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Exeter Times, 1898-9-29, Page 7TILE EXETER TIMES it IBS IN A. 11811[11. THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. ee— interesting Items About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, and All Parts of the Glebe, Condensed and Assorted tor Easy Reading. il.••=41111 CANADA. • Arden, near Kingston, has an epi- demic of typhoid fever. A colony of 3,000 Russians will set- tle in the Canadian North-west this ir fall. The oat crop in many of the parish- es around Quebec is a meet discourag- ing one. Canada will have only 20,000 square feet of the 75,000 asked for at tile Paris E•xpositiou. • The last of the four children born a month ago to Mrs. Bowman, of King - sten, is deed. Hamilton and Winnipeg have each voted' $500 to the • fire sufferers of New Westminster. The total revenue of the North-west territories for' the yea t ending Aug. 81st, was $542,772. •A garrison church parade will be .aeld. in Toronto on Ootober 9, when Major-General Hutton will be present. The by -leve to exten,d the Hamilton Street Railway franchise for fifteen • yeaxs was adopted by the City Coun- The first consignraent of °uteri') fruit, packed wording to California methods, was received in Winnipeg in 'excellent coudition. •The Toronto Beard of Control has voted $1,000 for the relief of those 'theme. into destitution by the New Westmlnater fire. The sheds containing the winter cars . of the Montreal Street Railway Co. at Hochelaga were burned, causing a loss of over 8150,000, 4' , Fred. Wade, registrar for the Yukon, „ha.s arrived at Vancouver. Be says a conservative estimate of the output .of the distriot is 0,000,000. A scheme to build Cottage hospi- tals in the vicinity of Ottawa for con- aumptive.s has been proposed. by Dr. P. H. Bryce, provincial health officer. The shareholders of the Bank of Hamilton have decided to increase the ,capital stock from $1250,000 to a1,500,- 000 by the issue of 2,500 new shares at .$100 each, The Department of Indian Affairs at • Ottawa is considering the question of •.providing counsel for the Moses broth- •.ers, awaiting trial for murder at.Port • Arthur. • • Boiler makers who have been engage .ed on the Canadian Pacific Railway • steamship Athenian at Vancou.ver for several weeks, are out on a strike for an advance of wages. New has been received in Toronto that William Oldbury, a private in the .21st Lancers, was killed in the ;gallant 'charge made by that regiment at tithe battle of Omdurman. So fax this fear 75,240 ecres of land lave been taken up in the Swan River 'district of Manitoba for settlement. • This district is just being opened by :the extension of the Dauphin railway. 'Miss Mabel Alford and Mr. George Duncan, teachers in the ,Greensville, West Flamborce, School, were acquit- ted by Judge Snider on a charge of unduly punishing Al ice Durand, te nine - 0, ?year-old pupil. TAdt Rathbun•timber limits, 127 'square miles, on the Nattawa River, •in Quebec, were sold by auction, tit Ot- tawa to Mr. J.R. Booth at $356, per /smile, the price aggregating something tearer $44,000. • The Northwest Apsembly has adopt- ed a resolution offering to assent to --the ceding of a, portion of the North- west Territories, north qf lYfanitoba, 'to Manitoba, and similarly in regard to British Columbia,. Inoendatrisat had nothing to do with the New' Westantnster.fire. Thee man Sheppard, -wbo was arrested on the eliarges has been released, it being ob- vious that he had no connection with the outbreak. The Department of BanwaYs and Canals have awardecj the following contracts, viz., for 150 boxcars, and 100flat oars, to the Rhedes Company, of Amhease, NS., and for 150 box cars to Crossen Company, of Coboueg. The British cruiser Talbot arrived in Halifax on Monaay irom the West In- dies. She was on active duty continue ously in West Indian waters from the beginning to the end of hostilities be- tween the United. States and Spain. Surveyors of the South -Eastern Railway of lVfanitoba, are heading to- wards the international boundary, and it is understood thatethe line will reach Their French Guards OVerpowered and Rainy River around the south end of Murdered. the Lake of the Woods, through Win- A special despatch from Paris says nesota. the deputy representing • French Guiana, in the Chamber has received a despatch announcing that a nantiny has taken place among the convicts at Cayenne, the capital of larencheGuiana. Ths mutineers, it appears, overpower- ed and murdered their guards, t,lien stormed the military storehouse, and seized the terms and ammunition there. They are new, according to the despatch, beseiging the principal prison, and it is feared they ratty suc- ceed in feeeing the four thousand con- victs °marine& in the building. Rein- forcements have been telegraphed for to the Th1an&f Mertinique; but it is said they will not arrive in time to suppress the mutiny. Dreyfus, the iormer captain of French artifice-, whose 'alleged unjust Oonviction in 1891, on the charge of selling important, Erenele military secrets to the agents of a foreign pow- er, is seemingly on the point of being investigated at Paris, is kept in soli- tary confinSment on Devil's island; a • aae small place not fax from Ceerminel The di,mterabered body of Ritcheitwhere the mutiny of convicts has elm( • Warner, a trained nurse, was found in eetaten piece, and it is not improbable, the mud flats at Bridgeport, Conn. therefore, that ha may be eliet by bis Miss Winnie Davie "The Daughter goniels, as it le understood the latter • a the CeneederseY," the only child of lied Aria inetrueleons to kill their jeffereoe Devis, le dying at. Narragan- prisoner if any eta -inept is made to re- set -I Pier, lease him or if there is any possibility Joseph and Mortoe If, Marshall, Ob- of him escapieg. seg, Mioh., geld, seelsers, laave been murdered in the 'Yukon, •wording to reportat Niles, alieh. A Baell Leland pessenger train amok a. carryall at Wielate, Kansas, on Tues- day night, and these of the ooeupants of the latter vehiole were killed. The United Statee, it is said, has re- plied to a reeeat not of the ',tusk - jai Government deolining to aecept Turkey's xepudiation of the, responea inlay for A.merican tomes during the Armenian troubles. Cheries Spinks, a very wealthy coal dealer, and street paving contractor, of Newport, Ky.; is missing, and is believed to have been droyined while inspecting his coal barge. He oarried 1.12,000 life insurance, The California Powder Company and the Dupont Powder Company have been awarded the contract to -supply the United States Navy Department with smokeless powder. Each oompany will sepply half a million pounds. Judge Thcima.s V, McCormick, of Eliz- abeth, N.J., committed suicide Tuesday by shooting himself through the right temple. His body was foand lying un- der a tree in St. Marys Rom.an Catho- lic' Cemetery. No cause Can be ascrib- ed for the deed, The certificate of incorporation of the great steel trust, to be known as the Federal Company, was filed Friday in the Seeretary of State's office at Tren- ton, NJ. It Ls the largest company ever admitted under the laws of New jersey, its paid up capital being 4200,- 000,000. The inctorporation tax amounts to $40,000. • Rev. Hannibal Goodwin, after strug- gling for twelve years to prove that he is the originator of the koda.k film, has at last been awarded the patent by the officials at Washington. This •means' an in:tnaense fortune to the pat- entee, who will now have a seventeen years' monopoly on the manufaoture of photograpiaic film. GENERAL. Mount Vesuvius is in a. lively state of eruption. - Copenhagen astronomers report the appearance of a comet. It is said that, cr revolution in Cen- tral China is unavoidable. • There will be no celebrations or b- ile ceremonies in Austria for the next BiX months. As a result of the introduction of naodern sanitary methods, the health •of Santiago de Cuba has much improv- ed, and the death rate has fallen. it is reported that Gen. Kitchener •has absolute authority to claim Fash- oda'as Egyptian territory and expel the present occupants, forcibly if ne- cessary. • Aguinaldo, the leader of the Phil- ippuae insurgents, is becoming frigh- tened, and removing his headquarters to Molaila, his present position being too much at the mercy of the Amer', The Spanish bishop' of the Island of Luzon, Philippine,s, was cruelly treat- ed by rebel sympathizers. The prelate was beaten with clubs and. compelled •to disclose the hiding place of the mon- ey belonging to the church. General Polaveleja, formerly Geyer - not -General of Cuba, and of the Phil- ippines, in a manifesto declaring his readiness to place himself at the head of a neutral party in Spanish politics, advocates a complete reform in Span- ish government. Sir j. S. Hay, Governor of Barba - does, has received an anonymous let- ter which threatens that he and five other officers of the island will meet the same fate as Speaker Pile, of the Barbadoes Legislature, who was re- cently assassinated by a negro. There is an acute industrial crisis at Antigua, W.I., owing to the shut- ting down of the sugar plantations, constreining the Government to inau- gurate relief work in order to avert a threatened outbreak of riot and pil- la,ge among the idle and starving la- bouring population. The sum of 410,- 000 has been appropriated for the im- mediate relief of the erinis. Jean Louie, who was one of the chief -witnesses in the Tichborne trial, died in the Liverpool Benevolent Asylum. Australia, of senile decay. Louie was steward on the Bella, in 'which Sir Roger Tichborne sailed from England. Until e short time before his death he stated that he firmly believed until the close of the trial that the claim- ant was the real Sir Roger. HMS. Porpoise, one of the Austral- ian squadron, recently returned to Suva from a cruise among the islands with the new that the Falcon Islands, situated midway between the Tonga - tabu and Haapai groups, and immedi- ately -opposite the Nomuka group of isles, some 27 miles to the westward have lately disappeared .Falcon island was of volcanic origin, and half a natle or raors in diameter. • CONVICTS MUTINY. Archer Martin, of Victoria, son of Edward Martin, Q.C., Hamilton, has been appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, to fill the ,yaca,ney cauged by the recent eleva- tion of Judge McColl to the Chief Ju,sticeship, ee The Montreal Board of flealth states that anyone who patronizes a barber • or hairdresser, whose establishment is open to all &inters, rune a great risk of becoming infected, by disease from • the razor, shaving brush, scissors, clippers, comb or hair brush having been previeusly used on a sick person, or even on a corpse.• GREAT BRITAIN. • The Queen is taking great interest In the wireless telegraphy experiments being conducted at Osberne House by IVLerconi the inventor. UNITED STATES, Maine State elections were a triumph for the Republic:ens, Rev, John Hall -of New York died 'at Bangor, County hewn. Ireland on Saturday. The bettieships Oregon end /owa have been ordered to proceed lo IIAD k VOIACIE OP DAIGER. TEUTONIC ALMOST COLLIDED WITH A Ble STEAMER. he ;counted Fp Right Mosul—Dub' 1)7 ibe lileireat Change Was Another Great eteean mirror Prevented. A despatch from New York, says:- -Having aboard about thirteen hune deed passengers in the cebin and steer- age, the White Star line steamship Teatouie came into her slip several hours •Wee, on Thursday, after an eventful voyage. Even after the good, ship haall practleally entered this port she met with a collision, which forth - mealy had no serious results. This was with the Arnerioan transport Ber- lin, which went down the haxbour shortly before six o'clorsle. Hexing made a fair start last week, the Teutonic) came upon the Cunardei Artrania, in to, having broken her crank shalt. Commander Cameron at onee changed his course so as to sig- nal the new from Brow Head, Ire- land. This neoessitaeed the loss of sev- east hours' time, belt full speed was ordered, and this weeld heve been quickly made up has/, not the ship plunged full tilt into one of the most dense banks of fog ever seen upon the Atiantio, This Was on the third day out. One of the officers, who has been in the service for twenty-eight years, says that in all his experience he never saw suela a, fog as accompanied the ship all of the latter half of the voy- age. COLLIS/01%T NARROWLY AVOIDED. • Commander Cameron doubled the watch and went ahead with all the speed. he dared order. Everything went well until About two. o'clock Sun- day morning, when .there came near being a collision which would have probably resulted in another ocean horror. • ffog so thick that it could not be penetrated by the strongest glass sur- rounded the Teutonic, which sounded, its whistle at regular intervals. Men were stationed along the rail to give warning at the least approach of dan- ger. Suddenly there tooined up, coming out of the fog as though it had drop - pd into it place, .a big steamer,which from the brief glance obtained was believed to be» a freighter Or cattle transport. •Mae stranger was almost dead ahead, and was travelling under full speed at a slight angle to the course followed by the Teutonic. SAVED BY A JYIERE CHANCE. el collision 'seemed unavoidable, and had it 'occurred, the speed of the straxtger would have caused it to have been one of great disaster. So close were the big ships together that noth- ing could be done to avoid the clash, although prompt orders were issued by the officers in ()barge of each. By the merest chance •of good for- tune the eastbound ship slipped past the Teutonic, but so close together did they come that a coin might have been tossed from one deck to the other. This is upon the authority of several Of the Teutonic's passengers who were on deck at the time; and who gave full praise to the officers in charge of their ship. TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT. Comnaander Cameron made' light of the incident on Friday, saying that he had! in his career had many as narrow an escape. He would not admit that the stranger came so close to him as the passengers say, though he did ad- mit that she came too close for com- fort, and that she was running at rt dangerous speed, considering the con- dition of the night. The impression is that: the White Star officers clearly guessed the name of the vessel that so nearly produced another terrible catastrophe in mid - ocean, but they declined. to ,speak. EIGHT MEN CREMATED. -Spontaneous Fomenstont tenses an Awful Disaster at Toledo. A despatch from Toledo, says :—Eight men were cremated and eight more fatally burned on Tuesday night in the most disastrous fire that ever oc- curred in Toledo. The spontaneous combustion of dust in the grain ele- vator owned by Paddock, Hodge and Co., caused this terrible destruction of life, and, none of those who were taken out after the tire were far enough from death's door to tell any of the de- tails. Wm. X .Parks, the superintend- ent, was blown through the window of the lower storey. None of the injur- ed will survive their burns and bruises. Besides those regularly employed at the elevator, three children of Superin- tendent Parks were visiting him at the time. One of these may recover from his burns, but Grace' the 17 -year-old girl, is burned almostbeyond recogni- tion,. and Herold has not been found. The explosion caused a panic all over the neighborhood. Buildings were shaken as in an earthqua'ke, and windows shat- tered for blocks around. . GIVING UP THEIR GUNS. Illittssulmans Surrender 1.600 Firearms— Warning the Christians, despa tch from Candice Crete, says : About 1,600 firearms have thus far been surrendered by the 1VIussulman in •re- sponse to the demand of the British ad- miral. The mast credible reports place the nember of rifles in possession of the 1Vinesulinans at about a5,000, which i. .exclusive of 5,000 Martinis, whieh axe the property of the '.00.rkieh Govern- ment. Much difficulty in compelling the surrenclee a all these arms' is ex- pected. I Sir A. Piliotti, the British Consul, has visited the Christian chiefs and in- formed them that Great 13ritain had Undertaken the protection of the dat- elined Mcielems, and warned the ehiefs that any attack on the Mosletus would be regarded as ttn attack "on t.he Bra Hell. The ehiefs protnised to abstain from attacking the Mosleme. AN.AR011i IN CUBA. Terrob, 'PaAes ot 1etrOssness Prom litavana Told by the London ThaieS. A despatch from, London„ sem— The Times. of Tuesday morning pub- liehes a letter from. a Havanna corres- pondent, in whieh the writer poiots out that though, ass in the Mother Coun- try, there eppeareno disposition among, the Spaniards in Cuba to attempt a pronunoiamento, the soldiers and ci- vilians alike having accepted the die- ester,and its consequences with dreary fatalistic cella the island is fast drift- ing into a., oendition of anarchy. In.- surgent bands, the correspondent says, are enjoying immunity in the coramis- sion of outrages and plundering; and this is especially true in the western provinces, *here the insurgents bit- terly complain that they have been ig- nored and abandoned, by the United • States, and being left utterly desti- tete, can only save themselves from starvation by rapine, Without foodene- dicine, and clothing, • they are dying ' like, flies, and, unfortunately, it is the best elements artio'ng tha insurgents that are suffeelag most severely. • The Times in an editorial article, draws attentlen to these difficulties facing the Washington Government, and the advisability that the poem oon- aerence be not unduly protracted. The correspondent relates terrible ,stories of anarchy, and says the American Government is apparently attempting to suppress the truth. As an instance, he gives the follow- ing story, whieh he declares, was sup- pressed by th.e censer at Key West :— A band of insurgents • attacked, re- cently the Providencia, sugar factory, near Guines, one of the richest in Cuba. The guerilla forces which the proprie- tor maintained to defend his property until th.e agrival. of the SPanish troops were obliged. to surrender beeause the Spanish troops are now doing nothing to suppress lawlessness. The insur- gents invaded the enclosure, where they found a lot of reconcentfados. They secured' the, women, and placing them in line, fired from behind thein'at the guerillas, thus making it impos- sible for the defenders of the factory to return .the fire. BRITISH OFFICER CAPTURED. -- Fears That Capt. Ilitslaam Has Been Cap- tured --Tragedy In East Africa.• .- A despatoh from Bombay, says:—An expedition has been sent to the dis- trict around Machakos:in British East Africa, against a tribe of peoeae styled the "Wakikuya" inhabiting the Maxuka country, that extends to the slopes of Mount Vienia. A sad and terrible ordeal fell to the lot of an European official of the Uganda railway while out on, a quiet shooting excursion. Captain A. X. Has- laana, A.V.D., was sent out to East Africa by the Foreign. Office to organ- ize a transport service in connection with she Uganda raiiW- construction, which he has since ca,rried out most successfully. • The outbreak of Tinder - pest in the interior, as well as .the an- veettgation of the "tsetse fly" ques- tion, necessitated his visit to those districts to institute researches. He reached Machakos and proceeded fur- ther inland, inspecting the cattle in - the principal villages in the district. He had reached. Kairobi on the Ugan- da road, and, deseroue of a litthetelaxe ation, went ort for a couple of •dayls shooting ' along the banks of the River Atha in quest of big ganae. He took with him six mules and half a dozen attendants, three of whom were Inclians,and work- ed his way to Donny-sa-brook. Being a perfeot stranger, he unfortunately got into the country of the hostile Wakikuyu, who, on seeing a white manarnmediately surrounded him. Cap- tain Haelaam, saw his mistake too late, and naturally took the only alternative —self-defence. All his attendants, save his daffadax, deserted him. All these two had to defend themselves were merely two rifles, with only seven rounds of ammunition left, and a charged revolver. These were soon expended, when the Wakilcuya (nosed in on him and took him and his daffa- der, The last; seen of Captain Has- laara was the poor man standing defi- ant, firing at the enemy with his re- volver, and an arrow through the up- per part of his left forearm. The blacks were in hundreds, and eventually cap- tured Ha,slaam and his man, regarding whose safety the gravest doubts are entertained. Relief and search parties are out in quest of the unfortunate gentleman, but up to the present no trace of either has been found. A TRAGEDY RECALLED. Skeletons of Tlare,, White E'en Found Nen Owen Sound. A despatch from Owen Sound, says: —The findieg of the skeletons of three white men under a light covering of soil on Griffith's- Island a fevir days ago recalls the time four gentlemen left this port for Colpoys bay in a sail boat. They were Capt. Pother - gill, Pestmaeter George Brown, of this town, Kr. John Robinson, a gentle- man from the Southern Steles, and Charles . Kennedy, it sailor. • A few days after the bolt was found Ion the mainland beach, with its cargo of wheat undisturbed. • The body of Kennedy la' on the shore aloogside the boat, hisdog having gnawed the dead man's hand. •The bodies of the others could not be found, though a long and viligant search was made. Foul play was suspected, but no trace of •the victims ox perpetrators svas foiled to unravel the MYstery. The fact that the skull of tone of the skeletons discovered is exceptionally urge, and it being well-known that Postmaster Brown's head seas soine What extraordinary in this particular, leads to the belief by many thet the skeletons found are the long -lost • re- mains of the inissing men, %losers, Sohn and Ses., letalinsee, of this tcavn, are sons of the gebtleinan of that nine, while C. P. a. Ag.ent l3rown at Hong Kong, Chine recently teheargeteor 8Iditenth'llit'ficiastioansoelfi tolie,'Llgnapaoisnte- is ireposSible at this late day, THE ASSASSIN IS SATISF JED. ate Says It Was 1115 Ideal to thtrike aeolella in One Of Its Stmentits. A deepateb. frem Vienna says :--The --GYeiennenv: lemlje'res*Pr°e4p(Ite;:tte tofueTsi, °thee tate- sasein of the Empress of Austria, as saying in an interview: ani a soft-hearted, glorious An- archist, It was my ideal to strike so- ciety in one of its suriamits, 1 heve attaieed that ideal, arid am indifferent to what the 'world saye. I am ea coward—I fear not death. I have ad- dressed 8 prayer to the Feclexel coun- cil to judge me in Lucerne, where eaPi- tal miniehment is in faree, I wish to suffer the guidlotiae, The judge inter- posed, calling this swaggering, know - tug the impossibility of it." Questioned if he avenged his father- less poverty, he answered: "No; I fulfilled a misslen. You may take me for an Aetarchist: or a noun- deeil, a cowara or a brave roan, I am satisfied with my deed; thet suffices," I asked whether he worked in Trieste. He said he had other irons in the fire in Trieste. • The correspondent asked: you hear the atmeral knell ring for your violate "I heard the bells, but considered them the Lunerel knell of the bour- geoisie, whom I detest." VIEWED THE CA.TAPALQuel. The public was permitted to view the casket containing the remains of the late Empress of Austria on Friday. It reposed on a catafalque in the chapel of Hofburg, where masses were celebrated; incessantly at three altars until norm. On the casket were four wreaths, sent by the ebildren and grandchildren of the deceased, while many other floral offerings were upon the walls of the chapel. At the head ef the casket were the LeMerial crown, the cornet of an erchduchess, and the jewelled orders of the late Empress. At the foot of the casket were a black fan and a pair of white gloves, Life Guards - mea were stationed at each corner of the catafalgy.e. There was a steady procession of peo- ple until the church closed at 5 o'clock, among them Prince Albert of Belgium and other persons of bigh rank. Even alter thedoors were shut thousands remained. outaide. It transpired that a painful scene cc- etvred at the church. The Emperor was prostrated with grief. Upon ar- riving at the Hofburg ehapel on Thursday night his Majesty became al- most unconscious from the intensity of his emotions. Many of those present ,wept in sympathy. BLOODSHED IN SOUDAN. Casualties In the Previous Engagements With Dervishes Compared. It may be interesting to compare the casualties in previous engage- ments with the dervishes with those at the battle of Oneaurrnan. The loss- es of the' enemy et the latter engage- ment will be seen to be far greater than those on any previous occasion. Tel-el-Kebir—Septeraber 13, 1882:— About 2,000 dervishes killed and wounded. One officer and forty-five men of the British force killed, and about 300 wounded. El Teh J,anua,ry; 1884;—Baker killed. Hicks Pasha's army, including several British officers and a London war correspondent massacred. Only one man escaped. Dervish losses, in- finitesisAal. El Teb—January, 29, 1884:—Baker Pasha's army of over 2,000 destroyed. El Teb—February 29, 1884:-1,500 Mahdiets killed. Thirty-eight Brit- ish officers and men killed, and 142 wounded. • Tamar—March 13, 1884:-2,000 der- vishes killed. • Abu Klea—,Tantaszy 17, 1885 :—Near- ly 1,000 dervishes killed. • Firket—Sune 7, 1896 :-900 dervishes killed, and.500 taken prisoners. Atbara—April 8, 1898 :-3,500 der- vishes left dead upon the field. A,bout 500 on the British side killed and wounded. • Omdurman — September 3, 1898 :— About 13,000 dervishes killed and 16,- 000 wounded. Anglo -Egyptians killed, 50, wounded, 311. • ANOTHER WAR IN AFRIDLAND. A Rumour That liostilites 'Will Shortly ho Renewed. A despatch from Simile says :.--A re- port has reached Kohat that an Af- ricli jirga, attended by Walla Saisrid Akbar, has just been held in lVfaiclan, at which it was decided that the out- standing rifles now possessed by the clan should be retained until the Gov- ernment had restored the tribal allow - mace and reduced the salt tax, andthat, if necessary, hostilities should, be re- sumed after the crops had been gath- ered in. It is also reported that secret emis- saries have been sent to Orukzais for the purpose of ascertaining the intens bions se °PEA ttilelante et3Ofibe. Tthe MridiS 15 being tried. They argue that the, Govern- ment of India, not .haying restored the tribal allowauces graiited for keeping the Khyber pass open, has failed to fulfil" its side •of the peace contract, Needless to say, tnere vvas no contract; the Government iraeosecl teems on the tribesmen and gave no promise of its future intentions, nut itt the same time it was underetood on the frontier thee these tillowanees would be given back in some torm or other. Redtape and. Whitehall formalities are beauti- ful adjuncts of civilization which the Pathan does not unaereticed• Saiyid Akbar is the meet infliaential mulla or priest in. Tirah. ineited the attack on the Khyber forts in Au- gust:, 1897. In punishment his two- storey home in the Waren Valley was deanollsbeaand his property confiscat- ed. He does /la love the Goverinneet, Crops in Vieth are tot harVeetea 1111 the end of Ootober. So there is yet time for mere prudent toitusels to pre - vele, itaimelei the Koala rumour be true, • ROUND THE 111011 WORLD. . 00I3G ON IN THE OUR ORNERG OF THE ()LOUR. Odd and New World vent .o Interest Chron. ieled Oriehy—interesting Happenings ot Recent Pate. At the legit census the population o Madrid was 470,283. There are two places called Roberts - town, Bata are ha Ireland. A remarkable eel ha e been discovered in the Fiji Islands. It has a peculiar formation in its throat, whieh causes it to wl2istle when in an exeited state. The eel is 15 feet long, and. several inehes in girth. Debtors in Siam, when three months in arrears, can be seized by the credi- tors andcompelled to work out their indebtedness. Should a, debtor run away, his father, his wife, or his chil- dren may be he'd iti slavery until the debt is cancelled.. In the cocoanut palms of the Philip- pine Islands pearls are occasionally found. Like those of the ocean, they are composed of carbonate of lime. The baraboo also yields •another preoious product, in the shape of true opals, which are found in its joints. The whirling winds of Abra,bia, sone times excavate sand -pits to the dep of two hundred feet, the rims usual being three times that length in, dia sear. A send -pit thu.s merle may entirely obliterated in a few hour and another excavated within a sho distance of it. All the military authorities are no • paying great attention to singing o the march, The French army has late permitted its soldiers to th amuse themselves. Lord Wolseley of opiniori that men maga, better an arrive fresher when they sing tha when they don't; A statement concerning the gener average earnings per prisoner for th past finanoial year has just been mad by the British Prison Commissioner The highest earnings are at Cante bury with an average per prisoner o 418, 16s, 9d., and. Brecon, £17, 7s, 4d the lowest being Manchester with 4 78. 9d., and. Norwic.h with 47 14s. 3d. Some opals have lately arrived. i London from. Opalton, Queensland which have attracted mach attentio owing to their extraordinaxy size, an the dazzling splendour of the mark ng. The opal trade is &rapidly grow ng industry in 'Queensland,'fro ivhich colony about 425,000 worth o ough stones were exported last yea In some of the mowetaln passes i Austria there are to be found. sign oarcl,s bearing an insoription whic earls — "Return Forbidden." Th eason for this is thee tlaosepa,eses ar eo narrow and steep that when once reveller has stank). on the upwar ourney he m.a,y not turn back lest h ndanger the lives of those behind him At Diurvvorley Bay, County Cork hey are diving for a Spanish pirate hip wrecked there three bemire ears ago. A blaok slave, the only per nsa.ved, told of gold and other trea are 'on board, and froro. time to time inklets have been washed ashore Twelve cannota and some coins have been raised already, and the divers ope to reaoh the treasure soon. An extraordinary run of luck is re- rded at the last drawing of city of axis bonds, when six successive num- s were drawn belonging to one vner, a barber at Verrieres-ie-Buis- n. The first drew 1,000 frenos, the xt tvvo the right of being redeemed par, 500 francs; the fourth drew a ize of '500 francs, the fifth 2,000 ,nes and the sixth the grand prize 100,000 francs. s. soldier dean tor theee days was oat to be dis•sected. at the Algiers litery hospital when he woke up d, before the doetors recovered frooa eir ,surprise, got off the disseeting ble and walked into the next room, here he wrote down some words on a e,oe of paper to make sure that he as alive and awake. The doctors now y that he has completely recovered one his lethargy. France's society for the reformation spelling, the Association Ortho- aphique, has received a very litrge Quest from, a Frenchman who died ently in Buenos Ayres. It consists 270,000 ELM:a of land in Argentina, e income fxona which is alrea.dy ,000. Ot this, $11,000 a year and e -half of the residue go to the so- ty for its purposes; the rest is to divided up into prizes to persons o have done good to mankind. Prof. Baron, of Berne, has left all property to the cite of Berlin for e establishment of a vegetarian ldren's asylum. and the city pu- rities have exceptea the legacy. of. Baron's vegeterianism was ited to the exclusion of an food de- ed from. dead animals, so that the ducts of living bats, such as eggs, lk, cheese, butter and honey, may used. The will provides that no ysioian shall ever be a trustee ef the &land has had to pay hard cash aequare again a nutaber ef works et lost through the. viets of Queen thelmina's fethex, III. Mere re • a quarter of a century ago took oang women ot Paris named Mlle. so tr Ja co ber o so na, at P•r a of ab an th ta„ Pi fr sa of gr be ree of bit $20 on 015 be svh his th shi tho Px lina riv pro mi be ph asy to ole aVi tha, y A.nabre with him to Holland arid en- deavoured to establish her at Loo as stete nii8trss, itt imitation of Louis XIV. tied Charles II. The Du.tch court would not ,stancl this and the young woman was Sent bact toParis,„ Before her departure, however, she and het royal ecleeirer looted the royal palaces and Maseurias to furnish her houeeitt the Champs Elyse. ae died reoent- le end at the stile of her effete the Dttteli Government Was the prinelpal poxclia•Ser. — Makes thoeseeds of womee suffer in siloece, rather thee teli their troubles to anyone. To such Imlieu Women's Balm is per- fect boort. It cores ell womb troubles, corrects monthly irrege- laxities, abolishes the agonies of obild,birtie• makes weak women strong' and renders life worth •al. *living. lit.,easassaimatattetr4 THE IMETSR TIL1IEH INSTANT RELIEF IS NHEDErh Distress Unparalleled in the West ilIdIes— liutli'e Area of Cultivation In. liarba• does Obliterated$ A deapatch from Kingston, Jamaica, says :—Details of et:a hurricane are constantly coming in, 1,:thieh glow the • disaster to have been infintiely worse than at first was supposed. The destruc- tion at Barbadoes was fully equal to that of St. Vincent, while St. Lucid also suffered considerably. Tim Island of Barbadoes, preseating practically a blank surface, was completely swept by the vortex of the cyclone, the re - salt' being that the entire area of cul- tivation was obliterated, while a mite jority of the residences and other build- ings were destroyed and two-thirds of the population of 160 to the square mile were rendered homeless. The pop- ulation was seeking shelter at 'Bridge- town and other centres only to find them little more than masses of ruins. The consequent distress is unparallel- ed in the history or the 'West Indies and the Governor has cabled, that in- stant and continuous outside relief is absolutely necessary Itt order to avert widespread famine and possibly a Xe. sultant pestilence. The actual extent or the fatalities has • not yet been ascertained owing to the extent of the ruin wrought throughout the island. Apparently the darnage itt St. Lucia was comparatively less enor- mous, although very serious. Many plantations and houses were destroyed, temporarily paralysing industry, The loss of life in St. Lucia was eompara- tively small. No estimate of the ship, ping casualties is yet possible. CASTOR! For Infants and Children. The tat, simile zignattato of II on 07017 STaPPOr. •SHOT LIKE A DOG-, Geo. • Bauman WU Exhausted In the Snow and Killed by Companion. despatch from Seattle, Wa., says: • —Gdeorge Bowman, of Bridgeport, Conn., Wal murdered in Alaska last winter, during a, terrible snowstorm, by a companion named Johnson, of Springfield, Mass. flie was alroost in sight of the Golden Mecca. when his strength failed him, and. he sank down in the soft snow. Johnson, who was the leader of the party, went back to him, and with an oath blew out the unfortunate man'a brains with a re- volver. This is the terrible story thee is told for the first time by IJ.C,Sachs, who has just returned from Alaska. His partner, Edward T. Calhoun, of Yonkers, N.Y., witnessed the deed, which was committed a short distance from Dawson. Calhoun, • too, nearly lost his life from a, bullet from John- son's revolver. Nothing was ever heard of Johnson. It is presumed he perished in the snowstorm. The fac- simile sigsatrae( 01 CaatILISPClislatXaMes is on IFIZTL:3100017EN THE SULTAN BACKS DOWN. Ole Ila s Complied With the British Ada 'Illtlattation. A despatch from Candle, Island of Crete, says :—The Sultan has ordered Djevad Pasha, the military commander in Crete, to accede to the des mand of the British admiral, Noel, for disarmament thus complying with the whole uitimai',um of the admiral. A British military detachment on Sunday occupied the entrance to the fort, and it is remote: -ed that th.e 01- toma,n troops will be withdrewn and British forees wail occupy the town. Among the prisoners already hena- ecl over to Admiral Noe] are two who ars eredited with being ringleaders it, the attack on the 13ritish camp. fv.a.mtriclopt.x..a.„ The fao. iittiIe itt 011 662:Ptre 45A0?ter. Beer is apparently the German's first thought whenever anything happens. No sooner was It known that laistiaarck was dead thud:lie stiedents of the bar - lin 'University sent out ci summons to a beer feast of mourning ,in his honer: The "Tratier coin/leers' Was held in, the hall of it large brewery, deeorated with the banners and eolors of the student corps. The rector and many of the professors of the 'university were present, while the galleries were fill- ed with ladies. The proceedings be - gen Ivi.th the playing- of a fituerel ina,i'cle and the singing of the oboral, "What 00d bath done is well done," followed by "Gatulettmus igitur," and 8,12 address on Bismarck. The 'presiding stadent thee gave tile word lee the "arrettee salaenailder," ettee 1011,4 teepee :woe lucre •sons.