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THE YACHTING DISASTER
ON LAKE HURON. -
DESCRIPTION AND CB ARACTERS OF THE
VICTIMS—HOW THEY WERE FOUND—
SPECULATIONS AS TO THE CAUSE OF
THE DISASTER.
We last week published ert paragraph
announcing a sad drowning accident
which befel a party of young men be-
longing to Sarnia, who ,were on a yacht-
ing expedition on Lake Huron. The
following additional particulars con-
cerning the unfortunate victims and the
occurrence, which we copy from last
week's Sarnia Observer, will be read
with melancholy interest:
- Leaving Sarnia on the 10th of July
their plan was to skirt the Michigan
shore of Lake Huron northward to the
Sault River; thence along' the north
share, cruising among the islands and
camping on shore at night. The young
men from Sarnia, including Vidal and
Morrison, had More or less experience
with boats, while Messrs. Vidal, Sin-
clair and Fleming Mackenzie were con-
sidered rather expert yachtsmen, but
cautious to a marked degree. The boat
itself was old, but had been thoroughly
repaired and greatly strengthened by
Mr. O'Gorman for the cruise, and was
selected out of several that had been
thought of as best fitted for their pur-
poses:,
All went well with the party up to
Sunday, August let, and the brief let-
ters and postal cards received by their
relatives and friends from various points
along the route, showed that the young
men were enjoying the trip immensely,
and had met no mishaps to mar the
pleasures of the cruise. The scenery
was pictured as delightful and the fish-
ing splendid. They were due at Sarnia,
according to their own calculations, by
Saturday evening, July 31st, or the day
following, at farthest. The last direct
'communication from them had been
posted at Killarney. They instructed
the sending of letters and papers to
Southampton, which Would be the last
place of call before reaching Sarnia.
Nk great anxiety was felt for their
safety until Monday passed away with-
out bringing any -tidings of the boat or
its occupants. Telegrams were then
sent to all points along the coast asking
for informations concerning them. It
was felt that something must have hap-
pened to prevent them from communi-
cating with their friends. The leave of
absence of Messrs. Vidal and Telfer had
expired on Saturday, and it was, abso-
lutely necessary that they should either
be at their posts on Monday morning, or
should notify the cbmpanies in whose
employ they were, of the cause of their
absence: Silence in their case was
ominous. The additional fact that a
storm swept over the lake during Sun-
day night, the gale lasting the greater
part of Monday, also tended to excite
the fears of those who were anstiously
watching for the return of the boat. At
length word came from Southampton
that two young men had _called at the -
post office in that village on Saturday,
and inquired for -mail matter for a party
of - young men who, theystated, were
becalmed on a yacht lying about five
miles off. These two had rowed the
distance in a small boat, and were going
to row back the same evening. The
post master could only remember that
the names of two .of the party for whom
letters were asked, were Teller and Mac-
kenzie. This was sufficient to establish
the identity of the party and their
whereabouts on Saturday, and hopes
were raised that they had -taken shelter
in some out-of-the-way place from the
gale of Sunday and Monday and would
yet be heard from all right. Tuesday
and Wednesday passed without bringing
any further tidings. Alarm took the
place of anxiety and Thursday morning
it was resolved by their friends to send
out tugs in search. Mr. James King
was sent to Southampton, with instruc-
tions to prosecute -a search from that
end, and the small tug International
was chartered at this end. Mr. -O'Gor-
man and Mr. Major, taking a small sail
boat with them, left on the International
Thursday forenoon with instructions to
explore the coast northward. About 10
o'clock Thursday night a telegram was
received from Mr. O'Gorman, dated
Thedford, conveying the sad news that
the wreck of the Cruiser had been found
ashore near Port Frank, with three
dead bodies in it, being those of Hope -
Mackenzie, Vidal or Sinclair and one
unknown, and that they had been placed
on board the tug and sent on to Sarnia.
When the tug, arrived at an early hour
on Friday morning it was found that. the
body which had been variously described
as that of Vidal and Sinclair was that of
Fleming Mackenzie, and the unknown
was identified later on as Telfer. A
large crowd had been hanging around
the telegraph office all evening and
when the nature of the news was an-
nounced a gloom spread over every
countenance. Though all hopes had _
been abandoned for some time, yet
when the sad fate of the young men
was placed beyond the possibility of
doubt, the blow fell with crushing effect.
Strong men to whom the victims of the
disaster were no more than passing ac-
quaintances, wept over their fate. The
greatest sympathy and cotnpassion were
expressed for the bereaveh families. All
felt for them in the great trial they were
called upon to endures It so happened
thatin almostevery case the severity of
the blow was inereaSed by circumstances
of a peculiarly distressing nature con-
nected with the families to whom the
young men belonged, or by the im-
portance of the young men themselves.
Mr. Vidal's father is well advanced in
years, feeble in health and ill -fitted to
bear the great load of sorrow which the
loss of his son has placed upon him. A
fire 'binning near the bed, and palling young wife, daughter of Mr. NI, na Sin -
sway the mattress saw that the money
, and documents had gone, only the purse
remaining. He extinguished the fire,
which had evidently been kindled to
conceal the robbery. ,
—The other clay while a number of
men were working on the new bridge
over the Thames at Thorold, ten miles
from London, the first bentaabout •30
-feet high, suddenly fell. Two men and
a team of horses, working on the part
that gave way, narrowly escaped death.
Mr. McLeod, the contractor, was badly
bruised, and a man named McKay was
injured by the horses falling on him,
hat neither is seriously hurt.
—The first quarterly meeting of the
Woodham circuit was held in Zion
church on the lst inst. A large con-
gregation greeted the presence of the
-venerable minister, Rev. Mr. Fear,
grandfather of the present incumbent,
Rev. E. A. Fear. This extraordinary
old man, notwithstanding his almost 90
years, 40 of which were spent in the
ministry, enjoys remarkably good health
and spirits. All were pleased with the
way in which he conducted the meeting.
—Mr. Allan R. Morash, of Lunen -
berg, Nova Scotia, having .noticed an
item referring to the longevity of the
McLeod family, eight in number, of
West River, Pictou, Nova Scotia, the
united ages of which were given as 602
years, an average of 76 years for each
member, writes to the St. John New
Brunswick, Telegraph that the united
ages of the .Morash family, which con-
sisted of five sisters and three brothers,
was 656 years, an average of 82 years.
—The great dry dock on Vancouver
Island is now nearing completion. An
idea of the magnitude of the work may
be obtained from the fact that a person
standing on the bottom of the dock is 73
feet below high water mark. The Colo-
nist, however, says that the dock is too
short to accomodate the class of ships
which Sir John intimated it was the in-
tention of the imperial Government to
sabsidize for the trade of the Orient.
=Miss Smith, a young lady of Thames-
ville, was engaged to be married to a
Mr. Taylor, a Morpeth widower. Every-
thing went swimmingly, the wedding
was arranged for Wedneeday, and the
pair set out to invite the wedding
guests. While this went on word
reached a Mr. Howell, a rival worship-
per at the Smith shrine, and he acted
promptly. He got away with Taylor,
and securing the fair one, Howell put
off for Dresden, where they were duly
made one, and Taylor left for other
fields.
—The Presbyterian congregations in
Walkerton have united and have
adopted the name of Knox church.
Rev. Dr. James has been inducted as
pastor, at a salary of $1,200. Tees -
water Presbyterians have secured Rev:
A. R. Linton, salary $750. Rev. R.
Gray has accepted a call from the Kin-
. loss, Riversdale and Enniskillen con-
gregatiens. Rev. Mr. Moody's resig-
nation of Balaklava, has been accepted.
Rev. Mr. Greig has resigned as pastor
of Knox church, Paisley.
—A gentleman arrived in Montreal
from Paris a few weeks ago and rented
a_ house in Bousecours street. He had
m his possession about 48,850 francs in
bills of the Bank of France. This money
he carefully wrapped up in a piece of
linen and placed between the mattresses
• of the bed, together with some family
documents, which were in an old leather
purse. While walking along Notre
Dame street a yauth told him his house
was on fire. He went home, found a
ments of Sarnia, whose career as a law
student had been a continuation of suc-
cesses, which but recently culminated in
the most brilliant manner at Osgoode
Hall, where he carried off the chief
honors and prizes. As senretary of the
West Lambton Reform Association he
attended to the revision of the voters'
lists with a zealous industry, backed
by considerable skill and abilty,
which earned for him the well merit-
ed praises of the party in Lamb -
ton'. In volunteer circles and as a
member of the fire brigade he was
conspicuous for the active interest he
took in the discharge of his duties. A
great career was opening before him
when all the hopes centered in his
abilities were shattered by his untimely
death. His parents are bowed with
grief over their great loss, made still
greater by the loss of their son-in-law.
Young Walter Morrison was noted for
his steady and industrious habits. He
was one of a large family of industrious
children, all of whom are filling respon-
sible positions. He was born, we believe
in Sarnia, and though of late years living
in Jarvis, Ont., he is looked upon and
mourned as a Sarnia, boy. Fleming
Mackenzie was the second eldest sod of
Mr. James Mackenzie, he was one of
Sarnia's exemplary young men. Grave
and sedate beyond his years, a model of
patient industry and sterling morality.
Free from even the ordinary frivolities
of youth, the only amusement he appear-
ed to enjoy as a relaxation from study
and work was boating, and of this he
was unusually fond. He had just complet-
ed his apprenticeship as a dry goods
clerk. This double trouble adds to the
anguish of the family and makes the
trial they are undergoing much harder
to bear. Hope Mackenzie, the youngest
of the party, though of stalwart growth,
giving promise of a robust manhood,was
a boy in years, having not yet completed
his education. lie had been attending
Upper Canada Cpllege and was at home
for the midsummer holidays.
He was a cousin of Fleming
Mackenzie, his companion on the
yacht, and eldest son of Mr. Charles
Mackenzie. Severe family afflictions.
caused by sudden deaths had already
fallen to the lot of the boy's parents.
The Algoma disaster, in which young
Alex. Mackenzie, a cousin of Hope's and
Fleming's and to whom Mr. Chas. Mac-
kenzie stood in the double relation of
uncle and guardian, was yet fresh in
their mernories, when they were called
upon to bear the loss of their eldest son.
Hope's joining the party was to a great
extent a matter of mere chance, and had
not been decided upon until the boat
was almost under way. Ardent and
impulsive, in the exuberance of spirits
natural to a boy of his years, he pleaded
for permission to accompany his cousin,
and atthe last moment wrung a reluctant
consent from his father, little dreaming
that he was forcing himself upon his
doom. Of youngTelfer we cament speak
from personal knowledge. We learn,
however, that he was a young man of
more than average ability and trust-
worthiness and one who, if spared, would
have succeeded in any walk in life. He
was an only son and the chief iupport
of a widowed stepmother, to whom he
was devotedly attached. His loss is
therefore a sad cross for her to bear in
her declining years.
THE 'WRECK. •
The time and manner of the wreck of
the Cruiser can only be conjectured.
There is, up to the present time no liv-
ing person who can say how and when
the disaster occurred. On Thursday
morning of last week, as before stated,
the first searching party left here on the
tug International. Messrs. M. O'Gor-
man and John Major, who were the
only persons outside the crew of the tug,
on board, left the tug about five or six
• miles south of Kettle Point and in their
small sail boat coasted along the shore to
the point, without seeing any traces of
wreckage. They then boarded the tug
and headed for the Sauble River. About
4 p. m., when two and a half miles north
of the mouth of the Sauble, known as
Port Frank, they saw something on
shore resembling a wreck, and running
in closer made it out to be the Cruiser.
Accompanied by Captain Williams, of
the tug, they went ashore in the small
boat. On landing they saw the dis-
masted hull of the Cruiser, high and dry
on the shore, some thirty or forty feet
from the water's edge, standing erect on
an even keel, broadside to the water,
bow to the northward. Captain Wil-
liams was first to reach the vessel, and
seeing the recumbent forms of several
persons in the boat he called out:
They are all here." O'Gorman and
Major were soon at his side, and on ex-
amining the bodies they found they were
three in number, and all dead. Mem-
ing Mackenzie was lying aft of the cen-
tre -board box, on the starboard side, his
head under a low seat that ran along the
side of the boat, his body lying diagon-
ally across the boat, the feet toward the
bow. Ile was fastened to the seat by a
piece of rope passed under and around
his arm. Telfer was lying in a similar
position, on the port side, and was like-
wise fastened by a rope to the seat.
Hope Mackenzie was lying under the
bow seat, his head resting on his arm,
which was extended along the low side
seat on the port side, his feet which were
bare, inclined to the bow. His attitude
was that of one who had deliberately ar-
ranged himself for a sleep. A coat was
well wrapped around him, and a water-
proof cape drawn well over and partly
under his head concealing his face. He
was not tied as the others were. An
open clasp knife lay etc:Ise to each of 'the
bodies, as if purposely placed there for
use in case it was necessary to cut them-
selves loose to prevent drowning. • Their
clothing was only slightly damp, not
more so, it was thought, than would
have been occasioned by the rain that
fell during the early part of that day.
The boat was stripped of everything in
the way of blankets, clothing, and eat-
ables, the satchels and hand -bags con-
taining- the young men's effects having
disappeared. There were found in the
boat a revolver and two guns—one of
the latter tied beneath a seat, the other
lying loose on the bottom, some empty
gun shells, a lamp, the glass unbroken,
an oil stove, covers in place, an iron pot,
in hag of small fancy stones, a few
branches of berries, a bag of sand bal-
last, the iron end of a boat hook, a
handkerchief and a few articles of under-
clothing belonging to Mr. Vidal. North
of tile boat, about sixty feet away, was
foulad`the mainmast, with boom gaff and
sail wrapped together and lashed with a
piece of the large anchor rope probably
forty feet in length ; piece of the same
rope was fastened to the seat aft of the
centre -board box; a life preserver was
found a short distance farther north;
also two stone jars, one contai4ing a
small quantity of syrup. South, -about
100 feet, the oars of the Cruiser were
found, and,a piece farther away, a part
of the temporary bow deck that was put
on before leaving here to make shelter
for the bedding, provisions, etc., and a
board that had been nailed to the top of
the centre -board box for use as a table.
Another Stone crock was found near
here, containing some sugar. The fore-
mast was 200 or 300 yards south of the
boat. It had been chopped off, the
stump remaining on board of the boat.
This mast had by some means become
unstepped and had fallen over the bow
of the boat, and while in that position
had been chopped away. About three
quarters of a mile south of the boat,
along the beach, in the direction of
Port Frank, the name of Maggie Rae
had been traced in the sand, apparently
some time that day. This was the
only trace of any living being having
been in the neighborhood of the wreck.
Abeut one and a half miles north of
Grand Bend, or nine miles from the
wreck one of the small boat's oars was
picked up, and some five miles nearer
the wreck one of the small boat's seats
was found. The small boat itself
came ashore Friday evening or Saturday
about half way between Stoney Point
and Kettle Point, or about eight miles
south of the wreck. At various times
since the discovery of the wreck a num-
ber of sniall articles have been picked
up by the searcher along the beach, in-
cluding a small -sized pocket and com-
pose belonging to Fleming Mackenzie a
penholder and pen the property of W/in.
Sinclair, the boxes that were used to
store provisions in etc.. but nothing
containing any record of the trip or that
would give a clue to the causes of the
disaster. In one of Telfer's pockets a
few leaves of a diary, written with an
indelible pencil, were found. The writ-
ing was badly blotted and run by having
been wet. His friends in Watford ex-
amined the leaves and found they con-
tained brief notes of the cruise. The
last entry was made out to be dated
Sunday, 2p. m., and consisted of the
words, "Abreast of Kincardine," the
few remaining words were so badly blot-
ted as to be illegible.
As stated in the first part of this arti-
cle the last definite knowledge of the
young men was connected with their
presence at Southampton. After the
departure of the two who had called at
the postoffice, the yacht ran into port
the same evening and tied up alongside
the Chantry breakwater. Mr. Vidal
went ashore and consulted with the
Grand Trunk Railway station -master as
to the best way of returning to Watford
so as to be in time to take over his duties
there on Monday morning. It was
shown that he could not possibly reach
there by rail, and that with a favoring
breeze, such as was likely to prevail, the
yacht could reach Sarnia quicker than
any train timed to leave Southampton.
It was then decided to take a direct
course from Chantry Island for Sarnia.
At 5 a. m. on Sunday they called on
Mr. Lambert, lighthouse keeper at the
island, and obtained a small quantity of
oil for their stove, and soon after set
sail for home. Mr. Telfer's brief mem-
orandum places them at 2 p. m. of that
day abreast of Kincardine, probably a
long way out in the lake. The weather
report at Southampton shows that the
wind continued light up to about 3 p.
m. on Sunday, when it turned to the
northwest; by 5 p. m. it had increased
to a gale, which diminished at sundown,
and then sprang up again about 10 p.
m., continuing all night and throughout
Monday. The sea is reported all along
the coast to have run unusually high.
The probabilities are that the Cruiser
was well out in the lake when she en-
countered the gale at 5 p. in., and being
a good sea boat, as subsequent events
have proved, she ran before the wind at
a good pace, until sundown , when the
storm slackened. She .would then be
abrea-st of Goderich. Continuing on her
course the gale struck her again about
10 or 11 p. m. off Bayfield. Some time
between that and the time the boat ar-
rived off the Sauble, it is the belief of
men competent to give an opinion, she
lost her rudder—it is missing and has
not been washed ashore anywhere be-
tween here and Grand Bend. That was
the beginning of the trouble. It is then
thought that they used the small boat
towing astern to keep the yacht before
the wind, ' but after a time it broke
loose, and they then resolved to use the
main mast and its attachments as a drag.
The iron collar by which the mast was
secured to the thwart shows that the
fastenings were broken by blows of an
axe or some heavy weapon. The mast
.was unstepped, and while endeavoring
to lower it, it fell with a rush, disabling
Telfer and Fleming Mackenzie. This
would account for the bruises on their
heads, and for the fact that they were
secured to the boat by ropes. ‘Vith the
main mast as a drag, and under reefed
.foresail, the crippled boat bore up
through the great seas until the break-
ers were reached off the Sauble coast.
Here they cast anchor, letting go both
the large and the small Ones, and tried
to ride out the storm. While in that
positionthe pitching of the yacht un-
shipped the foremast, which fell across the
bow, endangering the safety of the boat,
clair, has to bear up under the loss of a
husband and a brother, and at a time
when she is least able to bear excite•
ment or grief. Her brother, Mr. Wm.
J. Sinclair, was one of the bright orna-
and it was cut away. This was done
with a blunt hatchet, and must have
been a difficut task, requiring nerve, and
endurance. Whether the yacht broke
loose from her anchors, or that the young
men, as daylight enabled them to see
clearly where they were, decided to
slip their cable and endeavor to steer
the boat ashore through the surf with
the oars, can only be decided when the
anchors are recovered, if they ever are.
The manner of the final departure of
Vidal, Sinclair and Morrison from the
boat will also remain an open question
until their remains are recovered. The
majority incline to the belief that they
endeavored to jump ashore as soon as
the vessel struck the beech, and that
they were carried back by the undertow
and drowned. In the absence of positive
proof of this, various other theories and
speculations are indulged in, most of
which are based on the perfect eondition
of the boat, the presence in it of numer-
ous small articles that could not have
reniained in the position in which they
were found had the boat captized or even
been throwh on her beam ends, and the
absence of the blankets and valises con-
taining the young men's clothing.
The wildest reports have been set
afloat at Port Frank among the searchers
who went from here to assist in the re-
covery of the bodies. Now that the
wreck has been discovered persons are
said to have been found who saw theboat
in the breakers heading forshore, butdid
not think anything of it at the time; an-
other says he heard gun shots fired at
intervals during the early morning, an
still another that he heard strange
noises in the woods during
the night. These stories have
been or are being traced up, and
most of them shown to be baseless.
What does seem strange is that the
wreck should have remained four days
on the coast,within such a short distance
of Port Frank and in the immediate
vicinity of the fishing shanties scattered
along the beech, without having been
discovered, or that a yacht could have
drifted ashore without someone seeing
it. And yet it is apparently the fact
that this happened.
As to the yacht itself, notwithstanding
various rumors to the contrary, it has
been shown that she must have been an
admirable sea boat and that barring the
loss of the rudder the accident was not
due to any defect or weakness on her
part. The searching party who went
from here on Sunday last, set fire to her,
and all that remains of the craft is her
charred remains.
THE FOURTH BODY RECOVERED.
A body was found on Lake Huron
shore on Friday, near Lakeview. As
near as could be made out by the name
on the watch, it was the body of Wm.'.
Vidal. This makes the fourth body
recovered.
in the centre has a ring on the finger in
the genuine bill, but not in the bogus
one. The shading of the counterfeit on
the back is very irregular and is lighter
than that of the genuine. The counter-
feit bears the name of E. J. Smith as
cashier, which is not on thereal bill.
Mulholand's barn, about one
mile west of Port Robinson, Welland
County, was set on fire on Monday by
sparks from a steam thresher and burn-
ed. Insurance $700.
—The Institute, at St. John, New
Brunswick, was filled to the doors the
other night to listen to the concluding
concert of a most successful season of
five nights by the Kennedys.
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Canada.
Hon. Edward Blake and family are
at Murray Bay.
—The Knights of Labor held a demon-
stration at Woodstock last Thursday.
—New potatoes are 7 cents a pound
in Fort Macleod, Northwest Territory.
—The Medical Superintendent of the
London hospital has been indefinitely
suspended.
—A proposition to run the street cars
by electricity is being favorably discuss-
ed in St. Thomas.
—The corner stone of the Brant me-
morial at Brantford was laid on Wednes-
day of last week.
—The St. Catharines City Council has
selected the site for a monument to the
deceased soldier Watson.
—Stratford's by-law for the Grand
Trunk Railway locomotive works was
carried by 868 majority.
—Mr. R. M. Orchard, of Brantford,
clothier, was robbed of $200 worth of
goods one night last week.
—Moutrealers propose to give a re-
ception to the Canadian artillery team
on their return from Shoeburyness.
—Mr. C. Macon, Reeve of Chatham
township, died suddenly on Tuesday
evening last week after 45 hours' illness.
—The crop bulletins of the Manitoba
Department of Agriculture estimate an
average yield of wheat of between 16'
and 17 bushels -to the acre.
—Mr. George R. Pattullo, Woodstock,
has been appointed registrar of the
county of Oxford, to succeed the late
Col. Ingersoll.
—The Ontario Grand Lodge of the
Independent Order of Oddfellows, now
in session in London, have decided to
meet in Peterboro next year.
—Mr. Gorman, of Renfrew, who is
said to be a victim of anti -Scott Act
spleen, offers $500 for the detection of
the persons who fired his premises.
—The Hindoo and French Salvation
Army representatives were in Wood-
stock and London last week. They are
making a tour of the various western
stations.
—A New Brunswick cow had throat
trouble for about three months. Her
owner had about concluded to kill her
discovered a darning needle in
t.
an named Cleaver, a helper,
himself which dragged into his prem-
ises the lower half of a human leg with
the flesh on all but the foot completely
gnawed away. He considers that the
guardians of the cemetery are to blame
for the fearful occurrence. An im-
mediate investigatiomwill be held.
—Seven cars of coal have been brought
to Winnipeg by Major Stewart from the
Canadian Anthracite Coal Company's
mines in the Rockies, and it is to be
tested shortly by the Canadian Pacific
railway. The grates of a locomotive are
beiug changed for the purpose of the ,
test.
—The postal authorities report that a
number of United States tourists and
visitors appear to he under the delusion
that because a United. States stamp will
bring a letter to Canada the same post-
age is good from here to the United
States. A number of letters have daily
to be sent to the dead letter office.
—Out of sixteen hundred and thirty
Canadian entries at the Colonial Ex-
hibition, Ontario has 580: Quebec, 400;
Nova Scotia, 220; New Brunswick, 120;
Manitoba, the orthwest and British
Columbia, 190, and Prince Edward
Island. 95. These are exclusive of the
Government exhibits.
—The cost of the embankment and
purchase of land required along the St.
Lawrence river to prevent future floods
is estimated by the Government Com-
mission of Engineers to be $120,000.
They advise the construction of a levee
on account of its simplicity, certainty of
effect and moderate cost.
—Last week at the Ontario Car Shops,
London, Alex Dugind was engaged in
loading car wheels on a cart, when the
horses became restive and started off,
throwing the heavy wheels on Dugind's
body. The unfortunate fellow was ter-
ribly crushed, and death was instantane-
ous. He was 60 years of age and leaves
a widow.
—Two cases of violation of the Scott
Act were tried at Petrolea on Thursday
'before Magistrate Campbell, of Wat-
ford. The charge against J. C. Wilson
of the Tecumseh House, was dismissed
with costs on the plaintiffs. The
charge against Wm. Tancock, of the
Petrolea House was sustained and he
was fined $50 and costs.
—Benjamin Casey, a switchman on
the Grand Trunk Railway, while in the
act of coupling cars on the track south
of the Union Station, Toronto, a few
days ago, had the thumb and forefinger
of the left hand mangled to a jelly. He
was taken into the station and the am-
bulance sent for, in which he was con-
veyed to the hospital.
—The Steamer Queen of the Pacific
was lying under the shutes taking on
her cargo of Vancouver coal at Nanaimo
when an explosion occurred, supposed
to be the result of the -ignition of the
coal dust. _ Fifteen men were horribly
burned; four have since died and four
others are in a very precarious state.
—The ladies of the Presbyterian con-
gregation of Glencoe, under the auspices
of the Women's Foreign Missionary
Society, have just completed a- large
parcel containing clothing, etc., as their
contribution to the supplies to be for-
warded to the mission-aries Of the church
among the inhabitants of the New Heb-
rides Islands in the far -away Pacific.
—A few days ago Mrs. Caldwell, of
'Shanty Bay, stamped on a rusty nail, a
part of which ran into her foot, causing
it to bleed slightly, and as the wound.
was only a slight one, but little atten-
tion was paid to it. The other day,
however, the foot became swollen and
very painful, and lockjaw set in,
resulting in the death of the sufferer.
—A report from the county of Simcoe
conveys the following alarming intelli-
gence : Mr, T. H. Lloyd, V. S., states
that hog cholera is spreading to an
alarming extent in Simcoe county.
Many of the farmers do not understand
what is the matter with the hogs, and
after the hogs are dead leave them lying
around, thus spreading the disease far
and near. One man has lost between 60
and 70 hogs.
—This year's business in Montreal
harbor shows an enormous increase over
former years. Since the opening of
navigation up to the lat inst. 42 more
ocean steamers have arrived than in the
corresponding period. of last year, while
the tonnage of vessels arriving shows an
increase of 56,000 tons. The number of
inland vessels arriving has increased by
286, arid the harbor tolls show an in-
crease of $16,700.
—On the 6th October next the Lieu-
tenant Governor will formally open the
grounds of the Ontario Central Agri-
cultural and Live Stock Association at.
Port Perry. This occasion will mark
the inauguration of the first annual fair
at which buyers are expected from the
United States, Manitoba and the North-
west. When completed the main build-
ing will, it is said, be the finest outside
of Toronto. The grounds contain 23
acres and into them runs a line of rail-
way which provides shipping facilities
to all parts of the country without trans-
fer.
—An accident of the most horrible
kind occurred on Monday of last week
at the new school house recently erected
on the 14th concession of Walsingharn,
north of Langton. A man named Ed-
ward Crandall has the plastering of the
building. On the day named above his
wife went down to where he was work-
ing and took their children along with
her. The little ones were allowed to
play around the place, and in pranking
about one of them, a child about 18
months old, fell into a box in which the
workmen were slaking lime. She was
pulled out at once, and medical aid sent
for, but nothing could be • done to save
the child's life. Both of its eyes were
burnt out, and the skin dropped from its
body in threads. It was a horrible
sight; indeed, the doctor says it was
one of the worst cases of the kind he has
ever seen since he began practising med-
icine, now many- years ago. The poor
little sufferer was literally flayed. alive.
Death put an end to its pain on Tuesday
morning.
—A couple of weeks ago Mrs. Wm.
Wilson, of Belmere, received by mail a
book which went down with the ill-fated
Oregon, and had been at the bottom of
the ocean about four months.
—An old lady, about 85 years of age
and childish, wandered away from her
home in Amabel Township, and was
searched for in vain. She was so feeble
that she could not walk -a mile in a day.
—A party of eight men were upset
out of a yacht in the middle of Hamil-
ton Bay the other evening. They all
managed to cling to the floating craft
until help arrived and they were rescued.
—The Indians around Birtle, Mani-
toba, are knocking the spots off the
white settlers of that locality in farm-
ing. The first barley and wheat of this
season were marketed by noble red men.
—Mr. P. Burns and the five others
accused of conspiring to defraud the
city of Toronto were brought up at the
Toronto Police Court Wednesday morn-
ing last week and remanded till the 18th
inst.
—A box of raspberries, all of which
were from 2i to 3 inches in circumfer-
ence, was recently.presented to the edi-
tor of the Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Times
by a lady in whose garden they had
grown.
—The Canadian Pacific Railway has
already received contracts for the trans-
port of 6,000 head of cattle from British
Columbia to Calgary. The cars have
been forwarded and ehipping will begin
at once.
—The barns, sheds, and driving -house
of Mr. Isaac Mayhem Athol, Prince
Edward, were burned Monday afternoon
together with their contents. Loss about
$4,000; insurance $2,000. Cause of fire
unknown.
—Rev. A. Stone fell dead on a ferry-
boat, Thursday, at Montreal. He was
70 years of age, and leaves a wife and
daughter. He was a Baptist minister,
but of late years had been principal of a
small college in Montreal.
—At the Parkhill entrance examina-
tion, in an answer to the question,
"Who was Sir Walter Scett ? on one
of the examination papers, a young
hopeful wrote: "A celebrated Scot-
tish novelist who was killed by Riel."
—Chinamen are rapidly buying up
the gold claims at Lambe Creek, British
Columbia: They employ only their own
countrymen, and it is feared that before
the season is over there will be trouble
between them and the white miners.
—James Atkinson, Drumbo, was
brought before Mr. 11. Parker, County
Magistrate of Oxford, at Woodstock on
Wednesday last week, charged by In-
spector McKay with violating the Scott
Act. He was fined $50 and costs.
—George S. Bean B. A., son of Mr.
Thomas Bean; of Bean,
Oxford
county, has been appointed mathemati-
cal and science master of the Peterboro
Collegiate Institute, at a salary of $900
for the first year, and $1,000 afterwards.
—A well dressed Windsor woman was
seen on the street there a few days ago
with the end of an unquestionable mas-
culine trousers leg dangling below her
skirts. The customs officer had missed
it, and her husband is doubtless now in
full possession. .
—J. G. Borndell, a German passenger
en route from Niagara to Hamilton,
Ohio, jumped from No. 3 Michigan Cen-
tral express while asleep, near Welland,
Thursday morning. The train was run-
ning 35 miles an hour. He escaped seri-
ous injury.
--A minister in Warkworth, county
of Northumberland, on a recent Sunday
morning dining prayer offered up the fol-
lowing "Lord bless our servant girls,
who are detained from joining in the
worship of Thee by the sleeping of their
masters and mistresses."
--It is said that all efforts to stamp
out the hog cholera which broke out in
Essex county last fall have been futile.
Just now it is raging in a very virulent
type in West Sandwich, and is killing -
hogs by hundreds. One farmer lost 23
last week, another 17, and another 13.
—Mr. J. C. Hughes, formerly of Pet-
erboro, has been appointed Indian agent
for the North-west coast of British. Col-
umbia. His headquarters will be at
Metlakatla, and the Indians of that
region, as well as of Queen Charlotte
Island, will be under his supervision.
—The race for first-class yachts in the
Royal Canadian yachts club's regatta
last Thursday, was very exciting. The
entries were the Atalanta, Eileen, Verve,
and Cygnet, winning in the order named.
The Atalanta is now conceded to be the
fastest boat on Lake Ontario, having
won three successive races.
—the fruit buyers stationed along the
New Brunswick railway expect to pay•
$4,000 this year for blueberries picked
along the line. Of these berries about
100 bushels have already been shipped
to Boston, but on account of the abun-
dant crop in New England the profit
realized has been small.
—A respected and reliable resident in
the vicinity of the Catholic cemetery on
the Montreal road near Ottawa, tells a
shocking story. He alleges that.for
some time past a number of dogs have
been scratching at the graves in which
paupers are buried in the cemetery, and
that they succeeded in uncovering some
recently buried bodies, which they have
gnawed and dragged to pieces over the
adjacent grounds. He 'declares that he
when he
her thro
—A
working at the Patterson works, Wood-
stock, had a leg broken on Wednesday
afternoon by a piece of timber falling
upon it.
—The oatmeal millers of the Province
have formed themselves into an associa-
tion, with Mr. W. Thomson, of Mitchell,
as president, and Mr. D. R. Ross, of
Embro, as secretary.
—Miss Balmer, B. A., gold medalist
of Toronto University with a most dis-
tinguished record, has accepted a po-
sition upon the staff of the Brantford
Young Ladies' College.
—A horse attached to one of P. Burns'
coal carts became frightened at the vvhis-
ties of the ferries while on Yonge street
wharf, Toronto, last Thursday and back-
ed into the bay and was drowned.
—A very dangerous counterfeit $5
bill on the Bank of Commerce is in cir-
culation. The paper is of inferior qual-
ity, and it will be noticed on close ex-
amination that the portrait of the Queen has just had to shoot a dog belonging to