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Exeter Times, 1898-9-15, Page 6T TAE NEWS IN 11 NIITIIELL TEE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Interesting items About Our Own Country, Great Britein, the United atatee, and MI Parts of the Glebe, Condensed and assorted for Easy goading, CANADA, Stratford will increase its water supply. An epidemic a sore eyes is troubling the cettle in the vieiaity of Kingston. H. AL S. Renown, Talbot and Inde- fatigable will visit Montreal about Oct. 1st. The Kingston Penitentiary officials suspended some time ago have been reinstated. leearden Metcalfe, a Kingston peni- tentiary, has been granted month's vacation. The Cataract Power Company has enplaned its first electrie current at Hamilton. The 0, P. R. 'monthly returns of the sale of lands for August are double those of last year. Senor Du Bose has brought suit for $500,000 against Lord Aberdeen for his expulsion from Canada, The net debt of Quebec Province Tune 80th, was $24,279,163, according to reports issued at Quebee. The price of ice has nearly doubled in Ottawa, owing to a shortage in the supply. It is now $1.50 a ton. Major Walsh, who has arrived at Seattle, estimates the Klondike gold output for the year at §11,000,000, Lord and Lady Aberdeen expect to bid adieu to Canada and to sail from Quebec for home on November 11. A London, Eng., despatch says a new loan of the city ofWinnipeg will short- ly be issued on the London market, Halitax is to have a new fort. It eyill be the largest in Canada and will be mounted by the most powerful modern guns. The eetiebee Government has granted 10,000 towards the agricultural prizes offered by the Quebec Exposition Com- pany. Dundas has granted a beaus of 012,000 to John Bertram. & Son, Can- ada Tool Works, to enlarge their premises. Deposits in the Post -office Savings Banks during July totalled $$4,377,532, c slight decrease compared with July t year ago. The reports of starvation on the Stiekeen routes have been investigated by the Federal Government, and declar- ed unfounded. A fire, which staxted in the lamp room of the steamer Ferndene at Montreal, caused the death of George Venette, one of the sailors. The Canada Atlantio and Ottawa & Parry Sound Railways have made a re- zord of six days for grain shipments from Duluth to Montreal. Stratford will exempt from taxes for 20 years the Whyte Packing Com- pany, and will guarantee their deben- • Commereial feibaree in the 'United States last week riumbeund 172, against 210 a year s. The United Statee Mint at Phila- delphia has received $1,4'77,271 of Klon- dike gold within tile Pahrehaeo weeks* The consoliclation of in and eteel companies is taking place! in New zaYork. The eobine will control the Atuferi- can output. Prof, A.- Marks, author of "Holy Land" anti. "A Birdseye View of Pal- estie" and. alecturer of note is dead cdeicago. The court at Chicago is beitig asked to appoint arta:elver for the Canadian. - American Loan and Building As.sooia- tion there. Three trainmen were killed. on Fri- day by a wreck on the N.Y.A., and W. at Ingalles crossing, four miles east of Fulton, N.Y. A one -legged negro tramp has been arrested at Wilmington, Dale in con- nection with the murder of P. C. trWO- hey, of London. A. train struck a rig at a crossing near Ware, Mass., Saturday night and killed five of a plea.sure( party and seriously injured three. Mrs. Harriet Scott is suing for her third divorce from James Scott at leluncie, Ind, They leave, been married three times, Mrs. Scott asks $3,000 alimony. It is now stated that Mgr. Ireland, May be the recipient of the red.:hat in honor of his efforts to prevent the Sapnish-Arnerican war. He will wean go to Rome to ,see the. Pope. Thieves secured. §0,000 in cash from a. safe of the 'Paeitie Express Company at Omaha. The small iroa safe in the waggon was broken open while the driver was in a warebouse delivering goods. Leading members of the Democratic National Committee, declare with marked unanimity that 1Villiam J, Bryan will be Dominated for Presi- dent in 1900, and that the silver (ques- tion. will be the main issue of the foam- paign. Collector Avery, of Port Huron, Mi- chigan, declares that his action in turning back Canadians wlao were tra- velling by the Grand Trunk to work in the Northwest harvests has been ap- proved by the Treasury Department at Washington. The American Steel and Wire Com- pany, of Chicago, organized last April by the consolidation of companies con- trolling 75 per cent. of the production of wire rods and barbed wire in the United States, has received overtures to become a party to the great iron and steel combination now being con- sneemated in New York. H. T. Higgins, cashier of the trea- surer's office of the Chicago, Rock Is- land and Pacifie Railway, is dead from burns received by the explosion of a vapour bathing apparatus by which he was en.deavoring to secure relief from hay fever. In some • unaccountable rnenner the machine exploded. while Alr. Higgins was in it. The shock was terrific, covering Mr. Higgins with stcalding steam and leaving scarcely a portion of his body unharmed. VI. R. Todd, tae cashier, who wreck- ed the Filmore County, Minn, Bank, has confessed to the theft of all the bank's deposit funds. He is also a for- ger, a, spurious note having turned up WHITE FROCK FOR GIRL FROM OTO 7 YEA.RS OLD' REVIEW OF FASHION. Taffeta silk has been, arid is, in such deraand this season that it is not sur- prising the prices have been raised most discouragingly. For evening wear all the light colors are used, and plain silk is preferred to figured, although there are figured. taffetas that are very smart. Every conceivable shade of gray, of yellow, blue, pink, and the two shades of white—the cream and the blue—are fashionable.• These gowns are all made with long skirts, long enough to have quite a train in the baok, and in most instances to touch in front and on the sides. This is not a very graceful style of skirt, and considerable care ,should be exer- cised in making it up. It should be long in the back, but in front and at the sides must only be long enough to touch, not to drag along the floor. The attaohed flounces is the style most of - quite high. • There is a narrow belt and. a long theta -made of black velvet riabon, and. the belt is fastened in front with a jet buckle. This gown can. be warn in light raoutning, but is -equally zood style for one who is not eveering mourning. If it looks too blaca, color can be added. by bay - tag the boar of some tuaght velvet in- stead of black. A very light shade of blue or a brierlat shade of geranium is the best. White chiffon and, mousse- lin.e de sole gowns are considered the smartest that can be worn, and are worn by women who are no longer young as well as by young girls. White orgar die muslins are also used for this purpose, but every one of the materials requires to be most elaborately trim- med 'with lace so that little of the original fabric remains visible. A gown of white mousseline de soie made up over white taffeta has the front breadth accordion -pleated with waite lace entre-deux; down each side of the front breadth are wider bands of the same lace. The skirt has adeep flounce and the band. of insertion is put above the tops of tbe flounce. The flou.nee itself matches the front breadth, is accordion -pleated, and has bias bands ten seen, but the flounce can be put of the lace insertion. The waist is out on in many different ways from the short round apron front to the long •pointed one, and. the width and length must needs be regulated so that, it is lethoming ; it must never look scanty, and it must hang out from the feet. Some of the newest are looped a little at one side; that is, the flounce is curv- ed up on one side to show an. under - flounce of lace sewed. in to the silk lining. It is difficult, but not impos- sible to an e -e up a taffeta silk skirt over any lining that is not silk, bat is tures, as an mducement for the com- in the bank's paper. A note given by merely faced with it; if this is done, pany to 'mate there. the Presbyterian Church, of which : though it will be found necessary to The Italian barque Eritree arrived Todd WM treasurer, was paid, andi put quite a high facing of hair -cloth at Halifax on Monday from Santos and Todd said he had destroyed it. The , or some sort of stiffening in the lin- report e that when four days out from note now turns up as collateral in a 1 ing. All the skirts for evening wear Santos, Captain Amatucci died of yel- Lacrosse, Wis., bank. Todd seems to now are what are known as drop -skirts low fever and was buried at sea the have completely looted the bank and •—that is, only attached. to the lining at same day. aErs• M. V. McLeod, herself an ac- tress, has offered personally to de- posit the §8,000 necessary to secure the release of bail of Actor Emerson, who shot and killed Manager Tuttle at London. The first month of custoras prefer- ence to British goods shows remark- able results at Montreal, where the re- ceipts for August vere F09,679.84 as compared with a580,958.80 in August, 1897, an inerease of $128,721.58. In Vancouver consecierable activity continues in the building trade. Street improvements amounting to some $90,000 &re also in hand, and the electric Street Railway Company is intending enlarging its system. • The Shawinegan Water and Power Company, whose enterprise promises to effect an industrial revolution in the Province of Quebec, • are calling for tenders for the construction of the head race, foundation, ete. They in- tend to instal at once a plant capable of developing 100,000 horse power. Dr. Clarence Chipman, formerly re- sident physician in the Protestant • Hospital, Ottawa, has been presented with a set of surgical instruments by the medical staff of the institution and associate physicians. Dr. Chipman, after being about fifteen years con- nected with the hospital, recently re- tired. Captains Dan Smith and Millberry, of Se. Martin's St. Sohn County, have just returneci from the Klondike wiser but not richer men. They report that claims are staked off all round Dawson for sixty or eighty miles, and that there are about thirty thousand idle people at Dawson City without means to get away. Thousexide are selling outfits and starting home. GREAT BRITAIN. Arthur Pease, Liberal -Unionist M. la for Darlington, is dead at London. The bemiring department of Low't • Exehange in London, England, hae • suspended. Lord Minto will sail for Canada on the Scotsman from Liverpool on No- :venileer 3. • The cruiser Albany purchased at New • eastle-onarytie, England, by the Unit- ed States Government prior to the out- • break of the Spanish-American war, is to be scan handed over to the United States aathorities, . The London Times has a letter from a correspondent advocating the adop- • tion by the British navy of the Ameri- 6= practice of circulating froni the • fittoship to the whole squadron bul- • let:1w of all information whieh it is not raeoessaxy to send by Signal. • The Millford Doeks Company direc- tors expeot the early conclusion of ne- gotiations by lstilla n ieoportant line of steamers foe carryitig passengers and general cargo will be established to run betereen a. Canadian port and the Milford dooke. UNITED STATES. An Anglo-American trust to control e SeNvinfs machine trade is said to 't.3e his motherhn-law's large estate. GENERAL. General Merritt has left Manilla for Paris. Clara Barton with Red Cross sup- plies was denied a landing at Havana.. German shipyards at Kiel, Stettin, Elberg and. Hamburg are unusually active. A dozen deaths of tourists in the Austrian Alps are reported from Vi- enna. A monument to Alexander n., grand- „ father of the present Czar, was unveil- oe these taffeta alk gowns axe very ed at Moscow. i simply maee and are trimmed with I lace or chiffoa put on in many dif- Fifteen persons are reported to have 1 ferent ways. One effective style has been killed in conflicts between the i the front of the waist of accordion - troops and the rioters at Tabriz, on which is an ! Per - a.. • , • narrow band of velvet, pleated chiffon, and across the bust a si According to strike statistics issued at Berlin, workin.gthen won over half of last year's labou disputes in Ger- many. The New Zealand. Legislature has signified. its willingness to join with Great Britain and Canada in the Pa- cific cable wham% Lieut. -Col. H. E. McCallam, R. E., very charming gown of silk muslin is C. M. G., Governor of Lagos, Svill One- made . of a , geranium pink, with a de- C. Sir Herbert Marray as governor of , sign of white under it ; theskirt, out with an i attaohed flounce, s trimmed Newfoundland in Cotober next. with bands of black lace insertion, edg- Six sailors H.M.S., Cleopatra were ed on either side with very small ruch- drowne1 in the North Sea while striv- ings of white ribbon; the body of the ing to save the Norwegian schooner Livelig, with which the warship col- waist is out tight -fitting in the back, with long bias side pieces and a full lied. vest, which is shaped into a poirit, and made of black Chantilly lace over pale pink silk, and on the lace, in arabesque design, ruching of the white ribbon. Around (the shoulders is a very simple -.— finish of the black lace edged with the the band. A great many of the new skirts have no lining at all, but then they require to be worn. over a niost carefully fitted petticoat, which is made exectly like a dress skirt itself. Narrow ruchings of ribbon with some contrasting color are a favorite trim- ming. White or black ruehings are more used. tha.n any other. Often the ruching is of mousseline de soie instead of ribbon, or instead of the taffeta, rib- bon a. narrow satin ribbon is used. These are all small details to be regu- lated by individual taste. The waists applique of white lace. The sleeves are small, with a little epaulette of the velvet over them. Silk muslin and chiffon and a very fine quality of silk veiling are used. for smart evening gowns. The silk mus- lins are flowered or figured, while the other materials are perfectly plain. A BEST PEACE GUARANTEE. Significant atteranee of the Germ= EM. Permanenst be Prepared Cor War. A. despatch from( Porta, Westphalia, says :—Emperor William, speaking at a benqu.et here on Wednesday evening on the subjeet of the Government's la- bours, said:— "I hope I shall suoceed in giving such a complexion to the outlook, es- pecially regarding agrieulture, that you may look forward calmly to good times, and that ali the large fields of industry in the Fatherland may be egeally benefitted, thus assuring their continued development. This, howev- er, will only be possible if the Patine try develops itself by mai/ming its labours quietly and 'undisturbedly un- der the blessings of peaee as enjoined by the outstretched /hand of the great • Si:motor, who here stands above us. "Peace, however, will never be bet- ter guaranteed than hy the German army, thoroughly efficient and prepar- ed for war, sections of which we now have the pleasing opportunity of see- ing and admiring, God grunt we may alwflys be able to cit.re for the world's peace with this keen and well-preserv- ed weapon. Then the .Westphalian peasant may lay hirraelf quietly down to sleep. I drink to the welfare of Westphalia." white; the sleeves are small puffs, al- most covered with alternate ruffles of black and white lace. With this gown L5 worn a sash of pale pink chiffon trimmed across the ends with black and white lace ruffles. It is a very odd gown, but one that is most et- feetive and extremely smart. A black chiffon gouna is odd but ef- fective, made up over a. white moire taffeta, the pattern of the moire show- ing through the black of the chiffon. To begin with, the white moire is made like a, dress skirt ; it has a small apron front with a. deep bias flounce; this flounce is trimmed around the edge with ruffles of white lace. The chiffon skirt is almost plain over the hips, made with the attached flounce begin- ning at the side breadth, and on the flounce are rows and rows of Week chit - fon ruches. The front of the skirt is made of accordion -pleated chiffon, eaught up so that it looks as thottgh It 'were pleated on the Kea. The body of the vvaist is arranged so that it Looks as if it even a part of the un- der -skirt, the pleating "ming enntina- ea from the very top of the waist; tlae sides and beak of the waist are trim- ilied with the rowe Of moiling; the sleeves are small, made of pointed ruf- fles of white moire covered with pleat - ad ruffles of the chiffon. At both sides of the front of the waist are ;jet low, is made entirely of athordion- pleated mousseline de sole, with the entre-deux of the lace, and has the vest effect in front, with lace revers at either side. The sleeves are puffed, and have the pleated lace -trimmed ruf- fles. Just ia Iront is a wide bow of light blue velvet, and. there are also a belt and.sash of the light blue. Lace or ret gowns are economical in- vestments, for they. can do duty for ma.ny different occaaions with other eyelets. Of course there is no limit to the amount of money tbat can be spent on lace, whether it is a lace edg- ing or bought in a piece by the yardt, Net is less expensive, and is often quite as effective. A cb.araniag gown CORSET -COVER WITH TUCK.RD • FRONT. and. not an expensive one, can be made of the ordinary open-work black net over a black taffeta' ining; the skirt, with a deep flounce, either gathered or pleated, and trimmed with rows of vel- vet— three rows around tb.e flounce itself, and two just where the flounce joins the skirt. A. pretty way to make the waist is to have it over afitted with tha lace itself put on full around the shoulders, but the 'fulness drawn down on to the lining. Around the shouldera two rows oil velvet rib- bon wider than that used on the skirt can be gathered on, and then put down the front again. With this may be worn an unlined yoke and long sleeves of black net, with a black velvet high collar, or, if desired, a white one„ but the last is hardly to be recommended rashly, as it is not always becorning. If the all black looks too sombre, a bertha of white lace may 'be added, or a band of Jet passenienterie put around the shoulders. .Tet lights up an all - black gown amazingly. Such a gown as the one just described is suite smart enough to wearin the 'evening with a low. waist CHANCE FOR DREYFUS, cabinet arianiailonsiy Decides ea a. Bev Mon of tile Case. A. despatch from Paris, says :—The Figaro of Wednesday says the Cabinet Council just held unanimously agreed upon a revision of the Dreyfus case, and directed the Minister of Justice, M. Sarrien, to take the necessary steps to acedraplish it. The Matin announces the discovery of facts implicating the officers of the general staff, adding that Gener- al Zurlinden, the new Minister for War, reported tho matter to the Coune oil, and urged the necessity of re- forming the Intelligence Department, of the War Offio, whereupon he was directed to elaborate &project separat- ing the duties of the general staff from those of the Intelligence Department, The Government denies tho rumour ot the death of Dreyfaa, and the feet that; M. Faure late left the wipitel 18 bows, and on the left shoulder three regardAsd as indicating that, matters Wired. bows oe blaok velvet, stead up will be quiet or a tiMe, 800 CHRISTIANS MASSACRED. meats noting Wit Continues in the 'Wand of Crete. A despatch from Athens sarsa-Tlie following clespabole has been received from, Candle :—"The Bashi Bazouks are etomMitting excesses, aid. the Chris- tians in the eureounding dietricts are arming to Mara to the assistance ef the Cendians. There are eight war- saips in the harbour, and a fresh bom- bardment is expected. The leritish, German and Spanish Consulates have been looted, and thus far three hundred native Chxietitens and sixty-seven Bri- tish subjects have been killed. "The Massulman troops proteoted the Christians placed under their care, but they •did not attempt to prevent the pillage of Christian. bauses, Arhioh continued uatii the internattonal troops arrived. "The foreign warships have landed sailors to reinforce the British gar - risme; and pumps have been landed to assist in quenching the fires.'" "Several Christian falralies have sought refuge on the warships. Many corpses are lying in the, streets of Candle. In one case a whole femily were killed The Italian Consulate is also reported burned. • "A. Russian warship left the Piraeus hurriedly for Crete on elhursday, carrying the Russian Consul, M. Troi- jausky." PUBLICLY HANG. TIIE GUILTY. The Asty says it learns from. an au- thentic" source that as soon as the Brit- ish troops arrive at Candia from. Mal- ta the Turkish, tgarrison in Candle will be expelled, martial law pro- claimed, and the ringleaders of the riots put on trial, and publicly hanged if guilty. Accordina to a dispatch from. Can - di°, sent late Thuxsday evening, the a-dmirals of the international fleet have decided to compel the disterraing of the Bashi 13azoules and the surrender of the instigators of the disorders. 800 ClIBI.SIIIANS MASSACRED. The correspondent of the London Times at Candle, telegraphing Thurs- day se.ys: "It is eetiraated that no fewer than. 800 Christians have been massacred and the town pillaged by 13e.shi Bazon.ks and Turkish soldiers. All reports agree as to the disgrace- ful behaviour of the Turkish troops, who were seen firing on Col. Bel& The mob ran through the streets shouting, `Death to the English!' Part of the town is still burning." AWFUL STORIES OF MASSACRE. The cearespondent of the Standard, telegraphing Thursday from the Bri- tish battleship Camperdown, off Candia, says ;—" The refugees tell ghastly stories of massacre. They report no fewer than 700 Christians are missing. Several atterapts were made last night to tht on fire the office ot the Eastern Telegraph Company. It has been as- certained that all houses overlooking the British camp were loopholed for rifle fire and barricaded. Every Chris- tian survivor of the massacre swears that the butchery was mostly the work of Turkish soldiers, who first robbed and then slew their victims. Edhem Pasha is tele. one Who ought to, be held' primarily responsible." U. S. SOLDIERS ARE HOMESICK, Secretary Alger Says This. Is the Great complaint. 3rd Edition. A despatch from Washington, D.C., says :—Secretary Alger left on Thurs- day on a tour of inspection of the army camps throughout the country, going first to Camp Nleade, Pa., and thence to Detroit. Now that the ac- tive war operaticais have closed, the Secretary feels free to express cer- tain views entertained by the Presi- dent and. himself respecting the plans for the treatment of the soldiers and touching the persons upon nrhom re- sponsibilities should be placed for some of the matters of complaint. In this connection he saysr-- "The regiments that have been or- dered. mustered out will be mustered out. The regiments that have been designated by the President to remain in the service well have to remain. As soon as we have mustered out 100,000 more or less we shall reorganize the army—every brigade, division and corps, and put' them into comfortable camps. Such of them as are not needed are withdrawn erom service in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines. TO BE TREATED AS SOLDIERS. "In these camps, with experience of the past to guide us sanitary condi- tions will ba, l,iictly enforced.. The erten compo ung the array( will be treat- ed as soldiers. They will be shown every possible consideration, and their health will be preserved The officers comma.nding regiments and companies will be held strictly a,ccount- able for the sanitary condition of the camps., i "The great complaint of the soldiers is homesickness, and a great deal of thie has been caused by the inconsid- erate publications in the sensational neevapa.pere. pome of it is also charge- able to the fact that the men entered 'the atmy with the expectation that their services would be very short, Every experienced officer knows that a great many men aied ol honiesick- nees. Vollowing homesickness tome ()thee maladies to which the homesick soldier falls an easy victim, and it is impossible to check their course." , Frau Dannebery, a portrait painter of Berlin, committed suicide at Berlin, being unable to get any news of her son with the tinited States army in Cuba. During a, heavy thunderstorm on Priday 20 peasants souolit shelter in an old house near Foggia, Italy. The building eallapsed ancl eighteen were killed. It is said, that the Pope ape, amaseed $20,000,000 dttring his Pontificate, Tle has received from President Kruger of the Transvaal Republic, a dianamid worth $4,000,000, DERVISH KILLED, 10 800, • KITCHENER'S REPORT OF THE SLAIN IN THE SOUDAN. aindreds enore, Killed Is eatiarafed • ITIaoud autliler of the Dervishes Were AlSo A despatch from London says :—The British War Office haS received a des- pateb. from General Sir Herbert Kitch- eller, the commander of the Anglo- Egyptian forces, dated from Omdur- man, Monday, saying that aver 500 Ar- abs, mounted on camels, were des- patched after the fugitive Khalifa Ab- dullah, The general added that the der- vish leader was reported to be mov- ing with such speed that some of his wives ho.d been dropped along the road followed by him. The Sirdar also says ;—" Officers have been collating the dervish bodies on the field, and report the total number dead found about 10,800. From the number of wounded who crowded to the river and town it is estimated that 10000 were wounded. "Besides the above, between 300 and 400 dervishes were killed in Cm.durman when the town was taken. I have as prisoners between 3,000 and 4,000 fight- ing men." PUSHING UP THE WHITE NILE. A despatch' from Khartoum immune - es that five British gunboats have pushed up the White Nile. This is regarded here as highly significant. • The Sirdar telegraphed on Saturday that the condition of the bank of the Nile made it inroossible to utilize the gunboats in ibel pursuit of Khalifa Ab- dullah, who had. fled toward Kordofan. The only inference, therefore, ie that the gunboats have now gone to join hands with Major Macdonald, who is now known to be on his way northward from Uganda, an operation which has lmonengtbeen contemplated by the Cer , oven - Sir Michael Hicks -Beach, Chancellor et the Exchequee, =flounced in Parlia- ment on June 27 last that an attempt owitulhdebe ma.de to open up commerce theNiiine.terior of Africa by a flotilla The warcorrespondent of the Daily Telegraph at Omdurman sayse-oeafter the entry of the troops into the dervish capital, it was found necessary to far- ther bombard theRhalifa's house, Gen. Kitchener and tali staff were standing in the vicinity, and narrowly escaped. being killed by the shells. -I estimate the enemy's killed at more than fif- teen thousand." • A special clespateh from Omdurman says :—"Hubert Howard, the corres- pondent of the Times, Met his death owing to his eagerness to get the first news of the fate of Karl Neufeld and the other European prisoners of the Khalifa. He pressed into the city be- fore it was safe to do so, and was making his way all alone down a nar- row alley leading to the prison, when he was attacked and killed. • "The finest display of heroism on the dervish side was made by the Kha- line's brother, Yantubawith his adher- ents, who, utterly regardless of our terrific fire, made a superb attempt to retrieve the day's- fortunes. Far from asking quarter, they simply hug- ged death. Yantub died in the prison of bis old enemy, Slatin Pasha." • A despatchto the Central News from Otedurman says the Ichalita, in his flight, took 3,000 men with him. TO SACRIFICE AN INDIAN BOY. Horrible 'Practice of 'Witchcraft Near Glestora, B. C. ,,A. de patch from Victotia, Ra, says: —Word. just received from Glenora chronicles the fact tbat the practice of witchcraft has been resumed • on • the Skeena, with all the ancient horrors. Less thannwo years ago an Indian boy was disembowelled near Telegraph creek, ea a sacrifice for having bewitch- ed a member of his tribe. For some unexplained reason no official notice was taken of the crime. PREPARING ANOTHER SA.CRIFICE. About a, fortnight ago, however, the magistrate at Telegraph creek was in- formed that another sacrifice was in contemplation, ,A. boy, aged. about 14, was to be slaughtered for bewitching and causing tlae death of a girl. The services of Rev. Mr. Appleyard were obtained to quietly invettigate the mat- ter. He invited tlae Indians to meet him for &Wall -Walt They dilly appear- ed, and brought the most interested person in the proceedings with them. THE LAD RESCUED. Mr. Appleyard then carefully ex- plained the enormity of the crime of Murder, and hew the Queen would have all murderers punished by death, and filially advised them to give the boy to him for safe keeping in the Miseion school at Metlakatia for three years. Police were present to sapper' the plea, and the advice was accepted- Thus by the foresight of the magistrate and zeal of the priest the young Indian was eaved a barbarous death. The boy, as well as a girl rescaed under eindlar circumstances down the river, is now under the proteetiot of Lhe An- glican mission, SHORT ROUTE TO, ENGLAND. steamers Already Chartered to Cross hi About Four leers. A despatch from London, awe :—The plans for the short steamship route be- tween Milford Haven, Wales, and Pas- pebiao, Quebec, are progressing. The Canadian Steamship Conipany, work - tag in conjunction with the Atlantic and Lake .Superior Railway Company, have announced that, pending the com- pletion Of a line of 21-letot, steamers of the first class, steamships of a some- what less power have been chartered with which to ,malece the journey be- tween Milford, Haven and Paspebiac in a, little over four days. The railway eompany is completing the (looks at Pas- pebia4 for the laiteet ocean steamers, and the Great Nirestern railway of :flog, - land is, arranging for special express services to London. ereaft44M0KM09miatete Makes thousands of women stiffer • In silence, rather than tell their troubles to anyone. To mut Indian Woman's Bain is a per- fect boon. It cures all womb troubles, corrects monthly irregu- • laxities, abolishes the agoraes of caild-birth, makes weak wornen strong, and renders life worth 11Nessweaaftss2sagra52$ THE EXETIW TIM ES STRANDED KLONDIKERS. liundreds are Stalled on the Overland Routes and are Suffering G,reatly. (A. despatch from Vancouver, 11 CI., says —J R. A.ndersen, who returned from Klondike via the Edmonton route, says the suffering there is very great. Mr, Anderson was informed by Q110 - prospector, who came from far dome the Mackenzie River, that there were hundreds if not thousands, of miners mostly Americans, who were half • starved and stalled on all the Cana- dian overland routes. There is also a great scarcity of water. It is diffi- cult to describe the disgust and ab- ject misery of those people camped clean out of the track of eivilization, living on half rations, and. unable to morel one way or the other. Tae Peace River diggings are washed out. There must have been a number of deaths, as many are now in bad shape. Of 5,000 who left Edmonton from Mareh to May, only three people got through • to Klondike. C ST RIA For Infants and. Children. The he- signeturo og es every ivrapper. AN ALLIANCE WITH GERMANY. Report Says That Great Britaftt Ilas Siga. C41 a Treaty. A despatch from London says: — A: report was current here on Friday that a, treaty of alliance between Great Britain and Germany on the lines of the speech of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, Lhe Secretary of State for the Colonies, was actually complet- ed. This is prebably an amplification of the gossip relative to the daily visits of Count von Hatzfelde-Wilden- burg, the German Ambassador, hereto the British Foreign Office during the past fortnight, whica have beenat- tributed to a desire upon the part of Germany and Great Britain to formu.- late -a common policy in regard to Russia. and China. Another explanation of the German Ambassador's visits to the Foreign Office here is that they relate to the mixed tribunals of Egypt, the interna- tional agreement on the subject and-. ing in • February. Through hrench and Russian influence the court has always hampered the British -plans for the use of the Egyptian savings and the advancement of Egypt Now, it is mid, an agreement has been al- raost reached, by which Gernaany will support the British views relative to the future cemposition and powers of the mixed tribunals. It is said that as quid pro quo for Germany's support in Egypt, Great Britian will • recognize Germany% claim to utilize Syria as an outlet for her surplus population. The he. 14131110 signature ! Cenal.feeleneelaejeRiX.41)... h /-gos.• every 4,, Wrapper. RAILWAY WRECK, Fearful Smashup on the tendon and Northwestern Railway. A despatch from London says ;—A: terrible accident has taken place at Wellingborough railway station, in Northainptonshire, on t/ae London and North-Western railway. Two boys pushed a loaded luggage "trorley" on the track just as the express was ap- proaching at a speed of 50 miles an hour. The train was derailed and a fearful scene ensued. The AvVeekage of the railway carriages caught fire. The engineer, fireman, and two passengers were killed, and many others were ser- iously injured. WHEAT IN NEW SOUTH WALES. A despatch from Sydney, N.S.W,says: —'rho area sown to wheat in N. South Wales is shown by complete reports to be 1,500,000 acres which is an in- "t crease of 26 per eente over the area devoted to that product lest. season. It is estimated that the toal will be 15,080,000 bushels, wlait31.1 will allow of f3ubstanticti exparts. riseue. tdHobson It is officially announeed that teeere weve 2,800 deaths frOM thCs plague last week in the Bombay presidency. The tap - Morale ig spreading, and there has beeet a fresh outbreak in the State oe Hy- aahas arrived, at Santa - go de Cuba- and will superintenri the efforts to float the sunken Spanish war vessels, CristoEal Colon end En- fente Maria Teresa. Tha fat- 'istolt100 (=IAA kii/C)274..Z.Atet itt ae ()yore Wrappv,