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Exeter Advocate, 1907-08-22, Page 6AN ITALIAN MIJRDERED Stabbing Affray at Collingwood Results Fatally. A despatch from (:oflingwoexl says : An Italian and a knife are responsible sible for one mares death, the victim being Antonio Ferri, a inen11►er of a gang et Italians engaged on the sewerage work herr-. The alleged murderer is Libretto 13uzzi, one of the same gang. The IrY)u- h'e occurred on Monday afternoon, un41 arose over the payment of a shape 111 the purrhase of some liquor, t(iizzi, it is bund, refusing to ray his share. As far u, can be leru•ned, rhes twee nleu Ixe- Ca1110 engaged 111 11 St'1•i(eU:i quarrel, when Perri threw a glass al Rizzi, sir(, rushed at hint "nth a jnek-knife, stubbing Tina. Ferri '.' removed 1 , the hospital, wher•ce upon exatnIinntioli 1)r•. elettroonw found two very deep gashes and four smalk'r wounds, one of the former being over the heart :old shoo otlu'is in Ihe 111)(lornen. alt:zzi immediately nude off, met Inas not yet been captured. 11 i-; believed that h.• is hiding in rho wcxxts a few mules LEADING MARKETS Toronto, Aug. 20.--Onktu'ie \\'heat -- 1\c 010181; No. : %vItite, 8Ic to Kee new %% teed. about sic to 82c. Manitoba Wheat --Ealy; No. 1 north- ern. 934: to t)JXc; No. .2 northern, (Jac. Cora -Steady; No. 2 yellow, 63%C to l'►ic Toronto. Barley -No. 2 Nominal at 50c outside. Oats -Nominal; No. 2 while, 42c out- s`de; new oats, 38c to 39e. Chatham heights. Manitoba -No. 2 white, 133 e :o 44c on truck at elevator. -Peas-Nominal tit 75e for No. 2 Ilyc-65c. Flour -Ontario -90 per cent. potenLs, :33.e5 bid. $3.1) asked; 11ew wheat flour, out of th.e t(,wn. Perri lingeie,l until e3.10, Manitoba first p►atrmte, $5 to 85.2'); early on Friday 1nor1►ing, 130 toile hi, seconds, $1.40 to $4.50; strong bakers' death he made hi, wi11, leaving s,►ute 4'4.2') to S1.:30. 8bi)4) nit a Iucul btutk to a hi••,thor, l gun- ligan- $fel. 511 to 517, hulk outside; 111:110 Ferri, vho live; uL �uult. :tit('. sttw•ts, $211 to a20,5O outside. Alarie. Ile) uL;O made an ante -:,torten:: stalentel►L before' John Nettleton, Police M+igintrate, in which he gave the cause of iti•e gt.urr•el. ns already stated, and admitted fine he was the first offender, throwing a drinking -gloss at Buzzi, who rushee1 at Mini, stabbing Irian six tittles \vitlt his knife. 13.1D I'IIW Al' BLIND RIVER. 'three Million Feel of Lumber and Dock Destroyed. A despatch !nun Sault Ste. Marie, Ore., says: A destructive fire at Blind River, at all early hour on Thursday morning. did $I50,(0) damage to the Wails of the Dominion Lumber Co., Al.+ore and McDonald, Moulthrop i.u,n- t ee (:o., Hope lumber tee, Morgan Lt•niber Co., While Pine Lumber Co. '11:c fire started from an unknown cause at the extreme end of the tramway, on the water feint, and before being no- ticed had gained considerable headway. The firemen at Blind River were unable lc cope with the conflagration and the services of the "Sow" brigade were re- m:csled by wire. The docks held about 7.000,000 feet of lumber. nearly half of which was destroyed. The firemen were c(anlpelled to remove a portion of the trrnlway with dynamite, and throw the lumber into the river before the fire, could be stopped. • SKUNK EMPTIED TiIEATitE. Caused Panic at Performance at Meri- den, Connecticut. cle.spotch from Meriden, conn., sans : A skunk wandered into the audi- '(ei i14nt of rho Hanover i'atrk Summer Theatre on 'Tuesday night, a woman screamed and the eight hundr ei pversone :'i the audience leaped from their seats. Women joined 11)4'n in clambering over I thigh railing. Policeman \1. J. Kelly, unfamiliar with skunks, attempted lo ''r.(,'h the animal, but retreated and, slainoling; at a -ate distance, opened tiro 'with his revolver. Ile cemptied it. but 114 .10' of the shots took effect. Frank \!,:Nath. one of the spectators, cornered '0e' skunk nlid killed it with 1t club. 'Viten he went home by n Cul:1rilous ir►ute. The management announced to vacant chair; that rho performance was called off. ONLV 111111' A PACK. Salmon Canneries lla.e Ilad a Rad Sea- son- .l1) (HI fear. A despatch from Ottawa says : lie- pperts of the 1•'i.teeriee Department show that the salmon pack 'hi; yenr will be en exceptionally poor one. The 13ritish 1:clunlhia Packers' Association estimate the pack at 225.11110 closet of 18 round. each as ngainst 473.674 cases in 1003 the corresponding "tiff year. The season on 1';. Fraser Inver ck)s t on August 25. rind before that dato the deficiency can - riot poxlibly be ntnde up. ----d►- IN)ISON I\ 1:1N\H:1► I1l:1NS. New fork Woman Nearly Med al Brock%ille. A despatch from Brockville says : \h•;. i:i'tsetnnii. of Nev York 1:ity, a h.) has l•l'en camping up the river flour ih wl:- :Ilio, nitnost lost her life on \Weolne.:day frau' L'cingl poi;tdNsd by eating canne'(I beans. Iter condition t'ralnc v) alarm - leg that she was tmught herb' and 'laced in nn hospital. She is now re. perked to iMe 'noel) better. Intl is tad yet :nit of (anger, although she Is eeepc'tctI to recover. 11111IO\I SI:I1111'1: 1'011 C1N‘D1. 1i''o,:►i�ed for Seplrnihe'r Next al Noel - era ie ((ole', 1'' cape Breton. A despatch feoun i.nndon says: elan. - Cent ann•cunces n wireless service for Canada In September from (:lifton. Ire- land, to rape Breton. 'i'h(e ordinary tde will be 511.. and the press rale Sid., pplu, land charges. A large volume of bt:sinesa is expected. PULLED 1115 ARM OFF. Remarkable Exhibition of Strength and Nerve. A despatch from Moncton, N. B., says: A shocking accident occurred at Beres- ford, near Bathurst, on Friday morn- ing, by which William O'Brien was corking in his sawmill when Itis right :teal was caught by the belt. Quickly the arm was drawn around the pulley, end there seemed no possible way : t O'Brien saving his life with the deadly r.eachinery drawing hint to certain death. O'Brien, who is a powerful man, resist - c•1 with all his strength, with the re- sult that he saved clans life at the expense of his right arm, which was literally tern irnl its socket al the shoulder. The mill hands were horrified at the ter- rible sight. O'Brien, \who exhibited :each great nerve, was perfectly- con- scious, but suffered excruciating pain. The accident happened just before the arrival of the east -bound Campbellkm express, and the Injured man was ',lac - cc: aboard of this and hurried to Bath- urst for medical attention. DIED AT HUNDRED AND THREE. Two Others injured at IniranI(:w 11 Quarry, N. Iii. A despatch from Newcastle, N. B.. says: A triple fatality was the result of Floor --Choice spring wheat patents, the collapse of a steam derrick in the $5.10 to $5.2+); seconds. $1.51) to $5.61); lediantown stone quarry on Friday winter• wheat Patents. $165 to $4.'15; morning. The derrick was lifting a straight rollers $125 to $135; do.. in , la. 81.;15 to g.', $2.10; extras, $1.65 to $ 1.75 Ilolled Oats -Remain quiet at 82.25 per Ileg; cornmeal is steady at 81.15 to i1.5►5per bag. Millfecd-\lanitiba bran in bags, t.ged 46; Herman O'Brien. of Indian- 82+►; shorts, 52:3 to g25 a ton; Ontario kiwi', single, aged el. Two others wero 1 rite it, bogs, $19 to 819.50; shorts sert)usly injured. $2:.5t) to $23: milled mouille, $24 to $28 per toll; straight grain, 830 to $32. Ilay--No. 1. $17 to $17.50; No. 2, 815 to $16; clover, $1:3.50 to $11. and clover mixed. $12.50 to $1:t peer ten in car lots. Butter --Townships are quoted at 22c lo 223 ei Quebec at 21Xe to 21%e. Ite- ccipls to -day were 2,477 packages. Cheese -Ontario, I1 yc to 11%c; east - erns, I Ic to 3 L3'c. Eggs ---Sales of selected in single cas- es were made at 20e to 21e. and round k.ts of straight receipts at Iii'/,e. No. 1 candled at 17e to lac, No. 2 candled at 12c to Ile. and No. 2 straight al 12j;c re! dozen. Previsions -Barrels short cul tress, $.2 to 5:2.54); half bl(rre's. 511.25 to 811.- 7,e clear fat back, 823.50 to $21.50; long cut heavy mess, $20.51) to $21.50; half barrels slo., $10.75 Io $11.50; dry malted l.ng clear bacon, 10c to 11, o; barrels p•:at' beef. 814 to 5,6; half barrels (lo.. 57.51 to $4.25; barrels heavy mess beef, $10; half barrels do.. $5.50; compound Inc.]. l(l3'o to 10%e; pure lard, 11%c le) 1.1''c; kettle rt'Ildered, 1:te• t•1 I3yc, harm. 12Xc to 15%e, according In size; bt eaktast bacon, tic to 15%e; Windsor (U,co 1. 15.: lo 15"4e; fres!' killed abat- toir dressed hog,, .x'l.75 to 510; alive, 86.75 to 57.65. COUNTRY PItOUt'CE. Gutter -Prices are (inner all round. Co. ame•ry prints .,., ,.,. ,. 22ctoetc do eolids .... .... .... .... 20c to 22c Dairy prints .... ........ 19c to 21c de solids ....19c to 20e Cheese -Firm at • 1.23;c to 1251 c fur large and 12%c for twins in job lots be•re. Eggs -Firm at 18yc to 19c; selects quoted from 19c to 19%c. Beans -$1.65 to $1.70 for hand-picked and $1.50 to $1.55 for princes. Potatoes -Eastern, dull at FOc to :)Oc per bag; new potatoes, firm at $3.25 to a:1.50 per barrel in car lots on track. Baled flay -Olid hay Is practically nominal at $11.50 to $15. New hay is steady at $12.50 in car lots on truck here. Baled Straw -$7.25 to $7.50 per ton in cur lots 011 track here, l'i3OV'ISIONS, Dressed (logs -$9.75 for lightweights and $0.25 for heavies. Pork -Short cut, $22.75 to $23 for bar- rels; mess, 820 to $21. Smoked and Dry Sa!'ed Meats -Long clear bacon. 1Ic to 11%c for tons au41 ewes; hares, medium and light, 15%c to 1Gc; heavy. 14%c to 15c; bucks, 16%e :o 17c; shoulders, 10%c to Ile; rolls, 11'/.,c out of pickle lc les titan smoked. Lard -Steady; tierces, .12c; tubs, 12%c; pails, 12'/,c. MONTRE.11. MA1RKI-:'I''4. Montreal. Aug. 20 --Outs continue first and n steady business is being done. Sales of round lots of Manitoba No. 2 while were trade et i>(%r and car lots at 49e per bushel ex -store. stone. the weight was great and the der- rick fell. \tanager Ilood had a very narrow escape; feri'4' enipkeyes were killed and two were. hurt. The killed 'ire: --Jos. Czornv, a foreigner. single; 1:harles \W. seminal. t,f Indianlo�wn. SODA FOUNTAIN EXPLODED. Destroyed (.Iassuare, Bottles and a Wooden Partition. A despatch from Sydney Mines. N.S.. says: 5.11 explos:on in \Weddlelon's candy kitchen occurred on Wednesday after- noon. Miss Josephine Oranl was stand- ing behind Ihe counter. within two feet of a soda fountain cylinder charged !o one hundred and fifty pounds' pressure, which suddenly exploded, sending glass- ware. candy. bottles and other para- phernalia flying to all directions, and (aestroying 0 wooden partition. Miss Orani's escape was miraculous. 0111- s:de a bad fright she escaped without injury. /:Ri oSIIOPPEitS F:1T CROPS. Destroying Oats and Barley in Vicinity of Sun(lrioh(e. 1 despatch from Toronto says: Grass - 1:e ppers are destroying oats and barley in the vicinity of Sandridge, Parry Bund, says Mr. Anderson Elliott. who ens been judging standing crops for the Provincial Department of Agriculture. The insects eat the beards of barley and (►Ie leaves of oats, consequently. ns the (.ate may no1 average resole than Iwo Misfit is an acre, and the barley 10. Mr. Elliott advised that the crops be cut at once, even though unripe. (:11011:111 IN POLAND. A Serious Outbreak in the leek!' Quar- ter of Brest. A despntch from Brest. Tilouvsk, Po- land, ay.: An epidermic. supe esed In b:• cholera. tins broken out in the Jewish quartet' of this town. Forty patients Igoe been reported. rind Iwo of them have ditd. The sick nee .011 Jew?. sani- tary experts frnn \\'arsaw ars' inweslf• wiling the matter. ME MEM EPAE88MAN It Escaped From Box in a Car at Montreal. A despatch from Montreal sad.. \ten al out levet the Canadian Pacific de - pies are sti11 talking of the JM" ulcer c011- Is1gll.nlenl That came through Montreal ('11 Wednesday (en its way to Tomtit). 1! should have been transferred al North Rey, but come ene plundered, met so f1 cause 11.4 far ns Montreal.:A cotnpie of Cxpressmcn stepped into the car in ♦%heti the consignment lay, mad pto- c(',v1(ed to ('scar it out. Suddenly one fit them gave a yell, rind. with his hair (.h end and his e)es popping mut, jumped for the door. Ilia companion shouted a question niter him and turn - <.1 to do the work alone. when he. too. stared intently for n brief and fleeting second into a corner of the car, after which he emitted n yell worse than the other one rind tried to climb up 1'.e .elide of the car in his !emir. 7 he tart tet the matter is, the men arm n snake. The snake had escaped from Ihe box to the eotrrse of its trip to Toronto, where it is to bo used for e' hil►illon purposes. NEW YOI(K \\ 111"U \I \It10ET. New York. \Lig 211.-\Vheat-Spot film; No. 2 red. 91c in elevator and 9234c f.o.h. afield; No. 1 northern Duluth. * L.01; No. 2 hard winter, No. 1.1\'1: STOCK \IAIliETS. Toronto. Allg. 20. -Export trade con - lamed quiet. I'rices quoted for top riu:t. Irl ranged between 85 and $5.25. Geed average quality sold from $1.75 to 81- 1*), and bull. iron $3.75 to 81.50. Choice steers sold up to $3, with 11+e ra•oge from 54.10. hoots medium to cieoice sold from $1.23 to 51.50. Or•Jin- r.ry to medium. $:3.54) to 81. \Well-(ln- i,ticil .Yews would have sold at :33.50 :o 8t. and one or Iwo buyers professed to:knee-Ives willing to bill 10 10 15 cents L:gther for the right quality. A lot of tree very roughest stock sold as canners al 51.50 to 82. There was no inquiry for stockers. ('nonce nominally 83 to $3.75; common. '25 to 82.75. Offerings of tni:kers were n little heay- 1er to -day. Choice were quoted from 535 to $30, and common to medium from $20 lo 830. \'rel chive were steady at 3c 10 Gc (1(0 pt.tln.l. Ewe: ctoli fern $1.:4) to 84.75. Bucks and coils from $:1.5>') 10 Si. Lambs sold from $5.50 to $6.20. Inst week's decline in hog priers steadies the market. Selects we're quot- s e,1 at $6.75. 1)1 \ 1111 fl: F' 11:TOlil' 1:�I'L1)DI:�. Niece killed anal 'I %%ertls Injure.: al Itii. n►il,. A despatch from Berlin, Germany, •'�s: :A dynamite factory at lkx'inilz. (rand Duchy of Mecklenburg.► -Schwerin, exploded nn Tlrursdaly. One life 's kroa'n to have been t.►.l. eight permit's me missing. and nre regarded as kitleel, !went) perenna sclte sl,nngere,lsty M- ite ed and six were slightly hurt. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS 11.111E\INGS F'JU)%I ALL OVER 'lilt: GLOBE. Telegraph Briefs From Our Own and Other Countries of Recent Fa eats. 7'he� SCielt Act has been repealed in (ujti' Breton. The Penman Co., of Paris, are open- ing 41 factory in Brantford. Brantford's water supply is low, and lawn -watering is disconlin'itt1. '1'It,. gaits$ of Uto wrecked l:ry,tul 1'al. UCO, London, are betrug reu,vud, The (iovei oumc'r,t will receive $24,G15 from the e',luk of the tato John Waddle. They G.T.11. ask for a sito near Major's 11:1: Park for it. ueN �I4111011 in Otl:►wn. The .Mart Line i; building Iwo new slt•atners fur the* Ahotltrt'uI-(la guw ser- vi;u. The available output (if the Tilbury gas field is placed at forty million feet I'er day Il,amillon aldermen have discharged captain and crew of Ihe• sand pump fear loafing. The l:.1'.11. has lel contracts for a high bridge over the Belly sliver that will be u utile long. The harvesthats commenced in Ros- thern district, Sask., and the yieid is reported gos,d. A Government Inspector will be asked te• rep oil't on the coed+'tion of several hIlildiIlg, at London, Onl. The 1uittreul Street Railway Company has acquired tho right to 1111111 and de- liver freight cars in the city limits. \\Isoonsin paper trills have formed a merger to secure about 100,000 acres of I►i1p:wood in Quebec. Leading Atlantic liners running 111 Canada are catering more and more to second-class passengers. Mr. Collingwood Schreiber stales that the Grand Trunk Pacific rails will be laic: from Winnipeg to Saskatoon this year. Tho passeng,►c'r rate of five cents a mile of the Alberta Irrigation & Caul Co. has been ordered redu,csl to four cents by the Railway Commission. Bernadette Brossard, o sixteen -year- old girl, at Montreal, swallowed car- tx.lic acid after u dispute :with her em- ployer, and is dead. Canadian steamstep agents at. Mont- real are considering the question of meeting the cut in steerage passenger rates made by several continental lines. M. H. AleL cod, the new general mana- ger of the C.N.(1.., is al Edmonton con- ferring with Messrs. Mot,ntuin and Dil- lil:g,aer rrgardillg the entrance of the new lines into the city. GREAT BRITAIN. A lockout in ilritish shipyards threa- tens Io fitly thousand men out of wort:. 'I'hs third reading of the deceased wife's sister', 1)111 has passed the British (.A111In01Ls. A race from Qucensloewn to New Ye►rk will Ix'gin on Sept. 7 betweeii the Luse tau►ia and the I.ucania. Lord Rnseloery made a brilliant attack on the Scottish .small landowner: bill of the British Liberal Government. John Redmond, in 011 address .al \\*ee- ft.rrl, de11ouIueoel the uil'nit) rs of the `inn Fein 114 actuated by jealousy. George Bernard Shaw, the dramatist, wae nearly drowned while swimming oft the Welsh coast the other day. The British Beard of Agriculture sta- liaic� .how tent Britons are eating Twice' u; much aunt Per head as tweet) years ago. The body of Principal Gibbins of Bishop's (:c►Ilege, Lennoeville, was found in the \hdland Railroad tunnel, near Bradford, Eng. UNrri:D s r,+,'rl: . Four foreigners are .tears of bubonic plig,►tie at 54111 Frandsen. A bulldog at 1hicknway Clench has 83551 live bathers from drowning. (contagious d&sen es, especially scar- let fever, are increasing in Chicago. The Georgi:( Legislature passed n hill 4i:sfriinchising all negroes in the Slate. !'resident Roosevelt will take 10) :07. tion personally regarding the tcleegraph- cr,' strike. Miss Roca 'Lipp, of Egansvine. incl., died of typhoid fever, brought art by ex• cee;sive dancing. The New fork and Bei/nude.„ ('n. has been fined $5.S400,000 for heeling rebel- lion ill Wenezujeln, The tented States Treasury will l4onn g,. veminent funds this fall to aid Ihe nee -omen! of caps. Fivo persons were killer) and eleven injured by the collapse of n bearding hobs.) 01 Chiengo on Friday. The Secretary of the Ilunchnkist, a (+reek organization in New fork. has confessed to directing a number ( t murders. The great printing paper merger in Hie North Central States is being organ- ized by Ihe International Paper Com- pany of New York. Reenrdhs of fake weights and mea. side's used in New York city show that Pe people are cheated out of 813.000.- 0'.o n yenr by (heir use, Chancellor Day, in nn interview et Lake I'laci.l. N. 1'.. declares That Ilii' Standard Oil Company is mote saintly than the politicians who are fighting if. The business of printing and publish- ing in the I:ni1(',1 Slates shote; a big increase during{ the last five years, ac. ccreling to the reports at the census of- fice. AH the saw mills but one have been compelled to shut (Hewn owing to low s.'.ter in Ihe Chippewa !liver. Wis. The 5hut(Hewn will last probably till the fa!+ rains. Fred Sehmont, of Tomah, Wis., %% (tile kering down on old frame hr►tlse..Iis. cc•vo red a tin box which conlained 815.- (.(41 in Government bonds. notes, and cash. Noah ('z)ffee and Fon Frasier, t►r)y.s whe were in jail at Mayfield. Ky.. charge+1 with hurgInry, while in Ihe poi yard locked the keeper in jail and made their escape aver the high wall, B,s'an,e of ninny recent nuterrobil,' ,.. ci,enls in Milwaukee, nn (,relientice well be introduced before_ the Council nI its next meeting providing that all pM r::004 must pats nn examination and 1 granted n city license before drit ing a machine. BARBER KILLED IN ROW Fatal End to Drunken Quarrel at Sault Ste. Marie. A despatch from Sault Ste. Marie, O.;I,, says: As the result of what is said to have been a drunken vow teal start- ed in the \Windsor Hotel at nine o'clock 011 'Thursday night, Edward Ilynes, a barber employed at the hotel, is dead, and Thomas Ryan, a baa"ksntith, who !1n; lived in the "Solo" for years, rind is respected by all, is in the cells, and wit probahly he compelled to answer' Li a charge of murder. -'i'he row started in the barber shop fit connection \e•itll the hotel. 11 ap- pears that !Van had had his hair cut ut the shop .501)0' days ago, and while in the shop on Thursday night quizzed llyttes ah out it, sayhhwno sl'IistleJ. \\'cards (411lo ing veet,at ande theas sleeet- taetors say that Ryan asked 1Ivites to go out into the yard and settle the mat- ter. Hynes complied, and the two 'nen left the shop. Hynes locking it. Neil Mcl)uugail, proprietor of the lio- l� wrist to the front door of the place to call a p olirernan. and not seeing cite in sight. returned to the rear (•f the+ house, presumably to put a slop tgr;,lr fight. As lie reached the yard. Inti:tn was mounting his steps to leave. and Ilynes was ;ging,jtpon..Ute ground, ap- Ieierently unconscious. McDougall se- (t►1•ed assistance and Hynes was curled irtlo the hotel, where it was found t(1►tt t+e was dead. Dr. \i'Crae was hurried- ly summoned, but life was etinet lung le•fore he arrived. 'I'Ihe police were notified and Ryan was found at his itonle on Albert Street. It is said he expressed surprise that Idyne; was dead, having no idea Ilial the fight had terminated fatally. il�nes was 3'( years of age, and came 1 ► the "Soo" from the American si.ie in June, formerly conducting the Grant S:,loon in the American "Son." Ile was single, and had always been ••e- ge:trded as quiet and inoffensive. ltyart is about 40 years of age, 'married, and has a family of three children. N. Store Mattson, son of ex -Gov. GAGGED. 1301:ND %Nt) 11i:1'I1:N. flans Mattison of \linnesota, after .uultndering an inhcritatn,e of $1.000. - Alan Found on :Montreal '5tr•'e' in Pili - 000, turned Irarnp kir years, but is now f Intl Condition. earning an holiest living with a steam si:ovel gang in New fork and likes it. A despatch 1tunl Montreal says. Gag- ged, hound, and beaten almost into un- consciousness, David Cadieux was found early on Saturday 111oruiig on 11(1:" Lafontaine by passers-by, who beheld his pitiful plight and heard his groans. When th' two people WIto picked hire tip and reproved the gag from his mouth unbound his limbs. and gyve hien time to explain the details • f what had happened to hien, he told a strange story- a story that speaks wol- notes fee Ihe daring and brutality of the "thugs" that haunt Montreal's slrcels, highways, byways, and public peck; in the hours of the evening. \\'hile passing through the park on Fri- day night, 11e was attacked by thugs, who, after rohhing, gagged and bound leinl. For several hairs after the held - up (:adieux lay struggling 011 the ground. in vain trying to rid himself of the gag that scarcely allowed hint 13 breathe. and to free himself of lite ropes that bit into the flesh of his arms and legs. Al length the pedestrians, who happened nearby, attracted by the s( and cif the unfortunate man's gron115, approached to where he lay met releas- ed him. GENEIIA1.. The Germans are threatened with an- other insurrection in their colony in Southwest Africa. Thirty Bulgarians and their leader were killed in battle with Turkish troops in European Turkey. The Spanish (luwermmellt has t►gtnoved this exc(s tux on importations of Ameri- can flot,r, A leading Parisian journalist stakes that conditions in :Morocco indicete that llle French are there to slay. Pekin despatches forecast at gloomy future for China owing to the unsettled stat.) of Ix►liiics in the country. Prince Firma, of Persia, will himself pay the cost of an exixedition against the Turkish invaders of his eountry. Fourteen passenger,, alkl four sailors lost their lives in the wreck of the American bark Prussia ill \ingelinn Straits. ---___--_4'- W.1S MIOI'iRNED AS DEAD. Catharines Man Was Supposed to 'lase Been Drowned. A (It -spatia from SI. eettharint's says : After being mourned for (is (1'1141 Ger the Fast eight years Harry Shelters returned tee the city on Thursday. 11 1:t.. thought 1,y his relatives that he went down with the 111 -fated .steamer Bannockburn when she sank in Lake Steelier. Ile had shipped on the Bannockbul n but missed the steamer. at Fart methane th114 eq.. caping n watery grave. Ho has since wandered all around the West and down into the Southern Stales. No word was received hour him ley his relatives dur- ing his \wanderings, Itis Ilomeooming was not as happy ac could he evishcvl. for his mother died Incl tv'cettlly and her son knew nothing of the sad occurrence. MAK 'rla.l.Lius 5llsT.tk1•:. Ile Paid Out Five Hundred Dollars %Inch. A despatch from Winnipeg says: The tel of the Bank of Montreal here paid ..til five hundred dollars too ►nueh un.) (nay lash week. and as a result `inn I',e- trukos, a Greek. is under urre,t. charg- ( 0. wilh having obtained the n!. eney. 1'itlrakos presented a cheek ter six him - tired and fifty dollars, signed by M. 1. Neville, local druggist. len oliscov.ey that the cash was five hundred short, Teller \\'. J. !Lipsey cluirus that 1 e positively t':'menlbnered that he gavel SHOT TWO. THEN iiiAiSF.Li'. ( l'atrak'►.` ten 011C hundred dollar sees and thirty fives, thinking -.at ' ens lialian Killed Sweetheart, Wounded Her giving him fifties instead of him 'rots. i utrakos denied that be had the e.s11Q Friend, (onimilfrd Suicide. 'merry. and the hunk placed I,in' udder A (Iee•:patch from Chicago says: \ir(•hael Drl'rain. an Italian, on \1'eednes• day night shot 111141 instantly killed Al. wino \'ullnlnnn, seriously wounded tier (•('115,311, .1Iwe,n :15+,111, 1111(1 111(1) killed himself. l)o'Train and \lie; Wtrltinann were sold 1,1 have ts'eit engaged at ono time, but the girl had recently refused t' 'ninny. because of his wild conduct. The Winn blamed the girl's cousin for hie dismissal. Miss Award received n eevere sent') weeetenil. , ut will rr.^over. 'rho buil- 1•e was detleeted t►y n comb she wore) in eel hair. 1\'1)I NI)1•:1) IIIS SISTER. '3lnessalon Lad teridentally Dim -feinted ilifle 11 elle Loadint, 11. A despatch fermi TIN'+•:e ,11. 1)nl.. says : What might have pr %ed :0 fatal nccttlent occurred at the home ref \Ir•. Ilenry Shoultz. \\ hale .lir. G,.►rge Green. steep -son of Mr. Shoultz, was In pad net of lending a rifle, II was dis. chal'ged, the 1,1il1,4 pneeing through both the wrists of his ten -year-old sister, Matilda, and koiging in her left shoul- der. She 55115 at once move eel to the hosp-ital. Where Ilk' ball w,as extracted. The lithe patient will rxover. 1'111"/)N IN 1•'O1.i1 ON1.1', Tr,1s of %Mined Ceirnrls Not l:noi, ha to be Dangerous. A despatch (min Ottawa says : nes ing Ir. rr^('nt cn,.c4 4►f apparent poisoning fn m the Ilse of almond extracts surp- f,e.,441 to contain pries+-: add, an analy- ,e; way made in the Deportment of In- land Revenue of 1,5 sample:: ooll'ctel throughout the Dominion. 'l'lle tests show.vi 61 rrnnp lei of eeeenee r.f tetter nllrl!►INI. t., 1,' free fty,nl prussic acid. i10 four there' wa•t mete:' a pleasurable weedily, Insullicient to 1'e dangerous. arrest. 1)n Saturday in court fairs' u.t< Wended reit guilty, and was remanded for eight days. I11ND CRUSHED AND RIUIR\t:D. Welland Girl Victim of Terrible Accident In a Laundry. A despatch front Welland says 1')..eho I.01hnry1, n fourtmn-year.t►Id girl. not long out feet the 0141 Country, u, e•1 with a frightful nceident in the n.vla Laundry on Salur 1iiv morning. ng. Iter hand was caught in n mangle and ran Ihe ough to 11r. wrist before Iles machine a as reversed. The under r)ller is kept title 11-;ely Beet, rued the stns.) lintel of the howl was horribly burned. Besides this, all the bones were crushed, .t ring on one linger being driw.'n right through the borne. The girl was inken a'I the General Hospital. Niagara Faits, nn! LII' (hcl(►rs fear that it may be necessary to amputate the hand; (1t ary rale 11 will 1►e permanently disabled. 1)11:1) 11 111 NI►Itt:I) 1ND 1(110:1: Cenl.en,arian of ''.iii t e.. F:n,iegralyd tri I:an:ue1:i 111 1s17. deah +cn aar. i a.ia- nrk (:orsprorantc,1rof St\\t utlt,::e ss- shl'adt, at the home of this wide es , Malt (:or- ceernn. Ile was a hundred and three years of age on Februnry 21141 last, In P.17 hr• emigrated to Canada rind has 'once HMI at Slro►ur,e.s. Ilis young- est brother. Micthael, resides al St, (:1)l' nr1nc4, Ile \vats a bachelor. n total ;fie' stainer, and neer u'e(1 tobnr•c(► in any form. Though a great r•ee.n.e•r, he newer were gtas-.cs. 1)(nth resulted !nun a s're,k.e of peraiy,is. tt hi:h he suffered tlV , weeks 111.0. 1 11:1lt's 1111111.11%110N. 111:1:111u)I\l. 1 \D1:•IIt 11N.t:s. it turns Shnts on Increase of 3 hirty- three Per Gent. Imnritgrastiun Dvparinlenl 1.1.. Inlnrn►n• lion irum Police. :1 despatch from OttasvA says: T!,o t(.Ial immigration to Canada for the :\ despatch from Ottawa says : The tuelye months ending June 30 %sr% 252. - Superintendent of Immigration has ad- O:($. F(,r the twelve months previoug ar• dressers a circular to pollee departments risals numb -red im9.rkit, a gain of 62, - and eoeoners Throughout the eountry (74, or 33 per cent. lin ocean port asking information on any immigrants the number was I9s,:40, as agalm:l who nppenr before, police niaglstrales i:r1.11:g for fhe previous y.ar, n gain and coroners as criminate. \\',tli melt cf 14.152. nearly 49 per rent. FMnt inf•►rnlntkln supplied, the) depot Imam the IJnil•st Stales 111(' number was r• call be mete lo keep ek►eter cheek on 5(11. as compared with 37,7.)t', for lel tm,M;trnble immigrant. ani.1 d•por•1 pia -ceding )-Or, or, a loss O( 1,278, •tcJI lliteur• 1 pet °cut.