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The Huron Expositor, 1894-07-13, Page 118ft. 1Y 6th, 1894, ith we will offer - ,s WRWEAR D GLOVES. ORED SILKS - )ERIES )NS NGS pis JNERY. 53-S :S dES AINES. ETS INS CIRN1SIII NUS. ,McFau1,, 1TH. se intends to vend vin Davidson spent —Miss Jessie Covean in Atwood at pees- ssed off very quietly are seekers going to 'r` ea. th and wife, of Lon- ast week under the rden party held on hist week, on Mr. was a success. Be- shinents„ speeches, , and all seemed to s bricks have arrived fences, and the brick- sark at once.—Mrs. ing her sister, Mrs. p.—Will Matheson Sunday in Bluevale. Tiverton, spent Tues- -W. K. Whaley, of a-, spent a fen, days esters tureed out en Mon in Brussels. taety. farmers in this vicind e bat the majority ext week before they lora who is " in the e, erecting hayforks. ehe London Hospital, typhoid fever,—Resa isall, preached in the ee last Sunday even- ed people attended londaye—Rev. Peter pulpet occupied by aall, was seized with B. It is expected ha Doig, who he farm cd Mr. W. plete sawing outfit, earlier in the sea- t great deal: more to ers a.round have used Gardiaer has t , cancession 14, Gardiner, widow Gardiner, to Mr. wns the adjoinin ins 90 acres, an is a. good farm and y. Mr. Hamilton his purchase. ,—Ailother of those oh have beconie so ig folks, took place - 4th concession, on ng people gathered. in the afternoon, t time in foot ball, her games. As the term' violinist, Mr. appearance, and, an, furnished , such even those who over such gaieties, r, and sh.owed how their young days. hutch, dancingj was dispersing for their the following could t such a. pleasant sh the ist of July the other gathering 4 tcaue—Which was en years ago, was gua McLeod's busht sed of about fifty tames of the dis- was all that could themselves to the spent in youthful which all joined the time being, etiquette and the - Ines characterises mai was this the or friends who, on to be embarrassed f the gentler sex, impartment, might , contending with 'uvigorating sports not the first of a. cure for bachelor seen ; but to a esults, they appear rd. In the even-, house, where they ertained by Mr. and le programme hass- le a _hours were g to and taking s„ readiugs, eecita- - particularly enioy- diegs was the ren- citatioes by Misa 9 or 10 years of '• Dionne ohnston, evidence of the received in the art al ability she pos- nt throughout was redit to those who e a committee of as chosen to ea- ' icnie. They were r numbenand were each choose a per - other such occa- --TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 1,387. a, • dd. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1894. ittir+ McLEAN BROS., Pu.blishere. $1..50 a Year in Advance. Lir July Sale - The average merchant has a dread of July and August. They are natur- ally dull months, with nothing to re- deeni except one wants a rest or change of scene. Our July prices will put lifeinto this month for Ili. Al -i roost everybody is glad to save money whenithe chance offers itself like this. ye dm invited to the store to judge for yourself how cheap the goods are go- ing. Here's a few of our 'vices. NECKWEAR eke Neckwear in 4 -in -hands, knots, etc., now 30c. 25c Neckwear in 4 -in -hands, bows, etc., now 10c. HOSIERY Men's Llama wool, blacks cashmere and fancy cotton, former prices 35c a pair, now 20ne BRACES Sateen suspenders were 50c now 25c SHIRTS Oxford shirts, collars and cuffs at- tached, were $1 and $1.25, now 80c Flannel shirts, collars and cuffs at- tached, were $1 and $1.25, now 60e . Madras shirts, starched collars and. cuffs, were $1,50 and $1.25, now $1 UNDERWEAR Cotton shirts and drawers were 50c each, now 35c. Balbrigan shirts and drawers were $1.50 a suit, now $1. Natural wool shirts and drawers were $2 a suit, now $1.45. ORDERED CLOTHING In this department we are offering the closest prices ever quoted for fine goods and first class work. Onr stock represents the newest in . the trade. While we,quote the above we have many other odd lines that will be If closed out at score ina prices. At these prices goods wi I be sold for cash only, and if charged we will charge - full or regular prices. 0 We are Leade s in Our Line. , Jackson & Creig, THE LEADp'G GLOTHI,ERS, SEAFORTH. THE WORST STRIKE ON RECORD. Terrible Scenes in Chicago. able freight and the inconveniente to the grouuds, the ashes of 40 cars are now travelling public has been well-nigh- unen- durable. For the first few days the strikers refrained from violende, but tampering with the tracks and assaults on boycotted trains have been increasing. Upon the apPlication of the railroad managers-, the Attorney - General of the United States appointed a prominent lawyer at Chicago to assist in en- forcing the laws relating to the protection of the mails and Inter -State comtneree. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF PROPERTY DESTROYED. SEVERAL LIVES SACRIFICED. CHICAGO THE CENTRE OF THE DISTURBANCE. The millicra and a half Of peOple residing in Chicago arose from their beds Saturday morning with feelings of anxious expect- ancy, for the occurrenedes of the past 24 hours can only be likened to those of the Commune. Anarchy and violence were rampant. T-housands of . angry men and shrieking women:made reekless by seeming immunity from punishment, gathered quick- ly at a nor of points several miles apart, and whiletsquads of regulars held at bay the vociferous and cursing swarms of law break- ers at one point, another mob was engaged in the work of pillage at another point out of sight of the guards. The weirdness of the scene was intensified 'all night by the' glare from the. tremendous conflagration raging among the great White palaces of the World's Fair, where Saturday morning's sun revealed a desolate picture. Jackson Park is a broad expellee of smouldering; blackened. ruins and twisted shapes of iron. Railroad yards all over the southern hadf of the city are blocked here and there by wrecked and overturned cars. Tracks are rendered impassable by spiked frogs and switches ; signal and .switch towers stand deserted by their -tenders through fear of violence at the hands of 'riotous mobs. Com- merce is paralyzed, and while thoasands are hungry, tons of choice meats and other luxuries are rotting in cars for want of ice to preserve and motive power to haul them to their destination. The grim spectre of war hovers over all. Back and forth pace the uniformed regulars, the sun glancing from their gleaining baYonets. Hither and thither flit squads of cavalry; and at various vantage points are placed the artillery, their gaping mouths. seeming hungry for victims. The excellent discipline of the troops has thus far prevented the necessity of taking a single life, but to the end that traffic may again be set moving more suinmary measures seem to be imperatively demanded. A TERRIBLE DAY AT CHICAGO. Saturday last at Chicago was one of con- stant adarms and calling for police, deputy marshals, and -soldiers, here, there, and everywhere throughout the wholeetretch of territery in the southern:part of the city. Riot has-been running rampant throughout the day. . Cars.- have been overturned, switches broken, tracks obstructed, the torch has been applied in numerous in- stances to cars, switch towers, and the like, not to mention an attempt to fire a part of the great Armoar packing plant. k feet, at one time the incendiary blazes followed each other in such qnick succession, that the fire department were put ,to straits to care for all of them. To add to the gravity of the situation it was found that .the strikers were interfering with the police, railroad, and fire alarm telegraph systems, and in ene or two instances policemen when using the telephone calls .were stoned. k general the order of things, compared with that of. yesterday, is reversed. Then t e railroads weretrying to break the blockade by_ sendine trains. To -day they recognized the futilitY of that method of procedure, and practically gave up any attempt at out- ward movement. But there were- some in- cornine passenger trains on several of the roads7together with a few of the regular milk. trains. Betsveen these two classes of traffic the strikers n-iana.ged to make trouble for nearly every road running in a southerly dieection. • The trick of frightening a crew from a train, cutting the engine loose, running it up the track, opening the throttle, „ and let- ting it run full tilt back upon the - standing train, was a new one, and of a character not likely to.be imitated. The, stoning of in- comiug trains was a -common pastime of the mobs,. and several persons were more or less injured by the flying missiles. The most disastrous strike on record is new in progress in the United States. As a local struggle at Pullman it began on May 6th On that date about 4,000 workmen, chiefly skilled mechanics, quit work because the company refused to restore the wages of a year ago. On December 1st they had sub- mitted tca a reduction ranging generally, it appears, from 15 to 25 per cent. The com- pany claimed that during the winter it had done much of its business at a loss and had taken unprofitable contracts merely to keep the men at work. The men refused to be- lieve this, and pointed, first, to the ' un- changed rates for Pullman service despite the great .econamiea effected of late years -in the manufacture of cars, and, second, to the unchanged 8 per cent. dividends upon the large capitalization of the company. There were minor troubles relating to rents, gas - rates, water -rates, etc., the men claiming that the government of the town of Pullman was a despotism, and the company that it was in. a large measure a philanthrophy. While this strike was going on, the Ameri- can Railway Union with an accredited membership.of 130,00'0 men, met in conven- tion at Chicago. The delegates to this con- vention instinctively sympathized with the Pullman strikers, and ordered an investiga- tion of their grievances and of the best means of redress. The result was the de- cision of the Union to boycott all Pullman cars unless the company would submit the ease to arbitration. This the company re- fused to do, but issued instead a public statement of its elaims, ending with the declaration that the question the men asked for arbitration upon was simply " whether or not it shall open its manufacturing shops at Pullman and operate them under a scale of wages which would cause a daily loss to it of one-fourth the wages paid." 'Were this the tenth, it would seem that the company would have lost nothing and gained every- thing by submitting the case to arbitration. The men believed it untrue, and the boycott was ordered. smouldering . and -word has' inst come in that after numerous efforts the mob has sac- ceeded in firing the Illinois Central shops at Barnsidei At the I stock yards to -night about 50 roughs, few of whom are railroad men, are skulking from.point to point, a.h.d have set a large number of fires. Their method was thoroughly unique.- Loading several handcars with buckets of ." waste " and oil, they would glide around the cars in the darkness, lighting wads of the inflammable stuff, which would be throWn into the open doors of the oars as they Paesed by them. Fires sprung up on every hand, and no ois ganized eftort on the part of the. police seemed to be under way to intercept them. This is the banner_ district of the city, if not of the entire country, foe all-round roughs: IMMENSE DESTRUCTION. Troops ate hurrying south,- company after company, in heavy marching order; moving tathe turbulent disteict from the centre of the city. The aggregate of. the losses.to the railroads will be enormous. Miles of their tracks will he ruined bei the fierce heat, and hundreds pf switch and signal towers, with their expensive mechanises, will be utterly ruined. Thousands of cars and untold. quantities of merehandise of every imaginable description have fed the flames and gorged the larders of thieves ; stainable locomotives have been wrecked and disabled, while miles of tangled wires and private poles litter the ground. Tele- graph, telephone, electrie light, and fire alarm wires are now the especial object of attack, the *plugging of fire -alarm boxes constituting a new and doubly dangerous element in the tremendous wave of ih- cendiarisin now sweeping over the smith - west portion of the city, preventing, as it does, notice being received of the starting of fires until, with thepoor .water supply in these_outlying districts, a fire has attained such headway that it cannot be stopped ex- cept through lack of further material on which to feed. METHODS OF THE COMMUNE. The maddened mobs, now worked ep to the highest pitch of fury, are paralleling the scenes of the Commune, and at this hour it appears at though nothing short of the miraculous can prevent an armed demon- stration against thein and the sacrifice of many lives. FIRING DN THE MOE. The assaults of the mob, however, were not met with the passive resistance which characterized the comae pursued yesterdaY. On two occasions; , at least, their attacks were met with accurately aimed lead. Dur- ing a riot in the forenoon over an incoming milk train at Kensington, a Deputy United States Marshal shot and killed two strikers, and during the afternoon the deputies guarding an incoming B. & 0 . passenger train, replied to the volley of shots and stones which the strikers showered upon them by turning their revolvers loose, kill- ing four of their assailants, and wounding a number of others. With this ordering of the boycott the situation changed in every conceivable way. Instead of a private conflict, it became a public confliet ; instead of a local conflict, it became a National conflict ; instead of a e conflict in which the men were demanding the verdict of impartial arbitrators, it be- came a conflict in which the decision of every impartial arbitrator would have been . against them., The order to the members of the American'Railway Union to refuse to handle in any way Pullman cars was an or- der to nearly all the railways of the Central and Western States to join in the boycott of the Pullinans, under penalty of a tie-up. The general managers of all -the roads meet- . ing at Chicago, acted together in rejectine this preposteraus demand. Immediately the threatened peualty was inflicted. It was at 9 o'clock on Tuesday evening that the boy- cott beean at the Chicago depot of the Illi- nois Central ; before morning six of the fifteen roads meeting at Chicago were tied UP. Nearly every day since has added to the list of roads on which traffic has been suspended. The American Railway Union is strongest in the region. between the Mis- soari River and the Pacific. Accordingly, it is in. that territory that the, tie-up has been most complete. The reatest hard - • s To illustrate the tactics resorted to by the incendiaries to hamper the work of the fire department, empty. cartridges were forced into the keyholes of the fire Alarm boxes, firemen were knocked dowir with Stones and bricks, and, while working at the fires, the horses -of the department were stolen. At midnight all the cars in the yards had been destroyed. . The mob showed much method in its work, and hundreds of cars. were rifled and the contents carried away before the torch was applied. The loss in this yard to -night is estimated at $1,200i000. ACTIVE HOSTILITIES. On Sunday morning a fight took place at the intersection of '49th etreet and the Grand Trunk tracks, a locality which has always had an evil name. Serious trouble was ex- pected here early Saturday morning. Be- fore 9 o'clock in the morning the strikers had. made threats of burning the Grand Trunk round -house. Aid was asked from the authoritiese and Company C. of the Sec- ond Infantry, 38 strong, commanded by Captain Kelly, were hurried to the spot. The militia was. reinforced by a number of deputies, and the mob was pressed back from the round -house. The mob gathered "again at 50th street, and began to turn over freight cars and tear uia the tracks. A squad of police; mider Lieut. iDuffy, attack- ed the mob and several shots were fired on both sides, 'but nobody was -injured. The mob then went back once more to 65th INCENDIARIES AT WORK. . With flaming torch, lawless hordes .of firebugs are at work at a score of points in the southern half of Chicago, Fires are raging in every direction among the numer- ous railroad yards; and hundreda of o cars and tens of thousands of 'dollars' worth of merchandise have already gone up in smoke, or been carried off by the now frenzied mob. keendiariem is rampant. Alarm after alarm has followed in quick succession, and to -night at 11 o'clock the glare reflected from the heavens shows that the dastardly pastime continues unabated. From early morning until this hour (midnight) reports of fresh outrages and fires • How each other k with startling rapidity, bei dtonfined, how- ever,principally to railroad r ling stock and buildings. Early Saturday morning a blaze started among some overturned cars at Ken- sington, and quickly communicated to other tracks filled with long lines of cars, many containing valuable merchandise, all of which were soon blazing, furiously: Fanned by strong winds, there were at that point a total of 80 cars wiped out. At the stook yards one blaze after another was reported, and from the outlying districts came urgent calls for police protection, increasing in fre- quency. THOUSANDS OF CARS IN mamas. But with the 'falling shadows of night came the climax ef the fiery festival. The Pan -Handle yarde from 55th ta 63rd streets, eight blocks, are a mass of fire. Ten eracks, containing from a thousand to two thousand cars, half of them loaded, will be a total loss. No water being at hand, the fire must burn itself out. The Pan -Handle station at 63rd street was also fired and deo stroyed. The Grand Trimk yards at Elston are a sea of flames. Five hundred box cars are supposed to have . been burned, and efforts to check the flames have been futile. The flan shanties and other -railroad proper- ty are atlse burning, and no water, except one stream front a plug at 51st street, can be obtained. While directing the move- ment of the Ilth Reghnentrat this point, Fire Marshal Fitepatrick ras seized by the thoroughly frenzied mobs of firebugs and thrown into a pond, from which he was street, and, while a portion of the crowd, which by this time was fully 8,000 strong, occupied the militia and the deputies,others ran freight care into the pit of a turn -table and made the machine useless. Superin- tendent Atwater and Yardmaster • McKee; of the Grand Trenk; with a gang of 'men, set to work to remove the obstruction,while the mob, which had now grown to be very ugly, stood around howling and hooting,and occasionally letting fly a stone at the sol- diers. . the' city: They looked as though • they had present railway strike was precipitated by Legislature to the post vaeated by Mr. been through a battle when they disembark- the desire of the railway eorporations to de- Ryan, and Mr. S. T. Bastedo, for many ed at Dearborn station. Their uniforms . stroy the Organizations of their employes, years private secretary to Sir Oliver Mowat, were torn, hats gone, they were covered with and make the working people moee sub- has taken et . Preston's place. Mr. D. E. dust and dirt, and many of them had, been , servient to the will of their employers, and, Cameron, , eputy Provincial Treasurer, formerly of ucknow, has resigned and will remove to New York to accept a position with the 'Atutual Reserve. Fund Life As- saoycieaatrio. n at: a salary of from $0,000 to $6,000 badly bruised by flying stones. AT LEAST A DOZEN KILLED. a " I believe," said Supt. Atwater, " that at least a dozen of the men 'were killed. I saw men strewn all over the tracks, and they were dead men, too. The mob were not far away when we began to fire, and for about three minutes the militia the depu- ties, and the policemen, who 'fought like devils were simply pouring lead into the crowd', We were close enough, and the mob was big enough, and I didn't think many bullets went -wide. There were more killed than we will ever know about." The statements of Supt. Atwater as to the number of men shot down are upheld by militiamen and by the deputies, many men declaring that they had seen the strikers carting away men who were either dead or wounded. The injured men whose names are given were brought to the city by the police, and placed in the hospital. The report of the fight occasioned great excitement at army headquarters, and the request of Police Inspector Hunt that sev- eral companiee of regulars and a Gaffing gun be sent out to the scene added to the feeding. The mob became quiet at evening, however, and the regulars and artillery Were held at the depot all night. ATTACKING THE POLICE. As• the train with the militia on board moved off, fully 20,000 people crowded about the handful of police left behind, hurling stones and iron in their mad as- sault. The men drew their revolvers, and, backing up against each other prepared for a desperate battle. The crowd halted for a moment, and Officer Ryan, breaking through the crowd, hurried to a patriel 'box, and called the patrol wagon. Lieut. Kehler and twelve men responded, but in the mean- time thecrowd had closed up again on the now retreating police, following them with a volley of stones. The work that had been done by the wrecking party was attacked as the police retreated. A car was set on fire, the switch close by broken, and the rails torn up. An alarm of fire was sent in, and with it a second call for police assist- ance, to which Capt. O'Neil and thirteen men replied. The condition of things was now extremely critical. Loomis, the heart of the Anarchist settlement, was crowded by a howling shrieking mob. The patrol horses were urged through it, thescrowd sul- lenly parting. Without flinching they club- bed their way through to their fellows, and then all started back against the crowd. At the sight of the reinforcement, the crowd fell back. Eaph officer thought his life was in danger, and without any order they raised their weapons, and fired as fast as possible directly into the crowd, which wavered, and then beat a retreat, twat re- plying to an unexpected rain of shot with a shower of stones. As they retreated, leav- ing several on tbe ground, the police fol- lowed with clubs, showing no mercy. At every step they knocked a man down, ' and as they advanced the crowd showered stones on them like hail. Rushing into near -by saloons, the mob barricaded the doors and made a stand, but were driven out through windows and back -doors -like rats, clubs d.e- scending on their heads at every jump. Windows in the houses adjoining were sud- denly thrown open and a volley of shot was poured into the police, who returned the tire, and the mob finally scattered into al- leys and side streets, ending the pursuit. A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER. , This condition of affairs prevailed for two or three hours, the enilitia behaving with excellent spirit and. ihowing good discipline. Finally the mob, encouraged by the fact that the troops did not fire, began active hostilities—a crowd of men pushed a freight car from the siding on to the track where the train which had brought the militia to the scene.was standing, with the evident in--. tention of . blecking thte track so that the militia would -have no line of retreat. Cap- tain Kelly conferred with Supt. Atwater, and concluded that it was impracticable to clear the track, and that, as the mob was growing wilder every moment, the best thing to do was to leave the place before the strikers proceeded to :such. extremities as would necessitate him opening fire upon them. He accordingly .detailed one-half of his company to move the car which blocked the track on which the train was standing, and with the remainder -held back the crowd, whieh began to press closer and closer ae it saw signs of the troops making a retreat. He drew his men back slowly,, several times -turning them to confront the crowd when it canentoo close. Again and again the tnob, shouting, howling, and,using the vilest lan- guage, Made a rush, but every time Captain Kelly met them steadily with his men, and the crowd paused before the threatening rifles. Finally the roughs at the -front of. the mob made a rush at Yardmaster McKee, one of them flourishing a revolver. McKee drew his = own revolver and fired, but the bullet flew wide. The strikers, by this time were.fairly wild, and bricks, stones, chunits of coal, and coupling -pins raiaed around the troops. Lieut. Reed was struck twice on the head in quick succession by the stones, and fell to the ground like a dead man. Capt. Kelly concluded the time had come. Wheeling his men quickly, he gave the word to charge, and the handful of militiamen sprang forward with levelled bayonets. John Burke was standing in the front of the mob, throwing coal ae fast as he could use his arms. One of the soldiers in the charge plunged his bayonet clear through his body, the point coming out at the back. Burke went down like a log and died in a few minutes. The mob broke be- fore the charge, but quickly rallied, and after a short pause came on again, sending a pattering of revolver bullets before it. The troops, the deputies, •and the police waited for no orders, but their rifles came to a level, revolvers were drawn, and a storm of leaden death swept into,. the Mob. Men fell right and left, but the militia, deputies, and the police pressed forward' rapidly, driving the crowd before them in shins were probably occasionec to travelers rescued by the police more dead than alive. the wildest confusion. It was all over de crassing the plains, but everywhere where Everything at this point will probably be a theee minutes and the militia 'marched inta the strike has extended, the losses on perish- total less. At 'Hyde Park, near the Fair the train, and' with the deputies returned to as all students of government agree that free institutions depend for the perpetuity of their freedom on the prosperity of the common, people, it would seem more in con- eonance with the, spirit of Democratic Gov- ernment, if Federal authority were exer- cised in the defenee of the rights of the toil- ing masses to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But, on the conteary, there is not an instance on record where in any conflict between the corporations -* and the people the strong arm of military pewee has been employed to protect the working peo- ple and the industrial masses from the rav- age and persecution of corporation greed. The measure of character has been in the line of declaring the corporations always good and in the ri.ght, and the working peo- ple always bad and in the wrong.' CARS- BURNED. The number of cars on the Pan Handle road between 55th and 63rd streets de- stroyed by fire on Friday night is estimated to have been from 1,200 to 1,500. The total loss is said to be not less than $1;000,000. MILES OF TRACK DESTROYED. estimated that besides the loss of roiling stock at least ten or twelve miles of track is ruined. At 55th Boulevard there are five tracks. The yard branches' out there in fardshape, and at the south end it is about twenty tracks wide. All the rails on which burning cars stood are ruined, and on many of the tracks the ties are entirely burned. It is impossible now" to place any value on the freight destroyed by the fire. Whole coal trains had been side-tracked in the yard, and they were entirely de- stroyed. THE LATEST. Peace, but not contentment, once more reigns. The military have cowed the strikers into submission. Mr. Debs has been arrested for conspiracy and the order of Master Workman Sovereign for a general strike has been disregarded by the Working men's Associations, and. trains are again commencing to run regularly. • Canada. Clarence Middleton, aged 6, was killed last week near Wheatley, Ontarioeby a load of logs upsetting on him. —Near Glencoe, on Stmday, a seven-year- old son of Mr. John Thompson of Avondale Park, was killed by a kick from a horse. —R. G. Dunn & Company report thirty- four failures in Canada the past week, against twenty-three in the corresponding week last year. — A Chatham boy is capturing sparrows around the gas -works there with a brick deadfall. Already he has captured nearly 1,000. — The first parade of Orangemen in Mont real since the famous Hackett riot of 1877 took place on Sunday. The procession was not molested in any way. i —Sir John Thompson and family, will spend the summer at " Sans Souci, the summer house of Senator Sanford. on Lake Rousseau, Muskoka. —The Intercolonial conference held at Ot- tawa, has approved the project for an all - British cable between Canada and Aus- tralia: -dThe new telegranh cable between Canso, Nova Scotia, and Waterville, Ireland, was completed on Wednesday of last week. Jt is the speediest cable yet laid. —Voting took place in Brantford, list week, on a by-law proposing the expendi- ttuorie5o6f. $5! ,545,00, in order to prevent river overflows.! It was carried by a vote of 361 —While W. Lowe, a farmer living On the Paris road, near Brantford, and his family were away on Monday of last week, a bur- glar entered the house and secured $75 in cash and a revolver. —W. Jackson, who claims to be a farm laborer, was. committed for trial last week, at Brantford, on the charge of stealing an opal pin valued at $100, and other articles, from an English farm student. . —At the nomination in Belleville to fill the seat made vacant by.the resignation of II. Corby, he was returned by acclamation to represent West Hastings in the Dominion Parliament. —Nellie Nash, a. young girl who lives with her mother at 29 Henry street, Toron to, walked through thewinclow. of her bed- room in the second storeY of the house the other evening while in a state of .son-niambul- ism. She fell a distance of 18 feet, but es- caped without serious injury. —A fatal accident occurred at a barn raising a few miles north of Shelburne last week, by which Mr. Hugh Polley, an old • and respected resident of islelanchton, lost his life. He fell feom the building and frac- tured hie skull, only living for a short time after the fall. —Mr; R. W. P. Matthews, of Toronto-, defeated. Mr. H. E. Avery, of Detroit, at Ottawas on Saturday, and won the Canadian lawn tennis championship. Miss Oiberne, of Stutton, defeated Mrs. Whitehead; of Brantford, and retained the ladies' cham- pionship. —A tarantula was killed in the city en- gineer'a office, in London. on Saturday. It as said that it wandered in after a building permit, the late cold spell haying made the pack' g boxes in the vicinity of the banana ii-) wareh uses uncomfortable. —I requires four Grand Trunk express trains'to accommodate the rush of people to the Muskoka region, and the northern lake resorta. That delightfully picturesque sec- tion of Ontario is growing more popular every; season. —The trial of S. H. Laird, at Kincardine, on a, Charge of murdering S. H. Matheson has shown conclusively that there was noth- ing Whatever to implicate Mr. Laird, except remarks uttered by himself in a jest. It is not known that Matheson is really dead. —The feat was accomplished recently of conversing with New York city from Lon- don over the new metallic circuit just com- pleted by the Bell Telephone Company. The voice at New York, nearly 400 miles away, could be heard with perfect distinct- ness. —In the British Columbia Provincial elec- tions on Saturday, Vancouver Island re- turned fourteen solid Government candi- dates. Vancouver and New Westminster cities, and the four electoral districts on the lower mainland returned eight straight Op- position candidates. The interior elections will take place this week. —Itis understood that Mr. Petere Ryan, registrar for Toronto, has handed in his redignation, accompanied by a letter, set- ting forth that , the fees from the position were much less thaa the sum he could make by following an avoeation more congenial to his tastes. Besides, so long as he was in the einploy of the Government he was depriv,ed, of the opportsmity of participating in politie cal discussions, and had perforce to submitd to the abuse of the Conservative presa, awl; he, therefore, asked that his resignation be ' e ted Mr W T. R. Preston haS been " LIKE A BATTLE FIELD. The ground over which the fight took place was like a battle field. The men shot by the troops and police lay about like dogs. Hats knocked off and coats thrown off to lessen weight in the flight were scattered about, while on the Loomis street crosaing, where the eight police officers had mad.e their stand; were fully 500 large stones that had been thrown by the mob. 'In all 41 people shot and bayonetted were taken to the drug store at the corner of 48th and Loomis streets. There a field hospital was improvisedeand the wounds of the last hurt were dressed. WHAT PRESIDENT DEBS SAYS. President Debs, of the American Railway Union, and Mr. Sovereign, of the Knights of Labor, sent a message to President Cleve- land protesting against the use that was be- ing made by the United States troops. In' this address. they say : Through a long period of depression, enforced idleness, and low wages, resulting in widespread poverty and in many casea actual starvation, the working people have been patient, patriotic, and law abiding, and not until the iron heel of corporate tyranny -was applied with the intention to subjugate the working people to tlie,will of arrogant monopolies did 'they make any effort to stay their oppressors. • The Pullman etrike was not declared until the employes of thee Pullman Company were driven to the verge of starvation, their en- treaties spurned with contempt, and thiir grievances denied a hearing. No refusal to handle Pullman cars was declared by any railway employe until all propositions look- ing towards arbitration and conciliation were rejected by the Pullman Company. Notwithstanding the facts set forth above were known to the public and the Federal authorities, you have seen fit, under the guise of protecting the mails and Federal property, to invoke the service of the United States army, whose very presence is used to coerce and intimidate peaceable working,people into a. humiliating obedience to the will of their oppressors. —Mr. James Lutman, assistant relief in- spector at Tondon, clubbed to death an ap- plicant for relief in the inspector's office the other day. The caller was in the shape of a large tarantula that had strolled in from a nearby fralit store. Mr. Littman had a regular war dance after the animal. It measured about three inches across. —While , working in his uncle's woolen_ mills at Cambeilford, Fred Weir, aged 13, was caught in the belting which runs the threading machine and killed instantly. The body was horribly mutilated, his skull cap being tom off, and the brains scattered, one leg torn from the body and the other leg and one arra broken. - . - —Several graduates of Teronto Univer- sity will staidy abroad. They are : Messrs. II. P. Biggar, B. A. of Belleville, who goes to Oalord; G. H. Levy=, B.A. of Hamilton, who goes to Bonn, and. S. M. iVickett.B.A., of Toronto, who goes to Berlin and Vienna. All three obtained first-class honors in poli- tical economy and finance. —S. WaShington, a colored youth, in the employ of, Messrs. Brown Brothers, of Welland, enriched himself in an ingenious but unfortunate manner the other day. Going to the senior member of the firm he stated thaethe junior partner had sent him for $10 in silver. Securing this he started for Buffalo, but was arrested at Fort Erie and taken to gaol to be held for trial. —Emigration to Canada throngli British ports declined 61 per cent. during the month of June as compared with the sarne period of last year, the figures for June, 1893, being 7,244, and for June 1894, 2,tM. Emigration to the United Stat;s durmg the same period declined 43 per eent. Emigra- tion to Can da for the past six months de- i„ dined 62 r cent. —Sir m Vanhorne President of the Canadian Vacific, Lord Mount Stephen, Sir Donald Smith, Sir John McNeil and Mr. John W. Sterling of New -York, left Mon- treal last Thursday evening on the special cars "Metapedia" and "Saskatchewan" for the Pacifie coast via. Minneapolis. The party will -be absent 15 days and will make a careful inspection of the road. —George R. Hogaboom died last Friday morning of pneumonia at his residence, Widmer Road, Toronto. On Monday he went to the Hamilton ewes and there con- tracted a Cold •that ended fataily. He was born. at Sharon, York county, 55 years age, and for many years was clerk of the Division Court at Newmarket. In Toronto - he was well-known as a successful speculator. —Mr. Oatrick Tynan, an. old pensioner, drew his usual pension envelope at a Lon- don bankS the other day, and onapening it in the street a few minutes later said he found -it Silt5 short. The paying teller told him he Nyasa given the proper a -mount, but as Mr. Tynan is willing to take oath that he spoke to do one between receiving and open- ing the envelope, he is very much perplexed. He can ill afford the loss. —Olivier Giguere, of Montreal, aged seventeen years, is a disciple of pernicious literature. On. Thursday, last week, he broke into his father's residence 29 Rolland street, Montreal, and stole $1240 from a trunk. He wits arrested in a saloon at St. Henri Ninth $131 of the spoils left, and a revolver !and watch. Giguere was sent to the St. -Vincent de Paul penitentiary for three years. —A ceroner's jury has decided that David. Crawford, the young Blanchard far- mer wile met his death on. the Grand Trunk railway track near Granton, was a victim of an accident and did not suicide as was first reported, because of some disappointment in love. The latter phase of the affair, it is said, was greatly exaggerated. Crawford was of . a cheerful disposition, and it is thoughtimpossible that he would take his own rif ed; —Mra J. Gotham, of Morris, Manitoba, one of the best known and wealthiest farm- ers in the Red River Valley, and mayor of the town, was the victim. of a gun accident last week which may prove fatal. In _pull- ing a gun from under the bed the trigger caught, and discharged the contents in his abdomen. That is the story as given out, but there are reports, however, that the discharge was not entirely accidental. Mr. Collum is still living, and doing fairly well, but it is doubtful if he will recover. By your acts, in so far as you have sup- planted civil and State authorities with the Federal military power, the spirit of unrest and distrust has so far been augmented that deeptneated conviction is fast becoming prevalent that this Government is soon to be declared a, .military despotism. . The transmission of the Undted States mails is not interrupted by the striking employes of anyerailway company, but by the railway corporations themselves, who refuse to haul the mails on trains to which Pullman cars were not attached. If it is a criminal in- terference with the United States mails for the employes of a railway company to de- tach from a mail train a iPullman palace car, contrary to the will 4 the company, then it holds true that it is the same, crim- inal interference whenever a Pullman palace car is detached from a mail train in accord- ance with the will of a railway company while United States mail is in transit. The line of criminality in such case should not be drawn at the willingness or unwilling- ness of railway employes, but at the fact it- self, and inasmuch as it has been the com- mon pracMce of railway corporations to at- tach and detach from anal trains Pullman palace cars at will while said trains are in traimit and carrying the mails of the United States, it would seem an act of discrimina- tion against the employes of the railway corporations to declare such acts unlawful interference with the transmission' of the mails when done by employes with or with - Green caught him round the waist ancl Cockburn tried in this way to bring him to the surface. As they got to the top, how- ever, Green's hold relaxed and Cockburn was himself so exhausted that he would have been drowned but for the arrival of as- sista,nce from the Yacht Club. —Mr. J. T Johnston's big suit against the Consumers' Gas Company of Toronto, will be tried. on September llth. Superintendent Pearson in his examination before Justice Street testified that the assets of the com- pany amounted to $2,900,000, and the capital stock $1, 600,000. Mr. Johnston's solicitor unsuccessfully endeavored to obtain an injunction, restraining the Company from misapplying any more profits by investing in plant, as he alleges has hitherto 'been the - case. If Mr. Johnston succeeds in his suit, the citizena will reap a benefit of at least $500,000. —Miss Muriel Stephensoe daughter of Mr. Russel -Stephenson, late Aanager of tlae Trust and Loan Company, Montreal, and. niece of Lady Dufferin, acted as one of the bridesmaids at the recent marriage of Laxly Victoria Blackwood to the Hon. W. Plunkett, at the British Embassy at Paris. Miss Stephenson, as well as Lady Victoria Plunkett, is aCanadian by birth, the bride having been born at Rideau Hall, Ottawa, during Lord Dufferin's term of. office. Among the numerous presents was a cheque for £11,000, presented by the uncle of the bridegoom, Lord Iveagh. —Until Thursday Of last week, there were three islands in the channel of Stoney Lake, about half a mile from Lakefield. On Tuesday a miniature cyclone passed over that section. The storm 'mast have weak- ened the foundations of the center eef the three islands referred to, for the island. was observed by the villagers to bealowly but surely moving toward the shore, and to the astonishment of all it 'presently moored it- self about 40 or 50 yard.s from the wharf. The island is composed of seemingly solid. ground, on which is a luxuriant growth of grass. — A pretty Canadian romance culminated in a quiet wedding at. Grace Church, New York, on Thursday evening of last Week,the Rev. Dr. Huntingdon officiating. The bride was Miss Alice Maude Dixon, of Torontoe a_ stately young woman, twenty-one nears old, and the bridegroom was Mr. Benjamin F. Eberts, now of New York, but formerly of Chatham. The bride was given away by her brother, Mr. John Dixon, a prominent broker of Toronto. Only a few friends of the couple were present. Miss Dixon is a, daughter of Mr, John Dixon, a millionaire • carriage manufacturer of Toronto, and one of the most prominent citizens of that citen. =Mr. S. S. Haight, of London, has re- ceived word of the sudden disappearance on June 10th, of his brother Mr.A. W. Haight, of Plum Creek, four miles west of Souris, Manitoba. Mr. Haight was a bachelor, 40 years of age, and in good circumstances. His friends cannot account for his disap r- anee, and as he leaves 350 acres of Ian and a large quantity of stock that needs looking after they would like to hear of hins. He is a son of Mr. Elijah Haight, of Brantford, and was born and braught up within sin miles of that place. He has been in Mani- . toba for twelve years. —A Tilsonburg correspondent writes :— " On Sunday evening a number of young men in Walsingham were driving rather furiously, when their buggies came in con- tact with one another with such farce as to throw Mr. Norman Alward out, and. alight- ing on his head, he received such injuries as resulted in his death on Wednesday morn- ing. Mr. Alward was a son of Jatnes Al- ward, of the 13th concession of Waking - ham, and. was a fine stalwart young man, standing six feet high. The feneral took place from his father's residence to Glen- naeyer cemetery. —Four years ago Rev. W. J. Clark was inducted into the pastorate of the -First Presbyterian Church, London, and the con- gregation, Wednesday evening of last week, held an anniversary service and a social gathering. Mr. -Robert Reid, as chairman of the board. of managers, and Mr. Jahn Cameton, representing the session, made congratulatory addressees, Rev. W. 3. Clarklollowed in reply and spoke on the work of the congregation. In 1890 there were 182 members on the roll ; at present there were 415. In 1889 the char& col- lected slightly over $3,000, including a $500 legacy ; last year the congregation gave over $9,000, which included the church building fund. —Mr. J. Burnett, president of the Mon- treal Stock Exchange, died very suddenly on Sunday, as the result of au accident during the night. Mr. Burnett was out golfing on Saturday afternoon and retired early. During the night his son heard moans, and getting up found his father lying almost insensible at the foot of the stair- case. It is supposed the unfortunke gen- tleman, feeling unwell, got up, and in the: 4 darkness fell down stairs. He was removed to his room and lingered until the morning, when he expired. 34r. Burnett was one of the oldest and most esteemed members of the Stock Exchaiage,with which he had been connected for nearly twenty-five years. He was the broker for some of the leading insti- tutions, and carried a great deal of stock, —A novel experience in the way of run- ning the rapids in a driver's beat was en- joyed last week at Ottawa by a number of the colonial visitors. Mew& James Rude dart, E. Huddart, T. R. Hopkins, Mrs, Huddart, Miss Devilliers, the Rev. W. Green, Miss 34uspratt, Miss MacDougall, Miss Holland, and Mrs. Mason comprised the party. They went in the boat from Smeadt: .Mills to the foot of Rideau locks. The run was a rapid one, with plenty of water to make the experience exciting for the Aus- tralian and South African visitors, On reaching the long slides, the great speed made the ladies holdetheir breathi and 7the dip ad the foot of the slides threw setseral inche4 of water into the boat. But one and all etdayed the experience though but a few were very anxious to repeat it. —There was a little row on St. Antoine street, Montreal, the other afternoon, A bread driver going his -daily round was com- ing out of a house on St. Antoine street, West, when he was attacked by a short in- dividual whom he had never seen before. The short man used verbal and physical force. " Yau are a robber," he shouted. " You are no good except to put other peo- ple's money in your own pocket." He con- tinued his astonishing speech by a string of oaths. These were accompanied. by blows, and the bread driver, goaded beyond endur- ance, showed what his oombative powers were. The couple became very much mixed up with each other, the language, however, making more noise than the blows, The crowd which gathered was at first paralysed by the profane seleetions. They separated. the pair, and the bread driver drove away. As a parting shot, the short man cried, " You are a robber, next time I see you I'll kill you." The assailant, who is well- known to be very eccentric, then walked away, apparently well pleased with himself --The other afternoon the three young children of Mr. R. Quick, London, were seated M a, gravel wagon when the horses became frightened and' ran away. The wagon was overturned and the children were all thrown under the heavy box, They escaped with their lives, and only one of them Was injured beyond severe scratches. The little girl, Rosa, was jammed at the thighe Some way, and one thigh was thrown out of joint, while on the right thigh a cut two iaches deep and four inches long was made. the residence of Sir -John Carling at Ottawa, on Tuesday afternoon of last week, Miss Carling was married to Mr. Vernon C. Nicholson, of the Marine and Fisheries De- partment, the brother of Lady Ritehiee widaw of Sir William Ritchie, late Chief Justice ofthe Supreme Court. The Rev. J. F. Gorman, rector of Graee church, offici- ated. The groomsman was Mr. C. J. Jones, of the Governor -General's office, and the bridesmaid Miss Evelyn Carling, sister of the bride. -s-Alderman James Fitzgerald was acting ma or of London on Thursday, last week, a after transacting business at the City Hall retarned. home. About 2.30 p. m. the telephone in his shop gave an extra long " whir -r." " Come down and sign some checks right -away," was the message and when the acting mayor arrived at the 'trees- ufer's office he found no checks awaiting his signature but that some mischievous per- son had played a joke on him. His chagrin vetts great. '—it is stated that Harland & Wolfe, the bfg shipbuilders, of Belfast, have secured the contract for the building of a new steamer for fhe Dominion Line to run be- tween Montreal and Liverpool' in summer and Portland and 'Halifax and Liverpool during the winter. The steamer, it is said, will run 17 knots per hour, which will make it the fastest running out of Montreal by a couple of knots. It is understood that the Allem also intend increasing their ifleet. —A distressing drowning case occurred in Toronto Bay last week. Richard Green, aged 22, a clerk in the Confederation Life Association, and a member of the Toronto Canoe Club, was out practicing for the races of Saturday, in which he intended taking part. He was out with a companion named Cockburn, each in his own canoe. When about opposite the Yacht Club Cock- burn saw G-'reen s canoe capsize. He was about 200 yards behind Green and paddled out the consent of then employers. The promoted from the librarianship of the hastily up, and plunged after his friend. and his performance.