
three of her employer's, and finally her-
self.
At the Tonga Islands, columns of
Marne, smoke and black pumice stone
ar' hurled into the air font, the sea.
A German military balloon tested at
Berlin the other dry answered her helm
perfectly and rennain•xi in the air three
hours.
A missionary, an officer and nine na-
tives have been killed in the French
C:ongo, where the native soldiers are in
a state of mutiny.
STEAMER BURNED; SEVEN PERISH.
Excursion Boat Takes Fire
Cayuga.
A despatch from Ithaca, N.Y.. say's :
Seven ',cretins are known to be dead
awl many more injured as the result of
the burning of the steamboat Frontennc,
of the Cayuga I.ako Transportation
Company., on ire north end of lake
Caytega on Saturday afternoon. The
identified dead are: Airs. homer Genung
and her son Carl, of Freeville, N.Y.,
and Miss Julia McCreary, of Cuhoes, a
student of the Cornell Summer School;
Estella Clinton, of Ithaca, and a Miss
Sullivan, of Syracuse; the eight-ycar-
o'd son of Ilowurd Abel, of Ulysers.
probably perished; \piss Bennett, of
Utica, is thought to have been drowned
in the lake. The steamboat was com-
t'.elely drslroyed, burning to the water's
edge, and now lies n wreck near the
shore at Union Springs.
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iIRITISII WARSHIP LAIN(:111:D.
Another Dreadnought Takes the Water
al Portsmouth.
A despatch from Portsmouth says :
The battleship Bellerophon, another
Dreadnought, was launched hero on
Sieturloy nft('rneun by Princess ltenry of
Ilattcu*1srg. The new warship has a
tonnage of 114.600, which is 7u%# more
than the i)readnought, and' she will
r uilelily a munls'r of *111 I1.wemenls
gained as a result of the Dreadnought
trials.
on Lake
O'rt VW t IS GROWING.
Directory Estimates Total Population
at 80.731.
A despatch fan* Ottawa says: A sub-
ShbIlliul iuIcrense_ in population marks
►he close of the year In Ottawa, accord-
ing Io the Might Directory figures. Low-
ering the multiple front 3 to 2%. the
anile as taken in Toronto, !h4' total ,s
et -hamlet! at 80.731. The company hies
it its lalrst look 29.3544 individual
names, on increase of 1,568 over last
year.
RAN TRAIN THROUGH FIRE.
Train Load; d With Chinese Runs Upon
Burning !Bridge,
A despatch from Fed William, Ont.,
says: That another terrible wreck old
feet occur on the C. P. R. on Saturday
morning is duo to the bravery of two
of the company's employes, wino risked
their lives to save a trafnlood of China-
men, who were going through to New
York on a special (rain. Engineer Mc-
Adam,
Ada:n, who was on the engine drawing
the ('hli ase special, was approaching
t►..: Rideout River at great speed, when,
glancing ahead, he noticed that the big
bridge was n moss of flames. Ile threw
en the emergency brake and called to
the fireman to julep, which both melt
succeeded In doing without injury.
When the engineer gathered himself le-
gelher he noticed That the train had
one right into the middle of the burn-
ing bridge and That already some of
Il.c coaches were on fire. Ile immedi-
ately climbed aboard and ran forwarll
to the engine, through the curs. Thb
rugine was in the centre of the flames,
1:tit the engineer pulped open the
IIIm111e and ran part of the train across
the lot':dge. When safely across it was
discovered ihat six coaches were still
c.n the bridge, the coupling having
broken loose when the broken went on.
Another train was also due In a few
minutes. and there wee grave danger
of it running info the rear of the
couches. Brakes'nan Wilson rose to
the occasion and swain across the river.
climbed up on the Bonk, hurried down
the track. and flagged the nppronching
train. 'tire engine was, scum uncoupled
and there of the cars were pulled away
to safely. 'three others were totally
consumed by the flames, but the occu-
pants all escaped. 'e'en sections o! the
bridge were oleo destroyed tend all trier -
Ile was tied up fur over seventeen tt0
LOCOMOTIVE BLEW UP.
Two Tralnnr: n Killed Near Simcoe
Station.
A despatch from Simcoe, 0311., says:
Wabash freight train. eastbound). en.
gine 1891. in charge of Conductor Dock
and Engineer Bennett Patterson, which
left Simcoe nt 6.40 cat Friday evening,
was wrecked Abend a mile and a half
east of Simcoe. The wreck ons caused
1.y the engine blowing up. Engineer
Patterson was blown out of his cab to
a considerable distarvse and was in-
stnntly killed. Fireman Calvert was
also blown a distance awry and very
seriously injured. Brakeman Lewis
Norton. who was ruling in the engine
cob, was totally injured. The three
men were placed in the conductor's
van and as soon as the rear portion
of the train could be mewed went
brought to Sunccee -elation, where the
body of Engineer i :atters.n was re-
moved to an undertaking room. 411
the train crew were composed of St.
Thomas non. The remains of the en-
gine and Iwo cars of provisions were
consumed by nee. The crew of the
freight train were unable to give any
reason for the accident.
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TRAMPLED (►N 1111: 1'1.11:.
British 'uhjert 0e erre thinly Days in
Michivan Jail.
A despatch from lllnrquctte mote.
gall. Rays : Folb.wing his coned. ti. n for
tearing (town the United States flag and
then trnmpling on i1, James Grant, a
Ilrillsh subject. was brought !herr on
Wednesday 10 serve 31) days in jail. 11s
was also lined 810.
HIEN IN A SEWER
All Would Have Been Drowned But For
Foreman's Coolness.
A despatch from New York say.:
Feely laborers ran..Rwarn anal f•mi•tt
to their lives when the now - t•
West 46th street was flooded a ..
dry night, and but inr the • • fares
and-e14tenotnntion of Foreman It. el Co,n-
rors all must have perished. , ..• men
were working in the tutee. ++tech Is
eight heel in diameter, a block In length
and forty feet below' the surface. Sud-
denly n break occurred in the old .ewer
above thein. and the erecnping +tater
poured mrmlei the oprn,end et the tulle.
1 , '
' . , at the opieosite end,
v+... r. 1111 u.1• shaft It'd to the surface.
\ rnnment after• n slrenrn first Iri4'k-
I(d into the tube. 111e flood came. and
when lie seen turned to run 1110 water
was at lhcor knv, s and rapidly issing.
ltaif way to the . • 'e e' Ater wall
a: their wrists. nig 1. : the m•'n
wedg.d th1emselves int., ;e hdi;,les5 nus4
until none coAld ?nuke progress. and
all were in imminent peril of drown-
ing Then Connors, who led the wnv
to the shaft, look n hand, and swingiig
an ugly club, threatened 14c groan e+ cry
roan of them if they diel not ()lei lino.
Then he ordered Ihnn► to form four
nLreaet and nu.rrh. Some mnr•c11ed,
lut more swc.rn, as by that lime the
water had reached the necks of that
later. while those of lesser height had
leen swept frim their feet. One by
one they gained the shaft and climbed
P.e ladder to the stent, Connors was
the Inst to leave the sewer, and when 14
clad he rose from six Get of walla.