Exeter Times, 1909-02-18, Page 3AN ARBITRATION TREATY
Has Been Concluded Between Great Britain
and the United States.
A despatch from Milwaukee,
-Wisconsin, says: .1 inha ssador
rates Bryce of Great Britain w•as
•guest of honor anal principal
aker at the annual banquet of
t o Milwaukee Merchants and
Manufacturers' Assc.ciation on
1Vednesciay night. The Ambassa-
dor spoke with satisfaction of the
treaties concluded, or almost con-
cluded, between brit* United States
and Great Britain.
"14, is a plea' .ire to me," he
said, "and 1 ant sure it ought to
be so to all Ameri-.ons and to all
Canadians that the friendship be-
tween you and the people of Can-
ada has steadily grown, and that
'nur Government and ours have
lately been able to c•ow:lude three
treaties designed to remove pos-
sible clauses of disputa between the
two peoples. Ono of these provides
r the exact delimitation of the
boundary between the two coun-
tries; another for salvage opera-
tions; a third for regulating and
developing the fisheries in the great
lakes.
We have alae concluded a treaty
of great importaaoe fur t -ho friendly
arbitration of all questi •n that
may hereafter arise between tho
United States and the British Em-
pire, and within the last few weeks
your lath Secretary of State and
I have signed two other treaties,
ono for the arbitration of ques-
tions relating to the North Atlan-
tic fisheries, and the other regu-
lating the use of waters on the
boundary between the United
States and Canada. This last is
a matter of the greatest conse-
quence because questions left un-
settled on this boundary might
easily give rise to vexatious con-
troversy.
A STREAM OF LAVA.
Flowing Donn the Side of a Nexis
can Volcano.
A dee•patsh from Mexico City
says: Another earthquake occur-
red in the vicinity of Colima. on
Tuesday. A violent eruption .of
the volcano followed the quake. A
ridge of lava about a mito long is
streaming down ono side of the
volcano. No fatalities have result-
o:t so far as known. The region
.affected is barren. The famous oil
well, known as the Dos Boeas,
which for months shot a column of
Haines and smoke into the :air for
many hundreds of feet, has turn-
ed int., a geyser, and fears aro en-
tertaiiuxl that eventually tho well,
which for so long has furnished a
grand spectacle of the powers of
nature, may become an active vol-
cano. The first evidences of this
were made apparent on Tuesday,
when, in addition t ► the great
volume of boiling water which is
lifted heavenward at tho rate of
•2- .sllons each twenty-four
large quantity of volcanic
s thrown out.
'I'1!i; MII,I'fI t ('.1Mi'S.
Summer Drill velli be Held This
Velar, as Usual.
•1a des.-pat.eli from Ottawa says:
ho fear expressed in some quar-
ters that the cutting down of the
militia estimates this year by $340,-
000 on the item for annual drill,
as compared with tho expenditure
for the same purpose last year,
means a curtailment of the num-
ber of hien to be drilled in the an-
nual camps next summer, is not
borne out by the facts. The de-
crease in the item is duo to the
fact that this year there will not
be the expense of a military dis-
play involved in the Quebec Ter-
centenary last. year. Four 1906-07
the whole militia force was drilled
for *630,000, and in 1903-6 for
*600,000. This year the, appropri-
ation is $860,000, which will be
ample for all requirements.
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:IN ARMY OF TIIE EMPIRE.
The Ambitions Sehrnu' of the
Rr41is!i War Mee.
.1 despatch from London says:
Speaking at a military dinner in
London on 1Vcdur'4lay night on
the role of the too rit•,rial army in
riots problems of defense
possible iiivasi',n, the
Hon. It. B. Iialdane, Secre-
of State for War, announced
tha the Government is negotiat-
ing with its dominions over the
seas with a view to the ercati in
of an army of empire and not of
Great Britain merely. Secretary
Haldane referred also with great
satisfaction to the fact as the out-
come of the recent agitation 30.-'
0(9 recruits had joined the terri-
^ttorial army fled 100 applications
had been received for commi:.-
sions.
- DIVORCES IN CANADA.
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
UAPPLNINGS FROM ALL OVER
THE GLOBE.
Telegraphic Briefs From Our Own
and Other Countries of
Recent Events.
The suits against the former di-
rectors of the Ontario Bank tare to
be pressed.
A bakers' war is reported at
Regina, and the people are gutting
cut rate bread.
The Canadian Northern Railway
will extend through British Colum-
bia to the I'aciftc coast.
Queen's University tat Kingston
has 1,402 students enrolled, which
marks a rocord in the attendance.
Mr. H. P. Hewing, a Hamilton
stock broker, who failed some time
ago, is paying off his creditors.
Mr. Lancaster's level crossings
bill passed the House, and goes
before the Senate for the fourth
time.
The Canadian Northern has
closed a contract with the Domin-
ion Steel Company for 30,000 tons
cif rails.
Mr Charles P. Henderson, a
pioneer farmer of Wawanesa, Man.,
Twenty -foils Applfealions to ('unto was frozen to death while walking
Before Senate that ties: on, hoinc.
An illicit still was seized atSte.
A despatch from Ottawa says: Agathe by Montreal oflisers, and
Thorn are now twenty-four appli- Joseph Charest arrested on a
cations for divorce to be consider- charge of running it.
eiI by the Senate at the present Commander Spain and Mr. J. F.
session. This constitut.ea a record Fraser are to retire from the Cov-
in divorce cases for any one ses- crnment service as a result of the
sion of Parliament.. The eases are marine investigations.
all from Quebec, Ontario and the Municipalities on the south shorn
three prairie Provinces, there be- are moving to have Victoria Bridge
ing spa:;ial divorce courts in the made free to give them easier ac -
other Provinces of the Dominion cols to Montreal.
Last year only five divorces were The Duke of Bedford has given
granted by Parliaments, land since six yaks to the Dominion, and an
confederation the total Inas been effort will be made to breed them
sixty-six. in Canada.
The Council of St. Catharines
J. .1. Ii111,14'S ACTIVITIES. was served with an injunction to
restrain it from passing the license
I'e+l;lions in Legislature for Right r Mr`tion
Matthe A. Wilks, formerly
to Build Railways. Mr.
Galt, is to marry Miss Sylvia
A despatch from Winnipeg nays: Green, the only daughter of Mrs.
Petitions are now before. Cie Mani_ Hetty Green of Now York.
toba House and bilis will shortly Three hundred employees of the
he introduced for allowing Jain( Colonial Bleaching Works at St.
1. IIi11 to build further railways Henri have received notice of dis-
in the province, and also to form missal. It. is said the plant will
a company which will purchase all be moved to Magog.
these railways and control them Premier Scott of Saskatchewan
under one name. This legislation wants the Dominion Government
will permit the Hill forces to con- tc pay the expense of baking care
centrato their work in tho prov- of the band of fanatical Doukho-
ince. hors, sent back to his Province
from Ontario.
('III('.((:O CORNED BEEF The Railway Commission has
ordered the Grand Trunk to place
Firm Secured Cdntrael io Supply a night watchman on the Montreal
British Army ler Three Years. street crossing at Kingston, where
the recent double fatality occurred.
A despateli from London says: --
A Chicago firm has been awarded GREAT BRITAIN
n. contract to supply the British
army with corned beef for a period
of three years. The first delivery,
between 500,000 and 1,000,000
pounds, will be made next. July,
and further deliveries will be in
accordance with the requirements
of the army. The meat will be
packed in Chicago under the super-
vision of British army officers.
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.1 F}:1�1' 11! !11"�I)11\1:-Itll{IIS.
rise 11 and red to be 1:atelt i:t Bans
enol in 'fexre4.
A despatch from Tampico. Mex.,
says: A game dealer in Tempisc•o
has recoiled an order from Harry
.1. Benson of San Antonio, for 500
humming birds, which are to be
served at a banquet to be given
in that city. Humming birds are
plentiful in this. region. and the
order will be filled easily.
INVITATION To CANADA.
Asked to Send Delegates to Dairy
(',. n gre,l:s.
A despatch from ('heyenne,
11'yoming, say.: James Bryce, Am-
bassador of Great Britain, has for-
warded from 1Vashington an invi-
tation of the Dairy Farming Con-
gress to the Minister of Agricul-
ture of Canada, in order that the
Dominion may be represented at.
the congress here, Feb. 23.
TO LIGHT NIAGARA FALLS
lir Cities on Both Sides of the River
Will Install a Plant.
A despatch from Niagara Falls,
N. V., says: Plans to make the il-
luminating of Niagara Falls by
electricity & permanent feature of
this resort aro rapidly nearing
completion. and at a meeting held
on Wednesday afternoon the com-
mittee in charge practically de-
cided to secure an equipment of
probably twice the power of that
used' two years ago, when the ex-
periment was first niade.
The committee, consisting of
members of the Boards of Trades
of the two cities on either side of
the river and Mayor lt. P. Slater,
1
of Niagara Falls, Ont., met with
Mayor Anthony ('. Douglass in
the tatter's office, where they held
a conference with 1V. D'Arcy
Ryan, illuminating expert.
The committee propose to install
a plantthat will require an oper-
ating force of at least. 700 horse-
power. Mr. Ryan and City En-
gineer Robbins, of this city, spent
the greater part of 1V.dnesday
afternoon making measurements
and picking the locations for the
proposed batteries. Mr. Ryan
will make a. report upon the ap-
proximate cost of the equipment
next week.
The new British naval pro-
gramme will include the building
of six Dreadnoughts.
A number of women on horse-
back will take part in the next suf-
fragette raid in London.
The Judicial Committee of the
Privy Council has decided the fam-
ous Dominion Steel -Dominion Coal
appeal in favor of the Steel Com-
pany.
The United Irish band League
passed a resolution urging that
tho Gaelic language bo among the
compulsory subjects for matricula-
tion at the National University.
UNITED STATES.
A crusade against spitting has
been begun in New York.
A Nebraska assemblyman, fol-
lowing N'itrlike Natives Striving in Peace•
the lead of legislators in fol Rivalry.
California, Nevada and Oregon,
has introduced au anti-Japanese Kumasi, the capital of Ashanti,
bill. a city whose streets have again and
again been bathed in blood, wit-
(:ENERAL. nessed an interesting scene a few
weeks ago, when Sir John Rodger,
It ish regarded aaeceaill now Governor of the Gold Coast, open -
the trade
French Senate will ratify ed a successful agricultural stow.
the trade treaty with Canada. Hundreds of native chiefs and thou -
an
rsed G settling
have signed sands of their followers, clad in the
concerning .agreement settling differences picturesque and multi -colored cloths
deMhat Turkey ds. which form the national costume,
Confident that docs not
intend to open hostilities Bulgaria all f 11iredofroin llie and Colony,
from
from
has disbanded her reservists. the distant Northern Territories,
Revolutionistsmrerdnt Rcsht, Persia, meeting together for the first time
have murdered elle Governor of
IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND
NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN
BULL AND HIS PEOPLE.
Occurrences in (ho Land That
Reigns Supreme in the Com-
mercial World.
The total rates in Sheffield
mount up to about $2.21, t he highest
yet reached.
Wellington, Somerset, gave a re•
ception the other day to over 100
old age pensioners.
Of Lie 553 women physicians in
England, 538 have signed the peti-
tion for woman suffrage.
A feature of five new mail steam-
ers for the Anglo -Australian ser-
vice is a smoking lounge for ladies.
Lewis Jones, /a Uarnarvonshire,
rural postman, has done at least
150,000 miles, and is still "going
strong." -
Southampton's old -age pension
committee rejected a claim from a
man who has $5,000 mainly invested
at 1 per cent.
At a cost of 850,000, of which
$37,500 has already been collected,
a new dental hospital is being erect-
ed in Liverpool.
Since drawing her first instal-
ment of old age pension, an old wo-
man at Keighley has been married
and gone away on her honeymoon.
For the purpose of a great educa-
tional campaign this year, the Na-
tional Temperance League have is-
sued an appeal for $50,000.
Excepting for severe shock and a
cut on his arm, Benjamin Kershaw,
who fell from the fourth floor of a
building at Salford, was unhurt.
Order to convert 650 15 -pounder
quick -firing guns for the armaments
of the Territorial Artillery at 'Wool-
wich Arsenal are almost completed.
Under the auspices of the Play-
goers' Club entertainments were
given at tho Pavilion Theatre and
the West London Theatre to a large
number of poor children.
The lady operators of the trunk
telephone department at Leeds Gen-
eral Post Office, have organized
and given an entertainment to 200
of the poorest children of the city.
The ,.ondon and South -Western ,
Company's new dry dock at South- THE DAIRY MARKETS.
ampton, which will be the largest Butter -Pound prints, 22 to 24c;
in the world, is to be constructed tubs and largo rolls, 20 to 22c; in -
on the Woolston side of the river. fcrior, 18 to 19c; creamery rolls,
In the absence of an interpreter, 27 to 28c, and solids 26 to 26%e.
Judge Moss, at Llangollen County Eggs -Case lots of cold storage,
Court, allowed a case to be entirely 25 to 26e; selects, 27 to 28c, and
conducted in Welsh, and at the new laid, 29c per dozen.
close gave his judgment in Welsh. Cheese -Largo cheese, 13 ,e per
In front of an inn at Lands End pound, and twins, 13%e.
in Cornwall, England, hangs a sign -
hoard which reads on one side "The
Last Inn in England," and on the
other "The First Inn in England."
Skilled men in the works of the
South Durham Steel and Iron
Company, Limited, it was stated at
a meeting at Stockton-on-Tees re-
cently, earn on the average $8.40
a day.
Prince Edward of Wales has re-
turned to Osborne College Accom-
panied by his brother, Prince
Albert. This is Prince Albert's
first term at the college, and will BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
probably he his brother's last. Montreal, Feb. 16. -Peas - No.
Much damage was done recently 2, 92 to 95c. Oats -Canadian
to Maidenhead Bridge by a horse Western No. 2, 48 to 484c; extra
which, suddenly seized with me- No. 1 feed, 47% to 48c; No. 1 feed,
grin,, fell in the middle of the bridge 46% to 47c; Ontario No. '2, 47c;
and kicked over 30ft. of the stone Ontario No. 3, 46c: Ontario No.
balustrade beforc itself falling into 4, 45c. Kearley -No. 2, 63% to 05c;
the river. Manitoba feed barley, 55 to 55%c;
buckwheat, 55% to 56c. Flour -
Manitoba Spring wheat patents,
.1 FAIR A1' 6U11.1SI. firsts, $5.60; Manitoba Spring
wheat patents, seconds. *5.10;
Manitoba strong bakers'. *4.90;
Winter wheat patents, $5.20 to
$3.45; straight rollers, 84.80 to
$4.90; straight rollers, in bags, 1
$2.25 to $2.35; extra, in bags, $1.-
90 to *2. Feed -Manitoba bran,
821 to $22; Manitoba shorts, $24;
Ontario bran, $s2 to $22.50; On-
tario shorts, $24 to $24.50; On-
tario middlings, $24.50 to 825;1
pure grain nu,uille, 828 to $30;
mixed mouille, $23 to $27. Cheese
-Finest western, 12% to 12%e;
rasterns, 12% to 12%e. Mutter --
Winter creamery, 26c; Fall cream-
ery, 24c; fresh receipts, 230 ; dairy
rolls, 20e. Eggs -New laid, 33 to
35c; selected stock, 28 to 29c; No.
1 stock, 25 to 26c.
THE WORLD'S MARKETS
REPORTS FROM TIIE LEADING
TRADE CENTRES.
Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and
Other Dairy Produce at
Uome and Abroad.
BREADSTUFFS.
Toronto, Feb. 16. -Flour On-
tario wheat. 90 per cent, patents
$3.90 to $4 to -day in buyers' sacks
outside for export. Manitoba
flour, first patents, $5.60 0n track,
Toronto; second patents, $5, and
strong bakers', $4.90.
Wheat -Manitoba wheat, $1.123.',
for No. 1 Northern, and $1.09%
for Nu. 2 Northern, Georgian Bay
ports. No. 1 Northern, *1.18, all
rail, and No. 2 Northern $1.15, all
rail.
Oats -Ontario No. 2 white 47 to
47%e, on track, Toronto; No. 2
Western Canada oats, 46%e, lake
ports, and No 3, 44c, lake ports.
Rye -No. 2 67 to 680 outside.
Barley -No. barley 58c out-
side; No. 3 extra 554e to 56e, and
No. 3 52 to 53e.
Buckwheat -58% to 59e, outside.
Peas -No. 2, 87c outside.
Corn -No. 2 American yellow,
70% to 71c on track, Toronto, and
No. 3 yellow, 69% to 70e, Toronto.
Canadian corn, 65 to 66c, on track,
Toronto.
Bran -Cars, $21 in bulk outside.
Shorts $23 in bulk outside.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples -$4 to $5.50 for choice
qualities, and $3 to $3.50 for cook-
ing purposes.
Beans -Prime, $1.90 to $2, and
handpicked, $2.10 per bushel.
Honey -Combs, $2.25 to $2.75
per dozen, and strained, 10% to
lle per pound.
Hay -No. 1 timothy, $10.50 to
$11 per ton on track here, and
lower grades $9 to $10 a ton.
Straw -$6.50 to $7.50 on track.
Potatoes-Ontiarios, 60 to 65e per
bag.
Poultry -Chickens, dressed, 12 to
13c per pound; fowl, 10 to 11c;
ducks, 13 to 14e; geese, 12 to 13c;
turkeys, 17 to 18c per pound.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Bacon -Long clear, 11% to 11%e
per pound in case lots; nicss pork,
820 to $20.50; short cut, 823 to
$24.
Hams -Light to medium, 13% to
14e; do., heavy, 12% to lac; rolls,
10% to 110; shoulders, 10 to 10%c;
backs, 16 to 16%c; breakfast ba-
con, 15% to 16c.
Lard - Tierces, 12%e; tubs,
12%c; pails, 13c.
the province and a number of ad-
ministrative officials.
The conference at Berlin between
representatives of the British and
German Foreign Offices has result-
ed most satisfactorily for both
sides.
VACCINE FOR PNEUMONIA.
Developed in Labot'atory of Tuft's
School at Brion.
A despatxh from Boston, Mass.,
Rays: A vaccine which wilt success-
fully battle with the germs of
pneumonia, blood -poisoning and
tvt►hokd fever has been developed
at the laboratory of Tuft's Medi-
cal School. After two years of
work and experimentation along
tho lines of the discovery of Sir
A. E. Wright. of London Dr.
Timothy Leery, head pathologist
at Tuft's, announced on Thursday
that an anti -toxin for these three
diseases had been perfected, and
that the laboratory is now prepar-
ed to supply physicians with the
serum.
in peaceful rivalry in the heart of
grim Ashanti.
The scene will never he forgotten
by those who saw it, and the in-
cident marks an epoch in the his-
tory of the Gold Const. The Ad-
ministration, from the Governor
downwards, did their uttermost to
make the show a success, and they
were loyally seconded by the native
chiefs and by the European mer-
chants. The exhibits consisted for
the most part of agricultural and
forest produce, live stock, and na-
tive manufactures; some very fine
specimens of native cattle, sheep,
and goats came from the Northern
Territories. Many prizes were given
and the moral effect has been tre-
mendous.
Perhaps the most encouraging
feature in an outlook generally full
of promise is the way in which tlio
erst-while Ashanti warrior is fling-
ing himself into agriculture with as
much zest as ho formerly displayed
in the pursuit of military fame.
A trader ho alw1ya and still is, but
his rise as an ngrieulturist is a mat-
ter of the last few years only, and
has been phenorpelially rapid.
UNITED STATES M.1RKETS.
Det roit , Feb. 16. -Wheat -No.
1 white, cash, *1.12; No. 2 red,
cash, 81.13; May, $1.13%; July,
$1.03.
St. Louis, Feb. 16. --Wheat -
('ash, $1.14%; May, 81.09%; July,
98!e.
Buffalo, Feh. 10. - Wheat -
Spring wheat, easy; No. 1 North-
ern, carloads, store, 131.17%; Win-
ter steady; No. 2 red, $1.14%; No.
3 extra red, $1.13; No. 2 white,
$1.12%; No. 2 mixed, $1.13',:.
Corn -Higher ; No. 3 yellow, 67 to
67%c; No. 4 yellow. 66% to 66; e
No. 3 corn, 66'4 to 66%c; No. 4
corn, 06 to 06%e. Oats --Higher:
No. 2 white, 55% to 56C; No. 3
white, 54', to 55e; No. 4 white.
533;c. Barley --Feed to malting.
65 to 70c.
LIVE STOCK MARK I:T.
Toronto, Feb. 16. --Very few ex-
porters' were offering. and prices
continue firm, with a moderate de-
mand for choice steers and hei-
fers. There was a strong d^mand
SNE FISHERIES BETBRNS
A Failing Off in Value Comp:.red With
That of Last Year.
A despatch from Ottawa soya: Quebec fourth, with $2,0-17,390;
Tho report of tho fisheries ',touch Ontario fifth, with $1,935,023, and
of the Marino and Fisheries De- Prince Edward Island sixth, witlt
I.artrnent, covering the fiscal year 81,492,695. Tho uutlput of the ral-
ending with last March, was pre- mon fisheries for the year w•as $5,-
sented to Parliament on Wedu.es- 014,446; lobsters, tc1,0,1,192; text,
clay. The report shows that the $3,619,815, and herring, $2,073,756.
whole catch of fish by Canadians The industry employs over 71,000
in Canadian waters totalled for the men.
year twenty-five and a half mil- The report urges that the protec-
lion dollars. This is a falling off tion and development of the great
of three-quarters of a million, as resources of the waters of the Do -
compared with the preceding year. Minion would be facilitated were
By Provinces Nova Scotia leads the preseat divided authority and
with a total catch valued at $7,-, overlapping of Federal and Pro -
632,330; British Columbia conics; viileial jurisdiction merged in one
secoColumbia with $6.122,923; New 'central system under Federal con -
Brunswick third, with $5,300,5134; , trol.
for choice butcher cattle; every- SCOTT'S BURIAL PLACE.
thing was quickly cleared and
more wanted. Sheep and lambs-- Ambrose Lepine 4tys Ile Will
Steady demand and prices firm tat Never Reveal the isnot.
last quotations. Hogs -Select at A despatch from Winnipeg ►e says:
$6.50 f.o.b., and $6.75, fed and ! I g
watered. Considerable interest has been
aroused by a story printed a few
days ago by a Winnipeg paper that
EQUALITY IN SENTENCE. Ambrose Lepine. the ex -officer of
.- the paper republic, who command -
Reason .'1n the Guillotine Was ed the firing squad which exe::utedl
Introduced Into France. Thomas Scott during the Red
River rebellion, had approached
The titular author of the guillo- several persons ill connection with
tine -an nthce recently again .revealing the .spot where Scott was
dragged inttoo tbelight of day -has buried. On Thuisday Lepine pt.r-
suffered a fate by no means uucom fished the following letter :-"My
mon. Regarded with horror, Dr. attention was called to an article
Joseph-Ignaco Guillotin was in just published to the effect that I
reality a philanthropist deserving would bo willing to discloso the
of the highest respect, says the spot where the body of the late
Westminster Gazette. Thomas Scott. lies, upon a nusne-
Born at Saintes in Poitou in 1738, tary consideration. I wish to state
of hard working, austere, middle that many times I have been ap-
class stock, and educated at the proa.clted on this subject, and 1
Jesuit College of Bordeaux, he be- have always refused to betray that
gan life as a professor under the secret. I have never offered .to
same roof. Determining later to do so upon any consideration. I
study medicine ho brilliantly passed w•►sll to add that, although I am a
trio necessary examinations in Poor man, yet I feel that I must
Paris, for a time practising at keep that secret forever, and it at
Reims, afterward with his wife re- perfectly useless to approach mo
turning to the capital. By Paris, oil the subject."
indeed, ho was named depute of the a'
Tiers Etat on the outbreak of the p,;Nll:U I11S Gl li:i.
Revolution, his foist measures in
the Assemblee Constituante being Last Words of Slet►hcn Swyryda
hygienic. He forthwith brought Before Hanging.
about the better ventilation and
cleanliness of the building and, A despatch from Brampton says:
when cold weather set in the in- Stephen Swyryda, Galician, was
stallation of heating apparatus. hanged un Thursday morning in
The doctor did not stop here. the jail yard here at 8 o'clock. Ab
Horror-stricken at the slow tortures 8.12 the jail physician, Dr. 1). Heg
of the death penalty inflicted upon gie, pronounced the man dead.
the ncn-privileged classes, decapita- Swyryda's last words were utter -
tion being allowed only in the case cd itt the corridor after his hands
of the noblesse, on December 1, had been manacled behind his back
1769, he proposed the absolute and after he had bidden farewell
equality of punishments. The mo- to his confessors and others. They
tion was adopted, and breakings on acre: "Please, people, I no guit-
the wheel and similar atrocities be- ty. I may be guilty before people,
camp things of the past. But the but not before God." At 8.30 the
worty Poitevin doctor did not in-
body was placed in 'a coffin and
vent the machine fastened to his viewed by Coroner Lawson's jury,
name and four years later put to who afterwards returned the cos
such fearful use. tomary verdict. The body was in -
In after years -he quietly prat- tarred later •'n in a grave dug in
fisted his profession till 1814 -the tho north corner of the jail yard.
very atop he had taken for human- -'1'
sty's sense haunted himlike a night BRICK THROUGH WINDOW.
mare.
�____ Thee Gold Watches Stolen From
ANOTHER GIFT FOR 31'(:IhL. A despatch from 11'innipeg says:
Aadoymoua Friend ContributesA sensational robbery was pulled
One Hundred Thousand Dollars. off by a window -smasher here early
on Thursday morning. when a
A despatch from Montreal says: brick was thrown through a win -
McGill has just received another dew of Robinson's departmental.
$100,000, but the name of the donor store at Main street and Portage
is keptsecret. Principal Peterson avenue. The thief stole three gold
announced on Wednesday night watches which were on display
that McGill was trying to secure there as prizes for the approach -
half a million dollars. Of this ing curling honspiel to be Bold
aninunt. 8100,000 was already con- here. The robber was arrested in
tributed. 850,000 being given by the afternoon. He gave his nameMr. Robert Reford. Principal as Charles Harker, and said he
Peterson stated that, the new gifts had been out of employment. for
of $100,0no was conditional on the some time. Harker Iiad made an
half million being raised. The re- attempt to pawn the watches,
signation of Prof. Owens of the crhich gave the police a clue.
Science Department was accepted.
4.
PROSECUTOR 5110'1' DE %D.
Murdered by a Benttnli in Court
Suburb of 4'iilcutta.
A despatch from Calcutta says:
Ashutosh 13is vas, n public prose-
cutor, was shot dead oa Wednes-
day in the court of Alipur, a su-
burb of ('iticutta, by a youthful
Bengali. Ili•was was the official
who prosecuted the recent anar-
chistic conspiracy case. This re-
vival of assassination, after a
'period of comparative quiet, has
caused a sensation. The murderer
was arrested.
1
Winnipeg Stare.
'I'llE FOURTH VICTIM.
Doalh of Miss Gertrude Sfaek trom
lnjurieM Sustained at File.
A despatch from Montreal Rays:
Tho fourth daughter of .1r. G. W.
Slack of the Bell Telephone Co.,
died on Thursday. In the fire at
his home on Jan. 24 three daugh-
ters were burned to death. On
Thursday Gertrude, aged 19, died
in the Western Hospital. She had
been badly burned, and also injur-
ed internally by jumping. Two
other daughters are in the hospi-
tal in it serious eonditi..n.
80911 FOR LORA MIN'F0.
ROM .1'('I: H1,0('hl:l). .%ftempt to Tnke Vieeroy's i.ito
(iI''1 on 11.►r• 11'n' to Marrs 10W3Ncar Calcutta.
Former 'tu►ned Hack, .1 despnleh fr•.►n C3lrutti t:1.13
.1 bomb was thrown nt a railr-ui
A de'pa1 li from Port Huron train near Barrackspur, fifteen
says : Fasei,iateid by the alluring miles north of here, on Wednes.
offers of a Cleveland matrimonial day evening, and on Thursday an
agency. Jeian McTavish. a propos• investigation resulted in the suspie-
sessing Toronto girl, left 10,10e en ion that the act was an attempt
Monday. bound for Iowa. to marry upon the life of Lord Minto, the
a farmer of that State but when Viceroy of India. The Viceroy was
she arrived in Pott furon her due to pass this spot on his way
dreams were rudely shattered by to Assam, but it so happened that
the immigration officers here. She he was on another train. The ex -
was highly indignant. but she was plosion of the bomb did not re -
deported all the same. stilt in injury to anyone.